Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity,
Utility, and Integrity of Information Disseminated by the Department of
Labor [10/01/2002]
Volume 67, Number 190, Page 61669
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary
Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity,
Utility, and Integrity of Information Disseminated by the Department of
Labor
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (DOL) Guidelines for Ensuring and
Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of
Information Disseminated by Department of Labor are available in final
form on the DOL web site http://www.dol.gov/informationquality.htm.
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 1, 2002.
ADDRESSES: Information correction requests and appeals can be submitted
to DOL by communicating with one of the following components: (1)
Agency Point of Contact (POC) provided on the DOL web site; (2) agency
specific web sites (i.e., OSHA.gov); or (3) Mr. Ira L. Mills,
Information Technology Center, Room N-1301, 200 Constitution Avenue,
NW., Washington, DC 20210, fax (202) 693-4228, e-mail mail to: Mills-
Ira@dol.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Ira Mills, Information Technology
Center, telephone (202) 693-4122 (this is not a toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On February 22, 2002, the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) published a Federal Register notice (67 FR
8452-8460) Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality,
Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Information Disseminated by
Federal Agencies; Notice; Republication. The guidelines state that each
agency must prepare a draft report, no later than May 1, 2002 (as
amended, Federal Register Notice, 67 FR 9797, March 4, 2002), and a
final report, no later than October 1, 2002, providing the agency's
information quality guidelines and explaining how such guidelines will
ensure and maximize the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of
information including statistical information disseminated by the
agency. These reports must also detail the administrative mechanisms
developed by that agency to allow affected persons to seek and obtain
appropriate correction of information maintained and disseminated by
the agency that does not comply with the OMB or the agency guidelines.
Each agency must publish a notice of availability of the draft and
final reports in the Federal Register, and post the reports on the
agency's website. On May 1, 2002, the DOL published a Federal Register
notice (67 FR 21776-21777), posted the draft Guidelines for Ensuring
and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of
Information Disseminated by the Department of Labor on the DOL website,
and provided the public with a 30-day opportunity to comment period. On
June 6, 2002, the Department published a 30-day public comment
extension notice in the Federal Register (67 FR 39050). The DOL has now
posted the final Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality,
Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Information Disseminated by the
Department of Labor on the DOL website as referenced above in the
Summary section of this notice.
Signed at Washington, DC this 24th day of September 2002.
Patrick Pizzella,
Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management, Chief
Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 02-24741 Filed 9-30-02; 8:45 am]
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