[Federal Register: June 6, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 109)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Office of the Secretary
[Docket No. OST-2002-11996]
Draft Report Implementing OMB's Information Dissemination Quality
Guidelines
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, DOT.
ACTION: Extension of public comment period.
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SUMMARY: On January 3, 2002, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
issued Government-wide guidelines under Section 515 that direct each
Federal agency to establish and implement written procedures to ensure
and maximize the quality, utility, objectivity and integrity of the
information that they disseminate. On April 24, 2002, the Department of
Transportation (DOT) posted its proposed Departmental guidelines to
implement Section 515 of the Treasury and General Government
Appropriations Act for FY 2001 (PL 106-554) on its Web site for public
comments. On April 30, 2002, the Department published a notice of
availability of its draft guidelines in the Federal Register. Today's
notice extends the public comment period for this proposal.
DATES: Comments should be submitted by June 17, 2002.
ADDRESSES: You may file comments using the Internet by logging in on
DOT'S Dockets Management System (DMS) Web site at http://dms.dot.gov.
Please follow the online instructions for submitting an electronic
comment and for reviewing all comments on line. Once received, a
notification receipt will be forwarded to you. You may fax your
comments to the DMS at (202) 493-2251. You may also submit your
comments by mail or in person by sending your comments to the U. S.
Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of Dockets and Media
Management to the Docket Clerk, Docket No. OST-2002-11996, 400 Seventh
Street, SW., Room PL-401, Washington, DC 20590-0001. If you would like
the Department to acknowledge receipt of your written comments, you
must include a self-addressed stamped postcard on which the following
statement is made: ``Comments on Docket OST-2002-11996.'' The Docket
Clerk will date stamp the postcard prior to returning it to you via the
U.S. mail. Comments should identify the docket number. Written comments
should be submitted in duplicate. The Office of Dockets and Media
Management is open for examination and copying at the above address
from 9:00 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays. All comments received will be available for inspection at the
above address. Please note that due to current mail security procedures
affecting U.S. Postal Service delivery to Government offices,
commenters may find it advantageous to use an alternative method (the
internet, fax, or professional delivery service) to submit comments to
the Docket and ensure their timely receipt at the U.S. Department of
Transportation.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Vanester M. Williams, Office of the
Chief Information Officer, U. S. Department of Transportation; 202-366-
1771 (not a toll-free call) or by e-mail at
vanester.Williams@ost.dot.gov. For specific inquiries on the
Department's administrative mechanisms for allowing persons to seek
correction of information, please contact Robert Ashby, Office of the
General Counsel, U. S. Department of Transportation; 202-366-9310 (not
a toll-free call) or by e-mail at bob.ashby@ost.dot.gov. For specific
inquiries on the Department's statistical guidelines, please contact
Dr. Patrick Flanagan, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U. S.
Department of Transportation; 202-366-4168 (not a toll-free call) or by
e-mail at pat.flanagan@bts.dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department's information quality
guidelines will apply to a wide variety of its information
dissemination activities in order to meet basic information quality
standards set forth by Section 515. The purpose of these guidelines is
to provide a framework under which the Department will allow affected
persons an opportunity to seek and obtain correction of information
maintained and disseminated by the Department that does not comply with
these guidelines.
The Department received a request from a commenter to extend the
comment period for this proposal an additional 60 days, through the end
of July. In order to meet the August 1, 2002 deadline for submission of
draft final
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guidelines to OMB, as well as the October 1, 2002 deadline for issuance
of final guidelines to OMB, the Department will not be able to extend
the comment period for the requested length of time. However, in order
to provide the public some additional time to review and send comments
to us, the Department will extend the comment period for an additional
two weeks. The closing date for the extended comment period will be
June 17, 2002.
Instructions for filing comments may also be found in the
guidelines document posted on the Department's DMS Web site. The
Department will review all comments submitted in response to its draft
guidelines. The comments will be available for public review on the DMS
Web site.
Issued in Washington, DC, on May 30, 2002.
Eugene K. Taylor, Jr.,
Deputy CIO, Department of Transportation.
[FR Doc. 02-14225 Filed 6-5-02; 8:45 am]
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