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(a) issue its own guidelines; (b) establish administrative mechanisms allowing affected persons to seek and obtain correction of information that does not comply with OMB’s 515 guidelines; and (c) report periodically to the Director of OMB on the number and nature of complaints received by the agency regarding the accuracy of information disseminated by the agency and how such complaints were handled by the agency. In compliance with OMB’s directives, the Department of the Interior (DOI) issued draft Information Quality Guidelines in the Federal Register on May 24, 2002 (65 FR 26642), that instructed each bureau to prepare its own guidelines. MMS then developed and issued draft guidelines for comment on its website on August 1, 2002. We received comments from one private organization. We considered their comments, and where applicable or appropriate, we incorporated them into our final guidelines. We have now finalized our guidelines and posted them to our website. We consider these guidelines to be a living document. As a result, they may be revised periodically to reflect policy changes or to implement methods that further ensure and maximize information quality. MMS welcomes comments on these guidelines at any time and will consider those comments in any future revisions. In accordance with MMS’s guidelines, you may submit your comments on MMS's quality of information in one of two ways:
The files below provide a chronology of the Quality of Information issue--how and when it started and the present implementation status.
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