The OCIO, Information Management Division, has overall responsibility for the USDA Forms Management Program. Currently each agency or staff office uses the most cost effective method of stocking, reproducing and ordering forms. Several avenues are available for USDA to make use of forms.
Many USDA forms are now readily available on-line. to better serve its employees
and customers. This system, hosted on the OCIO internet
site, provides a repository of USDA’s AD, SF and OF forms. They are provided in several formats,
including pdf, fillable pdf, Flow Flow, InForms, and WORD. The variety of
formats reflects individual agency needs based on their internal electronic
forms systems. The majority of these forms are used for administrative purposes.
Some of these forms can be filled out and submitted interactively.
You must also have a version of Microsoft Word
or you can download a free version of Adobe Acrobat to read the PDF
files.
Agency representatives or others who have licensed versions of these applications (version 2.0 or above) may make use of the forms provided.
GSA Forms Catalog http://www.fedforms.gov/bgfPortal/main.do
Several agencies within the US Government have made
forms available to their "customers" and can be accessed through their
web sites:
FedForms.gov provides "one-stop-shopping" for forms
needed for the top Government services used by the public.
Electronic Services offered by the Farm Service Agency
(FSA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), and the Rural Development
(RD) Agencies of the United States Department of Agriculture. One service
currently available on this site is electronic forms. Forms commonly used by
customers of FSA, NRCS, and RD are available here
Office of Personal Management (OPM)
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Thrift Savings Plan (TSP)
Savings Bonds
Worker's Compensation (OWCP)
http://www.dol.gov/esa/owcp_org.htm
U.S. Postal Service (USPS)
http://www.usps.com/forms/welcome.htm?from =home&page=1080findform
Click here for a list of Agency Forms Managers.
Agencies may choose
to make use of automated forms available at the government's General Services
Administration (GSA) website. GSA has placed almost 400 federal forms on the
site. These are primarily "Standard" and "Optional" forms and can be viewed,
filled in, printed, E-mailed or faxed directly from the Internet. This site
eliminates the need for users to purchase costly formfill packages and makes
many commonly used government forms easily accessible to federal agencies as
well as the public.
The GSA website includes free
DocNet web-fill software developed by Intercon Associates which can be
downloaded and launched as a helper application each time a DocNet form is
chosen to view or fill. This free plug-in must be downloaded
in order to have the capability of reading or completing the DocNet-created
form.
To read more about the GSA initiative, go to ... http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/accessamerica/index.html
or visit ....
General Services Administration "forms" website.
Paper Forms
USDA's "Consolidated Forms and Publication
Distribution Center" (CFPDC) sells and distributes most federal
paper forms to other federal agencies.
The list of all forms available through the USDA CFPDC (PDF 241KB)
http://www.ocio.usda.gov/forms/index.html
Last Modified:
08/08/2008
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