Information Collection
The Office of Health, Safety and Security (HSS) continues
to seek for ways to minimize the burden of information collection
on DOE and its contractors. DOE collects information concerning
the health, safety and security of DOE employees including
its contractors and facilities. The information collected
will be used by DOE to exercise management oversight over
Management and Operating (M&O) contractors of DOE's Government-Owned
Contractor-Operated (GOCO) facilities. In accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of Information
Management provides information on this webpage regarding
the Federal Register Notices, supporting statements, and the
proposed information collection instrument and related instructions.
It should be noted that the costs incurred by M&O contractors
in providing the information collections in this package are
recovered in their contract fees and payments. In this sense,
they differ from information collections imposed on the general
public for which no cost reimbursement is provided. In addition,
M&O contractors provide input concerning information collection
requirements during contract negotiation. In this regard,
the M&O contractors have agreed that the resulting information
collections are required for the administration of these contracts
and are accepted as a normal business practice. Finally, DOE
is most interested in keeping the reporting burden at a minimum
to reduce expenditures. Therefore, only basic management and
program-type information is collected from M&O contractors
to properly manage these contracts and carry out the myriad
statutory and other missions of the Department requiring contractor
support.
HSS periodically reviews and streamlines DOE policies and
guidance which to reduce and minimize the reporting requirements.
In addition to policy streamlining, HSS applies the latest
information processing and management technologies to improve
cost effectiveness of the overall information collection.
These information collection instruments include state-of-the-art
databases, data warehousing, content management systems, and
using Extensible Markup Language as a new data format, as
appropriate.
For additional information, questions, or comments, please
contact Vincent Le at (301)-903-4648 or vinh.le@hq.doe.gov.
This page was last updated on
June 10, 2009
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