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Overview
This information quality site will inform the public about the Department of Education's information quality practices and procedures and includes access to our information quality guidelines.
An important part of the work of most Federal agencies includes the collection
and dissemination of information related to their missions. The Paperwork Reduction
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) establishes requirements for many of those agencies
regarding some aspects of their collection and dissemination of information.
In December 2000, a new law took effect (section 515 of the Treasury and General
Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Public Law 106-554), that
requires agencies subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act, including the U.S.
Department of Education, to issue guidelines by October 1, 2002, for the purpose
of "ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity
of information (including statistical information) disseminated by Federal
agencies."