EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20503

September 17, 1999

THE DIRECTOR

OMB BULLETIN NO. 99-06

TO THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES 

SUBJECT: Fiscal Year 2000 Information Collection Budget

1. What is the purpose of this Bulletin? This bulletin instructs your Chief Information

Officer (CIO) how to prepare and submit information to the OMB Office of Information

and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) that will be the basis for the Fiscal Year 2000 Information

Collection Budget. This annual report describes the information collection burden

imposed by the Federal government on the public, progress of the agencies towards the

burden reduction goals set forth in the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), and

agency activities to improve the public’s access to Federal information resources. 

2. When are responses to the Bulletin due? Submissions are due to OIRA no later than

Friday, December 17, 1999.

3. Who must respond to this Bulletin? The Chief Information Officers from the following

agencies must comply with the requirements of this Bulletin:

Department of Agriculture

Department of Commerce 

Department of Defense 

Department of Education 

Department of Energy 

Department of Health and Human Services 

Department of Housing and Urban Development 

Department of the Interior 

Department of Justice 

Department of Labor 

Department of State 

Department of Transportation 

Department of the Treasury 

Department of Veterans Affairs 

Environmental Protection Agency 

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR Secretariat)

Federal Communications Commission
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Trade Commission

National Aeronautics and Space Administration 

National Science Foundation

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Securities and Exchange Commission

Small Business Administration

Social Security Administration

If your agency is not listed here, you do not need to do anything under this Bulletin.

4. What is the governmentwide Paperwork Reduction Goal for FY 2000? The

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 requires OMB to “set an annual Government-wide goal

for the reduction of information collection burdens by at least . . . 5 percent during each of

the fiscal years 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001.” 44 U.S.C. 3505(a)(1). In accordance with

the Act, and in light of the agencies’ statutory and programmatic requirements as reflected

in prior ICBs, OMB is setting a “Government-wide goal for the reduction of information

collection burdens” for FY 2000 of 5%.

5. What must my agency’s submission include? Your CIO is required to submit the

following information:

A. a cover letter describing agency initiatives that have resulted or will result in specific

reductions of burden on the public, with special consideration for reductions through

changes to regulations, particularly where it affects small business, and through

electronic commerce;

B. your agency’s Information Collection Budget submission and supporting material,

prepared in accordance with the instructions in Appendix A;

C. data regarding your agency’s compliance with the information collection provisions of

the Paperwork Reduction Act, prepared in accordance with the instructions in

Appendix B; and

D. a narrative description of your agency’s current plans for the provision of agency

services electronically, including a proposed timetable for implementation, prepared in

accordance with the instructions in Appendix C.

All submissions should be consistent with OMB fiscal and policy guidance.

6. In what format should the CIO provide this information to OMB? OMB would like

this information electronically on a 3.5" diskette along with one paper copy. Please label
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the disk with the agency name and the filenames of the submission. Please use the

following file formats.

A. Where this Bulletin instructs you to prepare a table, you should submit the table in one

of the following formats, in order of preference:

(1) Microsoft Excel 97 or earlier;

(2) Lotus 1-2-3, Release 9 or earlier; or

(3) A dot-delimited ASCII file (a “.” separates each cell in a row).

B. Otherwise, you should submit the information requested in one of the following

formats, in order of preference:

(1) WordPerfect, version 8.0 or earlier; or

(2) Microsoft Word 97 or earlier. 

7. What is the legal authority under which OMB is requiring this information? This

Bulletin is issued pursuant to the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, as amended; the

Budget and Accounting Procedures Act of 1950, as amended; and the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995.

8. Where must these submissions be delivered? The information required under this

Bulletin must be delivered no later than December 17, 1999, to:

David Rostker

The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

The Office of Management and Budget

725 17th Street, NW - Room 10202

Washington, D.C. 20503 

9. Will OMB conduct hearings on my agency’s submission? OMB will schedule, as

needed, hearings with an agency on its progress toward burden reductions goals and

agency compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act.

10. Who should I contact for further information? Questions about specific agency

matters should be directed to the agency's Desk Officer in OMB's Office of Information

and Regulatory Affairs. 

Questions about this Bulletin should be directed to David Rostker, tel. (202) 395-3897,

E-mail: David_Rostker@omb.eop.gov.
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11. When does this Bulletin expire? This Bulletin expires September 30, 2000. 

/s/

Jacob J. Lew

Director

Attachments
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Bulletin No. 99-

Appendix A

INFORMATION COLLECTION BUDGET (ICB)

1. What is the purpose of this Appendix? This appendix explains what information you

will need to gather from within your agency to develop your Information Collection

Budget (ICB) submission for FY 2000 and what you must submit to OMB and how.

A. Part 1 discusses how you should prepare to begin working on your ICB submission

and some general ideas we would like you to keep in mind.

B. Part 2 describes how to prepare a chart which lists all of the transactions which

affected your burden totals for FY 1999 and a chart which lists all of the expected

transactions which you used to estimate your FY 2000 total burden.

C. Part 3 describes how to prepare a chart showing the changes in your agency’s total

burden from FY 1998 to FY 2000, broken down into different kinds of program

changes and adjustments.

D. Part 4 instructs you to describe a limited number of significant examples of your

agency’s paperwork reductions and increases for FY 1999 and planned reductions and

increases for FY 2000, grouped by how or why the change occurred.
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Part 1: Preparation

2. What do I need to know before I start working on the ICB submission? 

A. Burden Reduction Goals: The governmentwide burden reduction goal for FY 2000

is five percent of the FY 1999 total burden. To help in this regard, you need to make

every effort to ensure that your agency will achieve the “maximum practicable”

reductions given your agency’s statutory and programmatic responsibilities.

B. Agency Initiatives: In the cover letter to your agency’s submission under this

Bulletin, the CIO should describe agency initiatives which have resulted or will result

in specific burden reduction. These initiatives should be reflected in your ICB

submission. We are especially interested this year in two specific kinds of burden

reduction.

(1) Burden reduction through the use of electronic systems to collect and process

information. The electronic provision of services by the Federal government is

becoming increasingly important, and with the passage of the Government

Paperwork Elimination Act, we want to ensure that information collection burden

is considered when these new systems are designed and come online.

(2) Burden reduction through changes in regulation, especially as it affects small

businesses. We want to encourage you to work with program officials to further

examine your agency’s regulatory paperwork burden and find additional ways to

relieve the paperwork burden on small businesses.

C. Categorizing Burden Changes: We are working to improve the quality of the

information you provide to us and we provide to the public. One way is by breaking

down changes from one year to the next. In parts 2 and 3, we ask you to break the

change in burden for each collection into adjustments and three different kinds of

program changes. In part 4, we ask you to break program changes down even further

for the purpose of giving greater detail on your agency’s most significant burden

changes. You should look at these categories and keep them in mind when you

request information from your agency.

D. Dollar Costs: Many agencies now report paperwork burden in terms of dollar costs,

as well as burden hours. For example, the burden of a regulatory recordkeeping

requirement is more readily estimated in terms of the dollar cost (e.g., for the space

and equipment needed for storage) than time. Similarly, the burden of a third-party

disclosure (e.g., the table describing the nutritional content of packages foods on food

containers) is also more readily estimated in terms of cost. (These dollar costs are

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Starting with the last ICB, we reported both the hour and financial burdens of

information collections as you reported them in your information collection requests. 

Thus, when discussing burden, you should include, as appropriate, both burden hours

and dollar costs.

3. What do I need to do before I start working on the ICB submission? The first thing

you should do, upon receipt of these instructions, is review the monthly inventory of

information collections that you receive from OMB. We intend to publish our database’s

number for September 30, 1999, as the burden total for FY 1999. Therefore, you need to

make sure our database records are accurate and consistent with your records. Please pay

special attention to the cost estimates. (Remember the 83-I and our database track costs

in thousands of dollars, not dollars.) Submit any corrections to your desk officer on a

Form 83-C with an explanation.

4. How do I begin working on the ICB? There are always two parts to the ICB, a review

of the previous fiscal year (FY 1999) and a look toward the next (FY 2000). You should

begin working on the look toward FY 2000. You may wish to wait to begin the review of

FY 1999 until after September 30, 1999.

Work with the program officials in your agency to identify all potential changes in

information collection activities in FY 2000. Make sure you have, for each change, an

OMB number (if assigned), the expected program change and/or expected adjustment for

burden hours and costs. You will need this information to estimate your agency’s FY

2000 total hour burden.

For the most important changes in burden, ask the program officials for the additional

information required in Part 4.

Important: given the governmentwide burden reduction goal of 5% for FY 2000, you

should make every effort to ensure that your agency does all that it can to contribute to

achieving this goal.
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Part 2: A Comprehensive Accounting

5. How is this accounting different than in previous years? In previous ICB submissions,

we simply requested that you prepare an aggregate total burden for the fiscal years in

question. This year we are asking you to provide details on all of the transactions

(anything which generated a “Notice of Action” signed by the Deputy Administrator of

OIRA and any expiration of an OMB control number) that occurred or will occur during

the year to explain the fiscal year burden totals. We believe this change will make is easier

to reconcile OMB and agency records as well as make it easier to provide descriptive

details about governmentwide changes in burden.

In particular, you will need to break out for each transaction the following information:

A. Net Program Change, which is the sum of:

(1) Change in burden due to new statutory requirements (see below);

(2) Change in burden due to new, reinstated, or expired collections (see below); 

(3) Change in burden due to other agency actions; and

B. Adjustment (see below).

If your agency conducts information collections on a regular basis with a frequency of less

than once a year, you should contact your OIRA desk officer to discuss how you should

account for these net program changes.

6. When can we attribute a program change to a new statutory requirement? You

should only attribute a program change to a new statutory requirement when the

information collection directly related to a change in statute within the last five years (after

January 1, 1995). This should not include increases in burden due to long-standing

statutory mandates or recurring statutory requirements. You may however include

changes if this is the first time your agency is implementing a statute that has been law for

many years. Please consult your OIRA desk officer if you are uncertain.

7. What changes in burden should be listed under new, reinstated, or expired? You

should list under this category any change in burden due to:

A. An approved request for a new OMB control number (including approval of

collections previously existing without OMB approval);
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TOTAL 0 0 0 0 0

FY 1999 CHANGES IN BURDEN HOURS

PROGRAM CHANGES

Due to Statutory 

Changes

New, Reinstated, 

or Expired 

Collections

Due to Other 

Agency Actions

NET PROGRAM 

CHANGES OMB # Date ADJUSTMENTS EXHIBIT

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Figure 2

B. An approved request for reinstatement of a previously assigned OMB control number;

C. An expiration of a OMB control number (intentional or otherwise).

Exception: Do not include a collection in this category if you would also include it as due

to a new statutory requirement (see previous question).

8. What changes in burden should be counted as adjustments? Adjustments are changes

in burden hours due to factors over which your agency has no control, such as population

growth or economic expansion, or in factors which do not affect what information your

agency collects or how. 

Example: If burden increased because your agency took an action to collect information

from a new segment of the economy, that would be a program change. If, instead,

burden went up because more businesses entered a segment of the economy from which

your agency already collected information, that would be an adjustment.

Example: If you reported an increase in burden because your agency changed the way it

estimates burden, that would be an adjustment.

9. How do I report to OMB all transactions that affected burden during FY 1999?

You should report every transaction that affected hour or cost burden in two tables in

formats similar to Figure 1(for changes to burden hours) and Figure 2 (for changes to

costs).
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TOTAL 0 0 0 0 0

FY 1999 CHANGES IN COST BURDEN ($,000)

OMB #

PROGRAM CHANGES

NET PROGRAM 

CHANGES Due to Statutory ADJUSTMENTS EXHIBIT

Changes

New, Reinstated, 

or Expired 

Collections

Due to Other 

Agency Actions

Date

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Figure 3

Example: If you received multiple Notices of Action from OMB affecting hour and cost

burden for a single OMB number, you should have one line in each table for each notice of

action.

Example: If a collection expired during FY 1999 and was later reinstated in FY 1999,

you will list the collection twice for FY 1999, one transaction for the expiration and one

transaction for the reinstatement.

10. What information will OMB provide to complete these tables? Soon after the end of

Fiscal Year 1999, we will provide to you Microsoft Excel files with these two tables with

columns 1, 2, 6, and 7 completed. (If you are unable to use Microsoft Excel files, please

contact your OIRA desk officer for alternate arrangements.) You will need to complete

the rest of the table by dividing the burden changes listed in column 6 (net program

changes) into burden changes for column 3, 4, and 5 and indicating for which changes you

will prepare a exhibit under Part 4. 

11. What should go in each column? For each transaction, the following information goes

in the following columns:

A. In column 3, the change in hour or cost burden due to changes in statutory

requirements for each transaction (see question 6);

B. In column 4, the change in hour or cost burden due to new, reinstated, or expired

collections (enter a negative number for expirations and a positive number for new

collections or reinstatements);
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C. In column 5, the change in hour or cost burden due to program changes by the agency

that were not attributed to statutory changes or new, reinstated or expired collections;

Columns 3, 4, and 5 should sum up to the burden total OMB provided in column 6. You

should total columns 3 through 7 and enter the total at the bottom of each column.

In column 8, place an “X” for each transaction for which you have written a description in

Part 4 of this Appendix.

12. How do I report to OMB transactions that we expect will affect burden during FY

2000? You should report every transaction that you expect will affect burden during FY

2000 in two tables in formats similar to Figures 1 and 2, excluding column 2 (Date). 

Please list expected transactions in order by OMB number. List new collection not yet

assigned an OMB number at the bottom of the list with the appropriate four digit prefix. 

We will provide empty charts to complete along with the information for FY 1999.

13. Do I need to provide an entry for every transaction we expect during FY 2000? No,

you only need provide an entry for transactions that will affect your total burden for FY

2000. You also have the discretion to ignore very small transactions, but then you should

not include these changes in your FY 2000 expected total burden.
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Burden Hours Cost Burden 

($,000)

FY 1999 Program Changes Due to New Statutes

FY 1999 Program Changes Due to New Reinstated or 

Expired Collections

FY 1999 Program Changes Due to Other Agency 

Actions

Expected FY 2000 Program Changes Due to New 

Statutes

Expected FY 2000 Program Changes Due to New 

Reinstated or Expired Collections

Expected FY 2000 Program Changes Due to Other 

Agency Actions

SUMMARY TABLE OF BURDEN CHANGES

 FY 1999 Adjustments

FY 1998 Total Burden

 SUBTOTAL: FY 1999 Total Program Changes

 Expected FY 2000 Adjustments

FY 1999 Total Burden

Expected FY 2000 Total Burden

 SUBTOTAL: Expected FY 2000 Total Program Changes

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Part 3: Aggregate Burden Totals

14. How do I report aggregate burden totals for FY 1999? You will complete a table

similar to that shown in Figure 3, which we will provide as part of the Microsoft Excel

spreadsheet file we will provide to complete Part 2. The totals for the tables in Part 2

should be directly transferred the appropriate spreadsheet cells. (The numbers in Figure

3 correspond to the appropriate cells in figures 1 and 2.)

Next, you will check to make sure your totals reflect the change between the FY 1998 and

FY 1999 totals. The “9” cells will have the published totals from the Information

Collection Budget of the United States, FY 1999. The “10” cells will have the totals

generated by our database at the end of FY 1999. If cells 9, 6, and 7 do not add up to cell

10, you will need to revisit your charts prepared for Part 2 to ensure that program changes

or adjustments listed there were not already included in the FY 1998 total. Otherwise,

please discuss any discrepancies with OIRA.

15. How do I report expected aggregate burden totals for FY 2000? Again, use the

information you collected for FY 2000 in Part 2 to complete the corresponding cells in

Figure 3. Add the aggregate burden total for FY 1999 to the expected net program

change for FY 2000 and the expected net adjustments for FY 2000 to get an expected

aggregate burden total for FY 2000.
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Part 4: Examples of Significant Burden Changes

16. What does “significant” mean? Significant burden reductions are those which

demonstrate the agency’s adherence to the principles of the Paperwork Reduction Act and

have a meaningful impact on the burden imposed on the public. Significant burden

increases are generally those that have attracted controversy and/or have a meaningful

impact on the public. Significant burden changes do not include adjustments, only

program changes. For simplicity sake, we are requesting that you limit discussion to

burden changes of 10,000 hours and/or $10,000,000 or greater.

17. What kinds of burden reductions and increases should I describe? We are splitting

information on program changes into several categories. Please include each change in

only one of the following categories. If two or more categories could apply to a single

change, select the category that is most appropriate.

A. Burden reductions should be placed into one of the following six categories.

(1) Changing Regulations: Reducing information collection burden by revising

existing regulations to eliminate unnecessary requirements or completely changing

the way you regulate;

(2) Cutting Redundancy: Reducing information collection burden by raising

reporting thresholds to reduce the number of reports that need to be submitted, or

cutting the frequency of periodic reporting requirements, or consolidating

information collections, or working together with other agencies to share

information across programs; 

(3) Changing Forms: Reducing burden by simplifying and streamlining forms,

making them easier to read and fill out and by making programs easier to apply

for;

(4) Using Information Technology: Reducing burden by putting in place electronic

systems that can speed the exchange of information between the government and

the public and allow respondents to use their own information technology to ease

reporting burdens;

(5) Statutory Reductions: Reducing burden because of recently enacted statutes; and

(6) Other: Reducing burden through other agency efforts. 

B. Burden increases should be placed into one of the following two categories:
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(1) Statutory Increases: Increasing burden due to new statutory requirements (see

question VI for more information; and

(2) Other: Increasing burden due to other factors. 

18. What information do I need to describe these changes? At a minimum you will need:

A. title of the collection and/or title of the initiative;

B. what information is/was collected prior to the change from whom for what purpose;

C. what is/was changed, how it affected burden, and if part of a broader agency initiative;

D. the change in burden (hours and costs, program changes only); and

E. for statutory increases and reductions, the full name of the statute and public law

number.

19. How should I report this information? Use the format provided below for FY 1999. 

Repeat for FY 2000. Each entry should be no more than 100 words. 

Reductions:

Changing Regulations

OMB #:

Title:

Purpose of the

Collection:

How Reduction

Achieved:

Change in Burden:

Cutting Redundancy

OMB #:

Title:

Purpose of the

Collection:

How Reduction

Achieved:

Change in Burden:
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Changing Forms

OMB #:

Title:

Purpose of the

Collection:

How Reduction

Achieved:

Change in Burden:

Using Information Technology

OMB #:

Title:

Purpose of the

Collection:

How Reduction

Achieved:

Change in Burden:

Statutory Reductions

OMB #:

Title:

Purpose of the

Collection:

How Reduction

Achieved:

Change in Burden:

Statute Title and

P.L. #:

Other

OMB #:

Title:

Purpose of the

Collection:

How Reduction

Achieved:

Change in Burden:

Increases:

Statutory Increases

OMB #:

Title:

Purpose of the

Collection:
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Why Increase

Occurred:

Change in Burden:

Statute Title and

P.L. #:

Other

OMB #:

Title:

Purpose of the

Collection:

Why Increase

Occurred:

Change in Burden:

20. Do I need to include one example for each category? May I include more than one

example for each category? You may include more than one example under each

category, but you should try to have at least one example for your agency for each. Do

not include any examples more than once. Please try to limit the total number of examples

to 15 per fiscal year. 

21. How does this tie in to the charts in Part 2? For each example, identify the

corresponding transaction in the charts for Part 2 by placing an “X” in column 8.
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Appendix B

Compliance with the Information Collection Provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and 5 C.F.R. 1320

1. What does this Appendix require? This appendix explains what you must submit to

OMB to report violations of the information collection provisions of the Paperwork

Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 and OMB’s implementing regulations, 5 C.F.R. 1320, over

the last fiscal year. OMB is required to report PRA violations to Congress and will report

the information you submit in the Information Collection Budget of the United States,

Fiscal Year 2000. See Appendix A of the Information Collection Budget of the United

States, Fiscal Year 1998 and Appendix B of the Information Collection Budget of the

United State, Fiscal Year 1999.

2. What information do I need to collect? You must compile information on all of the

violations of the PRA committed by your agency, intentionally or unintentionally, during

Fiscal Year 1999. This includes violations listed in previous Information Collection

Budgets that were still uncorrected as of September 30, 1998.

For each violation you should know:

A. why the violation occurred;

B. when the violation occurred;

C. how the violation was discovered;

D. what actions have or will be taken to remedy the violation; and

E. when the violation was or will be remedied.

3. How do I report this information to OMB? You will compile this information into two

tables. The first table will list only those violations due to the accidental expiration of a

OMB approval while the collection was still being conducted. The second table will list all

other violations.

A. Create the first table with a column for each of the following items in this order: OMB

number; title; date of expiration; date of reinstatement; and date discontinued. List

each collection in numerical order by OMB number. If the collection has or will be

reinstated, leave the last column blank. If the collection was discontinued instead of

reinstated, leave the “date of reinstatement” column blank and give the date the

collection was discontinued in the final column.
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B. Create the second table with a column for each of the following in order: OMB

number; title; description of the violation; and how discovered and remedied. Again,

list each collection in order of OMB number. Give the four digit prefix under which

the collection would have been listed if an OMB number was never assigned. Under

“description of the violation,” give a brief phrase which says what was done wrong. 

Under “how discovered and remedied,” briefly describe how the violation was

discovered and what actions are being or were taken to correct the violation. Indicate

if an information collection request has been submitted to OMB or, if OMB has

already taken action, give the action date. Note: if you do not use Microsoft Excel,

please use a word processor to create this table.

See Table A-2 of the Information Collection Budget of the United States, Fiscal Year

1998 and Table B-2 of the Information Collection Budget of the United States, Fiscal

Year 1999 as models for the tables.

4. How do I indicate violations listed in the previous Information Collection Budgets

that were not violations? You are welcome to include in your submission a list of

collections, sorted by OMB number, of collections that should not have been listed in

Table B-1 of the Information Collection Budget of the United States, Fiscal Year 1999.

5. What additional materials will you provide us? To assist you in reviewing your

agency’s actions over FY 1999 for PRA violations, OMB will send at the end of FY 1999

a list generated from the official computer records. The list will detail collections that

expired during the last fiscal year and had not been reinstated as of September 30, 1999,

and collections that were reinstated during the fiscal year. These lists are for your

information only. You are not required to report on collections that are not in violation.
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Appendix C

Information Dissemination, Electronic Government and Paperwork Reduction

1. What does this Appendix require? You are required to update last year’s report on

electronic information dissemination and describe your agency’s current plans for

expanding these initiatives into fully-electronic service delivery.

2. What is the purpose of this requirement? In 1998, Congress passed the Government

Paperwork Elimination Act (GPEA) which expanded the goal of broad-based electronic

information dissemination contained in the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) to include

interactive service delivery. Specifically, the GPEA recognized that electronic government

initiatives, e.g. regulatory reporting, tax filing, benefit administration, grants and contracts,

combine the elements of electronic information collection and dissemination into a

seamless whole. 

The GPEA requires you to have systems available for electronic interactions with the

public to the extent practicable by October 2003. It also requires us to promulgate

implementing guidance by April 2000, and to perform an ongoing study of agency

progress. We published proposed guidance on March 5, 1999. This report will update

last year’s report on electronic information dissemination and describe your agency’s

current plans for expanding these initiatives into fully-electronic service delivery.

3. How is this requirement different from last year’s? In OMB Bulletin 98-09, we

requested information on how your agency managed the dissemination of information, as

required by OMB Circular A-130 and the PRA. As many of your responses demonstrated,

electronic dissemination of a broad range of information has revolutionized the way

government interacts with citizens. This report will update last year’s report on electronic

information dissemination and describe your agency’s current plans for expanding these

initiatives into fully-electronic service delivery.

4. What do I need to include in this narrative? Your report should include:

A. An update of your major electronic information collection and dissemination activities

ongoing and planned; and

B. A summary of your plans to expand your electronic information collection and

dissemination activities, including your expected timetable. 

C. Budgetary figures for electronic information collection and dissemination activities

where such activities have a corresponding entry as either a "major" or "significant"

information technology investment in OMB Circular A-11, Section 53.
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Your report need not be in any particular format, and may be organized by agency

component, functional area, or individual major projects, as most relevant to your agency. 

Agency reports will be combined into a single government-wide report for the Congress

and the general public.

5. Will you provide an example for me to follow? We will make available a sample report

prepared by the Social Security Administration. However, we provide this only as an

indication of the kind of information we want. You should not feel constrained by this

example.