The Council met at 2 p.m. at the White House Conference Center. The members represent several agencies who are most likely to be heavily involved in the process or have experience in collecting data that will be required.
Several agencies have experience in collecting such data.
OMB handed out a survey designed to determine what the issues might be from the agencies' standpoint and what line-item data collection capabilities currently exist. He reported that the agency reps are proceeding to identify data that they would most likely want reported. OMB is proceeding to identify the data that could be released before the budget transmittal and that which could not be released until after transmittal. He also said that OMB was exploring the possibility of providing data files, which the agencies could manipulate, as an option to reports. Joe Kull, NSF, indicated that they do this now.