IIB
107TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 327
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MARCH 15, 2001
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs
AN ACT
To amend chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code, for
the purpose of facilitating compliance by small businesses
with certain Federal paperwork requirements and to es-
tablish a task force to examine the feasibility of stream-
lining paperwork requirements applicable to small busi-
nesses.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Small Business Paper-
work Relief Act’’.
SEC. 2. FACILITATION OF COMPLIANCE WITH FEDERAL PA-
PERWORK REQUIREMENTS.
(a) REQUIREMENTS APPLICABLE TO THE DIRECTOR
OF OMB.—Section 3504(c) of chapter 35 of title 44,
United States Code (commonly referred to as the ‘‘Paper-
work Reduction Act’’), is amended—
(1) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘; and’’ and
inserting a semicolon;
(2) in paragraph (5), by striking the period and
inserting a semicolon; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new
paragraphs:
‘‘(6) publish in the Federal Register on an an-
nual basis—
‘‘(A) a list of the requirements applicable
to small-business concerns (within the meaning
of section 3 of the Small Business Act (15
U.S.C. 631 et seq.)) with respect to collection
of information by agencies, organized in such a
manner that such small-business concerns can
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easily identify requirements with which they are
expected to comply (e.g., organized by North
American Industrial Classification System code
and industrial/sector description (as published
by the Office of Management and Budget));
and
‘‘(B) the agency that issued each such re-
quirement and the website address for such
agency; and
‘‘(7) make available on the Internet the infor-
mation described in paragraph (6).’’.
(b) ESTABLISHMENT OF AGENCY POINT OF CON-
TACT.—Section 3506 of such chapter 35 is amended by
adding at the end the following new subsection:
‘‘(i) In addition to the requirements described in sub-
section (c), each agency shall, with respect to the collection
of information and the control of paperwork, establish one
point of contact in the agency to act as a liaison between
the agency and small-business concerns (within the mean-
ing of section 3 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 631
et seq.)).’’.
(c) ADDITIONAL REDUCTION OF PAPERWORK FOR
CERTAIN SMALL BUSINESSES.—Section 3506(c) of such
chapter is amended—
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(1) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking ‘‘; and’’
and inserting a semicolon;
(2) in paragraph (3)(J), by striking the period
and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new
paragraph:
‘‘(4) in addition to the requirements of this Act
regarding the reduction of paperwork for small-busi-
ness concerns (within the meaning of section 3 of
the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 631 et seq.)),
make efforts to further reduce the paperwork burden
for small-business concerns with fewer than 25 em-
ployees.’’.
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE REGARDING PUBLICATION OF
REQUIREMENTS.—The Director of the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget shall publish the first list of require-
ments required under paragraph (6) of section 3504(c) of
title 44, United States Code (as added by subsection (a)),
and make such list available on the Internet as required
by paragraph (7) of such section (as added by subsection
(a)), not later than the date that is one year after the
date of the enactment of this Act.
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SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF TASK FORCE TO STUDY
STREAMLINING 
OF 
PAPERWORK 
COLLEC-
TION REQUIREMENTS AND DISSEMINATION
FOR SMALL-BUSINESS CONCERNS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 35 of title 44, United
States Code, is further amended by adding at the end of
subchapter I the following new section:
‘‘§ 3521. Establishment of task force on feasibility of
streamlining information collection re-
quirements and dissemination
‘‘(a) There is hereby established a task force (in this
section referred to as the ‘task force’) to study the feasi-
bility of streamlining requirements with respect to small-
business concerns regarding collection of information and
strengthening dissemination of information.
‘‘(b) The members of the task force shall be ap-
pointed by the Director, and shall include the following:
‘‘(1) At least two representatives of the Depart-
ment of Labor, including one representative of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics and one representative of
the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
‘‘(2) At least one representative of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency.
‘‘(3) At least one representative of the Depart-
ment of Transportation.
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‘‘(4) At least one representative of the Depart-
ment of the Treasury.
‘‘(5) At least one representative of the Office of
Advocacy of the Small Business Administration.
‘‘(6) At least one representative of each of two
agencies other than the Department of Labor, the
Environmental Protection Agency, the Department
of Transportation, the Department of the Treasury,
and the Small Business Administration.
‘‘(7) At least two representatives of the Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services, including one
representative of the Health Care Financing Admin-
istration.
‘‘(c) The task force shall examine the feasibility of
requiring each agency to consolidate requirements regard-
ing collections of information with respect to small-busi-
ness concerns within and across agencies without nega-
tively impacting the effectiveness of underlying laws re-
garding such collections of information, in order that each
small-business concern may submit all information re-
quired by an agency—
‘‘(1) to one point of contact in the agency;
‘‘(2) in a single format, or using a single elec-
tronic reporting system, with respect to the agency;
and
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‘‘(3) on the same date.
‘‘(d)(1) Not later than one year after the date of the
enactment of the Small Business Paperwork Relief Act,
the task force shall submit a report of its findings under
subsection (c) to—
‘‘(A) the chairmen and ranking minority mem-
bers of the Committee on Government Reform and
the Committee on Small Business of the House of
Representatives, and the Committee on Govern-
mental Affairs and the Committee on Small Busi-
ness of the Senate; and
‘‘(B) the Director of the Office of Management
and Budget.
‘‘(2) Not later than two years after the date of the
enactment of such Act, the task force shall submit to the
individuals described in paragraph (1) a report examining
strengthening 
dissemination 
of 
information 
and
including—
‘‘(A) recommendations for implementing an
interactive system for the requirements in section
3504(c)(6) that would allow small-business concerns
to identify information collection requirements elec-
tronically;
‘‘(B) guidelines for each agency for developing
interactive reporting systems that include a compo-
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nent that edits the information submitted by a
small-business concern for consistency;
‘‘(C) recommendations for electronic dissemina-
tion of such information; and
‘‘(D) recommendations, created in consultation
with the Chief Information Officers Council (estab-
lished pursuant to Executive Order 13011, issued
July 16, 1996), for the coordination of information
among the points of contact described in section
3506(i), so that those points of contact can provide
small-business concerns with information collection
requirements from other agencies.
‘‘(e) As used in this section, the term ‘small-business
concern’ has the meaning given that term under section
3 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 631 et seq.).’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of sec-
tions at the beginning of such chapter is amended by in-
serting after the item relating to section 3520 the fol-
lowing new item:
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‘‘3521. Establishment of task force on feasibility of streamlining information
collection requirements and dissemination.’’.
Passed the House of Representatives March 15,
2001.
Attest:
JEFF TRANDAHL,
Clerk.