‘‘(2) in accordance with guidance by the Direc-
tor, develop and maintain a strategic information re-
sources management plan that shall describe how in-
formation resources management activities help ac-
complish agency missions;
‘‘(3) develop and maintain an ongoing process
to—
‘‘(A) ensure that information resources
management operations and decisions are inte-
grated with organizational planning, budget, fi-
nancial management, human resources manage-
ment, and program decisions;
‘‘(B) in cooperation with the agency Chief
Financial Officer (or comparable official), de-
velop a full and accurate accounting of informa-
tion technology expenditures, related expenses,
and results; and
‘‘(C) establish goals for improving informa-
tion resources management’s contribution to
program productivity, efficiency, and effective-
ness, methods for measuring progress towards
those goals, and clear roles and responsibilities
for achieving those goals;
‘‘(4) in consultation with the Director, the Ad-
ministrator of General Services, and the Archivist of
the United States, maintain a current and complete
inventory of the agency’s information resources, in-
cluding directories necessary to fulfill the require-
ments of section 3511 of this chapter; and
‘‘(5) in consultation with the Director and the
Director of the Office of Personnel Management,
conduct formal training programs to educate agency
program and management officials about informa-
tion resources management.
‘‘(c) With respect to the collection of information and
the control of paperwork, each agency shall—
‘‘(1) establish a process within the office headed
by the official designated under subsection (a), that
is sufficiently independent of program responsibility
to evaluate fairly whether proposed collections of in-
formation should be approved under this chapter,
to—
‘‘(A) review each collection of information
before submission to the Director for review
under this chapter, including—
‘‘(i) an evaluation of the need for the
collection of information;
‘‘(ii) a functional description of the in-
formation to be collected;
‘‘(iii) a plan for the collection of the
information;
‘‘(iv) a specific, objectively supported
estimate of burden;
‘‘(v) a test of the collection of infor-
mation through a pilot program, if appro-
priate; and
‘‘(vi) a plan for the efficient and effec-
tive management and use of the informa-
tion to be collected, including necessary re-
sources;
‘‘(B) ensure that each information collec-
tion—
‘‘(i) is inventoried, displays a control
number and, if appropriate, an expiration
date;
‘‘(ii) indicates the collection is in ac-
cordance with the clearance requirements
of section 3507; and
‘‘(iii) contains a statement to inform
the person receiving the collection of infor-
mation—
‘‘(I) the reasons the information
is being collected;
‘‘(II) the way such information is
to be used;
‘‘(III) an estimate, to the extent
practicable, of the burden of the col-
lection; and
‘‘(IV) whether responses to the
collection of information are vol-
untary, required to obtain a benefit,
or mandatory; and
‘‘(C) assess the information collection bur-
den of proposed legislation affecting the agency;
‘‘(2)(A) except for good cause or as provided
under subparagraph (B), provide 60-day notice in
the Federal Register, and otherwise consult with
members of the public and affected agencies con-
cerning each proposed collection of information, to
solicit comment to—
‘‘(i) evaluate whether the proposed collec-
tion of information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the agency, in-
cluding whether the information shall have
practical utility;
‘‘(ii) evaluate the accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed collec-
tion of information;