maintain, or provide information to or for a Federal
agency, including the resources expended for—
‘‘(A) reviewing instructions;
‘‘(B) acquiring, installing, and utilizing
technology and systems;
‘‘(C) adjusting the existing ways to comply
with any previously applicable instructions and
requirements;
‘‘(D) searching data sources;
‘‘(E) completing and reviewing the collec-
tion of information; and
‘‘(F) transmitting, or otherwise disclosing
the information;
‘‘(3) the term ‘collection of information’ means
the obtaining, causing to be obtained, soliciting, or
requiring the disclosure to third parties or the pub-
lic, of facts or opinions by or for an agency, regard-
less of form or format, calling for either—
‘‘(A) answers to identical questions posed
to, or identical reporting or recordkeeping re-
quirements imposed on, ten or more persons,
other 
than 
agencies, 
instrumentalities, 
or
employees of the United States; or
‘‘(B) answers to questions posed to agen-
cies, instrumentalities, or employees of the
United States which are to be used for general
statistical purposes;
‘‘(4) the term ‘Director’ means the Director of
the Office of Management and Budget;
‘‘(5) the term ‘independent regulatory agency’
means the Board of Governors of the Federal Re-
serve System, the Commodity Futures Trading Com-
mission, the Consumer Product Safety Commission,
the Federal Communications Commission, the Fed-
eral Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal En-
ergy Regulatory Commission, the Federal Housing
Finance Board, the Federal Maritime Commission,
the Federal Trade Commission, the Interstate Com-
merce Commission, the Mine Enforcement Safety
and Health Review Commission, the National Labor
Relations Board, the Nuclear Regulatory Commis-
sion, the Occupational Safety and Health Review
Commission, the Postal Rate Commission, the Secu-
rities and Exchange Commission, and any other
similar agency designated by statute as a Federal
independent regulatory agency or commission;
‘‘(6) the term ‘information resources’ means in-
formation and related resources, such as personnel,
equipment, funds, and information technology;
‘‘(7) the term ‘information resources manage-
ment’ means the process of managing information
resources to accomplish agency missions and to im-
prove agency performance, including through the re-
duction of information collection burdens on the
public;
‘‘(8) the term ‘information system’ means a dis-
crete set of information resources and processes,
automated or manual, organized for the collection,
processing, maintenance, use, sharing, dissemina-
tion, or disposition of information;
‘‘(9) the term ‘information technology’ has the
same meaning as the term ‘automatic data process-
ing equipment’ as defined by section 111(a)(2) of
the Federal Property and Administrative Services
Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 759(a)(2));
‘‘(10) the term ‘person’ means an individual,
partnership, association, corporation, business trust,
or legal representative, an organized group of indi-
viduals, a State, territorial, or local government or
branch thereof, or a political subdivision of a State,
territory, or local government or a branch of a politi-
cal subdivision;
‘‘(11) the term ‘practical utility’ means the abil-
ity of an agency to use information, particularly the
capability to process such information in a timely
and useful fashion;
‘‘(12) the term ‘public information’ means any
information, regardless of form or format, that an
agency discloses, disseminates, or makes available to
the public; and
‘‘(13) the term ‘recordkeeping requirement’
means a requirement imposed by or for an agency
on persons to maintain specified records, including a
requirement to—
‘‘(A) retain such records;
‘‘(B) notify third parties or the public of
the existence of such records;
‘‘(C) disclose such records to third parties
or the public; or
‘‘(D) report to third parties or the public
regarding such records.
‘‘§ 3503. Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
‘‘(a) There is established in the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget an office to be known as the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs.
‘‘(b) There shall be at the head of the Office an Ad-
ministrator who shall be appointed by the President, by
and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Direc-
tor shall delegate to the Administrator the authority to
administer all functions under this chapter, except that
any such delegation shall not relieve the Director of re-
sponsibility for the administration of such functions. The
Administrator shall serve as principal adviser to the Direc-
tor on Federal information resources management policy.
‘‘§ 3504. Authority and functions of Director
‘‘(a)(1) The Director shall—
‘‘(A) develop, coordinate and oversee the imple-
mentation of Federal information resources manage-
ment policies, principles, standards, and guidelines;
and
‘‘(B) provide direction and oversee—
‘‘(i) the review and approval of the collec-
tion of information and the reduction of the
information collection burden;
‘‘(ii) agency dissemination of and public
access to information;
‘‘(iii) statistical activities;
‘‘(iv) records management activities;
‘‘(v) 
privacy, 
confidentiality, 
security,
disclosure, and sharing of information; and
‘‘(vi) the acquisition and use of informa-
tion technology.
‘‘(2) The authority of the Director under this chapter
shall be exercised consistent with applicable law.