[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 82 (Monday, April 29, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21009-21010]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-10379]


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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION


Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, 
Utility and Integrity of Information Disseminated by Federal Agencies

AGENCY: Social Security Administration (SSA).

ACTION: Notice; comments requested.

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SUMMARY: Section 515 of the Treasury and General Government 
Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (Pub. L. 106-554) directs the 
Office of

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Management and Budget (OMB) to issue government-wide guidelines for 
Federal agencies to ensure and maximize the quality, objectivity, 
utility and integrity of information disseminated by Federal agencies. 
In response, OMB issued government-wide guidelines on February 22, 2002 
(67 FR 8452), as revised on March 4, 2002 (67 FR 9797), that require 
Federal agencies that are subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 
U.S.C. chapter 35) to develop and publish their own information quality 
guidelines along with administrative mechanisms to allow persons to 
request correction of information.
    This notice serves to announce the availability of SSA section 515 
draft quality guidelines and corrections procedures on the agency's web 
site http://www.ssa.gov/515. SSA is requesting comments on section 515 
draft guidelines for ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, 
utility and integrity of disseminated information and on the proposed 
mechanisms for seeking correction of information.
    The SSA will consider all comments received in response to this 
notice and will develop proposed final guidelines and mechanisms for 
seeking correction for submission to OMB by July 1, 2002.
    Notice of SSA's final guidelines and correction procedures will be 
published in the Federal Register and will be available on the SSA web 
site no later than October 1, 2002.

DATES: Submit comments on or before May 29, 2002.

ADDRESSES: Comments transmitted by FAX or e-mail may be sent to Mr. 
Brian Greenberg, Office of Research, Evaluation and Statistics at FAX 
number (410) 965-3308 or e-mail to [email protected]. While 
comments by e-mail or fax are preferable, you may send your comments by 
mail to Mr. Brian Greenberg, Office of Research, Evaluation and 
Statistics, Room 4-C-15 Operations, 6401 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, 
MD 21235-6401. Mr. Greenberg may also be reached by phone at 410-965-
0131.

    Dated: April 22, 2002.
Paul N. Van de Water,
Acting Deputy Commissioner for Policy.
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