[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 86 (Friday, May 3, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22398-22403]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-10991]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Office of the Secretary

[Docket No. 020430099-2099-01]
RIN 0690-XX07


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

AGENCY: Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: Section 515 of Public Law 106-554, the Treasury and General 
Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001, directs the Office 
of Management and Budget (OMB) to issue government-wide guidelines that 
``provide policy and procedural guidance to Federal agencies for 
ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility, and 
integrity of information (including statistical information) 
disseminated by Federal agencies.'' In addition, section 515 requires 
that agencies subject to the OMB guidelines must establish 
``administrative mechanisms allowing affected persons to seek and 
obtain correction of information that does not comply with [the OMB 
guidelines].'' The OMB final guidelines were published in the Federal 
Register on February 22, 2002. Those guidelines direct that, by May 1, 
2002, agencies publish for public comment their draft guidelines. As 
such, the Department of Commerce is requesting public comment on the 
following guidelines, information quality standards, and administrative 
correction mechanism. The draft guidelines contained in this document 
provide policy direction to the various operating units of the 
Department in issuing information quality standards applicable to 
information they disseminate. Further, this document includes draft 
Department-wide information quality standards to address information 
utility and integrity, as well as an information quality standard for 
information that is other than scientific, financial, or statistical.

DATES: Comments are due by close of business June 3, 2002.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to Thomas N. Pyke, Jr., Chief 
Information Officer, Department of Commerce, 14th St. and Constitution 
Ave. NW, Room 5029B, Washington, DC 20230. Send e-mail to 
[email protected]. Department of Commerce operating units will 
publish their information quality standards on the Web sites listed in 
the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document. Comments on the 
operating unit standards should be addressed directly to the contact 
noted in the operating unit standards.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Diana H. Hynek, Office of the Chief 
Information Officer, Department of Commerce, 14th St. and Constitution 
Ave. NW, Room 6625, Washington, DC 20230. Telephone (202) 482-0266 or 
by e-mail to [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The U.S. Department of Commerce (``Commerce'' or ``Department'') is 
one of the most diverse Federal departments, both in terms of its 
mission and the information it provides to the public. We are 
responsible for daily weather reporting, facilitating the use of 
technology both at home and in the workplace, collecting statistics 
that assist the public and private sector, and supporting the 
environmental and economic health of U.S. communities. Our mission is 
to promote job creation and improve living standards for all Americans 
by creating an infrastructure that encourages economic growth, 
technological competitiveness, and sustainable development, 
conservation, and wise use of living marine resources.
    To carry out this mission, three strategic goals have been 
identified. They are to provide the information and the framework to 
enable the economy to operate efficiently and equitably; provide the 
infrastructure for innovation to enhance U.S. competitiveness; and 
observe and manage the Earth's environment to promote sustainable 
growth.
    Commerce provides the basic economic data necessary to develop 
sound business decisions, producing many of the commonly used economic 
statistics issued by the U.S. Government. The Department also produces 
information designed to encourage the use of science and technology in 
the production of consumer goods and services.

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    Commerce plays an important role in the nation's global business 
development. The Department develops and disseminates foreign market 
research and international trade opportunities through its offices in 
the United States and in 83 foreign countries. Commerce also monitors 
and enforces compliance with U.S. trade laws and agreements, and 
defends American firms from injurious foreign business practices by 
administering U.S. antidumping and countervailing duty laws.
    The oceanic and atmospheric programs at Commerce improve the 
understanding and rational use of the natural environment to further 
the Nation's safety, welfare, security, and commerce. These 
responsibilities include predicting the weather, charting the seas, and 
protecting the oceans and coastal areas.
    Domestically, Commerce's programs promote long-term business 
enterprises that create jobs for minority groups and in underdeveloped 
areas across the United States. These programs are supported by 
reports, publications, projections, and business expertise. The 
Department provides services to citizens, and private business as well 
as to state, local and tribal governments.

Commerce Commitment to Information Quality

    Given the broad responsibilities of the Commerce Department in 
scientific, technical, and statistical information, Commerce welcomes 
the opportunity provided by the issuance of the Office of Management 
and Budget information quality guidelines to demonstrate our thorough 
and professional approach to information release at the Commerce 
Department.
    Our goal is to ensure and maximize the quality of the information 
we release to the public. We are committed to making the methods, 
models, and processes that produce our information transparent and 
rigorous. At the Commerce Department, we have a long tradition of 
producing relevant, credible, high quality information to the public at 
large, the academic community, and the private sector.
    We believe that we uphold a high standard regarding information 
quality through the use of quality control procedures for statistical 
data collection and processing. The 2000 decennial census, conducted by 
the Census Bureau, was the most accurate census in the history of the 
Nation. Commerce has made significant strides in redesigning the 
national income and product accounts by improving the conceptual 
foundation and incorporating new estimating methods and other 
statistical improvements. Our scientific research incorporates both 
internal and external peer review as appropriate. The Department boasts 
two Nobel Prize winners in science. We operate supercomputers that rank 
in the Nation's top ten in processing power. These powerful computers 
allow us a high degree of model resolution that increases the number of 
data points used to improve the accuracy of weather forecasts.
    In summary, we are proposing these draft Commerce guidelines as a 
continuation of our commitment to information quality. We have a proven 
track record in producing high quality information and welcome the 
opportunity for the public to comment on our information quality 
guidelines.

Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, 
Utility, and Integrity of Information Disseminated by the 
Department of Commerce and its Operating Units

I. Department of Commerce Responsibilities

    The Department of Commerce Chief Information Officer (CIO) will 
prepare and submit reports annually to the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) regarding the number and nature of 
complaints received by the Department of Commerce regarding Department 
compliance with the OMB guidelines concerning the quality, objectivity, 
utility, and integrity of information and how such complaints were 
resolved, as required by Section 515 of the Treasury and General 
Government Appropriations Act for FY 2001 (Public Law 106-554) and the 
OMB Guidelines.

II. Operating Unit Responsibilities

    1. By October 1, 2002, document and make available to the public 
information quality standards that address the requirements of quality, 
objectivity, utility, and integrity for all non-exempt information 
disseminated by the operating unit.
    2. By October 1, 2002, establish administrative mechanisms allowing 
affected persons to seek and obtain correction of information 
maintained and disseminated by the operating unit on or after October 
1, 2002, that does not comply with these Department guidelines and the 
OMB guidelines.
    3. Assist the Department CIO in the preparation of annual reports 
to OMB by providing information requested by the Department CIO.

III. Information Quality Standards

    By October 1, 2002, each operating unit must document and make 
available to the public information quality standards that meet the 
requirements of quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity, as 
defined in these guidelines, for all non-exempt information 
disseminated by that operating unit. (The operating units of the 
Department are organizational entities outside the Office of the 
Secretary charged with carrying out specified substantive functions 
(i.e. programs) of the Department. For purposes of this document, 
operating unit responsibilities will apply to the Office of the 
Secretary also.) Each operating unit will post on its Web site the 
categories of information disseminated by the operating unit, the 
quality standard for each category, and an administrative correction 
mechanism for public comment by May 31, 2002. Web addresses are listed 
in the final section of this announcement. Note: The draft standards 
for the Census Bureau and for other than scientific, financial, and 
statistical information in the Office of the Secretary are available 
now.

Department-Level Guidance to Commerce Operating Units

    The guidelines below provide direction to the operating units of 
the Department in issuing information quality standards applicable to 
information they disseminate. This document includes Department-wide 
model information quality standards to address information utility and 
integrity, as well as a model information quality standard for 
information other than scientific, financial, or statistical 
information. The latter standard includes the model utility and 
integrity standards for completeness. Finally, this document contains a 
model administrative correction process for information disseminated by 
operating units of the Department.
    As noted below, each operating unit may adopt or adapt the 
suggested model standards and adapt the suggested model administrative 
mechanism, as needed. An operating unit may also choose to adapt the 
model standards by integrating them with other standards. Where no 
model standard is provided, each operating unit must prepare standards 
to comply fully with Section 515 of the Treasury and General Government 
Appropriations Act for FY 2001 (Public Law 106-554) and the OMB 
Guidelines. In particular, each operating must address the objectivity 
of scientific, financial, and statistical information it disseminates.


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    Note on Terminology: In these Guidelines, the terms ``quality,'' 
``utility,'' ``objectivity,'' ``integrity,'' ``information,'' 
``government information,'' ``information dissemination product,'' 
``dissemination,'' ``influential,'' and ``reproducibility'' are used 
with the meanings given by the definitions in the OMB final 
Guidelines as published in the Federal Register, Vol. 67, No.36, 
February 22, 2002. Where a different or modified definition of any 
of these terms is applicable in a specific context, or associated 
with a specific information category, that definition will be 
provided in the context to which it applies.

I. Use of Disclaimers for Released Information

    Each operating unit may adopt or adapt this policy.

Scope

    This policy covers release of information by the Department of 
Commerce on or after October 1, 2002.

Policy

    Any information released by the Department that does not represent 
the views of the Department (or any of its components) shall contain a 
disclaimer indicating that it does not represent the views of the 
Department.

II. Model Quality Standard for Utility of Information Disseminated 
to the Public

    Each operating unit may adopt or adapt this standard.

Scope

    This standard covers all information disseminated by the Department 
of Commerce on or after October 1, 2002.

Standard

    Information disseminated to the public shall be useful to its 
intended users. ``Useful'' means that the content of the information is 
helpful, beneficial, or serviceable to its intended users, or that the 
information supports the usefulness of other disseminated information 
by making it more accessible or easier to read, see, understand, 
obtain, or use. Where the usefulness of information will be enhanced by 
greater transparency, care shall be taken that sufficient background 
and detail is available, either with the disseminated information or 
through other means, to maximize the usefulness of the information. The 
level of such background and detail shall be commensurate with the 
importance of the particular information, balanced against the 
resources required, and be appropriate to the nature and timeliness of 
the information to be disseminated.

III. Model Quality Standard for Integrity of Information 
Disseminated to the Public

    Each operating unit may adopt or adapt this standard.

Scope

    This standard covers all information disseminated by the Department 
of Commerce on or after October 1, 2002.

Standard

    Information disseminated by the Department of Commerce to the 
public, independent of the specific distribution mechanism, shall be 
safeguarded from improper access, modification, or destruction. The 
Department will ensure that disseminated information, including 
original and supporting information, is protected commensurate with the 
risk and magnitude of harm that could result from the loss, misuse, or 
unauthorized access to or modification of such information.
    All electronic information disseminated to the public by the 
Department of Commerce adheres to the standards set out in Appendix 
III, ``Security of Federal Automated Information Resources,'' OMB 
Circular A-130; the Computer Security Act; and the Government 
Information Systems Reform Act.
    Confidentiality of data collected by the Department is safeguarded 
under legislation including the Privacy Act and Titles 13, 15, and 22 
of the U.S. Code. For its formal statistical data releases to the 
public, the Commerce Department maintains strict procedures to protect 
premature disclosure of the data before the publicly scheduled date and 
time of the release.

IV. Model Quality Standard for Non-Scientific, Non-Financial, Non-
Statistical Information Disseminated to the Public

    Each operating unit may adopt or adapt this standard.

Scope

    This standard covers all non-scientific, non-financial, non-
statistical information disseminated by the Department of Commerce on 
or after October 1, 2002.

Utility

    Information disseminated to the public shall be useful to its 
intended users. ``Useful'' means that the content of the information is 
helpful, beneficial, or serviceable to its intended users, or that the 
information supports the usefulness of other disseminated information 
by making it more accessible or easier to read, see, understand, 
obtain, or use. Where the usefulness of information will be enhanced by 
greater transparency, care shall be taken that sufficient background 
and detail is available, either with the disseminated information or 
through other means, to maximize the usefulness of the information. The 
level of such background and detail shall be commensurate with the 
importance of the particular information, balanced against the 
resources required, and be appropriate to the nature and timeliness of 
the information to be disseminated.

Integrity

    Information disseminated by the Department of Commerce to the 
public, independent of the specific distribution mechanism, shall be 
safeguarded from improper access, modification, or destruction. The 
Department will ensure that disseminated information, including 
original and supporting information, is protected commensurate with the 
risk and magnitude of harm that could result from the loss, misuse, or 
unauthorized access to or modification of such information.
    All electronic information disseminated to the public by the 
Department of Commerce adheres to the standards set out in Appendix 
III, ``Security of Federal Automated Information Resources,'' OMB 
Circular A-130; the Computer Security Act; and the Government 
Information Systems Reform Act.
    Confidentiality of data collected by the Department is safeguarded 
under legislation including the Privacy Act and Titles 13, 15, and 22 
of the U.S. Code. For its formal statistical data releases to the 
public, the Commerce Department maintains strict procedures to protect 
premature disclosure of the data before the publicly scheduled date and 
time of the release.

Objectivity

    Information disseminated by the Department shall be presented in a 
clear, complete, and unbiased manner, and in a context which enhances 
usability to the intended audience. The sources of the disseminated 
information shall be identified to the extent possible, consistent with 
confidentiality, privacy, and security considerations and protections, 
and taking into account timely presentation, the medium of 
dissemination, and the importance of the information, balanced against 
the resources required and the time available.
    Information disseminated by the Department shall be reliable and 
accurate to an acceptable degree of error as determined by factors such 
as the

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importance of the information, its intended use, time sensitivity, 
expected degree of permanence, relation to the primary mission(s) of 
the disseminating office, and the context of the dissemination, 
balanced against the resources required and the time available. A body 
of information is considered to be reliable if experience shows it to 
be generally accurate. Accurate information, in the case of non-
scientific, non-financial, non-statistical information, means 
information which is reasonably determined to be factually correct in 
the view of the disseminating office as of the time of dissemination.

Pre-dissemination Review Process

    The pre-dissemination review process shall enable the Department to 
substantiate the quality of disseminated information through 
documentation or other means appropriate to the nature and importance 
of the information, balanced against resources required and the time 
available.
    Pre-dissemination review of information disseminated by the 
Department shall be incorporated into the normal review processes for 
each type of information to take advantage of inherent quality checks 
that are part of the process of formulating the information. This 
review shall be at a level appropriate to the information, taking into 
account the information's importance, balanced against the resources 
required and the time available. Department operating units shall treat 
information quality as integral to every step in their process of 
developing the information, including creation, collection, 
maintenance, and dissemination.
    Pre-dissemination review can be accomplished in a number of ways, 
including but not limited to combinations of the following:
    a. Active personal review of information by supervisory and 
management layers, either by reviewing each individual dissemination, 
or selected samples, or by any other reasonable method.
    b. Use of quality check lists, charts, statistics, or other means 
of tracking quality.
    c. Careful design and monitoring of review processes to ensure they 
are effective.
    d. Peer monitoring during information preparation.
    e. Use of management controls.
    f. Review of comments from the public.
    g. Any other method which serves to enhance the objectivity, 
utility, and integrity of the information.

Contact Information

    Contact information shall be provided with the information 
disseminated.

V. Model Administrative Mechanism for Requesting Correction of 
Information Disseminated to the Public

    (a) Requests to correct information. Any affected person may 
request, where appropriate, timely correction of disseminated 
information that does not comply with Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) or Department guidelines. An affected person would submit a 
request for such action directly to a point of contact designated to 
receive such requests.
    (b) Appeals of denials of requests. Any person receiving an initial 
denial of a request to correct information made under paragraph (a), 
may file an appeal of such denial, which must be received by the head 
of the operating unit within thirty calendar days of the date of the 
denial of the request. The appeal must include a copy of the original 
request, any correspondence regarding the initial denial, and a 
statement of the reasons why the initial denial was in error. No 
opportunity for personal appearance, oral argument, or hearing on 
appeal is provided.
    (c) Savings clause. Operating units must adopt or adapt these 
procedures for providing affected persons with an opportunity to seek 
and obtain correction of disseminated information described in this 
guideline. However, operating units with an existing process for 
providing affected persons with an opportunity to seek and obtain 
correction of disseminated information may retain their existing 
process, provided such existing process has been published in the 
Federal Register, or otherwise been made publicly available.
    (d) Definitions.
    (1) Affected person means a person who meets each of the following 
three criteria:
    (i) The person must have suffered an injury `` harm to an 
identifiable legally-protected interest;
    (ii) There must be a causal connection between the injury and the 
disseminated information--the injury has to be fairly traceable to the 
disseminated information or decisions based on such information, and 
not the result of independent or unrelated action; and
    (iii) It must be likely, as opposed to merely speculative, that the 
injury will be redressed by a favorable decision.
    (2) Person means an individual, partnership, corporation, 
association, public or private organization, or State or local 
government; and
    (3) Program office means a sub-organization of an operating unit 
responsible for carrying out specified substantive functions (i.e., 
programs) of that operating unit.
    (e) Procedures for initial request for correction.
    (1) Each operating unit of the Department will establish internal 
procedures that ensure that every dissemination of information will 
contain a point of contact for an affected person to request correction 
of such disseminated information that does not comply with OMB or 
Department guidelines. The point of contact may be a Department-wide 
internet Web site established for the purpose of receiving such 
requests for correction. Alternatively, the point of contact may be an 
office in the operating unit that disseminated the information, either 
the program office that actually disseminated the information, an 
office one organizational level above such office, or a central point 
of contact within the operating unit.
    (2) An initial request for correction of disseminated information 
must be either posted to any Department-wide internet Web site 
established for such purpose or in writing and addressed to the point 
of contact. The point of contact will transmit the request to the 
office that will address the request (responsible office). Any 
Department employee receiving a misdirected request will take 
reasonable efforts to forward the request to the appropriate office, 
but the responsible office is not obligated to respond until it 
receives the request.
    (3)(i) No initial request for correction will be considered under 
these procedures concerning:
    (A) A matter not involving ``information,'' as that term is defined 
in OMB's guidelines;
    (B) Information that has not actually been ``disseminated,'' as 
that term is defined in OMB's guidelines; or
    (C) Disseminated information the correction of which would serve no 
useful purpose. For example, correction of disseminated information 
would serve no useful purpose with respect to information that is not 
valid, used or useful after a stated short period of time (such as a 
weather forecast). This limitation would not, however, preclude a 
request for correction alleging a systemic problem resulting in 
consistent errors in the dissemination of such information.
    (ii) Such a request will be accounted for in the Department's 
report to OMB.
    (4) At a minimum, initial requests must include:
    (i) The requester's current home or business address, telephone 
number or

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electronic mail address (in order to ensure timely communication);
    (ii) An accurate citation to or description of the particular 
information disseminated which is the subject of the request (including 
the date and information source from which the requester obtained the 
information); and
    (iii) An explanation of:
    (A) How the requester is an affected person;
    (B) How the requester believes the office that disseminated the 
information failed to follow its applicable information quality 
standards; and
    (C) Why the requester believes that the subject information is not 
correct.
    (5) Upon receipt of an initial request, the requester will be 
notified of receipt as soon as administratively possible.
    (6)(i) Each operating unit of the Department will establish 
internal procedures that ensure that, upon receipt of a request from an 
affected person meeting the requirements of paragraph (e)(4) 
(hereinafter called ``a proper request''), an initial decision will be 
communicated to the requester, usually within 60 calendar days. Each 
operating unit may establish a time period for its initial decision 
depending on the type of information at issue.
    (ii) No action will be taken regarding a request failing to meet 
the requirements of paragraph (e)(4), including a request made by a 
person unaffected by the dissemination of the information. The 
submitter of any such request will be notified of this disposition. 
Such a request will be accounted for in the Department's report to OMB.
    (iii) A proper request made concerning information disseminated as 
part and during the pendency of the comment period on a proposed rule, 
including a request concerning the information forming the record of 
decision for a proposed rule, will be treated as a comment filed on 
that proposed rulemaking action, and will be addressed in issuance of 
any final rule. A proper request filed after the close of the comment 
period on any proposed rule may be considered to the same extent as any 
other late-filed comment or may be addressed through the procedures 
established in this guideline.
    (7)(i) Upon receipt of a proper request, the responsible office 
must make a preliminary determination whether the request states a 
claim. A request for correction will be preliminarily determined to 
state a claim if it reasonably demonstrates, on the strength of the 
assertions made in the request alone, that the information disseminated 
was based on a misapplication or non-application of the operating 
unit's applicable published information quality standards.
    (ii) A determination that a request does not state a claim will be 
communicated to the requester as soon as is administratively possible. 
There is no appeal from a decision that a request does not state a 
claim.
    (8)(i) If a request is preliminarily determined to state a claim, 
the responsible office will objectively investigate and analyze, in a 
manner consistent with established internal procedures, whether the 
information disseminated is in compliance with the operating unit's 
published information quality standards. The appropriate official will 
make an initial decision, based on the request and any internal 
investigation and analysis, whether the information should be corrected 
because it does not comply with the operating unit's published 
information quality standards (granted request) or not corrected 
because it does comply with the operating unit's published information 
quality standards or, in the event that it does not comply with the 
operating unit's published information quality guidelines, the results 
would have been substantially or statistically the same (initial 
denial). There will be no opportunity for an in-person hearing.
    (ii) The appropriate official must communicate his/her initial 
decision to the requester within the time frame established by the 
operating unit's internal guidelines. The initial decision must contain 
the name and title of the person communicating the decision, and a 
notice that the requester may appeal an initial denial to the head of 
the operating unit (with the name, title, and address of that official) 
within 30 calendar days of the date of the initial denial. An initial 
denial will become a final decision if no appeal is filed within 30 
days.
    (iii) The appropriate official may determine to grant the request 
and not correct the disseminated information if to correct the 
information would require a commitment of resources unavailable to that 
official. The appropriate official will communicate such a 
determination to the requester and will consider, in consultation with 
the head of the operating unit, including a request for sufficient 
funds to undertake the correction in the next budget cycle.
    (f) Appeals from initial denial.
    (1) An appeal from an initial denial must be made within 30 
calendar days of the date of the initial decision. Such appeal must be 
in writing and addressed to the head of the operating unit responsible 
for the program office that disseminated the information. At a minimum, 
an appeal of an initial denial must include:
    (i) The requester's current home or business address, telephone 
number or electronic mail address (in order to ensure timely 
communication);
    (ii) A copy of the original request and any correspondence 
regarding the initial denial; and
    (iii) A statement of the reasons why the requester believes the 
initial denial was in error. In describing why the requester believes 
the initial denial was in error, the requester must provide detailed 
reasons why:
    (A) The failure to follow its information quality standards led the 
office that disseminated the information to disseminate information 
that is not within an acceptable degree of imprecision or error;
    (B) The disseminated information is not within an acceptable degree 
of imprecision or error regardless of whether the office that 
disseminated the information correctly followed its information quality 
standards; or
    (C) The standards covering the dissemination of the information at 
issue were so flawed that, even if they had been followed, they would 
lead to the dissemination of incorrect information.
    (2) The head of the operating unit will decide whether the 
information should be corrected based on all the information presented 
in the appeal and the evidence collected by the operating unit 
pertaining to that appeal. There will be no opportunity for an in-
person hearing. The head of the operating unit must communicate his/her 
decision to the requester within the time frame established by the 
operating unit's internal procedures, but in no case longer than 60 
calendar days after receipt of the appeal. The decision of the head of 
the operating unit will constitute a final decision by the Department.
    (3) The head of the operating unit may determine that an appeal 
meets one of the criteria in paragraph (f)(1)(iii) and not correct the 
disseminated information or the Department's guidelines if to do so 
would require a commitment of resources unavailable to that official. 
The head of the operating unit will communicate such a determination to 
the requester and will consider including a request for sufficient 
funds to undertake the correction in the next budget cycle.

Department of Commerce and Operating Unit Web Sites

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http://www.census.gov/
http://www.doc.gov/eda/
http://www.ita.doc.gov/
http://www.mbda.gov/
http://www.noaa.gov/
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/
http://www.oig.doc.gov/
http://www.ta.doc.gov/
http://www.nist.gov/
https://www.ntis.gov/

    Dated: April 29, 2002.
Thomas N. Pyke, Jr.,
Chief Information Officer.
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