[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 109 (Thursday, June 6, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39096-39097]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-14225]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Office of the Secretary

[Docket No. OST-2002-11996]


Draft Report Implementing OMB's Information Dissemination Quality 
Guidelines

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, DOT.

ACTION: Extension of public comment period.

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SUMMARY: On January 3, 2002, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
issued Government-wide guidelines under Section 515 that direct each 
Federal agency to establish and implement written procedures to ensure 
and maximize the quality, utility, objectivity and integrity of the 
information that they disseminate. On April 24, 2002, the Department of 
Transportation (DOT) posted its proposed Departmental guidelines to 
implement Section 515 of the Treasury and General Government 
Appropriations Act for FY 2001 (PL 106-554) on its Web site for public 
comments. On April 30, 2002, the Department published a notice of 
availability of its draft guidelines in the Federal Register. Today's 
notice extends the public comment period for this proposal.

DATES: Comments should be submitted by June 17, 2002.

ADDRESSES: You may file comments using the Internet by logging in on 
DOT'S Dockets Management System (DMS) Web site at http://dms.dot.gov. 
Please follow the online instructions for submitting an electronic 
comment and for reviewing all comments on line. Once received, a 
notification receipt will be forwarded to you. You may fax your 
comments to the DMS at (202) 493-2251. You may also submit your 
comments by mail or in person by sending your comments to the U. S. 
Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of Dockets and Media 
Management to the Docket Clerk, Docket No. OST-2002-11996, 400 Seventh 
Street, SW., Room PL-401, Washington, DC 20590-0001. If you would like 
the Department to acknowledge receipt of your written comments, you 
must include a self-addressed stamped postcard on which the following 
statement is made: ``Comments on Docket OST-2002-11996.'' The Docket 
Clerk will date stamp the postcard prior to returning it to you via the 
U.S. mail. Comments should identify the docket number. Written comments 
should be submitted in duplicate. The Office of Dockets and Media 
Management is open for examination and copying at the above address 
from 9:00 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal 
holidays. All comments received will be available for inspection at the 
above address. Please note that due to current mail security procedures 
affecting U.S. Postal Service delivery to Government offices, 
commenters may find it advantageous to use an alternative method (the 
internet, fax, or professional delivery service) to submit comments to 
the Docket and ensure their timely receipt at the U.S. Department of 
Transportation.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Vanester M. Williams, Office of the 
Chief Information Officer, U. S. Department of Transportation; 202-366-
1771 (not a toll-free call) or by e-mail at 
[email protected]. For specific inquiries on the 
Department's administrative mechanisms for allowing persons to seek 
correction of information, please contact Robert Ashby, Office of the 
General Counsel, U. S. Department of Transportation; 202-366-9310 (not 
a toll-free call) or by e-mail at [email protected]. For specific 
inquiries on the Department's statistical guidelines, please contact 
Dr. Patrick Flanagan, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U. S. 
Department of Transportation; 202-366-4168 (not a toll-free call) or by 
e-mail at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department's information quality 
guidelines will apply to a wide variety of its information 
dissemination activities in order to meet basic information quality 
standards set forth by Section 515. The purpose of these guidelines is 
to provide a framework under which the Department will allow affected 
persons an opportunity to seek and obtain correction of information 
maintained and disseminated by the Department that does not comply with 
these guidelines.
    The Department received a request from a commenter to extend the 
comment period for this proposal an additional 60 days, through the end 
of July. In order to meet the August 1, 2002 deadline for submission of 
draft final

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guidelines to OMB, as well as the October 1, 2002 deadline for issuance 
of final guidelines to OMB, the Department will not be able to extend 
the comment period for the requested length of time. However, in order 
to provide the public some additional time to review and send comments 
to us, the Department will extend the comment period for an additional 
two weeks. The closing date for the extended comment period will be 
June 17, 2002.
    Instructions for filing comments may also be found in the 
guidelines document posted on the Department's DMS Web site. The 
Department will review all comments submitted in response to its draft 
guidelines. The comments will be available for public review on the DMS 
Web site.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on May 30, 2002.
Eugene K. Taylor, Jr.,
Deputy CIO, Department of Transportation.
[FR Doc. 02-14225 Filed 6-5-02; 8:45 am]
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