[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 116 (Monday, June 17, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41255-41256]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-15119]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-4769-N-02]


Notice of Availability of HUD Information Quality Guidelines: 
Extension of Public Comment Period

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Through this notice, HUD is extending the public comment 
period on its draft guidelines for ensuring and maximizing the quality, 
objectivity, utility, and integrity of information disseminated to the 
public by HUD. These guidelines, referred to as HUD's ``Information 
Quality Guidelines,'' are available for review and comment on HUD's 
website at www.hud.gov.

DATES: Comments Due Date: July 17, 2002.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding 
this notice to the Rules Docket Clerk, Office of General Counsel, Room 
10276, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, 
SW., Washington, DC 20410-0500. Communications should refer to the 
above docket number and title. A copy of each communication submitted 
will be available for public inspection and copying between 7:30 a.m. 
and 5:30 p.m. weekdays at the above address. Comments may be submitted 
electronically to HUD through internet email by sending to the 
following address: [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barbara Dorf, Director, Office of 
Departmental Grants Management and Oversight, Office of Administration, 
Department of Housing and Urban Development, Room 3146, 451 Seventh 
Street, SW., Washington, DC 20410-0500; telephone (202) 708-0667 (this 
is not a toll-free number). Hearing- or speech-impaired individuals may 
access this number via TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Information 
Relay Service at (800) 877-8399.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: By notice published on May 30, 2002 (67 FR 
38751), HUD advised the public that section 515 of the Treasury and 
General Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (Public Law 
106-554)

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directed 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.'' Within one year after 
OMB issues its guidelines, agencies must issue their own guidelines 
that will describe internal mechanisms by which agencies will ensure 
that their information meets the standards of quality, objectivity, 
utility and integrity. The mechanism also must allow affected persons 
to seek and obtain correction of information maintained and 
disseminated by the agency that does not comply with the guidelines.
    OMB issued its final guidelines on September 28, 2001 (66 FR 
49718), but requested additional comment on one component of the OMB 
guidelines. The OMB guidelines addressing additional public comment 
were published on January 3, 2002 (67 FR 369), and republished on 
February 22, 2002 (67 FR 6452). In accordance with the statute, 
agencies must issue their final guidelines by October 1, 2002. The 
agencies' draft guidelines need not be published in the Federal 
Register, but agencies should provide notification in the Federal 
Register that the draft guidelines are available on agencies' websites.
    HUD announced the availability of its draft guidelines for review 
on HUD's website by Federal Register notice published on May 30, 2002 
(67 FR 37851). The May 30, 2002, notice solicited public comments 
through July 1, 2002.
    This notice published in today's Federal Register advises the 
public that HUD is extending the public comment period to July 17, 
2002.

    Dated: June 10, 2002.
Vickers B. Meadows,
Assistant Secretary for Administration.
[FR Doc. 02-15119 Filed 6-14-02; 8:45 am]
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