    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George W. Bush (2002, Book I)]
    [June 28, 2002]
    [Page 1081]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Statement on Signing the Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002
    June 28, 2002

        I am pleased to sign into law H.R. 327, the ``Small Business
    Paperwork Relief Act of 2002.'' This legislation will help achieve an
    important objective of my Administration to reduce the cost and burden
    on small businesses of government paperwork and increase the resources
    available to small businesses to create jobs and economic growth.
        Section 3 of the bill creates a new section 3520 in title 44 of the
    United States Code to create an interagency task force on information
    collection and dissemination to help the heads of departments and
    agencies reduce the government burden on small businesses. Section 3520
    purports to require task force publication of differences in views among
    executive officers and transmittal of recommendations to congressional
    committees. The executive branch shall construe section 3520 in a manner
    consistent with the President's constitutional authority to supervise
    the unitary executive branch, to protect the confidentiality of
    executive deliberations, and to recommend to the consideration of the
    Congress such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.

                                                              George W. Bush

     The White House,

     June 28, 2002.

    Note: H.R. 327, approved June 28, was assigned Public Law No. 107-198.
    An original was not available for verification of the content of this
    statement.