United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2005-06-14 monographic deposited born digital 25 p. GA 1.13:GAO-05-778T https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-778T P0b002ee18038f8c8 f:d05778t DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-778T machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-778T GAO-05-778T Chief information officers Data collection Federal law Federal regulations Government collections Government information dissemination Information resources management Reporting requirements Standards Surveys Federal forms Government paperwork Testimony A26677

Americans spend billions of hours each year providing information to federal agencies by filling out information collections (forms, surveys, or questionnaires). A major aim of the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) is to minimize the burden that these collections impose on the public, while maximizing their public benefit. Under the act, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is to approve all such collections and to report annually on the agencies' estimates of the associated burden. In addition, agency Chief Information Officers (CIO) are to review information collections before they are submitted to OMB for approval and certify that the collections meet certain standards set forth in the act. For its testimony, GAO was asked to comment on OMB's burden report for 2004 and to discuss its recent study of PRA implementation (GAO-05-424), concentrating on CIO review and certification processes and describing alternative processes that two agencies have used to minimize burden. For its study, GAO reviewed a governmentwide sample of collections, reviewed processes and collections at four agencies that account for a large proportion of burden, and performed case studies of 12 approved collections. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-778T/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-778T.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-778T/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-778T.pdf GAO-05-778T https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-778T Testimony GAO-05-778T; Paperwork Reduction Act: Burden Reduction May Require a New Approach; Chief information officers Data collection Federal law Federal regulations Government collections Government information dissemination Information resources management Reporting requirements Standards Surveys Federal forms Government paperwork Title 44 Section 3506(c)(2) 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2) Volume 109 Page 173 Volume 109 Page 173-4 109 Stat. 173 109 Stat. 173-4 Public Law 96-511 Public Law 99-591 Public Law 104-13 Public Law 104-106 Public Law 104-208 H. Rept. 104-37