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 2006-07-18 monographic deposited born digital 36 p. GA 1.13:GAO-06-974T https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-974T P0b002ee1803922d9 f:d06974t DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-974T machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-974T GAO-06-974T Data collection Federal law Federal regulations Forms Information resources management Paperwork reduction Regulatory agencies Standards Surveys Reporting requirements Testimony A57089

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 responding to these collections imposes 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 submitting them to OMB for approval and certify that the collections meet certain standards set forth in the act. GAO was asked to testify on OMB's burden report for 2005 and on a previous study of PRA implementation (GAO-05-424), which focused on the CIO review and certification processes and described alternative processes that two agencies have used to minimize paperwork burden. To prepare this testimony, GAO reviewed the current burden report and its past work in this area. For its 2005 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 at the four agencies. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-974T/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-974T.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-974T/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-974T.pdf GAO-06-974T https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-974T Testimony GAO-06-974T; Paperwork Reduction Act: Increase in Estimated Burden Hours Highlights Need for New Approach; Data collection Federal law Federal regulations Forms Information resources management Paperwork reduction Regulatory agencies Standards Surveys Reporting requirements Title 644 Section 3508 644 U.S.C. 3508 Title 844 Section 3506(c)(1)(A) 844 U.S.C. 3506(c)(1)(A) Volume 109 Page 173-4 109 Stat. 173-4 Public Law 96-511 Public Law 99-591 Public Law 104-13 Public Law 104-106 Public Law 104-208 Public Law 108-173 H. Rept. 104-37