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1 Paperwork Reduction Act Efficiencies 1 (2018)

handle is hein.usfed/ppwkrae0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Administrative Conference Recommendation 2018-1 Paperwork Reduction Act Efficiencies Adopted June 14, 2018 The Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) created the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the Office of Management and Budget to oversee information policy in the executive branch.' OIRA's oversight responsibilities include the review and approval of federal agencies' information collections from the public. Information collections are government requests for structured information, such as those requests for information issued through report forms, application forms, schedules, questionnaires, surveys, and reporting or recordkeeping requirements.2 The goal of the OIRA review process is to ensure that the burden of information collection on the public is justified by the utility of the information to the government. This Recommendation primarily concerns the interaction between agencies and the OIRA review process. Under the OIRA review process, when an agency seeks to collect structured information from ten or more members of the public,3 it must follow a series of steps.4 It must first publish a notice in the Federal Register and give the public sixty days to comment. Once the comment period ends, the agency must submit the proposed information collection to OIRA with a I The PRA was enacted in 1980 and has since been amended twice, in 1986 and 1995. See Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Pub. L. No. 104-13, 109 Stat. 163 (1995) (codified at 44 U.S.C. §§ 3501-3521). 2 5 C.F.R. § 1320.3(c)(1), (h)(4) (2018). The PRAapplies to the collection of structured information, meaning requests for information calling for either answers to identical questions posed to, or identical reporting or recordkeeping requirements imposed on, ten or more persons, or answers to questions posed to agencies which are to be used for general statistical purposes. See 44 U.S.C. § 3502(3) (2018). 3 See 44 U.S.C. § 3502(3)(A)(i); 5 C.F.R. § 1320.3(c)(4). 4 See 44 U.S.C. §§ 3506-3507; 5 C.F.R. pt. 1320.

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