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IMTEC-84-24 1 (1984-09-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabnmx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON D.C. 2OUS September 7, 1984 B-180224 The Honorable Jack Brooks RELEASED Chairman, Committee on Government Operations RESTRICT£9 ir, ,7 House of Representatives ACeG.ng n ....l. Dear Mr. Chairman: Subject: The Office of Management and Budget's Actions Show Progress in Implementing the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (GAO/IMTEC-84-24) This report responds to your February 6, 1984, request that we provide information on (1) whether the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB's) Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) is making progress in implementing the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-511) and whether OIRA should be reauthor- ized, (2) whether conflicts exist between Reform 88 activities and OIRA's activities in carrying out the act, (3) whether claims of reduced burdens made by OMB and the agencies are an accurate measure of the reductions in the paperwork burden since the act's beginning, (4) whether the OIRA desk officers' time1 is being diverted to non-Paperwork Reduction Act activities, and (5) whether the annual report to the Congress contained in appendix I of the fiscal year 1984 Information Collection Budget of the United States Government meets the act's annual reporting re- quirements. It was also requested that we provide an opinion on whether OIRA is making a sincere effort to accomplish the intent of the act. The Paperwork Reduction Act, which was signed by the President in December 1980 and became effective April 1, 1981, addresses a wide range of federal information resources manage- ment (IRM) issues. GAO identified in the legislation key tasks in five functional areas of (1) paperwork management, to include reducing the paperwork burden; (2) automatic data processing, telecommunications, and other information technology; (3) statis- tical policy; (4) records management; and (5) privacy and infor- mation sharing. The act specified a framework of policysetting and providing guidance; control and coordination; and oversight, review, and reporting. (See encl. I.) OIRA was established. spe- cifically to carry out the OMB Director's responsibilities under the law and to provide the necessary leadership in improving agency information resources management, with the Director re- taining responsibility for the administration of such functions. 1Desk officers are OMB staff members who are responsible for _ _ responding to agency questions on regulatory, reporting, and information policy issues for their assigned agencies.

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