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GAO-05-909R 1 (2005-07-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptasbr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SGAO Accountability * Integrity Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 July 19, 2005 The Honorable Candice S. Miller Chair The Honorable Stephen F. Lynch Ranking Minority Member Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs Committee on Government Reform House of Representatives Subject: Paperwork Reduction Act: Subcommittee Questions Concerning the Act's Information Collection Provisions This letter responds to your request of June 22, 2005, that we provide answers to questions relating to our June 14 testimony' on the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). At the June hearing, we discussed the estimates of government paperwork burden provided in the annual PRA report (known as the Information Collection Budget) that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recently released, as well as results from our report on agencies' PRA processes and compliance.2 Your questions, along with our responses, follow. 1. With the passage of the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the intent of the Congress was to reduce the burden imposed on the public by federal agencies. Is the PRA in its current form an effective tool for reducing public burden? As discussed in our report, the PRA in its current form contains mechanisms intended to reduce the public burden. Among these is the requirement that OMB review all information collections, as well as the requirement put in place by the 1995 amendments to the PRA, that agencies establish a process to review program offices' proposed collections before the OMB review. This agency review process is to be carried out by the official responsible for the act's implementation-now the agency's 'GAO, Paperwork Reduction Act: Burden Reduction May Require a New Approach, GAO-05 -778T (Washington, D.C.: June 14, 2005). 2GAO, Paperwork Reduction Act: New Approach May Be Needed to Reduce Government Burden on Public, GAO45- 24 (Washington, D.C.: May 20, 2005). GAO-05-909R Posthearing Questions on Paperwork Reduction Act

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