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PEMD-94-3 1 (1993-12-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabszm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO Results in Brief United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Program Evaluation and Methodology Division B-233451.5 December 6, 1993 The Honorable William F. Clinger, Jr. Ranking Minority Member Committee on Government Operations House of Representatives Dear Mr. Clinger: You asked us in January to update our earlier study on the burden of federal paperwork, using the same methodology for the period 1987-92.' In response, we have prepared this report, addressing the same four questions for this later period: 1. How has the paperwork burden changed over time? 2. What factors account for the observed changes? 3. Have some groups been differentially affected? 4. Have the reasons for information collection changed? Our analyses show an increase in reported burden hours of 261 percent (from over 1.8 billion hours to nearly 6.6 billion) between 1987 and 1992.2 Most of this change (3.4 billion of the 4.8 billion hour increase) is accounted for by I)epartment of Treasury reestimates of the tme spent in dealing with burdens rather than by the imposition of actual new burdens. A net increase of about 1.5 billion hours can be accounted for by changes in ongoing collections, primarily stemming from changes in population size and revisions to collection instruments. In addition to the Treasury reestimates, we found some increases in the estimated paperwork burden because of new requirements. For example, a court-ordered expansion of the scope of the Hazard Communication Standard in 1988 led to an increase of 48 million hours in the burden estimated by the Department of Labor (DOL). We also found some decreases. For example, in 1991, revisions in forms related to estimated 'U.S. General Accounting Office, Paperwork Reduction: Little Real Burden Change in Recent Years, GAO/PEMD-89-19FS (Washington, D.C.: June 1989). 21n our earlier report, the preliminary figure of 1.9 billion burden hours was estimated for 1987. However, the adjusted figure is now reported to be 1.8 billion. GAO/PEMD-94-3 Paperwork Reduction Page I

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