Paperwork Reduction Act of 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Title I: Authorization of Appropriations

Title II: Reducing the Burden of Federal Paperwork on

the Public

Title III: Enhancing Federal Agency Responsibility and

Accountability for Reducing the Burden of Federal

Paperwork

Title IV: Enhancing Government Responsibility and

Accountability for Reducing the Burden of Federal

Paperwork

Title V: Enhancing Agency Responsibility for Sharing and

Disseminating Public Information

Title VI: Additional Government Information Management

Responsibility

Title VII: Effective Dates

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1993 - Title I: Authorization of Appropriations - Amends the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 to authorize appropriations to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

Title II: Reducing the Burden of Federal Paperwork on the Public - Applies the Act to all federally sponsored paperwork.

Requires a Government-wide paperwork reduction goal of at least five percent and individual agency goals that aggregate to the Government-wide goal.

Title III: Enhancing Federal Agency Responsibility and Accountability for Reducing the Burden of Federal Paperwork - Makes the senior official charged with carrying out the responsibilities of a Federal agency under the Act the head of a separate office with qualified staff responsible for assuring agency compliance with requirements under the Act.

Requires each agency to: (1) prepare estimates of the burden that will result from proposed collections of information; (2) develop a strategic Information Resources Management Plan; and (3) establish oversight procedures for agency information systems.

Requires each agency head to establish a certification process for the review of each information collection request before it is submitted to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval.

Title IV: Enhancing Government Responsibility and Accountability for Reducing the Burden of Federal Paperwork - Makes the OMB Director responsible for ensuring that all information collection requests display an estimate of the paperwork burden for each response.

Requires OMB procedures in order for agencies to estimate such burden.

Requires OMB pilot projects to test approaches to improve information management practices and related activities.

Reduces the time afforded the OMB Director for approving a routine agency request to collect information.

Provides for greater participation by the public and Federal agencies in the review of proposed paperwork burdens generated by agency information requests. Requires the OMB Director to make publicly available any decision to disapprove a collection of information requirement contained in an agency rule, together with the reasons for such decision.

Provides protection for whistleblowers of unauthorized Federal paperwork burdens.

Provides for expedited OMB review of an agency information request with a reduced paperwork burden.

Title V: Enhancing Agency Responsibility for Sharing and Disseminating Public Information - Provides for Government-wide standards for sharing and disseminating public information.

Imposes certain responsibilities on Federal agencies for sharing and disseminating public information.

Abolishes the Federal Information Locator System established in the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and replaces it with a system in each agency for providing public access via electronic and other means to a comprehensive inventory of agency information dissemination products.

Title VI: Additional Government Information Management Responsibility - Revises the statistical policy and coordination functions of the OMB Director. Requires the OMB Director to: (1) establish an interagency working group on statistical policy to coordinate agency statistical activities; and (2) provide training in the statistical policy functions of the chief statistician to Federal employees.

Provides for the use of electronic information collection and dissemination techniques to reduce the Federal paperwork burden.

Requires the OMB Director's annual report to the Congress to list any increased Federal paperwork burdens and describe each agency's plans to implement the applicable policies, standards, and guidelines under the Act.

Requires the OMB Director to develop a plan for meeting the automatic data processing needs of the Federal Government in accordance with the Act and certain requirements of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949.

Title VII: Effective Dates - Sets forth the effective dates for this Act.