Ensuring the Quality of Data Disseminated by the Federal Government Workshop Report (2003) / Chapter Skim
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2See for example, OMB Circular A-130, "Management of Federal Information Resources," and OMB Circular A-110, "Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and Agreements with Institutions of Higher Education, Hospitals, and Other Non-Profit Organizations." OMB Circulars are instructions or information issued by OMB to federal agencies. The Office of Management and Budget oversees federal regulation, the budget, information collection and dissemination, proposed legislation, testimony by agencies, and other related activities.
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The proposed guidelines also: · stated that "agencies shall have a basic standard of quality (including objectivity, utility, and integrity) as a performance goal"; · recognized a range of importance for government information, and asserted that more important information, such as "influential scientific, financial, or statistical information," should be held to a higher quality standard, with scientific or statistical results required to be "capable of being substantially reproduced"; · required that agencies disseminating information regarding risks to human health, safety, and the environment either adopt or adapt the quality principles applied by Congress to risk information used and disseminated pursuant to the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996; · required agencies to establish administrative mechanisms that allow affected persons to seek correction of information disseminated by the agency, as well as to establish an appeals process; · were designed to provide agencies flexibility in incorporating existing policies and procedures into the new guidelines; and · were designed to assure maximal usefulness of the information to the intended users.
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Program established an ad hoc committee to organize and host three workshops at which federal agencies that are subject to the guidelines could share their views and listen to ideas and concerns from other parties. The workshops were not intended to produce recommendations, but to assist agencies in developing their own agency-specific guidelines.
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