Federal Collection of Information

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• Improving Implementation of the Paperwork Reduction Act
• Small Business Paperwork Relief Act (SBPRA)
• Information Collection Review
• Paperwork Reduction Act Compliance
• OIRA Reports in XML Format
• Information Collection Budget of the United States Government

• Improving Implementation of the Paperwork Reduction Act
  • Flexibilities under the Paperwork Reduction Act for Compliance with Information Collection Requirements (July 22, 2016) (7 pages, 2,551 kb)
  • Behavioral Science Insights and Federal Forms (September 15, 2015) (4 pages, 1.37 mb)
  • Behavioral Science Insights and Federal Forms (September 15, 2015) (4 pages, 1.37 mb)
  • Web-based Interactive Technologies: Data Search Tools, Calculators, and the Paperwork Reduction Act (September 5, 2014) (5 pages, 2.76 mb)
    • ​Appendix: Exclusions to the regulatory definition of ‘information’ under the PRA (September 5, 2014) (2 pages, 227 kb)
  • Frequently Asked Questions about ROCIS's New Common Forms Module (November 14, 2012) (4 pages, 189 kb)
  • Testing and Simplifying Federal Forms (August 9, 2012) (2 pages, 85 kb)
  • Reducing Reporting and Paperwork Burdens (June 22, 2012) (3 pages, 280 kb)
  • Frequently Asked PRA Questions related to Challenges and Prizes (March 1, 2012) (5 pages, 359 kb)
  • FAQs for New Fast-Track Process for Collecting Service Delivery Feedback under the Paperwork Reduction Act (January 30, 2012) (8 pages, 370 kb)
  • New Fast-Track Process for Collecting Service Delivery Feedback Under the Paperwork Reduction Act (June 15, 2011) (4 pages, 196 kb)
  • Facilitating Scientific Research by Streamlining the Paperwork Reduction Act Process (December 9, 2010) (11 pages, 147 kb)
  • Paperwork Reduction Act - Generic Clearances (May 28, 2010) (8 pages, 93 kb)
  • Information Collection under the Paperwork Reduction Act (April 7, 2010) (8 pages, 96 kb)
  • Social Media, Web-Based Interactive Technologies, and the Paperwork Reduction Act (April 7, 2010) (7 pages, 84 kb)
  • Request for Comments (October 27, 2009) (4 pages, 70 kb) 
    • Public comments received
• Small Business Paperwork Relief Act (SBPRA) (5 pages, 121 kb)
  • Memorandum to President's Management Council, Questions and Answers on SBPRA (October 28, 2003)
  • Federal Register Notice on the Final Report of the Small Business Paperwork Relief Task Force (June 28, 2004) (2 pages, 70 kb)
    • Small Business Paperwork Relief Task Force Report (June 28, 2004) (38 pages, 246 kb) This is the Final Report of the Small Business Paperwork Relief Task Force created under the Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002 (SBPRA). In an effort to reduce paperwork burden on small businesses, the Federal government established an interagency Task Force to study and recommend additional means of reducing the burden on all small businesses. It contains findings and recommendations intended to reduce the burden imposed on small businesses by government paperwork information collection requirements. Also linked below is a list of compliance assistance resources and agency points of contact available to assist small businesses.
      
      Public Comments on 2004 Draft Report of the Small Business Paperwork Relief Act Task Force (3 pages, 2,917 kb)
      
      Small Business Compliance Assistance Resources and Single Points of Contact (December 2011)
       
• Information Collection Review
  • Currently under review (updated daily)
  • Reviewed in the last 30 days (updated daily)
  • Recently expired (updated monthly)
  • Inventory of Approved Information Collections (updated daily) This listing includes all collections of information from the public for which a Federal agency has received prior approval from OMB, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. An ongoing collection must be approved by OMB at least once every three years. 
     
• Paperwork Reduction Act Compliance
  • Minimizing Paperwork and Reporting Burdens; Data Call for the 2016 Information Collection Budget (June 22, 2016) (11 pages, 139 kb)
  • Minimizing Paperwork and Reporting Burdens; Data Call for the 2015 Information Collection Budget (August 3, 2015) (11 pages, 4,027 kb)
  • Minimizing Paperwork and Reporting Burdens; Data Call for the 2012 Information Collection Budget (ICB) (February 23, 2012) (8 pages, 342 kb)
    • 2012 ICB Templates For Burden Reduction (48 kb) | Word 2003 version  (91 kb)
  • Minimizing Paperwork and Reporting Burdens; Data Call for the 2011 Information Collection Budget (February 23, 2011) (9 pages, 69 kb)
  • Data Call for the 2010 Information Collection Budget (April 20, 2010) (6 pages, 64 kb)
  • Moratorium on New Household Surveys, March-August 2010 (September 16, 2008) (1 page, 24 kb)
  • Data Call for the FY 2007 Information Collection Budget (September 29, 2006) (18 pages, 106 kb)
  • Standards and Guidelines for Statistical Surveys (September 2006) (41 pages, 318 kb)
  • Reaching Full Compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (May 10, 2006) (1 page, 44 kb)
  • Guidance on Agency Survey and Statistical Information Collections (January 20, 2006) (99 pages, 814 kb)
  • Memorandum from John D. Graham to Chief Information Officers on "Data Call for the FY 2006 Information Collection Budget" (September 16, 2005) (15 pages, 96 kb)
  • Memorandum from John D. Graham and Jennifer Newstead to Chief Information Officers, General Counsels and Solicitors on "Ensuring Full Compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act" (March 21, 2005) (1 page, 30 kb)
  • Memorandum from Clay Johnson III and John D. Graham to the President's Management Council on "Ensuring Full Compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act" (September 27, 2004) (1 page, 34 kb)
  • Memorandum from John D. Graham and Jennifer Newstead to Chief Information Officers, General Counsels and Solicitors on "Ensuring Full Compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act" (September 27, 2004) (6 pages, 555 kb)
  • OMB Bulletin No. 04-01, Fiscal Year 2004 Information Collection Budget (December 2, 2003) (23 pages, 124 kb)
  • Memorandum from John D. Graham to the Chief Information Officers, "Ensuring Full Compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act" (May 8, 2003) (2 pages, 25 kb)
  • Memorandum from Donald R. Arbuckle for Chief Information Officers, "Transition of Paperwork Reduction Act Information Collections Due to the Homeland Security Act of 2002" (January 21, 2003) (4 pages, 93 kb)
  • OMB Bulletin No. 03-01, Fiscal Year 2003 Information Collection Budget (November 13, 2002) (23 pages, 285 kb)
  • Memorandum from John D. Graham for Chief Information Officers, "Ensuring Full Compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act" (November 8, 2002) (4 pages, 127 kb)
  • Memorandum from John D. Graham for Chief Information Officers, and General Counsels and Solicitors, "Ensuring Full Compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act" (June 6, 2002) (13 pages, 180 kb)
  • Memorandum from John D. Graham and Jay Lefkowitz for Chief Information Officers, General Counsels and Solicitors, "Ensuring Full Compliance with the Information Collection Provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act" (November 14, 2001) (4 pages, 95 kb)
  • 5 C.F.R Part 1320 - Controlling Paperwork Burdens on the Public  (August 29, 1995) (20 pages, 127 kb)
  • 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35 - Paperwork Reduction Act (May 22, 1995) (23 pages, 98 kb)
• OIRA Reports in XML Format


• Information Collection Budget of the United States Government
  • 2016 (December 2016) (55 pages, 695.18 kb)
  • 2015 (December 2016) (54 pages, 629.22 kb)
  • 2014 (September 2014) (69 pages, 1.46 mb)
  • 2013 (September 2014) (67 pages, 1.44 mb)
  • 2012 (January 2013) (200 pages, 2.56 mb)
  • 2011 (September 2011) (314 pages, 1.85 mb)
  • 2010 (November 2010) (209 pages, 1.48 mb)
  • 2009 (January 2010) (105 pages, 809 kb)
  • 2008 (October 2008) (94 pages, 672 kb)
  • Fiscal Year 2007 (June 2007) (175 pages, 1.07 mb)
  • Fiscal Year 2006 (Revised December 2006) (142 pages, 1.06 mb)
    The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued the Information Collection Budget of the United States Government (ICB) in June 2006. The ICB is OMB’s annual report to Congress under the Paperwork Reduction Act. On October 13, 2006, OMB received on a letter from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the Department of Health and Human Services providing a revised estimate of its annual paperwork burden. In a letter dated December 15, 2006, OIRA informed the House Committee on Government Reform that OIRA would post on OMB's website a revised version of the FY 2006 ICB on OMB's Web site that incorporates the revised burden estimate.  This is the revised version. For the original version issued in June 2006, see link below.
    • Letter from OIRA to House Committee on Government Reform (December 15, 2006) (1 page, 51 kb)
    • Letter from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to OMB (October 13, 2006) (34 pages, 4.32 mb)
  • Fiscal Year 2006 (Original version, June 2006. For revised version issued December 2006, see link above.) (140 pages, 1.01 mb)
  • Fiscal Year 2005 (May 2005) (151 pages, 1.75 mb)
  • Fiscal Year 2004 (April 20, 2004) (136 pages, 1.75 mb)
  • Fiscal Year 2003 (April 10, 2003) (198 pages, 1.84 mb)
  • Fiscal Year 2002 (April 10, 2002) (161 pages, 1 mb)
  • Fiscal Year 2001 (August 1, 2001) (111 pages, 1,020 kb)
  • Fiscal Year 2000 (April 12, 2000) (139 pages, 628 kb)
  • Fiscal Year 1999 (April 16, 1999) (330 pages, 1,229 kb)
  • Reports to Congress under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (September 1997)

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