Pursuant to the requirements
of the Data Quality Act, incorporated in the FY 2001 Omnibus Appropriations
Act (P.L. 106-554), OMB issued proposed guidelines to ensure the "quality,"
"objectivity," Autility," and "integrity" of information disseminated to the
public by federal agencies. OMB published its proposed guidelines in the Federal
Register on June 28, 2001 (66 Fed. Reg. 34489), and public comments were accepted
through August 13, 2001.
In response to its request,
OMB received 97 submissions from the public on its proposed Data Quality guidelines.
OMB will review these comments in formulating its final Data Quality guidelines,
which must be promulgated by September 30, 2001, as required by the statute.
CRE is a repository for
information on the Data Quality law. Consequently, as a service to its readers,
CRE has posted below all of the public comments submitted to OMB on this issue.
The comments have been broken down by the following categories of respondent
(with each listing having a link to that set of comments):
