Explanation of burden and what are burden hour?
A. Information collections can provide useful data, but they can also impose significant burdens and costs. Mandatory paperwork burden may impose significant time and resource costs on individuals and entities, including small businesses. Because the information collected by the Federal Government is often used to inform important decisions involving public health and safety, steps must be taken to ensure that the quality of the information collected is sufficient for its intended use. Burden is the time, represented as hours, spent by the public responding to Federal information collections. When an agency estimates, and seeks to reduce, the paperwork burden it imposes on the public, the agency must consider the time that an individual or entity spends reading and understanding a request for information, as well as the time spent developing, compiling, recording, reviewing, and providing the information. Moreover, paperwork burden includes more than just the time necessary to file a t
