What is an Information Dissemination Management System?
Agencies will maintain and implement a management system for all information dissemination products which must, at a minimum: (a) Assure that information dissemination products are necessary for proper performance of agency functions (44 U.S.C. 1108); (b) Consider whether an information dissemination product available from other Federal or nonfederal sources is equivalent to an agency information dissemination product and reasonably fulfills the dissemination responsibilities of the agency; (c) Establish and maintain inventories of all agency information dissemination products; (d) Develop such other aids to locating agency information dissemination products including catalogs and directories, as may reasonably achieve agency information dissemination objectives; (e) Identify in information dissemination products the source of the information, if from another agency; (f) Ensure that members of the public with disabilities whom the agency has a responsibility to inform have a reasonable