What is the Paperwork Reduction Act All About?
Your office, as a representative of the Federal Government, cannot ask the general public to provide it with information just because you have decided that you need the information. In response to public complaints about the burden of Federal paperwork, the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) and its implementing regulations require OMB clearance for any planned information collections. This document attempts to explain what types of collections require clearance and the procedures involved in obtaining the clearances. Clearances are needed for voluntary collections as well as for mandatory ones. 2. What Information Collections Need Clearance? An information collection needs clearance if you do any of the following: a. Obtain facts or opinions from ten or more persons by the use of standard questions presented in forms, telephone or personal interviews, World-Wide-Web Home Pages, requests for narrative responses to questions, or almost any other means; The “ten or more” rule is irrelevant fo
