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[CITE: 44USC3505]

 
                 TITLE 44--PUBLIC PRINTING AND DOCUMENTS
 
         CHAPTER 35--COORDINATION OF FEDERAL INFORMATION POLICY
 
Sec. 3505. Assignment of tasks and deadlines

    (a) In carrying out the functions under this chapter, the Director 
shall--
        (1) in consultation with agency heads, set an annual 
    Governmentwide goal for the reduction of information collection 
    burdens by at least 10 percent during each of fiscal years 1996 and 
    1997 and 5 percent during each of fiscal years 1998, 1999, 2000, and 
    2001, and set annual agency goals to--
            (A) reduce information collection burdens imposed on the 
        public that--
                (i) represent the maximum practicable opportunity in 
            each agency; and
                (ii) are consistent with improving agency management of 
            the process for the review of collections of information 
            established under section 3506(c); and

            (B) improve information resources management in ways that 
        increase the productivity, efficiency and effectiveness of 
        Federal programs, including service delivery to the public;

        (2) with selected agencies and non-Federal entities on a 
    voluntary basis, conduct pilot projects to test alternative 
    policies, practices, regulations, and procedures to fulfill the 
    purposes of this chapter, particularly with regard to minimizing the 
    Federal information collection burden; and
        (3) in consultation with the Administrator of General Services, 
    the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, 
    the Archivist of the United States, and the Director of the Office 
    of Personnel Management, develop and maintain a Governmentwide 
    strategic plan for information resources management, that shall 
    include--
            (A) a description of the objectives and the means by which 
        the Federal Government shall apply information resources to 
        improve agency and program performance;
            (B) plans for--
                (i) reducing information burdens on the public, 
            including reducing such burdens through the elimination of 
            duplication and meeting shared data needs with shared 
            resources;
                (ii) enhancing public access to and dissemination of, 
            information, using electronic and other formats; and
                (iii) meeting the information technology needs of the 
            Federal Government in accordance with the purposes of this 
            chapter; and

            (C) a description of progress in applying information 
        resources management to improve agency performance and the 
        accomplishment of missions.

    (b) For purposes of any pilot project conducted under subsection 
(a)(2), the Director may, after consultation with the agency head, waive 
the application of any administrative directive issued by an agency with 
which the project is conducted, including any directive requiring a 
collection of information, after giving timely notice to the public and 
the Congress regarding the need for such waiver.

(Added Pub. L. 104-13, Sec. 2, May 22, 1995, 109 Stat. 170.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 3505, added Pub. L. 96-511, Sec. 2(a), Dec. 11, 
1980, 94 Stat. 2818; amended Pub. L. 99-500, Sec. 101(m) [title VIII, 
Sec. 815], Oct. 18, 1986, 100 Stat. 1783-308, 1783-337, and Pub. L. 99-
591, Sec. 101(m) [title VIII, Sec. 815], Oct. 30, 1986, 100 Stat. 3341-
308, 3341-337, related to assignment of tasks and deadlines prior to the 
general amendment of this chapter by Pub. L. 104-13.
    Another prior section 3505, Pub. L. 90-620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 
1303, prohibited independent collection by an agency, prior to the 
general amendment of this chapter by Pub. L. 96-511. See section 3509 of 
this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 3514 of this title.
