Quality
of Information
Section 515 of the Treasury and General
Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (Public Law 106-554)
directed the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) to issue government-wide guidelines
that “provide policy and procedural guidance to Federal agencies for
ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity
of information (including statistical information) disseminated by
Federal agencies.” OMB complied by
issuing guidelines that
directed each Federal agency to:
(a) issue its own guidelines;
(b) establish administrative mechanisms
allowing affected persons to seek and obtain correction of information
that does not comply with OMB’s 515 guidelines; and
(c) report periodically to the Director of
OMB on the number and nature of complaints received by the agency
regarding the accuracy of information disseminated by the agency and how
such complaints were handled by the agency.
In compliance with
OMB’s directives, the Department of the
Interior (DOI) issued draft Information Quality Guidelines in
the Federal Register on May 24, 2002 (65 FR 26642), that
instructed each bureau to prepare its own guidelines. MMS then
developed and issued draft guidelines for comment on its website on
August 1, 2002. We received comments from one private organization. We
considered their comments, and where applicable or appropriate, we
incorporated them into our final guidelines.
We have now
finalized our
guidelines and posted them to our website. We consider these guidelines
to be
a living document. As a result, they may be revised periodically to reflect
policy changes or to implement methods that further ensure and maximize
information quality. MMS welcomes comments
on these guidelines at any time and will consider those comments in any
future revisions.
In accordance with
MMS’s guidelines, you may submit your comments on MMS's quality of
information in one of two ways:
E-mail |
qualityinfo@mms.gov |
Mailing Address |
Minerals Management Service
Attention: AD/PMI (Mail Stop 4230)
1849 C Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20240 |
The files below provide a chronology of
the Quality of Information issue--how and when it started and the
present implementation status.
MMS
Final Guidelines
DOI's Final Guidelines
OMB's Federal Register
Notice: This document contains the original guidance from
the Office of Management and Budget on the Quality of Information issue.
Information Quality Guidelines Pursuant to Section 515 of the Treasury
and General Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001
--The U.S. Department of the Interior, is issuing these proposed
Information Quality Guidelines in order to comply with the guidance
published by the Office of Management and Budget in the Federal
Register, Vol., 2, No. 67, dated January 2, 2002, and re-issued
February 22, 2002, Vol. 67, No. 36, for implementing section 515(a) of
the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year
20012 (Public Law 106-554; H.R. 5658).
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