Paperwork Requirements

• Small Business Paperwork Relief Act (SPBRA)
• Information Collection Review
• Paperwork Reduction Act Compliance
• Inventory of Approved Information Collections
• OIRA Reports in XML Format
• Information Collection Budget of the United States Government
• Estimating Paperwork Burden
• For Agencies - Paperwork Reduction Act Forms

• Small Business Paperwork Relief Act (SPBRA)
  • Memorandum to President's Management Council, Questions and Answers on SBPRA (October 28, 2003)
  • Federal Register Notice on the Final Report of the Small Business Paperwork Relief Task Force (June 28, 2004) (70k)
  • Small Business Paperwork Relief Task Force Report (June 28, 2004) (246k)  This is the Final Report of the Small Business Paperwork Relief Task Force created under the Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002 (SBPRA). In an effort to reduce paperwork burden on small businesses, the Federal government established an interagency Task Force to study and recommend additional means of reducing the burden on all small businesses. It contains findings and recommendations intended to reduce the burden imposed on small businesses by government paperwork information collection requirements. Also linked below is a list of compliance assistance resources and agency points of contact available to assist small businesses.
    
    Public Comments on 2004 Draft Report of the Small Business Paperwork Relief Act Task Force (2,917k)
    
    Small Business Compliance Assistance Resources and Single Points of Contact (June 28, 2004)
    Introduction
    Federal Register Notice (287k)
    Cabinet Agencies
    Non-Cabinet Agencies
    
    
  • Small Business Paperwork Relief Task Force Report (June 27, 2003) (904k)  

• Information Collection Review
  • Currently under review (updated daily)
  • Reviewed in the last 30 days (updated daily)
  • Recently expired (updated monthly)
    
    
• Paperwork Reduction Act Compliance
  • Memorandum from Clay Johnson III and John D. Graham to the President's Management Council on "Ensuring Full Compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act" (September 27, 2004) (34k)
  • Memorandum from John D. Graham and Jennifer Newstead to Chief Informaton Officers, General Counsels and Solicitors on "Ensuring Full Compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act" (September 27, 2004) (555k)
  • OMB Bulletin No. 04-01, Fiscal Year 2004 Information Collection Budget (December 2, 2003) (124k)
  • Memorandum from John D. Graham to the Chief Information Officers, "Ensuring Full Compliance with the Paperword Reduction Act" (May 8, 2003) (25k)
  • Memorandum from Donald R. Arbuckle for Chief Information Officers, "Transition of Paperwork Reduction Act Information Collections Due to the Homeland Security Act of 2002" (January 21, 2003) (93k)
  • OMB Bulletin No. 03-01, Fiscal Year 2003 Information Collection Budget (November 13, 2002) (285k)
  • Memorandum from John D. Graham for Chief Information Officers, "Ensuring Full Compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act" (November 8, 2002) (127k)
  • Memorandum from John D. Graham for Chief Information Officers, and General Counsels and Solicitors, "Ensuring Full Compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act" (June 6, 2002) (180k)
  • Memorandum from John D. Graham and Jay Lefkowitz for Chief Information Officers, General Counsels and Solicitors, "Ensuring Full Compliance with the Information Collection Provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act" (November 14, 2001) (95k)
    
    
• Inventory of Approved Information Collections, updated monthly. This listing includes all collections of information from the public for which a Federal agency has received prior approval from OMB, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. An ongoing collection must be approved by OMB at least once every three years.
  • Changes to the Inventory of Approved Information Collections due to the Homeland Security Act of 2002

• OIRA Reports in XML Format
• Information Collection Budget of the United States Government
  • Fiscal Year 2004 (April 20, 2004) (1.75mb)
  • Fiscal Year 2003 (April 10, 2003) (1.84mb)
  • Fiscal Year 2002 (April 10, 2002) (1mb)
  • Fiscal Year 2001 (August 1, 2001) (1020k)
  • Fiscal Year 2000 (April 12, 2000) (628k)
  • Fiscal Year 1999 (April 16, 1999) (1229k)
  • Reports to Congress under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (September 1997)

• Estimating Paperwork Burden (October 14, 1999)

• For Agencies - Paperwork Reduction Act Forms
  • Submission Form (Form OMB 83-I) (Revised February 2004) (174k)
  • Change Worksheet (Form OMB 83-C) (Revised October 1995) (159k)
  • Collection Discontinuation (Form 83-D) (October 2004) (17k)
  • Emergency Extension (Form OMB 83-E) (Revised October 1995) (129k)

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