[Federal Register: June 6, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 109)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Office of the Secretary

[Docket No. 020430099-2099-01]

 
Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, 
Utility, and Integrity of Disseminated Information; Reopening of 
Comment Period

AGENCY: Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice; Request for comment; Reopening of comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce is re-opening, until June 30, 2002, 
the period for submission of public comments on its Department-wide 
draft guidelines implementing Section 515 of Public Law 106-554, the 
Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 
2001, known as the Data Quality Act.

DATE: Comments on the Commerce Department guidelines must be received 
by close of business June 30, 2002.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to Thomas N. Pyke, Jr., Chief 
Information Officer, Department of Commerce, 14th and Constitution 
Avenue, NW., Room 5029B, Washington, DC 20230. Send e-mail to 
informationquality@doc.gov. Department of Commerce operating units will 
publish their information quality standards on the Web sites listed in 
the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document. Comments on the 
operating unit standards should be addressed directly to the contact 
noted in the operating unit standards.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Diana H. Hynek, Office of the Chief 
Information Officer, Department of Commerce, 14th and Constitution 
Avenue, NW., Room 6625, Washington, DC 20230. Telephone (202) 482-0266 
or by e-mail to dhynek@doc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 515 of Public Law 106-554, the 
Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 
2001, directs 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

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information) disseminated by Federal agencies.'' In addition, section 
515 requires that agencies subject to the OMB guidelines must establish 
``administrative mechanisms allowing affected persons to seek and 
obtain correction of information that does not comply with [the OMB 
guidelines].'' The OMB final guidelines were published in the Federal 
Register on February 22, 2002. Those guidelines direct that, by May 1, 
2002, agencies publish for public comment their draft guidelines.
    On May 1, 2002, the Commerce Department posted on its website, and 
on May 3, 2002, published in the Federal Register (67 FR 22398), its 
draft Department-wide guidelines. Public comment was requested through 
June 3, 2002. Pursuant to a request from the public for additional time 
to comment, the Department is re-opening the comment period until June 
30, 2002. Any comments that may have been received between June 3, 2002 
and June 6, 2002 will be considered timely filed.

    Dated: May 31, 2002.
Thomas N. Pyke, Jr.,
Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 02-14167 Filed 6-3-02; 11:30 am]
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