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 109 STAT. 172 PUBLIC LAW 104-13—MAY 22, 1995 "(A) reduce information collection burdens on the public; "(B) increase program efficiency and effectiveness; and "(C) improve the integrity, quality, and utility of information to all users within and outside the agency, including capabilities for ensuring dissemination of public information, public access to government information, and protections for privacy and security; "(2) in accordance with guidance by the Director, develop and maintain a strategic information resources management plan that shall describe how information resources management activities help accomplish agency missions; "(3) develop and maintain an ongoing process to— "(A) ensure that information resources management operations and decisions are integrated with organizational planning, budget, financial management, human resources management, and program decisions; "(B) in cooperation with the agency Chief Financial Officer (or comparable official), develop a full and accurate accounting of information technology expenditures, related expenses, and results; and "(C) establish goals for improving information resources management's contribution to program productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness, methods for measuring progress towards those goals, and clear roles and responsibilities for achieving those goals; "(4) in consultation with the Director, the Administrator of General Services, and the Archivist of the United States, maintain a current and complete inventory of the agency's information resources, including directories necessary to fulfill the requirements of section 3511 of this chapter; and "(5) in consultation with the Director and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, conduct formal training programs to educate agency program and management officials about information resources management. "(c) With respect to the collection of information and the control of paperwork, each agency shall— "(1) establish a process within the office headed by the official designated under subsection (a), that is sufficiently independent of program responsibility to evaluate fairly whether proposed collections of information should be approved under this chapter, to— "(A) review each collection of information before submission to the Director for review under this chapter, including— "(i) an evaluation of the need for the collection of information; "(ii) a functional description of the information to be collected; "(iii) a plan for the collection of the information; "(iv) a specific, objectively supported estimate of burden; "(v) a test of the collection of information through a pilot program, if appropriate; and "(vi) a plan for the efficient and effective management and use of the information to be collected, including necessary resources;

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