https://sourcebook.acus.gov/wiki/Information_Quality_Act/history?feed=atom&Information Quality Act - Revision history2024-03-28T17:47:23ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.31.0https://sourcebook.acus.gov/index.php?title=Information_Quality_Act&diff=1660&oldid=prevMGluth at 22:39, 12 August 20232023-08-12T22:39:55Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*James W. Conrad, Jr., ''The Information Quality Act—Antiregulatory Costs of Mythic Proportions?'', 12 Kan. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 521 (2003).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*James W. Conrad, Jr., <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[https://www.thecre.com/pdf/2003_conrad.pdf </ins>''The Information Quality Act—Antiregulatory Costs of Mythic Proportions?''<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</ins>, 12 Kan. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 521 (2003).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1995, an interagency working group, co-chaired by OMB and OSTP, developed a set of principles to guide policymakers in assessing, managing, and communicating policies to address environmental, health, and safety risks. [https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/omb/inforeg/regpol/jan1995_risk_analysis_principles.pdf Principles for Risk Analysis]. In 2006, OMB proposed to adopt uniform quality standards for agencies to adhere to in conducting risk assessments. However, in light of comments from agencies, the public, and the National Academy of Sciences, OMB decided not to adopt that proposal. Instead, in 2007 it issued [https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/legacy_drupal_files/omb/memoranda/2007/m07-24.pdf Updated Principles for Risk Analysis]. The 1995 Principles were divided into five parts: general principles, principles for risk assessment, principles for risk management, principles for risk communication, and priority setting. The 2007 Update reiterates those principles and further develops them in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">light of </del>scientific advances in the previous 12 years.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1995, an interagency working group, co-chaired by OMB and OSTP, developed a set of principles to guide policymakers in assessing, managing, and communicating policies to address environmental, health, and safety risks. [https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/omb/inforeg/regpol/jan1995_risk_analysis_principles.pdf Principles for Risk Analysis]. In 2006, OMB proposed to adopt uniform quality standards for agencies to adhere to in conducting risk assessments. However, in light of comments from agencies, the public, and the National Academy of Sciences, OMB decided not to adopt that proposal. Instead, in 2007<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </ins>it issued [https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/legacy_drupal_files/omb/memoranda/2007/m07-24.pdf Updated Principles for Risk Analysis]. The 1995 Principles were divided into five parts: general principles, principles for risk assessment, principles for risk management, principles for risk communication, and priority setting. The 2007 Update reiterates those principles and further develops them in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">accord with </ins>scientific advances in the previous 12 years.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Legislative History==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Legislative History==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On December 21, 2000, as a rider to the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>[https://www.congress.gov/106/plaws/publ554/PLAW-106publ554.pdf Pub. L. No. 106-554]<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>, Congress enacted the IQA, which requires OMB to develop guidelines that establish quality standards for information disseminated by federal agencies. Congress accepted the rider to the appropriations bill without any hearings, floor debate, or legislative history specific to the IQA. However, the IQA amends the 1995 [[Paperwork Reduction Act]]’s (PRA) information dissemination requirements, which have some legislative history. [http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title44-section3504&num=0&edition=prelim Section 3504(d)(1)] of the PRA provides: “With respect to information dissemination, the [OMB] Director shall develop and oversee the implementation of policies, principles, standards, and guidelines to apply to Federal agency dissemination of public information, regardless of the form or format in which such information is disseminated.”</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On December 21, 2000, as a rider to the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </ins>[https://www.congress.gov/106/plaws/publ554/PLAW-106publ554.pdf Pub. L. No. 106-554], Congress enacted the IQA, which requires OMB to develop guidelines that establish quality standards for information disseminated by federal agencies. Congress accepted the rider to the appropriations bill without any hearings, floor debate, or legislative history specific to the IQA. However, the IQA amends the 1995 [[Paperwork Reduction Act]]’s (PRA) information dissemination requirements, which have some legislative history. [http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title44-section3504&num=0&edition=prelim Section 3504(d)(1)] of the PRA provides: “With respect to information dissemination, the [OMB] Director shall develop and oversee the implementation of policies, principles, standards, and guidelines to apply to Federal agency dissemination of public information, regardless of the form or format in which such information is disseminated.”</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The legislative history that accompanies the 1995 PRA amendments explains that the amendments “promote[] the theme of improving the quality and use of information to strengthen agency decisionmaking and accountability and to maximize the benefit and utility of information created, collected, maintained, used, shared, disseminated, and retained by or for the Federal Government.” [https://www.congress.gov/104/crpt/hrpt37/CRPT-104hrpt37.pdf H.R. Rep. No. 104-37] (1995). Prior to the enactment of the IQA, OMB had not implemented the PRA’s section 3504(d)(1) information dissemination requirements. On June 22, 1998, the House approved the FY 1999 Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Bill, which contained a non-binding provision that closely resembles the IQA in encouraging OMB to develop policy and procedural guidance to ensure information quality. [https://www.congress.gov/105/crpt/hrpt592/CRPT-105hrpt592.pdf H.R. Rep. No. 105-592] (1998). That provision provided <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">that</del>:<blockquote>The Committee urges the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to develop, with public and Federal agency involvement, rules providing 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, and information disseminated by non-Federal entities with financial support from the Federal government, in fulfillment of the purposes and provisions of the [[Paperwork Reduction Act]] of 1995 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>[https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-104publ13/pdf/PLAW-104publ13.pdf Pub. L. No. 104-13]<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>. The Committee expects issuance of these rules by September 30, 1999. The OMB rules shall also cover the sharing of, and access to, the aforementioned data and information, by members of the public. Such OMB rules shall require Federal agencies to develop, within one year and with public participation, their own rules consistent with the OMB rules. The OMB and agency rules shall contain administrative mechanisms allowing affected persons to petition for correction of information which does not comply with such rules; and the OMB rules shall contain provisions requiring the agencies to report to OMB periodically regarding the number and nature of petitions or complaints regarding Federal, or Federally-supported, information dissemination, and how such petitions and complaints were handled. OMB shall report to the Committee on the status of implementation of these directives no later than September 30, 1999.</blockquote>Representative Jo Ann Emerson and Senator John Shelby are recognized as the principal sponsors of the IQA.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The legislative history that accompanies the 1995 PRA amendments explains that the amendments “promote[] the theme of improving the quality and use of information to strengthen agency decisionmaking and accountability and to maximize the benefit and utility of information created, collected, maintained, used, shared, disseminated, and retained by or for the Federal Government.” [https://www.congress.gov/104/crpt/hrpt37/CRPT-104hrpt37.pdf H.R. Rep. No. 104-37] (1995). Prior to the enactment of the IQA, OMB had not implemented the PRA’s section 3504(d)(1) information dissemination requirements. On June 22, 1998, the House approved the FY 1999 Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Bill, which contained a non-binding provision that closely resembles the IQA in encouraging OMB to develop policy and procedural guidance to ensure information quality. [https://www.congress.gov/105/crpt/hrpt592/CRPT-105hrpt592.pdf H.R. Rep. No. 105-592] (1998). That provision provided:<blockquote>The Committee urges the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to develop, with public and Federal agency involvement, rules providing 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, and information disseminated by non-Federal entities with financial support from the Federal government, in fulfillment of the purposes and provisions of the [[Paperwork Reduction Act]] of 1995<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </ins>[https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-104publ13/pdf/PLAW-104publ13.pdf Pub. L. No. 104-13]. The Committee expects issuance of these rules by September 30, 1999. The OMB rules shall also cover the sharing of, and access to, the aforementioned data and information, by members of the public. Such OMB rules shall require Federal agencies to develop, within one year and with public participation, their own rules consistent with the OMB rules. The OMB and agency rules shall contain administrative mechanisms allowing affected persons to petition for correction of information which does not comply with such rules; and the OMB rules shall contain provisions requiring the agencies to report to OMB periodically regarding the number and nature of petitions or complaints regarding Federal, or Federally-supported, information dissemination, and how such petitions and complaints were handled. OMB shall report to the Committee on the status of implementation of these directives no later than September 30, 1999.</blockquote>Representative Jo Ann Emerson and Senator John Shelby are recognized as the principal sponsors of the IQA.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Source Note:===</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Source Note:===</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2021-02-10/pdf/2021-02839.pdf Memorandum on Restoring Trust in Government Through Scientific Integrity and Evidence-Based Policymaking], § 5(e), 86 Fed. Reg. 8845 (Feb. 10, 2021).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2021-02-10/pdf/2021-02839.pdf Memorandum on Restoring Trust in Government Through Scientific Integrity and Evidence-Based Policymaking], § 5(e), 86 Fed. Reg. 8845 (Feb. 10, 2021).</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Scientific Integrity Task Force, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, [https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/01-22-Protecting_the_Integrity_of_Government_Science.pdf Protecting the Integrity of Government Science] (2022).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Scientific Integrity Task Force, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, [https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/01-22-Protecting_the_Integrity_of_Government_Science.pdf Protecting the Integrity of Government Science] (2022).</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2022-03-03/pdf/2022-04466.pdf Request for Information to Support the Development of a Federal Scientific Integrity Policy Framework], 87 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">FR 12165 </del>(2022).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2022-03-03/pdf/2022-04466.pdf Request for Information to Support the Development of a Federal Scientific Integrity Policy Framework], 87 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Fed. Reg. 12,165 </ins>(2022).</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===OMB/OIRA Documents===</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===OMB/OIRA Documents===</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Memoranda</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Memoranda</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>**[https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/legacy_drupal_files/omb/assets/OMB/inforeg/pmcmemo.pdf Agency Final Information Quality Guidelines] (Sept. 5, 2002).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>**[https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/legacy_drupal_files/omb/assets/OMB/inforeg/pmcmemo.pdf Agency Final Information Quality Guidelines] (Sept. 5, 2002).</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>**[https://www.whitehouse.gov/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">sites</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">whitehouse.gov</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">files</del>/omb/assets/OMB/inforeg/pmc_graham_100402.pdf Executive Branch Information Quality Law] (Oct. 4, 2002).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>**[https://www.whitehouse.gov/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wp-content</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">uploads</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">legacy_drupal_files</ins>/omb/assets/OMB/inforeg/pmc_graham_100402.pdf<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">#:~:text=Having%20successfully%20developed%20information%20quality%20guidelines%2C%20we%20must,been%20superimposed%20on%20an%20agency%E2%80%99s%20programs%20and%20procedures. </ins>Executive Branch Information Quality Law] (Oct. 4, 2002).</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>**[https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/legacy_drupal_files/omb/assets/OMB/inforeg/pmc_oct03report.pdf Guidance for the Information Quality Annual Agency Report to OMB] (Oct. 17, 2003).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>**[https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/legacy_drupal_files/omb/assets/OMB/inforeg/pmc_oct03report.pdf Guidance for the Information Quality Annual Agency Report to OMB] (Oct. 17, 2003).</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>**[https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/legacy_drupal_files/omb/assets/OMB/inforeg/info_quality_posting_083004.pdf Posting of Information Quality Correction Requests and Responses] (Aug. 30, 2004).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>**[https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/legacy_drupal_files/omb/assets/OMB/inforeg/info_quality_posting_083004.pdf Posting of Information Quality Correction Requests and Responses] (Aug. 30, 2004).</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">**M-05-03, [https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/legacy_drupal_files/omb/memoranda/2005/m05-03.pdf Issuance of OMB's "Final Information Quality Bulletin for Peer Review"] (Dec. 16, 2004).</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>**M-07-24, [https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/legacy_drupal_files/omb/memoranda/2007/m07-24.pdf Updated Principles for Risk Analysis] (Sept. 19, 2007).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>**M-07-24, [https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/legacy_drupal_files/omb/memoranda/2007/m07-24.pdf Updated Principles for Risk Analysis] (Sept. 19, 2007).</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">**M-19-15, [https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/M-19-15.pdf Improving Implementation of the Information Quality Act] (Apr. 24, 2019).</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>**Administrator Speech: [https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/legacy_drupal_files/omb/assets/OMB/inforeg/info-quality_march21.pdf OMB’s Role in Overseeing Information Quality], Remarks to Public Workshop on Information-Quality Guidelines (Mar. 21, 2002).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>**Administrator Speech: [https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/legacy_drupal_files/omb/assets/OMB/inforeg/info-quality_march21.pdf OMB’s Role in Overseeing Information Quality], Remarks to Public Workshop on Information-Quality Guidelines (Mar. 21, 2002).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Section II of the ''Bulletin'' mandates that agencies conduct peer reviews of influential scientific information intended for dissemination. The definition of “influential” is the same as that under the IQA. Section II grants agencies discretion to choose the reviewer selection process and the peer review mechanism. Reviewer selection must take into account reviewer expertise, the need for a balanced representation of perspectives, conflicts of interest, and the reviewers’ independence from the work product under review. § II.3. In choosing a peer review mechanism, the agency must consider the information’s novelty and complexity, importance to decision making, and prior peer review, as well as any benefits and costs of review. § II.4. Certain transparency requirements also apply to the peer review mechanism. The reviewers must have advance notice of how their comments will be conveyed. Reviewers must prepare a report describing their review, findings, and conclusions. The report must also provide the names and affiliations of the reviewers and “shall either (a) include a verbatim copy of each reviewer’s comments (either with or without specific attributions) or (b) represent the views of the group as a whole, including any disparate and dissenting views.” § II.5. The agency is required to post the report on its website along with all related materials, discuss the report in the preamble to any related rulemaking, and include the report in the administrative record behind any related agency action. § II.5.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Section II of the ''Bulletin'' mandates that agencies conduct peer reviews of influential scientific information intended for dissemination. The definition of “influential” is the same as that under the IQA. Section II grants agencies discretion to choose the reviewer selection process and the peer review mechanism. Reviewer selection must take into account reviewer expertise, the need for a balanced representation of perspectives, conflicts of interest, and the reviewers’ independence from the work product under review. § II.3. In choosing a peer review mechanism, the agency must consider the information’s novelty and complexity, importance to decision making, and prior peer review, as well as any benefits and costs of review. § II.4. Certain transparency requirements also apply to the peer review mechanism. The reviewers must have advance notice of how their comments will be conveyed. Reviewers must prepare a report describing their review, findings, and conclusions. The report must also provide the names and affiliations of the reviewers and “shall either (a) include a verbatim copy of each reviewer’s comments (either with or without specific attributions) or (b) represent the views of the group as a whole, including any disparate and dissenting views.” § II.5. The agency is required to post the report on its website along with all related materials, discuss the report in the preamble to any related rulemaking, and include the report in the administrative record behind any related agency action. § II.5.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Agencies may commission independent entities to carry out reviewer selection and peer review <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>§ II.6<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>. Influential scientific information that has already undergone adequate peer review is exempt from the requirements of section II. Principal findings, recommendations, and conclusions in official reports of the National Academy of the Sciences are presumed to have undergone adequate peer review <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>§ II.2<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Agencies may commission independent entities to carry out reviewer selection and peer review<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>§ II.6. Influential scientific information that has already undergone adequate peer review is exempt from the requirements of section II. Principal findings, recommendations, and conclusions in official reports of the National Academy of the Sciences are presumed to have undergone adequate peer review<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>§ II.2.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Peer Review of Highly Influential Scientific Assessments—Section III===</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Peer Review of Highly Influential Scientific Assessments—Section III===</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The ''Bulletin'' imposes requirements, in addition to the section II requirements, for the peer review of highly influential scientific assessments. A “scientific assessment” is “an evaluation of a body of scientific or technical knowledge that typically synthesizes multiple factual inputs, data, models, assumptions, and/or applies best professional judgment to bridge uncertainties in the available <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">information” (</del>§ I.7<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>. The term “highly influential” means that the agency or the OIRA Administrator determines that dissemination could have an impact of more than $500 million in any one year or will be “novel, controversial, or precedent-setting, or has significant interagency <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">interest” (</del>§ III.2<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>. The ''Bulletin'' provides that peer review of highly influential scientific assessments adhere to the following additional requirements:</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The ''Bulletin'' imposes requirements, in addition to the section II requirements, for the peer review of highly influential scientific assessments. A “scientific assessment” is “an evaluation of a body of scientific or technical knowledge that typically synthesizes multiple factual inputs, data, models, assumptions, and/or applies best professional judgment to bridge uncertainties in the available <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">information.” </ins>§ I.7. The term “highly influential” means that the agency or the OIRA Administrator determines that dissemination could have an impact of more than $500 million in any one year or will be “novel, controversial, or precedent-setting, or has significant interagency <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">interest.” </ins>§ III.2. The ''Bulletin'' provides that peer review of highly influential scientific assessments adhere to the following additional requirements:</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Scientists employed by the sponsoring agency (outside of the peer review context) may not function as reviewers. An exception may be made if the agency determines that an agency scientist employed by a different agency of the Cabinet-level department possesses expertise essential to the review and does not hold a position of management or policy responsibility. The agency must obtain prior written approval on a nondelegable basis from the Secretary or Deputy Secretary to make such an exception <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>§ III.3.c<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Scientists employed by the sponsoring agency (outside of the peer review context) may not function as reviewers. An exception may be made if the agency determines that an agency scientist employed by a different agency of the Cabinet-level department possesses expertise essential to the review and does not hold a position of management or policy responsibility. The agency must obtain prior written approval on a nondelegable basis from the Secretary or Deputy Secretary to make such an exception<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>§ III.3.c.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Absent an essential need, the same reviewer should not participate in multiple peer reviews <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>§ III.3.d<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Absent an essential need, the same reviewer should not participate in multiple peer reviews<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>§ III.3.d.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Reviewers must be provided information sufficient to enable them to understand the data, analytic procedures, and assumptions used to support the key findings or conclusions they are reviewing <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>§ III.4<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Reviewers must be provided information sufficient to enable them to understand the data, analytic procedures, and assumptions used to support the key findings or conclusions they are reviewing<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>§ III.4.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*If feasible and appropriate, the agency must make the draft scientific assessment available for public comment and sponsor a public meeting attended by the reviewers. The reviewers should then have access to the public comments pertaining to significant scientific or technical issues <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>§ III.5<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*If feasible and appropriate, the agency must make the draft scientific assessment available for public comment and sponsor a public meeting attended by the reviewers. The reviewers should then have access to the public comments pertaining to significant scientific or technical issues<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>§ III.5.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Given a compelling rationale, the agency head may waive or defer the peer review requirements of sections II and III <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>§ VIII.3<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>. Additionally, instead of adhering to the requirements of sections II or III, an agency may ensure the quality of scientific information by relying on information from the National Academy of Sciences, commissioning the National Academy of Sciences to conduct the peer review, or undertaking alternative procedures approved by the OIRA Administrator in consultation with OSTP <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>§ IV<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Given a compelling rationale, the agency head may waive or defer the peer review requirements of sections II and III<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>§ VIII.3. Additionally, instead of adhering to the requirements of sections II or III, an agency may ensure the quality of scientific information by relying on information from the National Academy of Sciences, commissioning the National Academy of Sciences to conduct the peer review, or undertaking alternative procedures approved by the OIRA Administrator in consultation with OSTP<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>§ IV.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>“Peer review shall be conducted in a manner that respects (i) confidential business information and (ii) intellectual <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">property” (</del>§ VIII.2<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>. In disclosing information about a reviewer, the agency must comply with the requirements of the [[Privacy Act]], 5 U.S.C. § [http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section552a&num=0&edition=prelim 552a] as amended, and OMB [https://www.whitehouse.gov/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">sites</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">whitehouse.gov</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">files</del>/omb/circulars/A130/a130revised.pdf Circular A-130] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>§ VIII.1<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>. Information relating to certain national security, foreign affairs, or negotiations involving international trade or treaties is exempt from the peer review requirements if adhering to the requirements would interfere with the need for secrecy or promptness. Similarly exempt is information disseminated in the course of an individual agency adjudication or permit proceeding (unless the agency determines that peer review is practical and appropriate and that the influential dissemination is scientifically or technically novel); time-sensitive health or safety information; regulatory impact analysis or regulatory flexibility analysis subject to interagency review under Executive Order 12866; routine statistical information released by federal statistical agencies; accounting, budget, actuarial, and financial information; and information disseminated in connection with routine rules that materially alter entitlements, grants, user fees, or loan programs, or the rights and obligations of recipients thereof <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>§ IX<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>“Peer review shall be conducted in a manner that respects (i) confidential business information and (ii) intellectual <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">property.” </ins>§ VIII.2. In disclosing information about a reviewer, the agency must comply with the requirements of the [[Privacy Act]], 5 U.S.C. § [http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section552a&num=0&edition=prelim 552a] as amended, and OMB [https://www.whitehouse.gov/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wp-content</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">uploads</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">legacy_drupal_files</ins>/omb/circulars/A130/a130revised.pdf Circular A-130]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>§ VIII.1. Information relating to certain national security, foreign affairs, or negotiations involving international trade or treaties is exempt from the peer review requirements if adhering to the requirements would interfere with the need for secrecy or promptness. Similarly exempt is information disseminated in the course of an individual agency adjudication or permit proceeding (unless the agency determines that peer review is practical and appropriate and that the influential dissemination is scientifically or technically novel); time-sensitive health or safety information; regulatory impact analysis or regulatory flexibility analysis subject to interagency review under Executive Order 12866; routine statistical information released by federal statistical agencies; accounting, budget, actuarial, and financial information; and information disseminated in connection with routine rules that materially alter entitlements, grants, user fees, or loan programs, or the rights and obligations of recipients thereof<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>§ IX.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Agencies must post on their websites, and update at least biannually, an agenda providing descriptions of all planned and ongoing influential scientific information subject to the ''Bulletin'', links to documents made public pursuant to the ''Bulletin'', and a peer review plan for each entry <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>§ V.2<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>. Agencies must also establish a mechanism for allowing the public to comment on the adequacy of its peer review plans. Further, each agency is required to provide to OIRA, by December 15 of each year, a summary of the peer reviews conducted by the agency during the fiscal year <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>§ VI<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Agencies must post on their websites, and update at least biannually, an agenda providing descriptions of all planned and ongoing influential scientific information subject to the ''Bulletin'', links to documents made public pursuant to the ''Bulletin'', and a peer review plan for each entry<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>§ V.2. Agencies must also establish a mechanism for allowing the public to comment on the adequacy of its peer review plans. Further, each agency is required to provide to OIRA, by December 15 of each year, a summary of the peer reviews conducted by the agency during the fiscal year<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>§ VI.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On January 14, 2005, OMB published notice in the ''Federal Register'' of its [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2005-01-14/pdf/05-769.pdf Final Information Quality Bulletin for Peer Review] (''Bulletin''), 70 Fed. Reg. 2664 (Jan. 14, 2005), after having released and solicited public comment on two previous drafts dated September 15, 2003 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>[https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2003-09-15/pdf/03-23367.pdf 68 Fed. Reg. 54023]<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">) </del>and April 28, 2004 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>[https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2004-04-28/pdf/04-9572.pdf 69 Fed. Reg. 23230]<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>. OMB issued the ''Bulletin'' under the IQA, Executive Order <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">12866</del>, [https://www.archives.gov/files/federal-register/executive-orders/pdf/12866.pdf Regulatory Planning and Review] 58 Fed. Reg. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">51735 </del>(Oct. 4, 1993), and OMB’s authority to manage agencies under the President’s Constitutional authority to supervise the executive branch. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The OMB’s [https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/information-regulatory-affairs/ Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs] (</del>OIRA<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">) </del>oversees implementation of the ''Bulletin'' in consultation with the [https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/ Office of Science and Technology Policy] (OSTP).  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On January 14, 2005, OMB published notice in the ''Federal Register'' of its [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2005-01-14/pdf/05-769.pdf Final Information Quality Bulletin for Peer Review] (''Bulletin''), 70 Fed. Reg. 2664 (Jan. 14, 2005), after having released and solicited public comment on two previous drafts dated September 15, 2003<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </ins>[https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2003-09-15/pdf/03-23367.pdf 68 Fed. Reg. 54023]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </ins>and April 28, 2004<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </ins>[https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2004-04-28/pdf/04-9572.pdf 69 Fed. Reg. 23230]. OMB issued the ''Bulletin'' under the IQA, Executive Order <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">12,866</ins>, [https://www.archives.gov/files/federal-register/executive-orders/pdf/12866.pdf Regulatory Planning and Review] 58 Fed. Reg. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">51,35 </ins>(Oct. 4, 1993), and OMB’s authority to manage agencies under the President’s Constitutional authority to supervise the executive branch. OIRA oversees implementation of the ''Bulletin'' in consultation with the [https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/ Office of Science and Technology Policy] (OSTP).  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The ''Bulletin'' establishes governmentwide guidance for peer review of agency scientific information that will be disseminated. “Scientific information” includes “factual inputs, data, models, analyses, technical information, or scientific assessments based on the behavioral and social sciences, public health and medical sciences, life and earth sciences, engineering, or physical <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">sciences” (</del>§ I.5<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>. Under the ''Bulletin'', the definition of “dissemination” encompasses the IQA definition, but excludes research produced by government-funded scientists that does not represent agency views and displays a disclaimer to that effect. The definition also excludes information distributed for peer review and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">that </del>bearing a disclaimer stating that the information’s distribution is solely for the purpose of pre-dissemination peer review <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>§ I.5<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The ''Bulletin'' establishes governmentwide guidance for peer review of agency scientific information that will be disseminated. “Scientific information” includes “factual inputs, data, models, analyses, technical information, or scientific assessments based on the behavioral and social sciences, public health and medical sciences, life and earth sciences, engineering, or physical <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">sciences.” </ins>§ I.5. Under the ''Bulletin'', the definition of “dissemination” encompasses the IQA definition, but excludes research produced by government-funded scientists that does not represent agency views and displays a disclaimer to that effect. The definition also excludes information distributed for peer review and bearing a disclaimer stating that the information’s distribution is solely for the purpose of pre-dissemination peer review<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>§ I.5.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Section II of the ''Bulletin'' mandates that agencies conduct peer reviews of influential scientific information intended for dissemination. The definition of “influential” is the same as that under the IQA. Section II grants agencies discretion to choose the reviewer selection process and the peer review mechanism. Reviewer selection must take into account reviewer expertise, the need for a balanced representation of perspectives, conflicts of interest, and the reviewers’ independence from the work product under review <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>§ II.3<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>. In choosing a peer review mechanism, the agency must consider the information’s novelty and complexity, importance to decision making, and prior peer review, as well as any benefits and costs of review <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>§ II.4<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>. Certain transparency requirements also apply to the peer review mechanism. The reviewers must have advance notice of how their comments will be conveyed. Reviewers must prepare a report describing their review, findings, and conclusions. The report must also provide the names and affiliations of the reviewers and “shall either (a) include a verbatim copy of each reviewer’s comments (either with or without specific attributions) or (b) represent the views of the group as a whole, including any disparate and dissenting <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">views” (</del>§ II.5<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>. The agency is required to post the report on its website along with all related materials, discuss the report in the preamble to any related rulemaking, and include the report in the administrative record behind any related agency action <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>§ II.5<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Section II of the ''Bulletin'' mandates that agencies conduct peer reviews of influential scientific information intended for dissemination. The definition of “influential” is the same as that under the IQA. Section II grants agencies discretion to choose the reviewer selection process and the peer review mechanism. Reviewer selection must take into account reviewer expertise, the need for a balanced representation of perspectives, conflicts of interest, and the reviewers’ independence from the work product under review<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>§ II.3. In choosing a peer review mechanism, the agency must consider the information’s novelty and complexity, importance to decision making, and prior peer review, as well as any benefits and costs of review<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>§ II.4. Certain transparency requirements also apply to the peer review mechanism. The reviewers must have advance notice of how their comments will be conveyed. Reviewers must prepare a report describing their review, findings, and conclusions. The report must also provide the names and affiliations of the reviewers and “shall either (a) include a verbatim copy of each reviewer’s comments (either with or without specific attributions) or (b) represent the views of the group as a whole, including any disparate and dissenting <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">views.” </ins>§ II.5. The agency is required to post the report on its website along with all related materials, discuss the report in the preamble to any related rulemaking, and include the report in the administrative record behind any related agency action<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>§ II.5.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Agencies may commission independent entities to carry out reviewer selection and peer review (§ II.6). Influential scientific information that has already undergone adequate peer review is exempt from the requirements of section II. Principal findings, recommendations, and conclusions in official reports of the National Academy of the Sciences are presumed to have undergone adequate peer review (§ II.2).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Agencies may commission independent entities to carry out reviewer selection and peer review (§ II.6). Influential scientific information that has already undergone adequate peer review is exempt from the requirements of section II. Principal findings, recommendations, and conclusions in official reports of the National Academy of the Sciences are presumed to have undergone adequate peer review (§ II.2).</div></td></tr>
</table>MGluthhttps://sourcebook.acus.gov/index.php?title=Information_Quality_Act&diff=1656&oldid=prevMGluth at 21:32, 12 August 20232023-08-12T21:32:52Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The IQA and subsequent OMB guidelines require that agencies set forth in their guidelines an administrative process allowing affected parties to challenge agency-disseminated information that allegedly fails to meet the standards set forth in either the OMB guidelines or the disseminating agency’s guidelines <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>§ III.3<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>. In establishing these processes, agencies must specify limits on the time an agency may take to consider a challenge and provide for notification to the affected party regarding the agency’s decision <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>§ III.3.i<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>. Agency guidelines must also provide for an administrative appeal process to allow an affected party to seek reconsideration of an agency’s initial decision <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>§ III.3.ii<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>. The appeals mechanism must similarly incorporate specific limits on the time allowed for reconsideration.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The IQA and subsequent OMB guidelines require that agencies set forth in their guidelines an administrative process allowing affected parties to challenge agency-disseminated information that allegedly fails to meet the standards set forth in either the OMB guidelines or the disseminating agency’s guidelines<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>§ III.3. In establishing these processes, agencies must specify limits on the time an agency may take to consider a challenge and provide for notification to the affected party regarding the agency’s decision<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>§ III.3.i. Agency guidelines must also provide for an administrative appeal process to allow an affected party to seek reconsideration of an agency’s initial decision<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>§ III.3.ii. The appeals mechanism must similarly incorporate specific limits on the time allowed for reconsideration.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Agency Reporting Requirements===</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Agency Reporting Requirements===</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Pursuant to the OMB guidelines, each agency was obligated to submit to OMB a report—following a draft report, public comment, and revisions—outlining its agency-specific information quality guidelines and how the guidelines ensure the quality of information, and also explaining the agency’s administrative mechanisms for allowing affected persons to seek correction of agency information that allegedly does not meet information quality standards <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>§§ IV.3-5<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>. Following OMB review of the reports, agencies then had to post the reports on their respective websites and publish notice of the availability of the final reports in the ''Federal Register'' by October 1, 2002 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>§ IV.5<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Pursuant to the OMB guidelines, each agency was obligated to submit to OMB a report—following a draft report, public comment, and revisions—outlining its agency-specific information quality guidelines and how the guidelines ensure the quality of information, and also explaining the agency’s administrative mechanisms for allowing affected persons to seek correction of agency information that allegedly does not meet information quality standards<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>§§ IV.3-5. Following OMB review of the reports, agencies then had to post the reports on their respective websites and publish notice of the availability of the final reports in the ''Federal Register'' by October 1, 2002<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>§ IV.5.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Since January 1, 2004, agencies must report annually to the director of OMB the number and nature of complaints received by the agency regarding agency compliance with information quality guidelines <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>§ IV.6<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>. The first reports are included in [https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/legacy_drupal_files/omb/assets/OMB/inforeg/fy03_info_quality_rpt.pdf OMB’s report to Congress]. OMB does not apparently publish subsequent reports, but the information for individual agencies is available through links to their websites from the OMB site.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Since January 1, 2004, agencies must report annually to the director of OMB the number and nature of complaints received by the agency regarding agency compliance with information quality guidelines<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>§ IV.6. The first reports are included in [https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/legacy_drupal_files/omb/assets/OMB/inforeg/fy03_info_quality_rpt.pdf OMB’s report to Congress]. OMB does not apparently publish subsequent reports, but the information for individual agencies is available through links to their websites from the OMB site.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Attempts to obtain judicial review of agency compliance with the IQA and in particular of agency refusals to make requested corrections to disseminated information have been uniformly unsuccessful. An early case, [http://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/Opinions/051097.P.pdf Salt Institute v. Leavitt], 440 F.3d 156 (4th Cir. 2006), held the plaintiff did not have standing because <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">it </del>was not injured by any failure of the agency to disseminate correct information, nor did the IQA create any individual right to correct information. ''See also'' [https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/74C882991045080985257E580051699C/$file/12-1309-1555205.pdf Miss. Comm’n on <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Envtl</del>. Quality v. EPA], 790 F.3d 138 (D.C. Cir. 2015). Other cases have denied relief on different grounds. Because the IQA does not itself provide a cause of action, challenges to agency actions have been brought under the [[Administrative Procedure Act|Administrative Procedure Act]]. However, courts have been persuaded either <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">that </del>review of a denial of a correction request is precluded because it is committed to agency discretion by law, ''see, e.g.'', ''Styrene Info. & <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Research Center</del>, Inc. v. Sebelius'', 944 F. Supp. 2d 71 (D.D.C. 2013), or that the denial is not final agency action<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </del>because it does not affect the rights or obligations of the requester, ''see, e.g.'', ''Single Stick, Inc. v. Johanns'', 601 F. Supp. 2d 307 (D.D.C. 2009), ''aff’d on other grounds'', [https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/3D1E66C834321D4785257807005A9A8A/$file/09-5099-1236845.pdf Prime Time Int’l Co. v. Vilsack], 599 F.3d 678 (D.C. Cir. 2010).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Attempts to obtain judicial review of agency compliance with the IQA and<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </ins>in particular<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </ins>of agency refusals to make requested corrections to disseminated information have been uniformly unsuccessful. An early case, [http://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/Opinions/051097.P.pdf Salt Institute v. Leavitt], 440 F.3d 156 (4th Cir. 2006), held the plaintiff did not have standing because <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the plaintiff </ins>was not injured by any failure of the agency to disseminate correct information, nor did the IQA create any individual right to correct information. ''See also'' [https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/74C882991045080985257E580051699C/$file/12-1309-1555205.pdf Miss. Comm’n on <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Env't</ins>. Quality v. EPA], 790 F.3d 138 (D.C. Cir. 2015). Other cases have denied relief on different grounds. Because the IQA does not itself provide a cause of action, challenges to agency actions have been brought under the [[Administrative Procedure Act|Administrative Procedure Act]]. However, courts have been persuaded <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">that </ins>either review of a denial of a correction request is precluded because it is committed to agency discretion by law, ''see, e.g.'', ''Styrene Info. & <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Resch. Ctr.</ins>, Inc. v. Sebelius'', 944 F. Supp. 2d 71 (D.D.C. 2013), or that the denial is not <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a </ins>final agency action because it does not affect the rights or obligations of the requester, ''see, e.g.'', ''Single Stick, Inc. v. Johanns'', 601 F. Supp. 2d 307 (D.D.C. 2009), ''aff’d on other grounds'', [https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/3D1E66C834321D4785257807005A9A8A/$file/09-5099-1236845.pdf Prime Time Int’l Co. v. Vilsack], 599 F.3d 678 (D.C. Cir. 2010).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To satisfy the presentation prong of the objectivity requirement, agencies must present information in context, which may—depending on the sort of information—require providing additional information, sources, supporting data, models, sources of errors, and documentation. The substantive objectivity prong requires that scientific, financial, or statistical information be based on original and supporting data and analytic results produced using “sound statistical and research methods.” § V.3.b. The guidelines provide that information presumptively satisfies the substantive objectivity requirement if the relevant data and analytic results have undergone formal, independent, external peer review. § V.3.b.i. A presumption of objectivity is rebuttable if a petitioner persuasively demonstrates a lack of objectivity. If peer review is agency-sponsored, certain transparency requirements, such as the general criteria for competent and credible peer review recommended by OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) to the President's Management Council are triggered to ensure the peer review is adequate. § V.3.b.i. Agency-sponsored peer reviews must be open and rigorous, and peer reviewers must be selected primarily on the basis of necessary technical expertise, disclose to agencies any prior positions they may have taken on pertinent issues, and reveal sources of personal and institutional funding. § V.3.b.i.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To satisfy the presentation prong of the objectivity requirement, agencies must present information in context, which may—depending on the sort of information—require providing additional information, sources, supporting data, models, sources of errors, and documentation. The substantive objectivity prong requires that scientific, financial, or statistical information be based on original and supporting data and analytic results produced using “sound statistical and research methods.” § V.3.b. The guidelines provide that information presumptively satisfies the substantive objectivity requirement if the relevant data and analytic results have undergone formal, independent, external peer review. § V.3.b.i. A presumption of objectivity is rebuttable if a petitioner persuasively demonstrates a lack of objectivity. If peer review is agency-sponsored, certain transparency requirements, such as the general criteria for competent and credible peer review recommended by OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) to the President's Management Council are triggered to ensure the peer review is adequate. § V.3.b.i. Agency-sponsored peer reviews must be open and rigorous, and peer reviewers must be selected primarily on the basis of necessary technical expertise, disclose to agencies any prior positions they may have taken on pertinent issues, and reveal sources of personal and institutional funding. § V.3.b.i.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The objectivity standard—that information be “reproducible” to prove transparency—is more particular for information that falls into the category of “influential,” rather than ordinary, information <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>§ V.3.b.ii.B<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>. Information is influential if “the agency can reasonably determine that dissemination of the information will have or does have a clear and substantial impact on important public policies or important private sector <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">decisions” (</del>§ V.9<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>. Each agency may separately define “influential” to accord with “the nature and multiplicity of issues for which the agency is <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">responsible” (</del>§ V.9<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>. Agencies should consult with relevant scientific and technical communities on the feasibility of making certain categories of data subject to the reproducibility standard <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>§ V.3.b.ii.A<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>. Reproducibility in the analytic context demands that “independent analysis of the original or supporting data using identical methods would generate similar analytic results, subject to an acceptable degree of imprecision or <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">error” (</del>§ V.10<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>. The acceptable degree of imprecision changes to reflect the impacts the information may have. The reproducibility standard for other categories of data is set forth by individual agencies in their guidelines whenever they identify specific categories of information as subject to the reproducibility standard <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>§ V.10<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The objectivity standard—that information be “reproducible” to prove transparency—is more particular for information that falls into the category of “influential,” rather than ordinary, information<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>§ V.3.b.ii.B. Information is influential if “the agency can reasonably determine that dissemination of the information will have or does have a clear and substantial impact on important public policies or important private sector <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">decisions.” </ins>§ V.9. Each agency may separately define “influential” to accord with “the nature and multiplicity of issues for which the agency is <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">responsible.” </ins>§ V.9. Agencies should consult with relevant scientific and technical communities on the feasibility of making certain categories of data subject to the reproducibility standard<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>§ V.3.b.ii.A. Reproducibility in the analytic context demands that “independent analysis of the original or supporting data using identical methods would generate similar analytic results, subject to an acceptable degree of imprecision or <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">error.” </ins>§ V.10. The acceptable degree of imprecision changes to reflect the impacts the information may have. The reproducibility standard for other categories of data is set forth by individual agencies in their guidelines whenever they identify specific categories of information as subject to the reproducibility standard<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>§ V.10.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Compelling privacy interests, trade secrets, intellectual property, and other confidentiality protections take precedence over reproducibility and transparency requirements, in which case agencies must alternatively apply “especially rigorous robustness checks to analytic results and document what checks were <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">undertaken” (</del>§ V.3.b.ii.B.i<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>. Each agency determines the type and detail of robustness checks it conducts. Privacy interests notwithstanding, “[a]gency guidelines shall . . . in all cases, require a disclosure of the specific data sources that have been used and the specific quantitative methods and assumptions that have been <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">employed” (</del>§ V.3.b.ii.B.ii<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Compelling privacy interests, trade secrets, intellectual property, and other confidentiality protections take precedence over reproducibility and transparency requirements, in which case agencies must alternatively apply “especially rigorous robustness checks to analytic results and document what checks were <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">undertaken.” </ins>§ V.3.b.ii.B.i. Each agency determines the type and detail of robustness checks it conducts. Privacy interests notwithstanding, “[a]gency guidelines shall . . . in all cases, require a disclosure of the specific data sources that have been used and the specific quantitative methods and assumptions that have been <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">employed.” </ins>§ V.3.b.ii.B.ii.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Some categories of information are automatically subject to special information quality requirements under the OMB guidelines. Agencies disseminating vital health and medical information “shall interpret the reproducibility and peer-review standards in a manner appropriate to assuring the timely flow of vital information from agencies to medical providers, patients, health agencies, and the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">public” (</del>§ V.3.b.ii.C<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>. Similarly, when agencies maintain and disseminate information with regard to analysis of risks to human health, safety, and the environment, they must “either adopt or adapt” the same information quality principle standards that apply to such information used and disseminated pursuant to the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>[http://uscode.house.gov/statutes/pl/104/182.pdf Pub. L. No. 104-182]; 42 U.S.C. [http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section300g-1&num=0&edition=prelim § 300g-1(b)(3)(A)–(B)]<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>. The option to “adapt” rather than “adopt” these standards provides agencies with flexibility in applying them <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>§ V.3.b.ii.C<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Some categories of information are automatically subject to special information quality requirements under the OMB guidelines. Agencies disseminating vital health and medical information “shall interpret the reproducibility and peer-review standards in a manner appropriate to assuring the timely flow of vital information from agencies to medical providers, patients, health agencies, and the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">public.” </ins>§ V.3.b.ii.C. Similarly, when agencies maintain and disseminate information with regard to analysis of risks to human health, safety, and the environment, they must “either adopt or adapt” the same information quality principle standards that apply to such information used and disseminated pursuant to the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </ins>[http://uscode.house.gov/statutes/pl/104/182.pdf Pub. L. No. 104-182]; 42 U.S.C. [http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section300g-1&num=0&edition=prelim § 300g-1(b)(3)(A)–(B)]. The option to “adapt” rather than “adopt” these standards provides agencies with flexibility in applying them<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>§ V.3.b.ii.C.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In urgent situations <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">involving </del>imminent threats to public health or homeland security<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, for example, </del>an agency may temporarily waive information quality standards according to standards set forth in the agency’s own guidelines <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>§ V.3.b.ii.C<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In urgent situations <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">such as </ins>imminent threats to public health or homeland security an agency may temporarily waive information quality standards according to standards set forth in the agency’s own guidelines<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>§ V.3.b.ii.C.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Information Quality Act (IQA), also frequently termed the Data Quality Act, mandates the establishment of guidelines “ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information (including statistical information) disseminated” by agencies. The IQA consists of a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">two-sentence appropriations rider to </del>the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001 ([https://www.congress.gov/106/plaws/publ554/PLAW-106publ554.pdf Pub. L. No. 106-554]) and amends the 1995 [[Paperwork Reduction Act]] (PRA) ([https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-104publ13/pdf/PLAW-104publ13.pdf Pub. L. No. 104-13]). The amendment directs the [https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/ Office of Management and Budget] (OMB) to issue policy and procedural guidance to federal agencies that are subject to the PRA. The IQA requires OMB to guide agencies in (1) issuing their own data quality guidelines to regulate agency use and dissemination of information; (2) developing administrative mechanisms so that affected parties may seek correction of information that does not comply with information quality guidelines; and (3) making periodic reports to OMB on the number, nature, and resolution of any complaints the agencies receive concerning their failure to comply with either OMB or agency-specific information quality guidelines.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Information Quality Act (IQA), also frequently termed the Data Quality Act, mandates the establishment of guidelines “ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information (including statistical information) disseminated” by agencies. The IQA consists of a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">brief provision in </ins>the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001 ([https://www.congress.gov/106/plaws/publ554/PLAW-106publ554.pdf Pub. L. No. 106-554]) and amends the 1995 [[Paperwork Reduction Act]] (PRA) ([https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-104publ13/pdf/PLAW-104publ13.pdf Pub. L. No. 104-13]). The amendment directs the [https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/ Office of Management and Budget] (OMB) to issue policy and procedural guidance to federal agencies that are subject to the PRA. The IQA requires OMB to guide agencies in (1) issuing their own data quality guidelines to regulate agency use and dissemination of information; (2) developing administrative mechanisms so that affected parties may seek correction of information that does not comply with information quality guidelines; and (3) making periodic reports to OMB on the number, nature, and resolution of any complaints the agencies receive concerning their failure to comply with either OMB or agency-specific information quality guidelines<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. An agency must also delegate a Chief Information Officer or similar official to be responsible for agency compliance; this officer is required to draft reports explaining both agency-specific guidelines and mechanisms</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>OMB published proposed guidelines pursuant to the IQA on June 28, 2001. [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2001-06-28/pdf/01-16227.pdf Proposed Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Information Disseminated by Federal Agencies], 66 Fed. Reg. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">34489 </del>(proposed June 28, 2001). Following public comment, OMB published interim final guidelines on September 28, 2001, [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2001-09-28/pdf/01-24172.pdf Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Information Disseminated by Federal Agencies], 66 Fed. Reg. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">49718 </del>(Sept. 28, 2001), and then finalized guidelines, after additional public comment, on February 22, 2002<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </del>[https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2002-02-22/pdf/R2-59.pdf Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Information Disseminated by Federal Agencies], 67 Fed. Reg. 8452 (Feb. 22, 2002). On October 1, 2002, the OMB guidelines went into effect, thus requiring agencies to issue, by the same date, their own guidelines detailing their agency-specific information quality standards and outlining administrative mechanisms for affected parties to challenge the quality of agency-disseminated information. Any information disseminated by agencies on or after October 1, 2002, is subject to the OMB and agency-specific information quality guidelines. Agency-specific guidelines may be found on the agency websites, in the ''Federal Register'', or on the OMB website.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>OMB published proposed guidelines pursuant to the IQA on June 28, 2001. [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2001-06-28/pdf/01-16227.pdf Proposed Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Information Disseminated by Federal Agencies], 66 Fed. Reg. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">34,489 </ins>(proposed June 28, 2001). Following public comment, OMB published interim final guidelines on September 28, 2001, [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2001-09-28/pdf/01-24172.pdf Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Information Disseminated by Federal Agencies], 66 Fed. Reg. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">49,718 </ins>(Sept. 28, 2001), and then finalized guidelines, after additional public comment, on February 22, 2002<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </ins>[https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2002-02-22/pdf/R2-59.pdf Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Information Disseminated by Federal Agencies], 67 Fed. Reg. 8452 (Feb. 22, 2002). On October 1, 2002, the OMB guidelines went into effect, thus requiring agencies to issue, by the same date, their own guidelines detailing their agency-specific information quality standards and outlining administrative mechanisms for affected parties to challenge the quality of agency-disseminated information. Any information disseminated by agencies on or after October 1, 2002, is subject to the OMB and agency-specific information quality guidelines. Agency-specific guidelines may be found on the agency websites, in the ''Federal Register'', or on the OMB website.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The IQA aims to regulate “the sharing by Federal agencies of, and access to, information disseminated by Federal agencies.” The [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2002-02-22/pdf/R2-59.pdf OMB guidelines] define “information” as “any communication or representation of knowledge such as facts or data, in any medium or form, including textual, numerical, graphic, cartographic, narrative, or audiovisual <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">forms” (</del>§ V.5<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>. This definition includes information posted on an agency web page, but excludes hyperlinks to information disseminated by sources outside the agency. Similarly, if an agency presents information in a manner clearly indicating that the information reflects an opinion<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </del>not a fact or an agency view<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </del>the information is not subject to the same information quality standards. The guidelines define “dissemination” as “agency initiated or sponsored distribution of information to the public” (§ V.8). The guidelines exclude from the definition of dissemination any distribution that is limited to “government employees or agency contractors or grantees; intra- or inter-agency use or sharing of government information; and responses to requests for agency records under the [[Freedom of Information Act]], the [[Privacy Act]], the [[Federal Advisory Committee Act]] or other similar law.” Further excluded are “correspondence with individuals or persons, press releases, archival records, public filings, [and] subpoenas or adjudicative <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">processes” (</del>§ V.8<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The IQA aims to regulate “the sharing by Federal agencies of, and access to, information disseminated by Federal agencies.” The [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2002-02-22/pdf/R2-59.pdf OMB guidelines] define “information” as “any communication or representation of knowledge such as facts or data, in any medium or form, including textual, numerical, graphic, cartographic, narrative, or audiovisual <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">forms.” </ins>§ V.5. This definition includes information posted on an agency web page, but excludes hyperlinks to information disseminated by sources outside the agency. Similarly, if an agency presents information in a manner clearly indicating that the information reflects an opinion<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">-</ins>not a fact or an agency view<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">-</ins>the information is not subject to the same information quality standards. The guidelines define “dissemination” as “agency initiated or sponsored distribution of information to the public” (§ V.8). The guidelines exclude from the definition of dissemination any distribution that is limited to “government employees or agency contractors or grantees; intra- or inter-agency use or sharing of government information; and responses to requests for agency records under the [[Freedom of Information Act]], the [[Privacy Act]], the [[Federal Advisory Committee Act]] or other similar law.” Further excluded are “correspondence with individuals or persons, press releases, archival records, public filings, [and] subpoenas or adjudicative <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">processes.” </ins>§ V.8.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To satisfy the presentation prong of the objectivity requirement, agencies must present information in context, which may—depending on the sort of information—require providing additional information, sources, supporting data, models, sources of errors, and documentation. The substantive objectivity prong requires that scientific, financial, or statistical information be based on original and supporting data and analytic results produced using “sound statistical and research <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">methods” (</del>§ V.3.b<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>. The guidelines provide that information presumptively satisfies the substantive objectivity requirement if the relevant data and analytic results have undergone formal, independent, external peer review <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>§ V.3.b.i<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>. A presumption of objectivity is rebuttable if a petitioner persuasively demonstrates a lack of objectivity. If peer review is agency-sponsored, certain transparency requirements are triggered to ensure the peer review is adequate. Agency-sponsored peer reviews must be open and rigorous, and peer reviewers must be selected primarily on the basis of necessary technical expertise, disclose to agencies any prior positions they may have taken on pertinent issues, and reveal sources of personal and institutional funding.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To satisfy the presentation prong of the objectivity requirement, agencies must present information in context, which may—depending on the sort of information—require providing additional information, sources, supporting data, models, sources of errors, and documentation. The substantive objectivity prong requires that scientific, financial, or statistical information be based on original and supporting data and analytic results produced using “sound statistical and research <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">methods.” </ins>§ V.3.b. The guidelines provide that information presumptively satisfies the substantive objectivity requirement if the relevant data and analytic results have undergone formal, independent, external peer review<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>§ V.3.b.i. A presumption of objectivity is rebuttable if a petitioner persuasively demonstrates a lack of objectivity. If peer review is agency-sponsored, certain transparency requirements<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, such as the general criteria for competent and credible peer review recommended by OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) to the President's Management Council </ins>are triggered to ensure the peer review is adequate<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. § V.3.b.i</ins>. Agency-sponsored peer reviews must be open and rigorous, and peer reviewers must be selected primarily on the basis of necessary technical expertise, disclose to agencies any prior positions they may have taken on pertinent issues, and reveal sources of personal and institutional funding<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. § V.3.b.i</ins>.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The objectivity standard—that information be “reproducible” to prove transparency—is more particular for information that falls into the category of “influential,” rather than ordinary, information (§ V.3.b.ii.B). Information is influential if “the agency can reasonably determine that dissemination of the information will have or does have a clear and substantial impact on important public policies or important private sector decisions” (§ V.9). Each agency may separately define “influential” to accord with “the nature and multiplicity of issues for which the agency is responsible” (§ V.9). Agencies should consult with relevant scientific and technical communities on the feasibility of making certain categories of data subject to the reproducibility standard (§ V.3.b.ii.A). Reproducibility in the analytic context demands that “independent analysis of the original or supporting data using identical methods would generate similar analytic results, subject to an acceptable degree of imprecision or error” (§ V.10). The acceptable degree of imprecision changes to reflect the impacts the information may have. The reproducibility standard for other categories of data is set forth by individual agencies in their guidelines whenever they identify specific categories of information as subject to the reproducibility standard (§ V.10).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The objectivity standard—that information be “reproducible” to prove transparency—is more particular for information that falls into the category of “influential,” rather than ordinary, information (§ V.3.b.ii.B). Information is influential if “the agency can reasonably determine that dissemination of the information will have or does have a clear and substantial impact on important public policies or important private sector decisions” (§ V.9). Each agency may separately define “influential” to accord with “the nature and multiplicity of issues for which the agency is responsible” (§ V.9). Agencies should consult with relevant scientific and technical communities on the feasibility of making certain categories of data subject to the reproducibility standard (§ V.3.b.ii.A). Reproducibility in the analytic context demands that “independent analysis of the original or supporting data using identical methods would generate similar analytic results, subject to an acceptable degree of imprecision or error” (§ V.10). The acceptable degree of imprecision changes to reflect the impacts the information may have. The reproducibility standard for other categories of data is set forth by individual agencies in their guidelines whenever they identify specific categories of information as subject to the reproducibility standard (§ V.10).</div></td></tr>
</table>MGluthhttps://sourcebook.acus.gov/index.php?title=Information_Quality_Act&diff=1610&oldid=prevMGluth: /* Books and Articles */2022-07-20T21:02:45Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Books and Articles</span></span></p>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*Daren Bakst, [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3753181 Strengthening the Information Quality Act to Improve Federally Disseminated Public Health Information], 75 Food Drug L.J. 234 (2020).</ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>MGluthhttps://sourcebook.acus.gov/index.php?title=Information_Quality_Act&diff=1609&oldid=prevMGluth: /* Executive Orders and White House Documents */2022-07-20T20:58:07Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Executive Orders and White House Documents</span></span></p>
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</table>MGluthhttps://sourcebook.acus.gov/index.php?title=Information_Quality_Act&diff=1608&oldid=prevMGluth: /* Bibliography */2022-07-20T20:57:21Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Bibliography</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Bill, 1999, [https://www.congress.gov/105/crpt/hrpt592/CRPT-105hrpt592.pdf H.R. Rep. No. 105-592] (1998).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Bill, 1999, [https://www.congress.gov/105/crpt/hrpt592/CRPT-105hrpt592.pdf H.R. Rep. No. 105-592] (1998).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*[https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2021-02-10/pdf/2021-02839.pdf Memorandum on Restoring Trust in Government Through Scientific Integrity and Evidence-Based Policymaking], § 5(e), 86 Fed. Reg. 8845 (Feb. 10, 2021).</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*Scientific Integrity Task Force, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, [https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/01-22-Protecting_the_Integrity_of_Government_Science.pdf Protecting the Integrity of Government Science] (2022).</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===OMB/OIRA Documents===</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===OMB/OIRA Documents===</div></td></tr>
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