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44 U.S.C. § 3503 — Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
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**(a)** There is established in the Office of Management and Budget an office to be known as the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
**(b)** There shall be at the head of the Office an Administrator who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Director shall delegate to the Administrator the authority to administer all functions under this subchapter, except that any such delegation shall not relieve the Director of responsibility for the administration of such functions. The Administrator shall serve as principal adviser to the Director on Federal information resources management policy.
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**(a)** There is established in the Office of Management and Budget an office to be known as the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
**(b)** There shall be at the head of the Office an Administrator who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Director shall delegate to the Administrator the authority to administer all functions under this subchapter, except that any such delegation shall not relieve the Director of responsibility for the administration of such functions. The Administrator shall serve as principal adviser to the Director on Federal information resources management policy.
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The purposes of this subchapter are to—
(1) minimize the paperwork burden for individuals, small businesses, educational and nonprofit institutions, Federal contractors, State, local and tribal governments, and other persons resulting from the collection of information by or for the Federal Government;
(2) ensure the greatest possible public benefit from and maximize the utility of information created, collected, maintained, used, shared and disseminated by or for the Federal Government;
(3) coordinate, integrate, and to the extent practicable and appropriate, make uniform Federal information resources management policies and practices as a means to improve the productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness of Government programs, including the reduction of information collection burdens on the public and the improvement of service delivery to the public;
(4) improve the quality and use of Federal information to strengthen decisionmaking, accountability, and openness in Government and society;
(5) minimize the cost to the Federal Government of the creation, collection, maintenance, use, dissemination, and disposition of information;
(6) strengthen the partnership between the Federal Government and State, local, and tribal governments by minimizing the burden and maximizing the utility of information created, collected, maintained, used, disseminated, and retained by or for the Federal Government;
(7) provide for the dissemination of public information on a timely basis, on equitable terms, and in a manner that promotes the utility of the information to the public and makes effective use of information technology;
(8) ensure that the creation, collection, maintenance, use, dissemination, and disposition of information by or for the Federal Government is consistent w
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**(a) Definitions.—** For purposes of this section—
(1) the term “agency” means agency as defined in section 552(e) 11 See References in Text note below. of this title;
(2) the term “individual” means a citizen of the United States or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence;
(3) the term “maintain” includes maintain, collect, use, or disseminate;
(4) the term “record” means any item, collection, or grouping of information about an individual that is maintained by an agency, including, but not limited to, his education, financial transactions, medical history, and criminal or employment history and that contains his name, or the identifying number, symbol, or other identifying particular assigned to the individual, such as a finger or voice print or a photograph;
(5) the term “system of records” means a group of any records under the control of any agency from which information is retrieved by the name of the individual or by some identifying number, symbol, or other identifying particular assigned to the individual;
(6) the term “statistical record” means a record in a system of records maintained for statistical research or reporting purposes only and not used in whole or in part in making any determination about an identifiable individual, except as provided by [section 8 of title 13](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title13-section8&num=0&edition=prelim);
(7) the term “routine use” means, with respect to the disclosure of a record, the use of such record for a purpose which is compatible with the purpose for which it was collected;
(8) the term “matching program”—
(A) means any computerized comparison of—
(i) two or more automated systems of records or a system of records with non-Federal records for the purpose
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The Joint Committee on Printing shall consist of the chairman and four members of the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and the chairman and four members of the Committee on House Oversight of the House of Representatives.
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**(a) Frequencies; compliance with regulations; stations on vessels** Radio stations belonging to and operated by the United States shall not be subject to the provisions of sections 301 and 303 of this title. All such Government stations shall use such frequencies as shall be assigned to each or to each class by the President. All such stations, except stations on board naval and other Government vessels while at sea or beyond the limits of the continental United States, when transmitting any radio communication or signal other than a communication or signal relating to Government business, shall conform to such rules and regulations designed to prevent interference with other radio stations and the rights of others as the Commission may prescribe.
**(b) Call letters** All stations owned and operated by the United States, except mobile stations of the Army of the United States, and all other stations on land and sea, shall have special call letters designated by the Commission.
**(c) Stations operated by foreign governments** The provisions of sections 301 and 303 of this title notwithstanding, the President may, provided he determines it to be consistent with and in the interest of national security, authorize a foreign government, under such terms and conditions as he may prescribe, to construct and operate at the seat of government of the United States a low-power radio station in the fixed service at or near the site of the embassy or legation of such foreign government for transmission of its messages to points outside the United States, but only (1) where he determines that the authorization would be consistent with the national interest of the United States and (2) where such foreign government has provided reciprocal privileges to the United States to constru
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**(a)**
(1) The Director shall oversee the use of information resources to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of governmental operations to serve agency missions, including burden reduction and service delivery to the public. In performing such oversight, the Director shall—
(A) develop, coordinate and oversee the implementation of Federal information resources management policies, principles, standards, and guidelines; and
(B) provide direction and oversee—
(i) the review and approval of the collection of information and the reduction of the information collection burden;
(ii) agency dissemination of and public access to information;
(iii) statistical activities;
(iv) records management activities;
(v) privacy, confidentiality, security, disclosure, and sharing of information; and
(vi) the acquisition and use of information technology, including alternative information technologies that provide for electronic submission, maintenance, or disclosure of information as a substitute for paper and for the use and acceptance of electronic signatures.
(2) The authority of the Director under this subchapter shall be exercised consistent with applicable law.
**(b)** With respect to general information resources management policy, the Director shall—
(1) develop and oversee the implementation of uniform information resources management policies, principles, standards, and guidelines;
(2) foster greater sharing, dissemination, and access to public information, including through—
(A) the use of comprehensive data inventories and the Federal data catalogue under section 3511; and
(B) the development and utilization of common standards for information collection, storage, processing and communication, including standards for securi
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### Statutory Notes
Section, Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1076, related to an Information Technology Fund in the Treasury.
#### Effective Date of Repeal
Repeal effective 60 days after Oct. 6, 2006, see section 6 of Pub. L. 109–313, set out as an Effective Date of 2006 Amendment note under [section 5316 of Title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5316&num=0&edition=prelim), Government Organization and Employees.
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**(a)** The President shall prepare budgets of the United States Government under [section 1105 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1105&num=0&edition=prelim) and proposed deficiency and supplemental appropriations under [section 1107 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1107&num=0&edition=prelim). To the extent practicable, the President shall use uniform terms in stating the purposes and conditions of appropriations.
**(b)** Except as provided in this chapter, the President shall prescribe the contents and order of statements in the budget on expenditures and estimated expenditures and statements on proposed appropriations and information submitted with the budget and proposed appropriations. The President shall include with the budget and proposed appropriations information on personnel and other objects of expenditure in the way that information was included in the budget for fiscal year 1950. However, the requirement that information be included in the budget in that way may be waived or changed by joint action of the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress. This subsection does not limit the authority of a committee of Congress to request information in a form it prescribes.
**(c)** When the President makes a basic change in the form of the budget, the President shall submit with the budget information showing where items in the budget for the prior fiscal year are contained in the present budget. However, the President may change the functional categories in the budget only in consultation with the Committees on Appropriations and on the Budget of both Houses of Congress. Committees of the House of Representatives and Senate shall receive
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The Office of Management and Budget is an office in the Executive Office of the President.
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The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, established under [section 3503 of title 44](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title44-section3503&num=0&edition=prelim), is an office in the Office of Management and Budget.
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TITLE 44—PUBLIC PRINTING AND DOCUMENTS
§ 3504
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1996 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 104–106 effective 180 days after
Feb. 10, 1996, see section 5701 of Pub. L. 104–106, Feb. 10,
1996, 110 Stat. 702.
EFFECTIVE DATE
Section effective Oct. 1, 1995, except as otherwise pro-
vided, see section 4(a) of Pub. L. 104–13, set out as a
note under section 3501 of this title.
ABOLITION OF INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION AND
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
Interstate Commerce Commission abolished and func-
tions of Commission transferred, except as otherwise
provided in Pub. L. 104–88, to Surface Transportation
Board effective Jan. 1, 1996, by section 1302 of Title 49,
Transportation, and section 101 of Pub. L. 104–88, set
out as a note under section 1301 of Title 49. References
to Interstate Commerce Commission deemed to refer to
Surface Transportation Board, a member or employee
of the Board, or Secretary of Transportation, as appro-
priate, see section 205 of Pub. L. 104–88, set out as a
note under section 1301 of Title 49.
§ 3503. Office of Information and Regulatory Af-
fairs
(a) There is established in the Office of Man-
agement and Budget an office to be known as
the Office of Information and Regulatory Af-
fairs.
(b) There shall be at the head of the Office an
Administrator who shall be appointed by the
President, by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate. The Director shall delegate to the
Administrator the authority to administer all
functions under this subchapter, except that any
such delegation shall not relieve the Director of
responsibility for the administration of such
functions. The Administrator shall serve as
principal adviser to the Director on Federal in-
formation resources management policy.
(Added Pub. L. 10
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