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Improving Implementation of the Paperwork Reduction Act
Small Business Paperwork Relief Act (SBPRA)
Information Collection Review
Paperwork Reduction Act Compliance

Improving Implementation of the Paperwork Reduction Act

Supporting Usability Testing Through Paperwork Reduction Act Flexibilities (November 21, 2024) (6 pages, 341KB)
Strategies for Reducing Administrative Burden in Public Benefit and Service Programs (December 15, 2022) (10 pages, 124 KB)
M-22-10 Improving Access to Public Benefits Programs Through the Paperwork Reduction Act (April 13, 2022) (18 Pages, 602 KB)
Flexibilities under the Paperwork Reduction Act for Compliance with Information Collection Requirements (July 22, 2016) (7 pages, 2,551 kb)
Behavioral Science Insights and Federal Forms (September 15, 2015) (4 pages, 1.37 mb)
Web-based Interactive Technologies: Data Search Tools, Calculators, and the Paperwork Reduction Act (September 5, 2014) (5 pages, 2.76 mb)
- Appendix: Exclusions to the regulatory definition of ‘information’ under the PRA (September 5, 2014) (2 pages, 227 kb)
Frequently Asked Questions about ROCIS’s New Common Forms Module (November 14, 2012) (4 pages, 189 kb)
Testing and Simplifying Federal Forms (August 9, 2012) (2 pages, 85 kb)
Reducing Reporting and Paperwork Burdens (June 22, 2012) (3 pages, 280 kb)
Frequently Asked PRA Questions related to Challenges and Prizes (March 1, 2012) (5 pages, 359 kb)
FAQs for New Fast-Track Process for Collecting Service Delivery Feedback under the Paperwork Reduction Act (January 30, 2012) (8 pages, 370 kb)
New Fast-Track Process for Collecting Service Delivery Feedback Under the Paperwork Reduction Act (June 15, 2011) (4 pages, 196 kb)
Facilitating Scientific Research by Streamlining the Paperwork Reduction Act Process (December 9, 2010) (11 pages, 147 kb)
Paperwork Reduction Act – Generic Clearances (May 28, 2010) (8 pages, 93 kb)
Information Collection under the Paperwork Reduction Act (April 7, 2010) (8 pages, 96 kb)
Social Media, Web-Based Interactive Technologies, and the Paperwork Reduction Act (April 7, 2010) (7 pages, 84 kb)
- Public comments received

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Small Business Paperwork Relief Act (SBPRA)

Federal Register Notice on the Final Report of the Small Business Paperwork Relief Task Force (June 28, 2004) (2 pages, 70 kb)
Small Business Paperwork Relief Task Force Report (June 28, 2004) (38 pages, 246 kb)
This is the Final Report of the Small Business Paperwork Relief Task Force created under the Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002 (SBPRA). In an effort to reduce paperwork burden on small businesses, the Federal government established an interagency Task Force to study and recommend additional means of reducing the burden on all small businesses. It contains findings and recommendations intended to reduce the burden imposed on small businesses by government paperwork information collection requirements. Also linked below is a list of compliance assistance resources and agency points of contact available to assist small businesses.
Public Comments on 2004 Draft Report of the Small Business Paperwork Relief Act Task Force (3 pages, 2,917 kb)
Small Business Compliance Assistance Resources and Single Points of Contact (December 2011)

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Information Collection Review

Currently under review
Reviewed in the last 30 days
Recently expired
Inventory of Approved Information Collections
This listing includes all collections of information from the public for which a Federal agency has received prior approval from OMB, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. An ongoing collection must be approved by OMB at least once every three years.

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Paperwork Reduction Act Compliance

Data Call for the FY 2023 Information Collection Budget (Jan 25, 2024) (19 pages, 530 kb)
Data Call for the FY 2022 Information Collection Budget (May 3, 2023) (21 pages, 548 kb)
Moratorium on New Household Surveys, March-August 2020 (October 24, 2018) (1 page, 360 kb)
Minimizing Paperwork and Reporting Burdens; Data Call for the 2018 Information Collection Budget (August 8, 2018) (11 pages, 11 mb)
Minimizing Paperwork and Reporting Burdens; Data Call for the 2017 Information Collection Budget (July 07, 2017) (10 pages, 5 mb)
Minimizing Paperwork and Reporting Burdens; Data Call for the 2016 Information Collection Budget (June 22, 2016) (11 pages, 139 kb)
Minimizing Paperwork and Reporting Burdens; Data Call for the 2015 Information Collection Budget (August 3, 2015) (11 pages, 4,027 kb)
Minimizing Paperwork and Reporting Burdens; Data Call for the 2012 Information Collection Budget (ICB) (February 23, 2012) (8 pages, 342 kb)
- 2012 ICB Templates For Burden Reduction (48 kb) | Word 2003 version (91 kb)
Minimizing Paperwork and Reporting Burdens; Data Call for the 2011 Information Collection Budget (February 23, 2011) (9 pages, 69 kb)
Data Call for the 2010 Information Collection Budget (April 20, 2010) (6 pages, 64 kb)
Moratorium on New Household Surveys, March-August 2010 (September 16, 2008) (1 page, 24 kb)
Data Call for the FY 2007 Information Collection Budget (September 29, 2006) (18 pages, 106 kb)
Standards and Guidelines for Statistical Surveys (September 2006) (41 pages, 318 kb)
Reaching Full Compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (May 10, 2006) (1 page, 44 kb)
Guidance on Agency Survey and Statistical Information Collections (January 20, 2006) (99 pages, 814 kb)
Memorandum from John D. Graham to Chief Information Officers on “Data Call for the FY 2006 Information Collection Budget” (September 16, 2005) (15 pages, 96 kb)
Memorandum from John D. Graham and Jennifer Newstead to Chief Information Officers, General Counsels and Solicitors on “Ensuring Full Compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act” (March 21, 2005) (1 page, 30 kb)
Memorandum from Clay Johnson III and John D. Graham to the President’s Management Council on “Ensuring Full Compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act” (September 27, 2004) (1 page, 34 kb)
Memorandum from John D. Graham and Jennifer Newstead to Chief Information Officers, General Counsels and Solicitors on “Ensuring Full Compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act” (September 27, 2004) (6 pages, 555 kb)
OMB Bulletin No. 04-01, Fiscal Year 2004 Information Collection Budget (December 2, 2003) (23 pages, 124 kb)
Memorandum from John D. Graham to the Chief Information Officers, “Ensuring Full Compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act” (May 8, 2003) (2 pages, 25 kb)
Memorandum from Donald R. Arbuckle for Chief Information Officers, “Transition of Paperwork Reduction Act Information Collections Due to the Homeland Security Act of 2002” (January 21, 2003) (4 pages, 93 kb)
OMB Bulletin No. 03-01, Fiscal Year 2003 Information Collection Budget (November 13, 2002) (23 pages, 285 kb)
Memorandum from John D. Graham for Chief Information Officers, “Ensuring Full Compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act” (November 8, 2002) (4 pages, 127 kb)
Memorandum from John D. Graham for Chief Information Officers, and General Counsels and Solicitors, “Ensuring Full Compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act” (June 6, 2002) (13 pages, 180 kb)
Memorandum from John D. Graham and Jay Lefkowitz for Chief Information Officers, General Counsels and Solicitors, “Ensuring Full Compliance with the Information Collection Provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act” (November 14, 2001) (4 pages, 95 kb)
5 C.F.R Part 1320 – Controlling Paperwork Burdens on the Public (August 29, 1995) (20 pages, 127 kb)

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