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APPENDIX B: Relevant Legislation and Guidelines Adopted Since 2001
APPENDIX B: Relevant Legislation and Guidelines Adopted Since 2001
Pages 62-66
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; Section 208 of the E-Government Act, which requires Privacy Impact Assessments for federal data collections; the Information Quality Act of 2000; OMB guidance on peer review; and OMB provisions for rating the performance of federal programs using the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART)
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SECTION 208, E-GOVERNMENT ACT Section 208 of the E-Government Act of 2002 requires federal agencies to conduct a privacy impact assessment (PIA) whenever the agency develops or obtains information technology that handles individually identifiable information or whenever the agency initiates a new collection of individually identifiable information.
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, requires federal agencies to develop predissemination procedures that will ensure the quality of information they disseminate and to develop an administrative mechanism whereby affected parties can request that agencies correct low-quality information. The act directs OMB to issue guidelines "ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information .
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. PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT RATING TOOL The Office of Management and Budget began a major initiative in 2002 to develop a tool for assessing the performance of federal agencies and programs that would identify effective and ineffective programs and provide information that could be used in making budgetary decisions.
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66 PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES FOR A FEDERAL STATISTICAL AGENCY product quality, the dimensions are relevance, accuracy, and timeliness; for program performance, the dimensions are cost, dissemination, and mission achievement. Example indicators were developed for each dimension, such as measures of customer satisfaction as an indicator of mission achievement (see U.S.
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