Paperwork Reduction Act

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980
Great Seal of the United States
Long titleAn Act to reduce paperwork and enhance the economy and efficiency of the Government and the private sector by improving Federal information policymaking, and for other purposes.
Enacted bythe 96th United States Congress
EffectiveDecember 11, 1980
Citations
Public law96–511
Statutes at Large94 Stat. 2812
Codification
Titles amended44 U.S.C.: Public Printing and Documents
U.S.C. sections amended
Legislative history
Major amendments
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
United States Supreme Court cases
Dole v. United Steelworkers of America

The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (Pub. L. No. 96-511, 94 Stat. 2812, codified at 44 U.S.C. §§ 35013521) is a United States federal law enacted in 1980 designed to reduce the total amount of paperwork burden the federal government imposes on private businesses and citizens. The Act imposes procedural requirements on agencies that wish to collect information from the public. It also established the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and authorized this new agency to oversee federal agencies' collection of information from the public and to establish information policies. A substantial amendment, the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,[4] confirmed that OIRA's authority extended over not only agency orders to provide information to the government, but also agency orders to provide information to the public.[5]

  1. ^ Funk, p. 27
  2. ^ Funk, p. 29 (citing 126 Cong. Rec. 30,193 (1980))
  3. ^ Funk, p. 30 (citing 126 Cong. Rec. 31,228 (1980))
  4. ^ Pub. L. No. 104-13, 109 Stat 163
  5. ^ Funk, William F, Sidney A. Shapiro, and Russell L. Weaver. Administrative Procedure and Practice: Problems and Cases 4th ed. West, 2010. p 128. "As a result of amendments in 1995, these reporting and recordkeeping requirements include both situations where the information is to be reported to a federal agency and where the information is only to be reported to the public."