White House Reg Shop Requires Agencies To Test Data Collection Forms To Reduce Paperwork Burden

OSHA and other agencies will have to test their data collection forms before releasing them to the public, according to a new requirement from the White House Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). Among the types of forms that OMB lists as examples are forms for obtaining grants, and the new requirement also likely includes information collection requests (ICRs), which are data collection efforts that NIOSH routinely sends to industries. One source says the new requirement is “restating and reemphasizing” the original goal of the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), which was design