Paperwork Reduction Act Agencies Paperwork Burden Estimates Due to Federal Actions Continue to Increase

By General Accounting Office

Book Id: WPLBN0000210693
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 0.1 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Paperwork Reduction Act Agencies Paperwork Burden Estimates Due to Federal Actions Continue to Increase
Author:	General Accounting Office
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Accountability in government, United States. General Accounting Office
Collections:	Government Library Collection, Government Accountability Integrity Reliability Office Collection
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Publisher:	United States General Accounting Office (Gao)


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Government Accountability Integrity Reliability Office Collection

Excerpt
Excerpt: As of September 30, 2003, federal agencies estimated that there was about 8. billion ?burden hours? of paperwork governmentwide. While it may appear that the paperwork burden decreased by about 116 million burden hours from last year, it is important to note that most of the reduction was achieved through adjustments-actions occurring outside of the agencies? control or as a result of reestimates of current paperwork requirements- and not through agency-initiated actions. In fact, the total paperwork burden, exclusive of adjustments, actually increased by about 72 million burden hours. IRS alone accounted for about 6.5 billion burden hours (81 percent) of the governmentwide burden-hour estimate as well as for most of the burden-hour reduction attributable to adjustments.