116 STAT. 2940 PUBLIC LAW 107–347—DEC. 17 2002
(c) R
EPORT
.—Not later than December 31, 2004, the Adminis-
trator shall submit to the Committee on Government Reform of
the House of Representatives and the Committee on Governmental
Affairs of the Senate a report on the implementation and effects
of the amendment made by subsection (a).
SEC. 212. INTEGRATED REPORTING STUDY AND PILOT PROJECTS.
(a) P
URPOSES
.—The purposes of this section are to—
(1) enhance the interoperability of Federal information sys-
tems;
(2) assist the public, including the regulated community,
in electronically submitting information to agencies under Fed-
eral requirements, by reducing the burden of duplicate collec-
tion and ensuring the accuracy of submitted information; and
(3) enable any person to integrate and obtain similar
information held by 1 or more agencies under 1 or more Federal
requirements without violating the privacy rights of an indi-
vidual.
(b) D
EFINITIONS
.—In this section, the term—
(1) ‘‘agency’’ means an Executive agency as defined under
section 105 of title 5, United States Code; and
(2) ‘‘person’’ means any individual, trust, firm, joint stock
company, corporation (including a government corporation),
partnership, association, State, municipality, commission, polit-
ical subdivision of a State, interstate body, or agency or compo-
nent of the Federal Government.
(c) R
EPORT
.—
(1) I
N GENERAL
.—Not later than 3 years after the date
of enactment of this Act, the Director shall oversee a study,
in consultation with agencies, the regulated community, public
interest organizations, and the public, and submit a report
to the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate and
the Committee on Government Reform of the House of Rep-
resentatives on progress toward integrating Federal informa-
tion systems across agencies.
(2) C
ONTENTS
.—The report under this section shall—
(A) address the integration of data elements used in
the electronic collection of information within databases
established under Federal statute without reducing the
quality, accessibility, scope, or utility of the information
contained in each database;
(B) address the feasibility of developing, or enabling
the development of, software, including Internet-based
tools, for use by reporting persons in assembling, docu-
menting, and validating the accuracy of information elec-
tronically submitted to agencies under nonvoluntary, statu-
tory, and regulatory requirements;
(C) address the feasibility of developing a distributed
information system involving, on a voluntary basis, at least
2 agencies, that—
(i) provides consistent, dependable, and timely
public access to the information holdings of 1 or more
agencies, or some portion of such holdings, without
requiring public users to know which agency holds
the information; and
(ii) allows the integration of public information
held by the participating agencies;
Deadline.
44 USC 3501
note.
Deadline.
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