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CHEMICAL SAFETY AND HAZARD INVESTIGATION BOARD

Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board

NOTICE: NOTICES

ACTION: Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice of availability of guidelines and request for comments.

SUBJECT CATEGORY: Interim Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Disseminated Information

DATES: The CSB must receive written comments on or before May 23, 2003.

DOCUMENT SUMMARY: The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) announces that its Interim Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Information Disseminated by the agency have been posted on the CSB Web site, http://www.csb.gov. The CSB invites public comments on its interim Guidelines and will consider the comments received in developing its final Guidelines.

SUMMARY: Information disseminated by Federal agencies; quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity guidelines,


SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION

Section 515 of the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (Public Law 106554) requires each Federal agency to publish guidelines for ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of the information it disseminates. Agency guidelines must be based on governmentwide guidelines issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). In accordance with this statutory requirement and OMB instructions, the CSB has posted its interim Information Quality Guidelines on the agency Web site (http://www.csb.gov) and is publishing this notice of availability.

The Guidelines describe the CSB's procedures for ensuring the quality of information that it disseminates and the procedures by which an affected person or entity may obtain correction of information disseminated by the CSB that does not comply with the Guidelines. The CSB invites public comments on its interim Guidelines and
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will consider the comments received in developing its final Guidelines. Persons who cannot access the interim Guidelines through the Internet may request a paper copy by writing to the address listed in this notice.
(Authority: Sec. 515, Pub. L. 106554; 114 Stat. 2763).

Dated: April 16, 2003.
Christopher W. Warner,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 039974 Filed 42203; 8:45 am]
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT Christopher W. Warner, 202-261-7600.


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