94 STAT. 2818
PUBLIC LAW 96-511—DEC. 11, 1980
"(8) This subsection shall apply only when an agency publishes a notice of proposed rulemaking and requests public comments. "(9) There shall be no judicial review of any kind of the Director's decision to approve or not to act upon a collection of information requirement contained in an agency rule. 44 USC 3505.
"§ 3505. Assignment of tasks and deadlines "In carrying out the functions under this chapter, the Director shall— "(1) upon enactment of this Act— "(A) set a goal to reduce the then existing burden of Federal collections of information by 15 per centum by October 1, 1982; and "(B) for the year following, set a goal to reduce the burden which existed upon enactment by an additional 10 per centum; "(2) within one year after the effective date of this Act— "(A) establish standards and requirements for agency audits of all major information systems and assign responsibility for conducting Government-wide or multiagency audits, except the Director shall not assign such responsibility for the audit of major information systems used for the conduct of criminal investigations or intelligence activities as defined in section 4-206 of Executive Order 12036, issued 50 USC 401 note. January 24, 1978, or successor orders, or for cryptologic activities that are communications security activities; "(B) establish the Federal Information Locator System; "(C) identify areas of duplication in information collection requests and develop a schedule and methods for eliminating duplication; "(D) develop a proposal to augment the Federal Information Locator System to include data profiles of major information holdings of agencies (used in the conduct of their operations) which are not otherwise required by this chapter to be included in the System; and "(E) identify initiatives which may achieve a 10 per centum reduction in the burden of Federal collections of information associated with the administration of Federal grant programs; and "(3) within two years after the effective date of this Act— "(A) establish a schedule and a management control system to ensure that practices and programs of information handling disciplines, including records management, are appropriately integrated with the information policies mandated by this chapter; "(B) identify initiatives to improve productivity in Federal operations using information processing technology; "(C) develop a program to (i) enforce Federal information processing standards, particularly software language standards, at all Federal installations; and (ii) revitalize the standards development program established pursuant to section 759(f)(2) of title 40, United States Code, separating it from peripheral technical assistance functions and directing it to the most productive areas; "(D) complete action on recommendations of the Commission on Federal Paperwork by implementing, implementing with modification or rejecting such recommendations
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