2. OMB to agencies: Get it right before you put it out By Jason Peckenpaugh The Office of Management and Budget Wednesday issued its first-ever guidelines to ensure information delivered by federal agencies-from census data to weather forecasts-meets standards of quality and integrity. The OMB guidelines require agencies to make information quality a performance goal and to develop a review process to ensure the integrity of information before it is released. Agencies must also develop their own standards for information quality that conform to OMB's guidelines. Under the guidelines, citizens can ask for corrected versions of any information that violates these guidelines, but OMB told agencies to make certain the correction process does not bog down their operations. "Agencies, in making their determination of whether or not to correct information, may reject claims made in bad faith or without justification," said John Graham, administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at OMB. Full story: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0901/092701p1.htm ________________________________________________________________