[Federal Register: November 5, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 214)]
[Notices]               
[Page 67405-67406]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr05no02-56]                         

=======================================================================
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE UNITED STATES

[Public Notice 54]

 
Availability of Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the 
Quality, Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Information 
Disseminated by the Export-Import Bank of the United States

AGENCY: Export-Import Bank of the United States.

ACTION: Notice of availability of guidelines.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

SUMMARY: The Export-Import Bank's (Ex-Im Bank) Information Quality 
Guidelines will be available for public access on Ex-Im Bank's web site 
http://www/exim.gov/omb/dataquality.doc, on October 1, 2002. The 
Information Quality Guidelines describe Ex-Im Bank's procedures for 
reviewing and substantiating the quality of information before it is 
disseminated to the public, and the procedures by which an affected 
person may request correction of information disseminated by Ex-Im Bank 
that does not comply with the information quality guidelines.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 1, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kalesha Malloy, Office of the Chief 
Information Officer, Information Management & Technology Group, 811 
Vermont Ave, NW., Room 763, Washington, DC 20571; phone (202) 565-3857, 
email to kalesha.malloy@exim.gov; fax (202) 565-3424.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 515 of the Treasury and General 
Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (Pub. L. 106-554) 
directs OMB to issue government-wide guidelines that provide policy and 
procedural guidance to Federal agencies for ensuring and maximizing the 
quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity

[[Page 67406]]

of information disseminated by Federal agencies. The OMB guidelines 
require each agency to prepare a final report providing the agency's 
information quality guidelines. Each agency is further required to 
publish a notice of availability of this final report in the Federal 
Register and to post this report on its web site. As required by OMB's 
guidelines, Ex-Im Bank is publishing in the Federal Register a notice 
of availability of the guidelines on its Web site http://www.exim.gov/
omg/dataquality.doc.

    Dated: September 27, 2002.
Patrick O'Hare,
Chief Information Officer, Information Management & Technology Group, 
Export-Import Bank of the United States.
[FR Doc. 02-28038 Filed 11-4-02; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6690-01-M