Agencies publish electronic copies of some, but not all, of congressionally mandated reports. Image: lunamarina/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffOMB and the GPO have issued guidance on a law enacted late in 2022 designed to make agency reports to Congress more easily available to the public by requiring that they be submitted to the GPO in electronic form and posted on a central portal.
Federal agencies annually submit thousands of reports required by Congress but “currently, there is no central repository where all agency reports submitted to Congress and congressional committees are publicly accessible. Federal agencies publish electronic copies of some, but not all, of these congressionally mandated reports on their individual agency websites,” says OMB memo M-23-17.
Under the memo, agencies are to begin submitting reports to the GPO as of October 16—although withholding any information exempt from public disclosure by law—while continuing existing processes for submitting such reports directly to Congress and its committees or subcommittees.
That will apply to reports—with exceptions listed in the memo—ordered by Congress starting with the December 23, 2022 effective date of the law, the “Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act.” It also will apply to reports submitted after that date which were required by a law enacted before that date, “to the extent practicable.”
The reports will be publicly posted on GPO’s govinfo.gov. Agencies are to register for a submission account by October 1; instructions are in the memo.
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