OMB Number Q3

The Paperwork Reduction Act mandates that all federal government agencies receive approval from OMB—in the form of a “control number”—before promulgating a paper form, website, survey or electronic submission that will impose an information collection burden on the general public (Only applicable when collecting from 10 people and above).

Agency must

• Identify purposes of the information collection
• Develop a plan for use of the information
• Test the collection method through a pilot program
• Publish a SORN
• An estimate of the paperwork burden
• Tell whether response/collection is voluntary