Subject: Re: Successor to OMB Bulletin 95-01
Eliot Christian (echristi@usgs.gov)
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 10:12:21 -0500
Message-Id: <199812311512.KAA28767@igsrsparc4.er.usgs.GOV> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 10:12:21 -0500 To: gils@cni.org From: Eliot Christian <echristi@usgs.gov> Subject: Re: Successor to OMB Bulletin 95-01 In-Reply-To: <9812292253.AA11743@b.cni.org>
At 05:53 PM 12/29/98 , James G. Cassedy wrote:
>
>Pleasant Holidays to All:
>
>I have a quick question. OMB Bulletin 95-01 "establishes" the
>Government Information Locator Service. OMB Bulletin 95-01 was issued
>on December 7, 1994. The Bulletin was scheduled to expire three years
>from date of issuance (or December 7, 1997 - how time flies).
>
>Is there a successor to Bulletin 95-01?
Yes. The current OMB directive on GILS is OMB Memorandum 98-5
<http://www.gils.net/omb98-05.html> issued February 6, 1998.
OMB Memorandum 98-5 states, in part:
The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3511) directs the
establishment of the Government Information Locator Service (GILS)
[...] GILS can also assist agencies in complying with aspects of
the Federal Records Act (44 U.S.C. 3301) and the Freedom of
Information Act as amended in 1996 (5 U.S.C. 552). Policies such as
OMB Circular No. A-130, "Management of Federal Information Resources"
(61 F.R. 6428, February 20, 1996) also describe agency responsibilities
to help the public locate government information and to ensure
management and accountability of agency programs.
OMB Bulletin 95-1, "Establishment of Government Information Locator
Service," which guided the initial startup of GILS, has expired;
nonetheless the agency responsibilities outlined above continue.
[...] All agencies will now be describing GILS progress in their
annual reporting under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. (See
OMB Bulletin No. 98-03, November 18, 1997). [...] Agencies should
implement their parts of GILS on the Internet as described in
FIPS 192-1, and should link their GILS records to the underlying
information resources to the extent that they are accessible on
the Internet and its World Wide Web.
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