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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Fallguy, post: 2911663, member: 84739&quot;]No intent to offend as there seems to be some tongue-in-check in the above post, but just a point of clarification:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 supplanted the Federal Reports Act of 1942. The purpose of the 1942 statute was to minimize the burdens of furnishing “information” that were placed by the federal government on business enterprises</p><p>and others. “Information” was defined in the 1942 statute as “facts obtained or solicited by the use of written report forms, application forms, schedules, questionnaires, or other similar methods calling either for answers to identical questions from ten or more persons other than agencies . . . of the United States or for answers to questions from agencies . . . of the United States which are to be used for statistical compilations of general public interest.”</p><p><br /></p><p><b>The Paperwork Reduction Act is described in the report of the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs as a “rewrite” of the 1942 statute in response to renewed concerns in the late 1970s <u>about the burdens imposed on the private sector by the government in its collection of information.&quot;</u></b> [Emphasis Added]</p><p><br /></p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/olc/opinions/1982/06/31/op-olc-v006-p0388.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/olc/opinions/1982/06/31/op-olc-v006-p0388.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/olc/opinions/1982/06/31/op-olc-v006-p0388.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>In other words, the Act had nothing to do with the amount of &quot;paper&quot; being used (or its cost to) by the Government, but rather how much time (burden) it was taking the public to respond to questions contained on that paper. Sorry.</p><p><br /></p><p>Semper Fidelis[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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