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Appendix F: A Brief Primer on the Paperwork Reduction Act
Pages 249-252

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... 1 An agency must publish a notice in the Federal Register and provide 60 days for public comment on the information collection request. After the comment period, the agency submits the information collection request to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs [OIRA, a part of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
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... National Science Foundation NSF grant application forms are approved by OMB under OMB Number 3145-0058. NSF estimates that applicants expend an average of approximately 120 burden hours for each proposal submitted.
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... On form SF-424, DOD burden hours are listed as only 1.07 hours. However, DOD grant websites contain numerous DOD forms that do not have OMB Numbers on them, 6 suggesting that these forms have not been approved for information collection by OMB as required by the PRA.
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