All information disseminated by the Bureau must comply with basic standards of quality to ensure and maximize its objectivity, utility, and integrity. Quality is to be ensured and established at levels appropriate to the nature and timeliness of the information to be disseminated.
The Bureau will ensure that information disseminated will be developed from reliable methods, data sources and ensure information quality at each stage of information development. The Bureau’s methods for producing quality information will be made transparent, to the maximum extent practicable, through:
- Accurate documentation
- Use of appropriate internal and external review procedures
- Consultation with experts and users
- Verification of quality
- Notification of corrections and revisions
Information released by the Bureau will be developed only from reliable data sources based on accepted practices and policies, utilizing accepted methods for information collection and verification.
Information Quality Act Requirements
- Overall, agencies shall adopt a basic standard of quality (including objectivity, utility, and integrity) as a performance goal and should take appropriate steps to incorporate information quality criteria into agency information dissemination practices. Quality is to be ensured and established at levels appropriate to the nature and timeliness of the information to be disseminated. Agencies shall adopt specific standards of quality that are appropriate for the various categories of information they disseminate.
- As a matter of good and effective agency information resources management, agencies shall develop a process for reviewing the quality (including the objectivity, utility, and integrity) of information before it is disseminated. Agencies shall treat information quality as integral to every step of an agency's development of information, including creation, collection, maintenance, and dissemination. This process shall enable the agency to substantiate the quality of the information it has disseminated through documentation or other means appropriate to the information.
- To facilitate citizen review, agencies shall establish administrative mechanisms allowing affected persons to seek and obtain, where appropriate, timely correction of information maintained and disseminated by the agency that does not comply with OMB or agency guidelines. These administrative mechanisms shall be flexible, appropriate to the nature and timeliness of the disseminated information and incorporated into agency information resources management and administrative practices.
Information Quality Directives, Policies and Guidelines
- Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Information Disseminated by Federal Agencies
- Issuance of OMB’s Final Information Quality Bulletin for Peer Review
- Department of the Interior issued Information Quality Guidelines Pursuant to Section 515 of the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001
- BOEM Science Integrity & Quality
Requests for Correction of Information
If you believe that information the Bureau has disseminated does not meet the OMB or DOI Information Quality Guidelines, you may file a request for correction at the address below, with a copy to the BSEE Office that disseminated the information.
Mailing Address:
BOEM Information Quality
Office of Budget and Administration
45600 Woodland Road
Mailstop: VAM BOEM DIR
Sterling, VA 20164
Email Address: Information-quality@boem.gov