What are the PRA responsibilities of the Commerce Chief Information Officer (CIO)?
The CIO ensures that the PRA is implemented throughout the Department. Specific responsibilities include: Developing PRA policy and guidance and ensuring their dissemination and implementation throughout the Department. This includes policy and guidance for operating units on obtaining OMB clearance for information collections, responding to OMB’s call for input to the Information Collection Budget (ICB), and coordinating the request for an information collection with related processes, such as rulemaking, developing the business case (Exhibit 300) for an information technology (IT) system, and conducting a privacy impact assessment (PIA). Ensuring that all operating unit information collections are submitted and reviewed by the Commerce PRA Officer before they are sent to OMB for clearance. Under no circumstances may information be collected from the public without prior approval by OMB. Ensuring that all information collection requests are submitted in a sufficiently timely manner to
