Notice2021-26161
Request for Comments on the First Annual Report of the Advisory Committee on Data for Evidence Building
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Published
December 2, 2021
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Commerce DepartmentUnder-Secretary for Economic Affairs
Abstract
The Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 requires Federal agencies to modernize their data management practices to develop and support evidence-based policymaking. The Act requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), or the head of an agency designated by the Director, to establish the Advisory Committee on Data for Evidence Building (Advisory Committee). In a letter dated September 3, 2019, OMB delegated managerial and administrative responsibility for this Federal advisory committee to the Department of Commerce Office of Under Secretary for Economic Affairs (OUSEA). The Advisory Committee is required to deliver publicly available annual reports on its activities and findings to the OMB Director. The Advisory Committee submitted its first-year report on October 29, 2021. This FRN requests comments from the public on the Advisory Committee's first annual report.
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 229 (Thursday, December 2, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68465-68466]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-26161]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Office of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs
Request for Comments on the First Annual Report of the Advisory
Committee on Data for Evidence Building
AGENCY: Office of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, Department
of Commerce.
ACTION: Request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018
requires Federal agencies to modernize their data management practices
to develop and support evidence-based policymaking. The Act requires
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), or the head
of an agency designated by the Director, to establish the Advisory
Committee on Data for Evidence Building (Advisory Committee). In a
letter dated September 3, 2019, OMB delegated managerial and
administrative responsibility for this Federal advisory committee to
the Department of Commerce Office of Under Secretary for Economic
Affairs (OUSEA). The Advisory Committee is required to deliver publicly
available annual reports on its activities and findings to the OMB
Director. The Advisory Committee submitted its first-year report on
October 29, 2021. This FRN requests comments from the public on the
Advisory Committee's first annual report.
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DATES: Comments must be received by December 31, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by emailing <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d693a0bfb2b3b8b5b396b4b3b7f8b1b9a0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="397c4f505d5c575a5c795b5c58175e564f">[email protected]</span></a>. Begin
with the phrase ``Comments for the Advisory Committee on Data for
Evidence Building;'' and indicate which section(s) of the report your
comments address. Comments by fax or paper delivery will not be
accepted.
Privacy Note: Comments submitted in response to this notice may be
made available to the public through relevant websites. Therefore,
commenters should only include information they wish to make publicly
available on the internet. Do not submit confidential business
information or otherwise sensitive or protected information.
Please note the confidentiality of routine communication and
responses to this public comment request are treated as public comments
and may therefore be made publicly available, notwithstanding the
inclusion of the routine notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gianna Marrone, Program Analyst, U.S.
Department of Commerce, 4600 Silver Hill Road (BE-64), Suitland, MD
20746; phone (301) 278-9282; email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#db9eadb2bfbeb5b8be9bb9bebaf5bcb4ad"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4005362924252e2325002225216e272f36">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Request for Comments
The Advisory Committee submitted its first-year report to the
Director of the Office of Management and Budget on October 29, 2021.
The report is also available publicly on the Advisory Committee's
website. The report summarizes the Committee's first-year activities
and resulting findings, laying out a vision for a National Secure Data
Service and the future of data sharing, data linkages, and privacy
enhancing techniques across Federal agencies and with state and local
governments. The report describes recommended actions that can be taken
today to build towards that vision while also articulating the path
that the Committee intends to take across the next year to further
develop recommendations for implementing the vision.
Over the past 12 months, the Committee has engaged in extensive
fact-finding, including examining the recommendations of the Commission
on Evidence-Based Policymaking and the implications of their partial
implementation through the Evidence Act; leveraging the expertise of
its members; hearing from researchers, government leaders, other
experts, and the public; conducting virtual site visits to existing
data facilities; and beginning to collaboratively synthesize the
different perspectives and use cases into a coherent understanding of
the current state and future needs for the use of data for evidence
building. The Committee members recognize their efforts as a work-in-
progress that will continue across the next 12 months.
This request for comments offers researchers, evaluators,
contractors, government entities, and other interested parties the
opportunity to inform the Committee's second-year plans. This is a
general solicitation of comments from the public. The FRN commentors
may respond to any section of the report. Please clearly indicate which
section(s) of the report you address in your response and provide
evidence to support assertions, where practicable.
Dated: November 29, 2021.
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 315.
Alyssa Holdren,
Designated Federal Official, Advisory Committee on Data for Evidence
Building.
[FR Doc. 2021-26161 Filed 12-1-21; 8:45 am]
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