Look into US OMB approval numbers

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Open Daniel-Mietchen opened 3 years ago

Daniel-Mietchen commented 3 years ago

Daniel-Mietchen commented 3 years ago

A search engine for such OMB approval numbers sits at https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRASearch .

Daniel-Mietchen commented 3 years ago

Clickstream:

https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAOMBHistory?ombControlNumber=1545-0074 (overview by date)
- https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202108-1545-001 (information related to a particular version of the form)
- entry in the Federal Register, detailing that US tax payers collectively are expected to spend 2 billion hours filling in this form
- there is an app for that

Daniel-Mietchen commented 3 years ago

The above comments on this issue were part of Day 3 of #100daysofideas, as per this tweet and #1441 .

Daniel-Mietchen commented 3 years ago

Another example: ScienCV forms

Daniel-Mietchen commented 3 years ago

Here is a vaccination certificate from the Office of Government Ethics:

Screenshot from 2021-09-13 07-22-19 (copy)

Daniel-Mietchen commented 3 years ago

I sent an email to that address, notifying them of the error.

Daniel-Mietchen commented 3 years ago

The relevant part now looks like this: Screenshot from 2021-09-17 04-00-55