# Information Quality Act Four sentences added to an appropriations bill in December 2000 that give any member of the public the right to ask a federal agency to correct information it has published. It is section 515 of the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Pub. L. 106-554, and it appears in the U.S. Code only as a note to 44 U.S.C. § 3516 — it has no section of its own. It is also known as the Data Quality Act. The statute itself says almost nothing about procedure. The machinery comes from the [[Office of Management and Budget]]: government-wide guidelines at 67 FR 8452 (22 February 2002), under which each agency writes its own correction process, and Memorandum M-19-15 of 24 April 2019, which added the one hard deadline in the subject — an agency should take no more than 120 days to answer a request for correction. An appeal must go to reviewers who were not involved in the first answer and are senior enough to overrule the people who wrote it. Because it reaches all federal information rather than statistics in particular, it supplies the only correction track with a clock, an appeal and an independent reviewer that a published federal statistic has. How that works in practice is mapped in [[How a Federal Statistic Is Revised or Retracted]]. ## Related pages - [[How a Federal Statistic Is Revised or Retracted]] - [[Paperwork Reduction Act]] - [[Office of Management and Budget]] - [[Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs]]