TO: NASA Chief Information Officer (CIO)
Patricia L. Dunnington, or designee

Pursuent to NPR 2201.1, the NASA Procedural Requirements NPR 2200.2B, and OMB, Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Information Disseminated by Federal Agencies, Final Guidelines (corrected), 67 Fed. Reg. 8452 (Feb. 22. 2002), how would I report a STI derived from NASA activities 1.2.2, per 1.2.1 of Section 1.2, that is in factual error for Quality and Objectivity? The OMB mandates administrative mechanisms allowing affected persons to seek and obtain correction of information maintained and disseminated by an agency. I would like to review your mechanisms (procedures) for this. Could you please direct me to where it is located in the NODIS library? Thank you.

Steve per DQA, NASA had some of the best written guidelines. Perhaps someone such as Anthony Watts should fill out a data quality complaint for this data site under the ACT. I would be glad to help. In fact, the details of meeting NASA’s guidelines should be a template where the changing data could be entered easily for each site.

From Wiki., the text of the DQA law

The guidelines under subsection (a) shall ‘€”

(1) apply to the sharing by Federal agencies of, and access to, information disseminated by Federal agencies; and
(2) require that each Federal agency to which the guidelines apply ‘€”
(A) issue guidelines ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility and integrity of information (including statistical information) disseminated by the agency, by not later than 1 year after the date of issuance of the guidelines under subsection (a);
(B) establish administrative mechanisms allowing affected persons to seek and obtain correction of information maintained and disseminated by the agency that does not comply with the guidelines issued under subsection (a); and
(C) report periodically to the Director ‘€”
(i) the number and nature of complaints received by the agency regarding the accuracy of information disseminated by the agency; and
(ii) how such complaints were handled by the agency.

OMB, Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Information Disseminated by Federal Agencies, Final Guidelines (corrected), 67 Fed. Reg. 8452 (Feb. 22. 2002)

Perhaps this would interest 60 Minutes even more if NASA refuses to address such an obvious data problem. A federal agency refusing to obey federal law. Think of all the other potential faces in such a show.