In General- The Act is amended by adding at the end the following:

1. `SEC. 5. IMPROVING DATA QUALITY.

   1. `(a) In General- The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall ensure the following:

      1. `(1) A simple method for the public to report errors is available on the website created by this Act which should--

         1. `(A) allow the public to report errors on single records as well as problems affecting multiple records;

         2. `(B) allow the public to provide contact information, including e-mail address, mail address, or telephone number, to be used for informing the reporter of the outcome of the records review;

         3. `(C) send copies of the error report to both an official responsible for the data quality at the agency that generated the data and to the Office of Management and Budget;

         4. `(D) if reported errors are deemed to be nonfrivolous, place an indicator on the records on the website that informs users that the accuracy of the record has been brought into question, until the information is either confirmed as correct or updated to be correct; and

         5. `(E) maintain a public record organized by agency of the total number of records which have had nonfrivolous reports of errors, the number of records which have been corrected, and number of records for which error reports remain unresolved.

      2. `(2) Each agency inspector general--

         1. `(A) reviews a statistically representative sample of agency Federal awards every 6 months to verify accuracy of the data and that data standards are being followed;

         2. `(B) reports to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget the findings of the review; and

         3. `(C) makes publicly available, including through the website created by this Act, the findings of the review.

      3. `(3) The data used on the website created by this Act is audited for quality every 6 months with the audit to include at least the following steps:

         1. `(A) Review and report publicly on the activity in the error reporting system created by this section with an analysis for each agency and combined for agencies that includes at least the following indicators:

            1. `(i) Number of errors reported.

            2. `(ii) Number of reported errors resolved.

            3. `(iii) Number of reported errors that remain unresolved.

            4. `(iv) Number of reported errors that led to corrections.

            5. `(v) Number of reported errors on records that proved to be correct.

            6. `(vi) Average number of days to resolve error report.

            7. `(vii) Longest number of days to resolve an error report.

            8. `(viii) Longest held reported error that remains unresolved.

         2. `(B) An independent review every 6 months of data used for the website to verify accuracy of the data and assess the process used for improving data quality with an ability for the public to review these findings.

         3. `(C) Identify and report new standards that should be implemented by agencies to improve data quality.

      4. `(4)(A) No personally identifiable information is made available through the website created by this Act and a common standard is created across the Government for assigning a unique award identifier across both contract and Federal assistance award transactions.

      5. `(B) A report is submitted within 6 months of the date of enactment of this Act to Congress (and made publicly available on the Internet) that no personally identifiable information is available on the website.

      6. `(C) Agencies are required to correct data for past years when personally identifiable information was used.

      7. `(D) The unique recipient identifier and parent company identifier are--

         1. `(i) accurate;

         2. `(ii) able to identify past and current subsidiary ownership; and

         3. `(iii) publicly available through the download and application programming interfaces in section 2(a)(3).

      8. `(5) The data on the website created by this Act is normalized to correct nonstandard ways of reporting names and other information.

      9. `(6) The Consolidated Federal Funds Report is published not later than 6 months after the end of the fiscal year.

      10. `(7) A plan for improving the management and accuracy of agency financial information about Federal awards, including public access to such data, is submitted to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representatives and made publicly available through the Internet not later than December 31, 2009.

      11. `(8) Findings from the agency inspectors general reports, the data quality audits, and other information are used to develop standards or guidance for agency implementation of, and compliance with, the requirements of this Act.

   2. `(b) Statutory Obligations- Nothing in this Act relieves the director or any Federal agency of any statutory obligation to develop, maintain, or provide access to complete, accurate, and timely Federal financial data.'.

Effective Date- Except as otherwise provided, the amendments made by subsection (a) shall be implemented not later than June 30, 2009.