The Trump administration has announced an end to numerous paperwork-related requirements in the federal government including a set related to Y2K, an event which passed 17 years ago.
The Trump administration has announced an end to numerous paperwork-related requirements in the federal government including a set related to Y2K, an event which passed 17 years ago, reports Bloomberg.
Mick Mulvaney, head of the Office of Management and Budget, or OMB, made the announcement Thursday in a memo with the subject line “Reducing Burden for Federal Agencies by Rescinding and Modifying OMB Memoranda.”
Included in the list are seven policies from 1999 which, at the time, were intended to address potential computer problems caused by the changeover to the year 2000.
The memo explains that the requirements were being ended because they “are now obsolete and outdated, as the Federal government was successfully unaffected by any service interruptions.”
According to Bloomberg, OMB senior adviser Linda Springeran has acknowledged that these policies are already often disregarded, but the hope is that eliminating them could still save federal employees valuable work time across various agencies.
Overall, more than 50 bureaucratic reports, including some established in 1997, were affected, with more time and cost-cutting measures expected to be announced in the future.
