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Federal agencies would be required to create evidence-building plans for identifying and addressing policy questions relevant to the programs, policies, and regulations that would be consolidated into one government-wide plan by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The bill would require agencies to appoint or designate a Chief Evaluation Officer to coordinate evidence-building activities within in the agency.

The bill would require open government data assets made available by federal agencies to be published as machine-readable data. Federal agencies would have to appoint or designate a Chief Data Officer, in addition to establishing a data inventory and federal data catalog.

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