Definition - Undue Burden - May 30 Draft

May 30 Draft > Working Copy of Definition - Undue Burden

• Subcommittee: Subpart A
• Section: Subpart A: Definitions

Current Draft (for reference only)

Undue burden means significant difficulty or expense. In determining whether an action would result in an undue burden, an agency shall consider all agency resources available to the program or component for which the product is being developed, procured, maintained, or used

Comments or suggested edits

Tom Brett
In determining whether an action would result in an undue burden the area or range of scope the product has. For example, any of the e-government projects have a scope greater than the principal agency responsible for the project. E-Learning touches every agency and for the principal agency responsible for the deployment of the initiative to claim it is an undue burden is not right. I recommend that the definition be reworded as below. Also, in keeping with the plain language efforts I would recommend that the word shall be changed to must.

Undue burden means significant difficulty or expense. In determining whether an action would result in an undue burden, an agency must determine the scope of the initiative and must consider all resources available to the program or component for which the product is being developed, procured, maintained, or used.

Updated version for June 30

(Keep current text.)

Undue burden means significant difficulty or expense. In determining whether an action would result in an undue burden, an agency shall consider all agency resources available to the program or component for which the product is being developed, procured, maintained, or used.

Discussion or Rationale

There are no changes being proposed for this definition.