5320.1    OWNERSHIP OF INFORMATION
(New 03/08)

Agency management must assign ownership of each automated file or data base used by the agency. Normally, responsibility for automated information resides with the manager of the agency program that employs the information. When the information is used by more than one program, considerations for determining ownership responsibilities include the following:

1. Which program collected the information.
   
   
2. Which program is responsible for the accuracy and integrity of the information.
   
   
3. Which program budgets the costs incurred in gathering, processing, storing, and distributing the information.
   
   
4. Which program has the most knowledge of the useful value of the information.
   
   
5. Which program would be most affected, and to what degree, if the information were lost, compromised, delayed, or disclosed to unauthorized parties.

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