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Over the past year, the public spent 10.5 billion hours filling out government documents for federal services, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many federal agencies still rely on paper processes that lengthen turnaround times for services, add \u201cburden hours\u201d on citizens and require billions of hours of manual labor by government employees, according to the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paper returns took at least eight months for the IRS to process last year, costing $3 billion in interest alone, the report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201dThe federal government has fallen so far behind the private sector in IT modernization that it is still employing decades-old technology that makes it less able to effectively adapt,\u201d the Chamber report read. \u201cUltimately, if government can\u2019t perform its basic functions efficiently and effectively, it fails and loses the trust of the people who depend on its services.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The COVID-19 pandemic forced many government operations to go virtual, which served as a stress test that not every agency passed, according to the Chamber, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uschamber.com\/program\/chamber-technology-engagement-center\">Technology Engagement Center<\/a> promotes the role of technology in the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, which is tasked with overseeing the implementation of government-wide policies, tracked several measures of government inefficiency related to manual processing. It found that the Department of the Treasury logged the most \u201cburden hours\u201d to the public with 6.57 billion hours spent on paperwork. It also had the highest taxpayer costs among agencies analyzed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture and the Securities and Exchange Commission also generated some of the most paperwork across federal government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government has tried for decades to do something about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Internal groups including OIRA were created to collect information about how efficient agencies are when they rely solely on paper forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Paperwork Reduction Act was signed into law in 1995 to calculate \u201cburden hours\u201d and costs of government processes, which are displayed on federal forms and made accessible to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the PRA neither takes into account current technologies nor provides guidance on modern data collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two decades later, Congress passed the 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act, which aimed to improve the digital experience for government customers and reinforce existing requirements for federal public websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, without a statute requiring compliance, these legislative steps lack the teeth to clamp down on lackluster outcomes. Only about 20% of the more than $90 billion of the U.S. government\u2019s annual IT spending is devoted to modernization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recognizing the need for a more forceful push toward modernization of manual processes, the 2018 Modernizing Government Technology Act established a fund within the Department of the Treasury for federal agencies to apply for loans to update their outdated systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congress appropriated $1 billion to the fund through the American Rescue Plan, but the allocations so far have mostly focused on cybersecurity instead of updating federal legacy system, the report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the meantime, the COVID-19 pandemic revealed how legacy paper processes bottleneck when the workforce is displaced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Small Business Administration, whose IT system ranked among the top 10 critical federal legacy systems most in need of modernization before the pandemic, saw its website crash while rolling out the Paycheck Protection Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe public policy was there, but our IT systems often couldn\u2019t deliver,\u201d said Rep. 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