U.S. to release first paperless budget

The Bush administration will release February 4 first in U.S. history is completely paperless budget, writes The New York Times. According to the Department of Management and Budget of the White House ( LSF ), the initiative will help save 480 trees and 20 tons of paper.

The new budget will be published on the site GBE. All visitors will be able to download it or use the search on the document.

Typically, the government prints about three thousand copies of the budget, which are sent to congressmen, White House staff and reporters. The budget for 2008 consists of 2,200 pages, divided into four volumes.

An electronic copy of the budget is not the first time published on the website of the U.S. government, but the first time in this case will not be issued a paper version. Officials say the initiative would not require new IT-systems. Experts just do everything for indexing by search engines, and the budget to ensure availability of a server with a large influx of willing.