82 FR 41666 - Proposed Collection; Comment Request; 60-Day Notice for Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service Delivery
NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES
National Endowment for the Arts Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 169 (September 1, 2017)
National Endowment for the Arts
Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 169 (September 1, 2017)
| Page Range | 41666-41667 | |
| FR Document | 2017-18551 |
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 169 (Friday, September 1, 2017)] [Notices] [Pages 41666-41667] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-18551] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES National Endowment for the Arts Proposed Collection; Comment Request; 60-Day Notice for Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service Delivery AGENCY: National Endowment for the Arts, National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public to take this opportunity to comment on the ``Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service Delivery'' for approval under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). This collection was developed as part of a Federal Government-wide effort to streamline the process for seeking feedback from the public on service delivery. This notice announces our intent to submit this collection to OMB for approval and solicits comments on specific aspects for the proposed information collection. DATES: Written comments are due by October 31, 2017. ADDRESSES: Send comments to: Sunil Iyengar, National Endowment for the Arts, 400 7th Street SW., Washington, DC 20506-0001, telephone (202) 682-5424 (this is not a toll-free number), fax (202) 682-5677, or send via email to [email protected]. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to collection activities, please contact Melissa Menzer, 202-682-5548, [email protected]. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Comments submitted in response to this notice may be made available to the public through posting on a government Web site. For this reason, please do not include in your comments information of a confidential nature, such as sensitive personal information or proprietary information. If you send an email comment, your email address will be automatically captured and included as part of the comment that is placed in the public docket and made available on the Internet. Please note that responses to this public comment request containing any routine notice about the confidentiality of the communication will be treated as public comments that may be made available to the public notwithstanding the inclusion of the routine notice. The proposed information collection activity provides a means to garner qualitative customer and stakeholder feedback in an efficient, timely manner, in accordance with the Administration's commitment to improving service delivery. By qualitative feedback we mean information that provides useful insights on perceptions and opinions, but are not statistical surveys that yield quantitative results that can be generalized to the population of study. This feedback will provide insights into customer or stakeholder perceptions, experiences and expectations, provide an early warning of issues with service, or focus attention on areas where communication, training or changes in operations might improve delivery of products or services. These collections will allow for ongoing, collaborative and actionable communications between the Agency and its customers and stakeholders. It will also allow feedback to contribute directly to the improvement of program management. The solicitation of feedback will target areas such as: Timeliness, appropriateness, accuracy of information, courtesy, efficiency of service delivery, and resolution of issues with service delivery. Responses will be assessed to plan and inform efforts to improve or maintain the quality of service offered to the public. [[Page 41667]] If this information is not collected, vital feedback from customers and stakeholders on the Agency's services will be unavailable. The Agency will only submit a collection for approval under this generic clearance if it meets the following conditions:The collections are voluntary; The collections are low-burden for respondents (based on considerations of total burden hours, total number of respondents, or burden-hours per respondent) and are low-cost for both the respondents and the Federal Government; The collections are non-controversial and do not raise issues of concern to other Federal agencies; Any collection is targeted to the solicitation of opinions from respondents who have experience with the program or may have experience with the program in the near future; Personally identifiable information (PII) is collected only to the extent necessary and is not retained; Information gathered is used only internally for general service improvement and program management purposes and is not intended for release outside of the agency; Information gathered is not used for the purpose of substantially informing influential policy decisions; and Information gathered yields qualitative information; the collections are not designed or expected to yield statistically reliable results or used as though the results are generalizable to the population of study. Feedback collected under this generic clearance provides useful information, but it does not yield data that can be generalized to the overall population. This type of generic clearance for qualitative information will not be used for quantitative information collections that are designed to yield reliably actionable results, such as monitoring trends over time or documenting program performance. Such data uses require more rigorous designs that address: The target population to which generalizations will be made, the sampling frame, the sample design (including stratification and clustering), the precision requirements or power calculations that justify the proposed sample size, the expected response rate, methods for assessing potential non-response bias, the protocols for data collection, and any testing procedures that were or will be undertaken prior to fielding the study. Depending on the degree of influence the results are likely to have, such collections may still be eligible for submission for other generic mechanisms that are designed to yield quantitative results. As a general matter, information collections will not result in any new system of records containing privacy information and will not ask questions of a sensitive nature, such as sexual behavior and attitudes, religious beliefs, and other matters that are commonly considered private. Current Actions: Extension of approval for a collection of information. Type of Review: Extension. Affected Public: Individuals and Households, Businesses and Organizations, State, Local or Tribal Government. Below we provide projected average estimates for the next three years: Estimated Number of Respondents Across All Three Years: 15,000. Average Expected Annual Number of Activities: 3. Average Number of Respondents per Activity: 1,667. Annual Responses: 5,000. Frequency of Response: Once per request. Average Minutes per Response: 15. Average Expected Annual Burden hours: 1,167. Dated: August 29, 2017. Kathy Daum, Director, Administrative Services, National Endowment for the Arts. [FR Doc. 2017-18551 Filed 8-31-17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7537-01-P
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Foreign Assistance Act by reason of the SFOAA, which prohibits direct ADDRESSES: Send comments to: Sunil
application of any provision of the assistance to the government of Syria. Iyengar, National Endowment for the
Foreign Assistance Act or any other Zimbabwe is ineligible to receive U.S. Arts, 400 7th Street SW., Washington,
provision of law are listed below. This economic assistance, including DC 20506–0001, telephone (202) 682–
list is based on legal prohibitions pursuant to section 7042(k)(2) of the FY 5424 (this is not a toll-free number), fax
against economic assistance that apply 2017 SFOAA, which prohibits (with (202) 682–5677, or send via email to
as of July 21, 2017. limited exceptions) assistance for the research@arts.gov.
central government of Zimbabwe unless FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
Prohibited Countries: Low Income
the Secretary of State certifies and specific questions related to collection
Category
reports to Congress that the rule of law activities, please contact Melissa
Bolivia is ineligible to receive U.S. has been restored, including respect for Menzer, 202–682–5548, menzerm@
economic assistance pursuant to section ownership and title to property, and arts.gov.
706(3) of the Foreign Relations freedoms of expression, association, and
Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003 SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Comments
assembly. submitted in response to this notice may
(Pub. L. 107–228), regarding adherence Countries identified above as
to obligations under international be made available to the public through
candidate countries, as well as countries
counternarcotics agreements and other posting on a government Web site. For
that would be considered candidate
counternarcotics measures. this reason, please do not include in
countries but for the applicability of
Burma is ineligible to receive U.S. your comments information of a
legal provisions that prohibit U.S.
economic assistance, absent special confidential nature, such as sensitive
economic assistance, may be the subject
authority, because of concerns relative personal information or proprietary
of future statutory restrictions or
to its record on human rights. information. If you send an email
determinations, or changed country
Eritrea is ineligible to receive U.S. comment, your email address will be
circumstances, that affect their legal
economic assistance, including due to automatically captured and included as
eligibility for assistance under part I of
its status as a Tier 3 country under the part of the comment that is placed in the
the Foreign Assistance Act by reason of
Victims of Trafficking and Violence public docket and made available on the
application of the Foreign Assistance
Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7101 Internet. Please note that responses to
Act or any other provision of law for FY
et seq.). this public comment request containing
2018.
North Korea is ineligible to receive any routine notice about the
[FR Doc. 2017–18657 Filed 8–31–17; 8:45 am] confidentiality of the communication
U.S. economic assistance, including
pursuant to section 7007 of the FY 2017 BILLING CODE 9211–03–P will be treated as public comments that
SFOAA, which prohibits direct may be made available to the public
assistance to the government of North notwithstanding the inclusion of the
Korea. NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE routine notice.
South Sudan is ineligible to receive ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES The proposed information collection
U.S. economic assistance pursuant to activity provides a means to garner
section 7042(i)(2) of the FY 2017 National Endowment for the Arts qualitative customer and stakeholder
SFOAA, which prohibits, with limited feedback in an efficient, timely manner,
Proposed Collection; Comment
exceptions, assistance to the central in accordance with the Administration’s
Request; 60-Day Notice for Generic
government of South Sudan until the commitment to improving service
Clearance for the Collection of
Secretary of State certifies and reports to delivery. By qualitative feedback we
Qualitative Feedback on Agency
Congress that such government is taking mean information that provides useful
Service Delivery
effective steps to end hostilities and insights on perceptions and opinions,
pursue good faith negotiations for a AGENCY: National Endowment for the but are not statistical surveys that yield
political settlement of the internal Arts, National Foundation on the Arts quantitative results that can be
conflict; provide access for and the Humanities. generalized to the population of study.
humanitarian organizations; end the ACTION: Notice. This feedback will provide insights into
recruitment and use of child soldiers; customer or stakeholder perceptions,
protect freedoms of expression, SUMMARY: The National Endowment for experiences and expectations, provide
association, and assembly; reduce the Arts (NEA), as part of its continuing an early warning of issues with service,
corruption related to the extraction and effort to reduce paperwork and or focus attention on areas where
sale of oil and gas; establish democratic respondent burden, invites the general communication, training or changes in
institutions; establish accountable public to take this opportunity to operations might improve delivery of
military and police forces under civilian comment on the ‘‘Generic Clearance for products or services. These collections
authority; and investigate and prosecute the Collection of Qualitative Feedback will allow for ongoing, collaborative and
individuals credibly alleged to have on Agency Service Delivery’’ for actionable communications between the
committed gross violations of human approval under the Paperwork Agency and its customers and
rights, including at the Terrain Reduction Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et stakeholders. It will also allow feedback
compound in Juba, South Sudan on July seq.). This collection was developed as to contribute directly to the
11, 2016. part of a Federal Government-wide improvement of program management.
Sudan is ineligible to receive U.S. effort to streamline the process for The solicitation of feedback will target
seeking feedback from the public on areas such as: Timeliness,
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economic assistance, including
pursuant to section 7042(j) of the FY service delivery. This notice announces appropriateness, accuracy of
2017 SFOAA, which prohibits (with our intent to submit this collection to information, courtesy, efficiency of
limited exceptions) assistance to the OMB for approval and solicits service delivery, and resolution of
government of Sudan. comments on specific aspects for the issues with service delivery. Responses
Syria is ineligible to receive U.S. proposed information collection. will be assessed to plan and inform
economic assistance, including DATES: Written comments are due by efforts to improve or maintain the
pursuant to section 7007 of the FY 2017 October 31, 2017. quality of service offered to the public.
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If this information is not collected, vital mechanisms that are designed to yield FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, CONTACT:
feedback from customers and quantitative results. Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports Clearance
stakeholders on the Agency’s services As a general matter, information Officer, National Science Foundation,
will be unavailable. collections will not result in any new 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1265,
The Agency will only submit a system of records containing privacy Arlington, Virginia 22230; or send email
collection for approval under this information and will not ask questions to splimpto@nsf.gov. Individuals who
generic clearance if it meets the of a sensitive nature, such as sexual use a telecommunications device for the
following conditions: behavior and attitudes, religious beliefs, deaf (TDD) may call the Federal
• The collections are voluntary; and other matters that are commonly Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–
• The collections are low-burden for considered private. 800–877–8339, which is accessible 24
respondents (based on considerations of Current Actions: Extension of hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a
total burden hours, total number of approval for a collection of information. year (including federal holidays).
respondents, or burden-hours per Type of Review: Extension. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Comments
respondent) and are low-cost for both Affected Public: Individuals and are invited on (a) whether the proposed
the respondents and the Federal Households, Businesses and collection of information is necessary
Government; Organizations, State, Local or Tribal for the proper performance of the
• The collections are non- Government. functions of the NSF, including whether
controversial and do not raise issues of Below we provide projected average the information shall have practical
concern to other Federal agencies; estimates for the next three years: utility; (b) the accuracy of the NSF’s
• Any collection is targeted to the Estimated Number of Respondents estimate of the burden of the proposed
solicitation of opinions from Across All Three Years: 15,000. collection of information; (c) ways to
respondents who have experience with Average Expected Annual Number of enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
the program or may have experience Activities: 3. of the information on respondents,
with the program in the near future; Average Number of Respondents per including through the use of automated
• Personally identifiable information Activity: 1,667. collection techniques or other forms of
(PII) is collected only to the extent Annual Responses: 5,000. information technology; and (d) ways to
necessary and is not retained; Frequency of Response: Once per minimize the burden of the collection of
• Information gathered is used only request. information on those who are to
internally for general service Average Minutes per Response: 15. respond, including through the use of
improvement and program management Average Expected Annual Burden appropriate automated, electronic,
purposes and is not intended for release hours: 1,167. mechanical, or other technological
outside of the agency; Dated: August 29, 2017. collection techniques or other forms of
• Information gathered is not used for Kathy Daum, information technology.
the purpose of substantially informing Director, Administrative Services, National Title of Collection: Evaluation of the
influential policy decisions; and Endowment for the Arts. National Science Foundation Advanced
• Information gathered yields [FR Doc. 2017–18551 Filed 8–31–17; 8:45 am] Technological Education (ATE)
qualitative information; the collections BILLING CODE 7537–01–P
Program.
are not designed or expected to yield OMB Approval Number: 3145–NEW.
statistically reliable results or used as Expiration Date of Current Approval:
though the results are generalizable to Not applicable.
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
the population of study. Type of Request: Intent to establish an
Feedback collected under this generic Notice of Intent To Seek Approval To information collection.
clearance provides useful information, Establish an Information Collection Abstract: NSF’s ATE program focuses
but it does not yield data that can be on providing Federal funds for the
generalized to the overall population. National Science Foundation.
AGENCY: education of technicians at the local,
This type of generic clearance for Notice and request for
ACTION: regional, and national levels in
qualitative information will not be used comments. advanced technology fields (i.e.,
for quantitative information collections advanced manufacturing, agricultural
that are designed to yield reliably SUMMARY: The National Science and environmental technology,
actionable results, such as monitoring Foundation (NSF) is announcing plans biological and chemical technology,
trends over time or documenting to request approval for the collection of engineering, information and security,
program performance. Such data uses research and development data through micro/nanotechnologies, and general
require more rigorous designs that the Evaluation of the National Science advanced technological education) to
address: The target population to which Foundation Advanced Technological expand the pool of skilled technicians
generalizations will be made, the Education (ATE) Program survey. In and improve the competitiveness of the
sampling frame, the sample design accordance with the requirement of the United States in international trade. The
(including stratification and clustering), Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we program supports the education of
the precision requirements or power are providing opportunity for public technicians in strategic advanced
calculations that justify the proposed comment on this action. After obtaining technology fields by establishing
sample size, the expected response rate, and considering public comment, NSF partnerships between academic
methods for assessing potential non- will prepare the submission requesting institutions and industry and providing
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response bias, the protocols for data that OMB approve clearance of this resources for the development of
collection, and any testing procedures collection for no longer than 3 years. curriculum, professional development
that were or will be undertaken prior to DATES: Written comments on this notice for college faculty and secondary
fielding the study. Depending on the must be received by October 31, 2017 to teachers, and career pathways from
degree of influence the results are likely be assured of consideration. Comments secondary schools to 2-year institutions
to have, such collections may still be received after that date will be and from 2-year institutions to 4-year
eligible for submission for other generic considered to the extent practicable. institutions. The program also aims to
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