83 FR 9575 - Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service Delivery
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Office of the Secretary Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 44 (March 6, 2018)
Office of the Secretary
Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 44 (March 6, 2018)
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| FR Document | 2018-04504 |
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 44 (Tuesday, March 6, 2018)] [Notices] [Pages 9575-9576] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-04504] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Office of the Secretary [Docket No. DOT-OST-2018-0031] Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service Delivery AGENCY: Office of the Secretary (OST), Department of Transportation (DOT). ACTION: Notice and request for comments. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Department of Transportation's (DOT) Office of the Secretary (OST) announces its plan to submit the Information Collection Request (ICR) described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for its review and approval and invites public comment. Executive Order 12862 directs Federal agencies to provide service to the public that matches or exceeds the best service available in the private sector. In order to work continuously to ensure that our programs are effective and meet our customers' needs, the Department of Transportation (DOT) seeks to obtain OMB approval of a generic clearance to collect feedback on our service delivery. DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by May 7, 2018. ADDRESSES: Your comments should be identified by Docket No. DOT-OST- 2018-0031 and may be submitted through one of the following methods:Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov Follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Fax: 1-202-493-2251. Mail or Hand Delivery: Docket Management Facility, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building, Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except on Federal holidays. All written comments will be available for public inspection on Regulations.gov. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Habib Azarsina, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC, 20590, 202- 366-1965 (Voice), 202-366-7870 (Fax), or [email protected]. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service Delivery. Abstract: The information collection activity will garner qualitative customer and stakeholder feedback in an efficient, timely manner, in accordance with the Department'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 insight into customer or stakeholder perceptions, opinions, 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 Department of Transportation and its [[Page 9576]] customers and stakeholders. It will also allow feedback to contribute directly to the improvement of program management. Feedback or information collected under this generic clearance will provide useful information, but it will not yield data that can be generalized to the overall population. The Department will 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 noncontroversial 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 intended to be used only internally for general service improvement and program management purposes and is not intended for release outside of the Department (if released, the Department must indicate the qualitative nature of the information). 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 nonresponse 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. Type of Review: New. Affected Public: Individuals and households, businesses and organizations, State, Local or Tribal Governments. Estimated Number of Respondents: 6,000. Estimated Annual Responses: 2,000. Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 2,000 hours. Frequency: One-time requirement. Issued in Washington, DC, on February 27, 2018. Habib Azarsina, OST Privacy & PRA Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer. [FR Doc. 2018-04504 Filed 3-5-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4910-9X-P
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4431 or by email at cheryl.whetsel@ • Require safety features on in-line below to the Office of Management and
dot.gov. inspection tool launchers and receivers. Budget (OMB) for its review and
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
• Add certain types of roadways to approval and invites public comment.
the definition of ‘‘identified sites’’ Executive Order 12862 directs Federal
I. Meeting Details and Agenda (NTSB P–14–1). agencies to provide service to the public
The GPAC will be considering the • Address grandfathered pipe and that matches or exceeds the best service
proposed rule titled, ‘‘Safety of Gas pipe with inadequate records. available in the private sector. In order
Transmission and Gathering Pipelines,’’ The GPAC meeting agenda will to work continuously to ensure that our
which was published in the Federal include a discussion and votes on the programs are effective and meet our
Register on April 8, 2016, (81 FR 20722) following topics as time permits: customers’ needs, the Department of
• Issues not finalized during the Transportation (DOT) seeks to obtain
and on the associated regulatory
March 2, 2018, meeting. OMB approval of a generic clearance to
analysis. In the proposed rule, PHMSA
• MAOP Reconfirmation. collect feedback on our service delivery.
proposed the following changes to Part • Repair Criteria.
192: DATES: Comments on this notice must be
• Miscellaneous Issues and
• Require periodic assessments of Definitions.
received by May 7, 2018.
pipelines in locations where persons are In addition, PHMSA will use this ADDRESSES: Your comments should be
expected to be at risk that are not meeting to discuss the strategy for identified by Docket No. DOT–OST–
already covered under the integrity addressing the issues relative to gas 2018–0031 and may be submitted
management (IM) program gathering pipelines in the proposed through one of the following methods:
requirements. rule. • Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
• Modify the repair criteria, both www.regulations.gov Follow the online
inside and outside of high consequence II. Committee Background instructions for submitting comments.
areas. The GPAC is a statutorily mandated • Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
• Require inspections of pipelines in advisory committee that advises • Mail or Hand Delivery: Docket
areas affected by extreme weather, man- PHMSA on proposed gas pipeline safety Management Facility, U.S. Department
made and natural disasters, and other standards and their associated risk of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
similar events. assessments. The committee is Avenue SE, West Building, Room W12–
• Provide additional specificity for established in accordance with the 140, Washington, DC 20590, between 9
in-line inspections, including explicit Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through
requirements to account for uncertainty U.S.C. App. 2, as amended) and 49 Friday, except on Federal holidays.
of reported inspection data when All written comments will be
U.S.C. 60115. The committee consists of
evaluating in-line inspection data to available for public inspection on
15 members with membership evenly
identify anomalies. Regulations.gov.
divided among federal and state
• Expand integrity assessment governments, the regulated industry, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
methods to explicitly address guided and the general public. The committee Habib Azarsina, Office of the Chief
wave ultrasonic inspection and advises PHMSA on the technical Information Officer, Office of the
excavation with direct in-situ feasibility, reasonableness, cost- Secretary, U.S. Department of
examination. effectiveness, and practicability of each Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
• Provide clearer functional proposed pipeline safety standard. Avenue SE, Washington, DC, 20590,
requirements for conducting risk 202–366–1965 (Voice), 202–366–7870
Issued in Washington, DC, on March 1,
assessments for IM, including 2018, under authority delegated in 49 CFR
(Fax), or habib.azarsina@dot.gov.
addressing seismic risks. 1.97. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
• Expand the mandatory data Alan K. Mayberry, Title: Generic Clearance for the
collection and integration requirements Collection of Qualitative Feedback on
Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
for IM, including data validation and Agency Service Delivery.
[FR Doc. 2018–04520 Filed 3–5–18; 8:45 am] Abstract: The information collection
seismicity.
• Add requirements to address BILLING CODE 4910–60–P activity will garner qualitative customer
management of change. and stakeholder feedback in an efficient,
• Repeal the use of API timely manner, in accordance with the
Recommended Practice 80 for gathering DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Department’s commitment to improving
lines. Office of the Secretary service delivery. By qualitative feedback
• Apply Type B requirements along we mean information that provides
with emergency requirements to newly [Docket No. DOT–OST–2018–0031] useful insights on perceptions and
regulated greater than 8-inch Type A opinions, but are not statistical surveys
gathering lines in Class 1 locations Generic Clearance for the Collection of that yield quantitative results that can
(GAO Recommendation 14–667). Qualitative Feedback on Agency be generalized to the population of
• Extend the reporting requirements Service Delivery study. This feedback will provide
to all gathering lines. AGENCY: Office of the Secretary (OST), insight into customer or stakeholder
• Expand requirements for corrosion Department of Transportation (DOT). perceptions, opinions, experiences and
protection to specify additional post- ACTION: Notice and request for expectations, provide an early warning
construction quality checks, and of issues with service, or focus attention
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comments.
periodic operational and maintenance on areas where communication, training
checks to address coating integrity, SUMMARY: In accordance with the or changes in operations might improve
cathodic protection, and gas quality Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the delivery of products or services. These
monitoring. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) collections will allow for ongoing,
• Require operators to report Office of the Secretary (OST) announces collaborative and actionable
maximum allowable operating pressure its plan to submit the Information communications between the
exceedances. Collection Request (ICR) described Department of Transportation and its
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customers and stakeholders. It will also Estimated Number of Respondents: Dated: February 28, 2018.
allow feedback to contribute directly to 6,000. John Lipold,
the improvement of program Estimated Annual Responses: 2,000. ETAAC Designated Federal Official.
management. Feedback or information Estimated Annual Burden Hours: [FR Doc. 2018–04452 Filed 3–5–18; 8:45 am]
collected under this generic clearance 2,000 hours. BILLING CODE 4830–01–P
will provide useful information, but it Frequency: One-time requirement.
will not yield data that can be Issued in Washington, DC, on February 27,
generalized to the overall population. 2018. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
The Department will submit a Habib Azarsina,
collection for approval under this Internal Revenue Service
OST Privacy & PRA Officer, Office of the
generic clearance if it meets the Chief Information Officer.
following conditions: Proposed Collection; Comment
[FR Doc. 2018–04504 Filed 3–5–18; 8:45 am]
• The collections are voluntary. Request for Regulation Project
• The collections are low-burden for BILLING CODE 4910–9X–P
AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS),
respondents (based on considerations of Treasury.
total burden hours, total number of
DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY ACTION: Notice and request for
respondents, or burden-hours per
respondent) and are low-cost for both comments.
the respondents and the Federal Internal Revenue Service
SUMMARY: The Internal Revenue Service,
Government. Electronic Tax Administration as part of its continuing effort to reduce
• The collections are paperwork and respondent burden,
Advisory Committee (ETAAC)
noncontroversial and do not raise issues invites the general public and other
of concern to other Federal agencies. AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service, Federal agencies to take this
• Any collection is targeted to the Department of Treasury. opportunity to comment on proposed
solicitation of opinions from ACTION: Notice. and/or continuing information
respondents who have experience with collections, as required by the
the program or may have experience SUMMARY: The charter for the Electronic Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The
with the program in the near future. Tax Administration Advisory IRS is soliciting comments concerning
• Personally identifiable information Committee (ETAAC) was renewed on guidance necessary to facilitate business
(PII) is collected only to the extent February 27, 2018, in accordance with electronic filing under section 1561,
necessary and is not retained. the Federal Advisory Committee Act guidance necessary to facilitate business
• Information gathered is intended to (FACA). electronic filing and reduction,
be used only internally for general
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: guidance necessary to facilitate business
service improvement and program
Michael Deneroff at (202) 317–6851, or election filing; finalization of controlled
management purposes and is not
send an email to publicliaison@irs.gov. group qualification rules, and
intended for release outside of the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is limitations on the importation of net
Department (if released, the Department
hereby given that the charter for the built-in Losses.
must indicate the qualitative nature of
the information). Electronic Tax Administration Advisory DATES: Written comments should be
This type of generic clearance for Committee (ETAAC) was renewed on received on or before May 7, 2018 to be
qualitative information will not be used February 27, 2018, in accordance with assured of consideration.
for quantitative information collections the Federal Advisory Committee Act ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments
that are designed to yield reliably (FACA), 5 U.S.C., App. 2. to Laurie Brimmer, Internal Revenue
actionable results, such as monitoring The establishment and operation of Service, Room 6526, 1111 Constitution
trends over time or documenting the Electronic Tax Administration Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20224.
program performance. Such data uses Advisory Committee (ETAAC) is FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
require more rigorous designs that required by the Internal Revenue Requests for additional information or
address: The target population to which Service (IRS) Restructuring and Reform copies of the regulation should be
generalizations will be made, the Act of 1998 (RRA 98), Title II, Section directed to Sara Covington, (202) 317–
sampling frame, the sample design 2001(b)(2). 6038, Internal Revenue Service, Room
(including stratification and clustering), The purpose of the ETAAC is to 6526, 1111 Constitution Avenue NW,
the precision requirements or power provide continued input into the Washington, DC 20224, or through the
calculations that justify the proposed development and implementation of the internet at Sara.L.Covington@irs.gov.
sample size, the expected response rate, IRS organizational strategy for electronic SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
methods for assessing potential tax administration. The ETAAC will Title: T.D. 9304—Guidance Necessary
nonresponse bias, the protocols for data provide an organized public forum for to Facilitate Business Electronic Filing
collection, and any testing procedures discussion of electronic tax Under Section 1561, T.D. 9329—
that were or will be undertaken prior to administration issues such as Guidance Necessary to Facilitate
fielding the study. Depending on the prevention of identity theft and refund Business Electronic Filing and Burden
degree of influence the results are likely fraud in support of the overriding goal Reduction, T.D. 9451—Guidance
to have, such collections may still be that paperless filing should be the Necessary to Facilitate Business
preferred and most convenient method
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eligible for submission for other generic Election Filing; Finalization of
mechanisms that are designed to yield of filing tax and information returns. Controlled Group Qualification Rules
quantitative results. The ETAAC members will convey the and T.D. 9759—Limitations on the
Type of Review: New. public’s perceptions of IRS electronic Importation of Net Built-In Losses.
Affected Public: Individuals and tax administration activities, offer OMB Number: 1545–2019.
households, businesses and constructive observations about current Regulation Project Numbers: TD 9304
organizations, State, Local or Tribal or proposed policies, programs and (REG–161919–05), TD 9329
Governments. procedures, and suggest improvements. (REG134317–05), TD 9451 (REG–
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