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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.
If this information is not collected, vital
feedback from customers and
stakeholders on the Agency’s services
will be unavailable.
NSF will only submit a collection for
approval under this generic clearance if
it meets the following conditions:
Æ The collection is voluntary;
Æ The collection is low-burden for
respondents (based on considerations of
total burden hours, total number of
respondents, or burden-hours per
respondent) and is low-cost for both the
respondents and the Federal
Government;
Æ The collection is non-controversial
and does not raise issues of concern to
other Federal agencies;
Æ The 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;
Æ Personally identifiable information
(PII) is collected only to the extent
necessary and is not retained;
Æ 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 NSF (if
released, NSF must indicate the
qualitative nature of the information);
Æ Information gathered will not be
used for the purpose of substantially
informing influential policy decisions;
and
Æ Information gathered will yield
qualitative information; the collection
will not be 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
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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 this 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, this information
collection 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.
Below we provide the National
Science Foundation’s projected average
estimates for the next three years:
Affected Public: Individuals and
Households, Businesses and
Organizations, State, Local or Tribal
Government.
Average Expected Annual Number of
activities: 25.
Respondents: 500 per activity.
Annual responses: 7,500.
Frequency of Response: Once per
request
Average minutes per response: 30.
Burden hours: 6,250.
Dated: October 17, 2016.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science
Foundation.
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NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION
SAFETY BOARD
Plan for Information Collection
Activity: Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
AGENCY:
National Transportation Safety
Board (NTSB).
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY:
The NTSB is announcing it is
submitting a plan for an Information
Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
approval, in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act. This ICR
Plan describes a web-based report form
an aircraft operator may use to report a
serious incident as defined in NTSB
regulations. Providing the option to
permit operators to file reports
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electronically will increase efficiency
and be more convenient for operators.
This ICR Plan is the second of two
required notices, pursuant to OMB
regulations concerning approvals of
information collections. This notice
again describes the nature of the
information collection and its expected
burden and advises the public it may
submit comments on this proposed
information collection to the OIRA desk
officer for the NTSB.
DATES: Submit written comments
regarding this proposed plan for the
collection of information by November
21, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Interested members of the
public may submit written comments on
the collection of information to the
OMB Desk Officer for the NTSB at
Office of Management and Budget, 725
17th Street NW., Washington, DC 20503,
or via fax: 202–395–5806, (this is not a
toll-free number), or email: OIRAsubmission@omb.eop.gov. Commenters
are encouraged, but not required, to
send a courtesy copy of any comments
to the National Transportation Safety
Board, Office of Aviation Safety, 490
L’Enfant Plaza SW., Washington, DC
20594.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Josh Lindberg, NTSB Office of Aviation
Safety, at (202) 314–6667.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with OMB regulations that
require this Notice for proposed ICRs,
the NTSB herein notifies the public that
it may submit comments on this
proposed ICR Plan to the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs
(OIRA) Desk Officer for the NTSB. 5
CFR 1320.10(a). This request for
approval is not associated with a
rulemaking activity.
This notice follows the first of the two
required notices requesting comment,
which appeared in the Federal Register
on July 7, 2015. 80 FR 38751. Comments
in response to the first notice were due
by September 7, 2015. The NTSB did
not receive any comments.
A. Paperwork Reduction Act
Requirement
In accordance with OMB regulations
that require this Notice for proposed
ICRs, the NTSB herein notifies the
public that it may submit comments on
this proposed information collection.
Title 5 CFR 1320.10(a) requires this
notice to ‘‘direct comments to the Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs of
OMB, Attention: Desk Officer for [the
NTSB]. A copy of the notice submitted
to the Federal Register, together with
the date of expected publication, shall
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be included in the agency’s submission
to OMB.’’
As stated in the NTSB’s first of the
two required notices under the
Paperwork Reduction Act, the objective
of these requests for comment is to
receive input from the public
concerning: (1) Whether the proposed
collection is necessary for the NTSB to
perform its mission; (2) the accuracy of
the estimated burden; (3) ways for the
NTSB to enhance the quality,
usefulness, and clarity of the collected
information; and (4) ways that the
burden could be minimized without
reducing the quality of the collected
information. 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1).
Following publication of this notice, the
NTSB will submit to OIRA its
evaluation of the above-mentioned
considerations, in accordance with
§ 1320.8.
B. Description of Web-Based Report
Form
The NTSB’s proposed use of a webbased reporting form to collect
information concerning reportable
aviation incidents is distinct from its
Pilot/Operator Aircraft Accident/
Incident Report Form (NTSB Form
6120.1), which the NTSB uses in
determining the facts, conditions, and
circumstances for aircraft accident
prevention activities and for statistical
purposes.1 The proposed electronic
form to report serious incidents, as
listed at 49 CFR 830.5, will be a concise
electronic form available for completion
on the NTSB Web site. The NTSB will
obtain information on the form to
determine whether to commence an
investigation into the facts of the
incident.
The form will ask, ‘‘[w]hich of the
following incidents did you
experience?’’ and include a listing of the
serious incidents operators are required
to report under 49 CFR 830.5.
Respondents can check the link to the
appropriate incident and fill out the
information required to be reported for
that incident. The form also asks
whether serious injuries or substantial
damage occurred, as well as whether the
incident involved an unmanned aircraft
system (UAS). The form will include
web hyperlinks to the definitions of
‘‘serious injury’’ and ‘‘substantial
damage,’’ as defined at 49 CFR 830.2,
and a link to guidance on reporting UAS
accidents and incidents. If a respondent
answers ‘‘yes’’ to any of those questions,
the information collection will conclude
by displaying an instruction for the
1 See Information Collection Review Reference
Number 201311–3147–001; OMB Control Number
3147–0001.
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respondent to contact the NTSB
Response Operations Center at 844–
373–9922. The next set of questions on
the form will seek the following
information: Name of operator; date and
time of event (UTC); flight origin and
intended destination; aircraft
registration number and type;
approximate location of the incident;
number of pilots, crew, and passengers;
and a description of the nature of the
incident. At the conclusion of the form,
the form will seek the respondent’s
name, email address, and phone
number.
C. Use of Information on the Web-Based
Incident Report Form
The NTSB will use the information
provided on the electronic report form
for serious incidents to determine
whether to commence an investigation
into the incident. Everyone involved in
an NTSB investigation, including the
parties to the investigation (as defined at
49 CFR 831.11), depend on accurate
information the NTSB collects while
conducting the investigation and
determining which areas warrant focus
and attention. In this regard, if the
NTSB determines it will commence an
investigation into the incident the
operator has reported via the electronic
form, the NTSB will consider the form
to be critical to its statutory function to
investigate aviation accidents and
incidents. In addition, the accuracy of
the information the NTSB collects on
the form will be used in issuing safety
recommendations following the
incident, in an effort to prevent future
aviation accidents and incidents.
The NTSB has considered whether
this collection of information on the
draft electronic form is duplicative of
any other agency’s collections of
information. The NTSB is unaware of
any form the Federal Aviation
Administration disseminates that
solicits the same information the
electronic form will require. However,
the NTSB notes some operators may
choose to provide a voluntary report to
the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) in accordance
with the Aviation Safety Reporting
Program (ASRP).2
The NTSB notes informing the NTSB
of a serious incident listed at 49 CFR
830.5 is not voluntary, but is required
by 49 CFR 830.5 and 830.10. The NTSB,
2 Under the ASRP, the Administrator of the
Federal Aviation Administrator may waive the
imposition of a sanction, despite the finding of a
regulatory violation, as long as certain requirements
are satisfied. Aviation Safety Reporting Program,
Advisory Circular 00–46E (Dec. 16, 2011). To take
advantage of the program, one must voluntarily file
a report with NASA.
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in general, will not accept partially
completed forms; NTSB investigators
will exercise their discretion in
requesting completion of an electronic
incident reporting form a respondent
submits that is partially completed.
Currently, the NTSB accepts phone
calls transmitting the information
described above. The NTSB seeks to
improve the efficiency of the receipt of
the necessary information by offering
respondents the option of submitting
the information online.
The NTSB has reviewed the form
carefully to ensure it has used plain,
coherent, and unambiguous terminology
in its request for information. While
some incidents listed in the form
contain terms specific to the aviation
industry, the NTSB believes
respondents completing the form will be
knowledgeable about the terminology
the NTSB uses in the form, and the
NTSB has remained mindful of its
choices of terms in the development of
the draft web-based form. The NTSB
estimates respondents will spend
approximately 10 minutes in
completing the form. The NTSB
estimates approximately 50 respondents
per year will complete the form, but
notes this number may vary, given the
unpredictable nature of the frequency of
aviation incidents.
D. Request for Comments
In accordance with 44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A), the NTSB again requests
feedback from the public concerning
this proposed plan for information
collection. In particular, the NTSB asks
the public to evaluate whether the
proposed collection of information is
necessary; to assess the accuracy of the
NTSB’s burden estimate; to comment on
how to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and to comment on how the
NTSB might minimize the burden of the
collection of information.
The NTSB will work with OIRA to
consider all feedback it receives in
response to this notice. As described
above, obtaining the information the
NTSB seeks on these electronic incident
report forms in a timely manner is
important to the NTSB’s mission in
investigating incidents and thereby
improving aviation safety. Therefore,
obtaining approval from OIRA for this
electronic collection of information is a
priority for the NTSB.
Christopher A. Hart,
Chairman.
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NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
Plan for Information Collection Activity: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
AGENCY: National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The NTSB is announcing it is submitting a plan for an
Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for approval, in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act. This ICR Plan describes a web-based report form an aircraft
operator may use to report a serious incident as defined in NTSB
regulations. Providing the option to permit operators to file reports
electronically will increase efficiency and be more convenient for
operators. This ICR Plan is the second of two required notices,
pursuant to OMB regulations concerning approvals of information
collections. This notice again describes the nature of the information
collection and its expected burden and advises the public it may submit
comments on this proposed information collection to the OIRA desk
officer for the NTSB.
DATES: Submit written comments regarding this proposed plan for the
collection of information by November 21, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Interested members of the public may submit written comments
on the collection of information to the OMB Desk Officer for the NTSB
at Office of Management and Budget, 725 17th Street NW., Washington, DC
20503, or via fax: 202-395-5806, (this is not a toll-free number), or
email: OIRA-submission@omb.eop.gov. Commenters are encouraged, but not
required, to send a courtesy copy of any comments to the National
Transportation Safety Board, Office of Aviation Safety, 490 L'Enfant
Plaza SW., Washington, DC 20594.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Josh Lindberg, NTSB Office of
Aviation Safety, at (202) 314-6667.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with OMB regulations that
require this Notice for proposed ICRs, the NTSB herein notifies the
public that it may submit comments on this proposed ICR Plan to the
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) Desk Officer for
the NTSB. 5 CFR 1320.10(a). This request for approval is not associated
with a rulemaking activity.
This notice follows the first of the two required notices
requesting comment, which appeared in the Federal Register on July 7,
2015. 80 FR 38751. Comments in response to the first notice were due by
September 7, 2015. The NTSB did not receive any comments.
A. Paperwork Reduction Act Requirement
In accordance with OMB regulations that require this Notice for
proposed ICRs, the NTSB herein notifies the public that it may submit
comments on this proposed information collection. Title 5 CFR
1320.10(a) requires this notice to ``direct comments to the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs of OMB, Attention: Desk Officer for
[the NTSB]. A copy of the notice submitted to the Federal Register,
together with the date of expected publication, shall
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be included in the agency's submission to OMB.''
As stated in the NTSB's first of the two required notices under the
Paperwork Reduction Act, the objective of these requests for comment is
to receive input from the public concerning: (1) Whether the proposed
collection is necessary for the NTSB to perform its mission; (2) the
accuracy of the estimated burden; (3) ways for the NTSB to enhance the
quality, usefulness, and clarity of the collected information; and (4)
ways that the burden could be minimized without reducing the quality of
the collected information. 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1). Following publication of
this notice, the NTSB will submit to OIRA its evaluation of the above-
mentioned considerations, in accordance with Sec. 1320.8.
B. Description of Web-Based Report Form
The NTSB's proposed use of a web-based reporting form to collect
information concerning reportable aviation incidents is distinct from
its Pilot/Operator Aircraft Accident/Incident Report Form (NTSB Form
6120.1), which the NTSB uses in determining the facts, conditions, and
circumstances for aircraft accident prevention activities and for
statistical purposes.\1\ The proposed electronic form to report serious
incidents, as listed at 49 CFR 830.5, will be a concise electronic form
available for completion on the NTSB Web site. The NTSB will obtain
information on the form to determine whether to commence an
investigation into the facts of the incident.
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The form will ask, ``[w]hich of the following incidents did you
experience?'' and include a listing of the serious incidents operators
are required to report under 49 CFR 830.5. Respondents can check the
link to the appropriate incident and fill out the information required
to be reported for that incident. The form also asks whether serious
injuries or substantial damage occurred, as well as whether the
incident involved an unmanned aircraft system (UAS). The form will
include web hyperlinks to the definitions of ``serious injury'' and
``substantial damage,'' as defined at 49 CFR 830.2, and a link to
guidance on reporting UAS accidents and incidents. If a respondent
answers ``yes'' to any of those questions, the information collection
will conclude by displaying an instruction for the respondent to
contact the NTSB Response Operations Center at 844-373-9922. The next
set of questions on the form will seek the following information: Name
of operator; date and time of event (UTC); flight origin and intended
destination; aircraft registration number and type; approximate
location of the incident; number of pilots, crew, and passengers; and a
description of the nature of the incident. At the conclusion of the
form, the form will seek the respondent's name, email address, and
phone number.
C. Use of Information on the Web-Based Incident Report Form
The NTSB will use the information provided on the electronic report
form for serious incidents to determine whether to commence an
investigation into the incident. Everyone involved in an NTSB
investigation, including the parties to the investigation (as defined
at 49 CFR 831.11), depend on accurate information the NTSB collects
while conducting the investigation and determining which areas warrant
focus and attention. In this regard, if the NTSB determines it will
commence an investigation into the incident the operator has reported
via the electronic form, the NTSB will consider the form to be critical
to its statutory function to investigate aviation accidents and
incidents. In addition, the accuracy of the information the NTSB
collects on the form will be used in issuing safety recommendations
following the incident, in an effort to prevent future aviation
accidents and incidents.
The NTSB has considered whether this collection of information on
the draft electronic form is duplicative of any other agency's
collections of information. The NTSB is unaware of any form the Federal
Aviation Administration disseminates that solicits the same information
the electronic form will require. However, the NTSB notes some
operators may choose to provide a voluntary report to the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in accordance with the
Aviation Safety Reporting Program (ASRP).\2\
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\2\ Under the ASRP, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation
Administrator may waive the imposition of a sanction, despite the
finding of a regulatory violation, as long as certain requirements
are satisfied. Aviation Safety Reporting Program, Advisory Circular
00-46E (Dec. 16, 2011). To take advantage of the program, one must
voluntarily file a report with NASA.
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The NTSB notes informing the NTSB of a serious incident listed at
49 CFR 830.5 is not voluntary, but is required by 49 CFR 830.5 and
830.10. The NTSB, in general, will not accept partially completed
forms; NTSB investigators will exercise their discretion in requesting
completion of an electronic incident reporting form a respondent
submits that is partially completed.
Currently, the NTSB accepts phone calls transmitting the
information described above. The NTSB seeks to improve the efficiency
of the receipt of the necessary information by offering respondents the
option of submitting the information online.
The NTSB has reviewed the form carefully to ensure it has used
plain, coherent, and unambiguous terminology in its request for
information. While some incidents listed in the form contain terms
specific to the aviation industry, the NTSB believes respondents
completing the form will be knowledgeable about the terminology the
NTSB uses in the form, and the NTSB has remained mindful of its choices
of terms in the development of the draft web-based form. The NTSB
estimates respondents will spend approximately 10 minutes in completing
the form. The NTSB estimates approximately 50 respondents per year will
complete the form, but notes this number may vary, given the
unpredictable nature of the frequency of aviation incidents.
D. Request for Comments
In accordance with 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A), the NTSB again requests
feedback from the public concerning this proposed plan for information
collection. In particular, the NTSB asks the public to evaluate whether
the proposed collection of information is necessary; to assess the
accuracy of the NTSB's burden estimate; to comment on how to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected;
and to comment on how the NTSB might minimize the burden of the
collection of information.
The NTSB will work with OIRA to consider all feedback it receives
in response to this notice. As described above, obtaining the
information the NTSB seeks on these electronic incident report forms in
a timely manner is important to the NTSB's mission in investigating
incidents and thereby improving aviation safety. Therefore, obtaining
approval from OIRA for this electronic collection of information is a
priority for the NTSB.
Christopher A. Hart,
Chairman.
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