Agency Information Collection Activities: Business Transformation-Automated Integrated Operating Environment (IOE), New Information Collection; Comment Request, 17145-17146 [2011-7186]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 59 / Monday, March 28, 2011 / Notices If you need a copy of the information collection instrument, please visit the Web site at: https://www.regulations. gov/ We may also be contacted at: USCIS, Regulatory Products Division, Office of the Executive Secretariat, 20 Massachusetts Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20529–2020, Telephone number 202–272–8377. Dated: March 23, 2011. Stephen Tarragon, Senior Analyst, Regulatory Products Division, Office of the Executive Secretariat, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security. [FR Doc. 2011–7224 Filed 3–25–11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 9111–97–P DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Agency Information Collection Activities: Business Transformation— Automated Integrated Operating Environment (IOE), New Information Collection; Comment Request 60-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Business Transformation—Integrated Operating Environment (IOE); OMB Control No. 1615–NEW. ACTION: USCIS is developing an automated Integrated Operating Environment (IOE) to process benefit applications. The IOE will collect information by asking sequential questions using ‘‘wizard’’ technology. The IOE will allow immigration benefit requests to be filed directly via the internet or ‘‘e-filed.’’ In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) this notice provides the general public and Federal agencies with notice that USCIS will be submitting this information collection request to OMB and the public will have an opportunity to review and comment. DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before May 27, 2011. ADDRESSES: Written comments and/or suggestions regarding the item(s) contained in this notice, especially regarding the estimated public burden and associated response time, should be directed to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), USCIS, Chief, Regulatory Products Division, Office of the Executive Secretariat, 20 Massachusetts Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20529–2020. Comments may also be submitted to Emcdonald on DSK2BSOYB1PROD with NOTICES SUMMARY: VerDate Mar<15>2010 19:22 Mar 25, 2011 Jkt 223001 DHS via facsimile to 202–272–0997 or via e-mail at rfs.regs@dhs.gov. When submitting comments by e-mail, please be sure to add ‘‘Automated IOE’’ in the subject box. Please do not submit requests for individual case status inquiries to this address. If you are seeking information about the status of your individual case, please check ‘‘My Case Status’’ online at: https:// egov.uscis.gov/cris/Dashboard.do, or call the USCIS National Customer Service Center at 1–800–375–5283. If you need a copy of this information collection instrument, please visit the Web site at: https://www.regulations.gov/ or call the Regulatory Products Division at (202) 272–8377. Background: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is transforming its business processes and systems to improve operational efficiency and customer service, and to strengthen the security and integrity of the immigration system. As part of this effort, USCIS may modify its data collection practices to eventually convert all data collections to e-filing in the IOE. The intent of this change is to improve the consistency and timeliness of its immigration benefit adjudications, as well as to support identity management, evaluate benefit eligibility, promote customer service, and manage national security and benefit risk. This change will also serve to bring USCIS into compliance with the Government Paperwork Elimination Act (GPEA), Public Law 105–277, tit. XVII, section 1703, 112 Stat. 2681, 2681–749 (Oct. 21, 1998), 44 U.S.C. 3504 note, and the E– Government Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 107– 347, 116 Stat. 2899, 44 U.S.C. 3601 note). GPEA provides that Federal agencies use electronic forms, electronic filing, and electronic submissions, when possible, to conduct agency business with the public. The E–Government Act sought to promote the use of the Internet by Federal Agencies through efforts like USCIS’ Business Transformation initiative. The IOE will be implemented by USCIS and made available for the public to submit requests over the next few years in increments that USCIS has termed as ‘‘releases’’ and ‘‘phases.’’ As each phase is implemented, DHS will announce each request that has been converted to the IOE, if the IOE will be the sole filing option available, or if the option of filing a paper form will remain available for that benefit for all or certain groups that may seek to submit the applicable request. In general, the IOE will follow the immigration ‘‘lifecycle’’ to first include nonimmigrant benefits, proceeding eventually to applications for naturalization. PO 00000 Frm 00043 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 17145 The first benefit type available in the automated IOE under Release A, Phase 1, will be the Application to Extend/ Change Nonimmigrant Status. Beginning in December 2011, USCIS customers will be able to apply for an extension or change of their nonimmigrant status using the IOE or continue to use the current paper Form I–539 (OMB Control No. 1615–0003). In the future, however, USCIS may allow the current paper Form I–539 to expire, eliminate the option of filing on a paper form, and instead require this benefit application to be filed through the automated IOE. USCIS is very interested in receiving comments concerning mandatory e–filing of this benefit and any future benefits that are added to the automated IOE. USCIS also welcomes comments on which groups, individuals, or businesses for which it would be the most appropriate for USCIS to require (or not require) electronic filing of all benefit requests. The supporting statement for this information collection contains a more detailed description of the USCIS Business Transformation initiative and wizard technology. The supporting statement can be viewed at: https:// www.regulations.gov/. USCIS is also interested in public comment addressing the following issues: (1) Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information will have practical utility; (2) Evaluate the accuracy of the agencies estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (3) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses. Overview of This Information Collection (1) Type of Information Collection: New information collection. (2) Title of the Form/Collection: Business Transformation—Automated Integrated Operating Environment (IOE). (3) Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the Department of Homeland Security E:\FR\FM\28MRN1.SGM 28MRN1 17146 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 59 / Monday, March 28, 2011 / Notices sponsoring the collection: No form number; U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). (4) Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as well as a brief abstract: Primary: Individuals or households. As part of the Business Transformation initiative, USCIS is developing an automated Integrated Operating Environment (IOE). The IOE will use wizard technology and will allow e-filing. Wizard technology gives USCIS the ability to electronically interact with its customers by guiding them through the application process and assisting them to file complete and accurate benefit requests. (5) An estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount of time estimated for an average respondent to respond: 58,500 responses at an average of 2 hours and 15 minutes per response. (6) An estimate of the total public burden (in hours) associated with the collection: 131,625 annual burden hours. The information collection request contains selected screen shots that demonstrate the look and feel of the automated IOE, and a decision tree to show the sequence of questions that the public will be asked by the wizard and the order in which the questions will be asked. For example, when the user answers the question ‘‘What is your First Name?’’ then he or she will be prompted with the question: ‘‘What is your Given Name?’’ If you need to review this information collection instrument, please visit the Web site at: https:// www.regulations.gov/. Dated: March 23, 2011. Sunday Aigbe, Chief, Regulatory Products Division, Office of the Executive Secretariat, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security. [FR Doc. 2011–7186 Filed 3–25–11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 9111–97–P DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Fish and Wildlife Service Emcdonald on DSK2BSOYB1PROD with NOTICES [FWS–R9–ES–2011–N067; 92220–1113– 0000–C3] Information Collection Sent to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Approval; Endangered and Threatened Wildlife, Experimental Populations Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice; request for comments. AGENCY: We (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) have sent an Information SUMMARY: VerDate Mar<15>2010 17:14 Mar 25, 2011 Jkt 223001 Collection Request (ICR) to OMB for review and approval. We summarize the ICR below and describe the nature of the collection and the estimated burden and cost. This information collection is scheduled to expire on March 31, 2011. We may not conduct or sponsor and a person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. However, under OMB regulations, we may continue to conduct or sponsor this information collection while it is pending at OMB. DATES: You must submit comments on or before April 27, 2011. ADDRESSES: Send your comments and suggestions on this information collection to the Desk Officer for the Department of the Interior at OMB– OIRA at (202) 395–5806 (fax) or OIRA_DOCKET@OMB.eop.gov (e-mail). Please provide a copy of your comments to the Service Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, MS 2042–PDM, 4401 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203 (mail), or INFOCOL@fws.gov (email). Please include 1018–0095 in the subject line of your comments. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request additional information about this ICR, contact Hope Grey at INFOCOL@fws.gov (e-mail) or 703–358– 2482 (telephone). You may review the ICR online at https://www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to review Department of the Interior collections under review by OMB. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB Control Number: 1018–0095. Title: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife, Experimental Populations, 50 CFR 17.84. Service Form Number(s): None. Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection. Description of Respondents: Individuals and households, private sector, and State/local/Tribal governments. Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. Frequency of Collection: On occasion. Estimated Annual Number of Respondents: 101. Estimated Annual Number of Responses: 101. Completion Time per Response: 15 minutes. Total Annual Burden Hours: 27. Abstract: Section 10(j) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA), as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to establish experimental populations of endangered or threatened species. Because individuals of experimental populations are categorically protected PO 00000 Frm 00044 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 under the ESA, the information we collect is important for monitoring the success of reintroduction efforts and recovery efforts in general. This is a nonform collection. Information collection requirements for experimental populations of endangered and threatened species are in 50 CFR 17.84. We collect three categories of information: (1) General take or removal. Relates to human-related mortality including unintentional taking incidental to otherwise lawful activities (e.g., highway mortalities); animal husbandry actions authorized to manage the population (e.g., translocation or providing aid to sick, injured, or orphaned individuals); take in defense of human life; take related to defense of property (if authorized); or take in the form of authorized harassment. (2) Depredation-related take. Involves take for management purposes where livestock depredation is documented, and may include authorized harassment or authorized lethal take of experimental animals in the act of attacking livestock. (3) Specimen collection, recovery, or reporting of dead individuals. This information documents incidental or authorized scientific collection. Most of the contacts with the public deal primarily with the reporting of sightings of experimental population animals or the inadvertent discovery of an injured or dead individual. The information that we collect includes: • Name, address, and phone number of reporting party. • Species involved. • Type of incident. • Take (quantity). • Location and time of the reported incident. • Description of the circumstances related to the incident. This information helps us to assess the effectiveness of control activities and to develop better means to reduce problems with livestock for those species where depredation is a problem. Service recovery specialists use the information to determine the success of reintroductions in relation to established recovery plan goals for the threatened and endangered species involved. Comments: On November 3, 2010, we published in the Federal Register (75 FR 67761) a notice of our intent to request that OMB renew approval for this information collection. In that notice, we solicited comments for 60 days, ending on January 3, 2011. We received information from two commenters in response to this notice. E:\FR\FM\28MRN1.SGM 28MRN1

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[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 59 (Monday, March 28, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17145-17146]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-7186]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services


Agency Information Collection Activities: Business 
Transformation--Automated Integrated Operating Environment (IOE), New 
Information Collection; Comment Request

ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Business 
Transformation--Integrated Operating Environment (IOE); OMB Control No. 
1615-NEW.

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SUMMARY: USCIS is developing an automated Integrated Operating 
Environment (IOE) to process benefit applications. The IOE will collect 
information by asking sequential questions using ``wizard'' technology. 
The IOE will allow immigration benefit requests to be filed directly 
via the internet or ``e-filed.'' In accordance with the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) this notice provides the general public and 
Federal agencies with notice that USCIS will be submitting this 
information collection request to OMB and the public will have an 
opportunity to review and comment.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before 
May 27, 2011.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and/or suggestions regarding the item(s) 
contained in this notice, especially regarding the estimated public 
burden and associated response time, should be directed to the 
Department of Homeland Security (DHS), USCIS, Chief, Regulatory 
Products Division, Office of the Executive Secretariat, 20 
Massachusetts Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20529-2020. Comments may also 
be submitted to DHS via facsimile to 202-272-0997 or via e-mail at 
rfs.regs@dhs.gov. When submitting comments by e-mail, please be sure to 
add ``Automated IOE'' in the subject box. Please do not submit requests 
for individual case status inquiries to this address. If you are 
seeking information about the status of your individual case, please 
check ``My Case Status'' online at: https://egov.uscis.gov/cris/Dashboard.do, or call the USCIS National Customer Service Center at 1-
800-375-5283. If you need a copy of this information collection 
instrument, please visit the Web site at: https://www.regulations.gov/ 
or call the Regulatory Products Division at (202) 272-8377.
    Background: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is 
transforming its business processes and systems to improve operational 
efficiency and customer service, and to strengthen the security and 
integrity of the immigration system. As part of this effort, USCIS may 
modify its data collection practices to eventually convert all data 
collections to e-filing in the IOE. The intent of this change is to 
improve the consistency and timeliness of its immigration benefit 
adjudications, as well as to support identity management, evaluate 
benefit eligibility, promote customer service, and manage national 
security and benefit risk. This change will also serve to bring USCIS 
into compliance with the Government Paperwork Elimination Act (GPEA), 
Public Law 105-277, tit. XVII, section 1703, 112 Stat. 2681, 2681-749 
(Oct. 21, 1998), 44 U.S.C. 3504 note, and the E-Government Act of 2002 
(Pub. L. 107-347, 116 Stat. 2899, 44 U.S.C. 3601 note). GPEA provides 
that Federal agencies use electronic forms, electronic filing, and 
electronic submissions, when possible, to conduct agency business with 
the public. The E-Government Act sought to promote the use of the 
Internet by Federal Agencies through efforts like USCIS' Business 
Transformation initiative.
    The IOE will be implemented by USCIS and made available for the 
public to submit requests over the next few years in increments that 
USCIS has termed as ``releases'' and ``phases.'' As each phase is 
implemented, DHS will announce each request that has been converted to 
the IOE, if the IOE will be the sole filing option available, or if the 
option of filing a paper form will remain available for that benefit 
for all or certain groups that may seek to submit the applicable 
request. In general, the IOE will follow the immigration ``lifecycle'' 
to first include nonimmigrant benefits, proceeding eventually to 
applications for naturalization.
    The first benefit type available in the automated IOE under Release 
A, Phase 1, will be the Application to Extend/Change Nonimmigrant 
Status. Beginning in December 2011, USCIS customers will be able to 
apply for an extension or change of their nonimmigrant status using the 
IOE or continue to use the current paper Form I-539 (OMB Control No. 
1615-0003). In the future, however, USCIS may allow the current paper 
Form I-539 to expire, eliminate the option of filing on a paper form, 
and instead require this benefit application to be filed through the 
automated IOE. USCIS is very interested in receiving comments 
concerning mandatory e-filing of this benefit and any future benefits 
that are added to the automated IOE. USCIS also welcomes comments on 
which groups, individuals, or businesses for which it would be the most 
appropriate for USCIS to require (or not require) electronic filing of 
all benefit requests.
    The supporting statement for this information collection contains a 
more detailed description of the USCIS Business Transformation 
initiative and wizard technology. The supporting statement can be 
viewed at: https://www.regulations.gov/.
    USCIS is also interested in public comment addressing the following 
issues:
    (1) Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is 
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, 
including whether the information will have practical utility;
    (2) Evaluate the accuracy of the agencies estimate of the burden of 
the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the 
methodology and assumptions used;
    (3) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to 
be collected; and
    (4) Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those 
who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated, 
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic 
submission of responses.

Overview of This Information Collection

    (1) Type of Information Collection: New information collection.
    (2) Title of the Form/Collection: Business Transformation--
Automated Integrated Operating Environment (IOE).
    (3) Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the 
Department of Homeland Security

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sponsoring the collection: No form number; U.S. Citizenship and 
Immigration Services (USCIS).
    (4) Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as 
well as a brief abstract: Primary: Individuals or households. As part 
of the Business Transformation initiative, USCIS is developing an 
automated Integrated Operating Environment (IOE). The IOE will use 
wizard technology and will allow e-filing. Wizard technology gives 
USCIS the ability to electronically interact with its customers by 
guiding them through the application process and assisting them to file 
complete and accurate benefit requests.
    (5) An estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount 
of time estimated for an average respondent to respond: 58,500 
responses at an average of 2 hours and 15 minutes per response.
    (6) An estimate of the total public burden (in hours) associated 
with the collection: 131,625 annual burden hours.
    The information collection request contains selected screen shots 
that demonstrate the look and feel of the automated IOE, and a decision 
tree to show the sequence of questions that the public will be asked by 
the wizard and the order in which the questions will be asked. For 
example, when the user answers the question ``What is your First 
Name?'' then he or she will be prompted with the question: ``What is 
your Given Name?'' If you need to review this information collection 
instrument, please visit the Web site at: https://www.regulations.gov/.

    Dated: March 23, 2011.
Sunday Aigbe,
Chief, Regulatory Products Division, Office of the Executive 
Secretariat, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of 
Homeland Security.
[FR Doc. 2011-7186 Filed 3-25-11; 8:45 am]
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