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respond, including the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms
of information technology, e.g.,
permitting the electronic submissions
of responses.
Patricia Loiko, National
Endowment for the Arts, 1100
Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Room 729,
Washington, DC 20506–0001, telephone
(202) 682–5541 (this is not a toll-free
number), fax (202) 682–5721.
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NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE
ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES
National Endowment for the Arts
David Michaels, Ph.D., MPH,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health,
directed the preparation of this notice
under the authority granted by the
Federal Advisory Committee Act
(FACA), as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 2),
its implementing regulations (41 CFR
Part 102–3), chapter 1600 of Department
of Labor Management Series 3 (Mar. 17,
2008), Secretary of Labor’s Order 1–
2012 (Jan. 18, 2012), 77 FR 3912 (Jan.
25, 2012), and the Secretary of Labor’s
authority to administer the
whistleblower provisions found in
Section 11(c) of the Occupational Safety
and Health Act, 29 U.S.C. 660(c); the
Surface Transportation Assistance Act,
49 U.S.C. 31105; the Asbestos Hazard
Emergency Response Act, 15 U.S.C.
2651; the International Safe Container
Act, 46 U.S.C. 80507; the Safe Drinking
Water Act, 42 U.S.C. 300j-9(i); the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33
U.S.C. 1367; the Toxic Substances
Control Act, 15 U.S.C. 2622; the Solid
Waste Disposal Act, 42 U.S.C. 6971; the
Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7622; the
Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability
Act, 42 U.S.C. 9610; the Energy
Reorganization Act, 42 U.S.C. 5851; the
Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment
and Reform Act for the 21st Century, 49
U.S.C. 42121; the Sarbanes-Oxley Act,
18 U.S.C. 1514A; the Pipeline Safety
Improvement Act, 49 U.S.C. 60129; the
Federal Railroad Safety Act, 49 U.S.C.
20109; the National Transit Systems
Security Act, 6 U.S.C. 1142; the
Consumer Product Safety Improvement
Act, 15 U.S.C. 2087; Section 1558 of the
Affordable Care Act, P.L. 111–148; the
Consumer Financial Protection Act of
2010, 12 U.S.C.A. 5567, the Seaman’s
Protection Act, 46 U.S.C. 2114, Section
402 of the FDA Food Safety
Modernization Act, P.L. 111–353, and
the Moving Ahead for Progress in the
21st Century Act, 49 U.S.C. 30171.
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Signed at Washington, DC, on March 7,
2014.
David Michaels,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health.
Proposed Collection: Comment
Request
ACTION:
Notice.
The National Endowment for
the Arts, as part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork and respondent
burden, conducts a preclearance
consultation program to provide the
general public and Federal agencies
with an opportunity to comment on
proposed and/or continuing collections
of information in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA95) [44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(A)]. This
program helps ensure that requested
data can be provided in the desired
format, reporting burden (time and
financial resources) is minimized,
collection instruments are clearly
understood, and the impact of collection
requirements on respondents can be
properly assessed. Currently, the
National Endowment for the Arts, on
behalf of the Federal Council on the
Arts and the Humanities, is soliciting
comments concerning renewal of the
Application for Domestic
Indemnification. A copy of this
collection request can be obtained by
contacting the office listed below in the
address section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
address section below on or before May
5, 2014. The National Endowment for
the Arts is particularly interested in
comments which:
—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;
—Evaluate the accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
—Enhance the quality, utility and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
—Minimize the burden of the collection
of information on those who are to
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Dated: March 10, 2014.
Kathy Plowitz-Worden,
Panel Coordinator, Office of Guidelines &
Panel Operations.
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SAFETY BOARD
Plan for Generic Information Collection
Activity: Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
National Transportation Safety
Board (NTSB).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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 various evaluation forms
the NTSB plans to use to obtain
feedback from attendees of various
NTSB training programs. Feedback from
attendees is important to the NTSB in
ensuring the NTSB’s training courses
and programs are helpful to attendees in
their places of employment and useful
to attendees who participate in NTSB
investigations and other related agency
matters. This Notice informs the public
that it may submit to the NTSB
comments concerning the agency’s
proposed plan for information
collection.
SUMMARY:
Submit written comments
regarding this proposed plan for the
collection of information by May 12,
2014.
DATES:
Respondents may submit
written comments on the collection of
information to the National
Transportation Safety Board Training
Center, 45065 Riverside Parkway,
Ashburn, Virginia 20147.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
James Pritchert, NTSB Training Officer,
at (571) 223–3927.
ADDRESSES:
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In
accordance with OMB regulations that
require this Notice for proposed ICRs, as
well as OMB guidance concerning
generic approval of plans for
information collections, the NTSB
herein notifies the public that it may
submit comments on this proposed ICR
Plan to the NTSB. 5 CFR 1320.10(a).
Section 1320.10(a) requires this ‘‘notice
directing requests for information,
including copies of the proposed
collection of information and
supporting documentation, to the
[NTSB].’’ Pursuant to § 1320.10(a), the
NTSB will provide a copy of this notice
to OMB.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. NTSB Training Center Evaluation
Forms Are Appropriate for Generic
Approval
On May 28, 2010, the Administrator,
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs (OIRA), OMB, issued a
memorandum to the Heads of Executive
Departments and Agencies, and
Independent Regulatory Agencies,
providing instructions concerning how
agencies can obtain generic OMB
clearances for information collections in
certain circumstances. Paperwork
Reduction Act—Generic Clearances,
available at https://
www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/
omb/assets/inforeg/PRA_Gen_ICRs_528-2010.pdf. The memorandum states as
follows concerning the appropriateness
of obtaining such clearances:
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A generic ICR is a request for OMB
approval of a plan for conducting more than
one information collection using very similar
methods when (1) the need for and the
overall practical utility of the data collection
can be evaluated in advance, as part of the
review of the proposed plan, but (2) the
agency cannot determine the details of the
specific individual collections until a later
time.
The NTSB’s desire to obtain
information immediately following a
training course will assist the NTSB
Training Center in developing courses
to achieve the NTSB’s objective of
improving investigators’ and
transportation industry peers’ accident
investigation theory, practices, and
techniques. The mission of the NTSB
Training Center, in accordance with 49
U.S.C. 1113(b)(1)(I), is to promote safe
transport by:
• Ensuring and improving the quality
of accident investigation through critical
thought, instruction, and research;
• Communicating lessons learned,
fostering the exchange of new ideas and
new experience, and advocating
operational excellence;
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• Providing a modern platform for
accident reconstruction and evaluation;
and
• Utilizing its high-quality training
resources to facilitate family assistance
and first responder programs, sister
agency instruction, and other
compatible federal activity.
In administering training courses
designed to achieve these objectives, the
NTSB seeks to maintain a standard of
excellence. The NTSB’s goal of
providing materials, instructors,
methods of instruction, and facility
arrangements that are a worthy
expenditure of Federal funds will
require the NTSB to obtain feedback on
the training courses from attendees.
This type of information collection is
appropriate for generic approval under
the OIRA Administrator’s guidance. The
NTSB periodically changes the
identification numbers and subject
matter addressed in NTSB training
courses. Such variance renders generic
approval appropriate. By distributing
evaluation forms, the NTSB will gather
feedback concerning whether attendees
found the instructor knowledgeable and
helpful; whether the course materials
were appropriate; the location and
course facilities; the ‘‘case studies’’
discussed in the course; and other
similar topics. Each course evaluation
form will include some course-specific
questions. Responses to such
evaluations will assist the NTSB in
ensuring its courses work to fulfill the
goals listed above.
In 2014, the NTSB will offer the
following training courses, about which
the NTSB seeks approval for evaluation
forms: Accident Investigation
Orientation (RPH301); Aircraft Accident
Investigation (AS101); Aircraft Accident
Investigation for Aviation Professionals
(AS 301); Cognitive Interviewing Series
(IM401S); Family Assistance (TDA301);
Investigating Human Fatigue Factors
(IM303); Managing Communications
During an Aircraft Accident or Incident
(PA302); Managing Communications
Following a Major Transportation
Accident (PA303); Managing
Transportation Mass Fatalities
(TDA406); Marine Accident
Investigation (MS101); Mass Fatalities
for Medicolegal Professionals (TDA403);
and Rotorcraft Accident Investigation
(AS102). The NTSB may offer additional
courses in upcoming years, such as
Survival Factors in Aviation Accidents
(AS302). In response to previous
feedback, requests for training in
specific areas, and other considerations,
the NTSB will likely add or remove
classes from this list in the coming
years.
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Consistent with the OIRA
Administrator’s guidance concerning
generic approvals, the NTSB will not be
able to finalize draft evaluations specific
to each course until the NTSB offers the
course. These types of questions are
unique to the specific course, and
impossible to know prior to the offering
of the course. Overall, the types of
information the NTSB will solicit in its
Training Center course evaluations is
appropriate for a generic approval for
the information collection.
B. Supporting Statement
The OIRA Administrator’s
memorandum instructs agencies to
provide specific information in the
supporting statements describing the
information collections. In particular,
the supporting statements should
include the following:
• The method of collection and, if
statistical methods will be used, a discussion
of the statistical methodology;
• the category (or categories) of
respondents;
• the estimated ‘‘burden cap,’’ i.e., the
maximum number of burden hours (per year)
for the specific information collections, and
against which burden will be charged for
each collection actually used;
• the agency’s plans for how it will use the
information collected;
• the agency’s plans to obtain public input
regarding the specific information collections
(i.e., consultation); and
• the agency’s internal procedures to
ensure that the specific collections comply
with the PRA, applicable regulations, and the
terms of the generic clearance.
Id. at 2.
1. Method of Collection
The NTSB will collect the information
by transmitting the evaluation form to
attendees of each Training Center
course. Depending on the
circumstances, such transmission may
occur via hand delivery, electronic mail,
postal mail, or express mail, or a
combination of these methods.
Respondents will be provided
instructions concerning how to return
questionnaires to the Training Center.
The NTSB will not use statistical
methodology in reaching any
conclusions based on the evaluations.
Instead, the NTSB merely will note the
total number of respondents in any
documents in which it discusses the
evaluations.
Respondents’ completion of the
evaluations is voluntary, and the NTSB
generally will not contact them more
than once to request completion of the
evaluation.
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2. Category of Respondents
In its evaluation forms, the NTSB will
generally seek information only from
attendees of each course. The NTSB will
have the contact information for each
attendee, because such information is
required when registering for Training
Center courses.
3. Maximum Burden Hours
The NTSB plans to distribute the
evaluations to attendees of each
Training Center course. The NTSB offers
12 courses per year including multiple
iterations. Among all courses, the NTSB
estimates a total of 600 non-Government
attendees complete courses in any given
year. As a result, the NTSB estimates it
will distribute approximately 600
Training Center evaluation forms each
year. Each evaluation form will take
approximately 11 minutes to complete.
The NTSB seeks to emphasize these
estimations are approximate, as they are
depend on the number of courses the
NTSB offers in the Training Center.
Some courses may be cancelled due to
low registration. In addition, only
Government employees may choose to
attend other courses. As a result, the
NTSB can only provide an approximate
estimate of the number of attendees per
year.
4. Use of the Information Collected
Feedback from attendees of NTSB
Training Center courses is extremely
important to the NTSB. The NTSB plans
its course offerings based on the level of
interest from potential attendees and on
the degree to which attendees have
found useful the information they
learned during such courses. As a result,
evaluations of NTSB Training Center
courses will influence future course
offerings. The NTSB will rely upon the
provision of completed course
evaluations to assist with the planning
of course offerings.
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5. Public Input Regarding the
Information Collected
The NTSB does not generally obtain
public input concerning the scope of, or
specific questions on, NTSB Training
Center evaluation forms.
6. Internal Procedures
Lastly, the OIRA Administrator’s
memorandum describing generic
clearances recommends agencies
describe the procedures it will
undertake to ensure information
collections to which the generic
clearance applies will comply with the
Paperwork Reduction Act, applicable
regulations, and the terms provided in
the generic clearance. The NTSB Office
of General Counsel plans to provide
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internal guidance to agency personnel
who offer courses and distribute course
evaluations at the NTSB Training
Center. Such guidance will include this
publication, as well as the OIRA
Administrator’s memorandum
discussing generic clearances, upon
OMB approval of the clearance. The
internal guidance will include specific
instructions concerning use of
evaluation forms, and explain the
applicable provisions of the Paperwork
Reduction Act and its implementing
regulations.
C. Description of Burden
The NTSB has carefully reviewed
previous questionnaires it has used to
obtain information from attendees of
courses the NTSB Training Center
offers. The NTSB assures the public that
these questionnaires have used plain,
coherent, and unambiguous terminology
in its requests for feedback. In addition,
the questionnaires are not duplicative of
other agencies’ collections of
information, because the NTSB
maintains unique authority to offer such
courses concerning investigations of
transportation events. 49 U.S.C.
1113(b)(1)(I).
In general, the NTSB believes the
evaluation forms will impose a minimal
burden on respondents: As indicated
above, the NTSB estimates that each
respondent will spend approximately 11
minutes in completing the evaluation.
The NTSB estimates that a maximum of
240 respondents per year would
complete an evaluation. Although the
NTSB may distribute evaluations to
perhaps as many as 600 people, historic
response rates indicate only 40 percent
of the evaluations will be returned
completed. However, the NTSB again
notes this number will vary, given the
changes and demand for course
offerings at the NTSB Training Center.
D. Request for Comments
In accordance with 44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A), the NTSB seeks 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 carefully consider all
feedback it receives in response to this
notice. As described above, obtaining
the information the NTSB seeks on
these evaluations in a timely manner is
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important to course offerings at the
NTSB Training Center; therefore,
obtaining approval from OIRA for these
collections of information on a generic
basis is a priority for the NTSB.
Deborah A.P. Hersman,
Chairman.
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Plan for Generic 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 various evaluation forms the NTSB plans to
use to obtain feedback from attendees of various NTSB training
programs. Feedback from attendees is important to the NTSB in ensuring
the NTSB's training courses and programs are helpful to attendees in
their places of employment and useful to attendees who participate in
NTSB investigations and other related agency matters. This Notice
informs the public that it may submit to the NTSB comments concerning
the agency's proposed plan for information collection.
DATES: Submit written comments regarding this proposed plan for the
collection of information by May 12, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Respondents may submit written comments on the collection of
information to the National Transportation Safety Board Training
Center, 45065 Riverside Parkway, Ashburn, Virginia 20147.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Pritchert, NTSB Training
Officer, at (571) 223-3927.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with OMB regulations that
require this Notice for proposed ICRs, as well as OMB guidance
concerning generic approval of plans for information collections, the
NTSB herein notifies the public that it may submit comments on this
proposed ICR Plan to the NTSB. 5 CFR 1320.10(a). Section 1320.10(a)
requires this ``notice directing requests for information, including
copies of the proposed collection of information and supporting
documentation, to the [NTSB].'' Pursuant to Sec. 1320.10(a), the NTSB
will provide a copy of this notice to OMB.
A. NTSB Training Center Evaluation Forms Are Appropriate for Generic
Approval
On May 28, 2010, the Administrator, Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), OMB, issued a memorandum to the Heads of
Executive Departments and Agencies, and Independent Regulatory
Agencies, providing instructions concerning how agencies can obtain
generic OMB clearances for information collections in certain
circumstances. Paperwork Reduction Act--Generic Clearances, available
at https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/inforeg/PRA_Gen_ICRs_5-28-2010.pdf. The memorandum states as follows
concerning the appropriateness of obtaining such clearances:
A generic ICR is a request for OMB approval of a plan for
conducting more than one information collection using very similar
methods when (1) the need for and the overall practical utility of
the data collection can be evaluated in advance, as part of the
review of the proposed plan, but (2) the agency cannot determine the
details of the specific individual collections until a later time.
The NTSB's desire to obtain information immediately following a
training course will assist the NTSB Training Center in developing
courses to achieve the NTSB's objective of improving investigators' and
transportation industry peers' accident investigation theory,
practices, and techniques. The mission of the NTSB Training Center, in
accordance with 49 U.S.C. 1113(b)(1)(I), is to promote safe transport
by:
Ensuring and improving the quality of accident
investigation through critical thought, instruction, and research;
Communicating lessons learned, fostering the exchange of
new ideas and new experience, and advocating operational excellence;
Providing a modern platform for accident reconstruction
and evaluation; and
Utilizing its high-quality training resources to
facilitate family assistance and first responder programs, sister
agency instruction, and other compatible federal activity.
In administering training courses designed to achieve these
objectives, the NTSB seeks to maintain a standard of excellence. The
NTSB's goal of providing materials, instructors, methods of
instruction, and facility arrangements that are a worthy expenditure of
Federal funds will require the NTSB to obtain feedback on the training
courses from attendees.
This type of information collection is appropriate for generic
approval under the OIRA Administrator's guidance. The NTSB periodically
changes the identification numbers and subject matter addressed in NTSB
training courses. Such variance renders generic approval appropriate.
By distributing evaluation forms, the NTSB will gather feedback
concerning whether attendees found the instructor knowledgeable and
helpful; whether the course materials were appropriate; the location
and course facilities; the ``case studies'' discussed in the course;
and other similar topics. Each course evaluation form will include some
course-specific questions. Responses to such evaluations will assist
the NTSB in ensuring its courses work to fulfill the goals listed
above.
In 2014, the NTSB will offer the following training courses, about
which the NTSB seeks approval for evaluation forms: Accident
Investigation Orientation (RPH301); Aircraft Accident Investigation
(AS101); Aircraft Accident Investigation for Aviation Professionals (AS
301); Cognitive Interviewing Series (IM401S); Family Assistance
(TDA301); Investigating Human Fatigue Factors (IM303); Managing
Communications During an Aircraft Accident or Incident (PA302);
Managing Communications Following a Major Transportation Accident
(PA303); Managing Transportation Mass Fatalities (TDA406); Marine
Accident Investigation (MS101); Mass Fatalities for Medicolegal
Professionals (TDA403); and Rotorcraft Accident Investigation (AS102).
The NTSB may offer additional courses in upcoming years, such as
Survival Factors in Aviation Accidents (AS302). In response to previous
feedback, requests for training in specific areas, and other
considerations, the NTSB will likely add or remove classes from this
list in the coming years.
Consistent with the OIRA Administrator's guidance concerning
generic approvals, the NTSB will not be able to finalize draft
evaluations specific to each course until the NTSB offers the course.
These types of questions are unique to the specific course, and
impossible to know prior to the offering of the course. Overall, the
types of information the NTSB will solicit in its Training Center
course evaluations is appropriate for a generic approval for the
information collection.
B. Supporting Statement
The OIRA Administrator's memorandum instructs agencies to provide
specific information in the supporting statements describing the
information collections. In particular, the supporting statements
should include the following:
The method of collection and, if statistical methods
will be used, a discussion of the statistical methodology;
the category (or categories) of respondents;
the estimated ``burden cap,'' i.e., the maximum number
of burden hours (per year) for the specific information collections,
and against which burden will be charged for each collection
actually used;
the agency's plans for how it will use the information
collected;
the agency's plans to obtain public input regarding the
specific information collections (i.e., consultation); and
the agency's internal procedures to ensure that the
specific collections comply with the PRA, applicable regulations,
and the terms of the generic clearance.
Id. at 2.
1. Method of Collection
The NTSB will collect the information by transmitting the
evaluation form to attendees of each Training Center course. Depending
on the circumstances, such transmission may occur via hand delivery,
electronic mail, postal mail, or express mail, or a combination of
these methods. Respondents will be provided instructions concerning how
to return questionnaires to the Training Center.
The NTSB will not use statistical methodology in reaching any
conclusions based on the evaluations. Instead, the NTSB merely will
note the total number of respondents in any documents in which it
discusses the evaluations.
Respondents' completion of the evaluations is voluntary, and the
NTSB generally will not contact them more than once to request
completion of the evaluation.
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2. Category of Respondents
In its evaluation forms, the NTSB will generally seek information
only from attendees of each course. The NTSB will have the contact
information for each attendee, because such information is required
when registering for Training Center courses.
3. Maximum Burden Hours
The NTSB plans to distribute the evaluations to attendees of each
Training Center course. The NTSB offers 12 courses per year including
multiple iterations. Among all courses, the NTSB estimates a total of
600 non-Government attendees complete courses in any given year. As a
result, the NTSB estimates it will distribute approximately 600
Training Center evaluation forms each year. Each evaluation form will
take approximately 11 minutes to complete.
The NTSB seeks to emphasize these estimations are approximate, as
they are depend on the number of courses the NTSB offers in the
Training Center. Some courses may be cancelled due to low registration.
In addition, only Government employees may choose to attend other
courses. As a result, the NTSB can only provide an approximate estimate
of the number of attendees per year.
4. Use of the Information Collected
Feedback from attendees of NTSB Training Center courses is
extremely important to the NTSB. The NTSB plans its course offerings
based on the level of interest from potential attendees and on the
degree to which attendees have found useful the information they
learned during such courses. As a result, evaluations of NTSB Training
Center courses will influence future course offerings. The NTSB will
rely upon the provision of completed course evaluations to assist with
the planning of course offerings.
5. Public Input Regarding the Information Collected
The NTSB does not generally obtain public input concerning the
scope of, or specific questions on, NTSB Training Center evaluation
forms.
6. Internal Procedures
Lastly, the OIRA Administrator's memorandum describing generic
clearances recommends agencies describe the procedures it will
undertake to ensure information collections to which the generic
clearance applies will comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act,
applicable regulations, and the terms provided in the generic
clearance. The NTSB Office of General Counsel plans to provide internal
guidance to agency personnel who offer courses and distribute course
evaluations at the NTSB Training Center. Such guidance will include
this publication, as well as the OIRA Administrator's memorandum
discussing generic clearances, upon OMB approval of the clearance. The
internal guidance will include specific instructions concerning use of
evaluation forms, and explain the applicable provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act and its implementing regulations.
C. Description of Burden
The NTSB has carefully reviewed previous questionnaires it has used
to obtain information from attendees of courses the NTSB Training
Center offers. The NTSB assures the public that these questionnaires
have used plain, coherent, and unambiguous terminology in its requests
for feedback. In addition, the questionnaires are not duplicative of
other agencies' collections of information, because the NTSB maintains
unique authority to offer such courses concerning investigations of
transportation events. 49 U.S.C. 1113(b)(1)(I).
In general, the NTSB believes the evaluation forms will impose a
minimal burden on respondents: As indicated above, the NTSB estimates
that each respondent will spend approximately 11 minutes in completing
the evaluation. The NTSB estimates that a maximum of 240 respondents
per year would complete an evaluation. Although the NTSB may distribute
evaluations to perhaps as many as 600 people, historic response rates
indicate only 40 percent of the evaluations will be returned completed.
However, the NTSB again notes this number will vary, given the changes
and demand for course offerings at the NTSB Training Center.
D. Request for Comments
In accordance with 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A), the NTSB seeks 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 carefully consider all feedback it receives in
response to this notice. As described above, obtaining the information
the NTSB seeks on these evaluations in a timely manner is important to
course offerings at the NTSB Training Center; therefore, obtaining
approval from OIRA for these collections of information on a generic
basis is a priority for the NTSB.
Deborah A.P. Hersman,
Chairman.
[FR Doc. 2014-05531 Filed 3-12-14; 8:45 am]
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