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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
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July 2, 2014.
The Department of Agriculture has
submitted the following information
collection requirement(s) to Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
Public Law 104–13. Comments
regarding (a) whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
of burden including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility and
clarity of the information to be
collected; (d) ways to 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 should be addressed to: Desk
Officer for Agriculture, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget, New
Executive Office Building, 725 17th
Street NW., Washington, DC 20502.
Commenters are encouraged to submit
their comments to OMB via email to:
OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov or fax
(202) 395–5806 and to Departmental
Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail
Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250–
7602. Comments regarding these
information collections are best assured
of having their full effect if received
within 30 days of this notification.
Copies of the submission(s) may be
obtained by calling (202) 720–8681.
An agency may not conduct or
sponsor a collection of information
unless the collection of information
displays a currently valid OMB control
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number and the agency informs
potential persons who are to respond to
the collection of information that such
persons are not required to respond to
the collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
Rural Utilities Service
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Charlene Parker,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Office.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Title: RUS Form 87, Request for Mail
List Data.
OMB Control Number: 0572–0051.
Summary of Collection: The Rural
Utilities Service (RUS) is a credit agency
of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The agency makes loans (direct and
guaranteed) to finance electric and
telecommunications facilities in rural
areas in accordance with the Rural
Electrification Act of 1936, 7 U.S.C. 901
as amended, (ReAct). RUS Electric
Program provides support to the vast
rural American electric infrastructure.
RUS’ Telecommunications Program
makes loans to furnish and improve
telephone services and other
telecommunications purposes in rural
areas.
Need and Use of the Information:
RUS will collect information using RUS
Form 87, Request for Mail List Data. The
information is used for the RUS Electric
and Telephone programs to obtain the
name and addresses of the borrowers’
officers/board of directors and corporate
officials, who are authorized to sign
official documents and/or to make
official representations concerning
borrower operations and management.
RUS uses the information to assure that
(1) accurate, current, and verifiable
information is available; (2)
correspondence with borrowers is
properly directed; and (3) the
appropriate officials have signed the
official documents submitted. Failure to
collect information from borrowers
could result in failure to protect the
government’s security interest when
determining eligibility and
administering loan programs.
Description of Respondents: Not-forprofit institutions; Business or other forprofit.
Number of Respondents: 1,125.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion.
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Total Burden Hours: 281.
Office of the Chief Information Officer;
Notice of Request for a Revision to and
Extension of an Information Collection;
Generic Clearance for the Collection of
Qualitative Feedback on Agency
Service Delivery
Office of the Chief Information
Officer.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
The Office of the Chief
Information Officer, as part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork
and respondent burden, invites the
general public to comment on the
‘‘Generic Clearance for the Collection of
Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service
Delivery’’ for approval under the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44
U.S.C. 3501 et. seq.). This collection was
developed as part of a Federal
Government-wide effort to streamline
the process for seeking feedback from
the public on service delivery. This
notice announces our intent to submit
this collection to Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for approval and
solicit comments on specific aspects for
the proposed information collection.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all
comments received by September 8,
2014.
SUMMARY:
Submit comments by one of
the following methods:
• Web site: www.Regulations.gov.
• Email: Ruth.Brown@ocio.usda.gov
and Charlene.Parker@ocio.usda.gov.
• Fax: 202–690–0068.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice may be made available to the
public. For this reason, please do not
include in your comments information
of a confidential nature, such as
sensitive personal information or
proprietary information. If you send an
email comment, your email address will
be automatically captured and included
as part of the comment that is placed in
the public docket and made available on
the Internet. Please note that responses
ADDRESSES:
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to this public comment request
containing any routine notice about the
confidentiality of the communication
will be treated as public comments that
may be made available to the public
notwithstanding the inclusion of the
routine notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ruth Brown, 202–720–8958 or Charlene
Parker, 202–720–8681.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Generic Clearance for the
Collection of Qualitative Feedback on
Agency Service Delivery.
Abstract: The proposed information
collection activity provides a means to
garner qualitative customer and
stakeholder feedback in an efficient,
timely manner, in accordance with the
Administration’s commitment to
improving service delivery. By
qualitative feedback we mean,
information that provides useful
insights on perceptions and opinions,
but are not statistical surveys that yield
quantitative results that can be
generalized to the population. This
feedback will, (1) provide insights into
customer or stakeholder perceptions,
experiences and expectations, (2)
provide an early warning of issues with
service and, (3) focus attention on areas
where communication, training or
changes in operations might improve
delivery of products or services. This
collection will allow for ongoing,
collaborative and actionable
communications between the Agency
and its customers and stakeholders. It
will also allow feedback to contribute
directly to the improvement of program
management.
The solicitation of feedback will target
areas such as: Timeliness,
appropriateness, accuracy of
information, courtesy, efficiency of
service delivery, and resolution of
issues with service delivery. Responses
will be assessed to plan and inform
efforts to improve or maintain the
quality of service offered to the public.
If this information is not collected, vital
feedback from customers and
stakeholders on the Agency’s services
will be unavailable.
The Agency will only submit a
collection for approval under this
generic clearance if it meets the
following conditions:
• The collections are voluntary;
• The collections are low-burden for
respondents (based on considerations of
total burden hours, total number of
respondents, or burden-hours per
respondent) and are low-cost for both
the respondents and the Federal
Government;
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• 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 will be used
only internally for general service
improvement and program management
purposes and is not intended for release
outside of the agency;
• Information gathered will not be
used for the purpose of substantially
informing influential policy decisions;
and
• Information gathered will yield
qualitative information; the collections
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 usage
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.
As a general matter, information
collections will not result in any new
system of records containing privacy
information and will not ask questions
of a sensitive nature, such as sexual
behavior and attitudes, religious beliefs,
and other matters that are commonly
considered private.
Current Actions: Extension of
approval for a collection of information.
Type of Review: Extension.
Affected Public: Individuals and
households, businesses and
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organizations, State, Local or Tribal
Government.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
20,000.
Below we provide projected average
estimates for the next 3-years:
Average Expected Annual Number of
Activities: 20.
Average number of Respondents per
Activity: 1.
Annual responses: 20,000.
Frequency of Response: Once per
request.
Average minutes per response: 30.
Burden hours: 10,000.
Request for Comments: Comments
submitted in response to this notice will
be summarized and/or included in the
request for OMB approval. Comments
are invited on: (a) Whether the
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
collection of information; (c) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected; (d)
ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents, including through the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology;
and (e) estimates of capital or start-up
costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services
to provide information. Burden means
the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to
generate, maintain, retain, disclose or
provide information to or for a Federal
agency. This includes the time needed
to review instructions to; (1) Develop,
acquire, install and utilize technology
and systems for the purpose of
collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; (2) train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search
data sources, (3) complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information.
All written comments will be
available for public inspection at
Regulations.gov.
An agency may not conduct or
sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to, a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid
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Office of Management and Budget
control number.
Cheryl L. Cook,
Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014–16044 Filed 7–8–14; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
sroberts on DSK5SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES
July 2, 2014.
The Department of Agriculture has
submitted the following information
collection requirement(s) to OMB for
review and clearance under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
Public Law 104–13. Comments
regarding (a) whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
of burden including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility and
clarity of the information to be
collected; (d) ways to 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 should be addressed to: Desk
Officer for Agriculture, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB), OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov
or fax (202) 395–5806 and to
Departmental Clearance Office, USDA,
OCIO, Mail Stop 7602, Washington, DC
20250–7602. Comments regarding these
information collections are best assured
of having their full effect if received
within 30 days of this notification.
Copies of the submission(s) may be
obtained by calling (202) 720–8958.
An agency may not conduct or
sponsor a collection of information
unless the collection of information
displays a currently valid OMB control
number and the agency informs
potential persons who are to respond to
the collection of information that such
persons are not required to respond to
the collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
Food and Nutrition Service
Title: School Nutrition and Meal Cost
Study.
OMB Control Number: 0584—NEW.
Summary Of Collection: The school
meal programs administered by the
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Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the
U.S. Department of Agriculture are a
cornerstone of the nation’s nutrition
safety net for low-income children. FNS
has long been committed to ensuring
that the meals provided in schools are
healthful and contribute to children’s
dietary requirements. The School
Nutrition and Meal Cost Study (SNMCS)
will continue the long-standing
commitment of FNS to periodically
assess the school meal programs. The
SNMCS comes at a time of
unprecedented change for the National
School Lunch Program (NSLP) and
School Breakfast Program (SBP). In the
2012–2013 school year, the school meal
programs began to undergo far-reaching
changes, mainly stemming from the
Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act (HHFKA,
Public Law 111–296). Key reforms
stemming from this legislation include
new, more stringent meal pattern and
nutrient requirements for school meals,
new offer-versus-serve rules, gradually
increased price for paid meals, and the
introduction of nutrition standards for
competitive foods. With the
implementation of the new meal patters,
nutrition requirements, and other
changes, FNS has to determine the
success of school meals in meeting the
program goals set by the new standards,
the cost of serving healthful meals that
are acceptable to children, and the
relationship of the school meals and
competitive foods to children’s
participation in the programs and
dietary quality.
Need and Use of the Information: The
SNMCS will collect a broad range of
data from nationally representative
samples of public school food
authorities, school, students, and
parents during SY 2014–2015. These
data will provide needed information
about how federally sponsored school
meal programs are operating after
implementation of the new nutrition
standards and other changes in
regulations. Without this information
FNS will not be able to assess progress
toward key strategic goals for the NSLP
and SBP or identify related training and
technical assistance needs of SFAs and
schools.
Description of Respondents:
Individual or households; Not-for-profit
institutions; State, Local or Tribal
Government.
Number of Respondents: 40,509.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
Annually.
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Total Burden Hours: 52,594.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Revision of the Land Management Plan
for the Chugach National Forest
Forest Service, USDA.
Notice of initiating the
development of a land management
plan revision for the Chugach National
Forest.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Chugach National Forest,
located in Southcentral Alaska, is
initiating the development of a land
management plan revision (forest plan).
An Assessment will be posted to our
Web site around September 1, 2014. We
are inviting the public to help us further
develop the ‘‘need for change’’ and a
proposed action for the land
management plan revision.
DATES: The Assessment report for the
revision of the Chugach NF’s land
management plan will be posted on the
following Web site at www.fs.usda.gov/
chugach around September 1, 2014.
Public meetings associated with the
continued development of the ‘‘need for
change’’ and a proposed action will be
announced on the Web site cited above.
It is anticipated that the Notice of
Intent to prepare an environmental
impact statement (which will
accompany the land management plan
revision for the Chugach NF), will be
published in the Federal Register
around March 1, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Written comments or
questions concerning this notice should
be addressed to U.S. Forest Service,
Chugach National Forest, 161 East 1st
Avenue, Door 8, Anchorage, Alaska,
99501. Comments or questions may also
be sent via email to FS-commentsalaska-chugach@fs.fed.us. All
correspondence, including names and
addresses when provided, are placed in
the record and are available for public
inspection and copying.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Steve Kessler, Acting Forest Plan
Revision Team Leader, at 907–743–9461
or, after September 1, 2014, Mary C.
Rasmussen, Forest Plan Revision Team
Leader at 907–743–9500. Individuals
who use telecommunication devices for
the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal
Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Office of the Chief Information Officer; Notice of Request for a
Revision to and Extension of an Information Collection; Generic
Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service
Delivery
AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information Officer.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Office of the Chief Information Officer, as part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites
the general public to comment on the ``Generic Clearance for the
Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service Delivery'' for
approval under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et.
seq.). This collection was developed as part of a Federal Government-
wide effort to streamline the process for seeking feedback from the
public on service delivery. This notice announces our intent to submit
this collection to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval
and solicit comments on specific aspects for the proposed information
collection.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all comments received by
September 8, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments by one of the following methods:
Web site: www.Regulations.gov.
Email: Ruth.Brown@ocio.usda.gov and
Charlene.Parker@ocio.usda.gov.
Fax: 202-690-0068.
Comments submitted in response to this notice may be made available
to the public. For this reason, please do not include in your comments
information of a confidential nature, such as sensitive personal
information or proprietary information. If you send an email comment,
your email address will be automatically captured and included as part
of the comment that is placed in the public docket and made available
on the Internet. Please note that responses
[[Page 38851]]
to this public comment request containing any routine notice about the
confidentiality of the communication will be treated as public comments
that may be made available to the public notwithstanding the inclusion
of the routine notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ruth Brown, 202-720-8958 or Charlene
Parker, 202-720-8681.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback
on Agency Service Delivery.
Abstract: The proposed information collection activity provides a
means to garner qualitative customer and stakeholder feedback in an
efficient, timely manner, in accordance with the Administration's
commitment to improving service delivery. By qualitative feedback we
mean, information that provides useful insights on perceptions and
opinions, but are not statistical surveys that yield quantitative
results that can be generalized to the population. This feedback will,
(1) provide insights into customer or stakeholder perceptions,
experiences and expectations, (2) provide an early warning of issues
with service and, (3) focus attention on areas where communication,
training or changes in operations might improve delivery of products or
services. This collection will allow for ongoing, collaborative and
actionable communications between the Agency and its customers and
stakeholders. It will also allow feedback to contribute directly to the
improvement of program management.
The solicitation of feedback will target areas such as: Timeliness,
appropriateness, accuracy of information, courtesy, efficiency of
service delivery, and resolution of issues with service delivery.
Responses will be assessed to plan and inform efforts to improve or
maintain the quality of service offered to the public. If this
information is not collected, vital feedback from customers and
stakeholders on the Agency's services will be unavailable.
The Agency will only submit a collection for approval under this
generic clearance if it meets the following conditions:
The collections are voluntary;
The collections are low-burden for respondents (based on
considerations of total burden hours, total number of respondents, or
burden-hours per respondent) and are low-cost for both the respondents
and the Federal Government;
The collections are non-controversial and do not raise
issues of concern to other Federal agencies;
Any collection is targeted to the solicitation of opinions
from respondents who have experience with the program or may have
experience with the program in the near future;
Personally identifiable information (PII) is collected
only to the extent necessary and is not retained;
Information gathered will be used only internally for
general service improvement and program management purposes and is not
intended for release outside of the agency;
Information gathered will not be used for the purpose of
substantially informing influential policy decisions; and
Information gathered will yield qualitative information;
the collections 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 usage require more rigorous designs that address: The target
population to which generalizations will be made, the sampling frame,
the sample design (including stratification and clustering), the
precision requirements or power calculations that justify the proposed
sample size, the expected response rate, methods for assessing
potential non-response bias, the protocols for data collection, and any
testing procedures that were or will be undertaken prior to fielding
the study. Depending on the degree of influence the results are likely
to have, such collections may still be eligible for submission for
other generic mechanisms that are designed to yield quantitative
results.
As a general matter, information collections will not result in any
new system of records containing privacy information and will not ask
questions of a sensitive nature, such as sexual behavior and attitudes,
religious beliefs, and other matters that are commonly considered
private.
Current Actions: Extension of approval for a collection of
information.
Type of Review: Extension.
Affected Public: Individuals and households, businesses and
organizations, State, Local or Tribal Government.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 20,000.
Below we provide projected average estimates for the next 3-years:
Average Expected Annual Number of Activities: 20.
Average number of Respondents per Activity: 1.
Annual responses: 20,000.
Frequency of Response: Once per request.
Average minutes per response: 30.
Burden hours: 10,000.
Request for Comments: Comments submitted in response to this notice
will be summarized and/or included in the request for OMB approval.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency,
including whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) the
accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the collection of
information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of
the information to be collected; (d) ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on respondents, including through the use of
automated collection techniques or other forms of information
technology; and (e) estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of
operation, maintenance, and purchase of services to provide
information. Burden means the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose
or provide information to or for a Federal agency. This includes the
time needed to review instructions to; (1) Develop, acquire, install
and utilize technology and systems for the purpose of collecting,
validating and verifying information, processing and maintaining
information, and disclosing and providing information; (2) train
personnel and to be able to respond to a collection of information, to
search data sources, (3) complete and review the collection of
information; and to transmit or otherwise disclose the information.
All written comments will be available for public inspection at
Regulations.gov.
An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required
to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a
currently valid
[[Page 38852]]
Office of Management and Budget control number.
Cheryl L. Cook,
Chief Information Officer.
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