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by the participant, their size and flags of
registry and other pertinent information.
There is a recommended format for this
information included as part of the
application. The collection of
information is necessary to evaluate
tanker capability and make plans for use
of this capability to meet national
emergency requirements. This
information will be used by both
MARAD and Department of Defense to
establish overall contingency plans.
Respondents: Tanker companies that
operate in international trade and who
have agreed to participate in this
agreement.
Number of Respondents: 15.
Frequency: Annually.
Number of Responses: 15 (1 per
respondent).
Total Annual Burden: 15.
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspect of this
information collection, including (a)
whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the
Department’s performance; (b) the
accuracy of the estimated burden; (c)
ways for the Department to enhance the
quality, utility and clarity of the
information collection; and (d) ways
that the burden could be minimized
without reducing the quality of the
collected information. The agency will
summarize and/or include your
comments in the request for OMB’s
clearance of this information collection.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended;
and 49 CFR 1:93.
Dated: May 25, 2016.
T. Mitchell Hudson, Jr.,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
[Docket No. DOT–MARAD–2016–0055]
Agency Requests for Renewal of a
Previously Approved Information
Collection(s): Generic Clearance of
Customer Satisfaction Surveys
Maritime Administration, DOT.
Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
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ACTION:
Executive Order 12862 directs
Federal agencies to provide service to
the public that matches or exceeds the
best service available in the private
sector. In order to work continuously to
ensure that our programs are effective
and meet our customers’ needs, the
Maritime Administration (MARAD)
seeks to obtain OMB approval of
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previously approved generic clearance
to collect feedback on our service
delivery. By feedback we mean
information that provides useful
insights on perceptions and opinions,
but are not statistical surveys that yield
quantitative results that can be
generalized to the population of study.
DATES: Written comments should be
submitted by August 1, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
[identified by Docket No. DOT–
MARAD–2016–0055] through one of the
following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
• Mail or Hand Delivery: Docket
Management Facility, U.S. Department
of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., West Building, Room W12–
140, Washington, DC 20590, between 9
a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except on Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Barbara Jackson, 202–366–0615, Office
of Management and Administrative
Services, Maritime Administration, U.S.
Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington,
DC 20590.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 2133–0546.
Title: Generic Clearance of Customer
Satisfaction Surveys.
Type of Review: Renewal of an
information collection.
Background: Executive Order 12862
‘‘Setting Customer Service Standards,’’
direct Federal agencies to provide
service to the public that matches or
exceeds the best service available in the
private sector (58 FR 48257, Sept. 11,
1993). In order to work continuously to
ensure that our programs are effective
and meet our customers’ needs, MARAD
seeks to obtain OMB approval of a
previously approved generic clearance
to collect qualitative feedback from our
customers on our service delivery. By
qualitative feedback we mean
information that provides useful
insights on perceptions and opinions,
but are not statistical surveys that yield
quantitative results that can be
generalized to the population of study.
This feedback will provide insights into
customer or stakeholder perceptions,
experiences and expectations, provide
an early warning of issues with service,
or focus attention on areas where
communication, training or changes in
operations might improve delivery of
products or services. These collections
will allow for ongoing, collaborative and
actionable communications between the
Agency and its customers and
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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
noncontroversial and do not raise issues
of concern to other Federal agencies;
• Any collection is targeted to the
solicitation of opinions from
respondents who have experience with
the program or may have experience
with the program in the near future;
• Personally identifiable information
(PII) is collected only to the extent
necessary and is not retained;
• Information gathered is intended to
be used only internally for general
service improvement and program
management purposes and is not
intended for release outside of the
agency (if released, the agency must
indicate the qualitative nature of the
information);
• 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 uses
require more rigorous designs that
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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.
Respondents: Individuals and
Households, Businesses and
Organizations, State, Local or Tribal
Government.
Estimated Expected Annual Number
of Activities: 15.
Estimated Annual Responses: 5,900.
Frequency of Response: Once per
Request.
Estimated Annual Burden: 1,758.
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspect of this
information collection, including (a)
whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the
Department’s performance; (b) the
accuracy of the estimated burden; (c)
ways for the Department to enhance the
quality, utility and clarity of the
information collection; and (d) ways
that the burden could be minimized
without reducing the quality of the
collected information. The agency will
summarize and/or include your
comments in the request for OMB’s
clearance of this information collection.
asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended;
and 49 CFR 1:93.
Dated: May 24, 2016.
T. Mitchell Hudson, Jr.,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
Finding That the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea Is a Jurisdiction of
Primary Money Laundering Concern
The Financial Crimes
Enforcement Network (‘‘FinCEN’’),
Treasury.
ACTION: Notice of finding.
AGENCY:
This document provides
notice that, pursuant to the authority
contained in the USA PATRIOT Act, the
Director of FinCEN found on May 27,
2016 that reasonable grounds exist for
concluding that the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea (‘‘DPRK’’ or ‘‘North
Korea’’) is a jurisdiction of primary
money laundering concern.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
FinCEN, (800) 949–2732.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
I. Background
A. Statutory Provisions
On October 26, 2001, the President
signed into law the Uniting and
Strengthening America by Providing
Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept
and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (the
‘‘USA PATRIOT Act’’), Public Law 107–
56. Title III of the USA PATRIOT Act
amends the anti-money laundering
provisions of the Bank Secrecy Act
(‘‘BSA’’), codified at 12 U.S.C. 1829b, 12
U.S.C 1951–1959, and 31 U.S.C. 5311–
5314 and 5316–5332, to promote
prevention, detection, and prosecution
of international money laundering and
the financing of terrorism. Regulations
implementing the BSA appear at 31 CFR
Chapter X.
Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT Act
(‘‘Section 311’’) added 31 U.S.C. 5318A
to the BSA, granting the Secretary of the
Treasury (the ‘‘Secretary’’) the authority,
upon finding that reasonable grounds
exist for concluding that a foreign
jurisdiction, institution, class of
transactions, or type of account is of
‘‘primary money laundering concern,’’
to require domestic financial
institutions and financial agencies to
take certain ‘‘special measures’’ against
the primary money laundering concern.
Section 311 identifies factors for the
Secretary to consider and requires
Federal agencies to consult before the
Secretary may conclude that a
jurisdiction, institution, class of
transaction, or type of account is of
primary money laundering concern. The
statute also provides similar procedures,
i.e., factors and consultation
requirements, for selecting the specific
special measures to be imposed against
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the primary money laundering concern.
For purposes of the finding contained in
this notice, the Secretary has delegated
his authority under Section 311 to the
Director of FinCEN.1
Taken as a whole, Section 311
provides the Secretary with a range of
options that can be adapted to target
specific money laundering and terrorist
financing concerns most effectively.
Through the imposition of various
special measures, the Secretary can gain
more information about the
jurisdictions, institutions, transactions,
or accounts of concern; can more
effectively monitor the respective
jurisdictions, institutions, transactions,
or accounts; or can prohibit U.S.
financial institutions from involvement
with jurisdictions, institutions,
transactions, or accounts that pose a
money laundering concern.
Before making a finding that
reasonable grounds exist for concluding
that a jurisdiction is of primary money
laundering concern, the Secretary is
required to consult with both the
Secretary of State and the Attorney
General. The Secretary is also required
by Section 311, as amended,2 to
consider ‘‘such information as the
Secretary determines to be relevant,
including the following potentially
relevant factors,’’ which extend the
Secretary’s consideration beyond
traditional money laundering concerns
to issues involving, inter alia, terrorist
financing and the proliferation of
weapons of mass destruction (‘‘WMD’’)
or missiles:
• Evidence that organized criminal
groups, international terrorists, or
entities involved in the proliferation of
WMD or missiles, have transacted
business in that jurisdiction;
• The extent to which that
jurisdiction or financial institutions
operating in that jurisdiction offer bank
secrecy or special regulatory advantages
to nonresidents or nondomiciliaries of
that jurisdiction;
• The substance and quality of
administration of the bank supervisory
and counter- money laundering laws of
that jurisdiction;
• The relationship between the
volume of financial transactions
occurring in that jurisdiction and the
size of the economy of the jurisdiction;
• The extent to which that
jurisdiction is characterized as an
offshore banking or secrecy haven by
1 Therefore, references to the authority and
findings of the Secretary in this document apply
equally to the Director of FinCEN.
2 31 U.S.C. 5318A was amended by section 501
of the Iran Freedom Support Act of 2006, Public
Law 109–293.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
[Docket No. DOT-MARAD-2016-0055]
Agency Requests for Renewal of a Previously Approved Information
Collection(s): Generic Clearance of Customer Satisfaction Surveys
AGENCY: Maritime Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: Executive Order 12862 directs Federal agencies to provide
service to the public that matches or exceeds the best service
available in the private sector. In order to work continuously to
ensure that our programs are effective and meet our customers' needs,
the Maritime Administration (MARAD) seeks to obtain OMB approval of
previously approved generic clearance to collect feedback on our
service delivery. By feedback we mean information that provides useful
insights on perceptions and opinions, but are not statistical surveys
that yield quantitative results that can be generalized to the
population of study.
DATES: Written comments should be submitted by August 1, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments [identified by Docket No. DOT-MARAD-
2016-0055] through one of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
Fax: 1-202-493-2251.
Mail or Hand Delivery: Docket Management Facility, U.S.
Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., West
Building, Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m., Monday through Friday, except on Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barbara Jackson, 202-366-0615, Office
of Management and Administrative Services, Maritime Administration,
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC 20590.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 2133-0546.
Title: Generic Clearance of Customer Satisfaction Surveys.
Type of Review: Renewal of an information collection.
Background: Executive Order 12862 ``Setting Customer Service
Standards,'' direct Federal agencies to provide service to the public
that matches or exceeds the best service available in the private
sector (58 FR 48257, Sept. 11, 1993). In order to work continuously to
ensure that our programs are effective and meet our customers' needs,
MARAD seeks to obtain OMB approval of a previously approved generic
clearance to collect qualitative feedback from our customers on our
service delivery. By qualitative feedback we mean information that
provides useful insights on perceptions and opinions, but are not
statistical surveys that yield quantitative results that can be
generalized to the population of study. This feedback will provide
insights into customer or stakeholder perceptions, experiences and
expectations, provide an early warning of issues with service, or focus
attention on areas where communication, training or changes in
operations might improve delivery of products or services. These
collections will allow for ongoing, collaborative and actionable
communications between the 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 noncontroversial and do not raise
issues of concern to other Federal agencies;
Any collection is targeted to the solicitation of opinions
from respondents who have experience with the program or may have
experience with the program in the near future;
Personally identifiable information (PII) is collected
only to the extent necessary and is not retained;
Information gathered is intended to be used only
internally for general service improvement and program management
purposes and is not intended for release outside of the agency (if
released, the agency must indicate the qualitative nature of the
information);
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 uses require more rigorous designs that
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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.
Respondents: Individuals and Households, Businesses and
Organizations, State, Local or Tribal Government.
Estimated Expected Annual Number of Activities: 15.
Estimated Annual Responses: 5,900.
Frequency of Response: Once per Request.
Estimated Annual Burden: 1,758.
Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspect of
this information collection, including (a) whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary for the Department's
performance; (b) the accuracy of the estimated burden; (c) ways for the
Department to enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the
information collection; and (d) ways that the burden could be minimized
without reducing the quality of the collected information. The agency
will summarize and/or include your comments in the request for OMB's
clearance of this information collection.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35, as amended; and 49 CFR 1:93.
Dated: May 24, 2016.
T. Mitchell Hudson, Jr.,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. 2016-12973 Filed 6-1-16; 8:45 am]
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