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OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Fast Track Generic
Clearance for the Collection of
Qualitative Feedback on Agency
Service Delivery
AGENCY:
Office of Government Ethics
(OGE).
Notice and request for
comments.
ACTION:
As part of a Federal
Government-wide effort to streamline
the process to seek feedback from the
public on service delivery, OGE seeks
comment on the development of a
Generic Information Collection Request
for the collection of qualitative feedback
on agency service delivery for approval
under the Paperwork Reduction Act.
This notice announces OGE’s intent to
submit this collection to the Office of
Management and Budget for approval
and allows for an additional 30 days of
public comment.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all
comments received by August 20, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
on this notice to the Office of
Management and Budget, Attn: Desk
Officer for OGE, via fax at 202–395–
6974 or email at OIRA_Submission@
omb.eop.gov. (Include reference to
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comment’’ in the subject line of the
message.)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Grant Anderson at the U.S. Office of
Government Ethics; telephone: 202–
482–9318; TTY: 800–877–8339; FAX:
202–482–9237; Email: Grant.Anderson@
oge.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Fast Track Generic Clearance for
the Collection of Qualitative Feedback
on Agency Service Delivery.
OMB Number: To be determined.
Needs and Uses: The proposed
information collection provides a means
to garner qualitative customer and
stakeholder feedback in an efficient,
timely manner, in accordance with the
agency’s commitment to improving
service delivery. Qualitative feedback
means information that provides useful
insights on perceptions and opinions,
but is not a statistical survey that yields
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.
OGE expects to use various methods
(e.g., focus groups, customer satisfaction
surveys, comment cards), to solicit
feedback. Responses will be assessed to
plan and inform efforts to improve or
maintain the quality of service offered to
the public and other agency
stakeholders. 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;
• The collections are focused on the
awareness, understanding, attitudes,
preferences, or experiences of the public
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or other stakeholders in order to
improve existing or future services,
products, or communication materials;
• Personally identifiable information
(PII) is collected only to the extent
necessary;
• Information gathered will be used
only internally for general service
improvement and program management
purposes and is not intended for release
to the public;
• 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
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 submitted under this generic
clearance 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.
A Federal Register Notice with a 60day comment period soliciting
comments on this information
collection was published on April 12,
2018 (83 FR 15837–15838). OGE did not
receive any comments in response.
Current Action: New information
collection request (generic).
Type of Review: New.
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Affected Public: Individuals; Business
or Other For-Profit Institutions; Not-ForProfit Institutions; State or Local
Government.
Estimated Annual Number of
Respondents: 45,000.
Projected average burden estimates for
the next three years:
Average Expected Annual Number of
Activities: 40.
Average Number of Respondents per
Activity: 1,125.
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Annual Responses: 45,000.
Average Minutes per Response: 3
minutes.
Annual Burden Hours: 2,250 hours.
Frequency: On occasion.
Request for Comments: Agency and
public comment is again invited
specifically on the need for and
practical utility of this information
collection, the accuracy of OGE’s
burden estimate, the enhancement of
quality, utility and clarity of the
information collected, and the
minimization of burden (including the
use of information technology). The
comments will become a matter of
public record.
Approved: July 11, 2018.
David Apol,
General Counsel and Acting Director, U.S.
Office of Government Ethics.
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GULF COAST ECOSYSTEM
RESTORATION COUNCIL
[Docket No.: 107162018–1111–03]
Notice of Proposed Subaward Under a
Council-Selected Restoration
Component Award
Gulf Coast Ecosystem
Restoration Council.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Gulf Coast Ecosystem
Restoration Council (RESTORE Council)
publishes notice of proposed subawards
from the Mississippi Department of
Environmental Quality (MDEQ) to the
Mississippi Wildlife Federation and the
Partnership for Gulf Coast Land
Conservation, two Mississippi nonprofit
organizations, for the purpose of
education and outreach in accordance
with the Sea Grant Education and
Outreach (EOE) Award, as approved in
the Initial Funded Priority List.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Please send questions by email to
joshua.easton@restorethegulf.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section
1321(t)(2)(E)(ii)(III) of the RESTORE Act
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(33 U.S.C. 1321(t)(2)(E)(ii)(III)) and
Treasury’s implementing regulation at
31 CFR 34.401(b) require that, for
purposes of awards made under the
Council-Selected Restoration
Component, a State or Federal award
recipient may make a grant or subaward
to or enter into a cooperative agreement
with a nongovernmental entity that
equals or exceeds 10 percent of the total
amount of the award provided to the
State or Federal award recipient only if
certain notice requirements are met.
Specifically, at least 30 days before the
State or Federal award recipient enters
into such an agreement, the Council
must publish in the Federal Register
and deliver to specified Congressional
Committees the name of the recipient
and subrecipient; a brief description of
the activity, including its purpose; and
the amount of the award. This notice
accomplishes the Federal Register
requirement.
Description of Proposed Action
As specified in the Initial Funded
Priority List, which is available on the
Council’s website at https://
www.restorethegulf.gov/councilselected-restoration-component/fundedpriorities-list, RESTORE Act funds in
the amount of $750,000 will support the
Sea Grant Education and Outreach
(EOE) Award to MDEQ. As part of this
project, MDEQ will provide a subaward
in the amount of $84,150 to the
Mississippi Wildlife Federation for
enhancement of the Mississippi Habitat
Stewards Program. Through the
subaward, the Mississippi Wildlife
Federation will expand an existing
curriculum that relays the ecosystem
benefits of upstream land conservation,
habitat restoration and water quality
restoration. The expanded curriculum
will be offered for three different
targeted audiences at different levels:
Habitat steward volunteers; youth, ages
9–12; and local high school
environmental clubs.
MDEQ will also provide a subaward
in the amount of $99,050 to the
Partnership for Gulf Coast Land
Conservation (PGCLC). The PGCLC will
conduct an outreach initiative that
includes three components: The
development of science-based
communication products for use with a
general audience that summarize and
explain the benefits of land
conservation in the Gulf coast region in
lay terminology; field visits that bring
together stakeholders to illustrate, in the
field and by boat, the connectivity that
land conservation practices along our
coastal streams have to water quality in
the northern Gulf of Mexico and to our
marine and estuarine living resources;
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and the development of a short digital
film that illustrates the connection
between riparian and wetland forests
and marine and estuarine living
resources in the northern Gulf of
Mexico.
Keala J. Hughes,
Director of External Affairs & Tribal Relations,
Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Toxic Substance and
Disease Registry
[60Day–18–18AJK Docket No. ATSDR–
2018–0002]
Proposed Data Collection Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry (ATSDR),
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
AGENCY:
The Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry
(ATSDR), as part of its continuing effort
to reduce public burden and maximize
the utility of government information,
invites the general public and other
Federal agencies the opportunity to
comment on a proposed and/or
continuing information collection, as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995. This notice invites
comment on a proposed information
collection project titled ‘‘Per- or
Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)
Exposure Assessments.’’ ATSDR and the
CDC National Center for Environmental
Health (NCEH) will conduct a minimum
of eight exposure assessments (EAs) at
current or former military installations
with known PFAS contamination in
drinking water, groundwater, or another
water source.
DATES: ATSDR must receive written
comments on or before September 17,
2018.
SUMMARY:
You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. ATSDR–2018–
0002 by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulations.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
• Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, Information
Collection Review Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, 1600
Clifton Road NE, MS–D74, Atlanta,
Georgia 30329.
ADDRESSES:
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[FR Doc No: 2018-15411]
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OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Fast Track Generic Clearance for the Collection of
Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service Delivery
AGENCY: Office of Government Ethics (OGE).
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: As part of a Federal Government-wide effort to streamline the
process to seek feedback from the public on service delivery, OGE seeks
comment on the development of a Generic Information Collection Request
for the collection of qualitative feedback on agency service delivery
for approval under the Paperwork Reduction Act. This notice announces
OGE's intent to submit this collection to the Office of Management and
Budget for approval and allows for an additional 30 days of public
comment.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all comments received by August
20, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments on this notice to the Office of
Management and Budget, Attn: Desk Officer for OGE, via fax at 202-395-
6974 or email at [email protected]. (Include reference to
``OGE Fast Track Generic Clearance comment'' in the subject line of the
message.)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Grant Anderson at the U.S. Office of
Government Ethics; telephone: 202-482-9318; TTY: 800-877-8339; FAX:
202-482-9237; Email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Fast Track Generic Clearance for the Collection of
Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service Delivery.
OMB Number: To be determined.
Needs and Uses: The proposed information collection provides a
means to garner qualitative customer and stakeholder feedback in an
efficient, timely manner, in accordance with the agency's commitment to
improving service delivery. Qualitative feedback means information that
provides useful insights on perceptions and opinions, but is not a
statistical survey that yields 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.
OGE expects to use various methods (e.g., focus groups, customer
satisfaction surveys, comment cards), to solicit feedback. Responses
will be assessed to plan and inform efforts to improve or maintain the
quality of service offered to the public and other agency stakeholders.
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;
The collections are focused on the awareness,
understanding, attitudes, preferences, or experiences of the public or
other stakeholders in order to improve existing or future services,
products, or communication materials;
Personally identifiable information (PII) is collected
only to the extent necessary;
Information gathered will be used only internally for
general service improvement and program management purposes and is not
intended for release to the public;
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 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 submitted under this
generic clearance 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.
A Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting
comments on this information collection was published on April 12, 2018
(83 FR 15837-15838). OGE did not receive any comments in response.
Current Action: New information collection request (generic).
Type of Review: New.
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Affected Public: Individuals; Business or Other For-Profit
Institutions; Not-For-Profit Institutions; State or Local Government.
Estimated Annual Number of Respondents: 45,000.
Projected average burden estimates for the next three years:
Average Expected Annual Number of Activities: 40.
Average Number of Respondents per Activity: 1,125.
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Annual Responses: 45,000.
Average Minutes per Response: 3 minutes.
Annual Burden Hours: 2,250 hours.
Frequency: On occasion.
Request for Comments: Agency and public comment is again invited
specifically on the need for and practical utility of this information
collection, the accuracy of OGE's burden estimate, the enhancement of
quality, utility and clarity of the information collected, and the
minimization of burden (including the use of information technology).
The comments will become a matter of public record.
Approved: July 11, 2018.
David Apol,
General Counsel and Acting Director, U.S. Office of Government Ethics.
[FR Doc. 2018-15411 Filed 7-18-18; 8:45 a.m.]
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