30-Day Notice of Intent To Seek Reinstatement Without Change: Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service Delivery, 45721-45722 [2018-19510]
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deleted or postponed; please contact
Brent J. Fields from the Office of the
Secretary at (202) 551–5400.
Dated: September 5, 2018.
Brent J. Fields,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018–19647 Filed 9–6–18; 8:45 am]
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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
[Disaster Declaration #15673 and #15674;
Minnesota Disaster Number MN–00062]
Administrative Declaration of a
Disaster for the State of Minnesota
This is a notice of an
Administrative declaration of a disaster
for the State of Minnesota dated 08/28/
2018.
Incident: Severe Storms, Straight-Line
Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding.
Incident Period: 06/15/2018 through
07/12/2018.
DATES: Issued on 08/28/2018.
Physical Loan Application Deadline
Date: 10/29/2018.
Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan
Application Deadline Date: 05/28/2019.
ADDRESSES: Submit completed loan
applications to: U.S. Small Business
Administration, Processing and
Disbursement Center, 14925 Kingsport
Road, Fort Worth, TX 76155.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A.
Escobar, Office of Disaster Assistance,
U.S. Small Business Administration,
409 3rd Street SW, Suite 6050,
Washington, DC 20416, (202) 205–6734.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is
hereby given that as a result of the
Administrator’s disaster declaration,
applications for disaster loans may be
filed at the address listed above or other
locally announced locations.
The following areas have been
determined to be adversely affected by
the disaster:
Primary Counties: Lyon, Redwood
Contiguous Counties:
Minnesota: Brown, Cottonwood,
Lincoln, Murray, Pipestone,
Renville, Yellow Medicine
The Interest Rates are:
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Businesses with Credit Available Elsewhere ......................
Businesses
without
Credit
Available Elsewhere ..............
Non-Profit Organizations with
Credit Available Elsewhere ...
Non-Profit Organizations without Credit Available Elsewhere .....................................
For Economic Injury:
Businesses & Small Agricultural
Cooperatives without Credit
Available Elsewhere ..............
Non-Profit Organizations without Credit Available Elsewhere .....................................
7.220
3.610
2.500
2.500
3.610
2.500
The number assigned to this disaster
for physical damage is 15673 6 and for
economic injury is 15674 0.
The State which received an EIDL
Declaration # is Minnesota.
U.S. Small Business
Administration.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
For Physical Damage:
Homeowners with Credit Available Elsewhere ......................
Homeowners without Credit
Available Elsewhere ..............
Percent
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Number 59008)
Linda E. McMahon,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2018–19610 Filed 9–7–18; 8:45 am]
SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD
30-Day Notice of Intent To Seek
Reinstatement Without Change:
Generic Clearance for the Collection of
Qualitative Feedback on Agency
Service Delivery
Surface Transportation Board.
Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
As part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork burdens, and as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (PRA), the Surface
Transportation Board (STB or Board)
gives notice that it is requesting from
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) a reinstatement without change
of Generic Clearance for the Collection
of Qualitative Feedback on Agency
Service Delivery. This collection was
developed to streamline the process for
seeking feedback from the public on the
Board’s service delivery. The Board
previously published a notice about this
collection in the Federal Register (Apr.
26, 2018). That notice allowed for a 60day public review and comment period.
No comments were received.
DATES: Comments on this information
collection should be submitted by
October 10, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be identified as ‘‘Paperwork Reduction
Act Comments, Surface Transportation
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Board: Generic Clearance for the
Collection of Qualitative Feedback on
Agency Service Delivery.’’ These
comments should be directed to the
Office of Management and Budget,
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Attention: Joseph B. Nye,
Surface Transportation Board Desk
Officer: by email at oira_submission@
omb.eop.gov; by fax at (202) 395–1743;
or by mail to Room 10235, 725 17th
Street NW, Washington, DC 20503.
Please also direct comments to Chris
Oehrle, PRA Officer, Surface
Transportation Board, 395 E Street SW,
Washington, DC 20423–0001, or to pra@
stb.gov.
For
further information regarding this
collection, contact Michael Higgins,
Deputy Director, Office of Public
Assistance, Governmental Affairs, and
Compliance at (202) 245–0284 or at
michael.higgins@stb.gov. Assistance for
the hearing impaired is available
through the Federal Information Relay
Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:
For each
collection, comments are requested
concerning: (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 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; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search
data sources, to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information. Submitted comments will
be summarized and included in the
Board’s request for OMB approval.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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and platforms may be used to collect
information from respondents. The
estimated annual burden hours (277) are
based on the number of collections we
expect to conduct over the requested
period for this clearance, as set forth in
the table below.
Type of Review: Reinstatement
without change.
Respondents: Customers and
stakeholders of the Board.
Number of Respondents, Frequency,
Estimated Time per Response, and Total
Burden Hours: A variety of instruments
Description of Collection
Title: Generic Clearance for the
Collection of Qualitative Feedback on
Agency Service Delivery.
OMB Control Number: 2140–0019.
STB Form Number: None.
ESTIMATED ANNUAL REPORTING BURDEN
Number of
respondents
Type of collection
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Focus Group ....................................................................................................
Comment Card/Brief Survey ............................................................................
Surveys ............................................................................................................
Needs and Uses: The proposed
information collection activity provides
a means to garner qualitative customer
and stakeholder feedback in an efficient
and 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 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 with issues about how
the Board provides service to the public;
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 Board and its customers
and stakeholders. They 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 Board’s services
will be unavailable.
The Board will only process a
collection 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
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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
is collected only to the extent necessary
and is not retained;
• Information gathered is used only
internally for general service
improvement and program management
purposes and not for release outside of
the agency;
• Information gathered is used for the
purpose of substantially informing
influential policy decisions; and
• Information gathered will yield
qualitative information, and 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 will provide useful
information, but will not yield data that
can be generalized to the overall
population. Such data uses would
require more rigorous designs than the
collections covered by this notice.
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.
Under the PRA, a federal agency that
conducts or sponsors a collection of
information must display a currently
valid OMB control number. A collection
of information, which is defined in 44
U.S.C. 3502(3) and 5 CFR 1320.3(c),
includes agency requirements that
persons submit reports, keep records, or
provide information to the agency, third
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parties, or the public. Section 3507(b) of
the PRA requires, concurrent with an
agency’s submitting a collection to OMB
for approval, a 30-day notice and
comment period through publication in
the Federal Register concerning each
proposed collection of information.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice may be made available to the
public by the Board. 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 electronic comment (e-file or email),
your email address is automatically
captured and may be accessed if your
comments are made public. Please note
that responses 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.
Dated: September 5, 2018.
Jeffrey Herzig,
Clearance Clerk.
[FR Doc. 2018–19510 Filed 9–7–18; 8:45 am]
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Release of Waybill Data
The Surface Transportation Board has
received a request from two professors
that work for University of Oregon and
Stanford University along with four
researchers (WB18–29—8/31/18) for
permission to use data from the Board’s
1983–2017 Unmasked Carload Waybill
Samples. A copy of this request may be
obtained from the Board’s website under
docket no. WB18–29.
The waybill sample contains
confidential railroad and shipper data;
therefore, if any parties object to these
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SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD
30-Day Notice of Intent To Seek Reinstatement Without Change:
Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency
Service Delivery
AGENCY: Surface Transportation Board.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens,
and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the
Surface Transportation Board (STB or Board) gives notice that it is
requesting from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a
reinstatement without change of Generic Clearance for the Collection of
Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service Delivery. This collection was
developed to streamline the process for seeking feedback from the
public on the Board's service delivery. The Board previously published
a notice about this collection in the Federal Register (Apr. 26, 2018).
That notice allowed for a 60-day public review and comment period. No
comments were received.
DATES: Comments on this information collection should be submitted by
October 10, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be identified as ``Paperwork
Reduction Act Comments, Surface Transportation Board: Generic Clearance
for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service
Delivery.'' These comments should be directed to the Office of
Management and Budget, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Attention: Joseph B. Nye, Surface Transportation Board Desk Officer: by
email at [email protected]; by fax at (202) 395-1743; or by
mail to Room 10235, 725 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 20503. Please
also direct comments to Chris Oehrle, PRA Officer, Surface
Transportation Board, 395 E Street SW, Washington, DC 20423-0001, or to
[email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: For further information regarding
this collection, contact Michael Higgins, Deputy Director, Office of
Public Assistance, Governmental Affairs, and Compliance at (202) 245-
0284 or at [email protected]. Assistance for the hearing impaired
is available through the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-
800-877-8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For each collection, comments are requested
concerning: (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 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; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to a collection of information, to
search data sources, to complete and review the collection of
information; and to transmit or otherwise disclose the information.
Submitted comments will be summarized and included in the Board's
request for OMB approval.
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Description of Collection
Title: Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback
on Agency Service Delivery.
OMB Control Number: 2140-0019.
STB Form Number: None.
Type of Review: Reinstatement without change.
Respondents: Customers and stakeholders of the Board.
Number of Respondents, Frequency, Estimated Time per Response, and
Total Burden Hours: A variety of instruments and platforms may be used
to collect information from respondents. The estimated annual burden
hours (277) are based on the number of collections we expect to conduct
over the requested period for this clearance, as set forth in the table
below.
Estimated Annual Reporting Burden
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Annual
Type of collection Number of frequency per Hours per Total hours
respondents response response
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Focus Group..................................... 15 1 2 30
Comment Card/Brief Survey....................... 200 2 .17 67
Surveys......................................... 150 2 .6 180
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Needs and Uses: The proposed information collection activity
provides a means to garner qualitative customer and stakeholder
feedback in an efficient and 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 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
with issues about how the Board provides service to the public; 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 Board and its customers and stakeholders.
They 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 Board's services will be unavailable.
The Board will only process a collection 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 is collected only to
the extent necessary and is not retained;
Information gathered is used only internally for general
service improvement and program management purposes and not for release
outside of the agency;
Information gathered is used for the purpose of
substantially informing influential policy decisions; and
Information gathered will yield qualitative information,
and 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 will provide useful
information, but will not yield data that can be generalized to the
overall population. Such data uses would require more rigorous designs
than the collections covered by this notice.
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.
Under the PRA, a federal agency that conducts or sponsors a
collection of information must display a currently valid OMB control
number. A collection of information, which is defined in 44 U.S.C.
3502(3) and 5 CFR 1320.3(c), includes agency requirements that persons
submit reports, keep records, or provide information to the agency,
third parties, or the public. Section 3507(b) of the PRA requires,
concurrent with an agency's submitting a collection to OMB for
approval, a 30-day notice and comment period through publication in the
Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information.
Comments submitted in response to this notice may be made available
to the public by the Board. 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
electronic comment (e-file or email), your email address is
automatically captured and may be accessed if your comments are made
public. Please note that responses 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.
Dated: September 5, 2018.
Jeffrey Herzig,
Clearance Clerk.
[FR Doc. 2018-19510 Filed 9-7-18; 8:45 am]
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