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AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Comment Request;
Information Collection Generic
Clearance Request for USAID
Workforce and Organizational Surveys
Bureau for Management, Office
of the Director, (M/MPBP/OD), Agency
for International Development (USAID).
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:
USAID proposes a generic
clearance to collect workforce feedback
through surveys, interviews, and focus
groups to optimize operations,
strengthen organizational health and
workforce culture, and improve
workforce retention. USAID has a
diverse workforce that consists of U.S.
direct hires (foreign and civil service)
and multiple contract mechanisms with
the majority of the workforce belonging
to multiple contract mechanisms,
including Coordinating Country
Nationals, Personal Services
Contractors, and Institutional Support
Contractors.
SUMMARY:
Interested persons are invited to
submit comments within 60 days of this
notice.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments by
email to:
• Email: oscholbe@usaid.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Owain Scholbe, Junior Management and
Program Analyst, Management Bureau,
Office of the Director (M/MPBP/OD),
telephone 202–921–5070, or via email at
oscholbe@usaid.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)), USAID is providing the
general public and Federal agencies
with an opportunity to comment on the
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proposed collection of information.
USAID is requesting a general clearance
to provide and conduct workforce
surveys, interviews, and focus groups
with a diverse workforce consisting of
numerous hiring mechanisms,
including, but not limited to, U.S. direct
hires, fellows, interns, Personal Services
Contractors, Institutional Support
Contractors, Coordinating Country
Nationals, and Third Country Nationals.
The goal of data collection under this
generic clearance is to collect workforce
feedback on organizational health,
operations, workforce culture, and work
environment necessary to strengthen
mission readiness and better achieve its
development objectives. USAID will
only collect data from the
approximately 11,000 members of the
USAID workforce with minimal
collection of personally identifiable
information. The total estimated number
of annual burden hours for these
workforce population surveys is 41,250
hours. USAID will limit analysis and
reporting to summary level statistics
that will only be available to the
internal workforce.
OMB Control Number: TBD.
Dated: October 25, 2023.
Erin Brown,
Deputy Director, M/MPBP.
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AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Generic Clearance
for the Collection of Qualitative
Feedback on Agency Service Delivery
U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID).
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Information Collection Review
procedures of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (PRA), the United States
Agency for International Development
(USAID), is seeking comment on the
proposed Generic Clearance for the
Collection of Qualitative Feedback on
Agency Service Delivery. The Agency
will use surveys and forms to collect,
analyze, and interpret information
gathered through this generic clearance
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to identify strengths and weakness of
the current services, information, and to
make improvements in customer
service.
All comments should be
submitted within 60 calendar days from
the date of this publication.
ADDRESSES: Comments submitted in
response to this notice should be
submitted to the icrteam@usaid.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information
should be directed to Kelly Hamilton at
202–921–5016, icrteam@usaid.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
proposed information collection activity
provides a means to garner qualitative
customer and stakeholder feedback in
an efficient, timely manner. 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 Agency will collect, analyze, and
interpret information gathered through
this generic clearance to identify
strengths and weaknesses of the current
services, information, and make
improvements in service delivery based
on feedback. 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.
The Agency will only submit a
collection for approval under this
generic clearance if it meets the
following conditions:
• Information gathered will be used
only internally for general service
improvement and program management
DATES:
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purposes and is not intended for release
outside of the agency (if released,
procedures outlined in Question 16 will
be followed);
• Information gathered will not be
used for the purpose of substantially
informing influential policy decisions;
• 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;
• 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; and
• With the exception of information
needed to provide remunerations for
participants of focus groups and
cognitive laboratory studies, personally
identifiable information (PII) is
collected only to the extent necessary
and is not retained.
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.
Below we provide projected average
burden estimates for the next three
years:
Estimated Annual Number of
Respondents: 10,000.
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Annual Responses: 10,000.
Average Minutes per Response: 15
minutes.
Annual Burden Hours: 30,000 hours.
Frequency: On occasion.
Dated: October 26, 2023.
Taniesha Tolbert,
Supervisory Records Information
Management Specialist, Bureau for
Management, Office of Management Services,
Information and Records Division.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Marketing Service
[Doc. No. AMS–TM–23–0066]
Notice of Availability of the
Programmatic Environmental
Assessment for AMS Local Meat
Capacity Grant Program
Agricultural Marketing Service,
USDA.
ACTION: Notice of availability; request
for public comments.
AGENCY:
The Agricultural Marketing
Service (AMS) announces that the Draft
Programmatic Environmental
Assessment (PEA) for the Local Meat
Capacity Grant Program (Local MCap) is
available for public review and
comments.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before November 30, 2023 to be
assured consideration.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments
concerning this notice. Comments may
be submitted electronically by Email:
LocalMCap@usda.gov. Comments
should reference the document number
and the date and page number of this
issue of the Federal Register. AMS will
address comments received on the draft
PEA in the final PEA.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Betsy Rakola, Associate Deputy
Administrator, Transportation and
Marketing Program; Telephone: (202)690–1300; Email: LocalMCap@usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
Background
The Draft PEA analyzes and discloses
the potential environmental impacts
associated with the establishment of the
Local Meat Capacity Grant Program
(Local MCap). AMS has proposed to
fund grants to support independently
owned meat and poultry processing
businesses. These grants will help them
provide additional and more efficient
processing options for local livestock
producers by modernizing, increasing,
diversifying, and decentralizing meat
and poultry processing capacity,
including support for rendering.
This program will expand processing
capacity for small and midsized meat
and poultry processors, which are
particularly vulnerable to disruption. It
will also increase capacity and promote
competition in the meat and poultry
processing sector. Based on public
input, USDA identified an urgent need
to expand and diversify meat and
poultry processing capacity.
The Local MCap Program is
authorized by section 1001 (b)(4) of the
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American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) (Pub.
L. 117–2), which funds ‘‘loans and
grants and other assistance to maintain
and improve food and agricultural
supply chain resiliency.’’ Recipients of
funding from this proposed program
would be allowed 36 months to
complete work funded by the grant
awards.
The environmental impacts of
funding projects to enhance existing
meat and poultry processing facilities
have been considered in a manner
consistent with the provisions of the
National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) of 1969, Public Law 91–190, 42
U.S.C. 4321–4347, as amended.
A Draft PEA has been prepared, and
based on this analysis, AMS has
preliminarily determined there will not
be a significant impact to the human
environment. As a result, an
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
has not been initiated (40 CFR 1501.6).
AMS intends for this PEA to create
efficiencies by establishing a framework
that can be used for ‘‘tiering,’’ where
appropriate, to project-specific actions
that require additional analysis. As
decisions on specific applications are
made, to the extent additional NEPA
analysis is required, environmental
review will be conducted to supplement
the analysis set forth in this PEA.
The Draft PEA is available for review
online at the program website: https://
www.ams.usda.gov/services/grants/
localmcap.
Comments Invited
Interested stakeholders are invited to
submit comments on the Draft PEA, as
specified in the ADDRESSES section of
this Notice. The most helpful comments
reference a specific recommendation for
changing AMS’ proposed approach to
assessing environmental impacts,
explain the reason for any
recommended change, and include
supporting information. AMS will
consider all comments received on or
before the closing date.
Melissa Bailey,
Associate Administrator, Agricultural
Marketing Service.
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Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
The Department of Agriculture will
submit the following information
collection requirement(s) to OMB for
review and approval under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
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AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative
Feedback on Agency Service Delivery
AGENCY: U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
ACTION: Notice of information collection; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Information Collection Review
procedures of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the United
States Agency for International Development (USAID), is seeking comment
on the proposed Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative
Feedback on Agency Service Delivery. The Agency will use surveys and
forms to collect, analyze, and interpret information gathered through
this generic clearance to identify strengths and weakness of the
current services, information, and to make improvements in customer
service.
DATES: All comments should be submitted within 60 calendar days from
the date of this publication.
ADDRESSES: Comments submitted in response to this notice should be
submitted to the [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information
should be directed to Kelly Hamilton at 202-921-5016,
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The proposed information collection activity
provides a means to garner qualitative customer and stakeholder
feedback in an efficient, timely manner. 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 Agency will collect, analyze, and interpret information
gathered through this generic clearance to identify strengths and
weaknesses of the current services, information, and make improvements
in service delivery based on feedback. 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.
The Agency will only submit a collection for approval under this
generic clearance if it meets the following conditions:
Information gathered will be used only internally for
general service improvement and program management
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purposes and is not intended for release outside of the agency (if
released, procedures outlined in Question 16 will be followed);
Information gathered will not be used for the purpose of
substantially informing influential policy decisions;
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;
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; and
With the exception of information needed to provide
remunerations for participants of focus groups and cognitive laboratory
studies, personally identifiable information (PII) is collected only to
the extent necessary and is not retained.
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.
Below we provide projected average burden estimates for the next
three years:
Estimated Annual Number of Respondents: 10,000.
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Annual Responses: 10,000.
Average Minutes per Response: 15 minutes.
Annual Burden Hours: 30,000 hours.
Frequency: On occasion.
Dated: October 26, 2023.
Taniesha Tolbert,
Supervisory Records Information Management Specialist, Bureau for
Management, Office of Management Services, Information and Records
Division.
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