[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 172 (Friday, September 5, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 47042]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-23573]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Minerals Management Service


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request

AGENCY: Minerals Management Service, DOI.

ACTION: Notice of information collection solicitation.

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SUMMARY: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Minerals 
Management Service (MMS) is soliciting comments on an information 
collection, Training and Outreach Evaluation Questionnaires.

FORM: MMS-4420, A-H.

DATES: Written comments should be received on or before November 4, 
1997.

ADDRESSES: Comments sent via the U.S. Postal Service should be sent to 
Minerals Management Service, Royalty Management Program, Rules and 
Publications Staff, P.O. Box 25165, MS 3021, Denver, Colorado 80225-
0165; courier address is Building 85, Room A-212, Denver Federal 
Center, Denver, Colorado 80225; e:mail address is David__G[email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dennis C. Jones, Rules and 
Publications Staff, phone (303) 231-3046, FAX (303) 231-3385, e-mail 
Dennis__C__J[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995, Section 3506(c)(2)(A), we are notifying you, members of 
the public and affected agencies, of this collection of information and 
are inviting your comments. Is this information collection necessary 
for us to properly do our job? Have we accurately estimated the 
industry burden for responding to this collection? Can we enhance the 
quality, utility, and clarity of the information we collect? Can we 
lessen the burden of this information collection on the respondents by 
using automated collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology?
    Executive Order No. 12862, September 11, 1993, Setting Customer 
Service Standards, provided renewed focus on surveying customers. The 
MMS Royalty Management Program (RMP) uses training and outreach 
evaluation questionnaires as one method of surveying customers about 
levels of satisfaction.
    The RMP frequently provides training and outreach to its 
constituents to facilitate their compliance with laws and regulations 
and to ensure that constituents are well informed. In 1996 we presented 
over 20 training sessions to the oil and gas and solid minerals 
reporters on various aspects of royalty reporting, production 
reporting, and valuation. We also provided over 30 outreach sessions to 
individual Indian minerals owners, Indian Tribes, and the Bureau of 
Indian Affairs on Indian royalty management issues. Additionally, we 
provided several sessions of relevant training to our financial and 
systems contractors and State and Tribal auditors.
    At the end of a training or outreach session, RMP asks participants 
to complete and return evaluation questionnaires; participant response 
is voluntary. Some questions are uniform across all of the evaluation 
questionnaires; some are specific to each type of training or outreach. 
We use the feedback from these questionnaires to enhance future 
training and outreach and to improve RMP's overall service. We request 
feedback on several areas of our training and outreach sessions, 
including:
     Organization of training.
     Level of detail.
     Clarity of presentation.
     Achievement of training objectives.
     Relevance of subject matter.
     Effectiveness of training materials.
     Other topic suggestions for future sessions.
     Overall RMP customer service.
    We estimate that the annual burden to our constituents is 180 
hours, assuming that all training and outreach participants respond to 
these evaluations and each evaluation questionnaire takes 6 minutes to 
complete (1800 participants  x  6 minutes = 10,800 minutes or 180 
hours).

    Dated August 26, 1997.
Lucy Querques Denett,
Associate Director for Royalty Management.
[FR Doc. 97-23573 Filed 9-4-97; 8:45 am]
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