[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 215 (Monday, November 8, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64734-64735]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-24785]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary


Proposed Collection; Comment Request

AGENCY: Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and 
Readiness).

ACTION:  Notice.

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    In compliance with section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel 
and Readiness) announces the following proposed reinstatement of a 
public information collection and seeks public comment on the 
provisions thereof. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed 
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 
burden of the proposed information collection; (c) ways to enhance the 
quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and 
(d) ways to minimize the burden of the information collection on 
respondents, including through the use of automated collection 
techniques or other forms of information technology.

DATES: Consideration will be given to all comments received by January 
7, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations on the proposed 
information collection should be sent to the Office of the Under 
Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness) Defense Commissary 
Agency, ATTN: Barry White, 1300 E Ave, Ft. Lee, Virginia 23801-1800).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on this 
proposed information collection or to obtain a copy of the proposal and 
associated collection instruments, please write to the above address or 
call at (804) 734-8974.
    Title and OMB Control Number: Commissary Evaluation and Utility 
Surveys--Generic, OMB Control Number 0704-0407.
    Needs and Uses: The Defense Commissary Agency will conduct a 
variety of surveys on an as needed basis. The survey population will 
include but is not limited to persons eligible to use the commissary 
throughout the world. The surveys will be used to assess the customer's 
satisfaction with various aspects of the commissary operation and 
obtain their opinions of various commissary issues. Surveys will also 
be used to help determine individual commissary market potential and 
commissary size requirements.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households, businesses or other for 
profit.
    Annual Burden Hours: 148 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 6633.
    Responses per Respondent: 1.
    Average Burden per Response: 1.34 minutes.
    Frequency: On occasion.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Summary of Information Collection

(All respondents are authorized patrons by DOD regulations, unless 
otherwise described.)

Commissary Sizing Survey

    Surveys will support commissary renovation and new construction. 
Survey results will be used to help determine market potential and 
associated commissary size requirements.

Facility Site Decision

    Surveys will support commissary site decisions. Where applicable, 
commissary user preference can be incorporated into the site location 
decision process. Patrons will input their answers to questions 
concerning where they would like a new facility located, as well as 
give their opinions and concerns that will affect their shopping 
experience. The survey results will also be used to estimate where the 
commissary users are located through the use of population density 
maps.

Patron Migration Survey

    These surveys will aid in predicting the impact to commissaries 
that are near a closing commissary or a commissary that is undergoing 
some other kind of transformation that may cause commissary users to 
migrate to an alternative nearby commissary. The results will be used 
to determine requirements for the nearby receiving commissaries.

Commissary Operational Surveys

    These surveys will supply information on various processes within 
the commissaries. The surveyed population could be commissary 
customers, employees within the agency, vendors, distributors or 
contractors. Persons surveyed will not necessarily be authorized 
commissary users.

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Market Basket Price Surveys

    These surveys will be administered to commissary eligible personnel 
to assess their perception of our savings compared to local commercial 
supermarkets.

Demographic Surveys

    This survey will be conducted as needed to assess the demographic 
make-up of commissary users. The results may be used in conjunction 
with population data to reveal differences in key demographics such as 
status, family size, distance from a commissary, age, service 
membership and military grade.

    Dated: November 1, 2004.
Patricia L. Toppings,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 04-24785 Filed 11-5-04; 8:45 am]
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