[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 148 (Wednesday, August 3, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44570-44571]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-15289]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

ACTION: Notice.

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    The Department of Defense has submitted to OMB for clearance, the 
following proposal for collection of information under the provisions 
of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).

DATES: Consideration will be given to all comments received by 
September 2, 2005.
    Title and OMB Number: Secretary of Defense Biennial Review of 
Defense Agencies and DoD Field Activities; OMB Number 0704-0422.
    Type of Request: Extension.
    Number of Respondents: 3,000.
    Responses Per Respondent: 1.
    Annual Responses: 3,000.
    Average Burden Per Response: 15 minutes.
    Annual Burden Hours: 750.
    Needs and Uses: Section 192(c) of Title 10, U.S.C., requires that 
the Secretary of Defense review the services and supplies provided by 
each Defense Agency and DoD Field Activity. The purposes of the 
Biennial Review are to ensure the continuing need for each Agency and 
Field Activity and to ensure that the services and supplies provided by 
each entity is accomplished in a more effective, economical, or 
efficient manner than by the Military Departments. A standard 
organizational customer survey process serves as the principal data-
gathering methodology in the Biennial Review. As such, it provides 
valuable information to senior officials in the Department regarding 
the levels of satisfication held by the organizational customers of the 
approximately 27 Defense Agencies and DoD Field Activities covered by 
the Biennial Review.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households; business or other for-
profit; not-for-profit institutions; and State, local or tribal 
governments.
    Frequency: Biennially.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    OMB Desk Officer: Mr. Lewis Oleinick.
    Written comments and recommendations on the proposed

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information collection should be sent to Mr. Oleinick at the Office of 
Management and Budget, Desk Officer for DoD, Room 10236, New Executive 
Office Building, Washington, DC 20503.
    DOD Clearance Officer: Ms. Patricia Toppings.
    Written requests for copies of the information collection proposal 
should be sent to Ms. Toppings, WHS/ESD/Information Management 
Division, 1225 South Clark Street, Suite 504, Arlington, VA 22202-4326.

    Dated: July 27, 2005.
Patricia L. Toppings,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 05-15289 Filed 8-2-05; 8:45 am]
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