[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 67 (Thursday, April 7, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19359-19360]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-8326]
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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative
Feedback on Agency Service Delivery
AGENCY: Division of Consumer and Business Education, Federal Trade
Commission (``FTC'' or ``Commission'').
ACTION: 30-day notice of submission of information collection approval
from the Office of Management and Budget (``OMB'') and request for
comments.
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SUMMARY: As part of a Federal Government-wide effort to streamline the
process to seek feedback from the public on service delivery, the FTC
is submitting a Generic Information Collection Request (Generic ICR):
``Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on
Agency Service Delivery'' to OMB for approval under the Paperwork
Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
DATES: Comments must be submitted by May 9, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file a comment online or on paper, by
following the instructions in the Request for Comment part of the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below. Write ``FTC Generic Clearance
ICR, Project No. P035201'' on your comment, and file your comment
online at https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/genericclearance by
following the instructions on the web-based form. If you prefer to file
your comment on paper, mail or deliver your comment to the following
address: Federal Trade Commission, Office of the Secretary, Room H-113
(Annex J), 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20580.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request additional information,
please contact Nicole Vincent at 202-326-2372.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback
on Agency Service Delivery.
Abstract: The information collection activity will garner
qualitative customer and stakeholder feedback in an efficient, 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 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.
Feedback collected under this generic clearance will provide useful
information, but it will not yield data that can be generalized to the
overall population. This type of generic clearance for qualitative
information will not be used for quantitative information collections
that are designed to yield reliably actionable results, such as
monitoring trends over time or documenting program performance. Such
data uses require more rigorous designs that address: the target
population to which generalizations will be made, the sampling frame,
the sample design (including stratification and clustering), the
precision requirements or power calculations that justify the proposed
sample size, the expected response rate, methods for assessing
potential non-response bias, the protocols for data collection, and any
testing procedures that were or will be undertaken prior fielding the
study. Depending on the degree of influence the results are likely
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to have, such collections may still be eligible for submission for
other generic mechanisms that are designed to yield quantitative
results.
The FTC received no comments in response to the 60-day notice
published in the Federal Register on December 22, 2010 (75 FR 80542).
Below are the FTC's projected average annual estimates for the next
three years: \1\
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\1\ The 60-day notice included the following estimate of the
aggregate burden hours for this generic clearance federal-wide:
Average Expected Annual Number of Activities: 25,000.
Average Number of Respondents per Activity: 200.
Annual Responses: 5,000,000.
Frequency of Response: Once per request.
Average Minutes per Response: 30.
Burden Hours: 2,500,000.
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Current Actions: New collection of information.
Type of Review: New collection.
Affected Public: Individuals and Households, Businesses and
Organizations, State, Local or Tribal Government.
Average Expected Annual Number of Activities: 3.
Respondents: 1,656.
Frequency of Response: Once per request.
Annual Responses: 1,656.
Average Minutes per Response: 23 (rounded to nearest whole minute).
Burden Hours: 631.
An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required
to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a
currently valid OMB control number.
Request for Comments
You can file a comment online or on paper. For the FTC to consider
your comment, we must receive it on or before May 9, 2011. Write ``FTC
Generic Clearance ICR, Project No. P035201'' on your comment. Your
comment--including your name and your state--will be placed on the
public record of this proceeding, including, to the extent practicable,
on the public Commission Web site, at http://www.ftc.gov/os/publiccomments.shtm. As a matter of discretion, the Commission tries to
remove individuals' home contact information from comments before
placing them on the Commission Web site.
Because your comment will be made public, you are solely
responsible for making sure that your comment doesn't include any
sensitive personal information, like anyone's Social Security number,
date of birth, driver's license number or other state identification
number or foreign country equivalent, passport number, financial
account number, or credit or debit card number. You are also solely
responsible for making sure that your comment doesn't include any
sensitive health information, like medical records or other
individually identifiable health information. In addition, don't
include any ``[t]rade secret or any commercial or financial information
which is obtained from any person and which is privileged or
confidential * * *, '' as provided in Section 6(f) of the FTC Act, 15
U.S.C. 46(f), and FTC Rule 4.10(a)(2), 16 CFR 4.10(a)(2). If you want
the Commission to give your comment confidential treatment, you must
file it in paper form, with a request for confidential treatment, and
you have to follow the procedure explained in FTC Rule 4.9(c), 16 CFR
4.9(c).\2\ Your comment will be kept confidential only if the FTC
General Counsel, in his or her sole discretion, grants your request in
accordance with the law and the public interest.
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\2\ In particular, the written request for confidential
treatment that accompanies the comment must include the factual and
legal basis for the request, and must identify the specific portions
of the comment to be withheld from the public record. See FTC Rule
4.9(c), 16 CFR 4.9(c).
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Postal mail addressed to the Commission is subject to delay due to
heightened security screening. As a result, we encourage you to submit
your comments online, or to send them to the Commission by courier or
overnight service. To make sure that the Commission considers your
online comment, you must file it at https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/genericclearance by following the instructions on the web-based
form. If this Notice appears at http://www.regulations.gov/#!home, you
also may file a comment through that Web site.
If you file your comment on paper, write ``FTC Generic Clearance
ICR, Project No. P035201'' on your comment and on the envelope, and
mail or deliver it to the following address: Federal Trade Commission,
Office of the Secretary, Room H-113 (Annex J), 600 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW., Washington, DC 20580. If possible, submit your paper comment to
the Commission by courier or overnight service.
Comments on any proposed information collection requirements
subject to review under the PRA should additionally be submitted to
OMB. If sent by U.S. mail, they should be addressed to Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget,
Attention: Desk Officer for the Federal Trade Commission, New Executive
Office Building, Docket Library, Room 10102, 725 17th Street,
NW.,Washington, DC 20503. Comments sent to OMB by U.S. postal mail,
however, are subject to delays due to heightened security precautions.
Thus, comments instead should be sent by facsimile to (202) 395-5167.
Visit the Commission Website at http://www.ftc.gov to read this
Notice and the news release describing it. The FTC Act and other laws
that the Commission administers permit the collection of public
comments to consider and use in this proceeding as appropriate. The
Commission will consider all timely and responsive public comments that
it receives on or before May 9, 2011. You can find more information,
including routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, in the
Commission's privacy policy, at http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/privacy.htm.
Willard K. Tom,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2011-8326 Filed 4-6-11; 8:45 am]
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