[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 176 (Monday, September 12, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56214-56215]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-23217]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Office of the Secretary


60-Day Notice of Intention To Request Clearance for Information 
Collection: Opportunity for Public Comment

AGENCY: Office of Youth in the Great Outdoors, Interior.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: Under provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and 5 
CFR Part 1320, Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements, the Office of 
Youth in the Great Outdoors invites public comments on an intended 
request for clearance of information collection.

DATES: Public comments will be accepted on or before November 14, 2011.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to: Maria E. Arnold, Office of the Secretary, 
Office of Youth in the Great Outdoors, Department of the Interior, 1849 
C Street, NW., MS 3559-MIB, Washington, DC 20240; E-mail: [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Maria E. Arnold, Office of the 
Secretary, Office of Youth in the Great Outdoors, Department of the 
Interior, 1849 C Street, NW., MS 3559-MIB, Washington, DC 20240; E-
mail: [email protected], 202-219-1664.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title: Programmatic Approval for Office of Youth in the Great 
Outdoors (YouthGo)-Sponsored Public Surveys.
    Bureau Form Number: None.
    OMB Number: 1093-new.
    Type of Request: New information collection clearance.
    Description of Need: The Office of Youth in the Great Outdoors 
needs information on youth employment and education programs provided 
through the Department of the Interior's (DOI's) partnership 
organizations. The purpose of these information collections is to 
measure performance of DOI's youth programs. The proposed information 
collection covers all of the organizational units and bureaus in DOI 
running youth employment and education programs through partnership 
organizations. Partnership organizations will voluntarily obtain 
information from youth program participants. Since many of the YouthGo 
information collections ask similar questions to similar populations, 
YouthGo is requesting clearance from OMB for a program of review for 
focus groups, interviews, youth program observations, and pre-post 
youth program surveys.
    The information collections will address three goals to determine 
DOI youth program effectiveness:
    (1) Building civic engagement and leadership skills.
    (2) Enhancing career preparedness and workforce readiness.
    (3) Developing environmental stewardship and the next generation of 
conservationists.
    By conducting focus groups, interviews, identical pre-post youth 
program surveys, and youth program observations, these programs, run 
both directly by DOI and through DOI partner organizations, will seek 
feedback on how well they are meeting the three youth program goals. 
Any individual information collection may collect information on one, 
two, or all of the three topic areas above. Information collections, as 
needed, will be submitted individually to OMB for expedited approval. 
Through the feedback obtained in these information collections, DOI and 
its partner organizations will be able to determine whether youth 
program objectives are being met and document the impacts of program 
participation.

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    We invite your comments on: (1) The practical utility of the 
information being gathered; (2) the accuracy of the burden hour 
estimate; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarify of the 
information to be collected; and (4) ways to minimize the burden to 
respondents, including use of automated information collection 
techniques or other forms of information technology. Before including 
your address, phone number, e-mail address, or other personal 
identifying information in your comment, you should be aware that your 
entire comment--including your personal identifying information--may be 
made publicly available at any time.
    While you can ask us in your comment to withhold your personal 
identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we 
will be able to do so.
    Automated data collection: Automated data collection methods will 
be used where possible, and will vary by site/location of the DOI youth 
partnership program. In the case of pre-post surveys, the same data 
collection method will be used for both the pre- and post-program 
surveys.
    Description of respondents: For any youth program conducting pre-
post program surveys, all program participants will be given the 
opportunity to participate in these identical surveys. Youth program 
participants range in age from 15 to 30 years (high school through 
graduate students).
    Estimated average number of respondents: 7,000 for surveys and 100 
for focus groups/interviews.
    Estimated average burden hours per response: 15 minutes for a pre-
survey; 15 minutes for a post-survey; 1 hour for a focus group or 
interview.
    Frequency of response: Pre-post surveys will involve two identical 
surveys, one at the start of the youth program and one at the 
conclusion of the program. Focus groups and interviews may involve one 
or more contacts for information collection.
    Estimated annual reporting burden: We estimate the requested total 
number of burden hours annually for all of the information collections 
to be 3,600 burden hours per year. The total annual burden for surveys 
conducted under the auspices of this program will be 3,500 hours. The 
total annual burden for focus groups and interviews will be 100 hours.
    We will summarize responses to this notice and include them in the 
request to the Office of Management and Budget for approval. All 
comments will become a matter of public record.

Maria E. Arnold,
Youth Program Analyst.
[FR Doc. 2011-23217 Filed 9-9-11; 8:45 am]
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