[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 90 (Friday, May 9, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26710-26711]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-10654]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of 
information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 
U.S.C. chapter 35).
    Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
    Title: Generic Clearance for Data User Evaluation Surveys.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-0760.
    Form Number(s): Various.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Burden Hours: 15,000.
    Number of Respondents: 30,000.
    Average Hours per Response: 30 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census Bureau requests an extension for an 
additional three years of its generic clearance to conduct customer/
product-based research. This extension will allow us to continue to use 
customer satisfaction surveys, personal interviews, web-based 
interviews, or focus group research to effectively improve and make 
more customer-oriented programs, products, and services.
    Extended clearance for data collections would continue to cover 
customer/program-based research for any Census Bureau program area that 
needs to measure customer needs, uses, and preferences for statistical 
information and services. The customer base includes, but is not 
limited to

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previous, existing, and potential businesses and organizations, 
alternate Census Bureau data disseminators like State Data Centers, 
Business and Industry Data Centers, Census Information Centers, Federal 
or Census Depository Libraries, educational institutions, and not-for-
profit or other organizations.
    The Census Bureau's Forms Clearance Officer and the Customer 
Liaison and Marketing Services Office (CLMSO) jointly administer the 
generic clearance. Census Bureau offices requiring customer and/or 
product-based research contact the CLMSO to help them determine the 
best strategy for fulfilling their information needs and then develop 
an appropriate collection mechanism, ensuring conformance with OMB 
requirements and Census Bureau strategic goals and objectives and to 
avert duplication or repetitive data collection. CLMSO also assists in 
the preparation of supporting documentation which, together with draft 
research documents are submitted to OMB for review two weeks in advance 
of any information collection activity. The Forms Clearance Officer 
approves and forwards this documentation to the OMB.
    The CLMSO also prepares an annual report to OMB fully describing 
work done under the generic clearance, including:

     Descriptions of individual research conducted
     numbers of respondents and respondent burden hours used
     dates of each survey
     individual and aggregated costs of surveys
     individual summaries of results and program/product 
decisions that were made based upon customer responses and feedback

    Information collected from customer research helps the Census 
Bureau to measure its customer base-their use, satisfaction, and 
preferences for existing and future programs, products and services.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households; Business or other for-
profit organizations; Not-for-profit institutions; Federal Government; 
State, local or Tribal government.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Executive Order 12862.
    This information collection request may be viewed at reginfo.gov. 
Follow the instructions to view Department of Commerce collections 
currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to [email protected] or fax to (202) 395-5806.

    Dated: May 5, 2014.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014-10654 Filed 5-8-14; 8:45 am]
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