[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 101 (Tuesday, May 27, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30162-30163]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-12101]


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DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NRSS-SSD-15858; PPWONRADE3, PPMRSNR1Y.NM0000]


Proposed Information Collection; Programmatic Clearance for NPS-
Sponsored Public Surveys.

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: We (National Park Service) will ask the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) to approve the information collection (IC) described 
below. As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and as part 
of our continuing efforts to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, we 
invite the general public and other Federal agencies to take this 
opportunity to comment on this collection of information (OMB 
1024-0224). This IC is scheduled to expire on August 31, 2014. 
We 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.

DATES: To ensure that your comments on this IC are considered, we must 
receive them on or before July 28, 2014.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments on this IC to Phadrea Ponds, 
Information Collection Coordinator, National Park Service, 1201 
Oakridge Drive, Fort Collins, CO 80525 (mail); or [email protected] (email). Please reference Information Collection 1024-
0224 in the subject line.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bret Meldrum, Chief, Social Science 
Program, National Park Service, 1201 Oakridge Drive, Fort Collins, CO 
80525-5596 (mail); [email protected] (email); or 970-267-7295 
(phone).

I. Abstract

    The NPS needs information concerning park visitors and visitor 
services, potential park visitors, and residents of communities near 
parks to provide National Park Service (NPS) managers with usable 
information for improving the quality and utility of agency programs, 
services, and planning efforts. Since many of the NPS surveys are 
similar in terms of the populations being surveyed, the types of 
questions being asked, and research methodologies, the NPS proposes to 
renew its clearance from OMB for a Generic Information Collection 
(1024-0224) of NPS-sponsored surveys. Since 1999, the benefits of this 
generic approval program have been significant to the NPS, Department 
of the Interior, OMB, NPS cooperators, and the public. Significant time 
and cost savings have been incurred and more than 550 surveys have been 
conducted in units throughout the National Park System. Approval is 
typically granted within 60 days or less from the date the Principal 
Investigator (PI) first submits the survey package to the NPS 
Information Review Coordinator for review. This is a significant 
reduction over the approximately 6-9 months involved in the regular OMB 
review process. We are requesting an extension of this collection for 
the purposes of revising the current Pool of Known questions that are 
the primary function of this process. We are planning to host a series 
of workshops of social science researches to update the original list 
of questions and topics that are more than 20 years old because many 
questions in the current listing are underutilized. This extension will 
allow for the effective outreach prescribed in item 8 of Supporting 
Statement Part A.

II. Data

    OMB Number: 1024-0224.
    Title: Programmatic Clearance for NPS-Sponsored Public Surveys.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: General public, visitors and potential visitors to 
parks, and residents of communities near parks.
    Respondent Obligation: Voluntary.
    Estimated Annual Number of Respondents: 140,000 respondents.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 46,666 hours. We estimate the 
public reporting burden averages 20 minutes per response.
    Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping ``Non-Hour Cost'' Burden: We 
have not identified any ``non-hour cost'' burdens associated with this 
collection of information.

III. Request for Comments

    We invite comments concerning this information collection on:
     Whether or not the collection of information is necessary, 
including whether or not the information will have practical utility;
     The accuracy of our estimate of the burden for this 
collection of information;

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     Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and
     Ways to minimize the burden of the collection of 
information on respondents.
    Comments that you submit in response to this notice are a matter of 
public record. We will include or summarize each comment in our request 
to OMB to approve this IC. Before including your address, phone number, 
email 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.

    Dated: May 20, 2014.
Madonna L. Baucum,
Information Collection Clearance Officer, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 2014-12101 Filed 5-23-14; 8:45 am]
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