[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 69 (Monday, April 11, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21311-21312]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-08214]


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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: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
    Title: NIST Generic Clearance for Program Evaluation Data 
Collections.
    OMB Control Number: 0693-0033.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular submission (reinstatement of previously 
approved information collection.)
    Number of Respondents: 12,000.
    Average Hours per Response: Varied dependent upon the individual 
data collection. Response time could be 2 minutes for a response card 
or 1 hour for a more structured collection instrument. The overall 
average response time is expected to be 30 minutes.
    Burden Hours: 5,000.
    Needs and Uses: In accordance with Executive Order 12862, the 
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a non-regulatory 
agency of the Department of Commerce (DOC), proposes to conduct a 
number of surveys both quantitative and qualitative-designed to 
evaluate our current program evaluation data

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collections by means of, but not limited to, focus groups, reply cards 
that accompany product distributions, and Web-based surveys and 
dialogue boxes that offer customers an opportunity to express their 
views on the programs they are asked to evaluate. NIST will limit its 
inquires to data collections that solicit strictly voluntary opinions 
and will not collect information that is required or regulated. Steps 
will be taken to assure anonymity covered under this request.
    Affected Public: Business or other for profit organizations, not-
for-profit institutions, individuals or households, Federal government, 
State, Local or Tribal Government.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    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: April 6, 2016.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016-08214 Filed 4-8-16; 8:45 am]
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