[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 116 (Monday, June 19, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27867-27868]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-12726]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

U.S. Geological Survey

[GX17RB00CMFCA00]


Agency Information Collection Activities: OMB Control Number 
1028-NEW; Current and Future Landsat User Requirements

AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Interior.

ACTION: Notice of a new information collection; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: We (the U.S. Geological Survey) will ask the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) to approve the information collection (IC) 
described below. As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) 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 IC.

DATES: To ensure that your comments are considered, we must receive 
them on or before August 18, 2017.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments on this information collection to 
the Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 807, Reston, VA 20192 (mail); (703) 648-
7197 (fax); or [email protected] (email). Please reference 
`Information Collection 1028-NEW, Current and Future Landsat User 
Requirements' in all correspondence.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rudy Schuster, Supervisory Social 
Scientist, at (970) 226-9165 or [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

    The USGS Land Remote Sensing (LRS) Program is currently planning 
for the next generation of Landsat satellites. These satellites will 
continue the multi-decadal continuous collection of moderate-
resolution, multispectral, remotely-sensed imagery through the Landsat 
program. Landsat satellite imagery has been available at no cost to the 
public since 2008, which has resulted in the distribution of millions 
of scenes each subsequent year, as well as tens of thousands of Landsat 
users registering with USGS to access the data. In order to continue to 
provide high quality imagery that meets the needs of users, LRS is 
collecting current and future user requirements for sensor and 
satellite attributes. These attributes include spatial resolution, 
spectral bands, frequency of acquisition, and many others. LRS will use 
the information from this collection to understand if they are 
currently meeting the needs of their user community and to help 
determine the features of future Landsat satellites. Questions will be 
asked to determine user characteristics, current uses of imagery, 
preferred attributes of Landsat imagery, and benefits of Landsat 
imagery. All current Landsat imagery users who are registered with USGS 
will be invited to take part in the survey.
    To protect the confidentiality and privacy of survey respondents, 
the data from the survey will not be associated with any respondent's 
email address at any time and will only be analyzed and reported in 
aggregate. All files containing PII will be password-protected, housed 
on secure USGS servers, and only accessible to the research team. The 
data from the survey will be aggregated and statistically analyzed and 
the results will be published in publically available USGS reports.

II. Data

    OMB Control Number: 1028-NEW.
    Title: Current and Future Landsat User Requirements.
    Type of Request: New information collection.
    Affected Public: General public.
    Respondent's Obligation: None. Participation is voluntary.
    Frequency of Collection: One time only.
    Estimated Annual Number of Respondents: 11,000.
    Estimated Total Number of Annual Responses: 11,000.
    Estimated Time per Response: 20 minutes.
    Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 3,667.
    Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping ``Non-Hour Cost'' Burden: 
None.
    Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) 
provides that an agency may not conduct or sponsor and you are not 
required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a 
currently valid OMB control number and current expiration date.

III. Request for Comments

    We are soliciting comments as to: (a) Whether the proposed 
collection of information is necessary for the agency to perform its 
duties, including whether the information is useful; (b) the accuracy 
of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of 
information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, usefulness, and clarity 
of the information to be collected; and (d) how to minimize the burden 
on the respondents, including the use of automated collection 
techniques or other forms of information technology.
    Please note that the comments submitted in response to this notice 
are a matter of public record. Before including your personal mailing 
address, phone number, email address, or other personally identifiable 
information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire 
comment, including your personally identifiable information, may be 
made publicly available at any time. While you can ask us in your 
comment to withhold your personally identifiable information from 
public view, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.

    Dated: April 12, 2017.
Sharon Taylor,
Fort Collins Science Center Director.
[FR Doc. 2017-12726 Filed 6-16-17; 8:45 am]
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