[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 22 (Friday, February 1, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1236-1237]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-00701]


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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request; Information on Meetings With Outside Parties Pursuant 
to Executive Order 12866

AGENCY: Office of Management and Budget.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within 
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is proposing to revise the 
information collection it uses to for members of the public who request 
a meeting with OIRA on rules under review at the time pursuant to 
Executive Order 12866. The information collected would be subject to 
the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) and this notice announces and 
requests comment on OIRA's proposal for such a collection.

DATES: Consideration will be given to all comments received by April 2, 
2019.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments by one of the following methods:
     Website: www.regulations.gov. Direct comments to Docket ID 
OMB-2018-0011.
     Email: [email protected]. Please include in the 
subject line of the email, ``Executive Order 12866 Information 
Collection.''
     Fax: 202-395-5806.
    Comments submitted in response to this notice may be made available 
to the public. For this reason, please do not include in your comments 
information of a confidential nature, such as sensitive personal 
information or proprietary information. If you send an email comment, 
your email address will be automatically captured and included as part 
of the comment that is placed in the public docket and made available 
on the internet. Please note that responses to this public comment 
request containing any routine notice about the confidentiality of the 
communication will be treated as public comments that may be made 
available to the public notwithstanding the inclusion of the routine 
notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lisa Jones, 202-395-5897, 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: Information on Meetings With Outside Parties Pursuant to 
Executive Order 12866.
    Abstract: Executive Order 12866, ``Regulatory Planning and 
Review,'' issued by President Clinton on September 30, 1993, 
establishes and governs the process under which OIRA reviews agency 
draft and proposed final regulatory actions. Consistent with the 
disclosure provisions of Executive Order 12866, OIRA provides 
information about its work related to regulatory reviews on Reginfo.gov 
at www.Reginfo.gov and on OIRA's website at https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/oira. If the OIRA Administrator or his/her designee meets with 
outside parties during a review, the subject, date, and participants of 
the meeting are disclosed on the Reginfo.gov website, as well as any 
materials distributed at such meetings.
    These meetings occur at the initiative and request of an outside 
party. Any member of the public may request a meeting about a 
regulatory action under OIRA review to present their views and may 
invite other outside parties to attend. OIRA invites representatives 
from the agency or agencies issuing the regulatory action. OIRA does 
not take minutes during the meeting but does, however, post on  any 
written materials provided by outside parties during these meetings, 
including the initial meeting request.
    To help ensure transparency associated with meetings pursuant to 
Executive Order 12866, OIRA is proposing to collect--and then post 
publicly--the following information from outside parties that request a 
meeting with OIRA to present their views on a regulatory action 
currently under review:
    1. Names of all attendees who will be present at the meeting from 
the outside party or parties. Each attendee's organization or 
affiliation. If an attendee is representing another organization, 
please provide the name of the

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organization the attendee is representing.
    2. The name of the regulatory action under review on which the 
party would like to present its views.
    3. Electronic copies of all of briefing materials that will be used 
during the presentation.
    4. An acknowledgment by the requesting party that all information 
submitted to OIRA pursuant to this collection and meeting request will 
be made publically available at Reginfo.gov.
    Additionally the contact information (phone number and email) for 
the requesting organization will also be collected in order to confirm 
the meeting with them, but will not be posted. This revision includes 
allowing outside parties to provide the information to OIRA through an 
electronic online form.
    This revision to the information collection will streamline the 
current process for outside parties when requesting a meeting and will 
ensure transparency and accuracy of the docket that OIRA keeps in 
accordance with the disclosure provisions of Executive Order 12866. 
OIRA welcomes any and all public comments on the proposed collection of 
information such as the accuracy of OIRA's burden estimate, the 
practical utility of collecting this information, and whether there are 
additional pieces of information that could be collected from meeting 
requestors to further the disclosure provisions of Executive Order 
12866.
    Current actions: Proposal for revising an existing information 
collection requirement.
    Type of review: Revision.
    Affected public: Individuals and Households, Businesses and 
Organizations, State, Local or Tribal Governments.
    Expected average annual number of respondents: 200.
    Average annual number of responses per respondent: 2.
    Total number of responses annually: 400.
    Burden per response: 30 minutes.
    Total average annual burden: 200 hours.
    Request for comments: OMB anticipates that comments submitted in 
response to this notice will be summarized and/or included in the 
request for OMB approval. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the 
collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of 
the functions of the agency, including whether the information shall 
have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of 
the burden of the collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the 
quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; (d) 
ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on 
respondents, including through the use of automated collection 
techniques or other forms of information technology; and (e) estimates 
of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation, maintenance, and 
purchase of services to provide information. Burden means the total 
time, effort, or financial resources expended by persons to generate, 
maintain, retain, disclose or provide information to or for a Federal 
agency. This includes the time needed to review instructions; to 
develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and systems for the 
purpose of collecting, validating, and verifying information, 
processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and providing 
information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to a 
collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and 
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise 
disclose the information.
    An agency 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.

Dominic J. Mancini,
Deputy Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2019-00701 Filed 1-31-19; 8:45 am]
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