[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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