[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 39 (Tuesday, March 2, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12203-12204]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-04292]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Geological Survey

[GX20RN00COM0011; OMB Control Number 1028-0048]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Did You Feel 
It? Earthquake Questionnaire

AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of Information Collection; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, we, the U.S. 
Geological Survey (USGS) are proposing to renew an information 
collection.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before 
April 1, 2021.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of 
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular 
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function. U.S. 
Geological Survey, Information Collections Officer, 12201 Sunrise 
Valley Drive MS 159, Reston, VA 20192; or by email to [email protected]. Please reference OMB Control Number 1028-
0048 in the subject line of your comments.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request additional information 
about this ICR, contact David Wald by email at [email protected], or by 
telephone at 303-273-8441. You may also view the ICR at http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with the PRA and 5 CFR 
1320.8(d)(1), we provide the general public and other Federal agencies 
with an opportunity to comment on new, proposed, revised, and 
continuing collections of information. This helps us assess the impact 
of our information collection requirements and minimize the public's 
reporting burden. It also helps the public understand our information 
collection requirements and provide the requested data in the desired 
format.
    A Federal Register notice with a 60-day public comment period 
soliciting comments on this collection of information was published on 
September 18, 2020, 85 FR 58383. No comments were received.
    As part of our continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent 
burdens, we are again soliciting comments from the public and other 
Federal agencies on the proposed ICR that is described below. We are 
especially interested in public comment addressing the following:
    (1) Whether or not the collection of information is necessary for 
the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including 
whether or not the information will have practical utility;
    (2) The accuracy of our estimate of the burden for this collection 
of information, including the validity of the methodology and 
assumptions used;
    (3) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and
    (4) How might the agency minimize the burden of the collection of 
information on those who are to respond, including through the use of 
appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological 
collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., 
permitting electronic submission of response.
    Comments that you submit in response to this notice are a matter of 
public record. 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.
    Abstract: The U.S. Geological Survey is required to collect, 
evaluate, publish and distribute information concerning earthquakes. 
Respondents have an opportunity to voluntarily supply information 
concerning the effects of shaking from an earthquake--on themselves, 
buildings, other man-made structures, and ground effects such as 
faulting or landslides. Respondents' observations are interpreted in 
terms of numbers that measure the strength of shaking, and the 
resulting numbers are displayed on maps that are viewable from USGS 
earthquake websites. Observations are submitted via the Felt Report 
questionnaire accessed from the USGS Did You Feel It? Earthquake 
Questionnaire web pages, and may be submitted via computer or mobile 
phone. Respondents are asked to provide information on the location to 
which the report pertains. The locations may, at the respondent's 
option, be given imprecisely (city-name or postal Zip Code) or 
precisely (street address, geographic coordinates, or current location 
determined by the user's mobile phone). Low resolution maps of shaking 
based on both precise and imprecise observations are published for all 
earthquakes for which observations are submitted. For earthquakes felt 
by many respondents, the observations that are associated with more 
precise locations are used in the preparation of higher resolution maps 
of earthquake shaking.
    We will protect information from respondents considered proprietary 
under the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) and implementing 
regulations (43 CFR part 2), and under regulations at 30 CFR 250.197, 
``Data and information to be made available to the public or for 
limited inspection.'' Responses are voluntary. No questions of a 
``sensitive'' nature are asked. We will release data collected on these 
forms only in formats that do not include proprietary information 
volunteered by respondents.
    Title of Collection: Did You Feel It? Earthquake Questionnaire.
    OMB Control Number: 1028-0048.
    Form Number: None.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents/Affected Public: General public.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Respondents: 200,000.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 300,000.
    Estimated Completion Time per Response: 3 minutes on average.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 15,000 hours.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Frequency of Collection: On occasion, after each earthquake.
    Total Estimated Annual Non-hour Burden Cost: $0.00.
    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.

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    The authority for this action is the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).

Brian Shiro,
Associate Director, Geologic Hazards Science Center.
[FR Doc. 2021-04292 Filed 3-1-21; 8:45 am]
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