[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 144 (Thursday, July 28, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 45297]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-16198]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; 
NIST Generic Clearance for Program Evaluation Data Collections

    The Department of Commerce will submit the following information 
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite the 
general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and 
continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of 
our information collection requirements and minimize the public's 
reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the 
Federal Register on April 5, 2022 during a 60-day comment period. This 
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
    Agency: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 
Commerce.
    Title: NIST Generic Clearance for Program Evaluation Data 
Collections.
    OMB Control Number: 0693-0033.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular submission, extension of a current 
information collection.
    Number of Respondents: 40,000.
    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: 20,000.
    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, proposes to conduct a number of 
surveys--both quantitative and qualitative--designed to evaluate our 
current programs from a customer's perspective. NIST proposes to 
perform program evaluation data 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 the opportunity to express their views on the programs they 
are asked to evaluate. NIST will limit its inquiries 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 of respondents in each activity covered under this 
request.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households; Business or other for-
profit organizations; Not-for-profit institutions; State, Local, or 
Tribal government; Federal government.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: This information collection request may be viewed 
at www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view the Department of 
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of 
this notice on the following website 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 and entering either the title of the collection or the OMB 
Control Number 0693-0033.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2022-16198 Filed 7-27-22; 8:45 am]
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