[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 200 (Tuesday, October 18, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 63042]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-22624]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; Weather.gov Visitor Experience Survey

    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 July 19, 2022 (87 FR 43007) during a 60-day comment 
period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public 
comments.
    Agency: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 
Commerce.
    Title: Weather.gov Visitor Experience Survey.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-XXXX.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular submission (new information collection).
    Number of Respondents: 14,750.
    Average Hours per Response: 10 Minutes.
    Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,508.
    Needs and Uses: The data collection is sponsored by DOC/NOAA/
National Weather Service (NWS)/Office of Dissemination (DISS) in 
consultation with the NWS Communications Division. Weather.gov is the 
main entry point to National Weather Service (NWS) forecasts, warnings, 
and other information for a diverse user community, including the 
public, partners and emergency managers, academia, researchers, and 
employees. The user interface is intended to serve many purposes for 
these audiences.
    The Weather.gov Survey is permitted under 15 U.S.C. ch. 111, 
Weather Research and Forecasting Information. It also advances the NWS 
Strategic Plan (2019-2022) ``Transformative Impact-Based Decision 
Support Services (IDSS) and Research to Operations and Operations to 
Research (R2O/O2R). The Survey also addresses the NWS Weather Ready 
Nation (WRN) Roadmap (2013) sections 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.8, and 
3.1.4.
    The purpose of this collection is to help determine the appropriate 
web content for Weather.gov so the customer experience can be improved 
and the content can be better accessed and used. NWS is looking to 
improve functionality, ease of use, and formatting but feedback on any 
other areas of Weather.gov that NWS should consider updating is welcome 
as well. The collection will create a high-level data requirements 
document that identifies a set of high-priority NWS products, services, 
and observations that provide mission-critical, timely, and reliable 
information to make decisions with when seconds count. The document 
will also identify high-level partner requirements for accessibility 
(mobile versus desktop), timeliness, and reliability.
    This information would be collected on a one-off basis and analyzed 
by Forrester Research, who has assisted NWS in creating a survey 
instrument and would provide NWS with a summary of findings, raw data 
and access to interactive ``dashboards'', or tools, to visualize the 
aggregated data. Respondents include the general public, defined as 
(adults ages 18+) who reside in the United States, as well as NWS 
partners. Forrester will oversee recruitment of U.S. adults by an 
online market research company that aggregates large panels of people 
who sign up to complete internet surveys. Respondents will be asked 
questions about their preferred way of getting weather information 
(including weather on regular days and during severe/hazardous 
weather), their use of Weather.gov and other weather websites, interest 
in different types of weather information on a website, priorities and 
preferences in accessing weather-related information online, and 
preferred format of receiving weather information. This data collection 
serves many purposes, including gaining a better understanding of the 
online weather information needs (including information about hazardous 
weather) of different customer groups, including historically 
underserved and socially vulnerable communities, how they prefer to 
receive this information, how they would like the main page of 
Weather.gov to be organized, what additional functionality they expect 
that would make them feel better prepared for hazardous weather, and 
has the potential to explore possible correlations and causal 
relationships with other observed variables of interest. This data will 
be used by the OSTI in NWS to develop a set of website content 
requirements to improve the structure and navigation on Weather.gov.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Frequency: Once.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: 15 U.S.C. ch. 111, Weather Research and 
Forecasting Information.
    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 the title of the collection.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2022-22624 Filed 10-17-22; 8:45 am]
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