Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 39 / Monday, February 28, 2011 / Notices 10939 

Federal Actions to Address 

Environmental Justice in Minority 

Populations and Low Income 

Populations; E.O. 13175 Consultation 

and Coordination with Indian Tribal 

Governments; E.O. 11514 Protection and 

Enhancement of Environmental Quality; 

E.O. 13112 Invasive Species. 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Number 20.205, Highway Planning 

and Construction. The regulations 

implementing Executive Order 12372 

regarding intergovernmental consultation on 

Federal programs and activities apply to this 

program.) 

Authority: 23 U.S.C. 139(l)(1). 

Issued on: February 22, 2011. 

Michelle Eraut, 

Environmental Program Manager, Salem, 

Oregon. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4328 Filed 2–25–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Railroad Administration 

[Docket No. FRA–2011–0001–N–2] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Generic Clearance 

for the Collection of Qualitative 

Feedback on Agency Service Delivery 

AGENCY: Federal Railroad 

Administration (FRA), Department of 

Transportation. 

ACTION: 30-Day notice of submission of 

information collection for approval by 

the Office of Management and Budget 

and request for comments. 

SUMMARY: As part of a Federal 

Government-wide effort to streamline 

the process to seek feedback from the 

public on service delivery, FRA has 

submitted a Generic Information 

Collection Request (Generic ICR): 

‘‘Generic Clearance for the Collection of 

Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service 

Delivery’’ to OMB for approval under 

the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before March 30, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments regarding 

these information collections to the 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget, 725 Seventeenth Street, NW., 

Washington, DC, 20503, Attention: FRA 

Desk Officer. Alternatively, comments 

may be sent via e-mail to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs 

(OIRA), Office of Management and 

Budget, at the following address: 

oira_submissions@omb.eop.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request additional information, please 

contact Ms. Kimberly Toone, Office of 

Information Technology, Federal 

Railroad Administration, 1200 New 

Jersey Ave., SE., Mail Stop 17, 

Washington, DC 20590 (telephone: (202) 

493–6132) or Mr. Robert Brogan, Office 

of Safety Planning and Evaluation 

Division, RRS–21, Federal Railroad 

Administration, 1200 New Jersey Ave., 

Mail Stop 17, Washington, DC 20590 

(telephone: (202) 493–6292). (These 

telephone numbers are not toll-free.) 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Generic Clearance for the 

Collection of Qualitative Feedback on 

Agency Service Delivery. 

Abstract: The information collection 

activity will garner qualitative customer 

and stakeholder feedback in an efficient, 

timely manner, in accordance with the 

Administration’s commitment to 

improving service delivery. By 

qualitative feedback, FRA means 

information that provides useful 

insights on perceptions and opinions, 

but are not statistical surveys that yield 

quantitative results that can be 

generalized to the population of study. 

This feedback will provide insights into 

customer or stakeholder perceptions, 

experiences and expectations, provide 

an early warning of issues with service, 

or focus attention on areas where 

communication, training or changes in 

operations might improve delivery of 

products or services. These collections 

will allow for ongoing, collaborative and 

actionable communications between the 

Agency and its customers and 

stakeholders. It will also allow feedback 

to contribute directly to the 

improvement of program management. 

The solicitation of feedback will target 

areas such as: Timeliness, 

appropriateness, content and accuracy 

of information, usefulness of 

information, courtesy, efficiency of 

service delivery, and resolution of 

issues with service delivery. Responses 

will be assessed to plan and inform 

efforts to improve or maintain the 

quality of service offered to the public. 

If this information is not collected, vital 

feedback from customers and 

stakeholders on the Agency’s services 

will be unavailable. 

FRA will only submit a collection of 

information for approval under this 

generic clearance if it meets the 

following conditions: 

• The collections are voluntary; 

• The collections are low-burden for 

respondents (based on considerations of 

total burden hours, total number of 

respondents, or burden-hours per 

respondent) and are low-cost for both 

respondents and the Federal 

Government; 

• The collections of information are 

non-controversial and do not raise 

issues of concern to other Federal 

agencies; 

• Any collection is targeted to the 

solicitation of opinions from 

respondents who have experience with 

the program or may have experience 

with the program in the near future; 

• Personally identifiable information 

(PII) is collected only to the extent 

necessary and is not retained; 

• Information gathered is intended to 

be used only internally for general 

management purposes and is not 

intended for release outside of the 

agency (if released, the agency must 

indicate the qualitative nature of the 

information); 

• Information gathered will not be 

used for purposes of substantially 

informing influential policy decisions; 

and 

• Information gathered will yield 

qualitative information; the collections 

will not be designed or expected to 

yield statistically reliable results or used 

as though the results are generalizable to 

the population of study. 

Feedback collected under this generic 

clearance will provide useful 

information, but it will not yield data 

that can be generalized to the overall 

population. This type of generic 

clearance for qualitative information 

will not be used for quantitative 

information collections that are 

designed to yield reliably actionable 

results, such as monitoring trends over 

time or documenting program 

performance. Such data uses require 

more rigorous designs that address: The 

target population to which 

generalizations will be made, the 

sampling frame, the sample design 

(including stratification and clustering), 

the precision requirements or power 

calculations that justify the proposed 

sample size, the expected response rate, 

methods for assessing potential nonresponse bias, the protocols for data 

collection, and any testing procedures 

that were or will be undertaken prior to 

fielding the study. Depending on the 

degree of influence the results are likely 

to have, such collections may still be 

eligible for submission for other generic 

mechanisms that are designed to yield 

quantitative results. 

As a general matter, information 

collections will not result in any new 

system of records containing privacy 

information and will not ask questions 

of a sensitive nature, such as sexual 

behavior and attitudes, religious beliefs, 

and other matters that are commonly 

considered private. 


srobinson on DSKHWCL6B1PROD with NOTICES
10940 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 39 / Monday, February 28, 2011 / Notices 

1The 60-day notice included the following 

estimate of the aggregate burden hours for this 

generic clearance Federal-wide: 

Average Expected Annual Number of activities: 

25,000. 

Average number of Respondents per Activity: 

200. 

Annual responses: 5,000,000. 

Frequency of Response: Once per request. 

Average minutes per response: 30. 

Burden hours: 2,500,000. 

On December 22, 2010, OMB—on 

behalf of DOT/FRA and other listed 

Executive Agencies—published a 60- 

day notice in the Federal Register 

soliciting comment on ICRs for which 

the agency was seeking OMB approval. 

75 FR 80542. DOT/FRA received no 

comments in response to this notice. 

The summary below describes the 

nature of the information collection 

requirements (ICRs) and the expected 

projected burden estimates over the next 

three years 1 for the ICR being submitted 

for clearance by OMB as required by the 

PRA. 

Current Actions: New collection of 

information. 

Type of Review: New Collection. 

Affected Public: Individuals and 

Households, Businesses and 

Organizations, State, Local or Tribal 

Government. 

Average Expected Annual Number of 

activities: 6. 

Respondents: 6,300. 

Annual responses: 2,100. 

Frequency of Response: Once per 

request. 

Average minutes per response: 10 

minutes. 

Burden hours: 1,062 hours. 

Comments are invited on the 

following: Whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Department, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; the accuracy of the 

Department’s estimate of the burden of 

the proposed information collection; 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

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 

Office of Management and Budget 

control number. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on February 22, 

2011. 

Kimberly Coronel, 

Director, Office of Financial Management, 

Federal Railroad Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4331 Filed 2–25–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials 

Safety Administration 

Notice of Delays in Processing of 

Special Permits Applications 

AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous 

Materials Safety Administration 

(PHMSA), DOT. 

ACTION: List of Applications Delayed 

more than 180 days. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

requirements of 49 U.S.C. 5117(c), 

PHMSA is publishing the following list 

of special permit applications that have 

been in process for 180 days or more. 

The reason(s) for delay and the expected 

completion date for action on each 

application is provided in association 

with each identified application. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Delmer F. Billings, Director, Office of 

Hazardous Materials Special Permits 

and Approvals, Pipeline and Hazardous 

Materials Safety Administration, U.S. 

Department of Transportation, East 

Building, PHH–30, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, Southeast, Washington, DC 

20590–0001, (202) 366–4535. 

Key to ‘‘Reason for Delay’’ 

1. Awaiting additional information 

from applicant. 

2. Extensive public comment under 

review. 

3. Application is technically complex 

and is of significant impact or 

precedent-setting and requires extensive 

analysis. 

4. Staff review delayed by other 

priority issues or volume of special 

permit applications. 

Meaning of Application Number 

Suffixes 

N—New application. 

M—Modification request. 

PM—Party to application with 

modification request. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on February 18, 

2011. 

Donald Burger, 

Chief, Special Permits and Approvals Branch. 

MODIFICATION TO SPECIAL PERMITS

Application No. Applicant Reason for 

delay 

Estimated date of 

completion 

14167–M ......................................... Trinityrail, Dallas, TX ............................................................................ 4 03–31–2011 

6293–M .......................................... ATK Space Systems, Inc., (Former Grantee: ATK Thiokol, Inc.), 

Corine, UT.

4 03–31–2011 

14741–M ......................................... Weatherford International, Fort Worth, TX ........................................... 4 03–31–2011 

14650–M ......................................... Air Transport International, L.L.C., Little Rock, AR .............................. 4 03–31–2011 

14926–M ......................................... Lynden Air Cargo, Anchorage, AK ....................................................... 4 11–30–2010 

8826–M .......................................... Phoenix Air Group, Inc., Cartersville, GA ............................................. 4 03–31–2011 

10869–M ......................................... Norris Cylinder Company, Longview, TX ............................................. 4 03–31–2011 

10049–M ......................................... Martin Transport, Inc., Kilgore, TX ....................................................... 4 01–31–2011 

8815–M .......................................... Florex Explosives, Inc., Crystal River, FL ............................................ 4 01–31–2011 

14447–M ......................................... SNF Holding Company, Riceboro, GA ................................................. 4 01–31–2011 

12561–M ......................................... Rhodia, Inc., Cranbury, NJ ................................................................... 4 01–31–2011 

14617–M ......................................... Western International Gas & Cylinders, Inc., Bellville, TX ................... 4 01–31–2011 

3121–M .......................................... Department of Defense, Scott Air Force Base, IL ............................... 4 02–15–2011 

14763–M ......................................... Weatherford International, Forth Worth, TX ......................................... 4 02–15–2011 

14909–M ......................................... Lake Clark Air, Inc., Port Alsworth, AK ................................................ 4 03–31–2011 

14926–M ......................................... Lynden Air Cargo, Anchorage, AK ....................................................... 4 03–31–2011 

14860–M ......................................... Alaska Airlines, Seattle, WA ................................................................. 4 01–31–2011 

10656–M ......................................... The Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors, Inc., Frankfort, KY.4 04–30–2011 


srobinson on DSKHWCL6B1PROD with NOTICES