Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 43 / Monday, March 8, 2021 / Notices 13401 

Issued: March 2, 2021. 

Lisa Barton, 

Secretary to the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2021–04696 Filed 3–5–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7020–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request; Generic 

Clearance for Formative Data 

Collections for Research and 

Evaluation, New Collection 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Policy, Chief Evaluation 

Office, Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor 

(DOL), as part of its continuing effort to 

reduce paperwork and respondent 

burden, conducts a preclearance 

consultation program to provide the 

general public and federal agencies with 

an opportunity to comment on proposed 

and/or continuing collections of 

information in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA95). This program helps to ensure 

that requested data can be provided in 

the desired format, reporting burden 

(time and financial resources) is 

minimized, collection instruments are 

clearly understood, and the impact of 

collection requirements on respondents 

is properly assessed. Currently, the 

Department of Labor is soliciting 

comments concerning the collection of 

data for formative data collections for 

research and evaluations. A copy of the 

proposed Information Collection 

Request (ICR) can be obtained by 

contacting the office listed below in the 

addressee section of this notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

addressee section below on or before 

May 7, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either one of the following methods: 

Email: ChiefEvaluationOffice@

dol.gov; Mail or Courier: Chayun Yi, 

Chief Evaluation Office, OASP, U.S. 

Department of Labor, Room S–2312, 200 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20210. Instructions: Please submit 

one copy of your comments by only one 

method. All submissions received must 

include the agency name and OMB 

Control Number identified above for 

this information collection. Comments, 

including any personal information 

provided, become a matter of public 

record. They will also be summarized 

and/or included in the request for OMB 

approval of the information collection 

request. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Chayun Yi by email at 

ChiefEvaluationOffice@dol.gov or by 

phone at (202) 693–5084. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background: The Chief Evaluation 

Office (CEO) of the U.S. Department of 

Labor (DOL) intends to design and 

conduct evaluations of DOL-funded 

programs. Under this generic clearance, 

DOL would engage in a variety of 

formative data collections with 

researchers, practitioners, TA providers, 

service providers and potential 

participants throughout the field to 

fulfill the following goals: (1) Inform the 

development of CEO research, (2) 

maintain a research agenda that is 

rigorous and relevant, (3) ensure that 

research products are as current as 

possible and (4) inform the provision of 

technical assistance. CEO envisions 

using a variety of techniques including 

semi-structured discussions, focus 

groups, surveys, and telephone or inperson interviews, in order to reach 

these goals. Following standard OMB 

requirements, DOL will submit a change 

request for each individual data 

collection activity under this generic 

clearance. Each request will include the 

individual instrument(s), a justification 

specific to the individual information 

collection, and any supplementary 

documents. OMB should review 

requests within 10 days of submission. 

Type of Review: New information 

collection request. 

OMB Control Number: 1290–0NEW. 

Affected Public: The populations to be 

studied include key stakeholder groups 

involved in DOL projects and programs, 

state or local government officials, 

service providers, participants in DOL 

programs or similar comparison groups, 

experts in fields pertaining to DOL 

research and programs, or others 

involved in conducting DOL research or 

evaluation projects. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this request will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget approval of the 

information collection request; they will 

also become a matter of public record. 

ESTIMATED ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS

Type of instrument 

(form/activity) 

Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Total number 

of responses 

Average 

burden time 

per response 

(hours) 

Estimated 

burden hours 

Semi-structured discussions and focus groups ................... 3,000 1 3,000 1 3,000 

Interviews ............................................................................. 1,500 1 1,500 1 1,500 

Questionnaires/surveys ........................................................ 1,000 1 1,000 1 1,000 

Total .............................................................................. 5,500 ........................ 5,500 ........................ 5,500 

Christina Yancey, 

Chief Evaluation Officer, U.S. Department of 

Labor. 

[FR Doc. 2021–04685 Filed 3–5–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–HX–P 

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Request for Information: Science, 

Technology, Engineering, Art, and 

Mathematics at the Poles 

AGENCY: National Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Request for information. 

SUMMARY: The National Science 

Foundation’s (NSF) Office of Polar 

Programs (OPP) and the Education and 

Human Resources (EHR) Directorate 

request input from interested parties on 

the goals, values, and approaches for 

managing the Antarctic Artist and 

Writers (AAW) Program and possibly 

expanding that program to include the 

Arctic. In addition, OPP and EHR 

request input into whether the NSF 

program which selects and sends 

educators to the Poles should be under 

a common management structure. This 

RFI will help inform NSF as it considers 

potential avenues for managing and 


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