Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 6 / Friday, January 9, 2009 / Notices 963 

Dated: January 2, 2009. 

Matthew McLean, 

Vice President, Congressional and Public 

Affairs, Millennium Challenge Corporation. 

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ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

National Endowment for the Arts; 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The National Endowment for 

the Arts (NEA), 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) [44 

U.S.C. 3506(c)(A)]. 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 can be properly assessed. 

Currently, the NEA is soliciting 

comments concerning the proposed 

information collection to evaluate 

methods of assessing student learning 

arts education programs. A copy of the 

current information collection request 

can be obtained by contacting the office 

listed below in the ADDRESSES section of 

this notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

address section below on or before 

March 5, 2009. The NEA is particularly 

interested in comments which: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

• Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

• Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

• 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 submissions 

of responses. 

ADDRESSES: Sarah Cunningham, 

National Endowment for the Arts, 1100 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Room 703, 

Washington, DC 20506–0001, telephone 

(202) 682–5515 (this is not a toll-free 

number), fax (202) 682–5002. 

Kathy Plowitz-Worden, 

Panel Coordinator, National Endowment for 

the Arts. 

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ARTS AND HUMANITIES 

National Endowment for the Arts; 

Submission of OMB Review: Comment 

Request 

The National Endowment for the Arts 

(NEA) has submitted the following 

public information collection request 

(ICR) to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for review and approval 

in accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 [Pub. L. 104–13, 

44 U.S.C. Chapter 35]. Copies of the ICR, 

with applicable supporting 

documentation, may be obtained by 

contacting Sunil Iyengar via telephone 

at 202–682–5654 (this is not a toll-free 

number) or e-mail at 

research@arts.endow.gov. Individuals 

who use a telecommunications device 

for the deaf (TTY/TDD) may call 202– 

682–5496 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. 

Eastern time, Monday through Friday. 

Comments should be sent to the 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk Officer for the 

National Endowment for the Arts, Office 

of Management and Budget, Room 

10235, Washington, DC 20503, 202– 

395–7316, within 30 days from the date 

of this publication in the Federal 

Register. 

The Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) is particularly interested in 

comments which: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

• Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

• Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

• 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 

responses. 

Agency: National Endowment for the 

Arts. 

Title: Study of Outdoor Arts Festivals. 

OMB Number: New. 

Frequency: One time. 

Affected Public: Festival organizers. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

7769. 

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 16.0 

minutes. 

Total Burden Hours: 2071 hours. 

Total Annualized Capital/Startup 

Costs: 0. 

Total Annual Costs (Operating/ 

Maintaining Systems or Purchasing 

Services): 0. 

Description: The National Endowment 

for the Arts plans to conduct a study of 

outdoor arts festivals in the United 

States. There currently is no single, 

comprehensive research publication or 

database that describes the range and/or 

impact of arts festivals in this country. 

The study proposed here is a twopronged research effort to describe the 

U.S. outdoor festival community— 

among other characteristics, its number, 

types, financing, staffing, regional 

distribution, and artist employment 

patterns. The first prong of the study is 

a national on-line survey of the universe 

of outdoor arts festivals, and the second 

is a series of seven case studies of 

festivals involving site visits, audience 

surveys, interviews with festival 

administrators, focus groups of artists, 

and focus groups of volunteers. 

Festivals in the study may be one-day or 

season-long programs, multidisciplinary or discipline-specific, and 

funded by non-profit or for-profit 

organizations. The activities include 

collecting uniform data from festival 

organizers while still keeping data 

collection burdens to a minimum. 

ADDRESSES: Sunil Iyengar, National 

Endowment for the Arts, 1100 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Room 616, 

Washington, DC 20506–0001, telephone 

(202) 682–5654 (this is not a toll-free 

number), fax (202) 682–5677. 

Kathleen Edwards, 

Support Services Supervisor, Administrative 

Services, National Endowment for the Arts. 

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