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Submit all parts of the application at 

one time. Do not submit Letters of 

Commitment separately. No proposals 

will be accepted by facsimile machine. 

Use an 11-point font or larger. All forms 

and application template can be found 

at http://www.na.fs.fed.us/werc under 

2013 Statewide Wood Energy Teams. 

A complete application includes the 

following items: 

1. SWET Project Application, Part 1: 

Cooperator Contact Information 

2. SWET Project Application, Part 2: 

Narrative Proposal and Program of 

Work 

3. SWET Project Application, Part 3: 

Financial Forms 

A maximum of 11 pages per proposal 

for the items listed below will be 

accepted, 

(1) Qualifications and Summary 

Portfolio of Team Members (Limit 1.5 

Pages) 

• Include each team member’s name, 

affiliation, and years of experience in 

wood energy, including combustion 

technology, wood sourcing, financing, 

and community outreach. 

• Describe outreach to underserved 

communities for participation or what 

has been done to incorporate 

participation from underserved 

communities. 

• Include a description of prior 

working relationships and 

accomplishments as a team, including 

Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs), 

charters, or other formal agreements. 

(2) Project Narrative (3.5 Pages) 

• Describe how the team will be 

managed and which individuals will fill 

which roles. 

• Describe the team’s experience 

leveraging funds and its plan to leverage 

funds to support the team’s operation 

and achieve the required 1:1 match. 

• Describe methods for selecting 

areas of focus (e.g. geographic clusters, 

business sectors or larger projects to be 

targeted). 

• Describe methods for solicitation 

and selection of projects. 

• Include the proposed geographic 

area where the team will work and the 

number of years requested for the 

agreement. 

(3) Program of Work (3.5 Pages) 

• Describe statement of need and 

specific goals and objectives. 

• Describe projected 

accomplishments and deliverables, 

including estimated number of systems 

planned, under construction, and 

installed. 

• Describe communication and 

outreach activities that create social 

acceptance in communities where 

projects are targeted. 

• Describe monitoring plan, including 

annual and final reports provided to 

agreement administrator, which will 

include summaries of community 

outreach activities, preliminary 

assessments, resource inventories, 

success stories, etc. 

• Describe timeframe for activities 

described. 

(4) Budget Summary and Justification in 

Support of SF 424A (2 Pages) 

• Address proposed expenditures in 

relation to the proposed program of 

work. 

• Include cash and in kind match, 

other federal funds and staff time that 

may help accomplish the program of 

work, and fee structure for fee-forservices, if planned. 

(5) Project Outcomes, Annual Progress 

Reports and Final Reports (0.5 Pages) 

• List anticipated project outcomes 

and accomplishments, as well as 

desired results. 

• Describe types of reports, 

documents, and success stories that will 

be provided at the end of the project to 

be posted to the WERC Web site. 

• Annual progress reports are 

required on an annual calendar year 

basis. The reports will provide an 

overview of accomplishments by goals 

and objectives included in the approved 

Cooperative Agreement narrative. 

• A detailed final progress report is 

required and should include the 

following items: 

Æ Final Summary Report—A brief 

overview of accomplishments by goals 

and objectives included in the approved 

Cooperative Agreement narrative. 

Æ Final Accomplishment Report— 

includes various assessments, reports, 

case studies and related documents that 

resulted from project activities. 

Final reports will be added to the 

WERC Statewide Wood Energy Team 

Web site. 

7. Appendices 

The following information shall be 

included in appendices: 

a. Letters of Commitment from Team 

Members or Institutions: Letters of 

commitment shall be included in an 

appendix and are intended to display 

willingness to participate in the wood 

energy team. These letters shall include 

commitments of cash or in-kind services 

from all those listed in the SF 424 and 

SF 424A. Each letter of support is 

limited to one page in length. 

b. Documentation of Team Member or 

Institution Experience with Wood 

Energy: Additional information about 

team member or institutional experience 

with wood energy should be provided 

in this appendix. 

c. Documentation of Formal 

Agreements, Charters, etc. (optional): 

Provide any written formal 

organizational framework that will 

guide the operation of the team such as 

MOUs, State Incorporation papers, or 

other instruments which establish the 

capacity and ability of the team to 

function and manage their actions. 

d. Federal Funds: List all other 

Federal funds received for this Wood 

Energy Team within the last three years. 

List agency, program name, and dollar 

amount. 

e. Administrative Forms: SF 424, SF 

424A, SF 424B and AD 1047, 1049, 3030 

and certificate regarding lobbying 

activities are standard forms that shall 

be included in the application. These 

forms can be accessed at http:// 

www.na.fs.fed.us/werc under 2013 

Statewide Wood Energy Teams. 

Dated: July 1, 2013. 

James Hubbard, 

Deputy Chief, State and Private Forestry. 

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COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS 

Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting 

of the Massachusetts Advisory 

Committee 

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to 

the provisions of the rules and 

regulations of the U.S. Commission on 

Civil Rights (Commission), and the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA), that a planning meeting of the 

Massachusetts Advisory Committee to 

the Commission will convene at 12:00 

p.m. (ET) on Wednesday, July 24, 2013, 

at the McCarter and English Law Office, 

265 Franklin Street, Boston, MA 02110. 

The purpose of the meeting is for project 

planning. 

Members of the public are entitled to 

submit written comments. The 

comments must be received in the 

regional office by Monday, August 26, 

2013. Comments may be mailed to the 

Eastern Regional Office, U.S. 

Commission on Civil Rights, 1331 

Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 1150, 

Washington, DC 20425, faxed to (202) 

376–7548, or emailed to ero@usccr.gov. 

Persons who desire additional 

information may contact the Eastern 

Regional Office at 202–376–7533. 

Persons needing accessibility services 

should contact the Eastern Regional 

Office at least 10 working days before 

the scheduled date of the meeting. 

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Records generated from this meeting 

may be inspected and reproduced at the 

Eastern Regional Office, as they become 

available, both before and after the 

meeting. Persons interested in the work 

of this advisory committee are advised 

to go to the Commission’s Web site, 

www.usccr.gov, or to contact the Eastern 

Regional Office at the above phone 

number, email or street address. 

The meetings will be conducted 

pursuant to the provisions of the rules 

and regulations of the Commission and 

FACA. 

Dated in Washington, DC, on July 2, 2013. 

David Mussatt, 

Acting Chief, Regional Programs 

Coordination Unit. 

[FR Doc. 2013–16336 Filed 7–8–13; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for clearance the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

chapter 35). 

Agency: U.S. Census Bureau. 

Title: Generic Clearance for 

Questionnaire Pretesting Research. 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0725. 

Form Number(s): Various. 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Burden Hours: 16,500 over the next 

three years. 

Number of Respondents: 5,500 

annually. 

Average Hours per Response: 1 hour. 

Needs and Uses: In recent years, there 

has been an increased interest among 

federal agencies and others in the 

importance of testing questionnaires. 

This interest has been spurred by a 

recognition that the traditional methods 

of pretesting are weak tools for 

evaluating questionnaires and 

procedures. These methods consist of a 

small ‘‘hothouse’’ field test 

accompanied by interviewer debriefing, 

and the information collected through 

their use is quite limited in its ability to 

detect and diagnose problems with the 

instruments and the procedures being 

tested. 

In response to this recognition, new 

methods have come into popular use, 

which are useful for identifying 

questionnaire and procedural problems, 

suggesting solutions, and measuring the 

relative effectiveness of alternative 

solutions. Through the use of these 

kinds of techniques, employed routinely 

in the testing phase of Census Bureau 

surveys, questionnaires can be 

simplified for respondents, respondent 

burden can be reduced, and the quality 

of the questionnaires used in continuing 

and one-time surveys can be improved. 

Thus an increase in the quality of the 

data collected through these surveys can 

be achieved as well. 

In September 1991, the Census 

Bureau requested and received a generic 

clearance (Number 0607–0725) on an 

experimental basis, which relaxed some 

of the time constraints and enabled the 

Census Bureau to begin conducting 

extended cognitive and questionnaire 

design research as part of testing for its 

censuses and surveys. The clearance 

covered data collections in the 

demographic, economic, and decennial 

areas of the Bureau, and specifically 

applied to research that is focused on 

questionnaire design and procedures 

aimed at reducing measurement errors 

in surveys. Research on paying 

respondents was specifically excluded 

from the clearance. As part of the 

experimental clearance, the Census 

Bureau submitted to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) a report 

that contained indicators of the work 

that was conducted under the clearance. 

At the end of the experimental period, 

the Census Bureau requested and 

received a three-year renewal of the 

clearance (through December 1995), 

covering the same kinds of research 

activities. As part of the clearance, the 

Census Bureau has submitted to OMB a 

report of pretesting activities at the end 

of each year of the clearance. 

Subsequently, the Census Bureau has 

received six more three-year renewals of 

the generic clearance for pretesting 

(through August 2013). The current 

clearance contains approval for three 

additional types of activities: Research 

about incentives, expanded field tests 

conducted to include split sample 

questionnaire experiments in multiple 

panels, and usability testing of 

electronic instruments. 

At this time, the Census Bureau is 

seeking another three-year renewal of 

the generic clearance for pretesting, 

with the same conditions as the 

previous clearance. This will enable the 

Census Bureau to continue providing 

support for pretesting activities, which 

is important given the length of time 

required to plan the activities. 

The specific methods proposed for 

coverage by this clearance are described 

below. Also outlined are the procedures 

in place for keeping the Economics and 

Statistics Administration and OMB 

informed about the identity of the 

surveys and the nature of the research 

activities being conducted. 

The methods proposed for use in 

questionnaire development are as 

follows: 

Field test. For the purposes of this 

clearance, we are defining field tests as 

small data collection efforts of 500 cases 

or less, conducted among either 

purposive or statistically representative 

samples, for which evaluation of the 

questionnaire and/or procedures is the 

main objective and no plans to publish 

the data other than for purely 

methodological purposes are 

envisioned. 

Field tests are an essential component 

of this clearance package because they 

serve as the vehicle for conducting 

standardized behavior coding of the 

interaction between the respondent and 

the interviewer. This methodology does 

not require any additional data 

collection above and beyond the field 

test—it involves applying a 

standardized coding scheme to the 

completion of a field interview, either 

by a coder using a tape-recording of the 

interview or by a ‘‘live’’ observer at the 

time of the interview. The coding 

scheme is designed to identify 

situations that occur during the 

interview that reflect problems with the 

questionnaire. For example, if 

respondents frequently interrupt the 

interviewer before the question is 

completed, the question may be too 

long. If respondents frequently give 

inadequate answers, this suggests there 

are some other problems with the 

question. Quantitative data derived from 

this type of standardized coding scheme 

can provide valuable information to 

identify problem areas in a 

questionnaire, and research (‘‘New 

Techniques for Pretesting Survey 

Questions’’ by Cannell, Kalton, 

Oksenberg, Bischoping, and Fowler, 

1989) has demonstrated that this is a 

more objective and reliable method of 

identifying problems than the 

traditional interviewer debriefing, 

which is typically the sole tool used to 

evaluate the results of a traditional field 

test. 

Interviewer debriefing has advantages 

as well, since it utilizes the knowledge 

of the employees who have the closest 

contact with our respondents. In 

conjunction with other methods, we 

plan to use this method in our field tests 

to collect information about how 

interviewers react to the survey 

instruments. 

Field tests conducted under this 

clearance will involve either purposive 

or statistically representative samples. 

Under this clearance a variety of surveys 

will be pretested, and the exact nature 

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