8490 Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 25 / Wednesday, February 6, 2013 / Notices 

ESTIMATED RESPONDENT BURDEN FOR RURAL ESTABLISHMENT INNOVATION SURVEY

Survey Sample 

size Freq 

Responses Non-response or ineligible Total 

burden 

hours Response 

count 

Frequency 

× count 

Minute/ 

response 

Burden 

hours 

Response 

count 

Frequency 

× count 

Minute/ 

response 

Burden 

hours 

Pilot Study ............................. 4,000 1 2,272 2,272 33.5 1,269 1,728 1,728 18.7 539 1,808 

Full Study .............................. 30,000 1 17,040 17,040 33.5 9,521 12,960 12,960 18.7 4,040 13,561 

Total ............................... 34000 ............ ................ .................... ................ 13,600 ................ .................... ................ 1,700 15,369 

Dated: January 25, 2013. 

Mary Bohman, 

Administrator, Economic Research Service. 

[FR Doc. 2013–02606 Filed 2–5–13; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Economic Research Service 

Notice of Intent To Request Revision of 

the Previously Requested 

Experimental Economic Research—A 

New Generic Clearance for Information 

Collection 

AGENCY: Economic Research Service. 

ACTION: Notice of changes and request 

for comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) implementing regulations, this 

notice announces changes that the 

Economic Research Service intends to 

make to a previously request for a new 

generic clearance vehicle for 

information collection, namely 

Experimental Economic Research. On 

December 2, 2011 and April 24, 2012, 

ERS published two Notices of 

solicitation of comments on the 

aforementioned new information 

collection in the Federal Register (76 FR 

75521–75522, December 2, 2011; 77 FR 

24455, April 24, 2012). Although ERS 

did not receive any comments from the 

general public during the respective 

commenting periods, it has, since then, 

engaged in extensive discussions with 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) regarding the nature and scope of 

the study and the appropriateness and 

practicability of the proposed protection 

for respondent information. As a result, 

ERS intends to make four changes to the 

aforementioned information collection. 

Details of the changes are discussed in 

the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section 

below. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by March 8, 2013 to be assured 

consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Address all comments 

concerning this notice to Nathaniel 

Higgins, Resource and Rural Economics 

Division, Economic Research Service, 

U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1400 

Independence Ave. SW., Mail Stop 

1800, Washington, DC 20250–1800. 

Comments may also be submitted via 

fax at 202–245–4847 or via email to 

nhiggins@ers.usda.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nathaniel Higgins, using the contact 

information listed in the ADDRESSES

section above. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 2 

December 2011 the Economic Research 

Service (ERS) published a notice and 

request for comments pursuant to its 

intent to seek Office of Management and 

Budget Approval for a new information 

collection (76 FR 75521–75522) [‘‘60- 

day notice’’]. In that notice ERS stated 

that a number of research techniques, 

including laboratory and field 

techniques, exploratory interviews, pilot 

experiments and respondent debriefing, 

would be used to collect to inform or 

evaluate policies. ERS stated that the 

number of respondents would be 1,800 

and the maximum total burden hours 

would be 2,300. Additionally, ERS 

stated that it complies with OMB 

Implementation Guidance, 

‘‘Implementation Guidance for Title V 

of the E–Government Act, Confidential 

Information Protection and Statistical 

Efficiency Act of 2002 (CIPSEA)’’ (72 FR 

33362, June 15, 2007). In a subsequent 

notice announcing that the collection 

had been submitted to OMB for 

consideration (77 FR 24455–34456, 

April 24, 2012) [‘‘30-day notice’’] ERS 

stated that the number of respondents 

would be 5,400 and the total burden 

hours would be 6,900. 

The intent of this notice is to 

announce four changes to the clearance 

sought by ERS: (1) The request is being 

sought as a pilot of the concept of using 

a generic approval mechanism for the 

type of experiments listed above and, as 

such, experiments will be limited to 

only two topic areas at this time 

(conservation and nutrition); (2) ERS 

does not intend to use the information 

collected under this approval for 

purposes of developing or evaluating 

policy; (3) ERS does not intend to 

invoke CIPSEA for the collection, but 

instead intends to protect respondent 

information under the Privacy Act of 

1974 and the E-Government Act of 2002, 

(4) ERS would like to amend the 

number of respondents to 6,900 and the 

number of burden hours to 7,025. 

The complexity and cost necessary to 

invoke CIPSEA is not justified given the 

nature of the collection; the collections 

would include a very limited amount of 

personally-identifiable information (PII), 

and would generally be designed to be 

hosted in university computer labs, 

where CIPSEA compliance could not be 

assured. Consistent with the Privacy Act 

and the E-Government Act, a Systems of 

Records Notice (SORN) and a Privacy 

Impact Assessment (PIA) will be 

submitted for approval, as appropriate. 

The SORN and PIA will document the 

ways in which participant personally 

identifiable information will be 

collected, stored, and accessed. Data 

will be managed for research purposes 

only. 

Specific details regarding information 

handling will be specified in individual 

submissions under this generic 

clearance, but will conform to these 

broad guidelines. 

This notice gives the public the 

opportunity to comment on: (1) The 

appropriate and reasonable invocation 

of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended 

and the E-Government Act of 2002 to 

assure that personal information 

collected by Federal agencies is 

protected, and (2) the increase in the 

number of respondents and the burden 

hours proposed by ERS. Comments 

should be sent to the address in the 

preamble. All responses to this notice 

will be summarized and included in the 

request for OMB approval. All 

comments will also become a matter of 

public record. 

Dated:January 29, 2013. 

Mary Bohman, 

Administrator, Economic Research Service. 

[FR Doc. 2013–02607 Filed 2–5–13; 8:45 am] 

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