52708 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 169 / Thursday, August 30, 2012 / 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. 

Average Responses: 5,000,000. 

Frequency of Responses: Once per request. 

Average Minutes per Response: 30. 

Burden hours: 2,500,000. 

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Department published in the Federal 

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feature at: www.federalregister.gov. 

Specifically, through the advanced 

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your search to documents published by 

the Department. 

Dated: August 27, 2012. 

Arne Duncan, 

Secretary of Education. 

[FR Doc. 2012–21446 Filed 8–29–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Bonneville Power Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Generic Clearance 

for the Collection of Qualitative 

Feedback on Agency Service Delivery 

AGENCY: Bonneville Power 

Administration (BPA), DOE. 

ACTION: 30-Day notice of submission of 

information collection approval from 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) 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, the 

Bonneville Power Administration has 

submitted a Generic Information 

Collection request (Generic ICR): 

‘‘Generic Clearance for the Collection of 

Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service 

Delivery’’ to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for approval under 

the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 

U.S.C. et seq.). 

DATES: Comments must be submitted by 

September 30, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be 

submitted to: DOE Desk Officer, Office 

of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget, New 

Executive Office Building, Room 10102, 

735 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 

20503. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request additional information: 

Information Collection Clearance 

Officer, Christopher M. Frost, 

Governance and Internal Controls, 

DGC–7, Bonneville Power 

Administration, 905 NE. 11th Avenue, 

Portland, Oregon 97232. 

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. Qualitative 

feedback 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 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. 

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 reliable 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 

qualitative results. 

The 60-day notice was published in 

the Federal Register of December 22, 

2010 (75 FR 80542). 

Below we provide the BPA projected 

average estimates for the next three 

years: 1

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 Activities: 

5. 

Respondents: 500. 

Annual Responses: 2,500. 

Frequency of Responses: Once per 

request. 

Average Minutes per Response: 30. 

Burden Hours: 1,250. 

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. 

Issued in Portland, Oregon, on August 23, 

2012. 

John L. Hairston, 

Chief Compliance Officer, Agency 

Governance and Compliance. 

[FR Doc. 2012–21445 Filed 8–29–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

U.S. Energy Information 

Administration 

Request to Revise a CurrentlyApproved Data Collection 

AGENCY: U.S. Energy Information 

Administration (EIA), Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice and request for OMB 

review and comment. 

SUMMARY: EIA has submitted a request 

to revise a currently-approved data 

collection under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB). EIA proposes changes to the 

data collection requirements for the 

Forms EIA–861, ‘‘Annual Electric Power 

Industry Report,’’ EIA–923, ‘‘Power 

Plant Operations Report,’’ and the 

proposed creation of the Form EIA– 

861S, ‘‘Annual Electric Power Industry 

Report (Short).’’ All collection 

instruments are under OMB Control 

Number 1905–0129. The Form EIA–861 

proposal is to modify the survey frame 

from a census of approximately 3,300 

entities to a sample of approximately 

2,200 entities and to estimate the total 

sales, revenues, and customer counts by 

sector. The Form EIA–861S proposal 

will collect data from the approximately 

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