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what, if any, matters have been added, 

deleted or postponed; please contact 

Brent J. Fields from the Office of the 

Secretary at (202) 551–5400. 

Dated: September 5, 2018. 

Brent J. Fields, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2018–19647 Filed 9–6–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8011–01–P 

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

[Disaster Declaration #15673 and #15674; 

Minnesota Disaster Number MN–00062] 

Administrative Declaration of a 

Disaster for the State of Minnesota 

AGENCY: U.S. Small Business 

Administration. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This is a notice of an 

Administrative declaration of a disaster 

for the State of Minnesota dated 08/28/ 

2018. 

Incident: Severe Storms, Straight-Line 

Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding. 

Incident Period: 06/15/2018 through 

07/12/2018. 

DATES: Issued on 08/28/2018. 

Physical Loan Application Deadline 

Date: 10/29/2018. 

Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan 

Application Deadline Date: 05/28/2019. 

ADDRESSES: Submit completed loan 

applications to: U.S. Small Business 

Administration, Processing and 

Disbursement Center, 14925 Kingsport 

Road, Fort Worth, TX 76155. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A. 

Escobar, Office of Disaster Assistance, 

U.S. Small Business Administration, 

409 3rd Street SW, Suite 6050, 

Washington, DC 20416, (202) 205–6734. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given that as a result of the 

Administrator’s disaster declaration, 

applications for disaster loans may be 

filed at the address listed above or other 

locally announced locations. 

The following areas have been 

determined to be adversely affected by 

the disaster: 

Primary Counties: Lyon, Redwood 

Contiguous Counties: 

Minnesota: Brown, Cottonwood, 

Lincoln, Murray, Pipestone, 

Renville, Yellow Medicine 

The Interest Rates are: 

Percent 

For Physical Damage: 

Homeowners with Credit Available Elsewhere ...................... 3.875 

Homeowners without Credit 

Available Elsewhere .............. 1.938 

Percent 

Businesses with Credit Available Elsewhere ...................... 7.220 

Businesses without Credit 

Available Elsewhere .............. 3.610 

Non-Profit Organizations with 

Credit Available Elsewhere ... 2.500 

Non-Profit Organizations without Credit Available Elsewhere ..................................... 2.500 

For Economic Injury: 

Businesses & Small Agricultural 

Cooperatives without Credit 

Available Elsewhere .............. 3.610 

Non-Profit Organizations without Credit Available Elsewhere ..................................... 2.500 

The number assigned to this disaster 

for physical damage is 15673 6 and for 

economic injury is 15674 0. 

The State which received an EIDL 

Declaration # is Minnesota. 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Number 59008) 

Linda E. McMahon, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2018–19610 Filed 9–7–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8025–01–P 

SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD 

30-Day Notice of Intent To Seek 

Reinstatement Without Change: 

Generic Clearance for the Collection of 

Qualitative Feedback on Agency 

Service Delivery 

AGENCY: Surface Transportation Board. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork burdens, and as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995 (PRA), the Surface 

Transportation Board (STB or Board) 

gives notice that it is requesting from 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) a reinstatement without change 

of Generic Clearance for the Collection 

of Qualitative Feedback on Agency 

Service Delivery. This collection was 

developed to streamline the process for 

seeking feedback from the public on the 

Board’s service delivery. The Board 

previously published a notice about this 

collection in the Federal Register (Apr. 

26, 2018). That notice allowed for a 60- 

day public review and comment period. 

No comments were received. 

DATES: Comments on this information 

collection should be submitted by 

October 10, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be identified as ‘‘Paperwork Reduction 

Act Comments, Surface Transportation 

Board: Generic Clearance for the 

Collection of Qualitative Feedback on 

Agency Service Delivery.’’ These 

comments should be directed to the 

Office of Management and Budget, 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Attention: Joseph B. Nye, 

Surface Transportation Board Desk 

Officer: by email at oira_submission@

omb.eop.gov; by fax at (202) 395–1743; 

or by mail to Room 10235, 725 17th 

Street NW, Washington, DC 20503. 

Please also direct comments to Chris 

Oehrle, PRA Officer, Surface 

Transportation Board, 395 E Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20423–0001, or to pra@

stb.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: For 

further information regarding this 

collection, contact Michael Higgins, 

Deputy Director, Office of Public 

Assistance, Governmental Affairs, and 

Compliance at (202) 245–0284 or at 

michael.higgins@stb.gov. Assistance for 

the hearing impaired is available 

through the Federal Information Relay 

Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For each 

collection, comments are requested 

concerning: (a) Whether the collection 

of information is necessary for the 

proper performance of the functions of 

the agency, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden of the collection of 

information; (c) ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; (d) ways to 

minimize the burden of the collection of 

information on respondents, including 

through the use of automated collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology; and (e) estimates of capital 

or start-up costs and costs of operation, 

maintenance, and purchase of services 

to provide information. Burden means 

the total time, effort, or financial 

resources expended by persons to 

generate, maintain, retain, disclose, or 

provide information to or for a Federal 

agency. This includes the time needed 

to review instructions; to develop, 

acquire, install, and utilize technology 

and systems for the purpose of 

collecting, validating, and verifying 

information, processing and 

maintaining information, and disclosing 

and providing information; to train 

personnel and to be able to respond to 

a collection of information, to search 

data sources, to complete and review 

the collection of information; and to 

transmit or otherwise disclose the 

information. Submitted comments will 

be summarized and included in the 

Board’s request for OMB approval. 


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Description of Collection 

Title: Generic Clearance for the 

Collection of Qualitative Feedback on 

Agency Service Delivery. 

OMB Control Number: 2140–0019. 

STB Form Number: None. 

Type of Review: Reinstatement 

without change. 

Respondents: Customers and 

stakeholders of the Board. 

Number of Respondents, Frequency, 

Estimated Time per Response, and Total 

Burden Hours: A variety of instruments 

and platforms may be used to collect 

information from respondents. The 

estimated annual burden hours (277) are 

based on the number of collections we 

expect to conduct over the requested 

period for this clearance, as set forth in 

the table below. 

ESTIMATED ANNUAL REPORTING BURDEN

Type of collection Number of 

respondents 

Annual 

frequency per 

response 

Hours per 

response Total hours 

Focus Group .................................................................................................... 15 1 2 30 

Comment Card/Brief Survey ............................................................................ 200 2 .17 67 

Surveys ............................................................................................................ 150 2 .6 180

Needs and Uses: The proposed 

information collection activity provides 

a means to garner qualitative customer 

and stakeholder feedback in an efficient 

and timely manner, in accordance with 

the Administration’s commitment to 

improving service delivery. By 

qualitative feedback we mean 

information that provides useful 

insights on perceptions and opinions, 

but 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 with issues about how 

the Board provides service to the public; 

or focus attention on areas where 

communication, training, or changes in 

operations might improve delivery of 

products or services. These collections 

will allow for ongoing, collaborative, 

and actionable communications 

between the Board and its customers 

and stakeholders. They will also allow 

feedback to contribute directly to the 

improvement of program management. 

The solicitation of feedback will target 

areas such as: Timeliness, 

appropriateness, accuracy of 

information, courtesy, efficiency of 

service delivery, and resolution of 

issues with service delivery. Responses 

will be assessed to plan and inform 

efforts to improve or maintain the 

quality of service offered to the public. 

If this information is not collected, vital 

feedback from customers and 

stakeholders on the Board’s services 

will be unavailable. 

The Board will only process a 

collection under this generic clearance 

if it meets the following conditions: 

• The collections are voluntary; 

• The collections are low-burden for 

respondents (based on considerations of 

total burden hours, total number of 

respondents, or burden-hours per 

respondent) and are low-cost for both 

the respondents and the Federal 

Government; 

• The collections are noncontroversial and do not raise issues of 

concern to other Federal agencies; 

• Any collection is targeted to the 

solicitation of opinions from 

respondents who have experience with 

the program or may have experience 

with the program in the near future; 

• Personally identifiable information 

is collected only to the extent necessary 

and is not retained; 

• Information gathered is used only 

internally for general service 

improvement and program management 

purposes and not for release outside of 

the agency; 

• Information gathered is used for the 

purpose of substantially informing 

influential policy decisions; and 

• Information gathered will yield 

qualitative information, and the 

collections will not be designed or 

expected to yield statistically reliable 

results or used as though the results are 

generalizable to the population of study. 

Feedback collected under this generic 

clearance will provide useful 

information, but will not yield data that 

can be generalized to the overall 

population. Such data uses would 

require more rigorous designs than the 

collections covered by this notice. 

As a general matter, information 

collections will not result in any new 

system of records containing privacy 

information and will not ask questions 

of a sensitive nature, such as sexual 

behavior and attitudes, religious beliefs, 

and other matters that are commonly 

considered private. 

Under the PRA, a federal agency that 

conducts or sponsors a collection of 

information must display a currently 

valid OMB control number. A collection 

of information, which is defined in 44 

U.S.C. 3502(3) and 5 CFR 1320.3(c), 

includes agency requirements that 

persons submit reports, keep records, or 

provide information to the agency, third 

parties, or the public. Section 3507(b) of 

the PRA requires, concurrent with an 

agency’s submitting a collection to OMB 

for approval, a 30-day notice and 

comment period through publication in 

the Federal Register concerning each 

proposed collection of information. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice may be made available to the 

public by the Board. For this reason, 

please do not include in your comments 

information of a confidential nature, 

such as sensitive personal information 

or proprietary information. If you send 

an electronic comment (e-file or email), 

your email address is automatically 

captured and may be accessed if your 

comments are made public. Please note 

that responses to this public comment 

request containing any routine notice 

about the confidentiality of the 

communication will be treated as public 

comments that may be made available to 

the public notwithstanding the 

inclusion of the routine notice. 

Dated: September 5, 2018. 

Jeffrey Herzig, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2018–19510 Filed 9–7–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD 

Release of Waybill Data 

The Surface Transportation Board has 

received a request from two professors 

that work for University of Oregon and 

Stanford University along with four 

researchers (WB18–29—8/31/18) for 

permission to use data from the Board’s 

1983–2017 Unmasked Carload Waybill 

Samples. A copy of this request may be 

obtained from the Board’s website under 

docket no. WB18–29. 

The waybill sample contains 

confidential railroad and shipper data; 

therefore, if any parties object to these 

requests, they should file their 


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