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for the proper performance of the 

functions of CNCS, 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 expected to respond, including 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). 

Background 

The information is provided by 

institutions of higher education who are 

requesting to be listed on the Segal 

AmeriCorps Education Award Matching 

Program section of the Corporation for 

National and Community Service Web 

site. The information will be collected 

electronically by the Corporation for 

National and Community Service. 

Current Action 

CNCS seeks to renew the current 

information collection. The information 

collected will be used to determine if 

institutions of higher education are 

eligible to be listed on the Segal 

AmeriCorps Education Award Matching 

Program section of the Corporation for 

National and Community Service Web 

site. 

The information collection will 

otherwise be used in the same manner 

as the existing application. 

Type of Review: Renewal. 

Agency: Corporation for National and 

Community Service. 

Title: Segal AmeriCorps Education 

Award Matching Program Commitment 

Form. 

OMB Number: 3045–0143. 

Agency Number: None. 

Affected Public: Institutions of higher 

education that provide incentives for 

AmeriCorps alumni such as matching 

the AmeriCorps Education Award that 

members receive after successful 

completion of the AmeriCorps Program 

and that request to be listed on the Segal 

AmeriCorps Education Award Matching 

Program section of the Corporation for 

National and Community Service Web 

site. 

Total Respondents: Estimated 200 

colleges and universities. 

Frequency: Once every five years. 

Average Time per Response: Average 

30 minutes. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 100 

hours. 

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): 

None. 

Total Burden Cost (operating/ 

maintenance): None. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget approval of the 

information collection request; they will 

also become a matter of public record. 

Dated: July 18, 2013. 

Erin Dahlin, 

Deputy Director of Program Coordination. 

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SUPERVISION AGENCY 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Submission to OMB for Review and 

Approval for Collection of Qualitative 

Feedback on Agency Service Delivery; 

Public Comment Request 

AGENCY: Pretrial Services Agency for the 

District of Columbia (PSA), CSOSA. 

ACTION: 30 Day Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

intention of the Pretrial Services Agency 

for the District of Columbia to request 

that the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) approve the proposed 

information collection project: ‘‘Pretrial 

Services Agency for the District of 

Columbia 2013 Judicial Survey.’’ In 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501– 

3521), this notice announces PSA’s 

intent to submit this collection to OMB 

for approval. PSA invites the public to 

comment on this proposed information 

collection. 

Notice and request for public 

comment on this collection was 

published in the Federal Register on 

April 23, 2013 at 78 FR 23918. The 

Agency did not receive any comments 

in response to the 60-day notice 

published in the Federal Register. 

DATES: Consideration will be given to all 

comments received by August 22, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit written 

comments to, the Office of Information 

and Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget, Attn: CSOSA 

Desk Officer and to: 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. A copy 

of any comments should be sent to: 

Rorey Smith, Deputy General Counsel 

and Chief Privacy Officer, Office of 

General Counsel, Court Services and 

Offender Supervision Agency, 633 

Indiana Avenue NW, Room 1390, 

Washington, DC 20004 or to 

Rorey.Smith@csosa.gov. All comments 

should reference the title of the 

collection, ‘‘Collection of Qualitative 

Feedback on Agency Service Delivery.’’ 

Comments submitted in response to this 

notice may be made available to the 

public. 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 

email comment, your email address will 

be automatically captured and included 

as part of the comment that is placed in 

the public docket and may be made 

available on the Internet. 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. 

Request for Comments: Comments 

submitted in response to this notice will 

be summarized and/or included in the 

request for OMB approval. Comments 

are invited on: (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 including the 

validity of the methodology and the 

assumptions used; (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. 


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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rorey Smith, Deputy General Counsel 

and Chief Privacy Officer, Office of 

General Counsel, Court Services and 

Offender Supervision Agency, 633 

Indiana Avenue NW, Room 1380, 

Washington, DC 20004, (202) 220–5797 

or to Rorey.Smith@csosa.gov. 

For content support: Diane Bradley, 

Assistant General Counsel, Office of 

General Counsel, Court Services and 

Offender Supervision Agency, 633 

Indiana Avenue NW, Room 1375, 

Washington, DC 20004, (202) 220–5364 

or to Diane.Bradley@csosa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: 

Pretrial Services Agency for the District 

of Columbia 2013 Judicial Survey. 

Abstract: The proposed information 

collection activity provides a means to 

garner qualitative customer and 

stakeholder feedback in an efficient, 

timely manner, in accordance with the 

Administration’s commitment to 

improving service delivery. 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 

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 

Agency and its customers and 

stakeholders. It will also allow feedback 

to contribute directly to the 

improvement of program management. 

The proposed survey will assess 

judicial satisfaction with PSA’s 

responsiveness, staff professionalism, 

the quality and benefit of PSA reports, 

PSA’s supervision of higher risk 

defendants (including those with mental 

health and substance dependence 

issues), and the provision of treatment 

services. The judicial survey will 

represent the only qualitative or 

quantitative measure of this important 

metric. PSA will use the collected 

information to support several 

organizational improvements including: 

enhancements to PSA’s supervision of 

medium to higher-risk pretrial 

defendants; improve communications 

with the court regarding defendant 

compliance and noncompliance with 

supervision requirements; provide 

better performance ratings of Senior 

Executive Services (SES) staff; and 

creation of a qualitative performance 

measure to gauge overall judicial 

satisfaction under PSA’s ‘‘partnerships’’ 

strategic objective. This type of 

collection for qualitative information 

will be used for quantitative information 

collections that are designed to yield 

reliable actionable results, such as 

monitoring trends over time or 

documenting program performance. 

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. 

This evaluation study addresses 

PSA’s need for a report to inform 

strategic planning for dissemination and 

program activities to targeted 60 DC 

Superior Court and District Court 

judicial officers as survey participants— 

the universe of judicial officers hearing 

criminal matters in both courts and 

those with bail setting duties. 

The survey is intended to assess 

judicial officers’ perceptions and 

attitudes through a structured survey to 

measure judicial perceptions and 

attitudes about specific elements of 

Agency performance. Given the 

qualitative nature of these data, PSA 

will use a customer satisfaction rank 

order response of customer satisfaction 

questionnaire format for its survey. 

These customer satisfaction 

questionnaires are a proven method to 

solicit and record critical input from 

primary customers and partner agencies 

for PSA to address customer-related 

issues more competently and resolve 

issues more quickly. 

The outcome will best provide a 

detailed analysis of customer feedback 

and may also provide ‘‘customer 

intelligence’’ that can be used as a 

roadmap to spur innovation efforts, 

research and development and new 

programs and initiatives. The outcome 

will also include a recommendation for 

strategic planning for future efforts 

which will engage and develop 

information and programming for DC 

judicial official audience. Survey results 

will not be published independently, 

but will be part of PSA’s Performance 

Budget submitted to the United States 

Congress every February and used as a 

metric for performance appraisals for 

SES staff, submitted in September of 

each year. 

Method of Collection 

This survey will be conducted by PSA 

through its Office of Strategic 

Development. To achieve the goals that 

PSA hopes to obtain through its judicial 

survey, the following data collections 

will be implemented: 

(1) On-line instrument: All responses 

to the survey will be solicited, collected 

and recorded via a web-based survey 

instrument. This method will increase 

participants’ ease in completing the 

survey and returning results to PSA. 

Automatically-logged results also ensure 

greater quality control of entered data 

and easier recording and analysis of 

results. 

(2) Rank-ordered responses: Most 

survey questions ask respondents to 

rank-order responses on a standard fiveitem Likert-scale, for example, ‘‘Very 

Dissatisfied’’ to ‘‘Very Satisfied.’’ The 

remaining questions are value neutral 

and open ended and allow respondents 

to give opinions on how PSA can 

improve specific functions. 

(3) Limited question set: The survey 

consists of 15 questions, making it 

relatively easy to understand, navigate 

and complete. 

(4) Anonymity: Survey results are 

anonymous, although respondents have 

the choice to identify themselves. 

Since the survey targets all judicial 

officers that have direct exposure and 

knowledge of PSA services and 

supervision, there are no anticipated 

issues with sample selection, 

stratification or estimation procedures. 

Described below is an overview of the 

information collection, the projected 

average annual estimates of the total 

number of respondents and responses, 

and the amount of time estimates: 

Current Actions: New collection of 

information. 

Type of Review: New collection. 

Affected Public: DC Superior Court 

and District Court Judges. 

Average expected annual number of 

collection activities: 2. 

Respondents: 60. 

Number of responses per respondent: 

15. 

Annual responses: 900. 

Frequency of Response: Once per 

request. 

Average minutes per response: 10–15. 

Total burden hours associated with 

this collection: 15. 

The Agency’s estimated annualized 

cost burden associated with the 

respondents’ time to participate in this 

research is $1,200. The total and 

annualized cost to the federal 

government for the questionnaire 

development, administration, analysis, 

and study management for conducting 

this research is $150. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to, a collection of information 

unless it displays a current and valid 

Office of Management and Budget 

control number. 

Dated: July 18, 2013. 

Rorey Smith, 

Deputy General Counsel, for the Court 

Services and Offender Supervision Agency. 

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