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Vol. 86, No. 159 

Friday, August 20, 2021 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Information Collection; Forest 

Products Customer Satisfaction 

Survey 

AGENCY: Forest Service, Agriculture 

(USDA). 

ACTION: Notice; request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Forest Service is seeking comments 

from all interested individuals and 

organizations on the new information 

collection, Forest Products Customer 

Satisfaction Survey. 

DATES: Comments must be received in 

writing on or before October 19, 2021 to 

be assured of consideration. Comments 

received after that date will be 

considered to the extent practicable. 

ADDRESSES: Comments concerning this 

notice should be addressed: 

Email: ashley.warriner@usda.gov. 

Mail: Ashley Warriner, Program 

Specialist, USDA Forest Service, Forest 

Management, 1400 Independence 

Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20250. 

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 made available on the 

internet. Please note that responses to 

this public comment request containing 

any routine notice about confidentiality 

of the communication will be treated as 

public comments that may be made 

available to the public notwithstanding 

inclusion of the routine notice. 

The public may request an electronic 

copy of the draft supporting statement 

and/or any comments received be sent 

via return email. Requests should be 

emailed to ashley.warriner@usda.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Colleen O’Brien, Forest Management, 

telephone 559–920–6093, email 

colleen.obrien@usda.gov. Individuals 

who use telecommunication devices for 

the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 

Relay Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339 

twenty-four hours a day, every day of 

the year, including holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Forest Products Customer 

Satisfaction Survey. 

OMB Number: 0596–NEW. 

Expiration Date of Approval: 

Type of Request: New information 

collection. 

Abstract: The Forest Service will 

conduct a survey among external 

stakeholders to collect data on their 

perceptions, experience, and overall 

satisfaction with the agency’s forest 

products program. For purposes of this 

survey, the ‘‘forest products program’’ 

includes timber sales, stewardship 

contracts, stewardship agreements, or 

other instruments through which the 

Forest Service contracts with an 

external actor for vegetation 

management or forest products removal 

projects. Specifically, the survey will 

collect data on project or sale-level 

factors that may cause a partner or 

customer to choose not to bid on a sale 

or project, as well as their perceptions 

of FS employee training, knowledge of 

timber markets and overall relationships 

and customer service. The survey is one 

element of the larger Forest Products 

Modernization (FPM) effort’s 

monitoring strategy. FPM seeks to 

improve efficiency in how the agency 

manages forests, delivers forest 

products, and carries out timber sales to 

better meet current and future forest 

health and restoration goals. Through 

modernizing the forest products 

program, the Forest Service also seeks to 

improve relationships and the service 

we provide to timber purchasers, 

stewardship contractors and other 

partners. This survey seeks to assess the 

extent to which strategic investments 

guided by the FPM effort are 

contributing to the satisfaction of those 

who work alongside the agency to 

advance forest health goals and support 

local economies. 

Affected Public: Targeted respondents 

include any external actor that bids on 

or participates in Forest Service 

contracts or agreements for removal of 

forest products from National Forests 

System lands. They may include private 

sector timber purchasers, nongovernmental organizations that enter 

into stewardship contracts or 

agreements, State agency 

representatives, and Tribes that enter 

into contracts and/or perform 

restoration work on National Forest 

System lands. 

Estimate of Burden per response: 10 

minutes. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Respondents: 140. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Responses: 140. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 23 hours. 

Comment is Invited: Comment is 

invited on: (1) Whether this collection 

of information is necessary for the stated 

purposes and proper performance of 

agency functions, including whether the 

information will have practical or 

scientific utility; (2) accuracy of the 

agency’s information collection burden 

estimate, including validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (3) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of information to be collected; 

and (4) ways to minimize the 

information collection burden on 

respondents, including the use of 

automated, electronic, mechanical, or 

other technological collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology. 

All comments received in response to 

this notice, including names and 

addresses when provided, will be a 

matter of public record. Comments will 

be summarized and included in the 

submission request toward Office of 

Management and Budget approval. 

John G. Church, 

Assistant Director, Forest & Rangeland 

Management and Vegetation Ecology, 

National Forest System. 

[FR Doc. 2021–17910 Filed 8–19–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3411–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Siskiyou County Resource Advisory 

Committee 

AGENCY: Forest Service, Agriculture 

(USDA). 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 


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