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approved by OMB under the PRA and 

displays a currently valid OMB Control 

Number. In addition, notwithstanding 

any other provisions of law, no person 

shall generally be subject to penalty for 

failing to comply with a collection of 

information that does not display a 

valid Control Number. See 5 CFR 

1320.5(a) and 1320.6. 

Interested parties are encouraged to 

provide comments to the contact shown 

in the ADDRESSES section. Comments 

must be written to receive 

consideration, and they will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for OMB approval of the final ICR. In 

order to help ensure appropriate 

consideration, comments should 

mention OMB No. 1205–0538. 

Submitted comments will also be a 

matter of public record for this ICR and 

posted on the internet, without 

redaction. DOL encourages commenters 

not to include personally identifiable 

information, confidential business data, 

or other sensitive statements/ 

information in any comments. 

DOL is particularly interested in 

comments that: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, 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 to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

(e.g., permitting electronic submission 

of responses). 

Agency: DOL–ETA. 

Type of Review: Revision. 

Title of Collection: Required Elements 

of an Unemployment Insurance (UI) 

Reemployment Services and Eligibility 

Assessments (RESEA) Grant State Plan. 

Form: Annual RESEA State Plan 

Template. 

OMB Control Number: 1205–0538. 

Affected Public: State Workforce 

Agencies. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

53. 

Frequency: Annual. 

Total Estimated Annual Responses: 

53. 

Estimated Average Time per 

Response: 44 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 2,332. 

Total Estimated Annual Other Cost 

Burden: $0. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A). 

Angela Hanks, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Employment 

and Training, Labor. 

[FR Doc. 2022–07972 Filed 4–13–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–FW–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Bureau of Labor Statistics 

Information Collection Activities; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Bureau of Labor Statistics, 

Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as 

part of its continuing effort to reduce 

paperwork and respondent burden, 

conducts a pre-clearance consultation 

program to provide the general public 

and Federal agencies with an 

opportunity to comment on proposed 

and/or continuing collections of 

information in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This 

program helps to ensure that requested 

data can be provided in the desired 

format, reporting burden (time and 

financial resources) is minimized, 

collection instruments are clearly 

understood, and the impact of collection 

requirements on respondents can be 

properly assessed. The Bureau of Labor 

Statistics (BLS) is soliciting comments 

concerning the proposed extension 

without change of the ‘‘American Time 

Use Survey.’’ A copy of the proposed 

information collection request can be 

obtained by contacting the individual 

listed below in the ADDRESSES section of 

this notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

Addresses section of this notice on or 

before June 13, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Erin 

Good, BLS Clearance Officer, Division 

of Management Systems, Bureau of 

Labor Statistics, Room 4080, 2 

Massachusetts Avenue NE, Washington, 

DC 20212. Written comments also may 

be transmitted by email to BLS_PRA_

Public@bls.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erin 

Good, BLS Clearance Officer, at 202– 

691–7628 (this is not a toll free number). 

(See ADDRESSES section.) 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The ATUS is the Nation’s first 

federally administered, continuous 

survey on time use in the United States. 

It measures, for example, time spent 

with children, working, sleeping, or 

doing leisure activities. In the United 

States, several existing Federal surveys 

collect income and wage data for 

individuals and families, and analysts 

often use such measures of material 

prosperity as proxies for quality of life. 

Time-use data substantially augment 

these quality-of-life measures. The data 

also can be used in conjunction with 

wage data to evaluate the contribution 

of non-market work to national 

economies. This enables comparisons of 

production between nations that have 

different mixes of market and nonmarket activities. 

The ATUS develops nationally 

representative estimates of how people 

spend their time. Respondents also 

report who was with them during 

activities, where they were, how long 

each activity lasted, and if they were 

paid. All of this information has 

numerous practical applications for 

sociologists, economists, educators, 

government policymakers, 

businesspersons, health researchers, and 

others, answering questions such as: 

• Do the ways people use their time 

vary across demographic and labor force 

characteristics, such as age, sex, race, 

ethnicity, employment status, earnings, 

and education? 

• How much time do parents spend 

in the company of their children, either 

actively providing care or being with 

them while socializing, relaxing, or 

doing other things? How has this 

changed over time? 

• How are earnings related to leisure 

time—do those with higher earnings 

spend more or less time relaxing and 

socializing? 

• How much time do people spend 

working at their workplaces and in their 

homes? 

The ATUS data are collected on an 

ongoing basis nearly every day of the 

year, allowing analysts to identify 

changes in how people spend their time. 

II. Current Action 

Office of Management and Budget 

clearance is being sought for the 

American Time Use Survey (ATUS). 

This survey collects information on how 

individuals in the United States use 

their time. Collection is done on a 

continuous basis with the sample drawn 

monthly. The survey sample is drawn 

from households completing their 8th 

month of interviews for the Current 

Population Survey (CPS). Households 


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are selected to ensure a nationallyrepresentative demographic sample, and 

one individual from each household is 

selected to take part in one Computer 

Assisted Telephone Interview. 

Interviewers ask respondents to report 

all of their activities for one preassigned 24-hour day, the day prior to 

the interview. A short series of summary 

questions and CPS updates follows the 

core time diary collection. After each 

full year of collection, annual national 

estimates of time use for an average day, 

weekday, and weekend day are 

published. 

Because the ATUS sample is a subset 

of households completing interviews for 

the CPS, the same demographic 

information collected from that survey 

is available for ATUS respondents. 

Comparisons of activity patterns across 

characteristics such as sex, race, age, 

disability status, and education of the 

respondent, as well as the presence of 

children and the number of adults living 

in the respondent’s household, are 

possible. 

III. Desired Focus of Comments 

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is 

particularly interested in comments 

that: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, 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. 

• Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through 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. 

Title of Collection: American Time 

Use Survey. 

OMB Number: 1220–0175. 

Type of Review: Extension. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

Households. 

Total Respondents: 9,435. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Total Responses: 9,435. 

Average Time per Response: 21.5 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 3,381 

hours. 

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 also 

will become a matter of public record. 

Signed at Washington, DC, on April 7, 

2022. 

Eric Molina, 

Acting Chief, Division of Management 

Systems. 

[FR Doc. 2022–07971 Filed 4–13–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–24–P 

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND 

BUDGET 

[OMB Control No. 0348–NEW] 

Information Collection; Improving 

Customer Experience (OMB Circular 

A–11, Section 280 Implementation) 

AGENCY: Office of Management and 

Budget. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) has under review the 

following proposed Information 

Collection Request ‘‘Improving 

Customer Experience (OMB Circular A– 

11, Section 280 Implementation)’’ for 

approval under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA). 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

May 16, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information 

should be directed to Amira Boland, 

Office of Management and Budget, 725 

17th St. NW, Washington, DC 20006, 

202–395–0380, or via email to 

amira.c.boland@omb.eop.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Whether 

seeking a loan, Social Security benefits, 

veterans benefits, or other services 

provided by the Federal Government, 

individuals and businesses expect 

Government customer services to be 

efficient and intuitive, just like services 

from leading private-sector 

organizations. Yet on Forrester’s 2020 

CX Index, the Federal sector’s average 

score is 10.7 points behind the private 

sector average and lower than any other 

industry or sector studied. Nearly half of 

the bottom 5% of the U.S. CX Index 

Rankings are Federal agencies. 

The President’s Management Agenda 

(see https://www.performance.gov/PMA) 

prioritizes efforts to improve the 

experience of those the Government 

serves—all of the people, families, 

businesses, organizations, and 

communities across America, especially 

those communities that are underserved 

by Government, when they use 

Government services. This focus on 

customer experience will not only 

improve the delivery, efficiency, 

security, and effectiveness of our 

Government programs, it will advance 

equity and enhance everyday 

interactions with public services and 

uplift the lives of those who need them 

the most. To support this, OMB Circular 

A–11 Section 280 establishes 

Government-wide standards for mature 

customer experience organizations in 

government. In order for Federal 

programs to design and deliver the 

experience taxpayers deserve, they must 

often undertake three general categories 

of activities: conduct ongoing customer 

research, gather and share customer 

feedback, and test services and digital 

products. Both the PMA and Section 

280 charge the President’s Management 

Council—the primary Government-wide 

body that advises the President and 

OMB on management issues that span 

agencies—with the routine designation 

of cross-agency ‘‘life experiences’’ for 

improvement (such as turning 65, 

surviving a natural disaster, or having a 

child) that do not fit neatly within one 

agency’s mission area. 

For these projects, OMB designers and 

staff, such as those on the Federal 

Customer Experience team or at the U.S. 

Digital Service, may lead and coordinate 

information collections in service of 

cross-agency life experience 

improvement efforts. These data 

collection efforts may be either 

qualitative or quantitative in nature or 

may consist of mixed methods. 

Additionally, data may be collected via 

a variety of means, including but not 

limited to electronic or social media, 

direct or indirect observation (i.e., in 

person, video, and audio collections), 

interviews, questionnaires, surveys, and 

focus groups. OMB will limit its 

inquiries to data collections that solicit 

strictly voluntary opinions or responses. 

Steps will be taken to ensure anonymity 

of respondents in each activity covered 

by this request, where appropriate. 

The data collected will be evaluated 

and used to improve the delivery of 

Federal services and programs and, in 

particular, those experiences that are 

more Government-wide in nature. It will 

include the creation of customer 

personas, customer journey maps (for 

definitions of—and more information 


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