[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 143 (Tuesday, July 28, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 37187]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-17847]


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Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 143 / Tuesday, July 28, 2009 / 
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of 
information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 
U.S.C. Chapter 35).
    Agency: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
    Title: Generic Clearance for Program Evaluation Data Collections.
    OMB Control Number: 0693-0033.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular submission.
    Burden Hours: 3,022.
    Number of Respondents: 12,000.
    Average Hours per Response: Varied dependent upon the individual 
data collection. Response time could be 2 minutes for a response card 
or 1 hour for a more structured survey instrument. The average response 
time is expected to be 30 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: In accordance with Executive Order 12862, the 
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a non-regulatory 
agency of the Department of Commerce (DoC), proposes to conduct a 
number of surveys (quantitative and qualitative) designed to evaluate 
our current program evaluation data collections by means of, but not 
limited to, focus groups, reply cards that accompany product 
distributions, and Web-based surveys and dialogue boxes that offer 
customers the opportunity to express their views on the programs they 
are asked to evaluate. NIST will limit it inquires to data collections 
that solicit strictly voluntary opinions and will not collect 
information that is required or regulated, Steps will be taken to 
assure anonymity covered under this request.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations, not-
for-profit institutions, individuals or households, Federal government, 
State, Local, or Tribal Government.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    OMB Desk Officer: Jasmeet Seehra, (202) 395-3123.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Diana Hynek, Departmental Paperwork Clearance 
Officer, (202) 482-0266, Department of Commerce, Room 7845, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d1b599a8bfb4ba91b5beb2ffb6bea7"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="57331f2e39323c1733383479303821">[email protected]</span></a>).
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to Jasmeet Seehra, OMB Desk Officer, FAX number (202) 395-5167 or via 
the Internet at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c68ca7b5aba3a3b2998de89995a3a3aeb4a786a9aba4e8a3a9b6e8a1a9b0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a2e8c3d1cfc7c7d6fde98cfdf1c7c7cad0c3e2cdcfc08cc7cdd28cc5cdd4">[email protected]</span></a>.

    Dated: July 22, 2009.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. E9-17847 Filed 7-27-09; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-13-P


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