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Vol. 74, No. 143 

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 

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 forprofit 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 

dHynek@doc.gov). 

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 

Jasmeet_K._Seehra@omb.eop.gov. 

Dated: July 22, 2009. 

Gwellnar Banks, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

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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 Usability 

Data Collections. 

OMB Control Number: 0693–0043. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Regular submission. 

Burden Hours: 1,000. 

Number of Respondents: 2,000. 

Average Hours per Response: 

Response time may vary dependent 

upon the data collection method used. 

The response time will vary from 15 

minutes to complete a questionnaire or 

up to three hours to participate in an 

empirical study. Average response time 

is expected to be 1 hour. 

Needs and Uses: In accordance with 

Executive Order 12862, the NIST, a nonregulatory agency of the Department of 

Commerce, proposes to conduct a 

number of data collection efforts, both 

quantitative and qualitative, to 

determine requirements and evaluate 

usability and utility of NIST research for 

measurement and standardization work. 

These data collection efforts may 

include, but may not be limited to 

electronic methodologies, empharical 

studies, video and audio data 

collections, interviews, and 

questionnaires. For example, data 

collection efforts may be conducted at 

search and rescue training exercises for 

rescue workers using robots. Other 

planned data collections include 

evaluations of software for use by the 

intelligence community. The 

participation will be strictly voluntary; 

regulated information will not be 

collected. The results of the data 

collected will be used to guide NIST 

research. Steps will be taken to ensure 

anonymity of respondents in each 

activity covered under this request. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households, 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 6625, 14th and 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 

dHynek@doc.gov). 

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 

Jasmeet_K._Seehra@omb.eop.gov. 

Dated: July 22, 2009. 

Gwellnar Banks, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–17848 Filed 7–27–09; 8:45 am] 

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