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Vol. 82, No. 204 

Tuesday, October 24, 2017 

AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL 

DEVELOPMENT 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Generic Clearance 

for the Collection of Qualitative 

Feedback on Agency Service Delivery 

AGENCY: U.S. Agency for International 

Development (USAID). 

ACTION: Notice of a request for 

comments regarding a renewal 

information collection. 

SUMMARY: As part of a Federal 

Government-wide effort to streamline 

the process to seek feedback from the 

public on service delivery, we are 

seeking comment on the development of 

the following proposed Generic 

Information Collection Request (Generic 

ICR): ‘‘Fast Track Generic Clearance for 

the Collection of Qualitative Feedback 

on Agency Service Delivery’’ for 

approval under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA). This notice 

announces our intent to submit this 

collection to OMB for approval and 

solicits comments on specific aspects 

for the proposed information collection. 

This option is a fast track for approval 

to streamline the timing to implement 

certain types of surveys and related 

collection of information. USAID uses 

the approval to cover the instruments of 

collection (such as a survey, a window 

pop-up survey, a focus group, or a 

comment card), which are designed to 

get customer feedback on USAID service 

delivery for various programs. This 

request for approval broadly addresses 

USAID’s need for information about 

what our customers think of our 

services so that we can improve service 

delivery; specific information collection 

activities will be incorporated into the 

approval as the need for the information 

is identified. For example, when we 

implement a new program and provide 

information about the services for the 

program on our Web site, we may 

provide a voluntary customer service 

questionnaire about how well the 

program is working for our customers, 

specifically within the area of customer 

service. USAID is requesting to increase 

the number of respondents in the fast 

track approval due to an anticipated 

increase in the number of customer 

respondents responding to customer 

service surveys that will be sent to a 

broader scope and greater number of 

USAID customers. 

DATES: All comments should be 

submitted within 60 calendar days from 

the date of this publication. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments by one of 

the following methods: 

Web site: www.regulations.gov. 

Mail comments to: Bureau for 

Management, Office of Management 

Services, Information and Records 

Division M/MS/IRD, by mail to U.S. 

Agency for International Development, 

Ronald Reagan Building, Room 2.7 C, 

1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20523–2701, or by 

email to recordsinquiry@usaid.gov. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice may be made available to the 

public through www.regulations.gov. 

For this reason, please do not include in 

your comments information of a 

confidential nature, such as sensitive 

personal information or proprietary 

information. 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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sylvia Joyner, Bureau for Management, 

Office of Management Services, 

Information and Records Division, U.S. 

Agency for International Development, 

Washington, DC 20523–2701: Tel 202– 

712–5007 or via email sjoyner@

usaid.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title and OMB Number: Fast Track 

Generic Clearance for the Collection of 

Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service 

Delivery. 

Needs and Uses: 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. By 

qualitative feedback we mean 

information that provides useful 

insights on perceptions and opinions, 

but are not statistical surveys that yield 

quantitative results that can be 

generalized to the population of study. 

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 solicitation of feedback will target 

areas such as: Timeliness, 

appropriateness, accuracy of 

information, courtesy, efficiency of 

service delivery, and resolution of 

issues with service delivery. Responses 

will be assessed to plan and inform 

efforts to improve or maintain the 

quality of service offered to the public. 

If this information is not collected, vital 

feedback from customers and 

stakeholders on the Agency’s services 

will be unavailable. The Agency will 

only submit a collection for approval 

under this generic clearance if it meets 

the following conditions: 

• The collections are voluntary. 

• The collections are low-burden for 

respondents (based on considerations of 

total burden hours, total number of 

respondents, or burden-hours per 

respondent) and are low-cost for both 

the respondents and the Federal 

Government. 

• The collections are 

noncontroversial and do not raise issues 

of concern to other Federal agencies. 

• Any collection is targeted to the 

solicitation of opinions from 

respondents who have experience with 

the program or may have experience 

with the program in the near future. 

• Personally identifiable information 

(PII) is collected only to the extent 

necessary and is not retained. 

• Information gathered will be used 

only internally for general service 

improvement and program management 

purposes and is not intended for release 

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• Information gathered will not be 

used for the purpose of substantially 

informing influential policy decisions. 

• Information gathered will yield 

qualitative information; the collections 

will not be designed or expected to 

yield statistically reliable results or used 

as though the results are generalizable to 

the population of study. 

Feedback collected under this generic 

clearance provides useful information, 

but it does not yield data that can be 

generalized to the overall population. 

This type of generic clearance for 

qualitative information will not be used 

for quantitative information collections 

that are designed to yield reliably 

actionable results, such as monitoring 

trends over time or documenting 

program performance. Such data uses 

require more rigorous designs that 

address: The target population to which 

generalizations will be made, the 

sampling frame, the sample design 

(including stratification and clustering), 

the precision requirements or power 

calculations that justify the proposed 

sample size, the expected response rate, 

methods for assessing potential 

nonresponse bias, the protocols for data 

collection, and any testing procedures 

that were or will be undertaken prior to 

fielding the study. Depending on the 

degree of influence the results are likely 

to have, such collections may still be 

eligible for submission for other generic 

mechanisms that are designed to yield 

quantitative results. 

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. 

Current Actions: Processing 

Information Collection as Fast Track 

Generic. 

Type of Review: Renewal. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

Households; Business or Other ForProfit; Not-For-Profit Institutions; 

Farms; Federal Government; State, 

Local, or Tribal Government. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Respondents: 10,000. 

Below we provide projected average 

burden estimates for the next three 

years: 

Average Expected Annual Number of 

Activities: 100. 

Average Number of Respondents per 

Activity: 1,000. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Annual Responses: 10,000. 

Average Minutes per Response: 10 

minutes. 

Annual Burden Hours: 10,000 hours. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

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; (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. All written comments will 

be available for public inspection on 

regulations.gov. An agency may not 

conduct or sponsor, and a person is not 

required to respond to, a collection of 

information unless it displays a 

currently valid Office of Management 

and Budget Control Number. 

Dated: October 16, 2017. 

Paulette Murray, 

Supervisory Records Information 

Management Specialist, Bureau for 

Management, Office of Management Services, 

Information and Records Division. 

[FR Doc. 2017–23018 Filed 10–23–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

October 19, 2017. 

The Department of Agriculture will 

submit the following information 

collection requirement(s) to OMB for 

review and clearance under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13 on or after the date 

of publication of this notice. Comments 

are requested regarding: (1) Whether the 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (2) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of burden including 

the validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance 

the quality, utility and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (4) 

ways to 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 

should be addressed to: Desk Officer for 

Agriculture, Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB), New 

Executive Office Building, Washington, 

DC; New Executive Office Building, 725 

17th Street NW., Washington, DC 20503. 

Commenters are encouraged to submit 

their comments to OMB via email to: 

OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov or fax 

(202) 395–5806 and to Departmental 

Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail 

Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250– 

7602. 

Comments regarding these 

information collections are best assured 

of having their full effect if received by 

November 24, 2017. Copies of the 

submission(s) may be obtained by 

calling (202) 720–8681. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor a collection of information 

unless the collection of information 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number and the agency informs 

potential persons who are to respond to 

the collection of information that such 

persons are not required to respond to 

the collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

Agricultural Marketing Service 

Title: Plan for Estimating Daily 

Livestock Slaughter under Federal 

Inspection. 

OMB Control Number: 0581–0050. 

Summary of Collection: The 

Agriculture Marketing Act of 1946 (7 

U.S.C. 1621–1627) Section 203(g), 

directs and authorizes the collection 

and dissemination of marketing 

information, including adequate outlook 

information on a market area basis, for 

the purpose of anticipating and meeting 

consumer requirements aiding in the 

maintenance of farm income and to 

bring about a balance between 


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