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This information collection
activity provides a means to
consistently assess, benchmark and
improve customer satisfaction with
Federal government agency Web sites
within the Executive Branch. The
Federal Consulting Group of the
Department of the Interior serves as the
executive agent for this methodology
and has partnered with ForeSee to offer
this assessment to federal agencies.
ForeSee is a leader in customer
satisfaction and customer experience
management on the web and related
media. It utilizes the methodology of the
most respected, credible, and wellknown measure of customer satisfaction
in the country, the American Customer
Satisfaction Index (ACSI). This
methodology combines survey data and
a patented econometric model to
precisely measure the customer
satisfaction of Web site users, identify
specific areas for improvement and
determine the impact of those
improvements on customer satisfaction
and future customer behaviors.
The ACSI is the only cross-agency
methodology for obtaining comparable
measures of customer satisfaction with
Federal government programs and/or
Web sites. Along with other economic
objectives—such as employment and
growth—the quality of output (goods
and services) is a part of measuring
living standards. The ACSI’s ultimate
purpose is to help improve the quality
of goods and services available to
American citizens, including those from
the Federal government.
The ACSI E-Government Web site
Customer Satisfaction Surveys will be
completed subject to the Privacy Act
1074, Public Law 93–579, December 31,
1974 (5 U.S.C. 522a). The agency
information collection is an integral part
of conducting an ACSI survey. The
contractor will not be authorized to
release any agency information upon
completion of the survey without first
obtaining permission from the Federal
Consulting Group and the participating
agency. In no case shall any new system
of records containing privacy
information be developed by the Federal
Consulting Group, participating
agencies, or the contractor collecting the
data. In addition, participating Federal
agencies may only provide information
used to randomly select respondents
from among established systems of
records provided for such routine uses.
There is no other agency or
organization which is able to provide
the information that is accessible
through the surveying approach used in
this information collection. Further, the
information will enable Federal
agencies to determine customer

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satisfaction metrics with discrimination
capability across variables. Thus, this
information collection will assist
Federal agencies in improving their
customer service in a targeted manner
which will make best use of resources
to improve service to the public.
This survey asks no questions of a
sensitive nature, such as sexual
behavior and attitudes, religious beliefs,
and other matters that are commonly
considered private.
Frequency of Collection: Once per
survey.
Description of Respondents:
Individuals who have visited
Government Web sites.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 57,292.
Current Expiration Date: December
31, 2011.
Type of Review: Renewal.
Affected Public: Individuals and
households, businesses and
organizations, State, Local or Tribal
Government.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
Participation by Federal agencies in the
ACSI is expected to vary as new
customer segment measures are added
or deleted. However, based on historical
records, projected average estimates for
the next three years are as follows:
Average Expected Annual Number of
Customer Satisfaction Surveys: 275.
Respondents: 1,375,000.
Annual Responses: 1,375,000.
Average Minutes per Response: 2.5.

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 by
appointment with the Federal
Consulting Group at the contact
information given in the ‘‘For Further
Information Contact’’ section. The
comments, with names and addresses,
will be available for public view during
regular business hours. If you wish us
to withhold your personal information,
you must prominently state at the
beginning of your comment what
personal information you want us to
withhold. We will honor your request to
extent allowable by law.

Note: it is expected that the first year there
will be approximately 225 surveys initiated,
the second year 275 surveys initiated, and
the third year 325 surveys initiated due to
expected growth in the program. The figures
above represent an expected average per year
over the three-year period.

Dated: November 14, 2011.
Ron Oberbillig,
Chief Operating Officer, Federal Consulting
Group.

As required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d), a
Federal Register notice soliciting
comments on the collection of
information was published on July 25,
2011 (Vol. 76, No. 142. Pages 44351–
44352). No comments were received.
This notice provides the public with an
additional 30 days in which to comment
on the proposed information collection
activity.
Request for Comments: 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

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Geological Survey
[USGS GX12EE000101000]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submitted for Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
Review; Comment Request
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of an extension of an
existing information collection (1028–
0084).
AGENCY:

To comply with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), the U.S. Geological Survey
(USGS) is inviting comments on an
information collection request (ICR) that
we have sent to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. The ICR concerns

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the paperwork requirements for the
National Spatial Data Infrastructure,
Cooperative Agreements Program (NSDI
CAP) and describes the nature of the
collection and the estimated burden and
cost. As required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, and as
part of our continuing efforts to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden, we
invite the general public and other
Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on this ICR.
This Information Collection is
scheduled to expire on January 31,
2012. To submit a proposal for the NSDI
CAP, three standard OMB forms and
project narrative must be completed and
submitted via Grants.gov.
DATES: Submit written comments by
December 21, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Please submit comments on
this information collection directly to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Attention: Desk
Officer for the Department of Interior via
email [[email protected]];
or fax (202) 395–5806; and identify your
submission as 1028–0084. Please also
submit a copy of your comments to
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 807
National Center, Reston, VA 20192
(mail); or [email protected] (email).
Please reference Information Collection
1028–0084, NSDI CAP in the subject
line.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request additional information
concerning this ICR, contact Brigitta
Urban-Mathieux, by mail NSDI CAP
Coordinator, Federal Geographic Data
Committee, U.S. Geological Survey, MS
590 National Center, Reston, VA 20192;
by telephone at (703) 648–5175 or by
email [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: National Spatial Data
Infrastructure Cooperative Agreements
Program (NSDI CAP).
OMB Control Number: 1028–0084.
Abstract: To date, the NSDI CAP
awards have created collaborations at all
levels of government, developed an
understanding of geospatial information
in organizations and disciplines new to
the NSDI, provided seed money to
enable geospatial organizations to
participate in the national effort to
implement the NSDI, promoted the
development of standardized metadata
in hundreds of organizations, and
funded numerous implementations of
OGC Web Mapping Services and Web
Feature Services. The program is open
to State, local and Tribal governments,
academia, commercial, and non-profit
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grants to initiate sustainable on-going
NSDI implementations. The program
emphasizes partnerships, collaboration
and the leveraging of geospatial
resources in achieving its goals. Since
the funding level is limited,
organizations must compete to be
awarded funds. Respondents are
submitting proposals to acquire funding
for projects to help build the
infrastructure necessary for the
geospatial data community to effectively
discover, access, share, manage, and use
digital geographic data. The NSDI
consists of the technologies, policies,
organizations, and people necessary to
promote cost-effective production, and
the ready availability and greater
utilization of geospatial data among a
variety of sectors, disciplines, and
communities. Specific NSDI areas of
emphasis include: Metadata
documentation, clearinghouse
establishment, framework development,
standards implementation, and building
organizational collaboration and
cooperation among organizations to
leverage of geospatial resources.
This notice concerns the collection of
information that is sufficient and
relevant to evaluate and select proposals
for funding. We will protect information
from respondents considered
proprietary under the Freedom of
Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) and its
implementing regulations (43 CFR Part
2), and under regulations at 30 CFR
250.197, ‘‘Data and information to be
made available to the public or for
limited inspection.’’ Responses are
voluntary. No questions of a ‘‘sensitive’’
nature are asked. We intend to release
the project abstracts and primary
investigators for awarded/funded
projects only.
Frequency of Collection: Annually.
Affected Public: Private Sector; State,
Local, and Tribal governments;
academia, non-profit organizations.
Respondent Obligation: Voluntary
(necessary to receive benefits).
Estimated Number and Description of
Respondents: We expect to receive
approximately 60 proposals during the
grant application process. We anticipate
issuing 25 grants per year. The program
is open to State, local and Tribal
governments, academia, commercial,
and non-profit organizations.
Estimated Number of Responses:
Approximately 60 applications and 50
reports per year.
Estimated Completion Time per
Response: Based on comments received
from our consultation, we have adjusted
our original burden request by 10 hours
from 25 to 35 hours per respondent. We
expect to receive approximately 60
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approximately 35 hours to complete,
totaling 2,100 burden hours. We
anticipate awarding an average of 25
grants per year. The 25 award recipients
are required to submit 2 reports: an
interim 6 months after the start of the
project and a final report on or before
90 working days after the expiration of
the agreement. We estimate that it will
take approximately 5 hours to complete
and submit the reports totaling 10
hours. Therefore, the annual burden for
report preparation is 250 hours. We
estimate that the total burden for this
collection will be 2,350 hours.
Annual Burden Hours: 2,350.
Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’
Burden: We have not identified any
‘‘non-hour cost’’ burdens associated
with this collection of information.
Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA
(44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) provides that an
agency may not conduct or sponsor a
collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number. Until OMB approves a
collection of information, you are not
obligated to respond.
Comments: To comply with the
public consultation process, on July 25,
2011, we published a Federal Register
notice (76 FR 44354) announcing our
intent to submit this information
collection to OMB for approval. In that
notice we solicited public comments for
60 days, ending on September 23, 2011.
We did not receive any public
comments in response to the notice.
We again invite comments concerning
this information collection on:
(1) Whether or not the collection of
information is necessary, including
whether or not the information will
have practical utility;
(2) The accuracy of our estimate of the
burden for this collection of
information;
(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
respondents.
Please note that the comments
submitted in response to this notice are
a matter of public record. Before
including your address, phone number,
email address, or other personal
identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment, including your
personal identifying information, may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you can ask OMB in your
comment to withhold your personal
identifying information from public
review, we cannot guarantee that it will
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Dated: November 3, 2011.
Kevin T. Gallagher,
Associate Director, Core Science Systems.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Geological Survey
Patent, Trademark & Copyright Acts
U.S. Geological Survey,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Prospective Intent to
Award Exclusive License.
AGENCY:

The United States Geological
Survey (USGS) is contemplating
awarding an exclusive license to:
Geosyntec Consultants, 1255 Roberts
Boulevard NW., Suite 200, Kennesaw,
GA 30144, on U.S. Patent Application
Serial No. 12/133,666, and a divisional
patent application to be filed shortly at
the Patent and Trademark Office, both
entitled ‘‘Anaerobic Microbial
Composition and Methods of Using
Same.’’
Inquiries: If other parties are
interested in similar activities, or have
comments related to the prospective
awards, please contact Neil Mark,
USGS, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, MS
201, Reston, Virginia 20192, voice (703)
648–4344, fax (703) 648–7219, or email
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice is submitted to meet the
requirements of 35 U.S.C. 208 et seq.
SUMMARY:

Dated: November 14, 2011.
Karen D. Baker,
Associate Director for Administration and
Enterprise Information.

The Gila and Salt River Meridian,
Arizona:
The plat representing the survey of a
portion of the Seventh Standard Parallel
North (south boundary), the east and
north boundaries, a portion of the
subdivisional lines, the subdivision of
certain sections and metes-and-bounds
surveys of Tracts 37 and 38, Township
29 North, Range 21 East, accepted
November 7, 2011, and officially filed
November 9, 2011, for Group 1081,
Arizona.
This plat was prepared at the request
of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Navajo
Regional Office.
A person or party who wishes to
protest against any of these surveys
must file a written protest with the
Arizona State Director, Bureau of Land
Management, stating that they wish to
protest.
A statement of reasons for a protest
may be filed with the notice of protest
to the State Director, or the statement of
reasons must be filed with the State
Director within thirty (30) days after the
protest is filed.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
These plats will be available for
inspection in the Arizona State Office,
Bureau of Land Management, One North
Central Avenue, Suite 800, Phoenix,
Arizona 85004–4427. Persons who use a
telecommunications device for the deaf
(TDD) may call the Federal Information
Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–(800) 877–
8339 to contact the above individual
during normal business hours. The FIRS
is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week, to leave a message or question
with the above individual. You will
receive a reply during normal business
hours.
Dated: November 9, 2011.
Stephen K. Hansen,
Chief Cadastral Surveyor of Arizona.

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Bureau of Land Management

Notice of Filing of Plats of Survey;
Arizona

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Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Filing of Plats of
Survey; Arizona.

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AGENCY:

The plats of survey of the
described lands were officially filed in
the Arizona State Office, Bureau of Land
Management, Phoenix, Arizona, on
dates indicated.
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Notice of Change in Date for December
Meeting of the Dominguez-Escalante
Advisory Council
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of public meetings.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Federal Land Policy and Management
Act of 1976 and the Federal Advisory
Committee Act of 1972, the U.S.

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Department of the Interior, Bureau of
Land Management (BLM) DominguezEscalante Advisory Council (Council)
will meet as indicated below.
The December meeting of the
Dominguez-Escalante Advisory Council
has been rescheduled to December 14,
2011, from 3–6 p.m. A meeting
scheduled for December 7, 2011, and
previously announced in the Federal
Register has been canceled due to
scheduling conflicts.

DATES:

The meeting will be held at
the Delta Performing Arts Center, 822
Grand Ave., Delta, Colorado 81416.

ADDRESSES:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Katie Stevens, Advisory Council
Designated Federal Official, 2815 H
Road, Grand Junction, CO 81506. Phone:
(970) 244–3049. Email:
[email protected].
The 10member Council advises the Secretary
of the Interior, through the BLM, on a
variety of planning and management
issues associated with the resource
management planning process for the
Dominguez-Escalante National
Conservation Area and Dominguez
Canyon Wilderness.
Topics of discussion during the
meeting may include informational
presentations from various resource
specialists working on the resource
management plan, as well as Council
reports relating to the following topics:
Recreation, fire management, land-use
planning process, invasive species
management, travel management,
wilderness, land exchange criteria,
cultural resource management and other
resource management topics of interest
to the Council raised during the
planning process.
These meetings are anticipated to
occur monthly, and may occur as
frequently as every two weeks during
intensive phases of the planning
process. Dates, times and agendas for
additional meetings may be determined
at future Advisory Council Meetings,
and will be published in the Federal
Register, announced through local
media and available on the BLM’s Web
site for the Dominguez-Escalante
planning effort, www.blm.gov/co/st/en/
nca/denca/denca_rmp.html.
These meetings are open to the
public. The public may present written
comments to the Council. Each formal
Council meeting will have time
allocated at the beginning and end of
each meeting for hearing public
comments. Depending on the number of
persons wishing to comment and time
available, the time for individual, oral

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