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Projected average estimates for the
next three years:
Average Expected Annual Number of
Activities: 30.
Average Number of Respondents per
Activity: 100.
Annual Responses: 450,000.
Frequency of Response: Once per
request.
Average Minutes per Response: 30.
Burden Hours: 225,000.
Abstract: 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
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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
outside of the agency;
• Information gathered will not be
used for the purpose of substantially
informing influential policy decisions;
and
• 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.
Dated: March 4, 2014.
Stephanie Valentine,
Acting Director, Information Collection
Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and
Records Management Services, Office of
Management.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket No.: ED–2014–ICCD–0030]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Comment Request; U.S.
Department of Education Grant
Performance Report Form (ED 524B)
Office of the Secretary/Office of
the Deputy Secretary (OS), Department
of Education (ED).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is
proposing an extension of an existing
information collection.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before May 9,
2014.
ADDRESSES: Comments submitted in
response to this notice should be
submitted electronically through the
Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://
www.regulations.gov by selecting
Docket ID number ED–2014–ICCD–0030
or via postal mail, commercial delivery,
or hand delivery. If the regulations.gov
site is not available to the public for any
reason, ED will temporarily accept
comments at [email protected].
Please note that comments submitted by
fax or email and those submitted after
the comment period will not be
accepted; ED will only accept comments
during the comment period in this
mailbox when the regulations.gov site is
not available. Written requests for
information or comments submitted by
postal mail or delivery should be
addressed to the Director of the
Information Collection Clearance
Division, U.S. Department of Education,
400 Maryland Avenue SW., LBJ,
Mailstop L–OM–2–2E319, Room 2E105,
Washington, DC 20202.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
specific questions related to collection
activities, please contact Joyce GreenMillner, 202–245–8036.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Department of Education (ED), in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general
public and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed,
revised, and continuing collections of
information. This helps the Department
assess the impact of its information
collection requirements and minimize
the public’s reporting burden. It also
helps the public understand the
Department’s information collection
requirements and provide the requested
data in the desired format. ED is
soliciting comments on the proposed
SUMMARY:

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information collection request (ICR) that
is described below. The Department of
Education is especially interested in
public comment addressing the
following issues: (1) Is this collection
necessary to the proper functions of the
Department; (2) will this information be
processed and used in a timely manner;
(3) is the estimate of burden accurate;
(4) how might the Department enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (5) how
might the Department minimize the
burden of this collection on the
respondents, including through the use
of information technology. Please note
that written comments received in
response to this notice will be
considered public records.
Title of Collection: U.S. Department of
Education Grant Performance Report
Form (ED 524B).
OMB Control Number: 1894–0003.
Type of Review: An extension of an
existing information collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: State,
Local, or Tribal Governments.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 5,300.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 118,400.
Abstract: The ED 524B form and
instructions are used in order for
grantees to meet Department of
Education (ED) deadline dates for
submission of performance reports for
ED discretionary grant programs.
Recipients of multi-year discretionary
grants must submit an annual
performance report for each year
funding has been approved in order to
receive a continuation award. The
annual performance report should
demonstrate whether substantial
progress has been made toward meeting
the approved goals and objectives of the
project. ED program offices may also
require recipients of ‘‘forward funded’’
grants that are awarded funds for their
entire multi-year project up-front in a
single grant award to submit the ED
524B on an annual basis. In addition,
ED program offices may also require
recipients to use the ED 524B to submit
their final performance reports to
demonstrate project success, impact and
outcomes. In both the annual and final
performance reports, grantees are
required to provide data on established
performance measures for the grant
program (e.g., Government Performance
and Results Act measures) and on
project performance measures that were
included in the grantee’s approved grant
application. The ED 524B also contains
a number of questions related to project
financial data such as Federal and nonFederal expenditures and indirect cost
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requirements are found in 34 CFR 74.51,
75.118, 75.253, 75.590 and 80.40 of the
Education Department General
Administrative Regulations.
Dated: March 4, 2014.
Stephanie Valentine,
Acting Director, Information Collection
Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and
Records Management Services, Office of
Management.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. IC14–3–000]

Commission Information Collection
Activities (FERC–549D); Comment
Request
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Energy.
ACTION: Comment request.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
3507(a)(1)(D), the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (Commission or
FERC) is submitting the information
collection FERC–549D (Quarterly
Transportation and Storage Report for
Intrastate Natural Gas and Hinshaw
Pipelines) to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review of the
information collection requirements.
Any interested person may file
comments directly with OMB and
should address a copy of those
comments to the Commission as
explained below. The Commission
published notices in the Federal
Register (78 FR 69843, 11/21/2012, and
79 FR 7175, 2/6/2012) requesting public
comments. FERC received no comments
on the FERC–549D for either notice and
is making this notation in its submittal
to OMB.
The Commission is issuing this 15day public notice due to a change of the
estimated burden figures. Upon further
review, the Commission found that the
burden estimate required adjustment
due to better estimates. Specifically, the
average burden hours per response for
XML filings (implementation burden
only) increased from 104 hours to 196
hours. Note: There are no changes to
information collection or filing
requirements.
DATES: Comments on the collections of
information are due by March 25, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB,
identified by the OMB Control Nos.
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1902–0253 (FERC–549D) should be sent
via email to the Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs: oira_
[email protected], Attention:
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Desk Officer. The Desk Officer may also
be reached via telephone at 202–395–
4718.
A copy of the comments should also
be sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, identified by the Docket
No. IC14–3–000, by one of the following
methods:
• eFiling at Commission’s Web site:
http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
efiling.asp.
• Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier:
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
Secretary of the Commission, 888 First
Street NE., Washington, DC 20426.
Instructions: All submissions must be
formatted and filed in accordance with
submission guidelines at: http://
www.ferc.gov/help/submissionguide.asp. For user assistance contact
FERC Online Support by email at
[email protected], or by phone
at: (866) 208–3676 (toll-free), or (202)
502–8659 for TTY.
Docket: Users interested in receiving
automatic notification of activity in this
docket or in viewing/downloading
comments and issuances in this docket
may do so at http://www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/docs-filing.asp.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ellen Brown may be reached by email
at [email protected], by
telephone at (202) 502–8663, and by fax
at (202) 273–0873.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Titles: Quarterly Transportation and
Storage Report for Intrastate Natural Gas
and Hinshaw Pipelines.
OMB Control Nos.: 1902–0253.
Type of Request: Three-year extension
of the FERC–549D information
collection requirements with no changes
to the reporting requirements.
Abstract: The reporting requirements
under FERC–549D are required to carry
out the Commission’s policies in
accordance with the general authority in
Sections 1(c) of the Natural Gas Act
(NGA) 1 and Sections 311 of the Natural
Gas Policy Act of 1978 (NGPA) 2. This
collection promotes transparency by
collecting and making available
intrastate and Hinshaw pipeline
transactional information. The
Commission collects the data upon a
standardized form with all requirements
outlined in 18 CFR 284.126.
The FERC Form 549D collects the
following information:
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