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View Generic ICR - OIRA Conclusion

OMB Control No: 1880-0542	ICR Reference No: 201107-1880-001
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 201103-1880-001
Agency/Subagency: ED/OM	Agency Tracking No: 04558
Title: Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service Delivery
Type of Information Collection: No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 07/18/2011
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 07/15/2011
Terms of Clearance: OMB approves this collection for a period of three years. To request approval of information collections under this generic approval, the agency must do the following: 1) Unless an agency is using multiple modes of collection (e.g., paper forms and electronic submissions), provide a Generic Clearance Submission Template for each Instrument; 2) If the agency is using multiple modes of collection (e.g., paper forms and electronic submissions), the same Generic Clearance Submission Template may be used for both instruments; 3) each Generic Clearance Submission Template must be uploaded as a Supplementary document using a naming convention that allows the public to identify the associated instrument; 4) submit no more than five Generic Submission Templates with each request.

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	06/30/2014	06/30/2014	06/30/2014
Responses	450,000	0	21,300
Time Burden (Hours)	225,000	0	10,650
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate
Annual Number of Responses	450,000	21,300	428,700
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	225,000	10,650	214,350
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Increase Due to:

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: There is an adjustment of 428,700 responses and 214,350 hours in order to more closely align the inventory of this generic clearance with ED's existing generic approval for customer satisfaction surveys and focus groups which is currently pending at OMB(see OMB# 1800-0011). Further, the Department has experienced greater interest in this clearance mechanism than originally anticipated.