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OMB Control No: 1902-0293	ICR Reference No: 201709-1902-002
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 201702-1902-006
Agency/Subagency: FERC	Agency Tracking No: FERC-153
Title: FERC-153, 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 with change	Conclusion Date: 09/11/2017
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 09/05/2017
Terms of Clearance: Approved consistent with the following terms of clearance: FERC will submit to OMB an annual progress report summarizing actual burden, reporting results achieved. In the event that additional hours are required, FERC will need to submit a nonmaterial/nonsubstantive change in burden request for the overall Generic ICR. For each information collection that FERC undertakes, FERC will provide OMB a summary of objectives, specific burden estimates, and all final survey instruments. Each information collection must be entered into ROCIS as an IC. OMB will attempt to provide comments within ten days of official receipt of an individual clearance package. However, the FERC must receive explicit OMB approval prior to initiating any proposed collections under this clearance.

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	06/30/2020	06/30/2020	06/30/2020
Responses	27,000	0	27,000
Time Burden (Hours)	4,500	0	4,500
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Abstract: Improving agency programs requires ongoing assessment of service delivery, by which we mean systematic review of the operation of a program compared to a set of explicit or implicit standards, as a means of contributing to the continuous improvement of the program. The Agency will collect, analyze, and interpret information gathered through this generic clearance to identify strengths and weaknesses of current services and make improvements in service delivery based on feedback. 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: • 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 (if released, procedures outlined in Question 16 wil be followed); • 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 ; • 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 non-controversial 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; and • With the exception of information needed to provide renumeration for participants of focus groups and cognitive laboratory studies, personally identifiable information (PII) is collected only to the extent necessary and is not retained.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $36,410

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? Yes Part B of Supporting Statement

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? Uncollected

Agency Contact: Anthony May 202 502-6458 anthony.may@ferc.gov