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OMB Control No: 0648-0658	ICR Reference No: 201812-0648-010
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 201510-0648-014
Agency/Subagency: DOC/NOAA	Agency Tracking No:
Title: NOAA Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) Program National Evaluation System
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved with change	Conclusion Date: 07/24/2019
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 12/19/2018
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	07/31/2022	36 Months From Approved	07/31/2019
Responses	2,583	0	4,237
Time Burden (Hours)	1,040	0	1,773
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Abstract: The NOAA Office of Education’s Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) program seeks to contribute to NOAA’s mission by supporting education efforts to create an environmentally literate citizenry with the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to protect watersheds and related ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems. B-WET currently funds projects in seven regions (California, Chesapeake Bay, Great Lakes, Gulf of Mexico, Hawaii, New England, and the Pacific Northwest). B-WET has created an across-region, internal evaluation system to provide ongoing feedback on program implementation and outcomes to ensure maximum quality and efficiency of the B-WET program. The evaluation system is sustained by B-WET staff with occasional assistance from an outside contractor. B-WET awardees and the awardees’ professional development teacher-participants are asked to voluntarily complete online survey forms to provide evaluation data. One individual from each awardee organization is asked to complete a form once per year of the award, and the teacher participants are asked to complete one form at the end of their professional development program and another form at the end of the following school year.

Authorizing Statute(s): EO: EO 12862 Name/Subject of EO: Setting Customer Standards

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: None

Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
	Not associated with rulemaking

Federal Register Notices & Comments
60-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	83 FR 35240	07/25/2018
30-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	83 FR 65146	12/19/2018
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? No

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate
Annual Number of Responses	2,583	4,237	-1,654
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	1,040	1,773	-733
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: Program Changes Based on an initial analysis of results collected from the three questionnaires, feedback from respondents via open- and closed-ended items, and a detailed review of the questionnaire items by B-WET staff members, a number of changes are proposed to the measures included in the questionnaires. These changes are identified using “track changes” in the questionnaires included in Attachments 1a-f. Changes were made in order to shorten the instruments where possible and obtain more focused feedback on high priority program questions. These changes do not change the estimated survey response times. In addition, due to lower than anticipated response rates for grantees in the last three year period, a nonresponse survey for this audience has been included. Adjustments Increased cost to the Federal government is due to increased cost of survey platform license as well as a greater cost anticipated for a future analysis. Based on grantee and teacher response rates in the last 3 years, we have lowered our estimated response rates (Table 7). In addition, the expected number of participants has decreased (from 8,086 to 5,129), so the overall burden has decreased (Table 6).

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $90,000

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: Bronwen Rice 202 482-6797

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