2023-26329. Agency Information Collection Activities: Announcement of Board Approval Under Delegated Authority and Submission to OMB

AGENCY:

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

SUMMARY:

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) is adopting a proposal to extend for three years, without revision, the Ad Hoc Clearance for Surveys of Consumer and Community Affairs Publications and Resources (FR 1378; OMB No. 7100–0358).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Federal Reserve Board Clearance Officer—Nuha Elmaghrabi—Office of the Chief Data Officer, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, [e-mail], (202) 452–3884.

Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Desk Officer for the Federal Reserve Board, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, 725 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 20503, or by fax to (202) 395–6974.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

On June 15, 1984, OMB delegated to the Board authority under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) to approve and assign OMB control numbers to collections of information conducted or sponsored by the Board. Board-approved collections of information are incorporated into the official OMB inventory of currently approved collections of information. The OMB inventory, as well as copies of the PRA Submission, supporting statements (which contain more detailed information about the information collections and burden estimates than this notice), and approved collection of information instrument(s) are available at https://www.reginfo.gov/​public/​do/​PRAMain. These documents are also available on the Federal Reserve Board's public website at https://www.federalreserve.gov/​apps/​reportingforms/​home/​review or may be requested from the agency clearance officer, whose name appears above.

Final Approval Under OMB Delegated Authority of the Extension for Three Years, Without Revision, of the Following Information Collection

Collection title: Ad Hoc Clearance for Surveys of Consumer and Community Affairs Publications and Resources.

Collection identifier: FR 1378.

OMB control number: 7100–0358.

General description of collection: The Board uses this collection to seek input from users or potential users of the Board's publications, resources, and conference materials to understand their interests and needs; to inform decisions concerning content, design, and dissemination strategies; to gauge public awareness of the Board's publications, resources, and conferences; and to assess the effectiveness of the Board's communications with various respondents.

The surveys in this collection are used to gather qualitative and quantitative information directly from users or potential users of Board publications, resources, and conference materials, such as consumers (consumer surveys) and stakeholders (stakeholder surveys). The content of survey questions and the type of consumer or stakeholder respondents vary from survey to survey. Survey respondents include individuals, businesses, non-profit institutions, government entities, and other Board stakeholders.

Frequency: Event-generated.

Respondents: Individuals, businesses, non-profit institutions, government entities, and other Board stakeholders.

Total estimated number of respondents: 1,900.

Total estimated annual burden hours: 2,300.^[1]

Current actions: On August 18, 2023, the Board published a notice in the Federal Register (88 FR 56623) requesting public comment for 60 days on the extension, without revision, of the FR 1378. The comment period for this notice expired on October 17, 2023. The Board did not receive any comments.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, November 27, 2023.

Michele Taylor Fennell,

Deputy Associate Secretary of the Board.

Footnotes

1.  More detailed information regarding this collection, including more detailed burden estimates, can be found in the OMB Supporting Statement posted at https://www.federalreserve.gov/​apps/​reportingforms/​home/​review. On the page displayed at the link, you can find the OMB Supporting Statement by referencing the collection identifier, FR 1378.