Notice2022-22624
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Weather.gov Visitor Experience Survey
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Published
October 18, 2022
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 200 (Tuesday, October 18, 2022)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-22624]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; <a href="http://Weather.gov">Weather.gov</a> Visitor Experience Survey
The Department of Commerce will submit the following information
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite the
general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and
continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of
our information collection requirements and minimize the public's
reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the
Federal Register on July 19, 2022 (87 FR 43007) during a 60-day comment
period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public
comments.
Agency: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
Title: <a href="http://Weather.gov">Weather.gov</a> Visitor Experience Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0648-XXXX.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission (new information collection).
Number of Respondents: 14,750.
Average Hours per Response: 10 Minutes.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,508.
Needs and Uses: The data collection is sponsored by DOC/NOAA/
National Weather Service (NWS)/Office of Dissemination (DISS) in
consultation with the NWS Communications Division. <a href="http://Weather.gov">Weather.gov</a> is the
main entry point to National Weather Service (NWS) forecasts, warnings,
and other information for a diverse user community, including the
public, partners and emergency managers, academia, researchers, and
employees. The user interface is intended to serve many purposes for
these audiences.
The <a href="http://Weather.gov">Weather.gov</a> Survey is permitted under 15 U.S.C. ch. 111,
Weather Research and Forecasting Information. It also advances the NWS
Strategic Plan (2019-2022) ``Transformative Impact-Based Decision
Support Services (IDSS) and Research to Operations and Operations to
Research (R2O/O2R). The Survey also addresses the NWS Weather Ready
Nation (WRN) Roadmap (2013) sections 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.8, and
3.1.4.
The purpose of this collection is to help determine the appropriate
web content for <a href="http://Weather.gov">Weather.gov</a> so the customer experience can be improved
and the content can be better accessed and used. NWS is looking to
improve functionality, ease of use, and formatting but feedback on any
other areas of <a href="http://Weather.gov">Weather.gov</a> that NWS should consider updating is welcome
as well. The collection will create a high-level data requirements
document that identifies a set of high-priority NWS products, services,
and observations that provide mission-critical, timely, and reliable
information to make decisions with when seconds count. The document
will also identify high-level partner requirements for accessibility
(mobile versus desktop), timeliness, and reliability.
This information would be collected on a one-off basis and analyzed
by Forrester Research, who has assisted NWS in creating a survey
instrument and would provide NWS with a summary of findings, raw data
and access to interactive ``dashboards'', or tools, to visualize the
aggregated data. Respondents include the general public, defined as
(adults ages 18+) who reside in the United States, as well as NWS
partners. Forrester will oversee recruitment of U.S. adults by an
online market research company that aggregates large panels of people
who sign up to complete internet surveys. Respondents will be asked
questions about their preferred way of getting weather information
(including weather on regular days and during severe/hazardous
weather), their use of <a href="http://Weather.gov">Weather.gov</a> and other weather websites, interest
in different types of weather information on a website, priorities and
preferences in accessing weather-related information online, and
preferred format of receiving weather information. This data collection
serves many purposes, including gaining a better understanding of the
online weather information needs (including information about hazardous
weather) of different customer groups, including historically
underserved and socially vulnerable communities, how they prefer to
receive this information, how they would like the main page of
<a href="http://Weather.gov">Weather.gov</a> to be organized, what additional functionality they expect
that would make them feel better prepared for hazardous weather, and
has the potential to explore possible correlations and causal
relationships with other observed variables of interest. This data will
be used by the OSTI in NWS to develop a set of website content
requirements to improve the structure and navigation on <a href="http://Weather.gov">Weather.gov</a>.
Affected Public: Individuals or households.
Frequency: Once.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: 15 U.S.C. ch. 111, Weather Research and
Forecasting Information.
This information collection request may be viewed at
<a href="http://www.reginfo.gov">www.reginfo.gov</a>. Follow the instructions to view the Department of
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of
this notice on the following website <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>.
Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently
under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search
function and entering the title of the collection.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2022-22624 Filed 10-17-22; 8:45 am]
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