Notice2024-10362
Agency Information Collection Activities: Did You Feel It? Earthquake Questionnaire
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Published
May 14, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentGeological Survey
Abstract
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is requesting to renew an information collection with revisions.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 94 (Tuesday, May 14, 2024)]
[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: 2024-10362]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Geological Survey
[GX23ZQ00F080400, OMB Control Number 1028-0048]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Did You Feel It?
Earthquake Questionnaire
AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice of renewed information collection; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995,
the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is requesting to renew an information
collection with revisions.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
June 13, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to <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 Review--Open for
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Public Comments'' or by using the search function. Please provide a
copy of your comments by mail to USGS, Information Collections
Clearance Officer, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, MS 159, Reston, VA 20192
or by email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#ddbaaef0b4b3bbb282beb2b1b1b8bea9b4b2b3ae9da8aebaaef3bab2ab"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a9ceda84c0c7cfc6f6cac6c5c5cccaddc0c6c7dae9dcdaceda87cec6df">[email protected]</span></a>. Please reference OMB
Control Number 1028-0048.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request additional information
about this information collection request (ICR), contact Sara McBride
by email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3a495157595848535e5f7a4f495d49145d554c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5b283036383929323f3e1b2e283c28753c342d">[email protected]</span></a> or by telephone at 650-750-5270.
Individuals in the United States who are deaf, deafblind, hard of
hearing, or have a speech disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or
TeleBraille) to access telecommunications relay services. Individuals
outside the United States should use the relay services offered within
their country to make international calls to the point-of-contact in
the United States. You may also view the ICR at <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with PRA of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.) and 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), we provide the general public and
other federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on new, proposed,
revised, and continuing collections of information. This helps us
assess the impact of our information collection requirements and
minimize the public's reporting burden. It also helps the public
understand our information collection requirements and provide the
requested data in the desired format.
A Federal Register notice with a 60-day public comment period
soliciting comments on this collection of information was published on
November 17, 2022. (87 FR 69039). No comments were received.
As part of our continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent
burdens, we are again soliciting comments from the public and other
federal agencies on the proposed ICR that is described below. We are
especially interested in public comment addressing the following:
(1) Whether or not the collection of information is necessary for
the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including
whether or not the information will have practical utility;
(2) The accuracy of our estimate of the burden for this collection
of information, including the validity of the methodology and
assumptions used;
(3) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
(4) How the agency might minimize the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to respond, including through the use of
appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g.,
permitting electronic submission of response.
Comments that you submit in response to this notice are a matter of
public record. Before including your address, phone number, email
address, or other personally identifiable information (PII) in your
comment, you should be aware that your entire comment--including your
PII--may be made publicly available at any time. While you can ask us
in your comment to withhold your PII from public review, we cannot
guarantee that we will be able to do so.
Abstract: The information gathered in the questionnaire is used by
the USGS to provide overviews of the effects of earthquakes on humans
and on the human environment. Summaries of the effects of earthquakes,
and isoseismal maps that represent them, are published in Preliminary
Determination of Epicenters publications of the USGS, in Open-File
Reports, or in research publications. Summaries and maps are also
distributed electronically from USGS earthquake information web pages.
In 1998, we began experimenting with an electronic version of the
questionnaire as a way of collecting information from people who were
looking at the USGS earthquake information website. The experiment was
so successful and the number of questionnaire responses for significant
earthquakes increased so quickly, that we were able to eliminate other
collection methods. We have collected data exclusively with the web-
based questionnaire since 2002.
This addition of the questions means that people who received an
alert via the ShakeAlert System or any earthquake early warning system
can report their experiences to us quickly, in combination with their
experiences of the earthquake. This combined data set can tell us much
about how the ShakeAlert system operates, when people receive alerts,
how they receive them and what they did once they received them. This
is critical information for us to improve the ShakeAlert System.
Title of Collection: Did You Feel It? Earthquake Questionnaire.
OMB Control Number: 1028-0048.
Form Number: None.
Type of Review: Renewal with revisions.
Respondents/Affected Public: Individuals/households.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Respondents: 300,000.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 300,000.
Estimated Completion Time per Response: 4 minutes.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 20,000.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: One-time, in an online survey.
Total Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden Cost: 0.
An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required
to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a
currently valid OMB control number.
The authority for this action is the PRA.
Gary D. Latzke,
Chief of Staff, USGS, Natural Hazards Mission Area.
[FR Doc. 2024-10362 Filed 5-13-24; 8:45 am]
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