Notice2024-23583
Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements Under OMB Review
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Published
October 11, 2024
Issuing agencies
Small Business Administration
Abstract
The Small Business Administration has submitted the following information collection: Improving Customer Experience (OMB Circular A- 11, Section 280 Implementation), to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA).
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 198 (Friday, October 11, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 82672-82673]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-23583]
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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements Under OMB Review
AGENCY: U.S. Small Business Administration.
ACTION: Notice; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The Small Business Administration has submitted the following
information collection: Improving Customer Experience (OMB Circular A-
11, Section 280 Implementation), to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for approval under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA).
DATES: Submit comments on or before November 12, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments by the deadline stated in the DATES section
above to:
<bullet> <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
Public Comments'' and searching for this information collection by
title or OMB Control Number 3245-0404; and
<bullet> Christine Illige Saucier, Lead Performance Analyst,
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d89bb0aab1abacb1b6bdf691b4b4b1bfbd8bb9adbbb1bdaa98abbab9f6bfb7ae"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="13507b617a60677a7d763d5a7f7f7a7476407266707a7661536071723d747c65">[email protected]</span></a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Submit requests for additional
information, including requests for copies of the collection instrument
and supporting documents to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#fab9928893898e93949fd4b39696939d9fa99b8f99939f88ba89989bd49d958c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="26654e544f55524f4843086f4a4a4f4143754753454f43546655444708414950">[email protected]</span></a> or Curtis
B. Rich, Management Analyst, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3b584e494f524815495258537b48595a155c544d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c1a2b4b3b5a8b2efb3a8a2a981b2a3a0efa6aeb7">[email protected]</span></a>, 202-921-3356.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Improving Customer Experience (OMB Circular A-11, Section
280 Implementation).
OMB Control Number: 3245-0404.
Abstract: A modern, streamlined and responsive customer experience
means: Raising government-wide customer experience to the average of
the private sector service industry; developing indicators for high-
impact Federal programs to monitor progress towards excellent customer
experience and mature digital services; and providing the structure
(including increasing transparency) and resources to ensure customer
experience is a focal point for agency leadership.
This proposed information collection activity provides a means to
garner customer and stakeholder feedback in an efficient, timely manner
in accordance with the Administration's commitment to improving
customer service delivery as discussed in Section 280 of OMB Circular
A-11 at <a href="https://www.performance.gov/cx/a11-280.pdf">https://www.performance.gov/cx/a11-280.pdf</a>. As discussed in OMB
guidance, agencies should identify their highest-impact customer
journeys (using customer volume, annual program cost, and/or knowledge
of customer priority as weighting factors) and select touchpoints/
transactions within those journeys to collect feedback.
These results will be used to improve the delivery of Federal
services and programs. It will also provide government-wide data on
customer experience that can be displayed on <a href="http://www.performance.gov">www.performance.gov</a> to
help build transparency and accountability of Federal programs to the
customers they serve.
As a general matter, these information collections will not result
in any new system of records containing privacy information and will
not ask questions of a sensitive nature, such as sexual behavior and
attitudes, religious beliefs, and other matters that are commonly
considered private. The Small Business Administration will only submit
collections if they meet the following criteria:
<bullet> The collections are voluntary;
<bullet> The collections are low-burden for respondents (based on
considerations of total burden hours or burden-hours per respondent)
and are low-cost for both the respondents and the Federal Government;
<bullet> The collections are non-controversial;
<bullet> 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;
<bullet> Personally identifiable information (PII) is collected
only to the extent necessary and is not retained;
<bullet> Information gathered is intended to be used for general
service improvement and program management purposes
<bullet> The agency will follow the procedures specified in OMB
Circular A-11 Section 280 for the required quarterly reporting to OMB
of trust data and experience driver data from surveys.
<bullet> Outside of the quarterly reporting mentioned in the bullet
immediately above, if the agency intends to release journey maps, user
personas, reports, or other data-related summaries stemming from this
collection, the agency must include appropriate caveats around those
summaries, noting that conclusions should not be generalized beyond the
sample, considering the sample size and response rates. The agency must
submit the data summary itself (e.g., the report) and the caveat
language mentioned above to OMB before it releases them outside the
agency. OMB will engage in a passback process with the agency.
These collections will allow for ongoing, collaborative and
actionable communications between the Agency, its customers,
stakeholders, and OMB as it monitors agency compliance on Section 280.
These responses will 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 services will be
unavailable.
Type of Review: Extension.
Affected Public: Individuals and Households, Businesses and
Organizations, State, Local or Tribal Government.
Estimated Number of Respondents: Below is a preliminary estimate of
the aggregate burden hours for this information collection.
Average Expected Annual Number of Activities: Approximately five
types of customer experience activities such as feedback surveys, focus
groups, user testing, and interviews.
Average Number of Respondents per Activity: 1 response per
respondent per activity.
Annual Responses: 9,504,000.
Average Minutes per Response: 3 minutes-120 minutes, dependent upon
activity.
Burden Hours: Small Business Administration requests approximately
477,750 burden hours.
Burden means the total time, effort, or financial resources
expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose, or provide
information to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed
to review instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize
technology and systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and
verifying information, processing and maintaining information, and
disclosing and providing information; to train personnel and to be able
to respond to a collection of information, to search data sources, to
complete and review the collection of information; and to transmit or
otherwise disclose the information.
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Request for Comments: Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the
collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including whether the information shall
have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of
the burden of the collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; (d)
ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on
respondents, including through the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information technology; and (e) estimates
of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation, maintenance, and
purchase of services to provide information.
Curtis Rich,
Management Analyst.
[FR Doc. 2024-23583 Filed 10-10-24; 8:45 am]
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