Notice2025-15489
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Using Quick Response Surveys To Build a Public Perception and Response Database
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Published
August 14, 2025
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Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 155 (Thursday, August 14, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39184-39185]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-15489]
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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; Using Quick Response Surveys To Build a Public Perception and
Response Database
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 March 31, 2025, during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Commerce.
Title: Using Quick Response Surveys to Build a Public Perception
and Response Database.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0805.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular (Extension and revision of a current
information collection).
Number of Respondents: 33,675.
Average Hours per Response: 10 minutes.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 5,613.
Needs and Uses: This is a request for revision and extension of an
approved information collection. The previously approved collection is
called Phase I and the revision and extension are called Phase II.
The Phase II collection is also sponsored by the NOAA National
Weather Service (NWS) Office of Science and Technology Integration
(OSTI). The collection is permitted under 15 U.S.C. Ch. 111, Weather
Research and Forecasting Innovation, that directs NOAA to focus on
improving its understanding of how the public receives, interprets, and
responds to warnings and forecasts of high impact weather events that
endanger life and property. The purpose of the collection is to improve
how the NWS communicates risks posed by hazardous weather or water
events to the public that are most likely to result in action to
mitigate the risk. Information from this collection will help the
agency meet its mission to ``provide weather, water and climate data,
forecasts, warnings, and impact-based decision support services for the
protection of life and property and enhancement of the national
economy.''
Phase II will continue the work using an online survey system for
collecting data on the public's perception and response to four
different hazards: tornados, thunderstorm winds over 70 miles per hour
(mph), flash floods, and winter weather. The online surveys provide
event-based reports on hazardous weather events for National Weather
Service Forecast Offices, and are building blocks for a multi-year,
cross-sectional organized collection of human perception and response
data. The survey system enables individual National Weather Service
Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs) to disseminate Quick Response Surveys
(QRS) soon after a hazardous event occurs to collect perishable data on
the public's perceptions and response to the event. WFOs distribute the
QRS using web links on NWS social media and core partners' social media
or email lists.
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Surveys ask the public questions on timing, location, weather
information sources, motivations and influences for taking protective
action to gain insights into how NWS warning communications interact
with these factors to result in protective action behaviors.
The collection is being revised to remove the longitudinal Weather
and Society Survey. The agency no longer collects information using the
longitudinal surveys.
Affected Public: Individuals or households.
Frequency: On occasion.
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 either the title of the collection or the OMB
Control Number 0648-0805.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Compliance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2025-15489 Filed 8-13-25; 8:45 am]
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