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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 181 / Wednesday, September 22, 2021 / Notices
Respondents include adults age 18+
who reside in the United States, recruited by survey companies that maintain large panels of people who sign up to complete internet surveys, such as Qualtrics and Survey Sampling International. Respondents will be asked questions about the ways they have received, interpreted, and responded to NWS information, forecasts, and warnings for severe, tropical, and winter weather hazards.
Questions about preparedness for specific hazards such as heat waves, tornadoes, and drought may also be included. This data collection serves many purposes, including gaining a better understanding of how key factors within a given population, or organization, vary over time, location, and across different groups; the ability to detect gradual trends or abrupt changes in those factors over time or in response to particular events; and the potential to explore possible correlations and causal relationships with other observed variables of interest. These data will be used by the OSTI in NWS to develop a baseline and performance metrics to improve the information and services it provides and to help members of the weather enterprise answer basic questions about the people in the communities they serve, which is a necessary step towards customizing and improving risk communication, education, and decision support to meet the characteristics of the community, including those in vulnerable populations. The information collected will help identify differences and best practices between communities and assist NWS in developing new education and risk communication strategies. The survey data and its associated dashboard will serve as interactive tools to allow NWS
forecasters, partners, and policymakers to access and explore data for training and performance evaluation purposes.
The second proposed collection is sponsored through NOAAs FY2021
Weather Program Offices Social Science Program, and addresses the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences SBES component of meeting NOAAs Research and Development R&D
Vision Areas 20202026 to integrate SBES into products, tools, and services that improve weather and air quality forecasting and societal outcomes.
This proposal aims to create an online survey system for collecting data on the publics perception and response to four different hazards: Tornados, thunderstorm winds over 70 miles per hour mph, flash floods, and winter weather. The online surveys will be the
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building blocks for a multi-year, crosssectional database on human perception and response. The survey system will enable 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 publics perceptions and response. Select WFOs will distribute the QRSs using web links on NWS
social media and core partners social media or email lists. Surveys will 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.
II. Method of Collection For the first collection, the primary method of data collection will be a webbased survey interface. Specific questions in the surveys determine how members of the U.S. public receive, comprehend, and respond to severe, tropical, and winter weather related information. Furthermore, these survey items will be translated to Spanish.
The second collection will include online surveys to be implemented and aggregated using Qualtrics survey software. The surveys will be displayed on a desktop, tablet or mobile device allowing the public to take the survey whenever they have internet access.
Select WFOs will distribute the QRSs using web links on NWS social media and core partners social media or email lists.
III. Data OMB Control Number: 0648XXXX.
Form Numbers: None.
Type of Review: Regular New information collection.
Affected Public: Individuals or households.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
101,000.
Estimated Time per Response:
Response time varies depending on the survey instrument, but the typical response time is between 10 and 20
minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 7,667.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: None.
Respondents Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: 15 U.S.C. Ch. 111, Weather Research and Forecasting Information.
IV. Request for Comments We are soliciting public comments to permit the Department/Bureau to: a
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Evaluate whether the proposed information collection is necessary for the proper functions of the Department, including whether the information will have practical utility; b Evaluate the accuracy of our estimate of the time and cost burden for this proposed collection, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; c Evaluate ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and d Minimize the reporting burden on those who are to respond, including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
Comments that you submit in response to this notice are a matter of public record. We will include or summarize each comment in our request to OMB to approve this ICR. Before including your address, phone number, email address, or other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire commentincluding your personal identifying informationmay be made publicly available at any time.
While you may ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.
Sheleen Dumas, Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Commerce Department.
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