[Federal Register: September 15, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 179)]
[Notices]
[Page 53210-53211]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary
[Docket ID: DoD-2008-OS-0107]
Proposed Collection; Comment Request
AGENCY: Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and
Readiness), DoD.
ACTION: Notice.
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In compliance with section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel
and Readiness) announces the following proposed extension of a public
information collection and seeks public comment on the provisions
thereof. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed 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 burden of the
proposed information collection; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways
to minimize the burden of the information collection on respondents,
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other
forms of information technology.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all comments received by November
14, 2008.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by docket number and
title, by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Federal Docket Management System Office, 1160
Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301-1160.
Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency
name, docket number and title for this Federal Register document. The
general policy for comments and other submissions from members of the
public is to make these submissions available for public viewing on the
Internet at http://www.regulations.gov as they are received without
change, including any personal identifiers or contact information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on this
proposed information collection or to obtain a copy of the proposal and
associated collection instruments, please write to the Office of the
Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness) Defense Commissary
Agency, ATTN DOB (Barry White), 1300 E Avenue, Fort Lee, VA 23801-1800,
or call (804) 734-8974.
Title, Associated Form, and OMB Control Number: Commissary
Evaluation and Utility Surveys--Generic, OMB Control Number 0704-0407.
Needs and Uses: The Defense Commissary Agency will conduct a
variety of surveys on an as-needed basis. The survey population will
include, but is not limited to, persons eligible to use the commissary
throughout the world. The surveys will be used to assess the customer's
satisfaction with various aspects of the commissary operation and
obtain their opinions of various commissary issues. Surveys will also
be used to help determine individual commissary market potential and
commissary size requirements.
Affected Public: Individuals or Households, Businesses or Other For
Profit.
Annual Burden Hours: 148 Hours.
Number of Respondents: 6,633.
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Average Burden per Response: 1.34 Minutes.
Frequency: On Occasion.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Summary of Information Collection
(All respondents are authorized patrons by DoD regulations, unless
otherwise described.)
Commissary Sizing Survey
Surveys will support commissary renovation and new construction.
Survey results will be used to help determine market potential and
associated commissary size requirements.
Facility Site Decisions
Surveys will support commissary site decisions. Where applicable,
commissary user preference can be incorporated into the site location
decision process. Patrons will input their answers to questions
concerning where they would like a new facility located, as well as
give their opinions and concerns that will affect their shopping
experience. The survey results will also be used to estimate where the
commissary users are located through the use of population density
maps.
Patron Migration Survey
These surveys will aid in predicting the impact to commissaries
that are near a closing commissary or a commissary that is undergoing
some kind of transformation that may cause commissary users to migrate
to an alternative nearby commissary. The results will be used to
determine requirements for the nearby receiving commissaries.
Commissary Operational Surveys
These surveys will supply information on various processes within
the commissaries. The surveyed population could be commissary
customers, employees within the Agency, vendors, distributors, or
contractors. Persons surveyed will not necessarily be authorized
commissary users.
Market Basket Price Surveys
These surveys will be administered to commissary eligible personnel
to assess their perception of our savings compared to local commercial
supermarkets.
Demographic Surveys
This survey will be conducted, as needed, to assess the demographic
make-up of commissary users. The results may be used in conjunction
with population data to reveal differences in key demographics such as
status, family size, distance from a commissary, age, service
membership, and military grade.
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Dated: September 5, 2008.
Patricia L. Toppings,
OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
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