Pentagon Needs Permission to Create More Paperwork Under Paperwork Reduction Act
Published Date: 1/10/2025
Notice
Summary
The Department of Defense is asking for approval to collect info from 5,000 people to check how well military bases prevent sexual assault and harassment. This update helps improve safety by rating each base’s prevention efforts. Comments are open until February 10, 2025, and the process is voluntary with no cost to participants.
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Installations Will Receive Prevention Ratings
The data collection will produce a series of ratings for each installation to describe the "maturity of prevention"—how consistently prevention is prioritized, personnel are prepared, and prevention is done well. These ratings are intended to support actions directed by Secretary of Defense memoranda from February 26, 2021 and March 30, 2021.
DoD Will Survey 5,000 People
The Department of Defense plans to collect information from 5,000 respondents for on-site installation evaluations under OMB Control Number 0704-0610. Participation is voluntary, each respondent will answer once, and the average time to respond is 0.8166 hours (total annual burden 4,083 hours). Comments on the collection are open through February 10, 2025.
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