# 2025-05488: NOAA Polls Public on Storm Alert Smarts

2025-05488, Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Using Quick Response Surveys To Understand Public Perception and Response, is a Federal Register notice from Commerce Department, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration published 2025-03-31, effective Comments regarding this proposed information collection must be received on or before May 30, 2025.; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-06).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-05488
- As of: 2026-10-06
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-05488
- Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Using Quick Response Surveys To Understand Public Perception and Response
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Commerce Department; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Citation: 90 FR 14247
- Published: 2025-03-31
- Effective: Comments regarding this proposed information collection must be received on or before May 30, 2025.
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-10-06

## In one line

NOAA Polls Public on Storm Alert Smarts

## Summary

NOAA wants to keep using quick surveys to learn how people understand and react to weather warnings. They’re asking for public feedback by May 30, 2025, to make sure these surveys work well and don’t cause extra hassle. This helps NOAA improve safety messages without costing extra money or time for most folks.

## Abstract

The Department of Commerce, in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), invites 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. The purpose of this notice is to allow for 60 days of public comment preceding submission of the collection to OMB.

## Effects PRIA read

- NOAA Quick Response Surveys After Events: benefit, low. NOAA's National Weather Service will continue using voluntary web-based Quick Response Surveys (QRS) to ask individuals about their perceptions and responses to hazardous weather (tornadoes, thunderstorm winds over 70 mph, flash floods, and winter weather). The agency estimates 90,000 respondents w…

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## Sources
- [2025-05488 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/31/2025-05488/agency-information-collection-activities-submission-to-the-office-of-management-and-budget-omb-for)
- [2025-05488 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-03-31/pdf/2025-05488.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-05488 (as of 2026-10-06).