Notice2021-12411
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; School District Review Program
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June 14, 2021
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 112 (Monday, June 14, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31478-31480]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-12411]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; School District Review Program
The Department of Commerce will submit the following information
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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 December 22, 2020, during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Commerce.
Title: School District Review Program.
OMB Control Number: 0607-0987.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission, Request for an Extension,
without Change, of a Currently Approved Collection.
Number of Respondents: 102.
<bullet> Annotation Phase: 51.
<bullet> Verification Phase: 51.
Average Hours per Response: 40 hours.
<bullet> Annotation Phase: 30 hours.
<bullet> Verification Phase: 10 hours.
Burden Hours: 2,040 hours.
<bullet> Annotation Phase: 1,530 hours.
<bullet> Verification Phase: 510 hours.
Needs and Uses: The School District Review Program (SDRP) is one of
many voluntary geographic partnership programs at the U.S. Census
Bureau. The SDRP collects school district information and boundaries to
update the Census Bureau's geographic database of addresses, streets,
and boundaries on an annual basis. The Census Bureau uses its
geographic database to tie demographic data from surveys and the
decennial census to locations and areas, such as cities, school
districts, and counties. To tabulate statistics by localities, the
Census Bureau must have accurate addresses and boundaries.
While the geographic programs differ in requirements, timeframe,
and participants, SDRP and the other geographic programs all follow the
same basic process. The Census Bureau invites eligible participants to
the program. For SDRP, the sponsor, the National Center for Education
Statistics invites the state departments of education/state Title I
coordinators to designate mapping coordinators. If they elect to
participate in the program, participants receive a copy of the
boundaries the Census Bureau has on file. SDRP participants receive
free customized mapping software. Participants review the boundaries in
the Census Bureau provided digital maps and update them if needed. The
mapping coordinator collects updates from local school districts, state
education officials, county planners, and state data centers, and
ensures completion of submissions within the SDRP's timeframe. The
respondents for the SDRP are the Title I coordinators and mapping
coordinators from the fifty states and the District of Columbia.
Participants return their updates to the Census Bureau. The Census
Bureau then updates its geographic database with boundary updates from
participants to use the newly updated boundaries to tabulate
statistics.
The Census Bureau requests state officials to review and update the
school district information the Census Bureau has on file, through the
SDRP. The school district information obtained through this program
will assist in forming the Census Bureau's estimates of the number of
children age five through seventeen, in families in poverty, for each
school district. State officials will provide the Census Bureau with
updates and corrections to the Federal School District Local Education
Agency identification numbers, school district boundaries, school
names, grade ranges, and levels for which each school district is
financially responsible.
These Census Bureau estimates are the basis of the Title I
allocation for each school district. The SDRP is of vital importance
for each state's allocation under Title I of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act as amended by Every Student Succeeds Act of
2015, Public Law 114-95. The U.S. Department of Education uses these
estimates to allocate more than $14 billion in Title I funding
annually.
The SDRP encompasses Type 1 and Type 2 school districts as defined
by the NCES. Type 1 is a local school district that is not a component
of a supervisory union. Type 2 is a local school district component of
a supervisory union sharing a superintendent and administrative
services with other local school districts.
The SDRP consists of two phases--the Annotation and Verification
Phases. In the Annotation Phase, the Census Bureau provides mapping
coordinators with materials containing the most current school district
boundaries and information the Census Bureau has on file for their
state. Mapping coordinators review the data and submit changes to the
school district boundaries or associated information to the Census
Bureau. The Census Bureau reviews and processes the information
submitted by mapping coordinators, and the Census Bureau updates all
verified changes into the Master Address File/Topologically Integrated
Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) database. In the
Verification Phase, mapping coordinators verify that the Census Bureau
accurately and completely updated the MAF/TIGER database with updates
submitted during the Annotation Phase.
In the Annotation Phase, mapping coordinators gather school
district updates from school district superintendents and other state
officials and use Census Bureau-provided materials to review and update
school district boundaries, names, codes, and geographic relationships.
The Census Bureau provides mapping coordinators with school district
listings, spatial data in shapefile format, blank submission logs, and
Geographic Update Partnership Software (GUPS). The school district
listings consist of school district inventories, school names, levels,
grade ranges, and other data about school districts within their state.
If the mapping coordinator has non-spatial updates (e.g., name changes,
simple consolidations, simple dissolutions, and others), the mapping
coordinator updates the Census Bureau provided submission log with
those changes. If a mapping coordinator needs to perform spatial
updates to a school district boundary, the mapping coordinator uses
Census Bureau provided GUPS and spatial data to make updates. GUPS,
SDRP version, is a Census Bureau-created, user-friendly, free digital
mapping tool for mapping coordinators. It contains all the
functionality necessary for mapping coordinators to spatially make and
validate their school district updates. Once mapping coordinators have
reviewed and updated the school district information for their state,
the mapping coordinator sends it to the Census Bureau, using Secure Web
Incoming Module (SWIM), a web portal for uploading SDRP submissions.
The Census Bureau will update the MAF/TIGER database with the updates
sent by the mapping coordinator. The Annotation Phase begins for the
SDRP in August/September of each year. The deadline to submit SDRP
Annotation Phase to Census Bureau is the last workday in December of
each year.
In the Verification Phase, the Census Bureau sends mapping
coordinators newly created listings and digital files, and mapping
coordinators use the SDRP verification module in GUPS to review these
files and verify that the Census Bureau correctly captured their
submitted information. The mapping
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coordinator can tag the area of issue and send the information to the
Census Bureau to make corrections if the Census Bureau did not
incorporate their boundary changes or other updates correctly. The
Verification Phase begins and ends for the SDRP during March/April of
each year.
Affected Public: All fifty states and the District of Columbia.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C. Section 16, 141, and 193.
<bullet> NCES Legal Authority: Title I, Part A of the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act as amended by the ``Every Student Succeeds
Act of 2015, Public Law (Pub. L.) 114-95.''
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 0607-0987.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2021-12411 Filed 6-11-21; 8:45 am]
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