Notice2021-18232
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey
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Published
August 25, 2021
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentCensus Bureau
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 162 (Wednesday, August 25, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47471-47472]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-18232]
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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; Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey
The Department of Commerce will submit the following information
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 March 15, 2021 during a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Commerce.
Title: Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0607-0892.
Form Number(s): TC-9501, TC-9502.
Type of Request: Regular submission, Request for a Reinstatement,
with change of a previously approved collection.
Number of Respondents: 150,000.
Average Hours per Response: 65 minutes.
Burden Hours: 162,500.
Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau requests clearance of the forms
that will be used to conduct the 2021 Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey
(VIUS). Our sponsor for this joint statistical project is the Bureau of
Transportation Statistics. The 2021 VIUS will collect data to measure
the physical and operational characteristics of trucks from a sample of
approximately 150,000 trucks. These trucks are selected from more than
190 million private and commercial trucks registered with motor vehicle
departments in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The Census
Bureau will collect the data for the sampled trucks from the registered
truck owners. We will publish physical and operational vehicle
characteristics estimates for each state, the District of Columbia, and
the United States. A public-use file will be released that will contain
unaggregated microdata information for each truck for which data are
collected. The records on the
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public-use file will be masked to avoid the disclosure of a sampled
truck or owner.
The VIUS is the only comprehensive source of information on the
physical and operational characteristics of the Nation's truck
population. The VIUS provides unique, essential information for
government, business, and academia. The U.S. Department of
Transportation, State Departments of Transportation, and transportation
consultants compliment VIUS microdata as extremely useful and flexible
to meet constantly changing requests that cannot be met with
predetermined tabular publications. The planned microdata file will
enable them to cross-tabulate data to meet their needs.
Federal, state, and local transportation agencies use information
from the VIUS for the analysis of safety issues, proposed investments
in new roads and technology, truck size and weight issues, user fees,
cost allocation, energy and environmental constraints, hazardous
materials transport, and other aspects of the Federal-aid highway
program. The Federal government uses information from the VIUS as an
important part of the framework for: (1) The national investment and
personal consumption expenditures component of the gross domestic
product, (2) input-output tables, (3) economic development evaluation,
(4) maintenance of vital statistics for prediction of future economic
and transportation trends, (5) logistical requirements, (6)
Metropolitan Planning Organization transportation development
requirements, and (7) regulatory impact analysis.
Business and academia use information from the VIUS to assess
intermodal use, conduct market studies and evaluate market strategies,
assess the utility and cost of certain types of equipment, and
calculate the longevity of products. VIUS information also is used to
determine fuel demands and needs for fuel efficiency, to produce trade
publication articles and special data arrays, and to assess the effects
of deregulation on the restructuring of the transportation industries.
Affected Public: Individuals or households; Business or other for-
profit organizations.
Frequency: One time.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., section 131 and 182.
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 0607-0892.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2021-18232 Filed 8-24-21; 8:45 am]
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