Notice2024-14529
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Generic Clearance for Census Bureau Field Tests and Evaluations
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Published
July 2, 2024
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 127 (Tuesday, July 2, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 54768]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-14529]
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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; Generic Clearance for Census Bureau Field Tests and
Evaluations
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 7/26/2022 during a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: Burden Increase for the Generic Clearance for Census Bureau
Field Tests and Evaluations.
OMB Control Number: 0607-0971.
Form Number(s): Not yet determined.
Type of Request: Request for a burden increase.
Number of Respondents: 113,791 per year.
Average Hours per Response: 26.58 minutes.
Burden Hours: 50,424.33 hours annually.
Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census Bureau is committed to conducting
research to identify possible cost and burden reductions in future
census and survey, while maintaining high quality results. The Census
Bureau requests an increase of 60,500 hours to the existing burden
estimates for this Generic Clearance. The Census Bureau is making no
other changes to this Clearance. This increase will bring the total
burden hours for this Clearance to 211,773 hours over the three-year
period. Studies to research and evaluate how to improve data collection
activities for data collection programs at the Census Bureau have
outpaced the original burden estimates. Larger sample sizes will allow
us to continue to explore how the Census Bureau can improve efficiency,
data quality, and response rates and reduce respondent burden in future
census and survey operations, evaluations and experiments. This
research program is for respondent communication, questionnaire and
procedure development, and evaluation purposes. We will use data
tabulations to evaluate the results of testing.
Affected Public: Individuals or households, businesses or other for
profit, farms.
Frequency: Once.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary or Mandatory, depending on cited
authority.
Legal Authority: Data collection for this project is authorized
under the authorizing legislation for the questionnaire being tested.
This may be 13 U.S.C. 131, 141, 161, 181, 182, 193, and 301 for Census
Bureau sponsored surveys, and title 13 and 15 for surveys sponsored by
other Federal agencies. We do not now know what other titles will be
referenced, since we do not know what survey questionnaires will be
pretested during the course of the clearance.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed change 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
0607-0971.
Mary Lenaiyasa,
PRA Program Manager, Policy Coordination Office, U.S. Census Bureau.
[FR Doc. 2024-14529 Filed 7-1-24; 8:45 am]
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