Notice2025-23979
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Generic Clearance for Questionnaire Pretesting Research
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Published
December 30, 2025
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentCensus Bureau
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 246 (Tuesday, December 30, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61116-61117]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-23979]
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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 Questionnaire Pretesting Research
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 July 30, 2025 during a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce.
Title: Generic Clearance for Questionnaire Pretesting Research.
OMB Control Number: 0607-0725.
Form Number(s): Various.
Type of Request: Regular submission, Request for an Extension,
without Change, of a Currently Approved Collection.
Number of Respondents: 5,500 per year.
Average Hours per Response: 1 hour.
Burden Hours: 5,500 hours annually.
Needs and Uses: The information collected in this program of
developing and testing questionnaires that will be used by staff from
the Census Bureau and sponsoring agencies to evaluate and improve the
quality of the data in the surveys and censuses that are ultimately
conducted.
Affected Public: Individuals or households; Business or other for-
profit organizations; Farms.
Frequency: TBD.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Data collection for this project is authorized
under the authorizing legislation for the questionnaire being tested.
This may be
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Title 13, Sections 131, 141, 161, 181, 182, 193, and 301 for Census
Bureau-sponsored surveys, and Title 13, Section 8 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.
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 0607-0725.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Compliance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2025-23979 Filed 12-29-25; 8:45 am]
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