Notice2026-08807
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; 2030 Census Locate Address Test for Accessory Dwelling Units
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May 6, 2026
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 87 (Wednesday, May 6, 2026)]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-08807]
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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; 2030 Census Locate Address Test for Accessory Dwelling Units
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. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for
public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce.
Title: 2026 Locate Address Test for Accessory Dwelling Units.
OMB Control Number: 0607-1031.
Form Number(s): 2026 LAT ADU Script for Contact Made at the Address
(no form number). D6-CN-LAT Confidentiality Notice.
Type of Request: Regular submission, Generic IC.
Number of Respondents: 750.
An estimated 750 respondents will spend 5 minutes reading a
confidentiality statement and answering questions about the presence of
additional units where people live or could live on their property.
Average Hours per Response: 0.083.
750 participants will give 750 responses.
Burden Hours: 62.5.
Needs and Uses: An essential component of planning for the
constitutionally-required 2030 Census is planning for operations that
ensure a complete and accurate address frame, including housing units
that may be hard to identify or locate. Secondary units, commonly known
as Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs), are smaller self-contained,
attached or detached, residential units that are located on a property
with the main house. To enumerate people living in secondary units,
which are not always represented on publicly available or U.S. Postal
Service address lists, the 2030 Census will rely on a multifaceted
approach involving address frame maintenance, enumeration methods
through self-response and in-field data collection, and public
promotion and outreach with local organizations. The 2026 Locate
Address Test for Accessory Dwelling Units (LAT ADU) was designed to
assess the feasibility of obtaining ADU addresses through local
government partnerships and to identify potential challenges with
locating ADUs during in-field census enumeration activities. The
results will help refine strategies for the 2030 Census Local Update of
Census Addresses (LUCA) operation, an address partnership program
established by Congress through the enactment of Public Law 103-430
(The Census Address List Improvement Act of 1994), and the In-Field
Enumeration (IFE) operation, a field activity that collects census
responses in person. The LAT ADU local government outreach was
conducted in September 2025 under the Spatial, Address, and Imagery
Data (SAID) Program clearance (OMB control number 0607-1008). The field
activity to locate and classify the ADUs will occur in September 2026.
The Census Bureau requests approval for Census Bureau employees to
visit address locations with potential ADUs within a 25-mile radius of
Census Bureau facilities in Suitland, Maryland and Jeffersonville,
Indiana. The ADU addresses were identified by local governments and
online address resources. Census Bureau employees will visit each ADU
address location, attempt to contact the residents of the main house,
confirm the existence of an additional unit where someone lives or
could live with the respondent, and document the results of the data
collection activity on their own to summarize the outcome of each
visit.
The Census Bureau estimates that a maximum of 750 individuals will
be contacted, including approximately 575 people in areas around Census
Headquarters in Suitland, Maryland, and 175 people in areas around the
National Processing Center in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Participation is
mandatory and requires at most 5 minutes of time to hear about the
purpose of the visit, read a Confidentiality Notice, and answer a few
questions about the presence of additional units where people live or
could live on their property and the address and location of those
units. The Census Bureau staff interviewing and collecting the
information will uphold the confidentiality of the data collected under
Title 13 U.S.C.
Affected Public: Individuals or households.
Frequency: Once.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13, Sections 141, 191, and 193.
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 0607-1031.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2026-08807 Filed 5-5-26; 8:45 am]
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