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[FR Doc No: 94-20404]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 

Agency Form Under Review by the Office of Management and Budget

    DOC has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
clearance the following proposal for collection of information under 
the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35).
    Agency: Bureau of the Census.
    Title: Feature and Address Reference Source Assessment Survey 
(FARSAS).
    Form Number(s): GEO-MAF-1.
    Agency Approval Number: None.
    Type of Request: New collection.
    Burden: 2,656 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 7,967.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 20 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: For the 2000 decennial census, as well as other 
census programs, the Census Bureau is building on its 1990 census 
address list to create a permanent and continuously maintained Master 
Address File (MAF). We will link this national inventory of living 
quarters to the Census Bureau's Topologically Integrated Geographic 
Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) data base. The existence of such a 
linked address/geographic file for the nation will provide important 
opportunities for the Census Bureau's research and demographic 
programs. The Census Bureau currently solicits the participation of 
local governments and metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) in a 
cooperative arrangement to determine the locations of missing addresses 
and streets to assist us in maintaining the TIGER data base. For those 
not wishing to participate we will conduct the FARSAS to help us 
determine both the availability and usefulness of reference materials 
we can use to update the TIGER data base for those areas. On the basis 
of information collected during FARSAS we will be able to resolve non-
matching cases from the geocoding process.
    Affected Public: State or local governments.
    Frequency: One time only.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    OMB Desk Officer: Maria Gonzalez, (202) 395-7313.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Gerald Tache, DOC Forms Clearance Officer, (202) 
482-3271, Department of Commerce, room 5312, 14th and Constitution 
Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent to Maria Gonzalez, OMB Desk Officer, room 
3208, New Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: August 15, 1994.
Gerald Tache,
Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of Management and 
Organization.
[FR Doc. 94-20404 Filed 8-18-94; 8:45 am]
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