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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: Administrative Record Information System (ARIS) -- State and 
Selected Local Data.
    Form Number(s): ARIS-1.
    Agency Approval Number: 0607-0750.
    Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Burden: 294 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 605.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 30 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau maintains an Administrative 
Records Information System database that contains a general profile of 
available Federal, state, and local administrative records systems. 
Data is available for researchers to use the ARIS database to evaluate 
administrative records that may be useful for the following: (1) as an 
alternative to new data collection efforts, thus reducing respondent 
burden; (2) as a source for survey coverage or content evaluation; (3) 
to supplement survey data with administrative records; (4) to explore 
using administrative controls in surveys to reduce variances; and (5) 
to explore standardization and linking of administrative records 
systems for statistical uses. The ARIS database will also be used by 
Census Bureau personnel to research activities related to the Year 2000 
census and other Census programs. The questionnaire requests 
descriptive information about administrative records systems, not the 
records, themselves. Additionally, Census will request that governments 
update their information biennially rather than annually, as in the 
past.
    Affected Public: State or local governments.
    Frequency: Biennially.
    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 
10201, New Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: September 2, 1994.
Gerald Tache,
Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of Management and 
Organization.
[FR Doc. 94-22174 Filed 9-7-94; 8:45 am]
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