[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 161 (Monday, August 21, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 43436]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-20620]



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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: Quarterly Survey of Residential Alterations and Repairs.
    Form Number(s): SORAR-705.
    Agency Approval Number: 0607-0130.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Burden: 2,000 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 2,000.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 15 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau conducts the Quarterly Survey of 
Residential Alterations and Repairs to collect information on real-
property improvements and repairs from a sample of owners or designated 
representatives of rental or vacant residential housing units. We mail 
this survey quarterly to respondents over a one-year period. We use 
data gathered in this survey as a component to our published estimates 
of expenditures for residential upkeep and improvement. Data on 
improvements and repairs to owner occupied housing units are gathered 
in the Consumer Expenditures Survey and are also incorporated into 
published estimates. Estimates are used by a variety of private 
businesses and trade associations for marketing studies, economic 
forecasts, and assessments of the construction industry. They also 
provide all levels of government with a tool to evaluate economic 
policy and measure progress towards established goals. For example, the 
Bureau of Economic Analysis uses the improvement statistics to develop 
the structures component of gross private domestic investment in the 
national income and product accounts.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households, Businesses or other 
for-profit, and State, local or tribal governments.
    Frequency: Quarterly.
    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: August 15, 1995.
Gerald Tache,
Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of Management and 
Organization.
[FR Doc. 95-20620 Filed 8-18-95; 8:45 am]
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