[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 238 (Tuesday, December 10, 1996)] [Notices] [Page 65013] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 96-31260] [[Page 65013]] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Submission For OMB Review; Comment Request The Department of Commerce (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: 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, State, local or tribal government. Frequency: Quarterly. Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary. Legal Authority: Title 13 USC, Section 182. OMB Desk Officer: Jerry Coffey, (202) 395-7314. Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained by calling or writing Linda Engelmeier, Acting DOC Forms Clearance Officer, (202) 482-3272, 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 within 30 days of publication of this notice to Jerry Coffey, OMB Desk Officer, room 10201, New Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20503. Dated: December 2, 1996. Linda Engelmeier, Acting Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of Management and Organization. [FR Doc. 96-31260 Filed 12-09-96; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-07-F