[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 178 (Monday, September 15, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48212-48213]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-24322]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission For OMB Review; Comment Request

    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: Single Audit Questionnaire.
    Form Number(s): SAC-1.
    Agency Approval Number: 0607-0518.
    Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Burden: 4,166 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 12,500.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 20 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The Single Audit Act Amendments of 1996 and OMB 
Circular A-133 require state and local governments and non-profit 
organizations expending $300,000 or more in Federal financial aid to 
have an annual audit of their financial operations. OMB has designated 
the Census Bureau as the Federal Audit Clearinghouse for these audits. 
We use the Single Audit Questionnaire to contact those entities that 
have not sent in their audit reports to request that they forward the 
report or clarify their reporting status.
    Under the Single Audit Act Amendments of 1996 and OMB Circular A-
133, both state and local governments and non-profit institutions are 
subject to the same requirements. Therefore, it is no longer necessary 
to maintain two separate forms. We are dropping the SAC-2, previously 
sent only to non-profit institutions, and are revising upward our 
estimate of the time necessary to complete form SAC-1 based on the 
expanded usage of the form.
    Under the higher $300,000 reporting threshold imposed by the Single 
Audit Act Amendments of 1996, fewer entities will be required to submit 
Single Audits, thus the estimated number of respondents has decreased 
since OMB last approved this collection.
    Periodically, we update information for the Federal Inspector 
General's offices on governmental and non-profit audits which have been 
completed or are delinquent. A report listing

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governments delinquent in providing audits to the Federal Audit 
Clearinghouse is provided to the OMB in April as required under the 
Single Audit Act Amendments of 1996.
    Affected Public: State, local or tribal government; Not-for-profit 
institutions.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: OMB Circular A-133, ``Audits of States, Local 
Governments, and Non-Profit Organizations''; Single Audit Act 
Amendments of 1996 (Public Law 104-156).
    OMB Desk Officer: Jerry Coffey, (202) 395-7314.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Linda Engelmeier, DOC Forms Clearance Officer, 
(202) 482-3272, Department of Commerce, room 5327, 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: September 8, 1997.
Linda Engelmeier,
Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of Management and 
Organization.
[FR Doc. 97-24322 Filed 9-12-97; 8:45 am]
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