[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 63 (Thursday, April 2, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16246-16247]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-8679]


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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: MAF and TIGER Update Activities.
    Form Number(s): Will vary by activity.
    Agency Approval Number: 0607-0809.
    Type of Request: Revision of an existing collection.
    Burden: 146,662 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 5,357,993.
    Avg Hours Per Response: About 1.64 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau requests approval from the Office 
of Management and Budget (OMB) for an extension of the generic 
clearance for a number of activities it plans to conduct to create and 
update its Master Address File (MAF) and maintain the linkage between 
the MAF and the Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and 
Referencing (TIGER) data base of address ranges and associated 
geographic information. The Census Bureau plans to use the MAF for 
mailing and delivering questionnaires to households for Census 2000 and 
as a sampling frame for the American Community Survey and our other 
demographic current surveys. In the past, the Census Bureau has built a 
new address list for each decennial census. The MAF we are building 
during Census 2000 is meant to be kept current thereafter, eliminating 
the need to build a completely new address list for future censuses and 
surveys. The TIGER is a geographic system that maps the entire country 
in Census Blocks with applicable address range or living quarter 
location information. Linking MAF and TIGER allows us to assign each 
address to the appropriate Census Block, produce maps as needed and 
publish results at the appropriate level of geographic detail.
    The generic clearance for the past three years has proved to be 
very beneficial to the Census Bureau. The generic clearance has allowed 
us to focus our limited resources on actual operational planning and 
development of procedures. This extension will be especially beneficial 
over the upcoming three years by allowing us to focus on the huge 
amount of other work involved in making Census 2000 happen.
    The activities to be conducted are: Address Listing, Block 
Canvassing, Field Verification For Local Update of Census Addresses, 
Update/ Leave, Urban Update/Leave, List/Enumerate, Master Address File 
Quality Improvement Program, and Master Address File Update for Otero 
County, New Mexico.
    Under the terms of this extension to the generic clearance, we will 
not submit a separate clearance package for each updating activity. We 
will send a letter to OMB at least five days before the planned start 
of each activity that gives more exact details, examples of forms, and 
final estimates of respondent burden. We will also file a year-end 
summary with OMB after the close of each fiscal year giving results of 
each activity conducted.
    The total respondent burden associated with this clearance is 
increasing considerably. This increase is an expected result of the 
normal decennial census cycle. The current clearance covered only some 
small test activities plus some early Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal 
activities. This request will cover the bulk of the Dress Rehearsal 
activities plus all of the Census 2000 MAF and TIGER update activities. 
Our intention when the generic clearance was established was to 
maintain it throughout the decennial and beyond to support the stated 
objective of ``updat[ing] the MAF and TIGER data base on a regular 
basis so they will be available for use in conducting the 2000 
decennial census* * *''

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    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Frequency: One-time.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    Legal Authority: Title 13 USC, Sections 141 and 193.
    OMB Desk Officer: Nancy Kirkendall, (202) 395-7313.
    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 Nancy Kirkendall, OMB Desk Officer, room 10201, New Executive Office 
Building, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: March 27, 1998.
Linda Engelmeier,
Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of Management and 
Organization.
[FR Doc. 98-8679 Filed 4-1-98; 8:45 am]
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