[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 33 (Friday, February 16, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 10665]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-4018]


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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: U.S. Census Bureau.
    Title: Generic Approval for MAF & TIGER Update Activities.
    Form Number(s): Will vary by activity.
    Agency Approval Number: 0607-0809.
    Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Burden: 3,725 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 114,500.
    Avg. Hours Per Response: 2 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau is seeking 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) database of address ranges and associated 
geographic information. The Census Bureau plans to use the MAF for 
post-Census 2000 evaluations 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 built 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 
of 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 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 other work 
involved in evaluating Census 2000 and keeping the MAF current.
    The activities to be conducted are: Community Address Updating 
System (CAUS), Evaluation of the Quality of Geocodes, and Evaluation of 
the Block Splitting Operation for Tabulation. Other similar activities 
may be conducted as well.
    Under the terms of this extension to the generic clearance, this 
request describes all planned activities for the entire period; 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.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Frequency: One time.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., Sections 141 and 193.
    OMB Desk Officer: Susan Schechter, (202) 395-5103.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Madeleine Clayton, Departmental Forms Clearance 
Officer, (202) 482-3129, Department of Commerce, room 6086, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 
[email protected]).
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to Susan Schechter, OMB Desk Officer, room 10201, New Executive Office 
Building, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: February 13, 2001.
Madeleine Clayton,
Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer.
[FR Doc. 01-4018 Filed 2-15-01; 8:45 am]
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