[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 235 (Thursday, December 6, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 63360]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-30295]


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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: Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS).
    Form Number(s): BAS 1, BAS 1A, BAS 2, BAS 2A, BAS 2CUO, BAS 3, BAS 
3A, BAS 4, BAS 5, BAS 5A, 8 letters, 2 postcards, 12 inserts.
    Agency Approval Number: 0607-0151.
    Type of Request: Revision of an existing collection.
    Burden: 40,986 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 13,662.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 3 hours.
    Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau requests extension of the OMB 
clearance for the Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS). The Census 
Bureau conducts the BAS annually to collect information on the creation 
of newly incorporated municipalities, minor civil divisions (MCDs), 
counties, federally recognized American Indian areas (AIAs) which 
include reservations and/or off-reservation trust lands, and Alaska 
Native Regional Corporations (ANRCs), the dissolution of incorporated 
municipalities and MCDs, and changes to the boundaries of counties, 
incorporated municipalities, MCDs, AIAs, and ANRCs. The BAS information 
is used to provide an appropriate record for reporting the results of 
the decennial and economic censuses and the Census 2000 Long Form 
Transitional Database, to support the annual population estimates 
program, to update the municipal, MCD, county, AIA, and ANRC inventory 
for the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) program managed 
by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, and to update the Geographic Names 
Information System (GNIS) maintained by the USGS.
    Affected Public: State, local or Tribal government.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., Section 6.
    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 Paperwork 
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: December 3, 2001.
Madeleine Clayton,
Departmental Paperwork Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief 
Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 01-30295 Filed 12-5-01; 8:45 am]
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