[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 77 (Friday, April 22, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 20860]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-8116]


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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: Government Finance Forms.
    Form Number(s): F-5, F-11, F-12, F-13, F-25, F-28, F-29, F-32, F-
42.
    Agency Approval Number: 0607-0585.
    Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Burden: 31,787 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 10,159.
    Avg Hours per Response: 3 hours and 7 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census Bureau requests continued OMB 
authorization for the forms necessary to carry out the information 
collection associated with both the Annual Survey of State and Local 
Government Finance and the finance phase of the quinquennial census of 
governments. In both the census and annual surveys, equivalent data are 
collected, except for the F-11 and F-12 public employee-retirement 
system forms. For these forms, in the Census year, an additional 
organizational and system coverage section is included.
    The Census Bureau incorporates the data collected on these forms 
into its governmental finance program. This program has facilitated the 
dissemination of comprehensive and comparable governmental finance 
statistics since 1902. This program is the only known comprehensive 
source of state and local government finance data collected on a 
nationwide scale using uniform definitions, concepts, and procedures. 
Governmental finance statistics are widely used by Federal, state, and 
local legislators, policy makers, administrators, analysts, economists, 
and researchers to follow the changing characteristics of the 
government sector of the economy. Journalists, teachers, and students 
rely on these data as well.
    The Census Bureau provides its governmental finance data annually 
to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) for use in measuring and 
developing estimates of the government sector of the economy in its 
National Income and Product Accounts. The Census Bureau also provides 
these data to the Federal Reserve Board for constructing its Flow of 
Funds Accounts.
    Affected Public: State, local or Tribal governments.
    Frequency: Annually and quinquennially.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Title 13, section 161, of the United States Code 
requires the Secretary of Commerce to conduct a census of governments 
every fifth year. Section 182 allows the Secretary to conduct annual 
surveys in other years.
    OMB Desk Officer: Susan Schechter, (202) 395-5103.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Diana Hynek, Departmental Paperwork Clearance 
Officer, (202) 482-0266, Department of Commerce, room 6625, 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 either by fax (202-395-7245) or e-
mail ([email protected]).

    Dated: April 19, 2005.
Madeleine Clayton,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 05-8116 Filed 4-21-05; 8:45 am]
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