[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 123 (Wednesday, June 27, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35219-35220]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-12382]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management 
and

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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: 2008 Census Dress Rehearsal.
    Form Number(s): DX-1, DX-1(UL), DX-1(E/S), DX-1(C), DX-10, DX-
10(S), DX-10(C), DX-15, DX-20, DX-20(S), DX-21.
    Agency Approval Number: 0607-0919.
    Type of Request: Reinstatement, with change, of an expired 
collection.
    Burden Hours: 101,501.
    Number of Respondents: 624,502.
    Average Hours Per Response: 10 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census Bureau requests authorization from 
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to collect data from the 
public as part of the 2008 Census Dress Rehearsal.
    The 2008 Census Dress Rehearsal is the final opportunity for the 
Census Bureau to preview the operational design of the 2010 Census.
    Census 2000 was an operational and data quality success. However, 
that success was achieved at great operational risk and great expense. 
In response to the lessons learned from Census 2000, and in striving to 
better meet our Nation's ever-expanding needs for social, demographic, 
and geographic information, the U.S. Department of Commerce and the 
Census Bureau have developed a multi-year effort to completely 
modernize and re-engineer the 2010 Census of Population and Housing. 
This effort required an iterative series of tests in 2003, 2004, 2005 
and in 2006, that provided an opportunity to evaluate new or improved 
question wording and questionnaire design, methodologies, and use of 
technology.
    The 2003 Census Test was conducted, and designed to evaluate 
alternative self-response options and alternative presentation of the 
race and Hispanic origin question; the 2004 Census Test, which studied 
new methods to improve coverage, including procedures for reducing 
duplication, and tested respondent reaction to revised race and 
Hispanic origin questions, examples, and instructions; the 2005 
National Census Test, designed to evaluate variations of questionnaire 
content and methodology; and the 2006 Census Test, which relied on the 
results of the 2004 Census Test to expand on the number of new and 
refined methods. The 2008 Census Dress Rehearsal is the final step in 
the decennial cycle of research and development leading up to the 
implementation of the 2010 Census.
    The 2008 Census Dress Rehearsal will integrate the various 
operations and procedures planned for the 2010 Census under as close to 
census-like conditions as possible. The results of this undertaking 
will be applied to the final plans for the 2010 Census operations where 
feasible.
    The 2008 Census Dress Rehearsal will be conducted in two sites, one 
urban, and the other one, a mix of urban and suburban. San Joaquin 
County, California is the urban site. South Central North Carolina has 
been selected as the urban/suburban mix test site. This area consists 
of Fayetteville and nine counties surrounding Fayetteville (Chatham, 
Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond and 
Scotland). The combination of a large urban site and a small city-
suburban-rural site provides a comprehensive environment for 
demonstrating the planned 2010 Census methodology. These two sites, 
comprising of approximately 480,000 housing units, reflect 
characteristics that provide a good operational proof of concept of the 
planned 2010 Census operations, procedures, methods, and systems. Each 
site will have a Regional Office, which will guide and support the work 
of the temporary Local Census Offices in their jurisdiction.
    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: Brian Harris-Kojetin, (202) 395-7314.
    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 Brian Harris-Kojetin, OMB Desk Officer either by fax (202-395-7245) 
or e-mail [email protected]).

    Dated: June 21, 2007.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. E7-12382 Filed 6-26-07; 8:45 am]
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