[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 171 (Wednesday, September 5, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 50931]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-17539]


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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 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 Clearance for Data User Evaluation Surveys.
    Form Number(s): Various.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-0760.
    Type of Request: Regular submission.
    Burden Hours: 7,500.
    Number of Respondents: 90,000.
    Average Hours Per Response: 5 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census Bureau plans to extend for an 
additional three years its generic clearance to conduct customer/
product-based research.
    This extension will allow continued use of customer satisfaction 
surveys, personal interviews, or focus group research to effectively 
improve and make more customer-oriented programs, products, and 
services.
    The extended clearance for data collections would continue to cover 
customer/program-based research for any Census Bureau program area that 
needs to measure customer needs, uses, and preferences for statistical 
information and services. The customer base includes, but is not 
limited to previous, existing, and potential businesses and 
organizations, alternate Census Bureau data disseminators like State 
Data Centers, Business and Industry Data Centers, Census Information 
Centers, Federal or Census Depository Libraries, educational 
institutions, and not-for-profit or other organizations.
    The generic clearance operates as a pre-approval from OMB to 
conduct various and unspecified customer surveys and includes an annual 
burden hour ceiling. Detailed information about individual customer 
surveys is provided to OMB for review a minimum of two weeks in advance 
of their planned start date. An annual report is provided to OMB 
recapping the surveys conducted over the past year.
    Information collected from customer research helps the Census 
Bureau to measure its customer base--their use, satisfaction, and 
preferences for existing and future programs, products and services.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households; Business or other for-
profit organizations; Not-for-profit institutions; Federal government; 
State, Local or Tribal government.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Executive Order 12862.
    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: August 30, 2007.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
 [FR Doc. E7-17539 Filed 9-4-07; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-07-P