[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 100 (Tuesday, May 24, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32720-32721]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-12087]


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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 Questionnaire Pretesting Research.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-0725.
    Form Number(s): Various.
    Type of Request: Regular.
    Number of Respondents: 5,500 respondents annually.
    Average Hours per Response: 1 hour.
    Burden Hours: 5,500 hours annually.
    Needs and Uses: The information collected in this program of 
developing and testing questionnaires will be used by staff from the 
Census Bureau and sponsoring agencies to evaluate and improve the 
quality of the data in the surveys and censuses that are ultimately 
conducted.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households, businesses or other for 
profit, farms.
    Frequency: TBD.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.

    Legal Authority: Data collection for this project is authorized 
under the authorizing legislation for the questionnaire being 
tested. This may be Title 13, Sections 131, 141, 161, 181, 182, 193, 
and 301 for Census Bureau sponsored surveys, and Title 13 and 15 for 
surveys sponsored by other Federal agencies. We do not now know what 
other titles will be referenced, since we do not know what survey 
questionnaires will be pretested during the course of the clearance.

    This information collection request may be viewed at 
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view Department of Commerce 
collections currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to [email protected] or fax to (202) 395-5806.


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    Dated: May 18, 2016.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016-12087 Filed 5-23-16; 8:45 am]
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