[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 111 (Friday, June 8, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26643-26653]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-12365]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Census Bureau


Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; 2020 Census

AGENCY: U.S. Census Bureau, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort 
to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public 
and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on 
proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

DATES: To ensure consideration, written comments must be submitted on 
or before August 7, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental 
Paperwork Clearance Officer,

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Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and Constitution Avenue NW, 
Washington, DC 20230 (or via the internet at [email protected]). You 
may also submit comments, identified by Docket number USBC-2018-0005, 
to the Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. All 
comments received are part of the public record. No comments will be 
posted to http://www.regulations.gov for public viewing until after the 
comment period has closed. Comments will generally be posted without 
change. All Personally Identifiable Information (for example, name and 
address) voluntarily submitted by the commenter may be publicly 
accessible. Do not submit Confidential Business Information or 
otherwise sensitive or protected information. You may submit 
attachments to electronic comments in Microsoft Word, Excel, 
WordPerfect, or Adobe PDF file formats only.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or 
copies of the information collection instrument(s) and instructions 
should be directed to Robin A. Pennington, Rm. 2H465, U.S. Census 
Bureau, Decennial Census Management Division, Washington, DC 20233 or 
by email to [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

    Article 1, Section 2 of the United States Constitution mandates 
that the U.S. House of Representatives be reapportioned every ten years 
after conducting a national census of all residents. In addition to the 
reapportionment of the U.S. Congress, Census data are used to draw 
legislative district boundaries. Census data also are used to determine 
funding allocations for the distribution of an estimated $675 billion 
of federal funds each year.
    The goal of the 2020 Census is to count everyone once, only once, 
and in the right place. From the 2020 Census data, the Census Bureau 
will produce the basic population totals by state for congressional 
apportionment, as mandated by the U.S. Constitution and Title 13, U.S. 
Code. Title 13 also provides for the confidentiality of responses. 
Anyone who handles census data swears an oath for life to keep those 
data confidential. Under Title 13, it is against the law to disclose 
confidential information or any information that could identify an 
individual respondent. The information the Census Bureau collects 
cannot be used for any reason except to produce statistics, and 
violations of Title 13 are punishable by fines and up to five years in 
prison.
    This clearance request covers the 50 states, the District of 
Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, federally affiliated persons 
overseas, and the Island Areas of American Samoa, the Commonwealth of 
the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the United States Virgin 
Islands. The methods of data collection for the Federally Affiliated 
Count Overseas and the Island Areas Censuses are different from the 
data collections described throughout this document and will be 
described separately in sections specific to those operations.
    In compliance with Public Law 94-171, the Census Bureau will 
tabulate for each state the total population counts by race and 
Hispanic origin. The Census Bureau will tabulate these counts for the 
total population and for the population of 18 years of age and over. 
The Census Bureau intends to work with the National Conference of State 
Legislatures and other stakeholders to solicit feedback as to how the 
states would prefer to receive tabulations of citizenship data. If 
stakeholders such as the National Conference of State Legislatures 
elect to receive tabulations of citizenship data, the Census Bureau 
will make require a design change to include citizenship as part of the 
Public Law 94-171 Redistricting Data File. That new design plan would 
then be published in the Federal Register after the 2020 Census final 
design is completed in the summer of 2019. For the prototype and for 
the 2020 Census, the Census Bureau will provide these tabulations for a 
variety of standard census geographic areas including state, county, 
place, tract, and tabulation block. If states provide their 
congressional, legislative, and voting districts through the 
Redistricting Data Program, the Census Bureau will also provide the 
tabulations for these areas. The Census Bureau also will tabulate 
housing unit counts by occupancy status (occupied or vacant) and 
provide total population counts for group quarters by group quarters 
type for a select set of geography, including tabulation blocks. 
Tallies by congressional, legislative, and voting districts will be 
available for the 50 states; equivalent tallies will be available for 
the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Tallies 
for state, county, and place will be available for the Island Areas.
    The Census Bureau plans to conduct the most automated, modern, and 
dynamic decennial census in history. The 2020 Census includes design 
changes in four key areas:
    (1) New methodologies to conduct the Address Canvassing operation.
    (2) Innovative ways of optimizing self-response.
    (3) The use of administrative records and third-party data to 
reduce the Nonresponse Followup (NRFU) operation workload.
    (4) The use of technology to reduce the manual effort and improve 
the productivity of field operations, while decreasing the amount of 
physical space required to perform the field operations.
    To the extent that these innovations influence the collection of 
data from respondents in the 2020 Census, these innovations will be 
described below.

(1) Reengineering Address Canvassing

    A complete and accurate address list is the cornerstone of a 
successful census. In order to conduct the decennial census and 
enumerate in the census all people at a location, the Census Bureau 
needs the address and physical location of each place where someone is, 
or could be, living. In other words, all living quarters need to be 
identified. The Census Bureau maintains an address list and spatial 
data for the United States and Puerto Rico in its Master Address File 
(MAF)/Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing 
(TIGER) System database. This database was created using the address 
files from the 1990 Census and has been subsequently and regularly 
updated using:
     Information collected from decennial census operation 
updates, including address and spatial updates.
     The Delivery Sequence File of addresses from the United 
States Postal Service (USPS).
     Input from tribal, state, and local governments and third 
parties, including address and boundary updates.
     Information collected in other Census Bureau programs, 
such as the American Community Survey.
Type of Enumeration Areas
    Prior to the census, it is necessary to delineate all geographic 
areas included in the 2020 Census into Type of Enumeration Areas 
(TEAs). These TEAs describe what methodology will be used for census 
material delivery and household enumeration in order to use the most 
cost-effective enumeration approach for achieving maximum accuracy and 
completeness. For the United States and Puerto Rico, TEAs are 
delineated at the block level based on the address and spatial data in 
the MAF/TIGER database.
    The MAF/TIGER does not contain data for the Island Areas, so a 
separate TEA is designated for these areas. The

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TEAs designated for the 2020 Census are:
     TEA 1 = Self-Response.
     TEA 2 = Update Enumerate.
     TEA 3 = Island Areas.
     TEA 4 = Remote Alaska.
     TEA 5 = Military.
     TEA 6 = Update Leave.
    The most common enumeration method by percentage of households is 
self-response (TEA 1), where materials will be delivered to each 
address through the mail, and enumeration data is expected to be 
returned or submitted by a respondent. After the initial self-response 
phase, nonresponding households will be enumerated in the NRFU 
operation. Puerto Rico is designated as entirely Update Leave. These 
TEAs, programs, and operations will be described throughout this 
notice.
Address Canvassing
    Address Canvassing is the process of validating and updating 
addresses in the MAF and spatial data in TIGER before the census in 
order to create the initial list of addresses to be enumerated in the 
census. All housing units, group quarters, and transitory locations 
need to be identified and located correctly on the map as recorded in 
TIGER. Group quarters are living quarters where people who are 
typically unrelated have group living arrangements and frequently are 
receiving some type of service. College/university student housing and 
nursing/skilled-nursing facilities are examples of group quarters. 
Transitory locations include recreational vehicle parks, campgrounds, 
racetracks, circuses, carnivals, marinas, hotels, and motels. People 
residing at transitory locations during the census are recorded as 
living in housing units located at transitory locations. Address 
Canvassing will not occur in Island Areas.
    For the 2020 Census, the Census Bureau is using In-Office Address 
Canvassing for the first time, in addition to In-Field Address 
Canvassing. This innovation involves the use of electronic sources for 
much of the validation and updating of MAF/TIGER. Since 2015, the 
Census Bureau has used analysis of satellite imagery to identify areas 
of the United States and Puerto Rico where changes in living quarters 
have occurred. In-Office Address Canvassing is the process of using 
empirical geographic evidence (e.g., imagery and comparison of the 
Census Bureau's address list to partner-provided lists) to assess the 
current address list. This process detects and identifies change using 
high-quality imagery, administrative data, and third-party sources to 
review and update the address last.
    However, the Census Bureau will still need to conduct In-Field 
Address Canvassing in order to update the address and spatial data for 
an estimated 30 percent of housing units in TEA 1. The Census Bureau 
will make a final determination on which areas will be canvassed using 
In-Field Address Canvassing by March 2019. Some In-Office Address 
Canvassing activities will continue improving the address list until 
March 2020. In-Field Address Canvassing is the only stage of Address 
Canvassing that involves collecting information from the general 
public. The associated response burden is detailed later in this 
notice.

(2) Optimizing Self-Response

    The goal of this innovation area is to communicate the importance 
of the 2020 Census to the entire population of the 50 states, the 
District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, in order to generate the largest 
possible self-response. Self-response reduces the need to conduct in-
person follow-up operations to complete the enumeration. To that end, 
the Census Bureau will motivate people to respond, as well as make it 
easy for people to respond, from any location at any time.
Internet Self-Response
    One major means of making it easier for people to respond is by 
providing an internet questionnaire and using mailings, questionnaire 
delivery, advertising, and publicity to tell the public about this 
option. Internet response represents a substantial innovation for the 
enterprise. The internet was not a response option in the 2010 Census. 
The internet response option has been included in multiple tests 
leading up to the 2020 Census: The 2014 Census Test; all three census 
tests performed in 2015; the 2016 Census Test; the 2017 Census Test; 
and the 2018 End-to-End Census Test.
    Based on results from these tests, response rates from prior 
censuses, and data from the American Community Survey and other 
surveys, the Census Bureau estimates that 45 percent of U.S. households 
in areas that receive mailouts of materials from the Census Bureau will 
respond via the internet before the initial NRFU workload is created. 
At the same time, the Census Bureau recognizes the need for alternate 
response modes to allow respondents to complete their 2020 Census 
questionnaire, including paper questionnaires as used in the past. 
Details about the contact strategy for mailed materials in TEA 1 will 
be discussed below. The Census Questionnaire Assistance operation, also 
described below, will provide the third mode of self-response. Overall, 
the Census Bureau estimates that 60.5 percent of households that 
receive mailouts or hand delivery of materials from the Census Bureau 
will self-respond in one of these three modes (i.e., internet, paper, 
telephone) prior to the beginning of NRFU activities.

(3) Utilizing Administrative Records and Third-Party Data

    For the 2020 Census, ``administrative records'' and ``third-party 
data'' are terms used to describe micro data records contained in files 
collected and maintained by Federal, state, and local government 
agencies (``administrative records'') and commercial entities (``third-
party data'') for administering programs and providing services. For 
many decades, the Census Bureau has successfully and securely used 
administrative records and third-party data for statistical purposes. 
For the 2020 Census, the Census Bureau intends to use administrative 
records from both internal sources, such as data from prior decennial 
censuses and the American Community Survey, and from a range of other 
Federal agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the 
Social Security Administration, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 
Services, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Indian 
Health Service, the Selective Service, and the U.S. Postal Service. The 
Census Bureau is also working to acquire state government 
administrative records from enrollment in Federal block grant programs, 
such as the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Supplemental Nutrition 
Assistance Program and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for 
Women, Infants, and Children. Finally, the Census Bureau is also 
utilizing commercial third-party data from organizations such as 
CoreLogic and the Veterans Service Group of Illinois.
    Throughout the decade, the Census Bureau continuously conducted 
analyses and assessments to verify that the proposed uses of 
administrative records and third-party data sources in the 2020 Census 
were appropriate in each instance. Based on this research, testing, and 
analyses, the Census Bureau announced its plans in November 2015 to 
utilize administrative records and third-party data in the 2020 Census. 
The 2020 Census Operational Plan calls for employing this information 
for the following purposes:
    1. Consistent with previous decennial censuses, the Census Bureau 
will utilize administrative records from federal and

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state government agencies and third-party data to refine contact 
strategies and build and update the residential address list.
    2. Also consistent with previous decennial censuses, the Census 
Bureau will utilize federal and state administrative records to edit or 
impute invalid, inconsistent, or missing responses.
    3. The new use of administrative records for the 2020 Census is to 
use data exclusively from federal administrative records to improve the 
accuracy and efficiency of NRFU operations by:
    a. Removing vacant housing units and nonresidential addresses from 
the NRFU workload.
    b. enumerating households that do not self-respond and whom we were 
unable to contact after six mailings and one in-person field visit.
    For each of the purposes listed in items 2, 3a and 3b, the Census 
Bureau uses or plans to use administrative data only when it can 
confirm empirically across multiple sources that the data are 
consistent, of high quality, and can be accurately applied to the 
addresses and households in question. The Census Bureau plans to 
enumerate households utilizing administrative records only from Federal 
government agencies, such as the Internal Revenue Service. Each of the 
nonresponding addresses will be evaluated under a strict set of Census 
Bureau rules throughout the process to ensure completeness and 
accuracy.
    Based on the research and tests conducted, the Census Bureau 
estimates that under the current operational plan Federal 
administrative records will be used to enumerate up to 6.5 million 
households of the projected total of approximately 60 million addresses 
that are expected to be the NRFU workload for the 2020 Census. These 
6.5 million households represent less than five percent of the 
approximately 145 million addresses in the Census master address file. 
Where the Census Bureau does not have confidence in the data, such as 
when the data are inconsistent or missing in the Federal administrative 
records, the household will remain in the NRFU workload.

(4) Reengineering Field Operations

    The final innovation area, ``Reengineering Field Operations,'' has 
a goal of using technology to manage the 2020 Census fieldwork 
efficiently and effectively, and as a result, reduce the staffing, 
infrastructure, and brick and mortar footprint for the 2020 Census. 
These changes to census field operations will not be apparent to 
respondents to any of the data collection operations.
The 2020 Census Operations
    The set of 35 operations that constitute all processes that will 
occur in the course of the 2020 Census is described in the 2020 Census 
Operational Plan. In addition to the public-facing data collection 
operations, there are operations in the categories of support, 
Information Technology, infrastructure, data publication, and testing 
and evaluation. The sections below outline data collection operations 
in the 2020 Census along with some operations that directly support 
these data collection operations by producing materials for the 2020 
Census.
    Some data collection operations that are included in the 2020 
Census Operational Plan are not described in this notice. These were or 
will be described in separate notices because of timing, type of work, 
or other considerations: Local Update of Census Addresses (Federal 
Register Notices: 81 FR 42686; 81 FR 78109), Redistricting Data Program 
(Federal Register Notices: 80 FR 40993; 80 FR 62015), Integrated 
Partnership and Communications (Federal Register Notice: 82 FR 38875), 
Evaluations and Experiments, and Count Question Resolution. In 
addition, all Coverage Measurement field operations, which result in an 
independent estimate of the coverage of the census, will be handled 
through separate Federal Register Notices.
    Final plans for each of these operations could receive minor 
updates or other changes as a result of lessons learned during the 2018 
End-to-End Census Test, further systems testing, or other input 
received from stakeholders after the date of this posting. Consistent 
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 procedures, shortly after the 
60-day comment period for this Notice ends, a 30-day Federal Register 
Notice of a pending information collection will provide the latest 
information on plans for every data collection operation in the 2020 
Census and provide an additional opportunity for the public to comment.
    The Content and Forms Design and the Language Services operations 
for the 2020 Census are essential to data collection because they 
involve the development and translation of materials used with 
respondents. These two operations are described below to set the stage 
for the discussion of the remaining 2020 Census data collection 
operations.
(A) Content and Forms Design
    The Census Bureau submitted the subjects planned for the 2020 
Census to Congress on March 28, 2017, and the questions planned for the 
2020 Census on March 29, 2018. The proposed questions for the 2020 
Census questionnaire include age, citizenship, Hispanic origin, race, 
relationship, sex, and tenure.
(B) Language Services
    Individuals of Limited English Proficiency require language 
assistance in order to complete their census questionnaires. The Census 
Bureau has identified the largest Limited English Proficiency 
populations in the United States using American Community Survey data 
and has established a program for providing non-English materials for 
the decennial census. Internet Self-Response and Census Questionnaire 
Assistance will be available in 12 non-English languages. Paper 
questionnaires, mailing materials, field data collection instruments, 
and field data collection materials will be available in English and 
Spanish. There will be additional support materials in 59 non-English 
languages.
(C) Address Canvassing
    The purpose of address canvassing is (1) to deliver a complete and 
accurate address list and spatial database for enumeration and 
tabulation, and (2) to determine the type and address characteristics 
for each living quarter. Address canvassing consists of two major 
components: In-Office Address Canvassing and In-Field Address 
Canvassing. Only the latter component involves collection of 
information from residents at their living quarters.
    For the 2010 Census, the Address Canvassing field staff, referred 
to as listers, traversed almost every block in the nation to compare 
what they observed on the ground with the contents of the Census 
Bureau's address list. Listers verified or corrected addresses that 
were on the list, added new addresses to the list, and deleted 
addresses that no longer existed. Listers also collected map spot 
locations (i.e., Global Positioning System coordinates) for each 
structure and added new streets.
    The Census Bureau has determined that for the 2020 Census there 
will be a full Address Canvassing that will consist of In-Office 
Address Canvassing complemented with In-Field Address Canvassing. In-
Office Address Canvassing is the process of using empirical geographic 
evidence (e.g., imagery, comparison of the Census

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Bureau's address list to partner-provided lists) to assess the current 
address list and make changes where necessary. This component detects 
and captures areas of change from high quality administrative records 
and third-party data. Advancements in technology have enabled continual 
address and spatial updates to occur throughout the decade as part of 
the In-Office Address Canvassing effort.
    Areas not resolved in the office become the universe of geographic 
areas worked during In-Field Address Canvassing. In the In-Field 
Address Canvassing, an extract of addresses from the MAF is created, 
and this address list is verified and updated, as needed. Listers will 
knock on doors at every structure in the assignment in an attempt to 
locate living quarters and classify each living quarter as a housing 
unit, group quarter, or transitory location. If someone answers, the 
lister will provide a Confidentiality Notice and ask about the address 
in order to verify or update the information, as appropriate. The 
listers will then ask if there are any additional living quarters in 
the structure or on the property. If there are additional living 
quarters, the listers will collect/update that information, as 
appropriate. In addition, there will be a check on the quality of the 
address listing work on approximately 20 percent of the housing unit 
workload.
(D) Forms Printing and Distribution
    The Forms Printing and Distribution operation involves the printing 
and distribution of the following paper forms:
     internet invitation letters.
     Reminder cards and letters.
     Questionnaire mailing packages.
     Materials for other special operations, as required.

Every address record will be identified by an ID, which will be printed 
on questionnaires and letters and used for tracking for responses. 
Paper questionnaires and responses from field operations will be linked 
to the ID in data capture. Internet and telephone respondents will be 
requested but not required to provide the ID. When an ID is not 
provided, these will be considered Non-ID responses. The Non-ID 
operation is discussed below.
(E) Internet Self-Response
    The internet Self-Response operation performs the following 
functions:
     Maximize online response to the 2020 Census through 
contact strategies and improved access for respondents.
     Collect response data through the internet to reduce paper 
and the NRFU universe.
Contact Strategies for Mailing Materials
    ``Contact strategies for mailing materials'' refers to all attempts 
by the Census Bureau to make direct contact with individual households 
by mail. Types of contact strategies include invitation letters, 
postcards, and questionnaires mailed to households.
    A primary objective of the 2020 Census is for a majority of self-
respondents to complete their census questionnaire online. To that end, 
the Census Bureau will use an approach called ``Internet First,'' in 
which the first mailing includes an invitation to respond to the census 
online.
    In areas with low internet coverage or connectivity or other 
characteristics that may make it less likely that respondents will 
complete the census questionnaire online, the Census Bureau will employ 
an ``internet Choice'' contact strategy. In this approach, the first 
mailing includes both an invitation to complete the census online and a 
paper questionnaire. The Census Bureau anticipates about 20 percent of 
the households in TEA 1 will receive the internet Choice treatment. 
While all nonresponding households in the internet First areas will 
eventually receive a paper questionnaire--in the fourth mailing--
households in internet Choice areas will receive a paper questionnaire 
in the first mailing, and again in the fourth mailing if they have not 
yet responded. Both mailing strategies have the objective of maximizing 
self-response to the 2020 Census, thereby minimizing NRFU.
    The contact strategies for mailing materials in TEA 1 are outlined 
in table form:

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    Mailing materials
        treatment              Mailing 1               Mailing 2                Mailing 3 *            Mailing 4 *                Mailing 5 *
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Internet First..........  Letter with          Reminder letter.........  Reminder postcard.......  Questionnaire with  ``It's Not Too Late'' postcard.
                           internet                                                                 letter with
                           invitation.                                                              internet option.
Internet Choice.........  Questionnaire with   Reminder letter.........  Reminder postcard.......  Questionnaire with  ``It's Not Too Late'' postcard.
                           letter with                                                              letter with
                           internet option.                                                         internet option.
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* Targeted only to nonrespondents.

Internet Self-Response Instrument
    The internet self-response instrument and all related support 
systems will be designed to handle the volume of responses that are 
expected to be received by internet in the 2020 Census. It is 
imperative that the application and systems service the scale of the 
operation in order to ensure that users do not experience delays while 
completing the survey or unavailability of the application. In 
addition, the internet application and other associated systems will be 
developed to adhere to the highest standards of data security in order 
to ensure that all respondent data are secure and confidential.
(F) Census Questionnaire Assistance
    The Census Questionnaire Assistance operation has three primary 
functions:
     Answer respondent questions about specific items on the 
census questionnaire or other frequently asked questions about the 
census.
     Provide an option for respondents to complete a census 
interview over the telephone.
     Provide outbound calling in support of NRFU Reinterview 
and Coverage Improvement (discussed in the NRFU section below).
    Respondents using the internet instrument will have the ability to 
contact Census Questionnaire Assistance by telephone when web-based 
self-service help tools cannot answer their questions. Each of the 13 
supported languages, including English, will have its own toll-free 
number for callers. Respondents calling the English and Spanish 
language lines are presented with a self-service Interactive Voice 
Response system, offering an assortment of automated responses to 
Frequently Asked Questions information. At any time, respondents may 
opt to transfer to a customer service representative, who is prepared 
to further assist and enumerate them. All callers who need assistance 
in other languages will be connected directly to an appropriately-
skilled Customer Service Representative fluent in the language, based 
on the toll-free number called.

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(G) Update Leave
    The Update Leave operation is designed to occur in areas where the 
majority of housing units either do not have mail delivered to the 
physical location of the housing unit or the mail delivery information 
for the housing unit cannot be verified. Update Leave can occur in 
geographic areas that:
     Do not have city-style addresses.
     Do not receive mail through city-style addresses.
     Receive mail at post office boxes.
     Have been affected by major disasters.
    These areas will not be included in the In-Field Address Canvassing 
but will be worked within the In-Office Address Canvassing. The purpose 
of the Update Leave operation is to update the address and feature data 
for the area assigned and to leave an internet Choice questionnaire 
package at every housing unit identified to allow the household to 
self-respond. Enumerators do not attempt to enumerate the household in 
person when they leave the questionnaire.
    Occupants can respond online, using the ID printed on the 
questionnaire, or they can fill out and mail back the paper 
questionnaire. If they have questions or wish to respond on the 
telephone, they can call Census Questionnaire Assistance, using the 
contact information provided in the package.
    The Update Leave operation includes mailing a reminder letter and a 
reminder postcard to addresses that are capable of receiving mail 
within the areas designated for Update Leave. These mailed materials 
include the ID for the given address and the website address for the 
household to use in order to respond online. As in TEA 1, any 
households that do not self-respond will be contacted during the NRFU 
operation.
    Finally, the Update Leave operation performs a check on the quality 
of the address listing work (quality control [QC]) on approximately 5 
percent of the production workload.
(H) Update Enumerate
    The Update Enumerate operation is designated to occur in areas 
where the initial visit requires enumerating at the living quarters 
while updating the address list. The majority of the operation will 
occur in remote geographic areas that have unique challenges associated 
with accessibility. Update Enumerate can occur in the following 
geographic areas:
     Remote Alaska.
     Areas that were a part of the 2010 Census Remote Update 
Enumerate operation, such as northern parts of Maine and southeast 
Alaska.
     Select American Indian areas that request to be enumerated 
in person during the initial visit.
    Note that the areas included in the 2010 Census Remote Update 
Enumerate operation might be delineated into TEA 1 or TEA 6 for the 
2020 Census, based on changes in address type or mailability.
    In the Update Enumerate operation, field staff update the address 
and feature data and enumerate respondents in person. The address and 
feature data are updated on paper address registers and paper maps. The 
enumeration is collected on paper questionnaires. Field staff 
conducting Update Enumerate follow a specific contact strategy for the 
remote locations and conduct any needed follow-up. The Update Enumerate 
operation performs a check on the quality of the address work (listing 
QC) on approximately 10 percent of the listing workload and a check on 
the quality of the enumeration data through a telephone reinterview on 
approximately 5 percent of the enumeration workload.
    All completed questionnaires, address registers, and maps are 
delivered or shipped back to the area census office and then sent to a 
processing center for data capture, keying, and digitizing.
(I) Paper Data Capture
    The Paper Data Capture operation captures and converts data from 
2020 Census paper questionnaires. Core workloads for the Paper Data 
Capture operation include self-response questionnaires mailed back by 
respondents and Group Quarters Individual Census Reports. The Census 
Bureau's in-house Integrated Computer Assisted Data Entry system is 
used to capture paper responses from questionnaires. Each write-in and 
checkbox data field is data-captured, and Optical Character Recognition 
and Optical Mark Recognition are performed. If Key From Image is needed 
for forms that cannot be processed through Optical Character 
Recognition or Optical Mark Recognition, staff are presented the image 
of the page and are able to clarify, correct, or add to what was 
captured. The Census Bureau maintains the data, images of the forms, 
and the paper forms themselves until confirmation that the data have 
been correctly captured, at which point the paper forms are sent to 
destruction while the data and images are retained. The Census Bureau 
maintains the images for archiving purposes until such time as the 
National Archiving and Records Administration takes possession of the 
images for permanent archiving.
(J) Non-ID Processing
    For the 2020 Census, respondents will be encouraged, but not 
required, to use the Census Bureau's preassigned ID for the living 
quarters. Within the internet instrument, and, consequently, within 
Census Questionnaire Assistance, it will be possible for respondents to 
submit the census response without the preassigned ID. Non-ID 
Processing is the effort to associate census responses that lack a 
Census ID with records included on the Census Bureau's 2020 Census 
address frame. This processing can occur through automated or clerical 
procedures. With the internet Self-Response instrument collecting the 
response and address data, it will be possible to perform automated 
processing to determine whether the address was already included on the 
address frame and extracted from the MAF. For those Non-ID responses 
not matched during automated processing, a clerical operation will make 
a further attempt to match the address to the 2020 Census address frame 
and validate nonmatching addresses. Some of the clerical work may 
require contacting the respondent to help determine a match or to 
verify the existence and location of the address; this is known as Non-
ID Processing Phone Followup. Any nonmatching address whose existence 
and location cannot be verified by the clerical Non-ID operation will 
become a Field Verification assignment, handled as a component of the 
NRFU operation. Notably, Field Verification is only an address 
verification effort and does not include collection of the census 
questionnaire data.
(K) Nonresponse Followup
    The 2020 Census NRFU operation will be different from the NRFU 
operation conducted in the 2010 Census. The Census Bureau will 
implement a NRFU operational design that utilizes a combination of the 
following:
     Administrative records and third-party data usage to 
reduce the workload.
     Reengineering of staffing and management of field 
operations.
     A Best-Time-to-Contact model to increase the likelihood of 
making contact attempts when an enumerator will find people at home.
     Automation to facilitate data collection.
    The NRFU workload is comprised of addresses from a number of 
sources, including:
     Nonresponding addresses in the self-response and Update 
Leave TEAs.

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     Blank mail returns or mail returns otherwise deemed to be 
too incomplete.
     Addresses considered to represent recently completed 
housing identified from the spring 2020 USPS Delivery Sequence File and 
other special efforts undertaken to identify new housing around the 
time of the census known as New Construction and Housing Unit Count 
Review; addresses upheld in the Local Update of Census Addresses 
appeals process; potentially other addresses determined to require 
follow-up after the initial enumeration universe is established.
     Addresses with a vacant status reported from internet 
Self-Response.
     Field Verification cases.
     Coverage Improvement cases (described below).
     Response Re-collect cases (described below).
    After giving the population in the United States and Puerto Rico an 
opportunity to self-respond to the 2020 Census, the Census Bureau will 
use the most cost-effective strategy for contacting and counting people 
to ensure an accurate count. Once the households that did not respond 
through internet, telephone, or paper are known, administrative records 
will be used to identify vacant addresses and addresses that do not 
exist in order to reduce the workload of addresses that NRFU 
enumerators will visit. Undeliverable-as-Addressed information from the 
USPS will provide the primary administrative records source for the 
identification of vacant addresses and addresses that do not exist.
    During the NRFU operation, enumerators will visit each housing unit 
designated for follow-up, determine the occupancy status of the unit on 
April 1, 2020, and complete an interview using an automated application 
on a smartphone. Various techniques will be used during NRFU to make 
the data collection as efficient as possible. The number of allowed 
attempts to contact is controlled within the automated instrument, and 
best-time-to-contact modeling is used in the creation of the daily 
assignments. Every case in the NRFU workload will have a maximum of six 
unique contact days and 12 proxy attempts. After a third attempt to 
contact a household does not yield a respondent, a case will become 
proxy-eligible. A proxy is a neighbor, landlord, real estate agent, or 
other knowledgeable person who can provide information about the unit 
and the people who live there. An enumerator should attempt three 
proxies after each noninterview for a proxy-eligible case. Addresses 
will also be removed from the workload throughout the course of the 
NRFU operation as self-responses are received.
Administrative Records
    If the initial in-person contact attempt is unsuccessful, the 
Census Bureau will use administrative records as the household response 
data when it: (1) Believes that the address is occupied, and (2) has 
high-quality administrative records. These include records such as from 
the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration, and 
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as well as 
prior censuses and the American Community Survey.
    Addresses found to be ``administrative records vacant'' or 
``administrative records nonexistent'' will be removed from the NRFU 
workload and will immediately be mailed a final postcard that 
encourages occupants to self-respond to the 2020 Census. Addresses that 
are determined to be ``administrative records occupied'' and for which 
enumeration is incomplete after one in-person visit attempt will be 
mailed a final postcard encouraging self-response after seven days.
NRFU Reinterview program
    The NRFU Reinterview program will check the quality of the work 
done by enumerators in NRFU. A sample of approximately 5 percent of 
NRFU interviews will be selected for verification through NRFU 
Reinterview. All cases that are sampled for the program and have a 
valid phone number will initially be subject to a reinterview attempt 
by a Census Questionnaire Assistance customer service representative to 
verify that an enumerator conducted the interview and followed 
procedures. NRFU Reinterview cases that cannot be completed via 
telephone will be sent to the field for personal visit reinterviews. 
The customer service representative or enumerator working a NRFU 
Reinterview case always attempts to contact the respondent from the 
original interview, which may be a household member, neighbor, or some 
other proxy. If the original respondent confirms that he/she was 
contacted and an enumerator conducted the original interview, the 
customer service representative or enumerator collects roster names and 
ends the interview. If the respondent was not contacted or does not 
know if an enumerator conducted the original interview, the customer 
service representative or enumerator conducts a full interview with the 
respondent.
Manager Visit
    During the early weeks of NRFU, enumerators will conduct interviews 
with multiunit structure managers to determine the occupancy status of 
nonresponding units within the multiunit structure. This Manager Visit 
allows enumerators to identify several units as vacant or delete 
without having to attempt each unit individually. Enumerators have a 
maximum of two unique contact days to complete the Manager Visit cases. 
The Manager Visit Reinterview program will check the quality of work 
done by enumerators during the Manager Visit and will target 
enumerators with high numbers of vacant and delete unit statuses. 
During this Manager Visit Reinterview check, the enumerator will ask to 
speak to the manager from the original Manager Visit interview. If the 
respondent confirms that he/she was contacted and an enumerator 
conducted the original interview, the Manager Visit Reinterview 
enumerator asks about a subset of the list checked during the Manager 
Visit. If the respondent was not contacted or does not know if an 
enumerator conducted the original interview, the enumerator conducts a 
full interview and review the entire list of nonresponding units within 
the multiunit structure.
Field Verification
    The NRFU universe also includes cases from Non-ID Processing that 
were not able to be matched to the address frame. As discussed in the 
Non-ID section, these are Field Verification cases, where the 
enumerators attempt to locate the address in question and collect its 
Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates. A sample of the Field 
Verification cases is selected for verification through Field 
Verification Quality Control. Since Field Verification cases only 
require an enumerator to determine the existence of an address and will 
not require an interview with a respondent, this Field Verification 
Quality Control program will consist of an independent check of the 
production enumerator's work in the field. The Field Verification 
Quality Control enumerator will conduct the same procedures as the 
Field Verification enumerator. Field Verification cases, along with 
their quality control component, have a maximum of one field contact 
day.
Coverage Improvement
    The Coverage Improvement operation improves the enumeration count 
by resolving categories of erroneous enumerations (people counted in 
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wrong place or counted more than once) and omissions (people who were 
missed) identified through collected enumeration data. The Coverage 
Improvement operation will attempt to resolve these issues identified 
from both self-response and NRFU questionnaires. The issues identified 
for the Coverage Improvement operation will be: Where a household 
enumeration shows a difference between the answer for the number of 
people within the household and the number of people enumerated, and 
answers to coverage questions in the initial enumeration that reflect 
potential coverage errors. Both of these types of cases could result in 
either erroneous enumerations or omissions. Automation and the internet 
self-response option will use various edit checks when these 
inconsistencies arise, which should reduce the prevalence of these 
types of respondent errors compared to the 2010 Census, which was 
completed almost entirely on paper questionnaires. All cases that are 
selected for Coverage Improvement with a valid phone number will be 
subject to an interview attempt by a Census Questionnaire Assistance 
customer service representative.
    Response re-collect cases are generated as part of the quality 
assurance efforts for self-response and will be worked within NRFU.
(L) Group Quarters
    The 2020 Census Group Quarters operation will enumerate people 
living or staying in group quarters and provide an opportunity for 
people experiencing homelessness and receiving service at a service-
based location, such as a soup kitchen, to be counted in the census.
    The 2020 Census Group Quarters operation consists of the following 
components:
     In-Office Group Quarters Advance Contact.
     Group Quarters Enumeration.
     Service-Based Enumeration.
     Military Enumeration.
     Maritime Vessel (Shipboard) Enumeration.
    The In-Office Group Quarters Advance Contact is an in-office 
activity conducted in the area census offices in which the group 
quarters name, address, contact name, and phone number from the address 
list that results from Address Canvassing will be verified. Preferred 
dates, times, methods of enumeration, and expected population on Census 
Day will be collected as well. Special instructions or concerns related 
to privacy, confidentiality, and security will also be addressed.
    The Group Quarters enumeration will cover all 50 states, the 
District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. This enumeration at group 
quarters occurs in approximately the same timeframe as the household 
enumeration operations. An additional late group quarters enumeration 
phase allows for the stakeholder identification and enumeration of 
group quarters that may have been missed during the earlier timeframe. 
The primary method of conducting in-person enumeration of people 
residing in group quarters will be by using the Individual Census 
Questionnaire as the paper data collection instrument. In-person 
interviewing is planned for all group quarter types that are part of 
the field enumeration workload.
Group Quarters Enumeration--eResponse Data Transfer
    eResponse uses electronic data transfer from group quarter 
administrators to the Census Bureau. Client-level data from systems 
maintained by group quarter administrators can be transferred to a 
standardized Census Bureau system that will accept electronically 
submitted data in a standardized template. These data will be accepted 
in lieu of use of the Individual Census Questionnaire if data are 
deemed to be of sufficiently high quality and completeness.
Service-Based Enumeration
    The Service-Based Enumeration is specifically designed to approach 
people using service facilities because they may be missed during the 
traditional enumeration of housing units and group quarters. These 
service locations and outdoor locations include the following:
     Shelters: Shelters with sleeping facilities for people 
experiencing homelessness; shelters for children who are runaways, 
neglected, or experiencing homelessness.
     Soup kitchens.
     Regularly-scheduled mobile food vans: Stops where 
regularly scheduled mobile food vans distribute meals.
     Targeted non-sheltered outdoor locations.
    For the 2020 Census, Service-Based Enumeration will be conducted 
over the three-day period that ends on April 1, 2020, Census Day. 
Service providers for shelters, soup kitchens, and regularly-scheduled 
mobile food vans will be given the flexibility for their facility to be 
enumerated on any one of the three days. Targeted non-sheltered outdoor 
locations will be enumerated April 1, 2020.
Domestic Violence Shelters
    Domestic Violence Shelters are facilities for those seeking safety 
from domestic violence. As in previous censuses, the enumeration of 
individuals at Domestic Violence Shelters will be handled by personnel 
specially trained to protect the safety and security of respondents 
being enumerated at these locations.
Military Enumeration
    Military Enumeration involves enumeration of people living in group 
quarters (or barracks) on domestic military installations or military 
vessels. Military installations are fenced, secured areas used for 
military purposes. An important feature of the military enumeration 
operation is that it includes both group quarters and housing units. 
Privatized housing on military installations will be enumerated as part 
of the housing unit data collection operations rather than through 
Military Enumeration. A military vessel is defined as a United States 
Navy or United States Coast Guard vessel assigned to a home port in the 
United States. In order to support the military's security 
requirements, military Group Quarters Enumeration will occur by means 
of electronic data transfer from the Defense Manpower Data Center to 
the Census Bureau.
(M) Enumeration at Transitory Locations
    The 2020 Census Enumeration at Transitory Locations operation 
enumerates those individuals in occupied units at transitory locations 
who do not have a usual home elsewhere. This operation will:
     Use automation, where possible, to facilitate data 
collection and streamline operations such as advance contact. However, 
data collection will be done using paper.
     Use reengineered staffing and management of the field 
operation.
     Use in-person enumeration as the primary mode of data 
collection.
(N) Federally Affiliated Count Overseas
    The Federally Affiliated Count Overseas operation obtains counts by 
home state of United States military and federal civilian employees who 
are stationed or assigned overseas and their dependents living with 
them. For the 2020 Census, overseas is defined as anywhere outside the 
50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas: 
American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and 
the United States Virgin Islands. Counts are submitted from Federal 
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Department of Defense (Defense Manpower Data Command) through a Census 
Bureau secure server and are used to allocate the federally affiliated 
population living overseas to their home state for the purposes of 
apportioning seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. If military 
and federal civilian employees of the U.S. government are deployed 
overseas while stationed or assigned within the U.S., they are counted 
at their U.S. residence where they live or sleep most of the time using 
administrative data provided by Federal agencies and the Department of 
Defense.
(O) Island Areas Censuses
    The Census Bureau will conduct the 2020 Island Areas Censuses 
through partnerships with local government agencies in American Samoa, 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the United 
States Virgin Islands. The Census Bureau will provide the materials and 
guidance to the local government agencies that are then responsible for 
recruiting and hiring local staff to conduct the data collection phase 
through in-person enumeration.
    The Island Areas Censuses questionnaire leverages the American 
Community Survey questionnaire with minor wording changes. These 
changes include accommodating time reference differences and 
incorporating the final 2020 Census questions while taking into account 
the Island Areas local governments' concerns, where possible. All data 
collection activities will rely on the use of paper questionnaires, 
paper maps, and paper address registers to record the physical 
addresses of housing units and group quarters. The MAF does not include 
addresses for the Island Areas, so the address registers become the 
address list for the Island Areas Censuses. Once the addresses have 
been listed, enumerators will visit every living quarter to conduct 
interviews with household members and follow up as necessary. The 
Census Offices conduct two quality control operations: (1) Reinterview 
for a sample of questionnaires, and (2) independent address check. The 
Census Offices also conduct a clerical review of all completed 
questionnaires for completeness and data consistency.
    After the Island Areas Censuses collects the detailed demographic 
and housing data, the data will be processed through the Decennial 
Response Processing System. Data products will include counts of the 
population and housing units, data profiles, subject tables, ranking 
tables, and supplemental tables.

II. Method of Collection

    Data collection operations result in respondent burden from: (1) 
Contacts during the address frame-building process, and (2) contacts 
during enumeration for the 2020 Census.
    The frame-building operation in the field that can result in 
respondent burden is In-Field Address Canvassing. In-Field Address 
Canvassing is the process of having listers visit specific geographic 
areas to identify every place where people could live or stay and 
compare what they see on the ground with the existing census address 
list and either verify or correct the address and location information. 
Listers will knock on doors at every structure in the assignment in an 
attempt to locate living quarters. The Census Bureau expects that 
listers will make contact with residents (i.e., someone is at home) 
approximately 25 percent of the time, based on previous address list 
development field operations.
    The second component of respondent burden is the census enumeration 
operations. This consists of multiple operations that in combination 
serve the purpose of reaching all residents for the purposes of the 
enumeration in the census. All attempts by the Census Bureau to make 
direct contact in TEAs 1 and 6 with individual households by mail for 
enumeration are referred to as ``contact strategies for mailing 
materials.'' Types of contact strategies for mailing materials include 
invitation letters, postcards, and questionnaires mailed to households.
    The ``Internet First'' approach was developed to encourage 
respondents to use the internet. Currently, this model includes the 
mailing of a letter inviting respondents to complete the questionnaire 
online, two follow-up reminders and, if necessary, a mailed paper 
questionnaire followed by a final reminder (or two reminders to certain 
Administrative Records cases). All correspondence will contain a 
telephone number that respondents may use to complete the questionnaire 
over the telephone.
    The ``Internet Choice'' contact strategy will be used for the 
estimated 20 percent of households that have low internet coverage or 
connectivity or other characteristics that may make it less likely the 
respondents will complete the census questionnaire online. This 
strategy includes both an invitation to complete the census online and 
a paper questionnaire as part of the first mailing.
    For those housing unit addresses in TEAs 1 and 6 for which no self-
response is received, the NRFU operation will be used to collect the 
household data. NRFU will use an automated instrument during data 
collection. Additional follow-up activities to improve and check 
quality will be included within the Census Questionnaire Assistance 
call center and NRFU workloads. All cases that are sampled for NRFU 
reinterview with a valid phone number will initially be subject to a 
reinterview attempt by a Census Questionnaire Assistance customer 
service representative. NRFU reinterview cases that cannot be completed 
via telephone will be sent to the field for personal visit 
reinterviews.
    The NRFU reinterview program will check the quality of the work 
done by enumerators in NRFU. The NRFU reinterview program involves 
conducting an independent reinterview for selected cases to verify that 
an enumerator conducted the interview and followed procedures, as 
described above. During the early weeks of NRFU, enumerators will 
conduct interviews with multiunit structure managers to determine the 
occupancy status of nonresponding units within the multiunit structure, 
as described above. The NRFU universe also includes cases from Non-ID 
Processing that were not able to be matched to the address frame. As 
discussed above, these are Field Verification cases, where the 
enumerators attempt to locate the address in question and collect its 
GPS coordinates.
    The Coverage Improvement operation resolves categories of erroneous 
enumerations (people counted in the wrong place or counted more than 
once) and omissions (people who were missed) identified through 
collected enumeration data. The Coverage Improvement operation will 
attempt to resolve these issues from both self-response and NRFU 
questionnaires.
    In summary, a census address list is the basis for the census 
enumeration. Some of the work to create the address list will occur in 
In-Field Address Canvassing, which will incur respondent burden. Using 
a post-Address Canvassing extract of the MAF, census materials will be 
provided to or for all living quarters according the TEA designated for 
the area and the operation designated for the living quarters type. 
Self-response modes for housing units include internet, paper 
questionnaires, and telephone. Response modes for group quarters 
include paper questionnaires and electronic file transfers. Special 
operations will be implemented to collect data at identified transitory 
units and service-based locations. The various follow-up, QC, and 
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improvement operations will also incur respondent burden. In addition, 
the Island Areas Censuses and Federally Affiliated Count Overseas 
operations enumerate the populations covered by those definitions, 
through the processes described above.

III. Data

OMB Control Number: 0607-XXXX

Form Number(s):
D-LF1
D-LF1(E/S)
D-Q
D-Q(E/S)
D-Q-UL
D-Q-UL(E/S)
D-Q-TL
D-Q-TL(S)
D-CQ-TL
D-CQ-TL(S)
D-Q-FA
D-Q-UE
D-CQ-UE
D-Q-TLUE
D-CQ-TLUE
D-Q-UERA
D-CQ-UERA
D-Q-TLRA
D-CQ-TLRA
D-Q-GERA
D-Q-MV
D-Q-PR(E/S)
D-Q-GEPR(S)
D-Q-ULPR(E/S)
D-Q-TLPR(S)
D-CQ-TLPR(S)
D-Q-AS
D-Q-MI
D-Q-G
D-Q-VI
D-Q-VI(S)
D-CQ-AS
D-CQ-MI
D-CQ-G
D-CQ-VI
D-CQ-VI(S)
D-Q-GE-AS
D-Q-GE-MI
D-Q-GE-G
D-Q-GE-VI
D-Q-GE-VI(S)

    Type of Review: Regular submission.
    Affected Public: Households/Individuals.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 178,202,534.
    Estimated Time per Response: 6.77 minutes.

                                                   2020 Census
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                                                                              Estimated time
                 Operation or category                    Estimated number     per response       Total burden
                                                           of respondents       (minutes)            hours
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Address Canvassing.....................................         12,210,150                  5          1,017,513
Address Canvassing Listing QC..........................          2,442,030                  5            203,503
Geographic Areas Focused on Self-Response (this
 includes Mailout and Update Leave):
    Internet/Telephone/Paper...........................         80,700,000                 10         13,450,000
    Update Leave.......................................         11,900,000                  5            991,667
    Update Leave QC....................................          1,190,000                  5             99,167
    Nonresponse Followup...............................         52,700,000                 10          8,783,333
    Nonresponse Followup Reinterview...................          2,760,000                  5            230,000
    Re-collect.........................................            250,000                 10             41,667
    Field Verification.................................            400,000                  2             13,333
    Coverage Improvement...............................          3,200,000                  7            376,471
    Non-ID Processing Phone Followup...................            750,000                  5             62,500
                                                        --------------------------------------------------------
        Self-Response Areas Subtotal...................        148,060,000  .................         24,048,138
Geographic Area Focused on Update Enumerate:
    Update Enumerate Production........................            506,000                 12            101,200
    Update Enumerate Listing QC........................             50,600                  5              4,217
    Update Enumerate Reinterview.......................             25,300                 10              4,217
                                                        --------------------------------------------------------
        Update Enumerate Subtotal......................            581,900  .................            109,634
Group Quarters (GQ):
    GQ Advance Contact (facility)......................            297,000                 10             49,500
    GQ Enumeration--eResponse (facility)...............             14,300                 20              4,767
    GQ Enumeration--person contact.....................          8,000,000                  5            666,667
    Group Quarters QC..................................              8,500                  5                708
                                                        --------------------------------------------------------
        Group Quarters Subtotal........................          8,319,800  .................            721,642
Enumeration at Transitory Locations--Advance Contact...             50,000                 10              8,333
Enumeration at Transitory Locations--Units.............            600,000                 10            100,000
Island Areas Censuses--Housing Units...................            138,281                 40             92,187
Island Areas Censuses--Group Quarters..................             10,291                 30              5,146
Federally Affiliated Count Overseas....................                 82                  5                  7
                                                        --------------------------------------------------------
    Totals.............................................        178,202,534               6.77         26,306,103
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 26,306,103 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: $0 (This is not the cost of 
respondents' time, but the indirect costs respondents may incur for 
such things as purchases of specialized software or hardware needed to 
report, or expenditures for accounting or records maintenance services 
required specifically by the collection.)
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C. Section 141.

IV. Request for Comments

    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of 
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of 
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical 
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden

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(including hours and cost) of the proposed collection of information; 
(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the 
collection of information on respondents, including through the use of 
automated collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology.
    Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized 
and/or included in the request for OMB approval of this information 
collection; they also will become a matter of public record.

Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental Lead PRA Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2018-12365 Filed 6-7-18; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-07-P