[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 161 (Wednesday, August 19, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 51010]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-18102]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Census Bureau


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; Generic Clearance for internet Panel Pretesting and 
Qualitative Survey Methods Testing

    The Department of Commerce will submit the following information 
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite the 
general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and 
continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of 
our information collection requirements and minimize the public's 
reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the 
Federal Register, on page 34175 of Volume 85, on June 3, 2020, during a 
60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for 
public comments.
    Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
    Title: Generic Clearance for internet Panel Pretesting and 
Qualitative Survey Methods Testing.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-0978.
    Form Number(s): TBD.
    Type of Request: Extension without change of a currently approved 
collection.
    Number of Respondents: 67,600.
    Average Hours Per Response: 0.25 hours.
    Burden Hours: 16,900.
    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. Because the questionnaires being tested under this clearance 
are still in the process of development, the data that result from 
these collections are not considered official statistics of the Census 
Bureau or other Federal agencies. Data will be included in research 
reports prepared for sponsors inside and outside of the Census Bureau. 
The results may also be prepared for presentations related to survey 
methodology at professional meetings or publications in professional 
journals.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Frequency: Once.
    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 the Department of 
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of 
this notice on the following website www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 
Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently 
under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search 
function and entering either the title of the collection or the OMB 
Control Number 0607-0978.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2020-18102 Filed 8-18-20; 8:45 am]
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