[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 65 (Tuesday, April 5, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19663-19664]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-07104]


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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; Ask U.S. Panel

    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 December 7, 2021, during a 60-day comment period 
and a 30-day comment period posted on March 1, 2022. This notice allows 
for an additional 30-day comment period on the topical survey 
questionnaires.
    Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce.
    Title: Ask U.S. Panel Pilot.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-XXXX.
    Form Number(s): Not yet determined.
    Type of Request: Revision Request.
    Number of Respondents: 1,700.
    Average Hours per Response: Approximately 15 minutes per 
respondent.
    Burden Hours: No additional burden hours are requested under this 
Revision request.
    Needs and Uses: The Ask U.S. Panel (``the Panel'') Pilot will 
recruit a probability-based nationwide nationally-representative survey 
panel to test the methods to track public

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opinion on a variety of topics of interest, and for conducting 
experimentation on alternative question wording and methodological 
approaches.
    A large-scale field Pilot Test will be conducted to recruit members 
for the panel, based on a probability sample of U.S. adults. Once Pilot 
Panel members are recruited, they will receive a topical survey to 
complete. The current notice announces the content of the topical 
survey for both the general population and the Department of Defense 
samples.
    This 30-day notice seeks comments on the proposed Topical Survey 
questionnaires only.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Frequency: Once.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: The Pilot is being developed under a cooperative 
agreement awarded by the Census Bureau pursuant to the Consolidated 
Appropriations Act of 2021, Public Law 116-260, section 110. Data 
collection for the topical surveys are authorized under 13 U.S.C. 8(b), 
131, 141, 161, 181, 182, and 193; and 10 U.S.C. 1782. The information 
collected in topical surveys is protected by title 13 of the United 
States Code for the General Population Survey and by the Privacy Act of 
1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a) for the Department of Defense Survey.
    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 the title of the collection.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2022-07104 Filed 4-4-22; 8:45 am]
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