[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 210 (Tuesday, November 1, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65742-65743]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-23772]


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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 Census Bureau Field Tests and 
Evaluations

    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 July 26, 2022 during a 60-day comment period. This 
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
    Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Commerce.
    Title: Generic Clearance for Census Bureau Field Tests and 
Evaluations.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-0971.
    Form Number(s): Not yet determined.
    Type of Request: Regular submission, Request for an Extension, 
without Change, of a Currently Approved Collection.
    Number of Respondents: 100,000 per year.
    Average Hours per Response: 25 minutes.

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    Burden Hours: 41,667 hours annually.
    Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census Bureau is committed to conducting 
research towards census and survey operations that costs less while 
maintaining high quality results. The Census Bureau requests an 
extension, without change, of our previous OMB approval to conduct a 
series of studies to research and evaluate how to improve data 
collection activities for data collection programs at the Census 
Bureau. These studies will explore how the Census Bureau can improve 
efficiency, data quality, and response rates and reduce respondent 
burden in future census and survey operations, evaluations and 
experiments. This research program is for respondent communication, 
questionnaire and procedure development and evaluation purposes. We 
will use data tabulations to evaluate the results of questionnaire 
testing.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households, businesses or other for 
profit, farms.
    Frequency: Once.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary or Mandatory, depending on cited 
authority.
    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 0607-0971.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2022-23772 Filed 10-31-22; 8:45 am]
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