[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 52 (Friday, March 15, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 18893]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-05560]


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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; State and Local Government Finance and Public Employment and 
Payroll Forms

    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 November 21, 2023 during a 60-day comment period. 
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
    Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce.
    Title: State and Local Government Finance and Public Employment and 
Payroll Forms.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-0585.
    Form Number(s): E-1,E-2,E-3,E-4,E-5,E-6,E-7,E-8,E-9,E-10,F-5,F-
11,F-12,F-13,F-28,F-29,F-32.
    Type of Request: Regular submission, request for an extension, 
without change, of a currently approved collection.
    Number of Respondents: 29,609.
    Average Hours per Response: 1 hour and 50 minutes.
    Burden Hours: 54,306.
    Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau is requesting extension of the 
clearance for the Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll and the 
Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances. The Annual Survey 
of Public Employment & Payroll collects State and local government data 
by function for full-time and part-time employees and payroll. The 
Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances collect State and 
local government finance data including government revenue, 
expenditure, debt, assets, and pension systems. Data are collected for 
all agencies, departments, and institutions of the fifty State 
governments and for a sample of all local governments (counties, 
municipalities, townships, and special districts). Data for school 
districts are collected under a separate survey and are not included 
here.
    In years ending with 2 and 7 this collection is conducted as a part 
of the Census of Governments. There is no difference in content 
collected between a Census of Governments year and non-Census year. The 
only difference is that in non-Census years, we only collect from a 
sample of the universe of State and local governments, whereas during a 
Census of Governments year the entire universe is collected. The 
upcoming three years of this clearance extension will cover the 
collections for fiscal years of 2023, 2024, and 2025, all of which are 
non-Census years.
    The data are released as part of the State and Local Government 
Finance and Public Employment & Payroll statistical series. The 
collections also produce individual data products that focus on State 
governments, local governments, and public pensions in greater detail 
than the combined financial and employment series as a by-product of 
their collections for the combined data series. The Census Bureau 
provides these data to the Bureau of Economic Analysis to develop the 
public sector components of the National Income and Product Accounts 
and for constructing the functional payrolls in the public sector of 
the Gross Domestic Product, payroll being the single largest component 
of current operations. The Census Bureau also provides these data to 
the Federal Reserve Board for use in the Flow of Funds Accounts. Other 
Federal agencies that make use of the data include the Council of 
Economic Advisers, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the 
Government Accountability Office, and the Department of Justice. State 
and local governments and related organizations, public policy groups, 
public interest groups, private research organizations, and private 
sector businesses also use these data.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., Sections 161 and 182.
    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 0607-0585.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for 
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2024-05560 Filed 3-14-24; 8:45 am]
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