[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 127 (Tuesday, July 2, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 54768]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-14529]



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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 7/26/2022 during a 60-day comment period. This 
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
    Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
    Title: Burden Increase for the Generic Clearance for Census Bureau 
Field Tests and Evaluations.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-0971.
    Form Number(s): Not yet determined.
    Type of Request: Request for a burden increase.
    Number of Respondents: 113,791 per year.
    Average Hours per Response: 26.58 minutes.
    Burden Hours: 50,424.33 hours annually.
    Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census Bureau is committed to conducting 
research to identify possible cost and burden reductions in future 
census and survey, while maintaining high quality results. The Census 
Bureau requests an increase of 60,500 hours to the existing burden 
estimates for this Generic Clearance. The Census Bureau is making no 
other changes to this Clearance. This increase will bring the total 
burden hours for this Clearance to 211,773 hours over the three-year 
period. Studies to research and evaluate how to improve data collection 
activities for data collection programs at the Census Bureau have 
outpaced the original burden estimates. Larger sample sizes will allow 
us to continue to 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 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 13 U.S.C. 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.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed change 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.

Mary Lenaiyasa,
PRA Program Manager, Policy Coordination Office, U.S. Census Bureau.
[FR Doc. 2024-14529 Filed 7-1-24; 8:45 am]
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