[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 121 (Monday, June 26, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28816-28817]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-13280]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

U.S. Census Bureau


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of 
information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act.
    Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
    Title: Generic Clearance for Internet Nonprobability Panel 
Pretesting.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-0978.
    Form Number(s): TBD.
    Type of Request: Extension of a Currently Approved Collection.
    Number of Respondents: 60,000.
    Average Hours per Response: 0.167.
    Burden Hours: 10,000.
    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. Since the submission of the 60 day notice, we have changed 
both the title and burden estimate for this collection. At the 60-day 
notice, the collection was entitled ``Generic Clearance for Internet 
Nonprobability Panel Pretesting and Qualitative Survey Methods 
Testing.'' To more accurately reflect the intended collection, we are 
renaming this collection ``Generic Clearance for Medium-Scale 
Pretesting.'' We are requesting an increase in hours from 8,334 to 
16,900 annually because we incorporated the pretesting needs for the 
2020 Census communications campaign into this request.
    Affected Public: Individuals and 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-

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sponsored surveys, or other corresponding collection authorities 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 Department of Commerce 
collections currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to [email protected] or fax to (202) 395-5806.

Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Lead, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-13280 Filed 6-23-17; 8:45 am]
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