[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 101 (Thursday, May 24, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24083-24084]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-11100]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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: School District Review Program.
OMB Control Number: 0607-0987.
Form Number(s): NA.
Type of Request: Regular submission.
Number of Respondents: 51.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
Annotation Phase: 51.
Verification Phase: 51.
Estimated Time per Response:
Annotation Phase: 30 hours.
Verification Phase: 10 hours.
Estimated Burden Hours:
Annotation Phase: 1,530 hours.
Verification Phase: 510 hours.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 2,040 hours.
Needs and Uses: The School District Review Program (SDRP) is one of
many voluntary geographic partnership programs at the U.S. Census
Bureau. The SDRP collects school district information and boundaries to
update the Census Bureau's geographic database of addresses, streets,
and boundaries on an annual basis. The Census Bureau uses its
geographic database to tie demographic data from surveys and the
decennial census to locations and areas, such as cities, school
districts, and counties. To tabulate statistics by localities, the
Census Bureau must have accurate addresses and boundaries.
The boundaries collected in SDRP and other geographic programs will
create census blocks, which are the building blocks for all Census
Bureau geographic boundaries. Legal, administrative, and statistical
geographies are all used to define block boundaries. While the
geographic programs differ in requirements, time frame, and
participants, SDRP and the other geographic programs all follow the
same basic process:
1. The Census Bureau invites eligible participants to take part in
the program. For SDRP, the Census Bureau invites the following state
officials: Title I coordinators and mapping coordinators. The Title 1
Coordinator designates the mapping coordinator for the SDRP.
2. If they elect to join the program, the state officials receive a
copy of the school district boundaries that the Census Bureau has on
file. The Census Bureau also provides SDRP participants with free
customized mapping software to facilitate their work.
3. Participants review the boundaries in the Census Bureau-provided
digital maps and update them if needed. For SDRP, the state government
participants reach out to contacts in school districts across their
state to collect updates. State officials will provide the Census
Bureau with updates as well as corrections to the federal Local
Education Agency (LEA) identification numbers, school district
boundaries, school names, grade ranges, and levels for which each
school district is financially responsible.
4. Participants return their updates to the Census Bureau. In the
SDRP, this is known as the Annotation Phase.
5. The Census Bureau updates its geographic database with boundary
updates from participants.
6. The Census Bureau creates maps from its geographic database and
sends them to participants for final review. In the SDRP, this is known
as the Verification Phase.
7. The Census Bureau uses the newly updated and verified boundaries
to tabulate statistics, in particular the Small Area Income and Poverty
Estimates (SAIPE) Program's estimates of the number of families with
children, aged 5 through 17, in poverty for each school district for
the U.S. Department of Education. The U.S. Department of Education uses
these estimates to allocate more than $14 billion in Title I funding
annually. These Census Bureau estimates are the basis of the Title I
allocation for each school district. The SDRP is of vital importance
for each state's allocation of funds under Title I of the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) as amended by Every Student Succeeds
Act of 2015, Public Law 114-95.
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) sponsors the
SDRP. The NCES identifies a Title I coordinator for each state and the
District of Columbia, and the Census Bureau works with the Title I
coordinator on identifying a mapping coordinator in each state to work
with the Census Bureau to implement this work. The mapping coordinator
collects updates from local school districts, state education
officials, county planners, and state data centers, and ensures that
submissions are completed within the SDRP's time frame.
The SDRP encompasses Type 1 and Type 2 school districts as defined
by the NCES. Type 1 is a local school district that is not a component
of a supervisory union. Type 2 is a local school district component of
a supervisory union sharing a superintendent and administrative
services with other local school districts.
The SDRP consists of two phases--the Annotation Phase and the
Verification Phase--described below:
Annotation Phase
In the Annotation Phase, mapping coordinators gather school
district updates from school district superintendents and other state
officials
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and use Census Bureau-provided materials to review and update school
district boundaries, names, codes, and geographic relationships. The
Census Bureau provides mapping coordinators with school district
listings, spatial data in Esri shapefile format, blank submission logs,
and Geographic Update Partnership Software (GUPS). The school district
listings consist of school district inventories, school names, levels,
grade ranges, and other data about school districts within their state.
If the mapping coordinator has non-spatial updates (e.g., name changes,
simple consolidations, simple dissolutions, and others), the mapping
coordinator updates the Census Bureau-provided submission log with
those changes. If a mapping coordinator needs to perform spatial
updates to a school district boundary, the mapping coordinator uses
Census Bureau-provided GUPS and spatial data to make updates. GUPS,
SDRP version, is a Census Bureau-created, user-friendly, free digital
mapping tool for mapping coordinators. It contains all the
functionality necessary for mapping coordinators to spatially make and
validate their school district updates. Once mapping coordinators have
reviewed and updated the school district information for their state,
the mapping coordinator sends it to the Census Bureau, using Secure Web
Incoming Module, a web portal for uploading SDRP submissions. The
Census Bureau will update the MAF/TIGER database with the updates sent
by the mapping coordinator.
Verification Phase
In the Verification Phase, the Census Bureau sends mapping
coordinators newly created listings and digital files, and mapping
coordinators use the SDRP verification module in GUPS to review these
files and verify that the Census Bureau correctly captured their
submitted information. The mapping coordinator can tag the area of
issue and send the information to the Census Bureau to make corrections
if the Census Bureau did not incorporate their boundary changes or
other updates correctly.
Affected Public: All fifty states and the District of Columbia.
Frequency: Annual.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C. Section 16, 141, and 193.
NCES Legal Authority: Title I, Part A of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act of
2015, Public Law (Pub. L.) 114-95.
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 Lead PRA Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2018-11100 Filed 5-23-18; 8:45 am]
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