98-29107. Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 210 (Friday, October 30, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58363-58364]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-29107]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce has submitted 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 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).
    Agency: Bureau of the Census.
    Title: Annual Survey of Government Employment.
    Form Number(s): E-1, E-2, E-3, E-4, E-6, E-7, E-9.
    OMB Approval Number: 0607-0452.
    Type of Request: Reinstatement, without change.
    Burden: 21,437 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 20,244.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 1 hour and 4 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau conducts the Annual Survey of 
Government Employment every year in March to collect data on the 
employment, payrolls, and hours worked by part-time employees of state 
and local governments for one pay period. Data are collected from all 
agencies, departments, and institutions of the fifty state governments 
and from a sample of all local governments (counties, cities, 
townships, school districts, and special districts).
    Data collection is primarily accomplished through the use of mail 
canvass questionnaires that are tailored to the type of government, 
agency of institution being surveyed. Special data reporting 
arrangements exists with many state governments and some local 
governments to facilitate data reporting in ways that help minimize 
reporting burden.
    Results from this survey are used directly in a variety of Federal 
programs: By the Bureau of Economic Analysis to develop the public 
sector components of the National Income and Product Accounts and to 
develop personal income statistics; by the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development for the allocation of

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operating subsidies to local housing authorities; and by the Bureau of 
Labor Statistics to benchmark the government component in their monthly 
employment and earnings statistics program. Other users include state 
and local government executives and legislators, policy makers, 
economists, researchers, and the general public.
    We are requesting that the survey be reinstated, with change after 
a brief lapse in clearance. The current OMB cleared expired September 
30, 1998. Since the collection will not be conducted again until March 
1999, this will not present a problem.
    Affected Public: State, local, or tribal government, Federal 
government.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Title 13 USC, Section 161.
    OMB Desk Officer: Nancy Kirkendall, [phone].
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Linda Engelmeier, DOC Forms Clearance Officer, 
[phone], Department of Commerce, Room 5327, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to Nancy Kirkendall, OMB Desk Officer, Room 10201, New Executive Office 
Building, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: October 21, 1998.
Linda Engelmeier,
Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer.
[FR Doc. 98-29107 Filed 10-29-98; 8:45 am]
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