96-31260. Submission For OMB Review; Comment Request

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 238 (Tuesday, December 10, 1996)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission For OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce (DOC) 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: Survey of Residential Alterations and Repairs.
    Form Number(s): SORAR-705.
    Agency Approval Number: 0607-0130.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Burden: 2,000 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 2,000.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 15 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau conducts the Quarterly Survey of 
Residential Alterations and Repairs to collect information on real-
property improvements and repairs from a sample of owners or designated 
representatives of rental or vacant residential housing units. We mail 
this survey quarterly to respondents over a one-year period. We use 
data gathered in this survey as a component to our published estimates 
of expenditures for residential upkeep and improvement. Data on 
improvements and repairs to owner occupied housing units are gathered 
in the Consumer Expenditures Survey and are also incorporated into 
published estimates. Estimates are used by a variety of private 
businesses and trade associations for marketing studies, economic 
forecasts, and assessments of the construction industry. They also 
provide all levels of government with a tool to evaluate economic 
policy and measure progress towards established goals. For example, the 
Bureau of Economic Analysis uses the improvement statistics to develop 
the structures component of gross private domestic investment in the 
national income and product accounts.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households, Businesses or other 
for-profit, State, local or tribal government.
    Frequency: Quarterly.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Title 13 USC, Section 182.
    OMB Desk Officer: Jerry Coffey, [phone].
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Linda Engelmeier, Acting DOC Forms Clearance 
Officer, [phone], Department of Commerce, room 5312, 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 Jerry Coffey, OMB Desk Officer, room 10201, New Executive Office 
Building, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: December 2, 1996.
Linda Engelmeier,
Acting Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of Management and 
Organization.
[FR Doc. 96-31260 Filed 12-09-96; 8:45 am]
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