[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 63 (Thursday, April 2, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16246-16247]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-8679]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
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: MAF and TIGER Update Activities.
Form Number(s): Will vary by activity.
Agency Approval Number: 0607-0809.
Type of Request: Revision of an existing collection.
Burden: 146,662 hours.
Number of Respondents: 5,357,993.
Avg Hours Per Response: About 1.64 minutes.
Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau requests approval from the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for an extension of the generic
clearance for a number of activities it plans to conduct to create and
update its Master Address File (MAF) and maintain the linkage between
the MAF and the Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and
Referencing (TIGER) data base of address ranges and associated
geographic information. The Census Bureau plans to use the MAF for
mailing and delivering questionnaires to households for Census 2000 and
as a sampling frame for the American Community Survey and our other
demographic current surveys. In the past, the Census Bureau has built a
new address list for each decennial census. The MAF we are building
during Census 2000 is meant to be kept current thereafter, eliminating
the need to build a completely new address list for future censuses and
surveys. The TIGER is a geographic system that maps the entire country
in Census Blocks with applicable address range or living quarter
location information. Linking MAF and TIGER allows us to assign each
address to the appropriate Census Block, produce maps as needed and
publish results at the appropriate level of geographic detail.
The generic clearance for the past three years has proved to be
very beneficial to the Census Bureau. The generic clearance has allowed
us to focus our limited resources on actual operational planning and
development of procedures. This extension will be especially beneficial
over the upcoming three years by allowing us to focus on the huge
amount of other work involved in making Census 2000 happen.
The activities to be conducted are: Address Listing, Block
Canvassing, Field Verification For Local Update of Census Addresses,
Update/ Leave, Urban Update/Leave, List/Enumerate, Master Address File
Quality Improvement Program, and Master Address File Update for Otero
County, New Mexico.
Under the terms of this extension to the generic clearance, we will
not submit a separate clearance package for each updating activity. We
will send a letter to OMB at least five days before the planned start
of each activity that gives more exact details, examples of forms, and
final estimates of respondent burden. We will also file a year-end
summary with OMB after the close of each fiscal year giving results of
each activity conducted.
The total respondent burden associated with this clearance is
increasing considerably. This increase is an expected result of the
normal decennial census cycle. The current clearance covered only some
small test activities plus some early Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal
activities. This request will cover the bulk of the Dress Rehearsal
activities plus all of the Census 2000 MAF and TIGER update activities.
Our intention when the generic clearance was established was to
maintain it throughout the decennial and beyond to support the stated
objective of ``updat[ing] the MAF and TIGER data base on a regular
basis so they will be available for use in conducting the 2000
decennial census* * *''
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Affected Public: Individuals or households.
Frequency: One-time.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13 USC, Sections 141 and 193.
OMB Desk Officer: Nancy Kirkendall, (202) 395-7313.
Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained
by calling or writing Linda Engelmeier, DOC Forms Clearance Officer,
(202) 482-3272, 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: March 27, 1998.
Linda Engelmeier,
Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of Management and
Organization.
[FR Doc. 98-8679 Filed 4-1-98; 8:45 am]
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