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Management and Budget under the 

emergency processing provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). 

Although that process allowed us to 

implement the collections in a timely 

manner, information collections cleared 

under the emergency processing 

provisions of the PRA are limited to a 

6-month clearance period. This 

hampered our efforts to collect data on 

an ongoing basis as the Pandemic 

continued throughout 2020 and beyond. 

We believe that a generic clearance will 

benefit the Census Bureau, the reporting 

public, and the many stakeholders who 

will have great need for information 

during times of future unanticipated 

events. 

Procedurally, the generic clearance 

will operate in the following manner: 

The Census Bureau will first obtain 

OMB clearance under the regular 

processing provisions of the PRA for the 

initial generic clearance. The clearance 

request will define the scope and overall 

burden of information collections to be 

conducted under the generic clearance. 

As future triggering emergencies arise, 

the Census Bureau will submit quick 

turnaround requests to OMB which will 

document the circumstances requiring 

the EEIC and will include the specific 

question(s) to be asked. The questions 

will be chosen from a pretested bank of 

questions. The question bank will be 

submitted to OMB for approval along 

with the initial generic clearance 

request. The Census Bureau will ask 

that OMB review and act on requests for 

individual EEIC’s within 72 hours. 

Information collections conducted 

under the generic clearance will last a 

maximum of 6 months. A new quick 

turnaround request may be submitted 

under the generic clearance if the 

Census Bureau determines the need to 

continue the collection past 6 months. 

Events that could trigger the need for 

an EEIC may have global, national, or 

regional impact and may include: 

—Pandemic or other health emergency 

—Natural or manmade disaster 

—New legislation 

—Economic crisis 

As mentioned above, the Census 

Bureau is developing and cognitively 

testing a question bank it will utilize to 

create EEICs. The question bank may, 

for some subjects, include specific 

questionnaire content. In other cases, 

the bank may include topics which will 

then be addressed with questions 

developed to meet data needs that arise 

during a future unknown event. 

As data collections will be tailored to 

the emergency, users of the data may 

vary, but may include: Federal, state, or 

local officials charged with decisionmaking during the emergency; business 

leaders and policymakers wishing to 

develop plans to ameliorate the effects 

of the emergency; academics and 

members of the press wishing to study 

and disseminate information about the 

emergency; and the public. The data 

collected would help us understand 

how and why data we collect in our 

ongoing surveys may be affected by the 

emergency, as well as allow us to 

disseminate data as part of existing 

releases, new releases, or experimental 

releases. 

II. Method of Collection 

EEIC questions may be included as 

supplemental questions on existing 

Census Bureau surveys or conducted as 

new surveys. The data will be collected 

by paper or electronic instruments, 

depending on the survey or program. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0607–XXXX. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Review: Regular submission, 

Regular Submission, New Information 

Collection Request. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations; Not-for-profit 

institutions; State, Local, or Tribal 

government. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

300,000. 

Estimated Time per Response: 10 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 50,000. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: $0 (This is not the cost of 

respondents’ time, but the indirect costs 

respondents may incur for such things 

as purchases of specialized software or 

hardware needed to report, or 

expenditures for accounting or records 

maintenance services required 

specifically by the collection.) 

Respondent’s Obligation: EEIC 

questions appearing on a voluntary 

collection would be voluntary. EEIC 

questions appearing on a mandatory 

collection would be mandatory. When 

an EEIC is conducted as a new survey, 

that survey will be voluntary. 

Legal Authority: EEIC collections are 

authorized under Title 13 U.S.C., 

Sections 131, 161, 182, and 196. 

IV. Request for Comments 

We are soliciting public comments to 

permit the Department/Bureau to: (a) 

Evaluate whether the proposed 

information collection is necessary for 

the proper functions of the Department, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the 

accuracy of our estimate of the time and 

cost burden for this proposed collection, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

Evaluate ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (d) Minimize the 

reporting burden on those who are to 

respond, including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. We will include, or 

summarize, each comment in our 

request to OMB to approve this ICR. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you may ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Chief Information Officer, Commerce 

Department. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–07–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Census Bureau 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; National Survey of Children’s 

Health 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit the following information 

collection request to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and clearance in accordance 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995, on or after the date of publication 

of this notice. We invite the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

comment on proposed, and continuing 

information collections, which helps us 

assess the impact of our information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. Public 

comments were previously requested 

via the Federal Register on November 

10, 2020 during a 60-day comment 

period. This notice allows for an 

additional 30 days for public comments. 

Agency: U.S. Census Bureau. 

Title: National Survey of Children’s 

Health. 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0990 


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Form Number(s): NSCH–S1 (English 

Screener), NSCH–T1 (English Topical 

for 0- to 5-year-old children), NSCH–T2 

(English Topical for 6- to 11-year-old 

children), NSCH–T3 (English Topical 

for 12- to 17-year-old children), NSCH– 

S–S1 (Spanish Screener), NSCH–S–T1 

(Spanish Topical for 0- to 5-year-old 

children), NSCH–S–T2 (Spanish Topical 

for 6- to 11-year-old children), and 

NSCH–S–T3 (Spanish Topical for 12- to 

17-year-old children). 

Type of Request: Regular submission, 

Request for a Revision of a Currently 

Approved Collection. 

Number of Respondents: 64,160 for 

the screener only and 50,658 for the 

combined screener and topical, for a 

total of 114,818 respondents. 

Average Hours per Response: 5 

minutes per screener response and 35– 

36 minutes per topical response, which 

in total is approximately 40–41 minutes 

for households with eligible children. 

Burden Hours: 39,400. 

Needs and Uses: The National Survey 

of Children’s Health (NSCH) enables the 

Maternal and Child Health Bureau 

(MCHB) of the Health Resources and 

Services Administration (HRSA) of the 

U.S. Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS) along with supplemental 

sponsoring agencies, states, and other 

data users to produce national and statebased estimates on the health and wellbeing of children, their families, and 

their communities as well as estimates 

of the prevalence and impact of children 

with special health care needs. 

Data will be collected using one of 

two modes. The first mode is a web 

instrument (Centurion) survey that 

contains the screener and topical 

instruments. The web instrument first 

will take the respondent through the 

screener questions. If the household 

screens into the study, the respondent 

will be taken directly into one of the 

three age-based topical sets of questions. 

The second mode is a mailout/mailback 

of a self-administered paper-and-pencil 

interviewing (PAPI) screener instrument 

followed by a separate mailout/mailback 

of a PAPI age-based topical instrument. 

The National Survey of Children’s 

Health (NSCH) is a large-scale (sample 

size is up to 300,000 addresses) national 

survey with up to 186,000 addresses 

included in the base production survey 

and approximately 114,000 addresses 

included as part of eight separate agebased, state-based, or region-based 

oversamples. The 2021 NSCH will 

include a topical incentive test. Prior 

cycles of the survey have included a $5 

unconditional cash incentive with the 

initial mailing of the paper topical 

questionnaire. The incentive has proven 

to be a cost-effective intervention for 

increasing survey response and 

reducing nonresponse bias. The 2021 

NSCH will test a $10 cash incentive, 

with a focus on lower responding 

households. 

As in prior cycles of the NSCH, there 

remain two key, non-experimental 

design elements. The first additional 

non-experimental design element is a $5 

screener cash incentive mailed to 90% 

of sampled addresses; the remaining 

10% (the control) will receive no 

incentive to monitor the effectiveness of 

the cash incentive. This incentive is 

designed to increase response and 

reduce nonresponse bias. The incentive 

amount was chosen based on the results 

of the 2020 NSCH as well as funding 

availability. The second additional nonexperimental design element is a data 

collection procedure based on the block 

group-level paper-only response 

probability used to identify households 

(30% of the sample) that would be more 

likely to respond by paper and send 

them a paper questionnaire in either the 

initial mailing or first nonresponse 

follow-up. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households. 

Frequency: The 2021 collection is the 

sixth administration of the NSCH. It is 

an annual survey, with a new sample 

drawn for each administration. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: Census Authority: 13 

U.S.C. Section 8(b). 

HRSA MCHB Authority: Title 42 

U.S.C. Section 701(a)(2). 

United States Department of 

Agriculture Authority: The Healthy, 

Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, Public 

Law 111–296. In particular, 42 U.S.C. 

1769d(a) authorizes USDA to conduct 

research on the causes and 

consequences of childhood hunger 

included in 1769d(a)(4)(B), the 

geographic dispersion of childhood 

hunger and food insecurity. 

United States Department of Health 

and Human Services’ Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention, 

National Center on Birth Defects and 

Developmental Disabilities Authority: 

Public Health Service Act, Section 301, 

42 U.S.C. 241. 

United States Department of Health 

and Human Services’ Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention, 

National Center for Chronic Disease 

Prevention and Health Promotion 

Authority: Sections 301(a), 307, and 

399G of the Public Health Service [42 

U.S.C. 241(a), 242l, and 280e-11], as 

amended. 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. 

Follow the instructions to view the 

Department of Commerce collections 

currently under review by OMB. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be 

submitted within 30 days of the 

publication of this notice on the 

following website www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain. Find this 

particular information collection by 

selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day 

Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or 

by using the search function and 

entering either the title of the collection 

or the OMB Control Number 0607–0990. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Chief Information Officer, Commerce 

Department. 

[FR Doc. 2021–02493 Filed 2–5–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–07–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Bureau of the Census 

Census Scientific Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, 

Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public virtual meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of the Census 

(Census Bureau) is giving notice of a 

virtual meeting of the Census Scientific 

Advisory Committee (CSAC). The 

Committee will address policy, 

research, and technical issues relating to 

a full range of Census Bureau programs 

and activities, including decennial, 

economic, field operations, information 

technology, and statistics. Last minute 

changes to the schedule are possible, 

which could prevent giving advance 

public notice of schedule adjustments. 

Please visit the Census Advisory 

Committees website at http://

www.census.gov/cac for the CSAC 

meeting information, including the 

agenda, and how to join the meeting. 

DATES: The virtual meeting will be held 

on: 

• Thursday, March 18, 2021, from 11:00 

a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EDT, and 

• Friday, March 19, 2021, from 11:00 

a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EDT 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held 

via the WebEx platform at the following 

presentation links: 

• March 18, 2021: https://

uscensus.webex.com/uscensus/ 

onstage/g.php?MTID=ee154a100916c

6d1a7e86cbb55d5762ac 

• March 19, 2021: https://

uscensus.webex.com/uscensus/ 

onstage/g.php?MTID=e8cb3b9b59b

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