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women, and others also use the detailed 

geographic data to monitor growth and 

plan for local services and to develop 

production and marketing plans. The 

Building Permits Survey is the only 

source of statistics on residential 

construction for States and smaller 

geographic areas. Building permits are 

public records so the information is not 

subject to disclosure restrictions. 

II. Method of Collection 

The Census Bureau collects this 

information by mail; respondents return 

forms by mail or fax. Some respondents 

send electronic files or printouts of 

permit information in lieu of completing 

the form. We are currently developing a 

system to provide an option for Webbased reporting which is scheduled to 

be operational in 2010. 

The survey universe is comprised of 

approximately 19,375 local governments 

that issue building permits. Monthly, 

we collect this information by mail for 

about 8,200 permit-issuing jurisdictions 

and via electronic files or printouts of 

permits for about 625 jurisdictions. 

Annually, we collect this information by 

mail for the remaining 10,550 

jurisdictions. 

III. Data 

OMB Number: 0607–0094. 

Form Number: C–404. 

Type of Review: Regular submission. 

Affected Public: State and Local 

Governments. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

19,375. 

Estimated Time per Response: 8 

minutes for monthly respondents who 

report by mailing or faxing the form, 3 

minutes for monthly respondents who 

send electronic files or printouts, and 23 

minutes for annual respondents who 

report by mailing or faxing the form. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 17,539. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: 

$420,745. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: Title 13, United States 

Code, Section 182. 

IV. Request for Comments 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden 

(including hours and cost) of the 

proposed collection of information; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of this information collection; 

they also will become a matter of public 

record. 

Dated: September 24, 2009. 

Glenna Mickelson, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–23530 Filed 9–29–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–09–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

U.S. Census Bureau 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request; Annual Survey of 

Manufactures Management and 

Organizational Practices Module 

AGENCY: U.S. Census Bureau. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, invites the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

take this opportunity to comment on 

proposed and/or continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A)). 

DATES: To ensure consideration, written 

comments must be submitted on or 

before November 30, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Diana Hynek, Departmental 

Paperwork Clearance Officer, 

Department of Commerce, Room 7845, 

14th and Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20230 (or via the 

Internet at dHynek@doc.gov). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument(s) and instructions should 

be directed to Mendel D. Gayle, Census 

Bureau, 4600 Silver Hill Rd., Rm 7K055, 

Washington, DC 20233, (301) 763–4587 

or via the Internet at 

mendel.d.gayle@census.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The Census Bureau plans to conduct 

the Annual Survey of Manufactures 

(ASM) Management and Organizational 

Practices Module for survey year 2010 

with subsequent data collection 

activities for this survey pending 

funding. The Census Bureau has 

conducted the Annual Survey of 

Manufactures (ASM) since 1949 to 

provide key measures of manufacturing 

activity during intercensal periods. In 

census years ending in ‘‘2’’ and ‘‘7’’, we 

mail and collect the ASM as part of the 

Economic Census covering the 

Manufacturing Sector. This survey is an 

integral part of the Government’s 

statistical program. The ASM furnishes 

up-to-date estimates of employment and 

payroll, hours and wages of production 

workers, value added by manufacture, 

cost of materials, value of shipments by 

product class, inventories, and 

expenditures for both plant and 

equipment and structures. This survey 

module would utilize the ASM survey 

panel collecting information on 

management and organizational 

practices at the establishment level. The 

data obtained from the module will 

allow us to estimate a firm’s stock of 

management and organizational assets, 

specifically the use of decentralized 

decision rights and greater investments 

in human capital. The results will 

provide information on investments in 

organizational practices thus gain a 

better understanding of the benefits 

from these investments when measured 

in terms of firm productivity or firm 

market value. 

A manufacturing sector establishment 

based survey on management and 

organizational practices would provide 

information on the dimensions of 

organizational capital for this sector not 

currently available. This ASM clearance 

request will be for the year 2010. 

II. Method of Collection 

The ASM Management and 

Organizational Practices Module will be 

mailed separately from the ASM and 

utilize mail out/mail back survey forms. 

The mail portion will be comprised of 

a probability sample of approximately 

50,000 manufacturing establishments 

from a frame of approximately 225,000 

establishments. These 225,000 

establishments were all manufacturing 

establishments of multiunit companies 

(companies with operations at more 

than one location) and all singlelocation manufacturing companies that 

were mailed in the 2007 Census of 

Manufacturing. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: None. 

Form Number: MA–10002. 

Type of Review: Regular submission. 

Affected Public: Business or Other for 

Profit, Non-profit Institutions, Small 

Businesses or Organizations, and State 

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Estimated Number of Respondents: 

50,000. 

Estimated Time per Response: 30 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 25,000. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: The 

estimated cost to the respondents is 

$643,000. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

Legal Authority: Title 13, United 

States Code, sections 182, 224, and 225. 

IV. Request for Comments 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden 

(including hours and cost) of the 

proposed collection of information; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of this information collection; 

they also will become a matter of public 

record. 

Dated: September 24, 2009. 

Glenna Mickelson, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–23531 Filed 9–29–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–09–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

U.S. Census Bureau 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request; Government 

Employment Forms 

AGENCY: U.S. Census Bureau. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, invites the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

take this opportunity to comment on 

proposed and/or continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A)). 

DATES: To ensure consideration written 

comments must be submitted on or 

before November 30, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Diana Hynek, Departmental 

Paperwork Clearance Officer, 

Department of Commerce, Room 7845, 

14th and Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20230 (or via the 

Internet at DHynek@doc.gov). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument(s) and instructions should 

be directed to Ellen Thompson, Chief, 

Employment Branch, Governments 

Division, U.S. Census Bureau, 

Washington, DC 20233–6800 (301–763– 

1531) (or via the Internet at 

ellen.ann.thompson@census.gov). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The Census Bureau plans to request 

clearance for the forms necessary to 

conduct the public employment 

program which consists of an annual 

collection of information and a 

quinquennial collection in a census 

environment in years ending in ‘‘2’’ or 

‘‘7’’. During the upcoming three years, 

we intend to conduct the 2010 and 2011 

Annual Survey of Government 

Employment and the 2012 Census of 

Governments—Employment phase. 

Under Title 13, section 161 & 182, of 

the United States Code, the Secretary of 

Commerce is authorized to conduct the 

public employment program, which 

collects and disseminates data by 

function for full-time and part-time 

employees, payroll, and number of parttime hours worked. The number and 

content of the data items collected are 

the same in the annual and census 

cycles. 

The burden hours we will request are 

based on the expected 2010 annual 

survey mail out of 16,956 forms. 

The State and local government 

statistics produced cover national, State, 

and local aggregates on various 

functions with comparative detail for 

individual governments for the pay 

period that includes March 12. The 

public employment program provides 

the only comprehensive count of 

employees and payrolls in State and 

local governments. Government 

employees constitute approximately 

one-sixth of the entire U.S. workforce 

and their salaries are a major source of 

personal income. 

The Census Bureau provides this 

employment data to the Bureau of 

Economic Analysis for constructing the 

functional payrolls in the public sector 

Gross Domestic Product, payroll being 

the single largest component of current 

operations. Other government users 

include the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 

as a benchmark for its monthly 

employment programs, and the 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, to establish payroll 

guidelines for local public housing 

authorities. 

The public employment program has 

increasingly been used as the base for 

reimbursable programs of other Federal 

agencies such as: (1) The government 

portion of the Medical Expenditure 

Panel Survey commissioned by the 

Agency for Healthcare Research and 

Quality to provide timely, 

comprehensive information about 

health care use and costs in the United 

States, and (2) The Bureau of Justice 

Statistics (BJS) survey Criminal Justice 

Expenditure and Employment Survey 

which provides criminal justice 

expenditure and employment data on 

spending and personnel levels. 

Statistics are produced as data files in 

both electronic and printed formats. The 

program has made possible the 

dissemination of comprehensive and 

comparable governmental statistics 

since 1940. 

The many users of the public 

employment program data include 

Federal agencies, State and local 

governments and related organizations, 

public interest groups, and many 

business, market, and private research 

organizations. 

II. Method of Collection 

Approximately 16,956 State agencies, 

county governments, consolidated citycounty governments, independent 

cities, towns, townships, special district 

governments, and public school systems 

designated for the annual survey will be 

sent an appropriate form or the data will 

be collected through a data sharing 

arrangement between the Census Bureau 

and the State government. 

We developed cooperative agreements 

with State and large local government 

officials to collect the data from their 

dependent agencies and report to us as 

one central respondent. These 

arrangements eliminate the need for a 

mail canvass of approximately 3,464 

State agencies and 129 school systems. 

The agreements reduce burden by 

greatly reducing the number of people 

who have to look at a form and 

complete, and by pulling data from an 

already centralized source instead of 

from multiple sources. Currently we 

have central collection agreements with 

45 states, four local school district 

governments, and ten local 

governments. We continue to work at 

expanding the conversion of paper 


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