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community-based organizations; (4) SNAP participants—attempted focus groups; and (5) SNAP participants— completed focus groups.

Estimated Number of Respondents: The total estimated number of respondents is 234. This includes: (1) 12 SNAP administrators; (2) 30 SNAP caseworkers; (3) 12 directors of community-based organizations; (4) 180 SNAP participants recruited (120 SNAP participants—attempted focus groups; and (5) 60 SNAP participants— completed focus groups.)

Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: Each respondent will be asked to participate in one interview, telephone call, or focus group.

Estimated Total Annual Responses:
234.

Estimated Time per Response: 38.5 minutes (0.64 hours). The estimated time of response varies from 3 minutes to 60 minutes depending on the respondent group, as shown in the table below.

Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 7,380 minutes (123 hours). See the table below for estimated total annual burden for each type of respondent.



### R EPORTING 

### B URDEN

(a) Affected public Respondent type (b) Survey instruments (c) Number respondents (d) Frequency of response (e) Est. total annual responses

per respondent

(c × d) (f) Hours per response (g) Total burden hours (e × f)

State, Local and Tribal Agencies. SNAP Administrators interview .................... 12 .00 1.00 12 .00 1 .00 12 .00

SNAP Caseworkers .. interview .................... 30.00 1.00 30 .00 1 .00 30 .00

Subtotal .............. ................................... ................................... 42 .00 1.00 42 .................... 42 .00

Individuals & Households. SNAP Participants .... Recruited—Declined 120 .00 1.00 120 .00 0 .05 6 .00

................................... Recruited—Accepted 60 1.00 60 0 .05 3 .00 ................................... Focus Group ............. 60.00 1.00 60 .00 1 60

Subtotal .............. ................................... ................................... 180 .00 1.00 180 .00 — 69 .00

Business (not-forprofit). Directors of community-based organizations. interview .................... 12 .00 1.00 12 .00 1 .00 12.00

Grand Total ........ ................................... ................................... 234 .00 .................... 234 .00 .................... 123 .00

December 15, 2011. Audrey Rowe, Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service.
[FR Doc. 2011–32799 Filed 12–21–11; 8:45 am]

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**COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS**

**Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting of the Arizona Advisory Committee** 

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the provisions of the rules and regulations of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (Commission), and the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), that two meetings of the Arizona Advisory Committee (Committee) to the Commission will be held on Wednesday, January 4, 2012, at the Harmon Library, 1325 S. 5th Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85003. The first meeting is administrative in purpose and will convene at 1 p.m. and adjourn at approximately 2 p.m.; the purpose of the administrative meeting is for members of the newly chartered Committee to receive orientation and ethics training. The second meeting is planning in purpose and will convene at 2 p.m. and adjourn at approximately 3:30 p.m.; the purpose of the planning meeting is for the Committee to plan future Committee activity.

Members of the public are entitled to submit written comments. The comments must be received in the Western Regional Office by February 5, 2012. The mailing address is Western Regional Office, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 300 N. Los Angeles St., Suite 2010, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Persons wishing to email their comments may do so to atrevino@usccr.gov. Persons that desire additional information should contact Angelica Trevino, Administrative Assistant, Western Regional Office, at (213) 894–3437.

Hearing-impaired persons who will attend the meeting and require the services of a sign language interpreter should contact the Regional Office at least ten (10) working days before the scheduled date of the meeting.

Records generated from this meeting may be inspected and reproduced at the Western Regional Office, as they become available, both before and after the meeting. Persons interested in the work of this advisory committee are advised to go to the Commission’s Web site,
www.usccr.gov, or to contact the Western Regional Office at the above email or street address.

The meeting will be conducted pursuant to the provisions of the rules and regulations of the Commission and FACA.

Dated in Washington, DC, December 19,
2011. Peter Minarik, Acting Chief, Regional Programs Coordination Unit.
[FR Doc. 2011–32797 Filed 12–21–11; 8:45 am]

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**Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting of the Louisiana Advisory Committee** 

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the provisions of the rules and regulations of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (Commission), and the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), that a planning meeting of the


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Louisiana Advisory Committee (Committee) to the Commission will convene in Baton Rouge at Louisiana State University, Student Union Room 303, Raphael Semmes Road (corner of Raphael Semmes Road and Highland) at 2 p.m. and adjourn at approximately 5 p.m. on Thursday, January 26, 2012. The purpose of this meeting is to continue planning the Committee’s civil rights project. The Committee has invited Mr. Carle Jackson of the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement to provide preliminary information concerning potential racial disparities in the high incarceration of African-Americans in state operated prisons.

This meeting is available to the public through the following call-in number: (225) 578–4958, conference call access code number. Any interested member of the public may call this number and listen to the meeting. Callers can expect to incur charges for calls they initiate over wireless lines, and the Commission will not refund any incurred charges. Callers will incur no charge for calls they initiate over land-line connections to the toll-free telephone number. Persons with hearing impairments may also follow the proceedings by first calling the Federal Relay Service at 1- (800) 977–8339 and providing the Service with the conference call number and contact name Farella E. Robinson.

To ensure that the Commission secures an appropriate number of lines for the public, persons are asked to register by contacting Corrine Sanders of the Central Regional Office and TTY/ TDD telephone number, by 4 p.m. on January 19, 2012.

Members of the public are entitled to submit written comments. The comments must be received in the regional office by February 7, 2012. The address is U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 400 State Avenue, Suite 908, Kansas City, Kansas 66101. Comments may be emailed to frobinson@usccr.gov. Records generated by this meeting may be inspected and reproduced at the Central Regional Office, as they become available, both before and after the meeting. Persons interested in the work of this advisory committee are advised to go to the Commission’s Web site,

www.usccr.gov, or to contact the Central Regional Office at the above email or street address.

The meeting will be conducted pursuant to the provisions of the rules and regulations of the Commission and FACA. Dated in Washington, DC, December 19,
2011. Peter Minarik, Acting Chief, Regional Programs Coordination Unit.
[FR Doc. 2011–32800 Filed 12–21–11; 8:45 am]

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**DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE**

**U.S. Census Bureau**

**Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Survey of Income**  **and Program Participation (SIPP) Wave 13 of the 2008 Panel** 

**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 February 21, 2012.

**ADDRESSES :**  Direct all written comments to Diana Hynek, Departmental Paperwork Clearance Officer, Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 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 Patrick J. Benton, Census Bureau, Room HQ–6H045, Washington, DC 20233–8400, (301) 763–4618.

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION :** 
I. Abstract

The Census Bureau conducts the SIPP, which is a household-based survey designed as a continuous series of national panels. New panels are introduced every few years with each panel having durations of one to six years. Respondents are interviewed at 4- month intervals or ‘‘waves’’ over the life of the panel. The survey is molded around a central ‘‘core’’ of labor force and income questions that remain fixed throughout the life of the panel. The core is supplemented with questions designed to address specific needs, such as obtaining information on household members’ participation in government programs as well as prior labor force patterns of household members. These supplemental questions are included with the core and are referred to as ‘‘topical modules.’’

The SIPP represents a source of information for a wide variety of topics and allows information for separate topics to be integrated to form a single, unified database so that the interaction between tax, transfer, and other government and private policies can be examined. Government domestic-policy formulators depend heavily upon the SIPP information concerning the distribution of income received directly as money or indirectly as in-kind benefits and the effect of tax and transfer programs on this distribution. They also need improved and expanded data on the income and general economic and financial situation of the U.S. population, which the SIPP has provided on a continuing basis since 1983. The SIPP has measured levels of economic well-being and permitted changes in these levels to be measured over time.

The 2008 panel is currently scheduled for approximately 6 years and will include 16 waves of interviewing beginning in September 2008. Approximately 65,300 households were selected for the 2008 panel, of which 45,000 households were interviewed. We estimate that each household contains 2.1 people, age 15 years or older, yielding approximately 94,500 person-level interviews in Wave 1 and subsequent waves. Interviews take 30 minutes on average. Three waves will occur in the 2008 SIPP Panel during FY 2012. The total annual burden for 2008 Panel SIPP interviews would be 141,750 hours in FY 2012.

The topical module for the 2008 Panel Wave 13 collects information about Educational Certificates and Industry Recognized Certifications. Wave 13 interviews will be conducted from September 1, 2012 through December 31, 2012.

A 10-minute re-interview of 3,100 people is conducted at each wave to ensure the accuracy of responses. Reinterviews require an additional 1,553 burden hours in FY 2012.

II. Method of Collection

The SIPP is designed as a continuing series of national panels of interviewed households that are introduced every few years with each panel having durations of one to six years. All household members 15 years old or overare interviewed using regular proxyrespondent rules. During the 2008 panel, respondents are interviewed a total of 16 times or 16 waves at 4-month