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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. 

REPORTING BURDEN

(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 over 

are interviewed using regular proxyrespondent rules. During the 2008 

panel, respondents are interviewed a 

total of 16 times or 16 waves at 4-month 


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