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Vol. 75, No. 120 

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 

COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS 

Agenda and Notice of Public Meetings 

of the Massachusetts Advisory 

Committee 

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to 

the provisions of the rules and 

regulations of the U.S. Commission on 

Civil Rights and the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, that planning and 

briefing meetings of the Massachusetts 

Advisory Committee will convene from 

9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, July 20, 2010, at 

the Lawrence Main Library, 51 

Lawrence Street, Lawrence, 

Massachusetts 01841. The purpose of 

the planning and briefing meeting is to 

examine civil rights issues in Lawrence, 

MA. The purpose of the planning 

meeting is to discuss the Committee’s 

next steps. 

Members of the public are entitled to 

submit written comments; the 

comments must be received in the 

regional office by Thursday, August 19, 

2010. The address is: U.S. Commission 

on Civil Rights, Eastern Regional Office, 

624 Ninth Street, NW., Suite 740, 

Washington, DC 20425. Persons wishing 

to e-mail their comments, or who desire 

additional information should contact 

the Eastern Regional Office at 202–376– 

7533 or by e-mail to: ero@usccr.gov. 

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 

Eastern 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, 

http://www.usccr.gov, or to contact the 

Eastern Regional Office at the above email or street address. 

The meeting will be conducted 

pursuant to the rules and regulations of 

the Commission and FACA. 

Dated in Washington, DC, June 18, 2010. 

Peter Minarik, 

Acting Chief, Regional Programs 

Coordination Unit. 

[FR Doc. 2010–15171 Filed 6–22–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6335–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

U.S. Census Bureau 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request; Survey of Income 

and Program Participation (SIPP) 2011 

Re-engineered SIPP—Field Test 

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 August 23, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Diana Hynek, Departmental 

Paperwork Clearance Officer, 

Department of Commerce, Room 6625, 

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 plans to conduct 

a field test for the Re-engineered SIPP 

from January to May of 2011. The SIPP 

is a household-based survey designed as 

a continuous series of national panels. 

The SIPP is molded around a central 

‘‘core’’ of labor force and income 

questions that remain fixed throughout 

the life of the panel and then 

supplemented with questions designed 

to address specific needs. Examples of 

these types of questions include medical 

expenses, child care, retirement and 

pension plan coverage, marital history, 

and others. 

The 2011 Re-engineered SIPP 

instrument is a revision of the 2010 ReSIPP test instrument, in which 

respondents were interviewed during 

the 2010 Dress Rehearsal Re-SIPP Field 

Test. The Re-engineered SIPP will 

interview respondents in one year 

intervals, using the previous calendar 

year as the reference period. 

The content of the Re-engineered SIPP 

will match that of the 2008 Panel SIPP 

very closely. The Re-engineered SIPP 

will not contain free-standing topical 

modules. However, a portion of the 

2008 Panel topical module content will 

be integrated into the Re-engineered 

SIPP interview. The Re-engineered SIPP 

will use an Event History Calendar 

(EHC) which records dates of events and 

spells of coverage. The EHC should 

provide increased accuracy to dates 

reported by respondents. 

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. 

Approximately 4,000 households will 

be selected for the 2011 Re-engineered 

SIPP field test, of which, 3200 

households are expected to be 

interviewed. We estimate that each 

household contains 2.1 people aged 15 

and above, yielding approximately 

6,720 person-level interviews in this 

field test. Interviews take 60 minutes on 

average. The total annual burden for 

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