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Notices Federal Register

34981 

Vol. 83, No. 142 

Tuesday, July 24, 2018 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

July 19, 2018. 

The Department of Agriculture has 

submitted the following information 

collection requirement(s) to OMB for 

review and clearance under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13. Comments are 

required regarding (1) whether the 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (2) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of burden including 

the validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance 

the quality, utility and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (4) 

ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Comments regarding this information 

collection received by August 23, 2018 

will be considered. Written comments 

should be addressed to: Desk Officer for 

Agriculture, Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB), New 

Executive Office Building, 725 17th 

Street NW, Washington, DC 20502. 

Commenters are encouraged to submit 

their comments to OMB via email to: 

OIRA_Submission@OMB.EOP.GOV or 

fax (202) 395–5806 and to Departmental 

Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail 

Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250– 

7602. Copies of the submission(s) may 

be obtained by calling (202) 720–8958. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor a collection of information 

unless the collection of information 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number and the agency informs 

potential persons who are to respond to 

the collection of information that such 

persons are not required to respond to 

the collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

Farm Service Agency 

Title: Assignments of Payments and 

Joint Payment Authorizations. 

OMB Control Number: 0560–0183. 

Summary of Collection: The Soil 

Conservation and Domestic Allotment 

Act (16 U.S.C. 590h(g)) authorizes 

producers to assign, in writing, Farm 

Service Agency (FSA) conservation 

program payments. The statute requires 

that any such assignment be signed and 

witnessed. The Agricultural Act of 1949, 

as amended, extends that authority to 

Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) 

programs, including rice, feed grains, 

cotton, and wheat. When the recipient 

of an FSA, NRCS, or CCC payment 

chooses to assign a payment to another 

party or have the payment made jointly 

with another party, the other party must 

be identified. All federal nontax 

payments must be made by EFT, unless 

a waiver applies which requires certain 

criteria to be granted. FSA will collect 

information using forms CCC–36, CCC 

37, CCC–251, CCC–252 and CCC–40. 

Need and Use of the Information: The 

information collected on the forms will 

be used by FSA and NRCS employees in 

order to record the payment or contract 

being assigned, the amount of the 

assignment, the date of the assignment, 

and the name and address of the 

assignee and the assignor. This is to 

enable FSA employee to pay the proper 

party when payments become due. FSA 

will also use the information to issue 

program payments jointly at the request 

of the producer and also terminate joint 

payments at the request of both the 

producer and joint payee. 

Description of Respondent: 

Individuals or households. 

Number of Respondents: 126,542. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting; 

On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 21,083. 

Ruth Brown, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2018–15797 Filed 7–23–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–05–P 

COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS 

Notice of Public Meeting of the 

Montana Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: U.S. Commission on Civil 

Rights. 

ACTION: Announcement of meeting. 

SUMMARY: 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 meeting of the Montana 

Advisory Committee (Committee) to the 

Commission will be held at 3:00 p.m. 

(Mountain Time) Thursday, July 26, 

2018. The purpose of the meeting is for 

the Committee to discuss the draft of the 

Bordertown Discrimination Report. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 3:00 p.m. 

MT. 

Public Call Information: 

Dial: 800–231–9012 

Conference ID: 7840110. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Barreras at dbarreras@usccr.gov 

or (312) 353–8311. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

meeting is available to the public 

through the following toll-free call-in 

number: 800–231–9012, conference ID 

number: 7840110. 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 landline connections to the toll-free 

telephone number. Persons with hearing 

impairments may also follow the 

proceedings by first calling the Federal 

Relay Service at 1–800–877–8339 and 

providing the Service with the 

conference call number and conference 

ID number. 

Members of the public are entitled to 

make comments during the open period 

at the end of the meeting. Members of 

the public may also submit written 

comments; the comments must be 

received in the Regional Programs Unit 

within 30 days following the meeting. 

Written comments may be mailed to the 

Western Regional Office, U.S. 

Commission on Civil Rights, 300 North 

Los Angeles Street, Suite 2010, Los 

Angeles, CA 90012. They may be faxed 


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to the Commission at (213) 894–0508, or 

emailed Angelica Trevino at atrevino@

usccr.gov. Persons who desire 

additional information may contact the 

Regional Programs Unit at (213) 894– 

3437. 

Records and documents discussed 

during the meeting will be available for 

public viewing prior to and after the 

meeting at https://facadatabase.gov/ 

committee/meetings.aspx?cid=259. 

Please click on the ‘‘Meeting Details’’ 

and ‘‘Documents’’ links. Records 

generated from this meeting may also be 

inspected and reproduced at the 

Regional Programs Unit, as they become 

available, both before and after the 

meeting. Persons interested in the work 

of this Committee are directed to the 

Commission’s website, https://

www.usccr.gov, or may contact the 

Regional Programs Unit at the above 

email or street address. 

Agenda 

I. Welcome and Rollcall 

II. Discussion 

III. Next Steps 

IV. Public Comment 

V. Adjournment 

Exceptional Circumstance: Pursuant 

to 41 CFR 102–3.150, the notice for this 

meeting is given less than 15 calendar 

days prior to the meeting because of the 

exceptional circumstance of staffing 

limitations that require immediate 

action. 

Dated: July 18, 2018. 

David Mussatt, 

Supervisory Chief, Regional Programs Unit. 

[FR Doc. 2018–15748 Filed 7–23–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6335–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Census Bureau 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request; Report of Building 

or Zoning Permits Issued for New 

Privately-Owned Housing Units 

(Building Permits Survey) 

AGENCY: U.S. Census Bureau, 

Commerce. 

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. 

DATES: To ensure consideration, written 

comments must be submitted on or 

before September 24, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental 

Paperwork Clearance Officer, 

Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 

14th and Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20230 (or via the 

internet at PRAcomments@doc.gov). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument(s) and instructions should 

be directed Erica Filipek, U.S. Census 

Bureau, Economic Indicators Division, 

CENHQ Room 7K057, 4600 Silver Hill 

Road, Washington, DC 20233, telephone 

(301) 763–5161 (or via the internet at 

Erica.Mary.Filipek@census.gov). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The Census Bureau plans to request a 

three-year extension of Form C–404, 

‘‘Report of Building or Zoning Permits 

Issued for New Privately-Owned 

Housing Units’’, otherwise known as the 

Building Permits Survey. The Census 

Bureau uses this survey to produce 

statistics to monitor activity in the large 

and dynamic construction industry. For 

New Residential Construction (which 

includes Housing Units Authorized by 

Building Permits, Housing Starts, and 

Housing Completions), form C–404 is 

used to collect the estimate for Housing 

Units Authorized by Building Permits. 

For New Residential Construction and 

Sales, the number of housing units 

authorized by building permits is a key 

component utilized in the estimation of 

housing units started, completed, and 

sold. 

These statistics help state and local 

governments, the Federal Government, 

and private industry, analyze the 

housing and construction industry 

sector of the economy. Building permits 

for new private housing units also are a 

component of The Conference Board’s 

Leading Economic Index. 

The Census Bureau uses Form C–404 

to collect information on changes to the 

geographic coverage of permit-issuing 

places, the number and valuation of 

new residential housing units 

authorized by building permits, and 

additional information on residential 

permits valued at $1 million or more, 

including, but not limited to, site 

address and type of building. The 

Census Bureau uses these data to 

estimate the number of housing units 

started, the number of housing units 

completed, the number of single-family 

houses sold, and to select samples for 

the Census Bureau’s demographic 

surveys. The Building Permits Survey is 

the only source of statistics on 

residential construction for states and 

smaller geographic areas. The Census 

Bureau uses the detailed geographic 

data collected from state and local 

officials on new residential construction 

authorized by building permits in the 

development of annual population 

estimates that are used by government 

agencies to allocate funding and other 

resources to local areas. Policymakers, 

planners, businesses, and others also 

use the detailed geographic data to 

monitor growth, plan for local services, 

and to develop production and 

marketing plans. 

II. Method of Collection 

Respondents may submit their data 

via internet or a mailed or faxed form. 

Some respondents choose to email 

proprietary electronic files or mail 

proprietary printouts of permit 

information in lieu of returning the 

form. 

The survey universe is comprised of 

approximately 20,325 local governments 

that issue building permits. Due to 

resource availability and the time 

required to complete the data review 

and analysis, the Census Bureau collects 

data from a sample of permit-issuing 

jurisdictions monthly, and the 

remainder of the jurisdictions annually. 

We collect this information monthly for 

about 7,850 permit-issuing jurisdictions 

who respond via internet or who mail 

or fax the provided form. Another 325 

jurisdictions have established reporting 

arrangements that allow them to submit 

their responses monthly via proprietary 

electronic files or mailed printouts 

using their own file format. We collect 

this information annually for about 

11,700 permit-issuing jurisdictions who 

respond via internet or who mail or fax 

the provided form. Another 450 

jurisdictions have established reporting 

arrangements that allow them to submit 

their responses annually via proprietary 

electronic files or mailed printouts 

using their own file format. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0094. 

Form Number(s): C–404. 

Type of Review: Regular submission. 

Affected Public: State and Local 

Governments. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

20,325. 

Estimated Time per Response: 8 

minutes for monthly respondents who 

report via internet, mail or faxing the 

form, 23 minutes for annual 

respondents who report via internet, 

mail or faxing the form and 3 minutes 

for monthly and annual respondents 


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