Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 59 / Tuesday, March 27, 2012 / Notices 18203 

a National Universal Product Code 

(NUPC) database to be used by all 

Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) 

State agencies as they implement 

Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) 

statewide, which is a requirement of the 

law. As a result of this legislation, the 

Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) has 

adopted a plan to expand the number of 

data elements contained in the existing 

NUPC database while simultaneously 

reducing the burden of manual data 

entry currently borne by WIC State 

agency employees tasked with 

populating the database. 

Need and Use of the Information: The 

NUPC database will provide all State 

agencies with access to a central 

repository containing comprehensive 

information about authorized WIC 

foods. State agencies are expected to use 

the NUPC database to create an initial 

list of authorized foods eligible for 

redemption by WIC Program 

participants. State agencies may use the 

NUPC database to maintain their list of 

authorized foods and to create an 

Authorized Product List for distribution 

to Authorized Vendors operating in the 

EBT environment. 

Description of Respondents: State, 

Local, or Tribal Government; Business 

or other for-profit. 

Number of Respondents: 182. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 565. 

Ruth Brown, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2012–7328 Filed 3–26–12; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Rural Utilities Service 

Information Collection Activity; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Rural Utilities Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. chapter 35, as amended), the 

Rural Utilities Service (RUS) invites 

comments on the following information 

collections for which the Agency 

intends to request approval from the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB). 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by May 29, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michele Brooks, Director, Program 

Development and Regulatory Analysis, 

Rural Utilities Service, 1400 

Independence Ave. SW., STOP 1522, 

Room 5162, South Building, 

Washington, DC 20250–1522. 

Telephone: (202) 690–1078. Fax: (202) 

720- 8435. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office 

of Management and Budget’s (OMB) 

regulation (5 CFR part 1320) 

implementing provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. 

L. 104–13) requires that interested 

members of the public and affected 

agencies have an opportunity to 

comment on information collection and 

recordkeeping activities [see 5 CFR 

1320.8(d)]. This notice identifies 

information collections that USDA 

Rural Development is submitting to 

OMB for extension. 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

this collection of information is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

collection of information including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; (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 appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. Comments may 

be sent to Michele Brooks, Director, 

Program Development and Regulatory 

Analysis, Rural Utilities Service, U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, STOP 1522, 

1400 Independence Ave. SW., 

Washington, DC 20250–1522. Fax: (202) 

720–8435. 

Title: Borrower Investments— 

Telecommunications Loan Program, 7 

CFR 1744, Subpart E. 

OMB Control Number: 0572–0098. 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Abstract: The Rural Economic 

Development Act of 1990, Title XXIII of 

the Farm Bill, Public Law 101–624, 

authorized qualified Rural Utilities 

Service borrowers to make investments 

in rural development projects without 

the prior approval of the Agency’s 

Administrator provided, however, that 

such investments do not cause the 

borrower to exceed its allowable 

qualified investment level as 

determined in accordance with the 

procedures set forth in 7 CFR part 1744, 

subpart E. When a borrower exceeds 

these limits, the security for the 

Government’s loans could be in 

jeopardy. However, in the interest of 

encouraging rural development, RUS 

will consider approving such 

investments that exceed a borrower’s 

qualified investment level. This 

information collection covers those 

items that a borrower would need to 

submit to RUS for consideration of the 

borrower’s request to make such an 

investment. 

Estimate of Burden: Public reporting 

burden for this collection of information 

is estimated to average 1 hour per 

response. 

Respondents: Not for profit 

institutions; business or other for-profit 

entities. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 2. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Respondent: 1. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 1 hour. 

Dated: March 20, 2012. 

Jonathan Adelstein, 

Administrator, Rural Utilities Service. 

[FR Doc. 2012–7264 Filed 3–26–12; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for clearance the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

chapter 35). 

Agency: U.S. Census Bureau. 

Title: The American Community 

Survey. 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0810. 

Form Number(s): Various. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Burden Hours: 2,455,868. 

Number of Respondents: 3,760,000. 

Average Hours per Response: The 

ACS Household questionnaire takes 40 

minutes on average to complete. 

Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census 

Bureau requests authorization from the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for revisions to the American 

Community Survey (ACS). The Census 

Bureau has developed a methodology to 

collect and update every year 

demographic, social, economic, and 

housing data that are essentially the 

same as the ‘‘long-form’’ data that the 

Census Bureau traditionally has 

collected once a decade as part of the 

decennial census. Federal and state 

government agencies use such data to 

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