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the sample size may not be large enough

to produce estimates specifically for

Puerto Rico.

All sampled split collection blocks

will be sent to the field with maps and

listings of addresses in the 2000 Census.

Field will determine actual tabulation

geography for every housing unit in the

collection block.

A sample size has not been

determined yet. The most burdensome

case scenario would be approximately

10,000 units being contacted. This is

based on the assumptions that:

• 2,000 blocks will be selected,

• Each block has 30 housing units,

• Most of the field work will be done

by observation, and

• 5 housing units per block will need

to be contacted to confirm their location

relative to the governmental boundary.

The estimated time per response is 1

minute. The estimated total respondent

burden is 167 hours. All of the field

work will occur in FY 2001.

In addition to the above evaluations,

there may be other evaluations that may

be conducted in the next three years to

help the Census Bureau evaluate the

quality of work done during Census

2000. Any other evaluations would be

similar to those above and would be

within the scope of the clearance as a

MAF/TIGER updating activity.

II. Method of Collection

The primary method of data

collection for all operations will be

personal interview by Census Listers or

Enumerators using the operation’s

listing form. In some cases, the

interview could be by telephone

callback if no one was home on the

initial visit. See part I for details of each

operation.

III. Data

OMB Number: 0607–0809.

Form Number: The form numbers for

some activities have not yet been

assigned. See the descriptions of the

activities in part I for form numbers

where applicable.

Type of Review: Regular submission.

Affected Public: Individuals or

households.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

Varies by operation, see chart below.

Estimated Time Per Response: Varies

by operation, see chart below.

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours: FY01 377; FY02 10,500; FY03

16,700.

Estimated Total Annual Cost: The

only cost to respondents is that of their

time to respond.

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.

Legal Authority: Title 13, United

States Code, Sections 141 and 193.

Activity

FY 2001

respondents

FY 2002

respondents

FY 2003

respondents

Average

hours per

response

Responses

per

respondent

FY 2001

burden

hours

FY 2002

burden

hours

FY 2003

burden

hours

CAUS (Splash Test) .......................................................... 2,500 0 0 .033 1 85 0 0

CAUS (Dress Rehearsal) .................................................. 0 125,000 0 .033 1 0 4,165 0

CAUS Operation ............................................................... 0 0 200,000 .033 1 0 0 6,660

Evaluations (Quality of Geocodes) ................................... 0 6,000 0 .016 1 0 100 0

Evaluations (Block Splitting) ............................................. 10,000 0 0 .016 1 167 0 0

Totals ...................................................................... 12,500 131,000 200,000 .................. .................. 252 4,265 6,660

IV. Request for Comments

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether

the proposed collection of information

is necessary for the proper performance

of the functions of the agency, including

whether the information shall have

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the

agency’s estimate of the burden

(including hours and cost) of the

proposed collection of information; (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 automated collection techniques

or other forms of information

technology.

Comments submitted in response to

this notice will be summarized and/or

included in the request for OMB

approval of this information collection;

they also will become a matter of public

record.

Dated: November 30, 2000.

Madeleine Clayton,

Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office

of the Chief Information Officer.

[FR Doc. 00–30961 Filed 12–5–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–07–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Census Bureau

Evaluation of Responses to the

Question on Race

ACTION: Proposed collection; comment

request.

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: Written comments must be

submitted on or before February 5, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments

to Madeleine Clayton, Departmental

Forms Clearance Officer, Department of

Commerce, Room 6086, 14th and

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,

DC 20230 (or via the Internet at

mclayton@doc.gov).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or

copies of the information collection

instrument(s) and instructions should

be directed to Christine Hough, Bureau

of the Census, Building 2, Rm: 1801–

MOD B, Washington, DC 20233–9200,

301–457–4248.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

On October 30, 1997, the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) issued

revised standards by which all federal

agencies, beginning with Census 2000,

are to collect, tabulate, and present data

on race and ethnicity. Included in these

standards was the identification of five

racial categories—White, Black or

African American, American Indian or

Alaskan Native, Asian, and Native

Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. For

the 1990 census, sixteen specific racial

response categories that collapsed into

the 1977 four racial categories were

used—White, Black or African

American, American Indian or Alaskan

Native, and Asian or Pacific Islander.

The standards also included changes in

the terminology used for each group and

the sequencing of the questions on race

and Hispanic origin. In the 1990 census,

the question on race preceded the

question on Hispanic origin with two

intervening questions. For Census 2000,

the question on Hispanic origin is

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immediately before the question on race

with a note to respondents to answer

both questions. The most profound

change to the standards was that of

allowing respondents to report more

than one race if they chose to do so.

Some of the impetus for the OMB

change to allow the reporting of one or

more races came from the increasing

number of interracial marriages and

births to parents of different races in the

past 25 to 35 years. For many census

data users, both governmental and nongovernmental as well as the private

sector, there is a need to understand

how the Census 2000 race distributions

relate to race distributions from

previous censuses and current surveys

where respondents were instructed to

report only one race.

Data by race from most federal

surveys currently reflect a collection

methodology of asking respondents to

mark only one race category. Users of

the Census 2000 data on race will need

to compare the race distribution from

Census 2000 to these other sources. The

objective of the study is to produce data

that will improve users’ ability to make

comparisons between Census 2000 data

on race that allowed the reporting of one

or more races, and data on race from

other sources that allow single race

reporting. The primary goal is to

improve comparisons of 1990 and

Census 2000 race distributions, at

national and lower geographic levels.

Other goals are to facilitate comparisons

between Census 2000 and Census

Bureau surveys which instruct

respondents to mark one race, and with

data from the vital records system

which uses census data to calculate

such indicators as birth and death rates.

II. Method of Collection

The methodology for the evaluation

requires that the sample households be

contacted twice to provide information

on race. The sample households are

mailed an initial questionnaire which

they are scheduled to receive around

July 1, 2001. Approximately one month

later, the sample households are recontacted by telephone to collect

additional race and other information.

The evaluation requires the

administration of both the 1990

question on race and the Census 2000

question on race in a split panel design.

A total sample of about 50,000

addresses will be selected containing

respondents who reported more than

one race, as well as addresses where

respondents reported a single race in

Census 2000.

For the initial data collection, one

panel of about 25,000 housing units will

be enumerated using a questionnaire

similar to the Census 2000 short form

with the 1990 census instruction to the

question on race, that is, to ‘‘mark one

race.’’ The other panel of about 25,000

housing units will be enumerated using

the identical questionnaire, except the

instruction to the question on race will

include the wording ‘‘mark one or more

races.’’ Census 2000 data collection

methods will be used including the

mailout/mailback procedure along with

personal interviewing for those

addresses that do not respond via mail.

We are assuming a 50 percent initial

mail response rate. Therefore,

nonresponse follow-up procedures

similar to those used for Census 2000

will be implemented. Results from each

of the panels will be matched to their

Census 2000 results. The match

variables will include the name, age,

date of birth, and sex of the sample

housing unit members. Every effort will

be made to capture data for people who

moved into the sample address and

ascertain the previous address at which

they were enumerated in Census 2000.

However, no efforts will be made to

trace movers; that is, we will not ask

information about people who have

moved out of the sample addresses

since April 1, 2000.

A reverse questionnaire design

procedure will be used to re-contact

housing units that participated in the

initial data collection. Sample housing

units that participated in the intial data

collection with the mark one or more

races instruction will be re-contacted by

telephone and asked to report one race.

Those housing units that received the

mark one race instruction will be asked

to mark one or more races. For housing

units for which there is no telephone,

personal interviews will be conducted

to collect the re-contact information.

The questions on both the re-contact

instruments will be similar; only minor

modifications will be made to probe for

additional information in instances

where respondents are reluctant to

report a single race when asked to do so.

During the re-contact, every effort will

be made to speak with the individual

who completed the initial

questionnaire. To facilitate this effort,

data from the initial questionnaires will

be transcribed onto the re-contact

instruments. During the re-contact

interview, respondents will be asked to

provide additional relevant information,

including the race of biological parents,

and other pertinent social, demographic,

and economic data.

The goal is to produce reliable

estimates that replicate, to the extent

possible, the Census 2000 race

distributions in terms of the percent

reporting a single race, more than one

race, and the distribution of the

responses among a pre-determined

number of possible race combinations. It

is likely that less than 20 combinations

will be identified.

III. Data

OMB Number: Not available.

Form Number(s): S–698A, S–698B.

Type of Review: Regular.

Affected Public: Individuals or

households.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

50,000.

Estimated Time Per Response: 15

minutes.

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours: 25,000.

Estimated Total Annual Cost: There is

no cost to respondents except for their

time to respond.

Respondents Obligation: Mandatory.

Legal Authority: Title 13 of the United

States Code, Sections 141 and 193.

IV. Request for Comments

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether

the proposed collection of information

is necessary for the proper performance

of the functions of the agency, including

whether the information shall have

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the

agency’s estimate of the burden

(including hours and cost) of the

proposed collection of information; (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 automated collection techniques

or other forms of information

technology.

Comments submitted in response to

this notice will be summarized and/or

included in the request for OMB

approval of this information collection;

they also will become a matter of public

record.

Dated: November 30, 2000.

Madeleine Clayton,

Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office

of the Chief Information Officer.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1129]

Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 3,

San Francisco, California

Pursuant to its authority under the

Foreign-Trade Zones Act of June 18,

1934, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u),