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of Congress regarding the substantive 

rationale for such direction. 

If the IG has been placed on non-duty 

status by the President, the Deputy IG 

will perform the functions and duties of 

USDA’s IG temporarily in an acting 

capacity, subject to relevant limitations 

for acting officers described above 

related to time serving in an OIG 

position. If the Deputy IG is unable to 

perform those functions or if the office 

is vacant, the President may direct a 

USDA OIG employee to assume those 

duties, provided that the employee also 

meets the requirements described above 

regarding pay rates and demonstrated 

ability in relevant areas of expertise, and 

provided that the employee also meets 

the requirements above regarding time 

served in an OIG position, and that they 

must meet those requirements through 

service with USDA OIG. 

II. For purposes of this order of 

succession, the designated official is the 

person holding a permanent 

appointment to the position. Persons 

filling positions in an acting capacity do 

not substitute for officials holding a 

permanent appointment to a position. If 

a position is vacant or an official 

occupying the position on a permanent 

basis is absent or unavailable, authority 

passes to the next available official 

occupying a position in the order of 

succession. 

III. This delegation is not in 

derogation of any authority residing in 

the above officials relating to the 

operation of their respective programs, 

nor does it affect the validity of any 

delegations currently in force and effect 

and not specifically cited as revoked or 

revised herein. 

IV. The authorities delegated herein 

may not be re-delegated. 

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 3345–3349d; 5 

U.S.C. 401–424. 

Dated: September 26, 2024. 

Phyllis K. Fong, 

Inspector General. 

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BILLING CODE 3410–23–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Census Bureau 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Redistricting Data Program 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit the following information 

collection request to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and clearance in accordance 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995, on or after the date of publication 

of this notice. We invite the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

comment on proposed, and continuing 

information collections, which helps us 

assess the impact of our information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. Public 

comments were previously requested 

via the Federal Register on May 6, 2024, 

during a 60-day comment period. This 

notice allows for an additional 30 days 

for public comments. 

Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, 

Commerce. 

Title: Redistricting Data Program. 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0988. 

Form Number(s): Certification Forms 

(4), Verification Forms (2) and Feedback 

Form. 

• Phase 4 Certification Form (States 

with Multiple Congressional Districts). 

• Phase 4 Certification Form (States 

with a Single Congressional District). 

• Phase 4 Certification Form (District 

of Columbia). 

• Phase 4 Certification Form 

(Commonwealth of Puerto Rico). 

• Phase 4 Verification Form 

(Congressional Districts). 

• Phase 4 Verification Form (State 

Legislative Districts). 

• RDP Feedback Form 

Type of Request: Regular submission, 

request for a revision of a currently 

approved collection. 

Number of Respondents: 

• Solicitation of Non-Partisan 

Liaisons: 52. 

• Collection of Post-2020 Census 

Congressional and State Legislative 

District Plans: 52. 

• Block Boundary Suggestion Project 

(BBSP) Delineation Phase: 52. 

• BBSP Verification Phase: 52. 

• Feedback: 52. 

Average Hours per Response: 

• Solicitation of Non-Partisan 

Liaisons: 6 hours. 

• Collection of Post-2020 Census 

Congressional and State Legislative 

District Plans: 8 hours. 

• BBSP Delineation Phase: 124 hours. 

• BBSP Verification Phase: 62 hours. 

• Feedback: 1 hour. 

Burden Hours: 10,452. 

• Solicitation of Non-Partisan 

Liaisons: 312 hours. 

• Collection of Post-2020 Census 

Congressional and State Legislative 

District Plans: 416 hours. 

• BBSP Delineation Phase: 6,448 

hours. 

• BBSP Verification Phase: 3,224 

hours. 

• Feedback: 52 hours. 

Needs and Uses: The Redistricting 

Data Program (RDP) is executed under 

the provisions of title 13, section 141(c) 

of the United States Code (U.S.C.). 

Under the provisions of Public Law 94– 

171, as amended (title 13, United States 

Code (U.S.C.), section 141(c)), the 

Secretary of Commerce, who designates 

this responsibility to the Director of the 

Census Bureau, is required to provide 

the ‘‘officers or public bodies having 

initial responsibility for the legislative 

apportionment or districting of each 

state’’ with the opportunity to ‘‘identify 

the geographic areas’’ (e.g., Voting 

Districts (wards and election precincts), 

congressional and state legislative 

districts, census blocks) ‘‘for which 

specific tabulations of population are 

desired’’ and to deliver those counts in 

a timely manner. 

The Solicitation of Non-Partisan 

Liaisons occurs by mail (U.S. Postal 

Service) beginning in January 2025 and 

includes follow up emails to the 

governors and the majority and minority 

legislative leadership in the 50 states, 

the District of Columbia (DC), and the 

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (PR). 

Non-partisan liaisons are appointed 

through a response to that solicitation 

letter mailed or emailed to the Census 

Bureau and signed by the legislative 

leadership. Once appointed, the liaisons 

serve as the primary point of contact for 

the Census Bureau to execute the 

Collection of Post-2020 Census 

Congressional and State Legislative 

District Plans and the BBSP. 

Additionally, once the liaisons have 

been appointed, they serve as liaisons 

through the entire RDP, ending in 2035. 

Liaisons are emailed an invitation to 

submit any updates to their Post-2020 

Census Congressional and State 

Legislative Districts in 2025. This 

collection is performed every two years. 

Changes are submitted to the Census 

Bureau electronically using email to 

confirm changes or no changes and the 

Census Bureau’s secure online data 

sharing portal to submit their boundary 

and data updates when necessary. This 

process is the same as that used for the 

prior collection in 2024. 

Liaisons are emailed an invitation to 

participate in the delineation cycle of 

the BBSP in 2026 and the verification 

cycle of the BBSP in 2027. Changes are 

submitted to the Census Bureau 

electronically using email to report no 

changes (during the verification cycle) 

and the Census Bureau’s secure online 

data sharing portal to submit their BBSP 

updates. The BBSP has not appreciably 

changed since it last occurred from 

2016–2017 as a part of the 2020 RDP. 

These activities directly support the 

Census Bureau’s efforts to comply with 

Public Law 94–171 by providing states, 

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the small area tabulations they need for 

legislative redistricting and by 

supplying them with that data in a 

timely manner. Participation is strictly 

voluntary. The states, DC, and PR are 

the only authorities that can choose 

where and how to draw their district 

boundaries. 

In addition, these activities assist in 

maintaining the Master Address File/ 

Topologically Integrated Geographic 

Encoding and Referencing (MAF/ 

TIGER) System, in partnership with 

tribal, state, and local governments 

nationwide. Because tribal, state, and 

local governments have current 

knowledge of, and data about, where 

housing growth and change are 

occurring in their jurisdictions, their 

input into the overall development of 

geographic data for the Census Bureau 

makes a vital contribution. Similarly, 

those governments are in the best 

position to work with local geographic 

boundaries, and they benefit from 

accurate address and geographic data. 

The Census Bureau is adding a 

feedback component to its geographic 

partnership programs to allow for the 

solicitation of feedback to improve the 

administration of the respective 

program and potentially reduce the 

future burden. Liaisons may be asked to 

provide their feedback on materials, 

method(s) of data collection, manner of 

communications, and the usability of 

the program applications and tools. 

Affected Public: State and local 

governments. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: Public Law 94–171, 

as amended (title 13, U.S.C., section 

141(c)). 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. 

Follow the instructions to view the 

Department of Commerce collections 

currently under review by OMB. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be 

submitted within 30 days of the 

publication of this notice on the 

following website www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain. Find this 

particular information collection by 

selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day 

Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or 

by using the search function and 

entering either the title of the collection 

or the OMB Control Number 0607–0988. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, 

Commerce Department. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Census Bureau 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Boundary and Annexation 

Survey 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit the following information 

collection request to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and clearance in accordance 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995, on or after the date of publication 

of this notice. We invite the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

comment on proposed, and continuing 

information collections, which helps us 

assess the impact of our information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. Public 

comments were previously requested 

via the Federal Register on May 6, 2024, 

during a 60-day comment period. This 

notice allows for an additional 30 days 

for public comments. 

Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, 

Commerce. 

Title: Boundary and Annexation 

Survey. 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0151. 

Form Number(s) BAS–6. This is the 

Consolidated BAS (CBAS) Agreement 

Form. BASSC–1. This is the Boundary 

and Annexation Survey (BAS) State 

Certification State Certifying Official 

(SCO) Appointment Form. BAS 

Feedback Form. This is the form used to 

capture feedback. 

Type of Request: Regular submission, 

request for a revision of a currently 

approved collection. 

Number of Respondents: 

• BAS/State Certification/Boundary 

Quality Project: 40,000 governments. 

• Feedback: 1,000 governments. 

Average Hours per Response: 

• BAS/State Certification/Boundary 

Quality Project: 7.5 hours. This estimate 

is based on an average of 5 hours for an 

eligible government with no changes 

and 10 hours for an eligible government 

with changes. 

• Feedback: 30 minutes. 

Burden Hours: 300,500 hours. 

• BAS/State Certification/Boundary 

Quality Project: 300,000 hours. 

• Feedback: 500 hours. 

Needs and Uses: The Boundary and 

Annexation Survey (BAS) provides 

eligible governments, which include 

tribal, state, and general-purpose local 

governments, an opportunity to review 

the Census Bureau’s legal boundary data 

to ensure the Census Bureau has the 

correct boundary, name, and status 

information and make necessary 

updates. BAS also allows for the review 

and update of census designated place 

(CDP) boundaries and linear features. It 

fulfills the agency’s responsibility as 

part of the National Spatial Data 

Infrastructure, for which the OMB 

Circular A–16 designates the Census 

Bureau as the lead federal agency for 

maintaining national data about legal 

government boundaries, as well as 

statistical and administrative 

boundaries. It also supports the 

geospatial data steward responsibilities 

of the Geospatial Data Act, the Evidence 

Act, OMB E-Gov, the Federal 

Geographic Data Committee, Data.gov, 

GeoPlatform.gov, the National Map, the 

Geographic Names Information System, 

and the Geospatial One-Stop. 

The Census Bureau uses the 

boundaries collected during BAS to 

tabulate data for various censuses and 

surveys including the decennial census 

and American Community Survey 

(ACS) as well as the Population 

Estimates Program (PEP). It also uses the 

boundaries collected through BAS to 

support other programs such as the 

Redistricting Data Program, the 

Economic Census, the Geographically 

Updated Population Certification 

Program, and the Special Census 

program. 

Other federal programs also rely on 

accurate boundaries collected through 

BAS. The Department of Housing and 

Urban Development uses boundaries to 

determine jurisdictional eligibility for 

various grant programs, such as the 

Community Development Block Grant 

program. In addition, the Department of 

Agriculture uses boundaries to 

determine eligibility for various rural 

housing and economic development 

programs. 

The following collection methods 

allow the Census Bureau to coordinate 

among various levels of government to 

obtain the most accurate legal boundary, 

CDP, linear feature, and contact 

information: 

• BAS. 

• State Certification. 

• Boundary Quality Project. 

BAS 

BAS provides eligible governments, 

which include tribal, state, and generalpurpose local governments, an 

opportunity to review the Census 

Bureau’s legal boundary data to ensure 

the Census Bureau has the correct 

boundary, name, and status information 

and make necessary updates. BAS also 

allows for the review and update of 

CDPs and linear features. 


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