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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 

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The Census Bureau notifies eligible 

governments about BAS through email. 

The email includes program information 

and directs eligible governments to 

respond through an online form if they 

have legal boundary, CDP, linear 

feature, or contact updates to report. 

Any eligible government without an 

email on file with the Census Bureau 

will be contacted by phone and asked to 

provide their response. 

Those indicating they have updates to 

provide must create their submission 

using one of the options listed below. 

• BAS Partnership Toolbox. The BAS 

Partnership Toolbox allows eligible 

governments to create the submission in 

ArcGIS Pro. The toolbox automates data 

download, boundary update creation, 

and exports standardized files for 

submission. 

• GUPS. The Geographic Update 

Partnership Software (GUPS) is a free, 

customized geographic information 

system software application provided by 

the Census Bureau. It is offered as 

standalone (GUPS Standalone) and 

online (GUPS Web) applications. 

Æ GUPS Standalone allows eligible 

governments to manually create 

boundary updates and export 

standardized files for submission. 

Æ GUPS Web allows eligible 

governments to manually create 

boundary updates or import local 

boundary data to automate the creation 

of boundary updates and export 

standardized files for submission. 

• Paper maps. The Census Bureau 

will ship large format paper maps and 

instructions for eligible governments to 

annotate and return their updates to the 

Census Bureau. The paper map package 

includes a letter, materials list insert, 

large format paper maps covering the 

extent of the government, supplies to 

update the paper maps, how-to guide, 

and postage-paid return envelope. 

Eligible governments that do have 

boundary updates can submit both legal 

boundary changes and boundary 

corrections. Legal boundary changes 

include updates that are a result of any 

legal action taken by the eligible 

government(s) to add or remove land to 

their official boundary. Boundary 

corrections are updates that are the 

result of spatial inaccuracies and do not 

substantially alter the Census Bureau’s 

representation of the boundaries. 

Updates created using the BAS 

Partnership Toolbox, GUPS Standalone, 

or GUPS Web are returned through the 

Census Bureau’s secure online data 

sharing portal, while paper maps are 

returned through the mail. 

Eligible governments that do not 

respond, or those that indicate they 

have updates to provide, but have not 

submitted their updates are contacted 

during nonresponse follow-up by email. 

The email reminds eligible governments 

to respond through an online response 

form or email if they have updates to 

report. Those that indicated they have 

updates to report are requested to 

submit those updates by the March 1 or 

May 31 deadlines. Refer to the schedule 

below for a high-level BAS program 

timeline. 

• January 1—Legal boundary changes 

must be in effect on or before this date 

to be reported in the current survey 

year. 

• January to May—The Census 

Bureau conducts BAS. 

• Early January—The Census Bureau 

notifies eligible governments about BAS 

through email. Eligible governments are 

contacted through email to determine if 

they have legal boundary, CDP, linear 

feature, or contact updates to report. 

Any eligible government without an 

email on file with the Census Bureau 

will be contacted by phone and asked to 

provide their response. 

• Mid-February, Mid-March, and MidApril—The Census Bureau conducts 

nonresponse follow-up for BAS through 

email. Eligible governments that have 

not responded to annual response, along 

with those that indicated they have 

updates to report but have not yet 

submitted those updates, are contacted 

through email on up to three occasions. 

• March 1—Legal boundary changes 

returned by this date will be reflected in 

the ACS and PEP data and in next year’s 

BAS materials. 

• May 31—Legal boundary changes 

returned by this date will be reflected in 

next year’s BAS materials. If time 

permits, boundary corrections returned 

by this date may also be shown. 

State Certification 

The state certification program allows 

state agencies to verify that the legal 

boundary, name, and status information 

received through BAS were reported in 

accordance with state law. The Census 

Bureau annually requests that each state 

governor designate a state certifying 

official (SCO) to participate in the 

program. The SCO reviews listings of 

legal boundary changes, as well as 

government names and statuses that 

were submitted through the previous 

year’s BAS. These listings include the 

attribute information for new 

incorporations, dissolutions, mergers, 

consolidations, and legal boundary 

changes. The listings also include the 

names and functional statuses of all 

general-purpose local governments 

within the state’s jurisdiction. The SCO 

can request that the Census Bureau edit 

the attribute data, add missing records, 

or remove invalid records. Invalid 

records are only removed if the state 

government maintains an official record 

of all changes to legal boundaries and 

governments as mandated by state law. 

The state certification schedule is as 

follows: 

• October—The Census Bureau 

emails governor’s letters requesting the 

state appoint an SCO to participate in 

the program. 

• December—The Census Bureau 

emails the information required to 

participate to the SCO. 

• December to February—The SCO 

returns submission to the Census 

Bureau. 

• March—The Census Bureau 

distributes discrepancy emails to 

general-purpose local governments 

based on feedback from the SCO. 

The state certification materials 

include a governor’s letter, an email to 

the SCO, how-to guide, legal boundary 

change and government name and status 

listings, and discrepancy email to local 

governments. The listings and how-to 

guide are available on the BAS website. 

The SCO returns all updates 

electronically through the Census 

Bureau’s secure online data sharing 

portal. 

Boundary Quality Project 

The boundary quality project is 

designed to assess, analyze, and 

improve the spatial quality of legal, 

statistical, and administrative 

boundaries within the Master Address 

File/Topologically Integrated 

Geographic Encoding and Referencing 

(MAF/TIGER) System. Ensuring quality 

boundaries is a critical component of 

the geographic preparations for each 

decennial census and the Census 

Bureau’s ongoing geographic 

partnership programs. In addition, the 

improvement of boundary quality is an 

essential element of the Census Bureau’s 

commitment as the responsible agency 

for legal boundaries under OMB 

Circular A–16. 

The project represents an effort to 

systematically target and assess 

boundary quality within the MAF/ 

TIGER System. Historically, the Census 

Bureau relied exclusively on geographic 

partnership programs such as BAS and 

the Participant Statistical Areas Program 

(PSAP) to obtain updates to tribal, state, 

general-purpose local government, and 

CDP boundaries. While programs like 

BAS play an essential role in improving 

boundary quality, the goal of the 

boundary quality project is to establish 

a new, more accurate, baseline for legal 

boundaries and CDPs within an entire 

state or county. BAS builds on this 

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boundary changes and CDP updates on 

a transaction basis as they occur over 

the years. 

For the Census Bureau to complete 

this project, we would collect spatial 

data from tribal, state, and generalpurpose local governments to improve 

the quality of the MAF/TIGER System 

outside the realm of BAS. The only 

burden on governments for the 

boundary quality project is in providing 

their spatial data. 

Feedback 

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. Eligible governments 

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: Tribal, state, and 

general-purpose local governments in 

all fifty states, the District of Columbia, 

the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 

American Samoa, Guam, the 

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 

Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. 

Frequency: Annual. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: Title 13, U.S.C., 

Section 6. 

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 0607–0151. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Departmental PRA Clearance Officer, Office 

of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, 

Commerce Department. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Bureau of Industry and Security 

Regulations and Procedures Technical 

Advisory Committee; Notice of 

Partially Closed Meeting 

The Regulations and Procedures 

Technical Advisory Committee (RPTAC) 

will meet on October 15, 2024, 9 a.m.– 

4 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time, in the 

Herbert C. Hoover Building, Room 3884, 

1401 Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC (enter through Main 

Entrance on 14th Street between 

Constitution and Pennsylvania 

Avenues). The Committee advises and 

assists the Secretary of Commerce 

(Secretary) and other Federal officials 

and agencies with respect to actions 

designed to carry out the policy set forth 

in section 1752(1)(A) of the Export 

Control Reform Act. The purpose of the 

meeting is to have Committee members 

and U.S. Government representatives 

mutually review updated technical data 

and policy-driving information that has 

been gathered. 

Agenda 

Public Session 

1. Opening remarks by the Chairman 

2. Opening remarks by the Bureau of 

Industry and Security 

3. Presentations of Papers by the Public 

4. Regulations Update 

5. Automated Export System Update 

6. Working Group Reports 

Closed Session 

7. Discussion of matters determined to 

be exempt from the open meeting and 

public participation requirements found 

in sections 1009(a)(1) and 1009(a)(3) of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA) (5 U.S.C. 1001–1014). The 

exemption is authorized by section 

1009(d) of the FACA, which permits the 

closure of advisory committee meetings, 

or portions thereof, if the head of the 

agency to which the advisory committee 

reports determines such meetings may 

be closed to the public in accordance 

with subsection (c) of the Government 

in the Sunshine Act (5 U.S.C. 552b(c)). 

In this case, the applicable provisions of 

5 U.S.C. 552b(c) are subsection 

552b(c)(4), which permits closure to 

protect trade secrets and commercial or 

financial information that is privileged 

or confidential, and subsection 

552b(c)(9)(B), which permits closure to 

protect information that would be likely 

to significantly frustrate implementation 

of a proposed agency action were it to 

be disclosed prematurely. The closed 

session of the meeting will involve 

committee discussions and guidance 

regarding U.S. Government strategies 

and policies. 

The open session will be accessible 

via teleconference. To join the 

conference, submit inquiries to Ms. 

Yvette Springer at Yvette.Springer@

bis.doc.gov (email) or (202) 482–2813 

(voice). 

A limited number of seats will be 

available for members of the public to 

attend the open session in person. 

Reservations are not accepted. 

Special Accommodations: Individuals 

requiring special accommodations to 

access the public meeting should 

contact Ms. Yvette Springer no later 

than Tuesday, October 8, 2024, so that 

appropriate arrangements can be made. 

To the extent that time permits, 

members of the public may present oral 

statements to the Committee. The public 

may submit written statements at any 

time before or after the meeting. 

However, to facilitate distribution of 

materials to the Committee members, 

the Committee suggests that members of 

the public forward their materials prior 

to the meeting to Ms. Springer via email. 

Material submitted by the public will be 

made public and therefore should not 

contain confidential information. 

Meeting materials from the public 

session will be accessible via the 

Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) 

site at https://tac.bis.gov, within 30-days 

after the meeting. 

The Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Administration, performing the nonexclusive functions and duties of the 

Chief Financial Officer and Assistant 

Secretary for Administration, with the 

concurrence of the delegate of the 

General Counsel, formally determined 

on September 23, 2024, pursuant to 5 

U.S.C. 1009(d)), that the portion of the 

meeting dealing with pre-decisional 

changes to the Commerce Control List 

and the U.S. export control policies 

shall be exempt from the provisions 

relating to public meetings found in 5 

U.S.C. 1009(a)(1) and 1009(a)(3). The 

remaining portions of the meeting will 

be open to the public. 

Meeting cancellation: If the meeting is 

cancelled, a cancellation notice will be 

posted on the TAC website at https://

tac.bis.doc.gov. 

For more information, contact Ms. 

Springer. 

Yvette Springer, 

Committee Liaison Officer. 

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