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Dated: October 16, 2024. 

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[FR Doc. 2024–24408 Filed 11–4–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3411–15–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; American Community Survey 

and Puerto Rico Community Survey 

AGENCY: Census Bureau, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection, 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 

1995, invites 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. The purpose of this 

notice is to allow for 60 days of public 

comment on the proposed extension of 

the American Community Survey and 

Puerto Rico Community Survey, prior to 

the submission of the information 

collection request (ICR) to OMB for 

approval. 

DATES: To ensure consideration, 

comments regarding this proposed 

information collection must be received 

on or before January 6, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments by 

email to acso.pra@census.gov. Please 

reference the American Community 

Survey and the Puerto Rico Community 

Survey in the subject line of your 

comments. You may also submit 

comments, identified by Docket Number 

USBC–2024–0029, to the Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://

www.regulations.gov. Click the 

‘‘Comment Now!’’ icon, complete the 

required fields, and enter or attach your 

comments. All comments received are 

part of the public record. No comments 

will be posted to https://

www.regulations.gov for public viewing 

until after the comment period has 

closed. Comments will generally be 

posted without change. All Personally 

Identifiable Information (for example, 

name and address) voluntarily 

submitted by the commenter may be 

publicly accessible. Do not submit 

Confidential Business Information or 

otherwise sensitive or protected 

information. You may submit 

attachments to electronic comments in 

Microsoft Word, Excel, or Adobe PDF 

file formats. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

specific questions related to collection 

activities should be directed to Nicole 

Butler, U.S. Census Bureau, American 

Community Survey Office, 301–763– 

3928, nicole.butler@census.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The U.S. Census Bureau seeks an 

extension for the American Community 

Survey (ACS) and the Puerto Rico 

Community Survey (PRCS). 

Since its founding, the Census Bureau 

has balanced the demands of a growing 

country requiring information about its 

people and economy with concerns for 

respondents’ confidentiality and the 

time and effort it takes respondents to 

answer questions. Beginning with the 

1810 Census, Congress updated the set 

of questions asked in the 1790 and 1800 

Censuses by adding questions to 

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uses. Over the course of a century, 

Federal agencies requested to add 

questions about agriculture, industry, 

and commerce, as well as individuals’ 

occupation, ancestry, marital status, 

disabilities, place of birth, and other 

topics. In 1940, the Census Bureau 

introduced the long-form census 

questionnaire in order to ask more 

detailed questions from a sample of the 

public. 

In the early 1990s, the demand for 

current, nationally consistent data from 

a wide variety of users led Federal 

government policymakers to consider 

the feasibility of collecting social, 

economic, housing, and demographic 

data continuously throughout the 

decade. The benefits of providing 

current data, along with the anticipated 

decennial census benefits in cost 

savings, planning, improved census 

coverage, and more efficient operations, 

led the Census Bureau to plan the 

implementation of the Continuous 

Measurement Survey, later called the 

American Community Survey (ACS). 

After years of testing, the ACS was 

implemented in 2005, replacing the 

need for long-form data collection in 

future decennial censuses. The ACS is 

conducted throughout the United States 

and in Puerto Rico, where it is called 

the Puerto Rico Community Survey 

(PRCS). The ACS samples 

approximately 3.5 million housing unit 

addresses in the United States and about 

36,000 in Puerto Rico each year. A 

housing unit is a house, an apartment, 

a mobile home, a group of rooms, or a 

single room occupied or intended for 

occupancy as separate living quarters. 

The ACS also collects detailed data from 

a sample of about 150,000 residents 

living in group quarters facilities in the 

United States and about 600 in Puerto 

Rico. Group quarters are places where 

people live or stay in a group living 

arrangement owned or managed by an 

entity or organization providing housing 

and/or services for the residents. People 

living in group quarters usually are not 

related to each other. Group quarters 

include college/university student 

housing, residential treatment centers, 

skilled nursing facilities, group homes, 

military barracks, correctional facilities, 

workers’ group living quarters, Job 

Corps centers, and emergency and 

transitional shelters. 

The ACS program provides estimates 

annually for the nation, all states, the 

District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, 

congressional districts, metropolitan 

areas, and counties and places with a 

population of 65,000 or more. It takes 

five years for smaller areas and 

population groups to accumulate 

enough data to provide reliable 

estimates. Every community in the 

nation continues to receive a detailed, 

statistical portrait of its social, 

economic, housing, and demographic 

characteristics each year through oneyear and five-year ACS products. 

The ACS collects detailed social, 

economic, housing, and demographic 

data on over 40 topics. The list of topics 

and questions can be found here: 

https://www.census.gov/acs/www/ 

about/why-we-ask-each-question/. 

II. Method of Collection 

To encourage self-response in the 

ACS, the Census Bureau sends up to 

five mailings to housing unit addresses 

selected for the sample. The first 

mailing, sent to all mailable addresses 

in the sample, includes an invitation to 

participate in the ACS online and states 

that a paper questionnaire will be sent 

in a few weeks to those unable to 

respond online. The second mailing is 

a letter that reminds respondents to 

complete the survey online, thanks 

them if they have already done so, and 

informs them that a paper questionnaire 

will be sent later if we do not receive 

their response. In a third mailing, the 

paper questionnaire is sent only to those 

sample addresses that have not 

completed the online questionnaire 

within two weeks of receipt of the first 

mailing. The fourth mailing is a 

postcard that reminds respondents to 

respond and informs them that an 

interviewer may contact them if they do 

not complete the survey. A fifth mailing 

is sent to respondents who have not 

completed the survey within five weeks. 

This letter provides a due date and 

reminds the respondents to return their 

questionnaires to be removed from 

future contact. Some households are 

also contacted by email. If a household 

starts the online survey and gives an 

email but doesn’t finish the survey, the 

household will receive an email 

reminder to complete the survey. 

If the Census Bureau does not receive 

a response from an address in the selfresponse data collection phase, the 

address may be selected for an in-person 

or phone interview by a Census Bureau 

field representative. This is the 

nonresponse follow-up data collection 

operation known as the ComputerAssisted Personal Interview (CAPI) 

phase. The CAPI phase of data 

collection lasts for one month. Only a 

portion of nonresponding addresses, 

after the self-response phase, are 

sampled in CAPI. While this phase of 

data collection focuses on personal 

interviews, respondents still have the 

option to respond online or call the 

Telephone Questionnaire Assistance 

line and complete the survey over the 

telephone. 

At the beginning of the CAPI month 

a sixth mailing is sent to all mailable 

addresses in the CAPI sample. This 

letter urges respondents to complete the 

survey online to avoid an in-person 

interview. If a household responds 

online or by phone, they are removed 

from the workload and are no longer 

contacted. If they do not respond, a 

Census Bureau field representative 

attempts to contact them to obtain a 

response via a computer-assisted 

interview. 

Unlike the ACS, the PRCS does not 

have an internet response option. As a 

result, a PRCS mailings make no 

references to an internet response 

option. The Census Bureau sends up to 

five mailings to a Puerto Rico address 

selected to be in the sample. The first 

mailing includes a prenotice letter. The 

second and fourth mailings include the 

paper survey. The third and fifth 

mailings are postcards that serve as a 

reminder to respond to the survey. If the 

Puerto Rico address is deemed 

unmailable because the address is 

incomplete or directs mail only to a post 

office box, the address may be selected 

for an interview in person or by 

telephone. 

The Census Bureau employs a 

separate strategy to collect data from 

group quarters. The Census Bureau 

collects data for sampled people in 

group quarters through personal 

interviews, telephone interviews, and 

internet responses. The Census Bureau 

will obtain the facility information by 

conducting a telephone or personal visit 

interview with a group quarter contact. 

During this interview, the Census 

Bureau obtains a roster of residents and 

randomly selects them for person-level 

interviews. The facility can also upload 

their facility roster to the Census Bureau 

online listing application. During the 

person-level phase, a field 

representative uses a computer-assisted 

personal interview automated 

instrument to collect detailed 

information for each sampled resident. 

The field representative also has the 

option to distribute a bilingual (English/ 

Spanish) questionnaire to residents for 

self-response if they are unable to 

complete a computer-assisted personal 

interview. Respondents in some group 

quarters also have the option to selfrespond to the survey online. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0810. 

Form Number(s): ACS–1, ACS–1(SP), 

ACS–1(PR), ACS–1(PR)SP, ACS–1(GQ), 

ACS–1(GQ)(PR), ACS Housing Unit 

internet electronic instrument (no form 


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number), ACS nonresponse follow up 

CAPI electronic instrument (no form 

number), ACS Failed Edit Follow up 

CATI electronic instrument (no form 

number), ACS Telephone Questionnaire 

Assistance CATI electronic instrument 

(no form number). ACS Group Quarters 

internet listing instrument (no form 

number), ACS Group Quarters Facility 

Questionnaire CAPI GQFQ electronic 

instrument, ACS Group Quarters 

internet electronic instrument (no form 

number), ACS Group Quarters Resident 

CAPI electronic instrument (no form 

number). ACS Reinterview CATI/CAPI 

HU RI electronic instrument (no form 

number), ACS Reinterview CATI/CAPI 

GQ RI electronic instrument (no form 

number). 

Type of Review: Regular submission, 

Request for an extension 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

3,576,000 for household respondents; 

20,100 for contacts in GQ; 150,600 

people in GQ; 22,875 households for 

reinterview; and 1,422 GQ contacts for 

reinterview. The total estimated number 

of respondents is 3,770,997. 

Estimated Time Per Response: 40 

minutes for the average household 

questionnaire; 15 minutes for a GQ 

facility questionnaire; 25 minutes for a 

GQ person questionnaire; 10 minutes for 

a household reinterview; 10 minutes for 

a GQ-level reinterview. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 2,384,000 for household 

respondents; 5,025 for contacts in GQ; 

62,750 for GQ residents 3,813 

households for reinterview; and 237 GQ 

contacts for reinterview. The estimate is 

an annual average of 2,455,825 burden 

hours. 

TABLE 1—ANNUAL ACS AND PRCS RESPONDENT AND BURDEN HOUR ESTIMATES

Data collection operation Forms or instrument used in data collection 

Annual 

estimated 

number of 

respondents 

Estimated 

minutes per 

respondent 

by data 

collection 

activity 

Annual 

estimated 

burden hours 

I. ACS Household Questionnaire, Online Survey, Telephone, and Personal Visit.ACS–1, ACS 1(SP), ACS–1PR, ACS– 

1PR(SP), Online Survey, Telephone, CAPI.

3,576,000 40 2,384,000 

II. ACS GQ Facility Questionnaire CAPI— 

Telephone and Personal Visit.

CAPI GQFQ ................................................... 20,100 15 5,025 

III. ACS GQ CAPI Personal Interview or Telephone, Online Survey and Paper Self-response.CAPI, ACS–1(GQ), ACS–1(GQ)(PR) ............ 150,600 25 62,750 

IV. ACS Household Reinterview—CATI/CAPI ACS HU–RI .................................................... 22,875 10 3,813 

V. ACS GQ-level Reinterview—CATI/CAPI .... ACS GQ–RI .................................................... 1,422 10 237 

Totals ....................................................... ......................................................................... 3,770,997 N/A 2,455,825 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: $0. (This is not the cost of 

respondents’ time, but the indirect costs 

respondents may incur for such things 

as purchases of specialized software or 

hardware needed to report, or 

expenditures for accounting or records 

maintenance services required 

specifically by the collection.) 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

Legal Authority: 13 U.S.C. 141, 193, 

221, and 223. 

IV. Request for Comments 

We are soliciting public comments to 

permit the Department/Bureau to: (a) 

Evaluate whether the proposed 

information collection is necessary for 

the proper functions of the Department, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the 

accuracy of our estimate of the time and 

cost burden for this proposed collection, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

Evaluate ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (d) Minimize the 

reporting burden on those who are to 

respond, including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. We will include, or 

summarize, each comment in our 

request to OMB to approve this ICR. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you may ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Departmental PRA Clearance Officer, Office 

of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, 

Commerce Department. 

[FR Doc. 2024–25655 Filed 11–4–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–07–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[B–38–2024] 

Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 265; 

Authorization of Production Activity; 

Unimacts Company; (Steel Products); 

Conroe, Texas 

On July 3, 2024, City of Conroe, 

grantee of FTZ 265, submitted a 

notification of proposed production 

activity to the FTZ Board on behalf of 

Unimacts Company, within FTZ 265, in 

Conroe, Texas. 

The notification was processed in 

accordance with the regulations of the 

FTZ Board (15 CFR part 400), including 

notice in the Federal Register inviting 

public comment (89 FR 57393, July 15, 

2024). On October 31, 2024, the 

applicant was notified of the FTZ 

Board’s decision that no further review 

of the activity is warranted at this time. 

The production activity described in the 

notification was authorized, subject to 

the FTZ Act and the FTZ Board’s 

regulations, including section 400.14. 


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