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Rural Schools and County SelfDetermination Act of 2000. 

All North Gifford Pinchot National 

Forest Resource Advisory Committee 

meetings are open to the public. 

Interested citizens are encouraged to 

attend. The ‘‘open forum’’ provides 

opportunity for the public to bring 

issues, concerns, and discussion topics 

to the Advisory Committee. The ‘‘open 

forum’’ is scheduled to occur at 9:10 

a.m. Interested speakers will need to 

register prior to the open forum period. 

The committee welcomes the public’s 

written comments on committee 

business at any time. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Direct questions regarding this meeting 

to Roger Peterson, Public Affairs 

Specialist, at (360) 891–5007, or write 

Forest Headquarters Office, Gifford 

Pinchot National Forest, 10600 NE. 51st 

Circle, Vancouver, WA 98682. 

Dated: March 6, 2009. 

Janine Clayton, 

Forest Supervisor. 

[FR Doc. E9–5588 Filed 3–16–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–11–M 

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: National Immunization Survey 

Evaluation Study. 

Form Number(s): Numerous. 

OMB Control Number: None. 

Type of Request: New collection. 

Burden Hours: 1,445. 

Number of Respondents: 2,695. 

Average Hours Per Response: 32 

minutes. 

Needs and Uses: On behalf of the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC), U.S. Department of 

Health and Human Services, the U.S. 

Census Bureau requests authorization of 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) to conduct an evaluation study 

of an alternative sampling methodology 

for the National Immunization Survey 

(NIS). The purpose of this study is to 

explore how collaborating with the CDC 

and using the American Community 

Survey (ACS) as the sampling frame for 

selecting eligible households could 

result in improvements to the NIS. Use 

of the ACS as a sampling frame, which 

includes non-landline households and 

also identifies households with ageeligible children, would provide a more 

complete sampling frame for the NIS 

and could substantially reduce data 

collection costs. 

The NIS is currently a continuing, 

nationwide random-digit-dialing (RDD) 

landline telephone survey of families 

with children aged 19 to 35 months, and 

teens aged 13–17 years, followed by a 

mailed survey to children’s 

immunization providers. Since the 

survey’s inception to the present, 

private contractors have conducted the 

NIS for the CDC. National, state, and 

local level estimates of vaccine-specific 

coverage, including newly licensed 

vaccines, are produced annually. 

The NIS was established to provide an 

on going, consistent data set for 

analyzing vaccination coverage among 

young children in the United States and 

disseminating this information to state 

and local health departments and other 

interested public health partners. One of 

the goals of the 1993 Childhood 

Immunization Initiative was to achieve 

target vaccination coverage levels for 2- 

year-old children. One of the activities 

for meeting these goals was to improve 

surveillance for vaccine coverage. As a 

result, funding for the NIS was provided 

and data collection began in April 1994. 

Subsequently, national Healthy People 

2000 and 2010 objectives included 

targets for childhood and adolescent 

vaccination rates. Currently, the NIS 

provides vaccination coverage estimates 

annually for children aged 19–35 

months and teens aged 13–17 years, by 

state and at least six city/county areas. 

The information collected is used to 

evaluate state and local immunization 

programs, to develop health care 

policies, and to assist in the 

determination of funding allocations for 

the Vaccines for Children (VFC) 

program. Since 1994, the VFC program 

has helped families of children who 

may not otherwise have access to 

vaccines by providing free vaccines to 

doctors who serve them. 

In recent years, the NIS has covered 

a decreasing portion of the target 

population as more households rely 

solely on cell phone telephone service. 

Based on data from January–June 2008 

from the National Health Interview 

Survey (NHIS), 29 percent of children 

under three years of age lived in 

households without landline services. 

Among households with both landline 

and cell phone service, some may 

primarily use their cell phones and be 

less likely to respond to calls to their 

landlines. As part of the CDC’s 

continuing effort to evaluate and refine 

the NIS, this study is intended to 

explore how sampling from the ACS for 

households with age-eligible children 

having landline, cell phone only, and no 

telephone service could result in 

improvements to the survey, 

particularly in terms of coverage, 

response, and cost, and whether the 

ACS and supplemental administrative 

files can be used to identify a sufficient 

sample of children for national, state 

and local level assessment. 

The NIS is the largest survey ever 

conducted to assess vaccination 

coverage of young children and 

adolescents in the U.S. and is used to 

measure and assess changes in 

vaccination coverage levels over time. 

Also, the NIS helps track progress 

towards public health immunization 

goals. The purpose of this evaluation 

study is to determine if using the ACS 

as the frame from which to select the 

NIS sample will result in improvements 

to the survey, in terms of providing a 

more complete sampling frame, 

increasing response rates, and 

decreasing data collection costs. The 

evaluation study will be kept as closely 

as possible to the current NIS to allow 

comparisons, but plans are to 

incorporate innovations that could be 

implemented eventually as part of a full 

production survey. With the overall goal 

of improving response rates and 

coverage, possible experiments could 

include offering incentives to all 

sampled households or using different 

versions of the advance letter or 

screener to encourage participation. 

The NIS is an important tool for 

measuring vaccination coverage levels 

for the nation; however, there are 

limitations and challenges that the 

current NIS faces. The NIS evaluation 

study provides the CDC with the 

opportunity to explore some possible 

changes to the survey methodology in 

an attempt to assess new options and 

refine current methods. One major 

design change is in the sample 

selection. The current NIS sample is 

selected by landline RDD, whereas the 

sample for the NIS Evaluation Study is 

a targeted sample of age-eligible 

respondents drawn from the ACS 

sample. Using the ACS as the NIS 

sampling frame provides a rich source 

of data for non-respondents and allows 

for more powerful weighting 

adjustments. Furthermore, the NIS RDD 

sample is limited to households with 

landline telephone service. However, 

the Evaluation Study sample will not 

only include households with landline 

service but also non-landline 

households (wireless service only) and 

households with no phone service. The 

information collected from the latter 

two groups will assist the CDC in 


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assessing the potential bias in the 

current NIS estimates from the 

exclusion of these households. 

However, the success of the evaluation 

is contingent on the Census Bureau’s 

ability to draw sufficient sample from 

the ACS for state and local area 

estimates. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households; businesses or other forprofit. 

Frequency: One time. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: Title 13, United 

States Code, Section 8 and the Public 

Health Service Act, Title 42, United 

States Code, Sections 306 & 2102(a)(7). 

OMB Desk Officer: Brian HarrisKojetin, (202) 395–7314. 

Copies of the above information 

collection proposal can be obtained by 

calling or writing Diana Hynek, 

Departmental Paperwork Clearance 

Officer, (202) 482–0266, Department of 

Commerce, Room 7845, 14th and 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 

dhynek@doc.gov). 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to Brian Harris-Kojetin, OMB 

Desk Officer either by fax (202–395– 

7245) or email (bharrisk@omb.eop.gov). 

Dated: March 11, 2009. 

Glenna Mickelson, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–5657 Filed 3–16–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–07–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Bureau of the Census 

Census Advisory Committees 

AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, 

Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of the Census 

(Census Bureau) is giving notice of a 

joint meeting of the Census Advisory 

Committees (CACs) on the African 

American Population, the American 

Indian and Alaska Native Populations, 

the Asian Population, the Hispanic 

Population, and the Native Hawaiian 

and Other Pacific Islander Populations. 

The Committees will address issues 

related to the 2010 Decennial Census, 

including the Integrated 

Communications Campaign, 2010 

Partnerships, and other decennial 

activities. The five Census Advisory 

Committees on Race and Ethnicity will 

meet in plenary and concurrent sessions 

on April 22–24, 2009. Last minute 

changes to the schedule are possible, 

which could prevent advance 

notification. 

DATES: April 22–24, 2009. On April 22, 

the meeting will begin at approximately 

1 p.m. and end at approximately 5 p.m. 

On April 23, the meeting will begin at 

approximately 8:30 a.m. and end at 

approximately 4:30 p.m. On April 24, 

the meeting will begin at approximately 

8:30 a.m. and end at approximately 3:45 

p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the U.S. Census Bureau, 4600 Silver Hill 

Road, Suitland, Maryland 20746. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeri 

Green, Committee Liaison Officer, 

Department of Commerce, U.S. Census 

Bureau, Room 8H182, 4600 Silver Hill 

Road, Suitland, Maryland 20746, 

telephone 301–763–6590. For TTY 

callers, please use the Federal Relay 

Service 1–800–877–8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The CACs 

on the African American Population, 

the American Indian and Alaska Native 

Populations, the Asian Population, the 

Hispanic Population, and the Native 

Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 

Populations are comprised of nine 

members each. The Committees provide 

an organized and continuing channel of 

communication between the 

representative race and ethnic 

populations and the Census Bureau. The 

Committees provide an outside-user 

perspective and advice on research and 

design plans for the 2010 Decennial 

Census, the American Community 

Survey, and other related programs 

particularly as they pertain to an 

accurate count of these communities. 

The Committees also assist the Census 

Bureau on ways that census data can 

best be disseminated to diverse race and 

ethnic populations and other users. The 

Committees are established in 

accordance with the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (Title 5, United States 

Code, Appendix 2, Section 10(a)(b)). 

All meetings are open to the public. 

A brief period will be set aside at the 

meeting for public comment. However, 

individuals with extensive questions or 

statements must submit them in writing 

to Ms. Jeri Green at least three days 

before the meeting. Seating is available 

to the public on a first-come, first-served 

basis. 

These meetings are physically 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Requests for sign language 

interpretation or other auxiliary aids 

should be directed to the Committee 

Liaison Officer as soon as possible, 

preferably two weeks prior to the 

meeting. 

Due to increased security and for 

access to the meeting, please call 301– 

763–3231 upon arrival at the Census 

Bureau on the day of the meeting. A 

photo ID must be presented in order to 

receive your visitor’s badge. Visitors are 

not allowed beyond the first floor. 

Dated: March 10, 2009. 

Thomas L. Mesenbourg, 

Acting Director, Bureau of the Census. 

[FR Doc. E9–5677 Filed 3–16–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–07–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

A–570–880 

Barium Carbonate from the People’s 

Republic of China: Continuation of 

Antidumping Duty Order 

AGENCY: Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: As a result of the 

determinations by the Department of 

Commerce (‘‘Department’’) and the 

International Trade Commission (‘‘ITC’’) 

that revocation of the existing 

antidumping duty (‘‘AD’’) order on 

barium carbonate from the People’s 

Republic of China (‘‘PRC’’) would likely 

lead to continuation or recurrence of 

dumping and material injury to an 

industry in the United States within a 

reasonably foreseeable time, the 

Department is publishing this notice of 

continuation of the AD order. 

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 17, 2009. 

FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: Hallie Noel 

Zink at 202–482–6907; AD/CVD 

Operations, Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 

Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, 

Washington, DC 20230. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On September 2, 2008, the 

Department initiated a sunset review of 

the antidumping duty order on barium 

carbonate from the PRC pursuant to 

section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, 

as amended (‘‘Act’’). See Initiation of 

Five-year (‘‘Sunset’’) Review, 73 FR 

51275 (September 2, 2008); see also 

Antidumping Duty Order: Barium 

Carbonate from the People’s Republic of 

China, 68 FR 56619 (October 1, 2003). 

As a result of its review, the Department 

found that revocation of this AD order 

would likely lead to continuation or 

recurrence of dumping and notified the 


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