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29739 

Vol. 79, No. 100 

Friday, May 23, 2014 

COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS 

Meeting; Sunshine Act Notice 

AGENCY: United States Commission on 

Civil Rights. 

ACTION: Amended Notice of Business 

Meeting. 

DATE AND TIME: Friday, May 16, 2014; 

9:30 a.m. E.S.T. 

PLACE: 1331 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Suite 1150, Washington, DC 20425. 

Meeting Agenda 

I. Approval of Agenda 

II. Program Planning 

• Discussion and Vote on Part A of 

the briefing report: Sex Trafficking: 

A Gender-Based Civil Rights 

Violation 

• Discussion and Vote on Part A of 

the briefing report: Engagement 

with Arab and Muslim American 

Communities Post 9/11 

• Consideration and Vote on 

Commission Resolution 

Commemorating the Anniversary of 

the Civil Rights Act of 1964 

• Consideration and Vote on Press 

Release commemorating the 60th 

Anniversary of Brown v. Board of 

Education 

III. Management and Operations 

• Staff Director’s Report 

IV. State Advisory Committee (SAC) 

Appointments 

• Kansas 

• Utah 

Motion & Vote to Close Meeting at 10:56 

a.m. 

Meeting Was Reopened at 11:17 a.m. 

• Connecticut 

• Vermont 

V. Adjourn Meeting 

CONTACT PERSON FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION: Lenore Ostrowsky, Acting 

Chief, Public Affairs Unit (202) 376– 

8591. 

Hearing-impaired persons who will 

attend the meeting and require the 

services of a sign language interpreter 

should contact Pamela Dunston at (202) 

376–8105 or at signlanguage@usccr.gov 

at least seven business days before the 

scheduled date of the meeting. 

Dated: May 20, 2014. 

Marlene Sallo, 

Staff Director. 

[FR Doc. 2014–12058 Filed 5–21–14; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 6335–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Census Bureau 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request; Survey of Housing 

Starts, Sales, and Completions 

AGENCY: U.S. Census Bureau, 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

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. 

DATES: To ensure consideration, written 

comments must be submitted on or 

before July 22, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental 

Paperwork Clearance Officer, 

Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 

14th and Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20230 (or via the 

Internet at jjessup@doc.gov). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument(s) and instructions should 

be directed to Erica Filipek, U.S. Census 

Bureau, MCD, CENHQ Room 7K057, 

4600 Silver Hill Road, Washington, DC 

20233, telephone (301)763–5161 (or via 

the Internet at Erica.Mary.Filipek@

census.gov). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The U.S. Census Bureau plans to 

request a three-year extension of the 

current Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) clearance of the Survey 

of Housing Starts, Sales and 

Completions, also known as the Survey 

of Construction (SOC). The SOC collects 

monthly data on new residential 

construction from a sample of owners or 

builders. The Census Bureau uses the 

Computer-Assisted Personal 

Interviewing (CAPI) electronic 

questionnaires SOC–QI/SF.1 and SOC– 

QI/MF.1 to collect data on start and 

completion dates of construction, 

physical characteristics of the structure 

(floor area, number of bathrooms, type 

of heating system, etc), and if 

applicable, date of sale, sales price, and 

type of financing. The SOC provides 

widely used measures of construction 

activity, including the economic 

indicators Housing Starts and Housing 

Completions, which are from the New 

Residential Construction series, and 

New Residential Sales. 

The current clearance for this survey 

is scheduled to expire on October 31, 

2014. No changes are planned to the 

questionnaire. 

We sample about 1,700 new buildings 

each month (20,400 per year). We 

inquire about the progress of each 

building multiple times until it is 

completed (and a sales contract is 

signed, if it is a single-family house that 

is built for sale). For single-family 

buildings, we conduct an average of 

8.17 interviews and for multifamily 

buildings, we conduct an average of 7.0 

interviews. The total number of 

interviews conducted each year for 

single-family buildings is about 107,844 

and for multifamily buildings is about 

50,400. Each interview takes 5 minutes 

on average. Therefore, the total annual 

burden is 13,187 hours. 

II. Method of Collection 

The Census Bureau uses its field 

representatives to collect the data. The 

field representatives conduct interviews 

to obtain data. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0110. 

Form Number(s): SOC–QI/SF.1 and 

SOC–QI/MF.1. 

Type of Review: Regular submission. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households, business or other for-profit 

organizations. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

20,400. 

Estimated Time per Response: 5 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 13,187. 

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