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6Admin. Conf. of the U.S., Recommendation 

2010–1, Agency Procedures for Considering 

Preemption of State Law, 76 FR 81 (Jan. 3, 2011). 

7Admin. Conf. of the U.S., Recommendation 

2014–5, Retrospective Review of Agency Rules, 79 

FR 75114 (Dec. 17, 2014). 

8Admin. Conf. of the U.S., Recommendation 

2020–1, Rules on Rulemakings, 86 FR 6613 (Jan. 22, 

2021). 

ACUS has also emphasized the 

importance of effective consultation 

with State, local, and Tribal officials, 

recommending, for example, that 

agencies adopt best practices for 

consulting with State and local 

governments in cases of potential 

preemption of State law; 6 consider how 

State, local, and Tribal governments will 

be involved in the retrospective review 

of agency rules; 7 and codify regulations 

describing how they obtain feedback 

from State, local, and Tribal 

governments.8

Agencies have adopted a variety of 

approaches to consulting with State, 

local, and Tribal governments, and there 

is still more that can be learned from a 

comprehensive study of agency 

consultation practices. To that end, 

ACUS is undertaking a project to 

examine when and how agencies 

consult with State, local, and Tribal 

officials on regulatory policymaking. 

Among other topics, the project will 

address agency policies and procedures 

for consulting with State, local, and 

Tribal governments; agencies’ 

approaches to identifying and engaging 

with appropriate State, local, and Tribal 

officials; methods for utilizing feedback 

from State, local, and Tribal 

governments in agency decision making; 

and common issues and challenges that 

agencies face in developing and 

implementing accountable processes for 

consultation. 

Specific Topics for Public Comment 

ACUS welcomes views, information, 

and data on all aspects of strategies that 

agencies are using or might use to 

consult with State, local, and/or Tribal 

governments when they engage in 

regulatory policymaking. ACUS also 

seeks specific feedback on the following 

questions related to agencies’ 

consultation efforts: 

1. What has been your experience

regarding consultations with a Federal 

agency engaging in regulatory 

policymaking? For example, if you are 

(or were) a State, local, or Tribal 

government official, was any portion of 

the process especially easy or 

particularly difficult? Do you have 

specific suggestions for increasing the 

effectiveness of consultations in 

regulatory policymaking? 

2. If you have been involved in a

consultation, how often are (or were) 

you contacted by Federal agencies to 

consult on a particular regulatory 

policy? How often do (or did) you 

contact Federal agencies to request a 

consultation on a given regulatory 

policy? What was your experience with 

requesting a consultation? What tasks 

do (or did) you undertake as part of the 

consultation effort? At what stage in the 

regulatory policymaking process were 

you consulted by a Federal agency? In 

your experience, was that consultation 

timed too early, appropriately, or too 

late? 

3. If you have been involved in a

consultation, how did you feel your 

feedback during the consultation 

process was used by Federal agencies? 

Were you satisfied with how your input 

was used? Why or why not? Do you 

recall whether the Federal agency 

explained to you how they incorporated 

your feedback into the regulatory 

policymaking process? Do you have 

specific suggestions for incorporating 

feedback into the regulatory 

policymaking process? 

4. In your experience, are there

certain types of information that may be 

useful to share during consultation but 

which you may not want to disclose, for 

example confidential or culturally 

sensitive information? If so, do you have 

any specific recommendations for how 

Federal Government agencies can best 

manage this information as it considers 

a regulatory policy that may have 

federalism or Tribal implications? 

5. In your experience, how easy or

difficult was it to locate the appropriate 

agency official with responsibility for 

State, local, or Tribal government 

matters when seeking to or engaging in 

consultation efforts? How, if at all, did 

this impact consultation efforts? Do you 

have any specific recommendations to 

facilitate communication among 

Federal, State, local, and Tribal 

government officials for consultations 

on regulatory policymaking? 

6. If you are familiar with agency

policies on State, local, or Tribal 

government consultation, what are your 

thoughts on such policies? 

7. In your experience, what makes a

consultation successful? What makes a 

consultation unsuccessful? Do you have 

any specific recommendations on 

reducing barriers to effective and 

meaningful consultation among and 

between Federal, State, local, and Tribal 

government officials? 

8. In your opinion, what role can

State, local, and government officials 

play to facilitate consultation, and how 

should Federal Government agencies 

encourage such actions, if at all? 

Dated: December 12, 2024. 

Shawne C. McGibbon, 

General Counsel. 

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ACTION: Announcement of virtual 

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given, 

pursuant to the provisions of the rules 

and regulations of the U.S. Commission 

on Civil Rights (Commission) and the 

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Members of the public are entitled to 

make comments during the open period 

at the end of the meeting. Members of 

the public may also submit written 

comments; the comments must be 

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within 30 days following the meeting. 

Written comments may be emailed to 

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Commission on Civil Rights, New 

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Persons interested in the work of this 

Committee are directed to the 

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Regional Programs Coordination Unit at 

atrevino@usccr.gov. 

Agenda 

I. Welcoming Opening Remarks 

II. Panelist Remarks 

III. Committee Q&A 

IV. Public Comment 

V. Adjournment 

Dated: December 13, 2024. 

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Supervisory Chief, Regional Programs Unit. 

[FR Doc. 2024–29987 Filed 12–17–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 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; Business Trends and 

Outlook Survey (BTOS) 

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 revisions to 

the BTOS 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 February 18, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments by 

email to Thomas.J.Smith@census.gov. 

Please reference BTOS in the subject 

line of your comments. You may also 

submit comments, identified by Docket 

Number USCB–2024–0034, to the 

Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: http://

www.regulations.gov. All comments 

received are part of the public record. 

No comments will be posted to http:// 

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 

Catherine Buffington, Chief, Economic 

Indicator Division, 301–763–1838, and 

catherine.d.buffington@census.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The U.S. Census Bureau plans to 

request a 3-year extension with 

revisions from the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for the 

Business Trends and Outlook Survey 

(BTOS). The BTOS has produced data 

products on a bi-weekly basis since 

October 2022. This continuous near real 

time data collection and publication 

provides a baseline of the U.S. economy 

and measures change as a result of 

current and future economic shocks. 

BTOS uses ongoing data collection to 

produce high frequency, timely, and 

granular information about current 

economic conditions and trends. BTOS 

is the only biweekly business tendency 

survey produced by the federal 

statistical system, providing unique and 

detailed data during times of economic 

or other emergencies. The BTOS target 

population is all nonfarm employer 

businesses with receipts of $1,000 or 

more in the United States, the District 

of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. The 

current sample consists of 

approximately 1.2 million businesses 

divided into six panels. A new sample 

collection is conducted each year. Data 

collection occurs every two weeks, and 

businesses in each panel are asked to 

report once every 12 weeks for one year. 

Data are released every 2 weeks and are 

available by 2017 North American 

Industry Classification System (NAICS) 

sector, state, the 25 most populous 

Metropolitan Statistical Areas and 

employment size. Data are also available 

by subsector (3-digit NAICS) and sector 

by employment size. 

Data from BTOS are currently used to 

provide timely data to understand the 

economic conditions being experienced 

by businesses; BTOS provides near real 

time data on key items such as revenue, 

paid employees, hours worked as well 

as inventories. BTOS also provides high 

level information on the changing share 

of businesses facing difficulties 

stemming from supply chain issues, 

interest rate changes, and/or weatherrelated events. Previously, there had 

been few data sources available to 

policymakers, media outlets, and 

academia that delivered near real time 

insights into economic trends and 

outlooks. BTOS data has consistently 

been used by the Small Business 

Administration to evaluate the impact of 

regulatory changes. 

The BTOS collects the following highlevel topics for the previous two weeks, 

and the items in bold have 6-month 

future projections: 

• Overall performance 

• Revenue 

• Employment 

• Hours worked 

• Artificial Intelligence 

• Operating status 

• Inventories 

• Delivery time 

• Demand 

• Output prices 

• Input prices 

• Interest Rates 

• Loss—Weather Event 

For the first year of BTOS, the content 

remained unchanged at 26 questions. 

For the second sample year, the BTOS 

moved to a set of core questions and 

supplemental content. Supplemental 

content is designed to provide urgently 

needed data on an emerging or current 

issue. For the first collection of 

supplemental content, the topic was on 

business use of artificial intelligence. 

Due to vast demand to continue this 

data series, the Census Bureau plans to 

request a revision to include the 

artificial intelligence supplement again 

for the fourth sample year of BTOS. 

BTOS data is collected in near real 

time and disseminated as experimental 

products. BTOS data is experimental 


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