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These standards include Access Road,

Diversion, Drainage Water Management,

Fishpond Management, Irrigation Land

Leveling, Herbaceous Wind Barriers,

Pond Sealing or Lining—Bentonite

Sealant, Pond Sealing or Lining—Soil

dispersant, Roof Runoff Structure, and

Surface Roughening. The standards are

used to convey national guidance when

developing the Field Office Technical

Guide policies. NRCS State

Conservationists and Directors for the

Pacific Basin and Caribbean areas who

choose to adopt these practices for use

within their States/areas will

incorporate them into Section IV of their

Field Office Technical Guide. These

practices may be used in resource

management systems that treat highly

erodible land or on land determined to

be wetland.

EFFECTIVE DATES: Comments will be

received until on or before August 6,

2001. This series of new or revised

conservation practice standards will be

adopted after the close of the 60-day

period.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Single copies of these standards are

available from NRCS–CED in

Washington, DC. Submit individual

inquiries and return any comments in

writing to William Hughey, National

Agricultural Engineer, Natural

Resources Conservation Service, Post

Office Box 2890, Room 6139–S,

Washington, DC 20013–2890; telephone:

(202) 720–5023. The standards are also

available from, and can be downloaded

via the Internet at: http://

www.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/

practice_stds.html.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section

343 of the Federal Agriculture

Improvement and Reform Act of 1996

requires NRCS to make available for

public review and comment proposed

revisions to conservation practice

standards used to carry out the highly

erodible land and wetland provisions of

the law. For the next 60 days, NRCS will

receive comments relative to the

proposed changes. Following that

period, a determination will be made by

NRCS regarding the disposition of those

comments, and a final determination of

change will be made.

Signed in Washington, DC, on April 20,

2001.

Pearlie S. Reed,

Chief, Natural Resources Conservation

Service.

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Submission for OMB Review;

Comment Request

DOC has submitted 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: Census Bureau.

Title: 2001 Panel of the Survey of

Income and Program Participation,

Wave 3 Topical Modules.

Form Number(s): SIPP/CAPI

Automated Instrument, SIPP–21305(L)

Director’s Letter, SIPP–21003 Reminder

Card.

Agency Approval Number: 0607–

0875.

Type of Request: Revision of a

currently approved collection.

Burden: 121,478 hours.

Number of Respondents: 78,750.

Avg Hours Per Response: 30 minutes.

Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census

Bureau requests authorization from the

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) to conduct the Wave 3 Topical

Module interview for the 2001 Panel of

the Survey of Income and Program

Participation (SIPP). We also request

approval for a few replacement

questions in the reinterview instrument.

The core SIPP instrument, and

reinterview instrument were cleared

previously. The reinterview instrument

will be used for quality control

purposes. We are also seeking continued

clearance for the SIPP Methods Panel

instrument field testing to be conducted

in October and November 2001. The test

targets SIPP Wave 1 items and sections

that require thorough and rigorous

testing in order to improve the quality

of core data. The experiment is

conducted under the direction of the

Methods Panel Team, which is

committed to delivering an improved

and less burdensome instrument for use

in the 2004 SIPP Panel.

The SIPP is designed as a continuing

series of national panels of interviewed

households that are introduced every

few years, with each panel having

durations of 3 to 4 years. The 2001 SIPP

Panel is scheduled for three years and

will include nine waves beginning

February 1, 2001.

The survey is molded around a

central ‘‘core’’ of labor force and income

questions that remain fixed throughout

the life of a panel. The core is

supplemented with questions designed

to answer specific needs. These

supplemental questions are included

with the core and are referred to as

‘‘topical modules.’’ The topical modules

for the 2001 Panel Wave 3 are Medical

Expenses and Utilization of Health Care

(Adults and Children), Work Related

Expenses and Child Support Paid, and

Assets, Liabilities, and Eligibility. Wave

3 interviews will be conducted from

October 2001 through January 2002.

Data provided by the SIPP are being

used by economic policymakers, the

Congress, state and local governments,

and Federal agencies that administer

social welfare or transfer payment

programs, such as the Department of

Health and Human Services and the

Department of Agriculture. The SIPP

represents a source of information for a

wide variety of topics and allows

information for separate topics to be

integrated to form a single and unified

database so that the interaction between

tax, transfer, and other government and

private policies can be examined.

Government domestic policy

formulators depend heavily upon the

SIPP information concerning the

distribution of income received directly

as money or indirectly as in-kind

benefits and the effect of tax and

transfer programs on this distribution.

They also need improved and expanded

data on the income and general

economic and financial situation of the

U.S. population. The SIPP has provided

these kinds of data on a continuing basis

since 1983, permitting levels of

economic well-being and changes in

these levels to be measured over time.

Affected Public: Individuals or

households.

Frequency: Every 4 months.

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.

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

Section 182.

OMB Desk Officer: Susan Schechter,

(202) 395–5103.

Copies of the above information

collection proposal can be obtained by

calling or writing Madeleine Clayton,

Departmental Paperwork Clearance

Officer, (202)482–3129, Department of

Commerce, room 6086, 14th and

Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington,

DC 20230 (or via the Internet at

mclayton@doc.gov).

Written comments and

recommendations for the proposed

information collection should be sent

within 30 days of publication of this

notice to Susan Schechter, OMB Desk

Officer, room 10201, New Executive

Office Building, Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: June 1, 2001.

Madeleine Clayton,

Departmental Paperwork Clearance Officer,,

Office of the Chief Information Officer.

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