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Regional Programs Coordination Unit at 

the above phone number. 

Agenda 

I. Welcome & Roll Call 

II. Committee Discussion 

III. Public Comment 

IV. Next Steps 

V. Adjournment 

Dated: April 22, 2022. 

David Mussatt, 

Supervisory Chief, Regional Programs Unit. 

[FR Doc. 2022–09051 Filed 4–27–22; 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; Annual Survey of School 

System Finances 

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 revision of 

the Annual Survey of School System 

Finances, 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 June 27, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments by 

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

Please reference Annual Survey of 

School System Finances in the subject 

line of your comments. You may also 

submit comments, identified by Docket 

Number USBC–2022–0007, 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 Stephen 

Wheeler, Survey Statistician, Education 

Finance Branch, 301–763–9950, and 

Stephen.Wheeler@census.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The U.S. Census Bureau plans to 

continue the current Office of 

Management and Budget clearance for 

the Annual Survey of School System 

Finances with revisions. The Annual 

Survey of School System Finances is the 

only comprehensive source of prekindergarten through 12th grade public 

elementary-secondary school system 

finance data collected on a nationwide 

scale using uniform definitions, 

concepts, and procedures. The 

collection covers the revenues, 

expenditures, debt, and assets of all 

public elementary-secondary school 

systems. This data collection has been 

cosponsored by and coordinated with 

the National Center for Education 

Statistics (NCES). The NCES uses this 

collection to satisfy its need for school 

finance data. 

Fiscal data provided by respondents’ 

aid data users in measuring the 

effectiveness of resource allocation. The 

products of this data collection make it 

possible for data users to search a single 

database to obtain information on such 

things as per pupil expenditures and the 

percent of state, local, and federal 

funding for each school system. 

Elementary-secondary education related 

spending is the single largest financial 

activity of state and local governments. 

Education finance statistics provided by 

the Census Bureau allow for analyses of 

how public elementary-secondary 

school systems receive their funding 

and how they are spending their funds. 

The Annual Survey of School System 

Finances was revised for the fiscal year 

(FY) 2020 collection to include 12 new 

data items in response to the COVID–19 

pandemic. Six revenue data items and 

six expenditure items were added to the 

survey to collect financial information 

from school systems concerning the 

Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic 

Security (CARES) Act of 2020. The 

survey was then revised again for the FY 

2021 collection in response to new 

legislation passed due to the COVID–19 

pandemic, including the Coronavirus 

Response and Relief Supplemental 

Appropriations Act (CRRSA) and the 

American Rescue Plan (ARP). Four new 

revenue items were added to the survey 

to collect financial data based on these 

two new legislative acts and two 

obsolete revenue items added in FY 

2020 in response to the COVID–19 

pandemic were removed from the 

survey. Two new expenditure items 

were also added to expand the scope of 

financial data collected concerning 

COVID–19 federal assistance funds. 

This proposed revision to the Annual 

Survey of School System Finances is to 

further expand the collection of 

expenditure data for COVID–19 federal 

assistance funds. The CARES Act of 

2020 established several relief funds 

that would be made available to school 

systems, including the Elementary and 

Secondary School Emergency Relief 

(ESSER) Fund, the Governor’s 

Emergency Education Relief (GEER) 

Fund, and the Coronavirus Relief Fund 

(CRF). Subsequent legislation such as 

the CRRSA and the ARP further funded 

these sources and established additional 

funds made available to school systems, 

including the ARP Act Coronavirus 

State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds. 

In response to these various funds being 

established and utilized by school 

systems, 21 new data items will be 

added to the survey to collect data on 

expenditures from these funding 

sources. Three data items collecting data 

for current expenditures, instructional 

expenditures, and capital outlay 

expenditures will be added for seven 

different sources of funds for a total of 

21 new data items. 

As a result of these 21 new data items 

being added to the survey, an increase 

in the total burden hours and estimated 

time per response for the primary 

survey form (F–33) is expected 

compared to prior survey collections. A 

slight decrease in the number of 

supplemental respondents is also 

expected in future collections due to 

school system consolidations, mergers, 

and other factors affecting the 

composition of school systems in states 

where supplemental debt and asset data 

is collected. This will partially offset 

some of the increase in total burden 

hours as a result of the 21 new items 

collected on the survey; however, an 

overall increase in total burden hours is 

still expected. 

II. Method of Collection 

A letter is mailed electronically at the 

beginning of each survey period to 

solicit the assistance of the state 


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education agencies in the 50 states and 

the District of Columbia. This letter 

officially announces the opening of the 

data collection period and requests 

some administrative data, such as their 

estimated date of submission, any 

change to the reporting format from 

prior year, and updated contact 

information for the state coordinator for 

the survey. 

The survey form (F–33) contains item 

descriptions and definitions of the 

elementary-secondary education finance 

items collected jointly by the Census 

Bureau and NCES. It is used primarily 

as a worksheet and instruction guide by 

the state education agencies providing 

school finance data centrally for the 

school systems in their respective states. 

The Census Bureau collects almost all 

the finance data for local school systems 

from state education agency databases 

through central collection arrangements 

with the state education agencies. The 

states transfer this information in 

electronic format over the internet via 

file transfer protocol. The Census 

Bureau has also facilitated central 

collection of school system finance data 

by accepting data in multiple formats. 

Supplemental forms are sent to local 

school systems in states where the state 

education agency cannot centrally 

provide information on assets (F–33– 

L1), indebtedness (F–33–L2), or both (F– 

33–L3). School systems have the option 

of completing a paper form to mail back 

to the Census Bureau or completing the 

survey using an online web application. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0700. 

Form Number(s): F–33, Supplemental 

forms: F–33–L1, F–33–L2 and F–33–L3. 

Type of Review: Regular submission, 

Request for a Revision of a Currently 

Approved Collection. 

Affected Public: State and local 

governments. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: F– 

33: 51, Supplemental: 3426. 

Estimated Time per Response: F–33: 

70 hours, 45 minutes, Supplemental: 15 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 4465. 

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: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: Census: Title 13 

U.S.C. Sections 8(b), 161, and 182. 

NCES: Title 20 U.S.C. Sections 9543–44. 

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, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Chief Information Officer, Commerce 

Department. 

[FR Doc. 2022–09104 Filed 4–27–22; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Withdrawal of Prior Notice 

and Proposed Submission of 

Information Collection for OMB 

Review; Comment Request; Medical 

Exception Request 

The Department of Commerce 

(Department) published a notice in the 

Federal Register of its intent to request 

that the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) extend approval, without 

change, under the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA), to a collection of information 

for its employees to request a medical 

exception to the COVID–19 vaccination 

requirement on January 25, 2022. That 

notice was withdrawn in light of the 

January 21, 2022 nationwide 

preliminary injunction enjoining 

implementation and enforcement of the 

federal employee vaccination 

requirement pursuant to the President’s 

Executive Order 14043 of September 9, 

2021, ‘‘Requiring Coronavirus Disease 

2019 Vaccination for Federal 

Employees.’’ The Department sought 

comment on its new notice of intent to 

request that OMB approve, without 

change, under the PRA, a collection of 

information for its employees to request 

a medical exception to the COVID–19 

vaccination requirement via the Federal 

Register on February 15, 2022, 87 FR 

8561, during a 60-day comment period. 

This notice allows for an additional 30 

days for public comments. We invite 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. 

Agency: Office of the Secretary, 

Commerce. 

Title: Request for a Medical 

Exemption to the COVID–19 

Vaccination Requirement Form. 

OMB Control Number: 0690–0036. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Regular submission; 

Extension of an already approved 

collection. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

1,000. 

Estimated Time per Response: 10 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 167. 

Needs and Uses: Under Executive 

Order 14043, every Federal agency must 

‘‘implement, to the extent consistent 

with applicable law, a program to 

require COVID–19 vaccination for all of 

its federal employees, with exceptions 

only as required by law.’’ In following 

this directive, the Department imposed 

a requirement that its employees must 

receive and submit proof of COVID–19 

vaccination. As required by 29 U.S.C. 

701 et seq. and 29 CFR part 1630, the 

Department allows an exception from 

the vaccination requirement for 

employees who demonstrate medical 

reasons or disabilities that would make 

the COVID–19 vaccine unsafe for them. 

To obtain this exception, employees can 

submit the Request for Medical 

Exception to the COVID–19 Vaccination 

Requirement form available from the 

Department’s COVID–19 Information 

Hub. The Department uses the 

information on this form to verify 

employees’ assertions that they are 

entitled to an exception to the COVID– 

19 vaccination requirement because of 

their medical or disability statuses. 

Affected Public: Federal employees 

and medical providers. 

Legal Authority: Executive Order 

(E.O.) 14043. 


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