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Notices Federal Register

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Vol. 61, No. 98

Monday, May 20, 1996

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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. 35).

Agency: Patent and Trademark Office

(PTO).

Title: Address-Affecting Provisions.

Agency Approval Number: 0651–

0035.

Type of Request: Regular.

Burden: 8,970 hours.

Number of Respondents: 44,850.

Avg. Hour Per Response: .2 hours.

Needs and Uses: This submission of

information is used by the PTO to

ensure that the information as to the

agent or representative, if any, and the

correspondence address is current so

that correspondence to the

representative/applicant from the PTO,

whenever such correspondence is

mailed, is timely received.

Affected Public: Individuals or

Households, Business or other for-profit

Institutions, not-for-profit Institutions

and the Federal Government.

Frequency: Reporting on Occasion.

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.

OMB Desk Officer: Maya A. Bernstein,

(202) 395–3785.

Copies of the above information

collection proposal can be obtained by

calling or writing Linda Engelmeier,

Departmental Forms Clearance Officer,

Department of Commerce, Room 5327,

14th and Constitution Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, DC 20230.

Written comments and

recommendations for the proposed

information collection should be sent to

Maya Bernstein, OMB Desk Office, room

10236, New Executive Office Building,

Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: May 15, 1996.

Linda Engelmeier,

Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office

of Management and Organization.

[FR Doc. 96–12644 Filed 5–17–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–16–P

Bureau of the Census

1996 Integrated Coverage

Measurement (ICM) Activities—Person

Interview and Reconciliation Activities

ACTION: Proposed Agency Information

Collection Activity; Comment Request.

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 1955,

Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C.

3506(c)(2)(A)).

DATES: Written comments must be

submitted on or before July 19, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments

to Linda Engelmeier, Acting

Departmental Forms Clearance Officer,

Department of Commerce, Room 5327,

14th and Constitution Avenue, NW,

Washington, D.C. 20230.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or

copies of the information collection

instrument(s) and instructions should

be directed to David C. Whitford,

Bureau of the Census, Room 3771,

Washington, D.C. 20233, (301) 457–

4035.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

The Bureau of the Census developed

the Integrated Coverage Measurement

(ICM) approach for measuring coverage

of populations during the decennial

census. In the 1996 Community Census,

we are interested in refining our ICM

approach to measuring the coverage of

the census for housing units, people,

group quarters with a dormitory style of

living arrangement, and incorporating

the use of administrative records into

the ICM. The 1996 Community Census

will be conducted in an urban site (six

noncontiguous census tracts in Chicago,

Illinois) and two American Indian

Reservations (Pueblo of Acoma, New

Mexico, and Fort Hall Indian

Reservation, Idaho).

As soon as the census enumeration is

complete, the ICM Person Interview will

be conducted using a Computer

Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI)

instrument, a laptop computer. The

census enumerations and information

from administrative records will be

loaded into the CAPI instrument before

interviewing begins.

Intensive probing techniques will be

used to reconstruct a roster of the

residents of the housing unit on census

day. The interviewing instrument will

examine whether all people mentioned

during the interview should be

enumerated at the housing unit in

question according to census residency

rules. For units not enumerated in the

census, the interviewer will ask probing

questions to determine the status of the

units and their occupants on census

day, October 5, 1996. Then some initial

matching and linking between the

roster, the census enumeration, and the

administrative records are done within

the CAPI instrument. The interviewer

will then reconcile the differences

between the census enumerations, the

administrative records, and the ICM

interview. From this ‘‘resolved’’ roster

we will have the information we need

to produce final estimates of the

coverage of the census. The interview

data will identify persons missed or

incorrectly included in the census as

well as persons correctly enumerated.

For quality assurance, at maximum, a

20 percent random sample of

respondents in the ICM sample will be

reinterviewed using a shortened version

of the ICM Person Interview. This

reinterview will be done on the CAPI

instrument.

After the ICM Person Interviews are

conducted, we will conduct an

Evaluation Interview; it will be identical

to the ICM Person Interview and will be

conducted using the CAPI instrument.

The objective of this interview is to

measure and evaluate data collection

error associated with the ICM Person

Interview.

An Outmover Tracing Operation will

be conducted during the time series

when the ICM Person Interviews are

being completed. For households where

the census day residents have moved

out, as identified through the ICM

Person Interview, we will attempt to
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obtain an ICM proxy interview from the

current residents or another reliable

proxy. We will attempt to obtain the

current address and/or telephone

number of the census day residents. We

will interview the ‘‘outmovers’’ at their

current address in person or by

telephone using the ICM Outmover

Tracing Questionnaire, Form DT–1340.

For outmover households where we

successfully trace and interview a

member of the Census day household,

the information obtained in this

interview will be used instead of the

information obtained from the proxy.

For households where we are unable to

locate the Census day residents or

obtain an interview from them, we will

use the information from the proxy

interview.

The ICM Outmover Tracing

Questionnaire will also be used in the

Outmover Evaluation. The evaluation

will measure how effectively the ICM

Person Interview identified outmovers.

After the person interview and

subsequent matching operation, person

matching for Dual System Estimation

(DSE) will be conducted. For DSE,

results of the ICM Person Interview are

combined with the census results to

produce a measure of the true

population. The estimation technique is

called DSE because two independent

sources of information or systems are

used. Follow-up interviews using Form

DT–1301 are needed when prior

information is insufficient to determine

a person’s residence status or match

status. After the DSE Follow-up

Interview, the results will be coded. The

files will then be prepared for missing

data and estimation activities.

We will also obtain administrative

records of all persons living in

dormitories in the urban portion of the

1996 Community Census and match the

administrative records to the census.

Cases that are possibly matched or

nonmatched will be sent to the field for

resolution. The DSE Follow-up form,

DT–1301A, used during this field

resolution will contain only one or two

questions to ask of these people. The

purpose of the questions is to determine

residency status of the people living in

dormitories. We will analyze the results

of this operation to determine if in

Census 2000, we can use administrative

records in place of enumeration during

the ICM.

II. Method of Collection

Person to person interview.

III. Data

OMB Number: Not available.

Form Number: CAPI Person Interview

(no form number); ICM Person Interview

QA (no form number); DT–1340,

Outmover Tracing Questionnaire; DT–

1301, DSE Follow-up Form; and DT1301A, DSE Follow-up Form for

Dormitories.

Type of Review: Regular.

Affected Public: Individuals or

households.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

14,188 housing units and 120 people in

dormitories.

Estimated Time Per Response: 20

minutes (CAPI Person Interview,

Evaluation Interview, Outmover Tracing

Questionnaire, and Outmover Tracing

Evaluation), 10 minutes (CAPI Person

Interview QA); 15 minutes (DSE Followup Form); and 1 minute (DSE Follow-up

Form for Dormitories).

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours: 4,327 hours. CAPI Person

Interview=3333 hours (20

minutes×10,000 housing units); CAPI

Person Interview QA=342 hours (10

minutes×2,053 housing units);

Evaluation Interview=149 hours (20

minutes by 446 housing units);

Outmover Tracing=267 hours (20

minutes×800 housing units); Outmover

Tracing Evaluation=58 hours (20

minutes×175 housing units); DSE

Follow-up=178 hours (15 minutes×714

housing units); and DSE Follow-up for

Dormitories=2 hours (1 minute×120

people).

Estimated Total Annual Cost:

$1,576,998.

IV. Request for Comments

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether

the proposed collection of information

is necessary for the proper performance

of the functions of the agency, including

whether the information will have

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the

agency’s estimate of the burden

(including hours and cost) of the

proposed collection of information; (c)

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the

burden of the collection of information

on respondents, including through the

use of automated collection techniques

or other forms of information

technology.

Comments submitted in response to

this notice will be summarized and/or

included in the request for OMB

approval of this information collection;

they also will become a matter of public

record.

Dated: May 14, 1996.

Linda Engelmeier,

Acting Departmental Forms Clearance

Officer, Office of Management and

Organization.

[FR Doc. 96–12521 Filed 5–17–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–07–P

1997 Economic Censuses Refile

Classification Survey

ACTION: Proposed Agency Information

Collection Activity; Comment Request.

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,

Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C.

3506(c)(2)(A)).

DATES: Written comments must be

submitted on or before July 19, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments

to Linda Engelmeier, Acting

Departmental Forms Clearance Officer,

Department of Commerce, Room 5327,

14th and Constitution Avenue, NW,

Washington, DC 20230.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or

copies of the information collection

instrument(s) and instructions should

be directed to William Bostic, Bureau of

the Census, Room 2641, Building 3,

Washington, DC 20233–6100, and 301–

457–2672 or email at

William.G.Bostic.Jr@Info.Census.Gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

The Census Bureau is the preeminent

collector of timely, relevant and quality

data about the people and economy of

the United States. Economic data are the

Census Bureau’s primary program

commitment during non-decennial

census years. The economic census,

conducted under authority of Title 13

U.S.C., is the primary source of facts

about the structure and functioning of

the Nation’s economy and features

unique industry and geographic detail.

Economic census statistics serve as part

of the framework for the national

accounts and provide essential

information for government, business

and the general public.

The 1997 Economic Census will cover

virtually every sector of the U.S.

economy. The 1987 Standard Industrial

Classification (SIC) system is being

replaced by the new 1997 North

American Industry Classification

System (NAICS). The Census Bureau is

implementing the new NAICS for the

1997 Economic Censuses. The change to

NAICS will require contacting

businesses of selected sectors to collect

classification information to update the

1997 Economic Censuses mailing lists.

The non-goods producing sector which