52264 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 175 / Tuesday, September 9, 2008 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit 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: U.S. Census Bureau. 

Title: 2010 Census. 

Form Number(s): Various. 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0919. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Burden Hours: 23,990,300. 

Number of Respondents: 146,746,000. 

Average Hours Per Response: 9 

minutes and 40 seconds. 

Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census 

Bureau (Census Bureau) requests 

authorization from the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) to 

collect data from the public as part of 

the 2010 Census. Article 1, Section 2 of 

the United States Constitution mandates 

that the U.S. House of Representatives 

be reapportioned every 10 years by 

conducting a national census of all 

residents. In addition to the 

reapportionment of the U.S. Congress, 

by law, Census data are required in 

order to redraw legislative district 

boundaries. Census data also are used to 

determine funding allocations for the 

distribution of hundreds of billions of 

dollars of federal and state funds each 

year. 

Census 2000 was an operational and 

data quality success. However, that 

success was achieved at great 

operational risk and great expense. In 

response to the lessons learned from 

Census 2000, and in striving to better 

meet our Nation’s ever-expanding needs 

for social, demographic, and geographic 

information, the U.S. Department of 

Commerce and the Census Bureau 

developed a multi-year effort to 

completely modernize and re-engineer 

the 2010 Census of Population and 

Housing. This effort required an 

iterative series of tests in 2003 thru 2008 

that provided an opportunity to evaluate 

new or improved question wording and 

questionnaire design, methodologies, 

and use of technology. 

The 2003 Census Test was conducted, 

and designed to evaluate alternative 

self-response options and alternative 

presentation of the race and Hispanic 

origin question. The 2004 Census Test 

studied new methods to improve 

coverage, including procedures for 

reducing duplication, and tested 

respondent reaction to revised race and 

Hispanic origin questions, examples, 

and instructions. The 2005 National 

Census Test was designed to evaluate 

variations of questionnaire content and 

methodology; the 2006 Census Test 

relied on the results of the 2004 Census 

Test to expand on the number of new 

and refined methods; the 2007 test 

refined the design of the bilingual form; 

and the scope of the 2008 Census Dress 

Rehearsal was reduced to carrying out 

address canvassing of neighborhoods to 

improve these processes, along with 

mailout/mailback processes. Many of 

the results of these undertakings are 

applied to the final plans for the 2010 

Census operations where feasible. 

From the 2010 Census, the Census 

Bureau will produce the basic 

population totals by state for 

Congressional apportionment, as 

mandated by the Constitution, and more 

specifically elaborated in Title 13 U.S. 

Code. Title 13 of the United States Code 

also provides for the confidentiality of 

responses to various surveys and 

censuses. 

In compliance with Public Law 94–

171, for each state, the Census Bureau 

will tabulate total population counts by 

race, Hispanic origin, and, for those 18 

years of age and over, by a variety of 

census geographic areas including 

legislative district, voting district, and 

census tabulation blocks. In compliance 

with Public Law 94–171, the Census 

Bureau also will tabulate housing unit 

counts by occupancy status (and 

vacant). 

This clearance request covers the 50 

states, the District of Columbia, Puerto 

Rico, and federally affiliated Americans 

overseas. To enumerate these areas and 

overseas Americans, there are several 

planned operations that will be 

performed by various staffs in the field, 

at headquarters, regional census centers, 

and at local census offices. These 

operations are intended to improve the 

accuracy of census coverage and reduce 

operational risk compared to Census 

2000. The clearance request for 

enumeration of the U.S. Virgin Islands, 

the Commonwealth of the Northern 

Mariana Islands, the Pacific Island Area 

of America Samoa will be covered 

under a separate information collection 

request to OMB. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households. 

Frequency: One-time. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

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

Sections 141 & 193. 

OMB Desk Officer: Brian HarrisKojetin, (202) 395–7314. 

Copies of the above information 

collection proposal can be obtained by 

calling or writing Diana Hynek, 

Departmental Paperwork Clearance 

Officer, (202) 482–0266, Department of 

Commerce, Room 6625, 14th and 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 

dhynek@doc.gov). 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to Brian Harris-Kojetin, OMB 

Desk Officer either by fax (202–395–

7245) or e-mail (bharrisk@omb.eop.gov). 

Dated: September 3, 2008. 

Gwellnar Banks, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit 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: U.S. Census Bureau. 

Title: 2008 Panel of the Survey of 

Income and Program Participation, 

Wave 2 Topical Modules. 

Form Number(s): SIPP 28205(L) 

Director’s Letter; SIPP/CAPI Automated 

Instrument; SIPP 28003 Reminder Card. 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0944. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Burden Hours: 143,303. 

Number of Respondents: 94,500. 

Average 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 2 interview 

for the 2008 Panel of the Survey of 

Income and Program Participation 

(SIPP). The core SIPP and reinterview 

instruments were also cleared under 

this OMB control number. 

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 


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