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OMB Control Number: 0607–XXXX. 

Form Number(s): Not applicable as 

survey forms are not required to collect 

this data. 

Type of Request: Regular Submission. 

Number of Respondents: 52 state 

agency respondents per quarter (i.e., 49 

state, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and 

the District of Columbia). 

Average Hours Per Response: 8 hours 

to identify and submit data. 

Burden Hours: Approximately 1,664 

total hours annually. 

Needs and Uses: The data products 

developed by the LEHD program 

provide statistics on employment, 

earnings, and job flows at detailed levels 

of geography and industry and for 

different demographic groups. The 

potential and realized uses of these data 

products and their supporting 

dissemination tools are far-reaching, 

both for unraveling many important 

questions in economic research and for 

the provision of new statistical 

products. Over the first five months of 

2017, the Census Bureau received more 

than 105,000 visits to its LEHD 

dissemination tools. Just some examples 

of novel use of LEHD data include: 

• The New Jersey State Data Center 

used OnTheMap for Emergency 

Management to quickly learn the impact 

of hurricane Sandy with regards to 

identification of Federal Disaster 

Declaration Areas and its effects on 

communities (i.e., population and 

workforce). 

• The state of Nevada has used the 

Job-to-Job Flows data product to 

understand the migration of its 

workforce that supports the hotel 

industry. 

• The Philadelphia Center City 

District used LEHD data to understand 

the details of the area’s workforce and 

economy in order to monitor the 

effectiveness of economic programs and 

policy initiatives. 

Additional examples of how the LEHD 

data products and supporting 

dissemination tools have been used can 

be found at the LEHD Web site: https:// 

lehd.ces.census.gov/led_in_action/. 

Affected Public: There is no burden 

on the public to provide the required 

data because the LEHD program relies 

on administrative data provided by state 

agencies. The number of responses and 

burden hours have been updated from 

the pre-submission notice that was 

published on December 8, 2016, 

document citation: 81 FR 88662. The 

previous number of responses was 

noted at 52 per quarter, however, that 

number did not account for the annual 

responses which will be 208. The 

burden hours were clarified to only 

include state agency burden hours— 

resulting in a total of 1,664 annual 

burden hours. 

Frequency: Quarterly. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary 

via a Memorandum of Understanding 

(MOU). 

Legal Authority: The authority to 

conduct the LEHD program is 13 U.S.C. 

Section 6. Confidentiality of all 

collected data is assured by 13 U.S.C. 

Section 9. 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. 

Follow the instructions to view 

Department of Commerce collections 

currently under review by OMB. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to OIRA_Submission@

omb.eop.gov or fax to (202)395–5806. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Departmental PRA Lead, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–07–P 

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: National Institute of 

Standards and Technology, Commerce. 

Title: Small Business Innovation 

Research (SBIR) Program Application 

Cover Sheet. 

OMB Control Number: 0693–0072. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

current information collection. 

Number of Respondents: 150. 

Average Hours Per Response: 30 

minutes. 

Burden Hours: 75 hours. 

Needs and Uses: The information 

collected in the Cover Sheet provides 

identifying information and 

demographic data for use in NIST’s 

annual report to the SBA on the 

program. The technical abstract is used 

in prevention of fraud, waste, and abuse 

by providing a method to compare 

similar applications to other agency 

SBIR programs. The abstract and 

potential commercial applications of 

successful applicants are posted on the 

agency Web site. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit. 

Frequency: Annual. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at reginfo.gov. Follow 

the instructions to view Department of 

Commerce collections currently under 

review by OMB. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to OIRA_Submission@

omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395–5806. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Departmental PRA Lead, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–13–P 

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: 2018 Survey of Income and 

Program Participation (SIPP) Panel. 

OMB Control Number: 0607–XXXX. 

Form Number(s): 

SIPP–105(L1)2018 (Advance 

Director’s Letter—No Incentive) 

SIPP–105(L)(SP)2018 (Advance 

Director’s Letter Spanish– No Incentive) 

SIPP–105(L3)2018 (Advance 

Director’s Letter—$40 Incentive) 

SIPP–101 (Factsheet) 

SIPP–106(L1)2018 (Thank You 

Letter—No Incentive) 

SIPP–106(L2)2018 (Thank You 

Letter—$40 Incentive/PIN Information) 

Type of Request: OMB Approval. 

Number of Respondents: 66,800. 

Average Hours per Response: 1 hour. 

Burden Hours: 66,800. 

Needs and Uses: The SIPP is a 

household-based survey designed as a 

continuous series of national panels. 

The SIPP represents a source of 

information for a wide variety of topics 

and allows the integration of 

information for separate topics to form 

a single, unified database allowing for 

the examination of the interaction 

between tax, transfer, and other 

government and private policies. 

Government domestic policy 

formulators depend heavily upon SIPP 

information concerning the distribution 

of income received either directly as 

money or indirectly as in-kind benefits 

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programs on that distribution. They also 

need improved and expanded data on 

the income and general economic and 

financial situation of the U.S. 

population, which the SIPP has 

provided on a continuing basis since 

1983. The SIPP has measured levels of 

economic well-being and permitted 

measurement of changes in these levels 

over time. 

The 2018 SIPP interview includes a 

portion conducted using an Event 

History Calendar (EHC) that facilitates 

the collection of dates of events and 

spells of coverage. The EHC assists the 

respondent’s ability to recall events 

accurately over the one year reference 

period and provides increased data 

quality and inter-topic consistency for 

dates reported by respondents. The EHC 

is intended to help respondents recall 

information in a more natural 

‘‘autobiographical’’ manner by using life 

events as triggers to recall other 

economic events. The EHC was 

previously used in the 2014 Panel. The 

2018 Panel SIPP design does not contain 

freestanding topical modules; however, 

a portion of traditional SIPP topical 

module content is integrated into the 

2018 SIPP Panel interview. Examples of 

this content include questions on 

medical expenses, child care, retirement 

and pension plan coverage, marital 

history, adult and child well-being, and 

others. 

Affected Public: Respondents, 

researchers, policymakers. 

Frequency: The 2018 SIPP Panel is an 

annual survey that runs for four years 

consecutively (Waves 1–4). 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: Title 13, United 

States Code, Sections 141 and 182. 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. 

Follow the instructions to view 

Department of Commerce collections 

currently under review by OMB. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to OIRA_Submission@

omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395–5806. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

PRA Departmental Lead, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–07–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Telecommunications and 

Information Administration 

First Responder Network Authority 

[Docket Number: 160929903–6903–02] 

RIN 0660–XC025 

Notice of Availability of a Final 

Programmatic Environmental Impact 

Statement for the South Region of the 

Nationwide Public Safety Broadband 

Network 

AGENCY: First Responder Network 

Authority, National 

Telecommunications and Information 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of availability of a final 

programmatic environmental impact 

statement. 

SUMMARY: The First Responder Network 

Authority (‘‘FirstNet’’) announces the 

availability of the Final Programmatic 

Environmental Impact Statement for the 

South Region (‘‘Final PEIS’’). The Final 

PEIS evaluates the potential 

environmental impacts of the proposed 

nationwide public safety broadband 

network in the South Region (Alabama, 

Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, 

Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, 

North Carolina, Oklahoma, South 

Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas). 

ADDRESSES: The Final PEIS is available 

for download from www.regulations.gov 

FIRSTNET–2017–0006. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

more information on the Final PEIS, 

contact Amanda Goebel Pereira, NEPA 

Coordinator, First Responder Network 

Authority, National 

Telecommunications and Information 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, (571) 665–6072, 12201 

Sunrise Valley Drive, M/S 243, Reston, 

VA 20192. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Middle Class Tax Relief and Job 

Creation Act of 2012 (Pub. L. 112–96, 

Title VI, 126 Stat. 256 (codified at 47 

U.S.C. 1401 et seq.)) (the ‘‘Act’’) created 

and authorized FirstNet to take all 

actions necessary to ensure the building, 

deployment, and operation of an 

interoperable, nationwide public safety 

broadband network (‘‘NPSBN’’) based 

on a single, national network 

architecture. The Act meets a 

longstanding and critical national 

infrastructure need, to create a single, 

nationwide network that will, for the 

first time, allow police officers, fire 

fighters, emergency medical service 

professionals, and other public safety 

entities to effectively communicate with 

each other across agencies and 

jurisdictions. The NPSBN is intended to 

enhance the ability of the public safety 

community to perform more reliably, 

effectively, and safely; increase 

situational awareness during an 

emergency; and improve the ability of 

the public safety community to 

effectively engage in those critical 

activities. 

The National Environmental Policy 

Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321–4347) 

(‘‘NEPA’’) requires federal agencies to 

undertake an assessment of 

environmental effects of their proposed 

actions prior to making a final decision 

and implementing the action. NEPA 

requirements apply to any federal 

project, decision, or action that may 

have a significant impact on the quality 

of the human environment. NEPA also 

establishes the Council on 

Environmental Quality (‘‘CEQ’’), which 

issued regulations implementing the 

procedural provisions of NEPA (see 40 

CFR parts 1500–1508). Among other 

considerations, CEQ regulations at 40 

CFR 1508.28 recommend the use of 

tiering from a ‘‘broader environmental 

impact statement (such as a national 

program or policy statements) with 

subsequent narrower statements or 

environmental analysis (such as 

regional or basin wide statements or 

ultimately site-specific statements) 

incorporating by reference the general 

discussions and concentrating solely on 

the issues specific to the statement 

subsequently prepared.’’ 

Due to the geographic scope of 

FirstNet (all 50 states, the District of 

Columbia, and five territories) and the 

diversity of ecosystems potentially 

traversed by the project, FirstNet elected 

to prepare five regional PEISs. The five 

PEISs are divided into the East, Central, 

West, South, and Non-Contiguous 

Regions. The South Region consists of 

Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, 

Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, New 

Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, 

South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. 

The Final PEIS analyzes potential 

impacts of the deployment and 

operation of the NPSBN on the natural 

and human environment in the South 

Region, in accordance with FirstNet’s 

responsibilities under NEPA. 

Now that this PEIS has been 

completed and once a Record of 

Decision (ROD) has been signed, the 

proposed FirstNet projects can begin to 

submit the site-specific environmental 

documentation to determine if the 

proposed project has been adequately 

evaluated in the PEIS or whether it 

instead warrants a Categorical 

Exclusion, an Environmental 


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