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(Private Construction Projects) collects

construction put in place data for

nonresidential projects owned by

private companies or individuals. The

C–700(R) (Multifamily Residential

Projects) form collects construction put

in place data for private multifamily

residential buildings. Form C–700(SL)

(State and Local Government Projects)

collects construction put in place data

for state and local government projects.

The Census Bureau uses the

information from the CPRS to publish

the value of construction put in place

series. Published estimates are used by

a variety of private business and trade

associations to estimate the demand for

building materials and to schedule

production, distribution, and sales

efforts. They also provide various

governmental agencies with a tool to

evaluate economic policy and to

measure progress towards established

goals. For example, Bureau of Economic

Analysis staff use data to develop the

construction components of gross

private domestic investment in the gross

domestic product. The Federal Reserve

Board and the Department of Treasury

use the value in place data to predict the

gross domestic product, which is

presented to the Board of Governors and

has an impact on monetary policy.

With this clearance request we are

requesting that all three forms

(previously cleared separately) now be

approved under the same OMB approval

number. No substantive changes to any

of the forms are planned.

Affected Public: Individuals or

households; Businesses or other forprofit organizations; State, local or tribal

government; Not-for-profit institutions.

Frequency: Monthly.

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 Forms 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: February 13, 2001.

Madeleine Clayton,

Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office

of the Chief Information Officer.

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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. chapter 35).

Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.

Title: Generic Approval for MAF &

TIGER Update Activities.

Form Number(s): Will vary by

activity.

Agency Approval Number: 0607–

0809.

Type of Request: Revision of a

currently approved collection.

Burden: 3,725 hours.

Number of Respondents: 114,500.

Avg. Hours Per Response: 2 minutes.

Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau

is seeking approval from the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) for an

extension of the generic clearance for a

number of activities it plans to conduct

to create and update its Master Address

File (MAF) and maintain the linkage

between the MAF and the Topologically

Integrated Geographic Encoding and

Referencing (TIGER) database of address

ranges and associated geographic

information. The Census Bureau plans

to use the MAF for post-Census 2000

evaluations and as a sampling frame for

the American Community Survey and

our other demographic current surveys.

In the past, the Census Bureau has built

a new address list for each decennial

census. The MAF built during Census

2000 is meant to be kept current

thereafter, eliminating the need to build

a completely new address list for future

censuses and surveys. The TIGER is a

geographic system that maps the entire

country in Census Blocks with

applicable address range of living

quarter location information. Linking

MAF and TIGER allows us to assign

each address to the appropriate Census

Block, produce maps as needed and

publish results at the appropriate level

of geographic detail.

The generic clearance for the past

three years has proved to be very

beneficial to the Census Bureau. The

generic clearance allowed us to focus

our limited resources on actual

operational planning and development

of procedures. This extension will be

especially beneficial over the upcoming

three years by allowing us to focus on

the other work involved in evaluating

Census 2000 and keeping the MAF

current.

The activities to be conducted are:

Community Address Updating System

(CAUS), Evaluation of the Quality of

Geocodes, and Evaluation of the Block

Splitting Operation for Tabulation.

Other similar activities may be

conducted as well.

Under the terms of this extension to

the generic clearance, this request

describes all planned activities for the

entire period; we will not submit a

separate clearance package for each

updating activity. We will send a letter

to OMB at least five days before the

planned start of each activity that gives

more exact details, examples of forms,

and final estimates of respondent

burden. We will also file a year-end

summary with OMB after the close of

each fiscal year giving results of each

activity conducted.

Affected Public: Individuals or

households.

Frequency: One time.

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.

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

Sections 141 and 193.

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 Forms 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: February 13, 2001.

Madeleine Clayton,

Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office

of the Chief Information Officer.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Census Bureau

Census Bureau Age Search; Proposed

Collection; Comment Request

ACTION: Proposed collection; comment

request.