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Vol. 66, No. 41

Thursday, March 1, 2001

AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL

DEVELOPMENT

Board for International Food and

Agricultural Development

One Hundred and Thirty Fourth

Meeting; Notice of Meeting

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory

Committee Act, notice is hereby given of

the one hundred and thirty-fourth

meeting of the Board for International

Food and Agricultural Development

(BIFAD). The meeting will be held from

8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on March 29th,

2001 and from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on

March 30th, 2001, in the NASULGC

Meeting Room, 1307 New York Avenue,

NW, Washington, DC.

The first day will be devoted to a joint

session with the CRSPs (Collaborative

Research Support Programs—consortia

of universities and international

research entities devoted to agricultural

commodity or theme research). The

second day focuses on the future of

university-government partnerships on

international agriculture, and on visions

for BIFAD itself.

Those wishing to attend the meeting

to obtain additional information about

BIFAD should contact Mr. Lawrence

Paulson, the Designated Federal Officer

for BIFAD. Write him in care of the U.S.

Agency for International Development,

Ronald Reagan Building, Office of

Agriculture and Food Security, 1300

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 2.11–

073, Washington DC, 20523–2110 or

telephone him at (202) 712–1436 or fax

(202) 216–3010.

Lawrence Paulson,

USAID Designated Federal Officer for BIFAD,

Office of Agriculture and Food Security,

Economic, Growth Center, Bureau for Global

Programs.

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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: Census Quality Survey to

Evaluate Responses to the Census 2000

Question on Race

Form Number(s): CQS–1A, CQS–1B,

CQS–1A(E), CQS–1B(E), CQS–

1A(E)SUPP, CQS–1B(E)SUPP, CQS–6,

CQS–7(L) , CQS–8(L), CQS–1A(F), CQS–

1B(F).

Agency Approval Number: None.

Type of Request: New collection.

Burden: 20,833 hours.

Number of Respondents: 50,000.

Avg Hours Per Response: Initial

response—10 minutes; telephone

recontact—15 minutes.

Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau

requests authorization from the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) to

conduct the Census Quality Survey to

Evaluate Responses to the Census 2000

Question on Race. The proposed survey

is the principal vehicle for evaluating

fundamental changes to the questions

on race and Hispanic origin used in

Census 2000. This survey is critical to

implementing the OMB guidance on

Aggregate and Allocation of Data on

Race for Use in Civil Rights Monitoring

and Enforcement. On October 30, 1997,

the OMB issued revised standards by

which all federal agencies, beginning

with Census 2000, are to collect,

tabulate, and present data on race and

ethnicity. Included in these standards

was the identification of a minimum of

five racial categories—White, Black or

African American, American Indian or

Alaska Native, Asian, and Native

Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. For

the 1990 Census the 16 separate

response categories collapsed into a

minimum of four racial categories

consistent with the 1977 OMB guidance:

White; Black; American Indian or

Alaskan Native; and Asian or Pacific

Islander. The standards also included

changes in the terminology used for

each group and the sequencing of the

questions on race and Hispanic origin.

In the 1990 Census, the question on race

preceded the question on Hispanic

origin with two intervening questions.

For Census 2000, the question on

Hispanic origin is immediately before

the question on race with a note to

respondents to answer both questions.

The most profound change to the

standards was that of allowing

respondents to report one or more races

if they chose to do so. Some of the

impetus for the OMB change to allow

the reporting of one or more races came

from the increasing number of

interracial marriages and births to

parents of different races in the past 25

to 35 years. For governmental, nongovernmental, and private sector data

users, there is a need to understand how

the Census 2000 race distributions

compare to race distributions from

previous censuses, current surveys and

other data collection procedures where

respondents were instructed to report

only one race. The survey also will

include three questions to reinforce the

idea that we are interested in improving

census quality and how the Census

might conduct the next census.

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 26, 2001.

Madeleine Clayton,

Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office

of the Chief Information Officer.

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