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surrounding environment or CWS
workers, or be allowed to re-enter the
water treatment system.
5. Posting and Labeling
A CWS operating under enforcement
discretion must ensure that the
equipment containing uranium, in
concentrations greater than 0.05 percent
by weight, is clearly labeled and must
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‘‘CAUTION, RADIOACTIVE
MATERIALS.’’
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Enforcement discretion will apply
until either:
(A) NRC amends its regulations to
create a new general license for CWSs,
or decides to no longer pursue a new
regulation;
(B) The CWS obtains a specific license
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of September 2006.
Patricia K. Holahan,
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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND
BUDGET
Standards and Guidelines for
Statistical Surveys
Office of Management and
Budget, Executive Office of the
President.
ACTION: Notice of decision.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: As part of an ongoing effort to
improve the quality, objectivity, utility,
and integrity of information collected
and disseminated by the Federal
Government, the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) is issuing revised
Standards and Guidelines for Statistical
Surveys. OMB proposed revised
standards and requested public
comment on July 14, 2005 (70 FR
40746–40747). The proposed standards
were based on recommendations from
the Federal Committee on Statistical
Methodology’s (FCSM) Subcommittee
on Standards for Statistical Surveys
whose charge was to update and revise
OMB Statistical Policy Directive No. 1,
Standards for Statistical Surveys, and
OMB Statistical Policy Directive No. 2,
Publication of Statistics. The guidance,
which applies to all Federal agencies
subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995, is intended to ensure that the
results of statistical surveys sponsored
by the Federal Government are as
reliable and useful as possible. OMB
received six public comments on the
proposed standards and has made some
modifications to the proposed standards
and guidelines in response to these
comments. OMB is now issuing these
Standards and Guidelines for Statistical
Surveys as final, and they are available
in their entirety along with the public
comments and OMB’s summary of and
response to the public comments on the
OMB Web site at https://
www.whitehouse.gov/omb/inforeg/
statpolicy.html.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3504(e)(3).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Brian Harris-Kojetin, Ph.D., Statistical
and Science Policy Office, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget,
NEOB, Room 10201, 725 17th Street,
NW., Washington, DC 20503.
Telephone: 202–395–3093.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Statistics collected and published by
the Federal Government constitute a
significant portion of the available
information about the United States’
economy, population, natural resources,
environment, and public and private
institutions. These data are used by the
Federal Government and others as a
basis for actions that affect people’s
lives and well-being. It is essential that
they be collected, processed, and
published in a manner that guarantees
and inspires confidence in their
reliability. The statistical programs of
the Federal Government are
decentralized among more than 70
agencies or organizational units. It is
therefore also essential that, to the
extent permitted by law, there be
sufficient government-wide uniformity
in statistical methods and practices to
ensure the maximum usefulness of the
statistics produced.
The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA; 44 U.S.C. 3504) gives the Director
of OMB broad responsibility for
improving the usefulness of information
collected, maintained, and disseminated
by the Federal Government and for
reducing the reporting burden on the
public. Among the Director’s functions
under the PRA are statistical policy and
coordination, which includes the
development and implementation of
‘‘Government-wide policies, principles,
standards, and guidelines concerning (a)
statistical collection procedures and
methods; (b) statistical data
classification; (c) statistical information
presentation and dissemination; (d)
timely release of statistical data; and (e)
such statistical data sources as may be
required for the administration of
Federal programs’’ (44 U.S.C. 3504
(e)(3)). The Administrator for the Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs in
OMB has the responsibility to ‘‘develop
programs and prescribe regulations to
improve the compilation, analysis,
publication, and dissemination of
statistical information by executive
agencies’’ (31 U.S.C. 1104 (d)).
The revised Standards and Guidelines
for Statistical Surveys provide guidance
for designing, conducting, and
disseminating statistical surveys and
studies sponsored by Federal agencies.
The standards and guidelines are
intended to ensure that such surveys
and studies are designed to produce
reliable data as efficiently as possible
and that methods are documented and
results presented in a manner that
makes the data as accessible and useful
as possible.
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These revised standards and
guidelines replace OMB Statistical
Policy Directives Nos. 1 and 2, on
Standards for Statistical Surveys, and
Standards for Publishing Statistics,
respectively. These standards and
guidelines were last revised in 1974
when they were issued as OMB Circular
No. A–46, Exhibits A and B. The
standards were reissued in 1978 as
Statistical Policy Directives 1 and 2
when the statistical policy function was
temporarily relocated to the Department
of Commerce, and their designation as
Statistical Policy Directives remained
when the statistical policy function was
returned to OMB in 1981 under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980.
Development and Review
As part of ongoing efforts to improve
the quality of information collected by
the Federal Government and to update
statistical standards and guidance, OMB
requested in 2003 that agencies who
were members of the Interagency
Council on Statistical Policy (ICSP)
nominate representatives to a new
subcommittee formed under the aegis of
the Federal Committee on Statistical
Methodology (FCSM). This
subcommittee was asked to review
Statistical Policy Directives Nos. 1 and
2 and to make recommendations for
updating or revising these standards to
reflect current best practices in Federal
statistical agencies.
The subcommittee reviewed the OMB
directives, standards currently used by
Federal statistical agencies, and
standards and guidelines produced and
disseminated by national statistical
institutes in a number of other
countries. The subcommittee also drew
on interagency efforts by statistical
agencies to develop a common
framework for their activities in
response to OMB’s issuance of its
Information Quality Guidelines (IQG)
and the requirement that agencies issue
their own IQGs (67 FR 8452–8460).
The revised and updated standards
and guidelines developed by the
subcommittee reflected the
organizational framework that the
statistical agencies used for their
Information Quality Guidelines. They
were the product of a careful and
deliberate process to create a set of
standards and guidelines that will
address all key aspects of planning,
conducting, processing, and
disseminating Federal statistical
surveys. Because OMB standards and
guidelines must cover a broad range of
applications, agencies are encouraged to
develop their own more specific
standards for the statistical surveys and
studies they conduct or sponsor. The
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subcommittee provided initial draft
standards and guidelines for review by
the FCSM and then by the ICSP in 2004.
The subcommittee addressed the
comments it received at each stage and
provided its recommendations to OMB
in 2005.
OMB issued the proposed standards
and guidelines for public comment in
July 2005 (70 FR 40746–40747). Six
public comments were received in
response to OMB’s request. OMB
reviewed the standards and guidelines
and made some modifications in
response to the public comments. The
final standards and guidelines, the
public comments, and OMB’s summary
of and response to the public comments
are available on the OMB Web site at
https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/
inforeg/statpolicy.html.
Steven D. Aitken,
Acting Administrator, Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs.
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Summary: In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Railroad
Retirement Board (RRB) has submitted
the following proposal(s) for the
collection of information to the Office of
Management and Budget for review and
approval.
Summary of Proposal(s)
(1) Collection title: Employer
Reporting.
(2) Form(s) submitted: AA–12, G–
88A.1, G–88A.2, BA–6a, BA–6a
(Internet), BA–6a (E-mail).
(3) OMB Number: 3220–0005.
(4) Expiration date of current OMB
clearance: 12/31/2006.
(5) Type of request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
(6) Respondents: Business or other
for-profit, Individuals or Households.
(7) Estimated annual number of
respondents: 495.
(8) Total annual responses: 1,958.
(9) Total annual reporting hours: 418.
(10) Collection description: Under the
Railroad Retirement Act and the
Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act,
railroad employers are required to
report service and compensation for
employees needed to determine
eligibility to and the amounts of benefits
paid.
Additional Information or Comments:
Copies of the forms and supporting
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documents can be obtained from
Charles Mierzwa, the agency clearance
officer (312–751–3363) or
Charles.Mierzwa@rrb.gov.
Comments regarding the information
collection should be addressed to
Ronald J. Hodapp, Railroad Retirement
Board, 844 North Rush Street, Chicago,
Illinois, 60611–2092 or
Ronald.Hodapp@rrb.gov and to the
OMB Desk Officer for the RRB, at the
Office of Management and Budget,
Room 10230, New Executive Office
Building, Washington, DC 20503.
Charles Mierzwa,
Clearance Officer.
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COMMISSION
Proposed Collections; Comment
Request
Upon Written Request, Copies Available
From: Securities and Exchange
Commission, Office of Filings and
Information Services, Washington, DC
20549.
Extensions:
Form F–7, OMB Control No. 3235–0383,
SEC File No. 270–331. Form F–8, OMB
Control No. 3235–0378, SEC File No.
270–332.
Notice is hereby given that pursuant
to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) the Securities
and Exchange Commission
(‘‘Commission’’) is soliciting comments
on the collections of information
summarized below. The Commission
plans to submit these existing
collections of information to the Office
of Management Budget for approval.
Form F–7 (17 CFR 239.37) may be
used to register under the Securities Act
of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77a et seq.) securities
offered for cash upon exercise of rights
that are granted to its existing
shareholders of the registrant to
purchase or subscribe such securities.
The information collected is intended to
ensure that the information required to
be filed by the Commission permits
verification of compliance with
securities law requirements and assures
the public availability of such
information. Form F–7 takes
approximately 4 hours per response to
prepare and is filed by 5 respondents.
We estimate that 25% of 4 hours per
response (one hour) is prepared by the
company for a total annual reporting
burden of 5 hours (one hour per
response × 5 responses). The remaining
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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
Standards and Guidelines for Statistical Surveys
AGENCY: Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the
President.
ACTION: Notice of decision.
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SUMMARY: As part of an ongoing effort to improve the quality,
objectivity, utility, and integrity of information collected and
disseminated by the Federal Government, the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) is issuing revised Standards and Guidelines for
Statistical Surveys. OMB proposed revised standards and requested
public comment on July 14, 2005 (70 FR 40746-40747). The proposed
standards were based on recommendations from the Federal Committee on
Statistical Methodology's (FCSM) Subcommittee on Standards for
Statistical Surveys whose charge was to update and revise OMB
Statistical Policy Directive No. 1, Standards for Statistical Surveys,
and OMB Statistical Policy Directive No. 2, Publication of Statistics.
The guidance, which applies to all Federal agencies subject to the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, is intended to ensure that the results
of statistical surveys sponsored by the Federal Government are as
reliable and useful as possible. OMB received six public comments on
the proposed standards and has made some modifications to the proposed
standards and guidelines in response to these comments. OMB is now
issuing these Standards and Guidelines for Statistical Surveys as
final, and they are available in their entirety along with the public
comments and OMB's summary of and response to the public comments on
the OMB Web site at https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/inforeg/
statpolicy.html.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3504(e)(3).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brian Harris-Kojetin, Ph.D.,
Statistical and Science Policy Office, Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, NEOB, Room 10201,
725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503. Telephone: 202-395-3093.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Statistics collected and published by the Federal Government
constitute a significant portion of the available information about the
United States' economy, population, natural resources, environment, and
public and private institutions. These data are used by the Federal
Government and others as a basis for actions that affect people's lives
and well-being. It is essential that they be collected, processed, and
published in a manner that guarantees and inspires confidence in their
reliability. The statistical programs of the Federal Government are
decentralized among more than 70 agencies or organizational units. It
is therefore also essential that, to the extent permitted by law, there
be sufficient government-wide uniformity in statistical methods and
practices to ensure the maximum usefulness of the statistics produced.
The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA; 44 U.S.C. 3504) gives the
Director of OMB broad responsibility for improving the usefulness of
information collected, maintained, and disseminated by the Federal
Government and for reducing the reporting burden on the public. Among
the Director's functions under the PRA are statistical policy and
coordination, which includes the development and implementation of
``Government-wide policies, principles, standards, and guidelines
concerning (a) statistical collection procedures and methods; (b)
statistical data classification; (c) statistical information
presentation and dissemination; (d) timely release of statistical data;
and (e) such statistical data sources as may be required for the
administration of Federal programs'' (44 U.S.C. 3504 (e)(3)). The
Administrator for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in
OMB has the responsibility to ``develop programs and prescribe
regulations to improve the compilation, analysis, publication, and
dissemination of statistical information by executive agencies'' (31
U.S.C. 1104 (d)).
The revised Standards and Guidelines for Statistical Surveys
provide guidance for designing, conducting, and disseminating
statistical surveys and studies sponsored by Federal agencies. The
standards and guidelines are intended to ensure that such surveys and
studies are designed to produce reliable data as efficiently as
possible and that methods are documented and results presented in a
manner that makes the data as accessible and useful as possible.
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These revised standards and guidelines replace OMB Statistical
Policy Directives Nos. 1 and 2, on Standards for Statistical Surveys,
and Standards for Publishing Statistics, respectively. These standards
and guidelines were last revised in 1974 when they were issued as OMB
Circular No. A-46, Exhibits A and B. The standards were reissued in
1978 as Statistical Policy Directives 1 and 2 when the statistical
policy function was temporarily relocated to the Department of
Commerce, and their designation as Statistical Policy Directives
remained when the statistical policy function was returned to OMB in
1981 under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980.
Development and Review
As part of ongoing efforts to improve the quality of information
collected by the Federal Government and to update statistical standards
and guidance, OMB requested in 2003 that agencies who were members of
the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy (ICSP) nominate
representatives to a new subcommittee formed under the aegis of the
Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM). This subcommittee
was asked to review Statistical Policy Directives Nos. 1 and 2 and to
make recommendations for updating or revising these standards to
reflect current best practices in Federal statistical agencies.
The subcommittee reviewed the OMB directives, standards currently
used by Federal statistical agencies, and standards and guidelines
produced and disseminated by national statistical institutes in a
number of other countries. The subcommittee also drew on interagency
efforts by statistical agencies to develop a common framework for their
activities in response to OMB's issuance of its Information Quality
Guidelines (IQG) and the requirement that agencies issue their own IQGs
(67 FR 8452-8460).
The revised and updated standards and guidelines developed by the
subcommittee reflected the organizational framework that the
statistical agencies used for their Information Quality Guidelines.
They were the product of a careful and deliberate process to create a
set of standards and guidelines that will address all key aspects of
planning, conducting, processing, and disseminating Federal statistical
surveys. Because OMB standards and guidelines must cover a broad range
of applications, agencies are encouraged to develop their own more
specific standards for the statistical surveys and studies they conduct
or sponsor. The subcommittee provided initial draft standards and
guidelines for review by the FCSM and then by the ICSP in 2004. The
subcommittee addressed the comments it received at each stage and
provided its recommendations to OMB in 2005.
OMB issued the proposed standards and guidelines for public comment
in July 2005 (70 FR 40746-40747). Six public comments were received in
response to OMB's request. OMB reviewed the standards and guidelines
and made some modifications in response to the public comments. The
final standards and guidelines, the public comments, and OMB's summary
of and response to the public comments are available on the OMB Web
site at https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/inforeg/statpolicy.html.
Steven D. Aitken,
Acting Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
[FR Doc. 06-8044 Filed 9-21-06; 8:45 am]
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