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Constitution Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20230 (or via the Internet at
JJessup@doc.gov).
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.
Dated: December 19, 2012.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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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 Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Title: Economic Value of Puerto Rico’s
Coral Reef Ecosystems for Recreation/
Tourism.
OMB Control Number: None.
Form Number(s): NA.
Type of Request: Regular submission
(request for a new information
collection).
Number of Respondents: 32.
Average Hours per Response: 2 hours.
Burden Hours: 64.
Needs and Uses: This request is for a
regular submission (new collection).
NOAA and the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) have entered a
partnership to estimate the market and
non-market economic values of Puerto
Rico’s coral reef ecosystems. Estimates
will be made for all ecosystem services
for the Guanica Bay Watershed and for
recreation-tourism for all of Puerto
Rico’s coral reef ecosystems.
The required information is to
conduct focus groups to help in
designing the full surveys of visitors and
residents of Puerto Rico. The four focus
groups; two visitor and two resident
focus groups, will be used to address the
attributes of coral reef ecosystems that
people may consider important, and the
levels of the attributes to be valued.
Attributes would include natural
attributes such as water clarity/
visibility, coral cover and diversity, and
fish abundance and diversity. In
addition, issues such as crowded
conditions or number of other users that
users (e.g. SCUBA divers, snorkelers,
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recreational fishers, and wildlife
viewers) see while doing their activities
on the reefs will be evaluated. This set
of focus groups will be conducted one
time only.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Frequency: One time.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
OMB Desk Officer:
OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov.
Copies of the above information
collection proposal can be obtained by
calling or writing Jennifer Jessup,
Departmental Paperwork Clearance
Officer, (202) 482–0336, Department of
Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20230 (or via the Internet at
JJessup@doc.gov).
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.
Dated: December 19, 2012.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
U.S. Census Bureau
Proposed Information Collection;
Comment Request; The American
Community Survey 2014 Content
Change
U.S. Census Bureau,
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Department of
Commerce, as part of its continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and
respondent burden, invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to
take this opportunity to comment on
proposed and/or continuing information
collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)).
SUMMARY:
To ensure consideration, written
comments must be submitted on or
before February 25, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments
to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental
Paperwork Clearance Officer,
Department of Commerce, Room 6616,
14th and Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230 (or via the
Internet at jjessup@doc.gov).
DATES:
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument(s) and instructions should
be directed to Cheryl Chambers, U.S.
Census Bureau, American Community
Survey Office, Washington, DC 20233
by FAX to (301) 763–8070 or via the
Internet at
ACSO.communications@census.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The American Community Survey
(ACS) collects detailed population and
housing data every month and provides
tabulations of these data on a yearly
basis. In the past, the long-form data
were collected only at the time of each
decennial census. After years of
development and testing, the ACS began
full implementation in households in
January 2005 and in Group Quarters
(GQs) in January 2006.
The ACS provides more timely
information for critical economic
planning by governments and the
private sector. In the current
information-based economy, federal,
state, tribal, and local decision makers,
as well as private business and nongovernmental organizations, need
current, reliable, and comparable
socioeconomic data to chart the future.
In 2006, the ACS began publishing upto-date profiles of American
communities every year, providing
policymakers, planners, and service
providers in the public and private
sectors this information every year–not
just every ten years.
The ACS released estimates of
population and housing characteristics
for geographic areas of all sizes in
December 2010. These data products,
used by federal agencies and others, are
similar in scope to the Summary File 3
tables from Census 2000.
In April 2012, the Department of
Health and Human Services requested
that OMB and Census consider the
addition of a health insurance exchange
or premium subsidy question to the
ACS. The proposed new question would
focus on individuals securing health
insurance through the state exchanges,
with particular attention to those
receiving a premium subsidy. This
question would secure information
critical to the Department’s, the
Administration’s and states’ planning,
implementation and evaluation of the
role of the health insurance exchanges
and the provision of subsidies to eligible
individuals and families; as well as
provisions of the Patient Protection and
Accountable Care Act (ACA) slated for
full implementation beginning in
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CY 2014. The new question would be
in addition to and not a replacement of
the current ACS health insurance
question. In response to this request, the
Census Bureau conducted qualitative
testing in 2012 of an additional question
related to subsidized premiums for
health insurance. Based on the results of
that testing, the Census Bureau is
considering adding this topic to the ACS
questionnaire in 2014.
The Census Bureau is also
considering a modification to the ACS
question on race for implementation in
2014. Based on testing conducted in
parallel with the 2010 Census called the
Alternative Questionnaire Experiment,
the Census Bureau saw no negative
impact in modifying the categories to
the race question by removing the term
‘‘Negro’’ from the category ‘‘Black,
African American, or Negro.’’ Given this
finding, and previous negative feedback
provided to the Census Bureau on the
inclusion of this term in this category,
the Census Bureau is proposing
removing this term from this category in
the 2014 ACS.
In an effort to enhance the value of
data on vacant housing units, the
Census Bureau is considering the
expansion of the vacancy status
categories from which Field
Representatives (FRs) can choose as
they try to determine the status of
vacant housing units. Data users have
expressed a strong interest in knowing
the composition of the ‘‘Other Vacant’’
category, which can be as high as 30
percent of vacant housing units and
which may contain a substantial
number of housing units in the so-called
‘‘shadow inventory’’ of housing units
that may come on the market at some
point for rent or for sale.
II. Method of Collection
The Census Bureau will mail survey
instruction materials to households
selected for the ACS. The materials will
instruct the residents to complete the
ACS questionnaire online. For
households that do not complete the
online questionnaire, Census Bureau
staff will then mail out a questionnaire
package. For households that complete
neither an online form nor a paper form,
Census Bureau staff will attempt to
conduct interviews via Computer
Assisted Telephone Interviewing
(CATI). Census Bureau staff will also
conduct Computer-Assisted Personal
Interviewing (CAPI) for a sub sample of
households that do not respond. The
Census Bureau conducts a content reinterview from a small sample of
respondents.
For most types of GQs, Census Bureau
FRs will conduct personal interviews
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with respondents to complete
questionnaires or, if necessary, leave
questionnaires and ask respondents to
complete. Census Bureau staff collects
information from GQ contacts via CAPI.
Census Bureau staff will conduct a GQ
contact re-interview from a sample of
GQs primarily through CATI and a very
small percentage via CAPI.
The Census Bureau staff will provide
Telephone Questionnaire Assistance
(TQA) and if the respondent indicates a
desire to complete the survey by
telephone, the TQA interviewer
conducts the interview.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0607–0810.
Form Number(s): ACS–1, ACS–1(SP),
ACS–1(PR), ACS–1(PR)SP, ACS–1(GQ),
ACS–1(PR)(GQ), GQFQ, ACS CATI
(HU), ACS CAPI (HU), ACS RI (HU), and
AGQ QI, AGQ RI.
Type of Review: Regular submission.
Affected Public: Individuals,
households, and businesses.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
We plan to contact the following
number of respondents each year:
3,540,000 households; 200,000 persons
in group quarters; 20,000 contacts in
group quarters; 43,000 households for
re-interview; and 1,500 group quarters
contacts for re-interview.
Estimated Time per Response:
Estimates are 40 minutes per household,
15 minutes per GQ contact, 25 minutes
per resident in GQ, and 10 minutes per
household or GQ contact in the reinterview samples.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: The estimate is an annual
average of
2,337,900 burden hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: Except
for their time, there is no cost to
respondents.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13, United States
Code, Section 182.
IV. Request for Comments
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden
(including hours and cost) of the
proposed collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology.
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Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval of this information collection;
they also will become a matter of public
record.
Dated: December 20, 2012.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 57–2010]
Foreign-Trade Zone 148—Knoxville,
Tennessee, Toho Tenax America, Inc.,
Subzone 148C (Carbon Fiber
Manufacturing Authority); Extension of
Comment Period on New Evidence
The comment period on new evidence
provided by Toho Tenax America, Inc.
(TTA), in response to the examiner’s
preliminary recommendation not to
authorize TTA to manufacture carbon
fiber for the U.S. market at this time, is
being extended to February 11, 2013, to
allow interested parties additional time
in which to comment (77 FR 73978, 12/
12/2012). Rebuttal comments may be
submitted during the subsequent 15-day
period, until February 26, 2013.
Submissions (original and one
electronic copy) shall be addressed to
the Board’s Executive Secretary at:
Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S.
Department of Commerce, Room 21013,
1401 Constitution Ave. NW.,
Washington, DC 20230.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Diane Finver at Diane.Finver@trade.gov
or (202) 482–1367.
Dated: December 18, 2012.
Elizabeth Whiteman,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2012–30943 Filed 12–21–12; 8:45 am]
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Foreign–Trade Zones Board
[B–92–2012]
Foreign-Trade Zone 26 — Atlanta,
Georgia Notification of Proposed
Production Activity Suzuki Mfg. of
America Corp. (All-Terrain Vehicles)
Rome, Jonesboro and Cartersville,
Georgia
Georgia Foreign-Trade Zone, Inc.,
grantee of FTZ 26, submitted a
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
U.S. Census Bureau
Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; The American
Community Survey 2014 Content Change
AGENCY: U.S. Census Bureau, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public
and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on
proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13 (44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)).
DATES: To ensure consideration, written comments must be submitted on
or before February 25, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental
Paperwork Clearance Officer, Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 14th
and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet
at jjessup@doc.gov).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection instrument(s) and instructions
should be directed to Cheryl Chambers, U.S. Census Bureau, American
Community Survey Office, Washington, DC 20233 by FAX to (301) 763-8070
or via the Internet at ACSO.communications@census.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The American Community Survey (ACS) collects detailed population
and housing data every month and provides tabulations of these data on
a yearly basis. In the past, the long-form data were collected only at
the time of each decennial census. After years of development and
testing, the ACS began full implementation in households in January
2005 and in Group Quarters (GQs) in January 2006.
The ACS provides more timely information for critical economic
planning by governments and the private sector. In the current
information-based economy, federal, state, tribal, and local decision
makers, as well as private business and non-governmental organizations,
need current, reliable, and comparable socioeconomic data to chart the
future. In 2006, the ACS began publishing up-to-date profiles of
American communities every year, providing policymakers, planners, and
service providers in the public and private sectors this information
every year-not just every ten years.
The ACS released estimates of population and housing
characteristics for geographic areas of all sizes in December 2010.
These data products, used by federal agencies and others, are similar
in scope to the Summary File 3 tables from Census 2000.
In April 2012, the Department of Health and Human Services
requested that OMB and Census consider the addition of a health
insurance exchange or premium subsidy question to the ACS. The proposed
new question would focus on individuals securing health insurance
through the state exchanges, with particular attention to those
receiving a premium subsidy. This question would secure information
critical to the Department's, the Administration's and states'
planning, implementation and evaluation of the role of the health
insurance exchanges and the provision of subsidies to eligible
individuals and families; as well as provisions of the Patient
Protection and Accountable Care Act (ACA) slated for full
implementation beginning in
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CY 2014. The new question would be in addition to and not a
replacement of the current ACS health insurance question. In response
to this request, the Census Bureau conducted qualitative testing in
2012 of an additional question related to subsidized premiums for
health insurance. Based on the results of that testing, the Census
Bureau is considering adding this topic to the ACS questionnaire in
2014.
The Census Bureau is also considering a modification to the ACS
question on race for implementation in 2014. Based on testing conducted
in parallel with the 2010 Census called the Alternative Questionnaire
Experiment, the Census Bureau saw no negative impact in modifying the
categories to the race question by removing the term ``Negro'' from the
category ``Black, African American, or Negro.'' Given this finding, and
previous negative feedback provided to the Census Bureau on the
inclusion of this term in this category, the Census Bureau is proposing
removing this term from this category in the 2014 ACS.
In an effort to enhance the value of data on vacant housing units,
the Census Bureau is considering the expansion of the vacancy status
categories from which Field Representatives (FRs) can choose as they
try to determine the status of vacant housing units. Data users have
expressed a strong interest in knowing the composition of the ``Other
Vacant'' category, which can be as high as 30 percent of vacant housing
units and which may contain a substantial number of housing units in
the so-called ``shadow inventory'' of housing units that may come on
the market at some point for rent or for sale.
II. Method of Collection
The Census Bureau will mail survey instruction materials to
households selected for the ACS. The materials will instruct the
residents to complete the ACS questionnaire online. For households that
do not complete the online questionnaire, Census Bureau staff will then
mail out a questionnaire package. For households that complete neither
an online form nor a paper form, Census Bureau staff will attempt to
conduct interviews via Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI).
Census Bureau staff will also conduct Computer-Assisted Personal
Interviewing (CAPI) for a sub sample of households that do not respond.
The Census Bureau conducts a content re-interview from a small sample
of respondents.
For most types of GQs, Census Bureau FRs will conduct personal
interviews with respondents to complete questionnaires or, if
necessary, leave questionnaires and ask respondents to complete. Census
Bureau staff collects information from GQ contacts via CAPI. Census
Bureau staff will conduct a GQ contact re-interview from a sample of
GQs primarily through CATI and a very small percentage via CAPI.
The Census Bureau staff will provide Telephone Questionnaire
Assistance (TQA) and if the respondent indicates a desire to complete
the survey by telephone, the TQA interviewer conducts the interview.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0607-0810.
Form Number(s): ACS-1, ACS-1(SP), ACS-1(PR), ACS-1(PR)SP, ACS-
1(GQ), ACS-1(PR)(GQ), GQFQ, ACS CATI (HU), ACS CAPI (HU), ACS RI (HU),
and AGQ QI, AGQ RI.
Type of Review: Regular submission.
Affected Public: Individuals, households, and businesses.
Estimated Number of Respondents: We plan to contact the following
number of respondents each year: 3,540,000 households; 200,000 persons
in group quarters; 20,000 contacts in group quarters; 43,000 households
for re-interview; and 1,500 group quarters contacts for re-interview.
Estimated Time per Response: Estimates are 40 minutes per
household, 15 minutes per GQ contact, 25 minutes per resident in GQ,
and 10 minutes per household or GQ contact in the re-interview samples.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: The estimate is an annual
average of
2,337,900 burden hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: Except for their time, there is no
cost to respondents.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13, United States Code, Section 182.
IV. Request for Comments
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden
(including hours and cost) of the proposed collection of information;
(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on respondents, including through the use of
automated collection techniques or other forms of information
technology.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for OMB approval of this information
collection; they also will become a matter of public record.
Dated: December 20, 2012.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2012-31002 Filed 12-21-12; 4:15 pm]
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