Request for Comment on Proposed Changes to the Survey of New Manufactured (Mobile) Home Placements Data Collection Methodology, 4485-4487 [2014-01594]
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Dated: January 23, 2014.
Tracey Denning,
Agency Clearance Officer, U.S. Customs and
Border Protection.
[FR Doc. 2014–01536 Filed 1–27–14; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Commercial Invoice
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Protection, Department of Homeland
Security.
ACTION: 30-Day notice and request for
comments; Extension of an existing
collection of information: 1651–0090.
AGENCY:
U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) of the Department of
Homeland Security will be submitting
the following information collection
request to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and approval
in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act: Commercial Invoice.
This is a proposed extension of an
information collection that was
previously approved. CBP is proposing
that this information collection be
extended with no change to the burden
hours. This document is published to
obtain comments from the public and
affected agencies. This proposed
information collection was previously
published in the Federal Register (78
FR 70569) on November 26, 2013,
allowing for a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments. This process
is conducted in accordance with 5 CFR
1320.10.
DATES: Written comments should be
received on or before February 27, 2014
to be assured of consideration.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments on
this proposed information collection to
the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget. Comments should be addressed
to the OMB Desk Officer for Customs
and Border Protection, Department of
Homeland Security, and sent via
electronic mail to oira_submission@
omb.eop.gov. or faxed to (202) 395–
5806.
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SUMMARY:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information
should be directed to Tracey Denning,
U.S. Customs and Border Protection,
Regulations and Rulings, Office of
International Trade, 90 K Street NE.,
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1177, at 202–325–0265.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: CBP
invites the general public and other
Federal agencies to comment on
proposed and/or continuing information
collections pursuant to the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13;
44 U.S.C. 3507). The comments should
address: (a) Whether the 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
estimates of the burden of the collection
of information; (c) ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; (d) ways to
minimize the burden including the use
of automated collection techniques or
the use of other forms of information
technology; and (e) the annual costs
burden to respondents or record keepers
from the collection of information (a
total capital/startup costs and
operations and maintenance costs). The
comments that are submitted will be
summarized and included in the CBP
request for Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approval. All comments
will become a matter of public record.
In this document CBP is soliciting
comments concerning the following
information collection:
Title: Commercial Invoice.
OMB Number: 1651–0090.
Form Number: None.
Abstract: The collection of the
commercial invoice is necessary for
conducting adequate examination of
merchandise and determination of the
duties due on imported merchandise as
required by 19 CFR 141.81, 141.82,
141.83, 141.84, 141.85, 141.86, 141.88,
141.89, 141.90 and by 19 U.S.C. 1481
and 1484. The commercial invoice is
provided to CBP by the importer. The
information is used to ascertain the
proper tariff classification and valuation
of imported merchandise, as required by
the Tariff Act of 1930. To facilitate
trade, CBP did not develop a specific
form for this information collection.
Importers are allowed to use their
existing invoices to comply with these
regulations.
Current Actions: This submission is
being made to extend the expiration
date with no change to the burden
hours.
Type of Review: Extension (without
change).
Affected Public: Businesses.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
38,500.
Estimated Number of Annual
Responses per Respondent: 1208.
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Estimated Number of Total Annual
Responses: 46,500,000.
Estimated Time per Response: 1
minute.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 744,000.
Dated: January 23, 2014.
Tracey Denning,
Agency Clearance Officer, U.S. Customs and
Border Protection.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5768–N–01]
Request for Comment on Proposed
Changes to the Survey of New
Manufactured (Mobile) Home
Placements Data Collection
Methodology
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Policy Development and
Research, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
This notice announces that
HUD is soliciting public comments
regarding changes to the data collection
methodology for Survey of New
Manufactured (Mobile) Home
Placements, commonly referred to as the
Manufactured Homes Survey. The goal
of the data collection methodology
changes is to reduce survey costs while
continuing to produce statutorilymandated estimates of prices of
manufactured housing for the nation
and for states, as well as important
characteristics of new units produced
and sold.
DATES: Comments Due Date: April 28,
2014.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal. Comments must refer to
the above docket number and title.
There are two methods for submitting
public comments.
1. Submission of Comments by Mail.
Comments may be submitted by mail to
Shawn Bucholtz, Director, Housing and
Demographic Analysis Division, Office
of Policy Development and Research,
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 7th St. SW., Room
8222, Washington, DC 20410. Due to
security measures at all federal agencies,
however, submission of comments by
mail often results in delayed delivery.
To ensure timely receipt of comments,
HUD recommends that comments
submitted by mail be submitted at least
two weeks in advance of the public
comment deadline.
SUMMARY:
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2. Electronic Submission of
Comments. Interested persons may
submit comments electronically through
the Federal eRulemaking Portal at
www.regulations.gov. HUD strongly
encourages commenters to submit
comments electronically. Electronic
submission of comments allows the
commenter maximum time to prepare
and submit a comment, ensures timely
receipt by HUD, and enables HUD to
make them immediately available to the
public. Comments submitted
electronically through the
www.regulations.gov Web site can be
viewed by other commenters and
interested members of the public.
Commenters should follow the
instructions provided on that site to
submit comments electronically.
Note: To receive consideration as public
comments, comments must be submitted
through one of the two methods specified
above. Again, all submissions must refer to
the docket number and title of the rule.
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No Facsimile Comments. Facsimile
(FAX) comments are not acceptable.
Public Inspection of Public
Comments. All properly submitted
comments and communications
submitted to HUD will be available for
public inspection and copying between
8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays at the above
address. Due to security measures at the
HUD Headquarters building, an advance
appointment to review the public
comments must be scheduled by calling
the Regulations Division at 202–708–
3055 (this is not a toll-free number).
Individuals with speech or hearing
impairments may access this number
through TTY by calling the Federal
Relay Service at 800–877–8339. Copies
of all comments submitted are available
for inspection and downloading at
https://www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Shawn Bucholtz, Director, Housing and
Demographic Analysis Division, Office
of Policy Development and Research,
451 7th Street SW., Room 8222,
Washington, DC 20410–0500, telephone
number 202–402–5538 (this is not a tollfree number). Hearing or speechimpaired individuals may access this
number via TTY by calling the toll-free
Federal Relay Service at telephone
number 1–800–8–77–8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. Background
As required by statute,a HUD annually
sponsors the Survey of New
Manufactured (Mobile) Home
Placements, commonly referred to as the
a The statutory mandate for HUD to conduct the
MHS is found at 12 U.S.C. 1703 Notes Section
308(e) of Public Law 96–399.
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Manufactured Homes Survey (MHS).
The MHS collects data on the
placement b, price, and characteristics of
new manufactured homes. Consistent
with the statute, the MHS is used to
produce annual estimates of price for
the nation, Census regions, and for each
state. Although not required by statute,
the MHS is also used to produce
monthly estimates of price, placements,
and dealer inventory for the nation, and
annual estimates of selected
characteristics of new manufactured
units. Each year, HUD enters into an
Interagency Agreement with the Census
Bureau to conduct the survey and
publish survey results. HUD annually
spends approximately $820,000 for the
MHS.
Manufactured housing units, as a
share of all new housing units, have
been declining over the past decade. In
2011 and 2012, manufactured housing
units represented about 8 percent of all
housing units constructed. There were
55,000 manufactured housing units
constructed in 2012.
B. Current Data Collection Methodology
Under its regulatory authority to set
and certify compliance with
construction standards for
manufactured housing, each month
HUD provides Census with a list of all
manufactured housing units shipped to
dealers (these are used to make national
and state-level shipment counts). The
Census Bureau draws a sample of the
units shipped to dealers and sends the
MHS form to the dealer to which each
sampled unit was shipped. The dealer
fills out the MHS form for each unit that
has been placed at its final destination.
If a unit has not yet been placed
(meaning it is still part of a dealer’s
inventory), the Census Bureau contacts
the dealer each month to inquire about
the status until the unit is placed at its
final destination and the dealer returns
the MHS form. These monthly followup calls to dealers are necessary in order
to produce placement and dealer
inventory estimates. The Census Bureau
estimates that the annual cost to
produce estimates of placements and
dealer inventory is $467,000, or 58
percent of the entire cost of the survey.
C. Reconsidering the Usefulness of
Placement and Dealer Inventory
Estimates
The production of a manufactured
home begins when an individual places
an order for a new home with a dealer.
The dealer then relays the order to the
manufacturer. When the manufacturing
b A manufactured home is considered placed
when it put on a site for residential use.
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process is complete, the home is
shipped to the dealer, where it remains
until the final destination site on which
it is to be placed is ready to receive the
unit.
Considering today’s industry
practices, placement estimates do not
add additional useful information for
estimating demand beyond what can be
gleaned from shipment counts. Unlike
twenty years ago, manufactured homes
today are typically produced on an ‘‘on
demand’’ or ‘‘as ordered’’ basis. The
result of the industry shift towards ‘‘as
ordered’’ is that the number of
shipments and number of placements
are essentially (and statistically)
measuring the same thing. The
correlation coefficient between annual
national-level shipment counts and
annual national-level placement
estimates between 2006 and 2012 was
0.99. Furthermore, about 90 percent of
all new manufactured homes are
eventually placed in the same state to
which they were shipped.
The dealer inventory estimate is not
measuring a supply of housing units
waiting to be sold. Rather, it is
estimating the number of manufactured
housing units already sold and waiting
to be transported to their final
destination. That is, the ‘‘dealer
inventory’’ of manufactured homes as
currently measured by MHS is more
akin to counting the goods sitting on the
front porches of customers of an internet
retailer rather than counting the goods
sitting in the company’s warehouse.
D. Proposed Changes to the Data
Collection Methodology
HUD is considering changing the
MHS data collection methodology to
eliminate follow-up calls with dealers,
beginning in fiscal year 2015. The
impact of this change is that the MHS
would no longer be used to produce
estimates of final placements or dealer
inventory. Consistent with the MHS
statute, the MHS would continue to be
used to produce annual estimates of
price for the nation, Census Regions,
and states. The MHS would also
continue to be used to produce monthly
estimates of price for the nation and
annual estimates of selected
characteristics of manufactured housing
units. This proposed change to the MHS
data collection methodology is
estimated to save up to $467,000 per
year.
D. Request for Comments
HUD is seeking information from the
public regarding these proposed
changes to the MHS for fiscal year 2015
and beyond. Governmental policy
makers, academic researchers, MHS
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data users, and other interested parties
are encouraged to participate by
submitting comments. Official address,
contact, and due date for submitting
comments are stated above.
Dated: January 17, 2014.
Jean Lin Pao,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy
Development and Research.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–HQ–FHC–2014–N016;
FXFR131109WFHS0–FF09F10000–134]
Information Collection Request Sent to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for Approval; Injurious Wildlife;
Importation Certification for Live Fish
and Fish Eggs
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
AGENCY:
We (U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service) have sent an Information
SUMMARY:
Collection Request (ICR) to OMB for
review and approval. We summarize the
ICR below and describe the nature of the
collection and the estimated burden and
cost. This information collection is
scheduled to expire on February 28,
2014. We may not conduct or sponsor
and a person is not required to respond
to a collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number. However, under OMB
regulations, we may continue to
conduct or sponsor this information
collection while it is pending at OMB.
DATES: You must submit comments on
or before February 27, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments and
suggestions on this information
collection to the Desk Officer for the
Department of the Interior at OMB–
OIRA at (202) 395–5806 (fax) or OIRA_
Submission@omb.eop.gov (email).
Please provide a copy of your comments
to the Service Information Collection
Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, MS 2042–PDM, 4401
North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA
22203 (mail), or hope_grey@fws.gov
(email). Please include ‘‘1018–0078’’ in
the subject line of your comments.
Number of
respondents
Activity
Number of
responses
To
request additional information about
this ICR, contact Hope Grey at hope_
grey@fws.gov (email) or 703–358–2482
(telephone). You may review the ICR
online at https://www.reginfo.gov. Follow
the instructions to review Department of
the Interior collections under review by
OMB.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 1018–0078.
Title: Injurious Wildlife; Importation
Certification for Live Fish and Fish
Eggs, 50 CFR 16.13.
Service Form Number(s): 3–2273,
3–2274, and 3–2275.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Description of Respondents: Aquatic
animal health professionals seeking to
be certified title 50 inspectors; certified
title 50 inspectors who have performed
health certifications on live salmonids;
and any entity wishing to import live
salmonids or their reproductive
products into the United States.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain a benefit.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
Completion time per response
Total annual
burden hours
16
25
25
16
50
50
1 hour .............................................................
30 minutes ......................................................
15 minutes ......................................................
16
25
13
Total .........................................................
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FWS Form 3–2273 .........................................
FWS Form 3–2274 .........................................
FWS Form 3–2275 .........................................
66
116
.........................................................................
54
Abstract: The Lacey Act (18 U.S.C. 42)
(Act) prohibits the possession or
importation of any animal deemed to be
and prescribed by regulation to be
injurious to:
• Human beings;
• The interests of agriculture,
horticulture, and forestry; or
• Wildlife or the wildlife resources of
the United States.
The Department of the Interior is
charged with enforcement of this Act.
The Act and regulations at 50 CFR 16
allow for the importation of animals
classified as injurious if specific criteria
are met. To effectively carry out
responsibilities and protect the aquatic
resources of the United States, we must
gather information on the animals being
imported with regard to their source,
destination, and health status. It is also
imperative that we ensure the
qualifications of those individuals who
provide the fish health data and sign the
health certificate upon which we base
our decision to allow importation.
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We use three forms to collect this
information:
(1) FWS Form 3–2273 (Title 50
Certifying Official Form). New
applicants and those seeking
recertification as a title 50 certifying
official provide information so that we
can assess their qualifications.
(2) FWS Form 3–2274 (U.S. Title 50
Certification Form). Certifying officials
use this form or their own health
certificate to affirm the health status of
the fish or their reproductive products
to be imported.
(3) FWS Form 3–2275 (Title 50
Importation Request Form). We use the
information on this form to ensure the
safety of the shipment and to track and
control importations.
Comments: On November 6, 2013, we
published in the Federal Register (78
FR 66760) a notice of our intent to
request that OMB renew approval for
this information collection. In that
notice, we solicited comments for 60
days, ending on January 6, 2014. We did
not receive any comments.
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We again invite comments concerning
this information collection on:
• Whether or not the collection of
information is necessary, including
whether or not the information will
have practical utility;
• The accuracy of our estimate of the
burden for this collection of
information;
• Ways to enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information to be
collected; and
• Ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents.
Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. Before including your
address, phone number, email address,
or other personal identifying
information in your comment, you
should be aware that your entire
comment, including your personal
identifying information, may be made
publicly available at any time. While
you can ask OMB in your comment to
withhold your personal identifying
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-5768-N-01]
Request for Comment on Proposed Changes to the Survey of New
Manufactured (Mobile) Home Placements Data Collection Methodology
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and
Research, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces that HUD is soliciting public comments
regarding changes to the data collection methodology for Survey of New
Manufactured (Mobile) Home Placements, commonly referred to as the
Manufactured Homes Survey. The goal of the data collection methodology
changes is to reduce survey costs while continuing to produce
statutorily-mandated estimates of prices of manufactured housing for
the nation and for states, as well as important characteristics of new
units produced and sold.
DATES: Comments Due Date: April 28, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal. Comments must refer to the above docket number and
title. There are two methods for submitting public comments.
1. Submission of Comments by Mail. Comments may be submitted by
mail to Shawn Bucholtz, Director, Housing and Demographic Analysis
Division, Office of Policy Development and Research, Department of
Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th St. SW., Room 8222, Washington,
DC 20410. Due to security measures at all federal agencies, however,
submission of comments by mail often results in delayed delivery. To
ensure timely receipt of comments, HUD recommends that comments
submitted by mail be submitted at least two weeks in advance of the
public comment deadline.
[[Page 4486]]
2. Electronic Submission of Comments. Interested persons may submit
comments electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal at
www.regulations.gov. HUD strongly encourages commenters to submit
comments electronically. Electronic submission of comments allows the
commenter maximum time to prepare and submit a comment, ensures timely
receipt by HUD, and enables HUD to make them immediately available to
the public. Comments submitted electronically through the
www.regulations.gov Web site can be viewed by other commenters and
interested members of the public. Commenters should follow the
instructions provided on that site to submit comments electronically.
Note: To receive consideration as public comments, comments must
be submitted through one of the two methods specified above. Again,
all submissions must refer to the docket number and title of the
rule.
No Facsimile Comments. Facsimile (FAX) comments are not acceptable.
Public Inspection of Public Comments. All properly submitted
comments and communications submitted to HUD will be available for
public inspection and copying between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays at the
above address. Due to security measures at the HUD Headquarters
building, an advance appointment to review the public comments must be
scheduled by calling the Regulations Division at 202-708-3055 (this is
not a toll-free number). Individuals with speech or hearing impairments
may access this number through TTY by calling the Federal Relay Service
at 800-877-8339. Copies of all comments submitted are available for
inspection and downloading at https://www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Shawn Bucholtz, Director, Housing and
Demographic Analysis Division, Office of Policy Development and
Research, 451 7th Street SW., Room 8222, Washington, DC 20410-0500,
telephone number 202-402-5538 (this is not a toll-free number). Hearing
or speech-impaired individuals may access this number via TTY by
calling the toll-free Federal Relay Service at telephone number 1-800-
8-77-8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. Background
As required by statute,\a\ HUD annually sponsors the Survey of New
Manufactured (Mobile) Home Placements, commonly referred to as the
Manufactured Homes Survey (MHS). The MHS collects data on the placement
\b\, price, and characteristics of new manufactured homes. Consistent
with the statute, the MHS is used to produce annual estimates of price
for the nation, Census regions, and for each state. Although not
required by statute, the MHS is also used to produce monthly estimates
of price, placements, and dealer inventory for the nation, and annual
estimates of selected characteristics of new manufactured units. Each
year, HUD enters into an Interagency Agreement with the Census Bureau
to conduct the survey and publish survey results. HUD annually spends
approximately $820,000 for the MHS.
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\a\ The statutory mandate for HUD to conduct the MHS is found at
12 U.S.C. 1703 Notes Section 308(e) of Public Law 96-399.
\b\ A manufactured home is considered placed when it put on a
site for residential use.
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Manufactured housing units, as a share of all new housing units,
have been declining over the past decade. In 2011 and 2012,
manufactured housing units represented about 8 percent of all housing
units constructed. There were 55,000 manufactured housing units
constructed in 2012.
B. Current Data Collection Methodology
Under its regulatory authority to set and certify compliance with
construction standards for manufactured housing, each month HUD
provides Census with a list of all manufactured housing units shipped
to dealers (these are used to make national and state-level shipment
counts). The Census Bureau draws a sample of the units shipped to
dealers and sends the MHS form to the dealer to which each sampled unit
was shipped. The dealer fills out the MHS form for each unit that has
been placed at its final destination. If a unit has not yet been placed
(meaning it is still part of a dealer's inventory), the Census Bureau
contacts the dealer each month to inquire about the status until the
unit is placed at its final destination and the dealer returns the MHS
form. These monthly follow-up calls to dealers are necessary in order
to produce placement and dealer inventory estimates. The Census Bureau
estimates that the annual cost to produce estimates of placements and
dealer inventory is $467,000, or 58 percent of the entire cost of the
survey.
C. Reconsidering the Usefulness of Placement and Dealer Inventory
Estimates
The production of a manufactured home begins when an individual
places an order for a new home with a dealer. The dealer then relays
the order to the manufacturer. When the manufacturing process is
complete, the home is shipped to the dealer, where it remains until the
final destination site on which it is to be placed is ready to receive
the unit.
Considering today's industry practices, placement estimates do not
add additional useful information for estimating demand beyond what can
be gleaned from shipment counts. Unlike twenty years ago, manufactured
homes today are typically produced on an ``on demand'' or ``as
ordered'' basis. The result of the industry shift towards ``as
ordered'' is that the number of shipments and number of placements are
essentially (and statistically) measuring the same thing. The
correlation coefficient between annual national-level shipment counts
and annual national-level placement estimates between 2006 and 2012 was
0.99. Furthermore, about 90 percent of all new manufactured homes are
eventually placed in the same state to which they were shipped.
The dealer inventory estimate is not measuring a supply of housing
units waiting to be sold. Rather, it is estimating the number of
manufactured housing units already sold and waiting to be transported
to their final destination. That is, the ``dealer inventory'' of
manufactured homes as currently measured by MHS is more akin to
counting the goods sitting on the front porches of customers of an
internet retailer rather than counting the goods sitting in the
company's warehouse.
D. Proposed Changes to the Data Collection Methodology
HUD is considering changing the MHS data collection methodology to
eliminate follow-up calls with dealers, beginning in fiscal year 2015.
The impact of this change is that the MHS would no longer be used to
produce estimates of final placements or dealer inventory. Consistent
with the MHS statute, the MHS would continue to be used to produce
annual estimates of price for the nation, Census Regions, and states.
The MHS would also continue to be used to produce monthly estimates of
price for the nation and annual estimates of selected characteristics
of manufactured housing units. This proposed change to the MHS data
collection methodology is estimated to save up to $467,000 per year.
D. Request for Comments
HUD is seeking information from the public regarding these proposed
changes to the MHS for fiscal year 2015 and beyond. Governmental policy
makers, academic researchers, MHS
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data users, and other interested parties are encouraged to participate
by submitting comments. Official address, contact, and due date for
submitting comments are stated above.
Dated: January 17, 2014.
Jean Lin Pao,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research.
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