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Rural Utilities Service
Title: Lien Accommodations and
Subordinations 7 CFR part 1717,
subparts R and S.
OMB Control Number: 0572–0100.
Summary of Collection: The Rural
Electrification Act (RE Act) of 1936, 7
U.S.C. 901 et seq., as amended,
authorizes and empowers the
Administrator of the Rural Utilities
Service (RUS) to make loans in the
several States and Territories of the
United States for rural electrification
and the furnishing electric energy to
persons in rural areas who are not
receiving central station service. The RE
Act also authorizes and empowers the
Administrator of RUS to provide
financial assistance to borrowers for
purposes provided in the RE Act by
accommodating or subordinating loans
made by the National Rural Utilities
Cooperative Finance Corporation, the
Federal Financing Bank, and other
lending agencies.
Need and Use of the Information:
RUS will use the information to
determine an applicant’s eligibility for a
lien accommodation or lien
subordination under the RE Act;
facilitates an applicant’s solicitation and
acquisition of non-RUS loans as to
converse available Government funds;
monitor the compliance of borrowers
with debt covenants and regulatory
requirements in order to protect loan
security; and subsequently to granting
the lien accommodation or lien
subordination, administer each so as to
minimize its cost to the Government. If
the information were not collected, RUS
would not be able to accomplish its
statutory goals.
Description of Respondents: Not-forprofit institutions; Business or other forprofit.
Number of Respondents: 15.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 290.
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Rural Utilities Service
Title: 7 CFR 1717 Subpart D, Mergers
and Consolidations of Electric
Borrowers.
OMB Control Number: 0572–0114.
Summary of Collection: The Rural
Utilities Service (RUS) is a credit agency
of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It
makes mortgage loans and loan
guarantees to finance electric,
telecommunications, water and waste
and water facilities in rural areas. Loan
programs are managed in accordance
with the Rural Electrification Act (RE
Act) of 1936, 7 U.S.C. 901 et seq., as
amended and as prescribed by the
Office of Management and Budget
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(OMB) Circular A–129, Policies for
Federal Credit Programs and Non-tax
Receivable, states that agencies must
base on a review of a loan application
determine that an applicant complies
with statutory, regulatory, and
administrative eligibility requirements
for loan assistance.
Need and Use of the Information:
RUS will collect information to
streamline procedures and allow
borrowers the flexibility to meet new
business challenges and opportunities.
The information is necessary for RUS to
conduct business with successor entity
while protecting the security of
Government loans and avoiding defaults
and to grant merger approval when
required.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 10.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 140.
Rural Utilities Service
Title: Use of Consultants Funded by
Borrowers, 7 CFR 1789.
OMB Control Number: 0572–0115.
Summary of Collection: The Rural
Utilities Service (RUS) is a credit agency
of the Department of Agriculture that
makes mortgage loans and loan
guarantees to finance electric,
telecommunications, and water and
waste facilities in rural areas. The loan
programs are managed in accordance
with the Rural Electrification Act (RE
Act) of 1936, 7 U.S.C. 901 et seq., as
amended, and as prescribed by Office of
Management and Budget Circular A–
129, Policies for Federal Credit
Programs and Non-Tax Receivable,
which states that agencies must, based
on a review of a loan application,
determine that an applicant complies
with statutory, regulatory, and
administrative eligibility requirements
for loan assistance. RUS has the
authority to use consultants voluntarily
funded by borrowers for financial, legal,
engineering, and other technical
services. However, all RUS borrowers
are eligible to fund consultant services
but are not required to fund consultants.
Need and Use of the Information:
RUS will collect information to
determine whether it is appropriate to
use a consultant voluntarily funded by
the borrower to expedite a particular
borrower application. If the information
were not submitted, RUS would be
unable to determine if using a
consultant would accelerate the specific
application process.
Description of Respondents: Not-forprofit institutions; Business or other forprofit.
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Number of Respondents: 1.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 2.
Charlene Parker,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of the Census
[Docket Number 151008932–5932–01]
Streamlining Summary Level 070
Tables in the 5-Year American
Community Survey
Bureau of the Census,
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of Final Program.
AGENCY:
The Census Bureau hereby
announces that it will streamline the
production and release of American
Community Survey (ACS) Summary
Level 070 tables (state/county/county
subdivision/place remainder (or part))
to the 15 tables necessary for the
delineation of metropolitan,
micropolitan, and related statistical
areas as defined by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB). The
ACS collects detailed demographic,
social, economic, and housing data from
about 3.5 million addresses in the
United States and 36,000 in Puerto Rico
each year. Annual data products are
released in the form of 1-Year and 5Year estimates with 5-Year estimates
being produced for over 578,000
geographies by 87 different summary
levels. Most summary levels and their
corresponding geographies are then
produced for approximately 1,000
detailed tables. As a cost-saving
measure and to improve the usability of
the estimates, the Census Bureau has
decided to streamline the production
and release of Summary Level 070
tables to the 15 tables necessary for
delineation. Based on data user
analytics, customer feedback, and
responses from an earlier Federal
Register Notice (June 5, 2015; 80 FR
32084) soliciting comments on the
streamlining of the summary level, we
believe that the streamlining of this
summary level will not have a
significant impact to our data users.
Therefore, beginning in December 2015,
the Census Bureau will be tabulating
and releasing only those 15 tables for
Summary Level 070 that are necessary
for the delineation of metropolitan,
micropolitan, and related statistical
SUMMARY:
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areas (particularly for identification of
New England City and Town Area
principal cities), commuting analysis,
and basic demographic and housing
analysis.
This Notice will be effective on
December 10, 2015.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
KaNin Reese, Room 7H176F, U.S.
Census Bureau, Social, Economic, and
Housing Statistics Division,
Washington, DC 20233, by phone at
301–763–3493 or via email at
kanin.l.reese@census.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Beginning
with the 2010–2014 ACS 5-Year tables,
the Census Bureau will streamline the
production and release of Summary
Level 070 tables (state/county/county
subdivision/place remainder (or part))
to the 15 tables necessary for the
delineation of metropolitan,
micropolitan, and related statistical
areas (particularly for identification of
New England City and Town Area
principal cities) by OMB, for other
commuting analysis, and for basic
demographic and housing analysis. The
Census Bureau conducts the ACS
program under 13 U.S.C. Sections 141
and 193. Streamlining the tables in this
summary level will save the Census
Bureau over $100,000 over a 5-Year
period.
The Census Bureau has been
reviewing and documenting the utility
of releasing Summary Level 070 for all
1,000 tables for several years. In our last
release, this summary level was
produced for 69,939 unique geographies
for about 1,000 tables with
approximately 70 percent of all
estimates produced as zero since place
parts in county subdivisions represent
very small areas. Not only is the data
quality insufficient for many of the
individual geographies, but very few
data users are accessing the tables on
American FactFinder or the summary
files on the Census File Transfer
Protocol (FTP) site. Further, based on
user feedback, we have increasing
concern that data users may be using the
summary level incorrectly, mistaking
these place parts in county subdivisions
for place-level geographies.
Since the ACS was created as the
replacement for the Census long-form,
the ACS began by producing the same
summary levels that were produced in
Census 2000. The purpose of Summary
Level 070 (state/county/county
subdivision/place remainder (or part)) is
for the delineation of metropolitan,
micropolitan, and related statistical
areas under OMB standards. However,
not all of the 1,000 detailed tables being
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produced for this summary level are
needed for delineation. The Census
Bureau has identified ten commuting
tables necessary for the delineation
process and for other commuting
analysis, and five basic demographic
and housing tables necessary for the
tabulation of the summary level.
The 15 tables available for Summary
Level 070 include:
1. B01001—Sex by Age
2. B01003—Total Population
3. B02001—Race
4. B08007—Sex of Workers by Place
of Work—State and County Level
5. B08008—Sex of Workers by Place
of Work—Place Level
6. B08009—Sex of Workers by Place
of Work—Minor Civil Division Level for
12 Selected States (CT, ME, MA, MI,
MN, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT, WI)
7. B08301—Means of Transportation
to Work
8. B08302—Time Leaving Home to Go
to Work
9. B08303—Travel Time to Work
10. B08601—Means of Transportation
to Work for Workplace Geography
11. B08602—Time Arriving at Work
from Home for Workplace Geography
12. B08603—Travel Time to Work for
Workplace Geography
13. B08604—Worker Population for
Workplace Geography
14. B25001—Housing Units
15. B25003—Tenure
Due to limited resources available to
produce the full product package and
limited user need, the Census Bureau
has concluded that it will only produce
the 15 tables above for Summary Level
070. If additional estimates are needed
from this summary level, data users are
encouraged to use block group or tractlevel data, which will continue to be
available on American FactFinder, the
Census Application Programming
Interface (API), and the summary files
on the FTP site. Data are available at:
https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/
jsf/pages/index.xhtml.
Summary of Comments Received and
the Response of the Census Bureau
The Census Bureau published a
Notice and Request for Comments on
streamlining tables for Summary Level
070 in the Federal Register on June 5,
2015 (80 FR 32084). In response to the
notice, the Census Bureau received only
one comment. The comment was from
a data user requesting that all tables
currently produced for this summary
level continue to be made available. The
data user argued that this summary level
provided useful estimates for those
incorporated villages in the 12 minor
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civil divisions in New York state that
are dependent within towns, but not
necessarily contained completely within
a single town and can cross town
boundaries. For those incorporated
villages, estimates would not be
available. These estimates could be
helpful to local governments that
include place parts in county
subdivisions. However, individual local
governments have not expressed any
interest in keeping these estimates
available.
In response to the commenter, the
Census Bureau explained that due to
budgetary constraints to the ACS, we
could not continue to produce all tables
for a summary level with so many
geographies that so few people were
using when the majority of the estimates
were zero. However, 15 tables will
continue to be produced for that
summary level, which will provide
basic demographic, housing, and
commuting analysis as well as those
tables necessary for the delineation of
metropolitan, micropolitan, and related
statistical areas (particularly for
identification of New England City and
Town Area principal cities) by OMB.
Based on the singular user response, the
Census Bureau determined that the need
for this summary level was not
substantial enough to warrant
expenditure of the resources needed to
produce it. Therefore, the Census
Bureau determined that the original 15
tables selected to continue to be
produced in Summary Level 070 were
sufficient, and no other tables were
added.
The Census Bureau believes that these
tables are sufficient for data user needs
for this summary level. For data users
who are accustomed to using Summary
Level 070 tables, the Census Bureau
suggests using block group or tract-level
data, which will continue to be released
annually through American FactFinder,
Census API, and the summary files on
the FTP site. By releasing only a few key
demographic, social, and housing tables
for this summary level, the Census
Bureau believes that we are still meeting
the true purpose, and maintaining the
integrity, of Summary Level 070 tables
while substantially reducing resources
needed for the full production of the
product.
Dated: October 20, 2015.
John H. Thompson,
Director, Bureau of the Census.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of the Census
[Docket Number 151008932-5932-01]
Streamlining Summary Level 070 Tables in the 5-Year American
Community Survey
AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of Final Program.
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SUMMARY: The Census Bureau hereby announces that it will streamline the
production and release of American Community Survey (ACS) Summary Level
070 tables (state/county/county subdivision/place remainder (or part))
to the 15 tables necessary for the delineation of metropolitan,
micropolitan, and related statistical areas as defined by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB). The ACS collects detailed demographic,
social, economic, and housing data from about 3.5 million addresses in
the United States and 36,000 in Puerto Rico each year. Annual data
products are released in the form of 1-Year and 5-Year estimates with
5-Year estimates being produced for over 578,000 geographies by 87
different summary levels. Most summary levels and their corresponding
geographies are then produced for approximately 1,000 detailed tables.
As a cost-saving measure and to improve the usability of the estimates,
the Census Bureau has decided to streamline the production and release
of Summary Level 070 tables to the 15 tables necessary for delineation.
Based on data user analytics, customer feedback, and responses from an
earlier Federal Register Notice (June 5, 2015; 80 FR 32084) soliciting
comments on the streamlining of the summary level, we believe that the
streamlining of this summary level will not have a significant impact
to our data users. Therefore, beginning in December 2015, the Census
Bureau will be tabulating and releasing only those 15 tables for
Summary Level 070 that are necessary for the delineation of
metropolitan, micropolitan, and related statistical
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areas (particularly for identification of New England City and Town
Area principal cities), commuting analysis, and basic demographic and
housing analysis.
DATES: This Notice will be effective on December 10, 2015.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: KaNin Reese, Room 7H176F, U.S. Census
Bureau, Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division, Washington,
DC 20233, by phone at 301-763-3493 or via email at
kanin.l.reese@census.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Beginning with the 2010-2014 ACS 5-Year
tables, the Census Bureau will streamline the production and release of
Summary Level 070 tables (state/county/county subdivision/place
remainder (or part)) to the 15 tables necessary for the delineation of
metropolitan, micropolitan, and related statistical areas (particularly
for identification of New England City and Town Area principal cities)
by OMB, for other commuting analysis, and for basic demographic and
housing analysis. The Census Bureau conducts the ACS program under 13
U.S.C. Sections 141 and 193. Streamlining the tables in this summary
level will save the Census Bureau over $100,000 over a 5-Year period.
The Census Bureau has been reviewing and documenting the utility of
releasing Summary Level 070 for all 1,000 tables for several years. In
our last release, this summary level was produced for 69,939 unique
geographies for about 1,000 tables with approximately 70 percent of all
estimates produced as zero since place parts in county subdivisions
represent very small areas. Not only is the data quality insufficient
for many of the individual geographies, but very few data users are
accessing the tables on American FactFinder or the summary files on the
Census File Transfer Protocol (FTP) site. Further, based on user
feedback, we have increasing concern that data users may be using the
summary level incorrectly, mistaking these place parts in county
subdivisions for place-level geographies.
Since the ACS was created as the replacement for the Census long-
form, the ACS began by producing the same summary levels that were
produced in Census 2000. The purpose of Summary Level 070 (state/
county/county subdivision/place remainder (or part)) is for the
delineation of metropolitan, micropolitan, and related statistical
areas under OMB standards. However, not all of the 1,000 detailed
tables being produced for this summary level are needed for
delineation. The Census Bureau has identified ten commuting tables
necessary for the delineation process and for other commuting analysis,
and five basic demographic and housing tables necessary for the
tabulation of the summary level.
The 15 tables available for Summary Level 070 include:
1. B01001--Sex by Age
2. B01003--Total Population
3. B02001--Race
4. B08007--Sex of Workers by Place of Work--State and County Level
5. B08008--Sex of Workers by Place of Work--Place Level
6. B08009--Sex of Workers by Place of Work--Minor Civil Division
Level for 12 Selected States (CT, ME, MA, MI, MN, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI,
VT, WI)
7. B08301--Means of Transportation to Work
8. B08302--Time Leaving Home to Go to Work
9. B08303--Travel Time to Work
10. B08601--Means of Transportation to Work for Workplace Geography
11. B08602--Time Arriving at Work from Home for Workplace Geography
12. B08603--Travel Time to Work for Workplace Geography
13. B08604--Worker Population for Workplace Geography
14. B25001--Housing Units
15. B25003--Tenure
Due to limited resources available to produce the full product
package and limited user need, the Census Bureau has concluded that it
will only produce the 15 tables above for Summary Level 070. If
additional estimates are needed from this summary level, data users are
encouraged to use block group or tract-level data, which will continue
to be available on American FactFinder, the Census Application
Programming Interface (API), and the summary files on the FTP site.
Data are available at: https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml.
Summary of Comments Received and the Response of the Census Bureau
The Census Bureau published a Notice and Request for Comments on
streamlining tables for Summary Level 070 in the Federal Register on
June 5, 2015 (80 FR 32084). In response to the notice, the Census
Bureau received only one comment. The comment was from a data user
requesting that all tables currently produced for this summary level
continue to be made available. The data user argued that this summary
level provided useful estimates for those incorporated villages in the
12 minor civil divisions in New York state that are dependent within
towns, but not necessarily contained completely within a single town
and can cross town boundaries. For those incorporated villages,
estimates would not be available. These estimates could be helpful to
local governments that include place parts in county subdivisions.
However, individual local governments have not expressed any interest
in keeping these estimates available.
In response to the commenter, the Census Bureau explained that due
to budgetary constraints to the ACS, we could not continue to produce
all tables for a summary level with so many geographies that so few
people were using when the majority of the estimates were zero.
However, 15 tables will continue to be produced for that summary level,
which will provide basic demographic, housing, and commuting analysis
as well as those tables necessary for the delineation of metropolitan,
micropolitan, and related statistical areas (particularly for
identification of New England City and Town Area principal cities) by
OMB. Based on the singular user response, the Census Bureau determined
that the need for this summary level was not substantial enough to
warrant expenditure of the resources needed to produce it. Therefore,
the Census Bureau determined that the original 15 tables selected to
continue to be produced in Summary Level 070 were sufficient, and no
other tables were added.
The Census Bureau believes that these tables are sufficient for
data user needs for this summary level. For data users who are
accustomed to using Summary Level 070 tables, the Census Bureau
suggests using block group or tract-level data, which will continue to
be released annually through American FactFinder, Census API, and the
summary files on the FTP site. By releasing only a few key demographic,
social, and housing tables for this summary level, the Census Bureau
believes that we are still meeting the true purpose, and maintaining
the integrity, of Summary Level 070 tables while substantially reducing
resources needed for the full production of the product.
Dated: October 20, 2015.
John H. Thompson,
Director, Bureau of the Census.
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