Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Household Pulse Survey, 57190-57191 [2020-20338]

Agencies

• Census Bureau
• DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 179 (Tuesday, September 15, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57190-57191]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-20338]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Census Bureau


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; Household Pulse Survey

    On July 31, 2020, the Department of Commerce received emergency 
clearance from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in accordance 
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), Emergency Processing to 
continue collection for the Household Pulse Survey (OMB No. 0607-1013, 
Exp. 10/31/20). This notice serves to inform of the Department's 
submission of an Information Collection Request (ICR) to OMB for the 
purposes of obtaining regular (non-emergency) clearance for the 
Household Pulse Survey, with the intention of administering the survey 
from November, 2020 (upon expiration of the current emergency 
clearance) through December, 2021. The Department invites the general 
public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and 
continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of 
our information collection requirements and minimize the public's 
reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the 
Federal Register on May 19, 2020 (in response to notice of the 
Household Pulse Survey as a new, 90-day collection) and again on June 
3, 2020 (in response to subsequent notice of the Department's intention 
to continue the Household Pulse Survey beyond the initial 90 days) 
during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 
days for public comments.
    Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
    Title: Household Pulse Survey.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-1013.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: New Request for Regular Clearance for Collection; 
Collection is Currently Active Under Emergency Clearance Approval.
    Number of Respondents: 3,150,000.
    Average Hours per Response: 20 minutes.
    Burden Hours: 1,039,500.
    Needs and Uses: Data produced by the Household Pulse Survey are 
designed to inform on a range of dimensions that American households 
are experiencing during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, including 
employment, facility to telework, travel patterns, income loss, 
spending patterns, food and housing security, access to benefits, 
mental health and access to care, and educational disruption (K-12 and 
post-secondary). The Household Pulse Survey was initially launched in 
April 2020 as an experimental project (see https://www.census.gov/data/experimental-data-products.html) slated to last 90 days; the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) granted emergency clearance for this effort 
on April 19, 2020. However, as the pandemic has continued and the 
survey's data have proven useful to government officials and policy 
makers managing pandemic response and recovery efforts, the Department 
requested and OMB approved an extension of the emergency clearance on 
July 31, 2020, which will permit the collection to continue through 
October 31, 2020. As this will exhaust the emergency clearance 
authority (180 days), the Department of Commerce is preparing a new 
Information Collection Request (ICR) to request regular clearance for 
the continuation of this collection beyond October 31, 2020. This new 
ICR package

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will follow shortly upon publication of this notice.
    Affected Public: Households.
    Frequency: Households will be selected once to participate in a 20-
minute survey.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Title 13, United States Code, Sections 8(b), 182; 
5 CFR part 1320, Controlling Paperwork Burden on the Public, Section 
1320.13.
    This information collection request may be viewed at 
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view the Department of 
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of 
this notice on the following website www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 
Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently 
under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search 
function and entering either the title of the collection or the OMB 
Control Number 0607-1013.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2020-20338 Filed 9-14-20; 8:45 am]
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