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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Information Collection Activities,
Comment Request
Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Department of Labor.
ACTION: Notice of information collection,
request for comment.
AGENCY:
The Department of Labor, as
part of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden,
conducts a pre-clearance consultation
program to provide the general public
and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or continuing collections of
information in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This
program helps to ensure that requested
data can be provided in the desired
format, reporting burden (time and
financial resources) is minimized,
collection instruments are clearly
understood, and the impact of collection
requirements on respondents can be
properly assessed. The Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS) is soliciting comments
concerning the proposed revision of the
‘‘The Consumer Expenditure Surveys:
The Quarterly Interview and the Diary.’’
A copy of the proposed information
collection request can be obtained by
contacting the individual listed below
in the ADDRESSES section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
Addresses section of this notice on or
before April 12, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Nora
Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer,
Division of Management Systems,
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Room 4080,
2 Massachusetts Avenue NE,
Washington, DC 20212. Written
comments also may be transmitted by
email to BLS_PRA_Public@bls.gov.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Nora Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer, at
202–691–7628 (this is not a toll free
number). (See ADDRESSES section.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Consumer Expenditure (CE)
Surveys collect data on consumer
expenditures, demographic information,
and related data needed by the
Consumer Price Index (CPI) and other
public and private data users. The
continuing surveys provide a constant
measurement of changes in consumer
expenditure patterns for economic
analysis and to obtain data for future
CPI revisions. The CE Surveys have
been ongoing since 1979.
The data from the CE Surveys are
used (1) for CPI revisions, (2) to provide
a continuous flow of data on income
and expenditure patterns for use in
economic analysis and policy
formulation, and (3) to provide a
flexible consumer survey vehicle that is
available for use by other Federal
government agencies. Public and private
users of price statistics, including
Congress and the economic
policymaking agencies of the Executive
branch, rely on data collected in the CPI
in their day-to-day activities. Hence,
data users and policymakers widely
accept the need to improve the process
used for revising the CPI. If the CE
Surveys were not conducted on a
continuing basis, current information
necessary for more timely, as well as
more accurate, updating of the CPI
would not be available. In addition, data
would not be available to respond to the
continuing demand from the public and
private sectors for current information
on consumer spending.
In the Quarterly Interview Survey,
each consumer unit (CU) in the sample
is interviewed every three months over
four calendar quarters. The sample for
each quarter is divided into three
panels, with CUs being interviewed
every three months in the same panel of
every quarter. The Quarterly Interview
Survey is designed to collect data on the
types of expenditures that respondents
can be expected to recall for a period of
three months or longer. In general the
expenses reported in the Interview
Survey are either relatively large, such
as property, automobiles, or major
appliances, or are expenses which occur
on a fairly regular basis, such as rent,
utility bills, or insurance premiums.
The Diary (or recordkeeping) Survey
is completed at home by the respondent
family for two consecutive one-week
periods. The primary objective of the
Diary Survey is to obtain expenditure
data on small, frequently purchased
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items which normally are difficult to
recall over longer periods of time.
II. Current Action
Office of Management and Budget
approval is being sought for the
proposed revision of the Consumer
Expenditure Surveys: The Quarterly
Interview (CEQ) and the Diary (CED).
The purpose of this request is to
obtain clearance for modifications to the
Consumer Expenditure (CE) Surveys
and to test a self-administered Diary.
CE requests clearance to remove
several point of purchase questions from
the CEQ Computer Assisted Personal
Interview (CAPI) instrument that are no
longer needed by CPI and to add point
of purchase questions for gasoline on
trips including the name of the gas
station or store and the location (city
and state) where gasoline on a trip was
purchased.
CE is also seeking clearance to add a
‘consent request’ question to the CEQ.
The consent request question will ask
respondents for permission to record the
interview for quality control purposes.
This question will be added to test the
impact of the consent request question
on respondent behavior, as well as rates
of consent, and overall interview
duration. The question will be
administered to half of the CUs in their
fourth wave production interview
between October and December 2021.
Respondents in this test group will be
asked the consent request question.
However, no recordings of the interview
will actually take place. The results of
this Consent Request test will inform CE
regarding plans to incorporate Computer
Assisted Recording Instrument (CARI)
technology into CE for quality control
and research purposes.
CE is requesting clearance to test a
self-administered Diary. In lieu of the
production procedures for an in-person
interview in which FRs place the diaries
and train respondents on how to record
the household’s daily expenditures, the
Self-Administered Diary test will entail
Diary placement and collection of
sample unit, demographics, income, and
select expenditure data through the
Household Screener survey.
Additionally, instead of the CED paper
Diary, respondents will use the Online
Diary with slight modifications.
The purpose of the Self-Administered
Diary test is to determine the sampling
and measurement error by comparing
the sample composition of those that
complete an online diary to that of the
BLS CE diary production sample to
determine the differences in
representativeness for various
population subgroups. Additionally,
response and cooperation rates, as well
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as deviations in data quality will be
evaluated. The test will be administered
from October through December of
2021.
As part of the self-administered Diary
test, respondents will receive survey
points redeemable for cash,
merchandise, gift cards or game entries
worth the equivalent of $2 cash for
completing the Household
Characteristics Survey and survey
points redeemable for cash,
merchandise, gift cards or game entries
worth the equivalent of $50 cash for
successfully completing each day of the
fourteen-day diary period.
The Household Characteristics Survey
and Consumer Expenditure Online
Diary will be administered to a
nationally representative sample of
2,000 persons (age 18 and older), with
surveys conducted in English.
Weighting the entire population to U.S.
Census Bureau benchmarks secured
from the latest American Community
Survey (ACS) and the most recent
March supplement of the Current
Population Survey (CPS) along several
dimensions including gender, age, race/
Hispanic origin, education, Census
Region, income, home ownership status,
household size, and metropolitan area.
III. Desired Focus of Comments
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is
particularly interested in comments
that:
• Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
Total
respondents
Activity
Quarterly ..............................................................................
Diary .....................................................................................
Frequency
4,925
9,366
4.48
3.93
14,291
Title of Collection: The Consumer
Expenditure Surveys: The Quarterly
Interview and the Diary.
OMB Number: 1220–0050.
Type of Review: Revision, of a
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Individuals or
Households.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget approval of the
information collection request; they also
will become a matter of public record.
SUMMARY:
Signed at Washington, DC, this 5th day of
February 2021.
Mark Staniorski,
Division Chief, Division of Management
Systems.
DATES:
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Submit comments by March 15,
2021. Requests for a hearing or petition
for leave to intervene must be filed by
April 12, 2021.
You may submit comments
by any of the following methods;
however, the NRC encourages electronic
comment submission through the
Federal Rulemaking Website:
• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2021–0046. Address
questions about Docket IDs in
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telephone: 301–415–0624; email:
Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical
questions, contact the individual listed
in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section of this document.
• Mail comments to: Office of
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Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
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Total
responses
22,064
36,816
Average time
per response
(minutes)
Total burden
(hours)
60.89195
42.77542
58,880
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is considering
issuance of an amendment to Renewed
Facility Operating License No. DPR–66,
issued to Energy Harbor Nuclear Corp.,
for operation of the Beaver Valley Power
Station, Unit 1. The proposed
amendment would revise Technical
Specification (TS) 5.5.5.1, ‘‘Unit 1 SG
[Steam Generator] Program,’’ paragraph
d.2 to defer the spring of 2021 refueling
outage (1R27) steam generator
inspections to the fall of 2022 refueling
outage (1R28).
ADDRESSES:
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility.
• Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used.
• Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected.
• Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submissions
of responses.
22,392
26,247
48,639
0001, ATTN: Program Management,
Announcements and Editing Staff.
For additional direction on obtaining
information and submitting comments,
see ‘‘Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments’’ in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jennifer C. Tobin, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415–
2328, email: Jennifer.Tobin@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2021–
0046 when contacting the NRC about
the availability of information for this
action. You may obtain publicly
available information related to this
action by any of the following methods:
• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2021–0046.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly
available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
adams.html. To begin the search, select
‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.’’ For
problems with ADAMS, please contact
the NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR)
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Information Collection Activities, Comment Request
AGENCY: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor.
ACTION: Notice of information collection, request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to
reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre-clearance
consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies
with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing
collections of information in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995. This program helps to ensure that requested data can be
provided in the desired format, reporting burden (time and financial
resources) is minimized, collection instruments are clearly understood,
and the impact of collection requirements on respondents can be
properly assessed. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is soliciting
comments concerning the proposed revision of the ``The Consumer
Expenditure Surveys: The Quarterly Interview and the Diary.'' A copy of
the proposed information collection request can be obtained by
contacting the individual listed below in the ADDRESSES section of this
notice.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the
Addresses section of this notice on or before April 12, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Nora Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer,
Division of Management Systems, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Room 4080,
2 Massachusetts Avenue NE, Washington, DC 20212. Written comments also
may be transmitted by email to [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nora Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer,
at 202-691-7628 (this is not a toll free number). (See ADDRESSES
section.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Consumer Expenditure (CE) Surveys collect data on consumer
expenditures, demographic information, and related data needed by the
Consumer Price Index (CPI) and other public and private data users. The
continuing surveys provide a constant measurement of changes in
consumer expenditure patterns for economic analysis and to obtain data
for future CPI revisions. The CE Surveys have been ongoing since 1979.
The data from the CE Surveys are used (1) for CPI revisions, (2) to
provide a continuous flow of data on income and expenditure patterns
for use in economic analysis and policy formulation, and (3) to provide
a flexible consumer survey vehicle that is available for use by other
Federal government agencies. Public and private users of price
statistics, including Congress and the economic policymaking agencies
of the Executive branch, rely on data collected in the CPI in their
day-to-day activities. Hence, data users and policymakers widely accept
the need to improve the process used for revising the CPI. If the CE
Surveys were not conducted on a continuing basis, current information
necessary for more timely, as well as more accurate, updating of the
CPI would not be available. In addition, data would not be available to
respond to the continuing demand from the public and private sectors
for current information on consumer spending.
In the Quarterly Interview Survey, each consumer unit (CU) in the
sample is interviewed every three months over four calendar quarters.
The sample for each quarter is divided into three panels, with CUs
being interviewed every three months in the same panel of every
quarter. The Quarterly Interview Survey is designed to collect data on
the types of expenditures that respondents can be expected to recall
for a period of three months or longer. In general the expenses
reported in the Interview Survey are either relatively large, such as
property, automobiles, or major appliances, or are expenses which occur
on a fairly regular basis, such as rent, utility bills, or insurance
premiums.
The Diary (or recordkeeping) Survey is completed at home by the
respondent family for two consecutive one-week periods. The primary
objective of the Diary Survey is to obtain expenditure data on small,
frequently purchased items which normally are difficult to recall over
longer periods of time.
II. Current Action
Office of Management and Budget approval is being sought for the
proposed revision of the Consumer Expenditure Surveys: The Quarterly
Interview (CEQ) and the Diary (CED).
The purpose of this request is to obtain clearance for
modifications to the Consumer Expenditure (CE) Surveys and to test a
self-administered Diary.
CE requests clearance to remove several point of purchase questions
from the CEQ Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI) instrument
that are no longer needed by CPI and to add point of purchase questions
for gasoline on trips including the name of the gas station or store
and the location (city and state) where gasoline on a trip was
purchased.
CE is also seeking clearance to add a `consent request' question to
the CEQ. The consent request question will ask respondents for
permission to record the interview for quality control purposes. This
question will be added to test the impact of the consent request
question on respondent behavior, as well as rates of consent, and
overall interview duration. The question will be administered to half
of the CUs in their fourth wave production interview between October
and December 2021. Respondents in this test group will be asked the
consent request question. However, no recordings of the interview will
actually take place. The results of this Consent Request test will
inform CE regarding plans to incorporate Computer Assisted Recording
Instrument (CARI) technology into CE for quality control and research
purposes.
CE is requesting clearance to test a self-administered Diary. In
lieu of the production procedures for an in-person interview in which
FRs place the diaries and train respondents on how to record the
household's daily expenditures, the Self-Administered Diary test will
entail Diary placement and collection of sample unit, demographics,
income, and select expenditure data through the Household Screener
survey. Additionally, instead of the CED paper Diary, respondents will
use the Online Diary with slight modifications.
The purpose of the Self-Administered Diary test is to determine the
sampling and measurement error by comparing the sample composition of
those that complete an online diary to that of the BLS CE diary
production sample to determine the differences in representativeness
for various population subgroups. Additionally, response and
cooperation rates, as well
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as deviations in data quality will be evaluated. The test will be
administered from October through December of 2021.
As part of the self-administered Diary test, respondents will
receive survey points redeemable for cash, merchandise, gift cards or
game entries worth the equivalent of $2 cash for completing the
Household Characteristics Survey and survey points redeemable for cash,
merchandise, gift cards or game entries worth the equivalent of $50
cash for successfully completing each day of the fourteen-day diary
period.
The Household Characteristics Survey and Consumer Expenditure
Online Diary will be administered to a nationally representative sample
of 2,000 persons (age 18 and older), with surveys conducted in English.
Weighting the entire population to U.S. Census Bureau benchmarks
secured from the latest American Community Survey (ACS) and the most
recent March supplement of the Current Population Survey (CPS) along
several dimensions including gender, age, race/Hispanic origin,
education, Census Region, income, home ownership status, household
size, and metropolitan area.
III. Desired Focus of Comments
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is particularly interested in
comments that:
Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility.
Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and assumptions used.
Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected.
Minimize the burden of the collection of information on
those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate
automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submissions of responses.
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Average time
Activity Total Frequency Total per response Total burden
respondents responses (minutes) (hours)
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Quarterly....................... 4,925 4.48 22,064 60.89195 22,392
Diary........................... 9,366 3.93 36,816 42.77542 26,247
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14,291 58,880 48,639
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Title of Collection: The Consumer Expenditure Surveys: The
Quarterly Interview and the Diary.
OMB Number: 1220-0050.
Type of Review: Revision, of a currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Individuals or Households.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget
approval of the information collection request; they also will become a
matter of public record.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 5th day of February 2021.
Mark Staniorski,
Division Chief, Division of Management Systems.
[FR Doc. 2021-02808 Filed 2-10-21; 8:45 am]
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