Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; State and Local Government Finance and Public Employment and Payroll Forms, 19871-19872 [2021-07705]

Agencies

• Census Bureau
• DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 71 (Thursday, April 15, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19871-19872]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-07705]


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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; State and Local Government Finance and Public Employment and 
Payroll Forms

    The Department of Commerce will submit the following information 
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite 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 January 27, 2021 during a 60-day comment period. 
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
    Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
    Title: State and Local Government Finance and Public Employment and 
Payroll Forms.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-0585.
    Form Number(s): E-1, E-2, E-3, E-4, E-5, E-6, E-7, E-8, E-9, E-10, 
F-5, F-11, F-12, F-13, F-28, F-29, F-32.
    Type of Request: Regular submission, Request for a Revision of a 
Currently Approved Collection.
    Number of Respondents: 73,140.
    Average Hours per Response: 1 hour and 41 minutes.
    Burden Hours: 123,273.
    Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau requests OMB approval to conduct 
the 2021 and 2023 Annual Surveys of State and Local Government 
Finances, Annual Survey of Public Employment and Payroll and the 2022 
Census of Governments--Finance and Employment. We also request approval 
to add the collection of cannabis sales and license taxes, and sports 
betting sales taxes to the Annual Survey of State Tax Collections (F-
5), a component of the Annual Surveys of State and Local Government 
Finances. This will modernize the survey's content to maintain the 
relevancy and sustainability of these data.

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    The data are released as part of the State and Local Government 
Finance and Public Employment & Payroll statistical series. The 
collections also produce individual data products that focus on state 
governments, local governments, and public pensions in greater detail 
than the combined financial and employment series as a by-product of 
their collections for the combined data series. The Census Bureau 
provides these data to the Bureau of Economic Analysis to develop the 
public sector components of the National Income and Product Accounts 
and for constructing the functional payrolls in the public sector of 
the Gross Domestic Product, payroll being the single largest component 
of current operations. The Census Bureau also provides these data to 
the Federal Reserve Board for use in the Flow of Funds Accounts. Other 
Federal agencies that make use of the data include the Council of 
Economic Advisers, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the 
Government Accountability Office, and the Department of Justice. State 
and local governments and related organizations, public policy groups, 
public interest groups, private research organizations, and private 
sector businesses also use these data.
    Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal government.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Title 13, Section 161, of the United States Code 
requires the Secretary of Commerce to conduct a census of governments 
every fifth year. Section 182 allows the Secretary of Commerce to 
conduct annual surveys in other years.
    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 0607-0585.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2021-07705 Filed 4-14-21; 8:45 am]
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