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the small area tabulations they need for
legislative redistricting and by
supplying them with that data in a
timely manner. Participation is strictly
voluntary. The states, DC, and PR are
the only authorities that can choose
where and how to draw their district
boundaries.
In addition, these activities assist in
maintaining the Master Address File/
Topologically Integrated Geographic
Encoding and Referencing (MAF/
TIGER) System, in partnership with
tribal, state, and local governments
nationwide. Because tribal, state, and
local governments have current
knowledge of, and data about, where
housing growth and change are
occurring in their jurisdictions, their
input into the overall development of
geographic data for the Census Bureau
makes a vital contribution. Similarly,
those governments are in the best
position to work with local geographic
boundaries, and they benefit from
accurate address and geographic data.
The Census Bureau is adding a
feedback component to its geographic
partnership programs to allow for the
solicitation of feedback to improve the
administration of the respective
program and potentially reduce the
future burden. Liaisons may be asked to
provide their feedback on materials,
method(s) of data collection, manner of
communications, and the usability of
the program applications and tools.
Affected Public: State and local
governments.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Public Law 94–171,
as amended (title 13, U.S.C., section
141(c)).
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 0607–0988.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
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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; Boundary and Annexation
Survey
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 May 6, 2024,
during a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days
for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau,
Commerce.
Title: Boundary and Annexation
Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0607–0151.
Form Number(s) BAS–6. This is the
Consolidated BAS (CBAS) Agreement
Form. BASSC–1. This is the Boundary
and Annexation Survey (BAS) State
Certification State Certifying Official
(SCO) Appointment Form. BAS
Feedback Form. This is the form used to
capture feedback.
Type of Request: Regular submission,
request for a revision of a currently
approved collection.
Number of Respondents:
• BAS/State Certification/Boundary
Quality Project: 40,000 governments.
• Feedback: 1,000 governments.
Average Hours per Response:
• BAS/State Certification/Boundary
Quality Project: 7.5 hours. This estimate
is based on an average of 5 hours for an
eligible government with no changes
and 10 hours for an eligible government
with changes.
• Feedback: 30 minutes.
Burden Hours: 300,500 hours.
• BAS/State Certification/Boundary
Quality Project: 300,000 hours.
• Feedback: 500 hours.
Needs and Uses: The Boundary and
Annexation Survey (BAS) provides
eligible governments, which include
tribal, state, and general-purpose local
governments, an opportunity to review
the Census Bureau’s legal boundary data
to ensure the Census Bureau has the
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correct boundary, name, and status
information and make necessary
updates. BAS also allows for the review
and update of census designated place
(CDP) boundaries and linear features. It
fulfills the agency’s responsibility as
part of the National Spatial Data
Infrastructure, for which the OMB
Circular A–16 designates the Census
Bureau as the lead federal agency for
maintaining national data about legal
government boundaries, as well as
statistical and administrative
boundaries. It also supports the
geospatial data steward responsibilities
of the Geospatial Data Act, the Evidence
Act, OMB E-Gov, the Federal
Geographic Data Committee, Data.gov,
GeoPlatform.gov, the National Map, the
Geographic Names Information System,
and the Geospatial One-Stop.
The Census Bureau uses the
boundaries collected during BAS to
tabulate data for various censuses and
surveys including the decennial census
and American Community Survey
(ACS) as well as the Population
Estimates Program (PEP). It also uses the
boundaries collected through BAS to
support other programs such as the
Redistricting Data Program, the
Economic Census, the Geographically
Updated Population Certification
Program, and the Special Census
program.
Other federal programs also rely on
accurate boundaries collected through
BAS. The Department of Housing and
Urban Development uses boundaries to
determine jurisdictional eligibility for
various grant programs, such as the
Community Development Block Grant
program. In addition, the Department of
Agriculture uses boundaries to
determine eligibility for various rural
housing and economic development
programs.
The following collection methods
allow the Census Bureau to coordinate
among various levels of government to
obtain the most accurate legal boundary,
CDP, linear feature, and contact
information:
• BAS.
• State Certification.
• Boundary Quality Project.
BAS
BAS provides eligible governments,
which include tribal, state, and generalpurpose local governments, an
opportunity to review the Census
Bureau’s legal boundary data to ensure
the Census Bureau has the correct
boundary, name, and status information
and make necessary updates. BAS also
allows for the review and update of
CDPs and linear features.
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The Census Bureau notifies eligible
governments about BAS through email.
The email includes program information
and directs eligible governments to
respond through an online form if they
have legal boundary, CDP, linear
feature, or contact updates to report.
Any eligible government without an
email on file with the Census Bureau
will be contacted by phone and asked to
provide their response.
Those indicating they have updates to
provide must create their submission
using one of the options listed below.
• BAS Partnership Toolbox. The BAS
Partnership Toolbox allows eligible
governments to create the submission in
ArcGIS Pro. The toolbox automates data
download, boundary update creation,
and exports standardized files for
submission.
• GUPS. The Geographic Update
Partnership Software (GUPS) is a free,
customized geographic information
system software application provided by
the Census Bureau. It is offered as
standalone (GUPS Standalone) and
online (GUPS Web) applications.
Æ GUPS Standalone allows eligible
governments to manually create
boundary updates and export
standardized files for submission.
Æ GUPS Web allows eligible
governments to manually create
boundary updates or import local
boundary data to automate the creation
of boundary updates and export
standardized files for submission.
• Paper maps. The Census Bureau
will ship large format paper maps and
instructions for eligible governments to
annotate and return their updates to the
Census Bureau. The paper map package
includes a letter, materials list insert,
large format paper maps covering the
extent of the government, supplies to
update the paper maps, how-to guide,
and postage-paid return envelope.
Eligible governments that do have
boundary updates can submit both legal
boundary changes and boundary
corrections. Legal boundary changes
include updates that are a result of any
legal action taken by the eligible
government(s) to add or remove land to
their official boundary. Boundary
corrections are updates that are the
result of spatial inaccuracies and do not
substantially alter the Census Bureau’s
representation of the boundaries.
Updates created using the BAS
Partnership Toolbox, GUPS Standalone,
or GUPS Web are returned through the
Census Bureau’s secure online data
sharing portal, while paper maps are
returned through the mail.
Eligible governments that do not
respond, or those that indicate they
have updates to provide, but have not
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submitted their updates are contacted
during nonresponse follow-up by email.
The email reminds eligible governments
to respond through an online response
form or email if they have updates to
report. Those that indicated they have
updates to report are requested to
submit those updates by the March 1 or
May 31 deadlines. Refer to the schedule
below for a high-level BAS program
timeline.
• January 1—Legal boundary changes
must be in effect on or before this date
to be reported in the current survey
year.
• January to May—The Census
Bureau conducts BAS.
• Early January—The Census Bureau
notifies eligible governments about BAS
through email. Eligible governments are
contacted through email to determine if
they have legal boundary, CDP, linear
feature, or contact updates to report.
Any eligible government without an
email on file with the Census Bureau
will be contacted by phone and asked to
provide their response.
• Mid-February, Mid-March, and MidApril—The Census Bureau conducts
nonresponse follow-up for BAS through
email. Eligible governments that have
not responded to annual response, along
with those that indicated they have
updates to report but have not yet
submitted those updates, are contacted
through email on up to three occasions.
• March 1—Legal boundary changes
returned by this date will be reflected in
the ACS and PEP data and in next year’s
BAS materials.
• May 31—Legal boundary changes
returned by this date will be reflected in
next year’s BAS materials. If time
permits, boundary corrections returned
by this date may also be shown.
State Certification
The state certification program allows
state agencies to verify that the legal
boundary, name, and status information
received through BAS were reported in
accordance with state law. The Census
Bureau annually requests that each state
governor designate a state certifying
official (SCO) to participate in the
program. The SCO reviews listings of
legal boundary changes, as well as
government names and statuses that
were submitted through the previous
year’s BAS. These listings include the
attribute information for new
incorporations, dissolutions, mergers,
consolidations, and legal boundary
changes. The listings also include the
names and functional statuses of all
general-purpose local governments
within the state’s jurisdiction. The SCO
can request that the Census Bureau edit
the attribute data, add missing records,
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or remove invalid records. Invalid
records are only removed if the state
government maintains an official record
of all changes to legal boundaries and
governments as mandated by state law.
The state certification schedule is as
follows:
• October—The Census Bureau
emails governor’s letters requesting the
state appoint an SCO to participate in
the program.
• December—The Census Bureau
emails the information required to
participate to the SCO.
• December to February—The SCO
returns submission to the Census
Bureau.
• March—The Census Bureau
distributes discrepancy emails to
general-purpose local governments
based on feedback from the SCO.
The state certification materials
include a governor’s letter, an email to
the SCO, how-to guide, legal boundary
change and government name and status
listings, and discrepancy email to local
governments. The listings and how-to
guide are available on the BAS website.
The SCO returns all updates
electronically through the Census
Bureau’s secure online data sharing
portal.
Boundary Quality Project
The boundary quality project is
designed to assess, analyze, and
improve the spatial quality of legal,
statistical, and administrative
boundaries within the Master Address
File/Topologically Integrated
Geographic Encoding and Referencing
(MAF/TIGER) System. Ensuring quality
boundaries is a critical component of
the geographic preparations for each
decennial census and the Census
Bureau’s ongoing geographic
partnership programs. In addition, the
improvement of boundary quality is an
essential element of the Census Bureau’s
commitment as the responsible agency
for legal boundaries under OMB
Circular A–16.
The project represents an effort to
systematically target and assess
boundary quality within the MAF/
TIGER System. Historically, the Census
Bureau relied exclusively on geographic
partnership programs such as BAS and
the Participant Statistical Areas Program
(PSAP) to obtain updates to tribal, state,
general-purpose local government, and
CDP boundaries. While programs like
BAS play an essential role in improving
boundary quality, the goal of the
boundary quality project is to establish
a new, more accurate, baseline for legal
boundaries and CDPs within an entire
state or county. BAS builds on this
baseline by collecting individual legal
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boundary changes and CDP updates on
a transaction basis as they occur over
the years.
For the Census Bureau to complete
this project, we would collect spatial
data from tribal, state, and generalpurpose local governments to improve
the quality of the MAF/TIGER System
outside the realm of BAS. The only
burden on governments for the
boundary quality project is in providing
their spatial data.
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The Census Bureau is adding a
feedback component to its geographic
partnership programs to allow for the
solicitation of feedback to improve the
administration of the respective
program and potentially reduce the
future burden. Eligible governments
may be asked to provide their feedback
on materials, method(s) of data
collection, manner of communications,
and the usability of the program
applications and tools.
Affected Public: Tribal, state, and
general-purpose local governments in
all fifty states, the District of Columbia,
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,
American Samoa, Guam, the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Frequency: Annual.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Title 13, U.S.C.,
Section 6.
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 0607–0151.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Clearance Officer, Office
of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Industry and Security
Regulations and Procedures Technical
Advisory Committee; Notice of
Partially Closed Meeting
The Regulations and Procedures
Technical Advisory Committee (RPTAC)
will meet on October 15, 2024, 9 a.m.–
4 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time, in the
Herbert C. Hoover Building, Room 3884,
1401 Constitution Avenue NW,
Washington, DC (enter through Main
Entrance on 14th Street between
Constitution and Pennsylvania
Avenues). The Committee advises and
assists the Secretary of Commerce
(Secretary) and other Federal officials
and agencies with respect to actions
designed to carry out the policy set forth
in section 1752(1)(A) of the Export
Control Reform Act. The purpose of the
meeting is to have Committee members
and U.S. Government representatives
mutually review updated technical data
and policy-driving information that has
been gathered.
Agenda
Public Session
1. Opening remarks by the Chairman
2. Opening remarks by the Bureau of
Industry and Security
3. Presentations of Papers by the Public
4. Regulations Update
5. Automated Export System Update
6. Working Group Reports
Closed Session
7. Discussion of matters determined to
be exempt from the open meeting and
public participation requirements found
in sections 1009(a)(1) and 1009(a)(3) of
the Federal Advisory Committee Act
(FACA) (5 U.S.C. 1001–1014). The
exemption is authorized by section
1009(d) of the FACA, which permits the
closure of advisory committee meetings,
or portions thereof, if the head of the
agency to which the advisory committee
reports determines such meetings may
be closed to the public in accordance
with subsection (c) of the Government
in the Sunshine Act (5 U.S.C. 552b(c)).
In this case, the applicable provisions of
5 U.S.C. 552b(c) are subsection
552b(c)(4), which permits closure to
protect trade secrets and commercial or
financial information that is privileged
or confidential, and subsection
552b(c)(9)(B), which permits closure to
protect information that would be likely
to significantly frustrate implementation
of a proposed agency action were it to
be disclosed prematurely. The closed
session of the meeting will involve
committee discussions and guidance
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regarding U.S. Government strategies
and policies.
The open session will be accessible
via teleconference. To join the
conference, submit inquiries to Ms.
Yvette Springer at Yvette.Springer@
bis.doc.gov (email) or (202) 482–2813
(voice).
A limited number of seats will be
available for members of the public to
attend the open session in person.
Reservations are not accepted.
Special Accommodations: Individuals
requiring special accommodations to
access the public meeting should
contact Ms. Yvette Springer no later
than Tuesday, October 8, 2024, so that
appropriate arrangements can be made.
To the extent that time permits,
members of the public may present oral
statements to the Committee. The public
may submit written statements at any
time before or after the meeting.
However, to facilitate distribution of
materials to the Committee members,
the Committee suggests that members of
the public forward their materials prior
to the meeting to Ms. Springer via email.
Material submitted by the public will be
made public and therefore should not
contain confidential information.
Meeting materials from the public
session will be accessible via the
Technical Advisory Committee (TAC)
site at https://tac.bis.gov, within 30-days
after the meeting.
The Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Administration, performing the nonexclusive functions and duties of the
Chief Financial Officer and Assistant
Secretary for Administration, with the
concurrence of the delegate of the
General Counsel, formally determined
on September 23, 2024, pursuant to 5
U.S.C. 1009(d)), that the portion of the
meeting dealing with pre-decisional
changes to the Commerce Control List
and the U.S. export control policies
shall be exempt from the provisions
relating to public meetings found in 5
U.S.C. 1009(a)(1) and 1009(a)(3). The
remaining portions of the meeting will
be open to the public.
Meeting cancellation: If the meeting is
cancelled, a cancellation notice will be
posted on the TAC website at https://
tac.bis.doc.gov.
For more information, contact Ms.
Springer.
Yvette Springer,
Committee Liaison Officer.
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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; Boundary and Annexation Survey
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 May 6, 2024, during a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Commerce.
Title: Boundary and Annexation Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0607-0151.
Form Number(s) BAS-6. This is the Consolidated BAS (CBAS) Agreement
Form. BASSC-1. This is the Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS) State
Certification State Certifying Official (SCO) Appointment Form. BAS
Feedback Form. This is the form used to capture feedback.
Type of Request: Regular submission, request for a revision of a
currently approved collection.
Number of Respondents:
BAS/State Certification/Boundary Quality Project: 40,000
governments.
Feedback: 1,000 governments.
Average Hours per Response:
BAS/State Certification/Boundary Quality Project: 7.5
hours. This estimate is based on an average of 5 hours for an eligible
government with no changes and 10 hours for an eligible government with
changes.
Feedback: 30 minutes.
Burden Hours: 300,500 hours.
BAS/State Certification/Boundary Quality Project: 300,000
hours.
Feedback: 500 hours.
Needs and Uses: The Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS) provides
eligible governments, which include tribal, state, and general-purpose
local governments, an opportunity to review the Census Bureau's legal
boundary data to ensure the Census Bureau has the correct boundary,
name, and status information and make necessary updates. BAS also
allows for the review and update of census designated place (CDP)
boundaries and linear features. It fulfills the agency's responsibility
as part of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure, for which the OMB
Circular A-16 designates the Census Bureau as the lead federal agency
for maintaining national data about legal government boundaries, as
well as statistical and administrative boundaries. It also supports the
geospatial data steward responsibilities of the Geospatial Data Act,
the Evidence Act, OMB E-Gov, the Federal Geographic Data Committee,
Data.gov, GeoPlatform.gov, the National Map, the Geographic Names
Information System, and the Geospatial One-Stop.
The Census Bureau uses the boundaries collected during BAS to
tabulate data for various censuses and surveys including the decennial
census and American Community Survey (ACS) as well as the Population
Estimates Program (PEP). It also uses the boundaries collected through
BAS to support other programs such as the Redistricting Data Program,
the Economic Census, the Geographically Updated Population
Certification Program, and the Special Census program.
Other federal programs also rely on accurate boundaries collected
through BAS. The Department of Housing and Urban Development uses
boundaries to determine jurisdictional eligibility for various grant
programs, such as the Community Development Block Grant program. In
addition, the Department of Agriculture uses boundaries to determine
eligibility for various rural housing and economic development
programs.
The following collection methods allow the Census Bureau to
coordinate among various levels of government to obtain the most
accurate legal boundary, CDP, linear feature, and contact information:
BAS.
State Certification.
Boundary Quality Project.
BAS
BAS provides eligible governments, which include tribal, state, and
general-purpose local governments, an opportunity to review the Census
Bureau's legal boundary data to ensure the Census Bureau has the
correct boundary, name, and status information and make necessary
updates. BAS also allows for the review and update of CDPs and linear
features.
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The Census Bureau notifies eligible governments about BAS through
email. The email includes program information and directs eligible
governments to respond through an online form if they have legal
boundary, CDP, linear feature, or contact updates to report. Any
eligible government without an email on file with the Census Bureau
will be contacted by phone and asked to provide their response.
Those indicating they have updates to provide must create their
submission using one of the options listed below.
BAS Partnership Toolbox. The BAS Partnership Toolbox
allows eligible governments to create the submission in ArcGIS Pro. The
toolbox automates data download, boundary update creation, and exports
standardized files for submission.
GUPS. The Geographic Update Partnership Software (GUPS) is
a free, customized geographic information system software application
provided by the Census Bureau. It is offered as standalone (GUPS
Standalone) and online (GUPS Web) applications.
[cir] GUPS Standalone allows eligible governments to manually
create boundary updates and export standardized files for submission.
[cir] GUPS Web allows eligible governments to manually create
boundary updates or import local boundary data to automate the creation
of boundary updates and export standardized files for submission.
Paper maps. The Census Bureau will ship large format paper
maps and instructions for eligible governments to annotate and return
their updates to the Census Bureau. The paper map package includes a
letter, materials list insert, large format paper maps covering the
extent of the government, supplies to update the paper maps, how-to
guide, and postage-paid return envelope.
Eligible governments that do have boundary updates can submit both
legal boundary changes and boundary corrections. Legal boundary changes
include updates that are a result of any legal action taken by the
eligible government(s) to add or remove land to their official
boundary. Boundary corrections are updates that are the result of
spatial inaccuracies and do not substantially alter the Census Bureau's
representation of the boundaries.
Updates created using the BAS Partnership Toolbox, GUPS Standalone,
or GUPS Web are returned through the Census Bureau's secure online data
sharing portal, while paper maps are returned through the mail.
Eligible governments that do not respond, or those that indicate
they have updates to provide, but have not submitted their updates are
contacted during nonresponse follow-up by email. The email reminds
eligible governments to respond through an online response form or
email if they have updates to report. Those that indicated they have
updates to report are requested to submit those updates by the March 1
or May 31 deadlines. Refer to the schedule below for a high-level BAS
program timeline.
January 1--Legal boundary changes must be in effect on or
before this date to be reported in the current survey year.
January to May--The Census Bureau conducts BAS.
Early January--The Census Bureau notifies eligible
governments about BAS through email. Eligible governments are contacted
through email to determine if they have legal boundary, CDP, linear
feature, or contact updates to report. Any eligible government without
an email on file with the Census Bureau will be contacted by phone and
asked to provide their response.
Mid-February, Mid-March, and Mid-April--The Census Bureau
conducts nonresponse follow-up for BAS through email. Eligible
governments that have not responded to annual response, along with
those that indicated they have updates to report but have not yet
submitted those updates, are contacted through email on up to three
occasions.
March 1--Legal boundary changes returned by this date will
be reflected in the ACS and PEP data and in next year's BAS materials.
May 31--Legal boundary changes returned by this date will
be reflected in next year's BAS materials. If time permits, boundary
corrections returned by this date may also be shown.
State Certification
The state certification program allows state agencies to verify
that the legal boundary, name, and status information received through
BAS were reported in accordance with state law. The Census Bureau
annually requests that each state governor designate a state certifying
official (SCO) to participate in the program. The SCO reviews listings
of legal boundary changes, as well as government names and statuses
that were submitted through the previous year's BAS. These listings
include the attribute information for new incorporations, dissolutions,
mergers, consolidations, and legal boundary changes. The listings also
include the names and functional statuses of all general-purpose local
governments within the state's jurisdiction. The SCO can request that
the Census Bureau edit the attribute data, add missing records, or
remove invalid records. Invalid records are only removed if the state
government maintains an official record of all changes to legal
boundaries and governments as mandated by state law. The state
certification schedule is as follows:
October--The Census Bureau emails governor's letters
requesting the state appoint an SCO to participate in the program.
December--The Census Bureau emails the information
required to participate to the SCO.
December to February--The SCO returns submission to the
Census Bureau.
March--The Census Bureau distributes discrepancy emails to
general-purpose local governments based on feedback from the SCO.
The state certification materials include a governor's letter, an
email to the SCO, how-to guide, legal boundary change and government
name and status listings, and discrepancy email to local governments.
The listings and how-to guide are available on the BAS website. The SCO
returns all updates electronically through the Census Bureau's secure
online data sharing portal.
Boundary Quality Project
The boundary quality project is designed to assess, analyze, and
improve the spatial quality of legal, statistical, and administrative
boundaries within the Master Address File/Topologically Integrated
Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) System. Ensuring
quality boundaries is a critical component of the geographic
preparations for each decennial census and the Census Bureau's ongoing
geographic partnership programs. In addition, the improvement of
boundary quality is an essential element of the Census Bureau's
commitment as the responsible agency for legal boundaries under OMB
Circular A-16.
The project represents an effort to systematically target and
assess boundary quality within the MAF/TIGER System. Historically, the
Census Bureau relied exclusively on geographic partnership programs
such as BAS and the Participant Statistical Areas Program (PSAP) to
obtain updates to tribal, state, general-purpose local government, and
CDP boundaries. While programs like BAS play an essential role in
improving boundary quality, the goal of the boundary quality project is
to establish a new, more accurate, baseline for legal boundaries and
CDPs within an entire state or county. BAS builds on this baseline by
collecting individual legal
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boundary changes and CDP updates on a transaction basis as they occur
over the years.
For the Census Bureau to complete this project, we would collect
spatial data from tribal, state, and general-purpose local governments
to improve the quality of the MAF/TIGER System outside the realm of
BAS. The only burden on governments for the boundary quality project is
in providing their spatial data.
Feedback
The Census Bureau is adding a feedback component to its geographic
partnership programs to allow for the solicitation of feedback to
improve the administration of the respective program and potentially
reduce the future burden. Eligible governments may be asked to provide
their feedback on materials, method(s) of data collection, manner of
communications, and the usability of the program applications and
tools.
Affected Public: Tribal, state, and general-purpose local
governments in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of
the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Frequency: Annual.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Title 13, U.S.C., Section 6.
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 0607-0151.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2024-22527 Filed 9-30-24; 8:45 am]
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