80_FR_12477 80 FR 12432 - Census Advisory Committees; Notice of Meeting

80 FR 12432 - Census Advisory Committees; Notice of Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 45 (March 9, 2015)

Page Range12432-12433
FR Document2015-05279

The Bureau of the Census (Census Bureau) is giving notice of a meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations (NAC). The NAC will address census policies, research and methodology, tests, operations, communications/messaging and other activities to ascertain needs and best practices to improve censuses, surveys, operations and programs. The NAC will meet in a plenary session on March 26-27, 2015. Last-minute changes to the schedule are possible, which could prevent giving advance public notice of schedule adjustments. Please visit the Census Advisory Committees Web site for the most current meeting agenda at: http://www.census.gov/cac/.

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 45 (Monday, March 9, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 45 (Monday, March 9, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12432-12433]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-05279]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Census Bureau


Census Advisory Committees; Notice of Meeting

AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of the Census (Census Bureau) is giving notice of a 
meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other 
Populations (NAC). The NAC will address census policies, research and 
methodology, tests, operations, communications/messaging and other 
activities to ascertain needs and best practices to improve censuses, 
surveys, operations and programs. The NAC will meet in a plenary 
session on March 26-27, 2015. Last-minute changes to the schedule are 
possible, which could prevent giving advance public notice of schedule 
adjustments. Please visit the Census Advisory Committees Web site for 
the most current meeting agenda at: http://www.census.gov/cac/.

DATES: March 26-27, 2015. On March 26, the meeting will begin at 
approximately 8:30 a.m. and end at approximately 5:00 p.m. On March 27, 
the meeting will begin at approximately

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8:30 a.m. and end at approximately 1:30 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the U.S. Census Bureau, 4600 
Silver Hill Road, Suitland, Maryland 20746.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kim Collier, Assistant Division Chief, 
Customer Liaison and Marketing Services Office, 
[email protected], Department of Commerce, U.S. Census 
Bureau, Room 8H185, 4600 Silver Hill Road, Washington, DC 20233, 
telephone 301-763-6590. For TTY callers, please use the Federal Relay 
Service 1-800-877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NAC comprises up to thirty-two members. 
The Committee provides an organized and continuing channel of 
communication between race, ethnic, and other populations and the 
Census Bureau. The Committee advises the Director of the Census Bureau 
on the full range of economic, housing, demographic, socioeconomic, 
linguistic, technological, methodological, geographic, behavioral and 
operational variables affecting the cost, accuracy and implementation 
of Census Bureau programs and surveys, including the decennial census.
    The Committee is established in accordance with the Federal 
Advisory Committee Act (Title 5, United States Code, Appendix 2, 
Section 10(a)(b)).
    All meetings are open to the public. A brief period will be set 
aside at the meeting for public comment on March 27. However, 
individuals with extensive questions or statements must submit them in 
writing to: [email protected] (subject line 
`March 2015 NAC Meeting Public Comment''), or by letter submission to 
the Committee Liaison Officer, March 2015 NAC Meeting, Department of 
Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Room 8H185, 4600 Silver Hill Road, 
Washington, DC 20233.
    If you plan to attend the meeting, please register by Monday, March 
23. You may access the online registration from the following link: 
http://www.regonline.com/nac_mar2015_meeting. Seating is available to 
the public on a first-come, first-served basis.
    These meetings are physically accessible to people with 
disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other 
auxiliary aids should be directed to the Committee point of contact as 
soon as possible, preferably two weeks prior to the meeting.
    Due to increased security and for access to the meeting, please 
call 301-763-9906 upon arrival at the Census Bureau on the day of the 
meeting. A photo ID must be presented in order to receive your 
visitor's badge. Visitors are not allowed beyond the first floor.

    Dated: March 2, 2015.
John H. Thompson,
Director, Bureau of the Census.
[FR Doc. 2015-05279 Filed 3-6-15; 8:45 am]
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David Mussatt, Oklahoma Advisory Committee for a Written comments may be mailed to the Chief, Regional Programs Unit. Meeting To Discuss and Vote Upon a Midwestern Regional Office, U.S. [FR Doc. 2015–05275 Filed 3–6–15; 8:45 am] Project Proposal Regarding the School Commission on Civil Rights, 55 W. BILLING CODE 6335–01–P to Prison Pipeline in Oklahoma Monroe St., Suite 410, Chicago, IL 60615. They may also be faxed to the AGENCY: U.S. Commission on Civil Commission at (312) 353–8324, or Rights. emailed to Administrative Assistant, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE ACTION: Notice of meeting. Carolyn Allen at callen@usccr.gov. Persons who desire additional Census Bureau SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given, information may contact the pursuant to the provisions of the rules Census Advisory Committees; Notice Midwestern Regional Office at (312) and regulations of the U.S. Commission of Meeting 353–8311. on Civil Rights (Commission) and the Federal Advisory Committee Act that Records generated from this meeting AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, the Oklahoma Advisory Committee may be inspected and reproduced at the Department of Commerce. (Committee) will hold a meeting on Midwestern Regional Office, as they ACTION: Notice of public meeting. Friday, March 27, 2015, at 3 p.m. CST become available, both before and after for the purpose of discussing and voting the meeting. Records of the meeting will SUMMARY: The Bureau of the Census on a project proposal regarding the be available via www.facadatabase.gov (Census Bureau) is giving notice of a school to prison pipeline of Oklahoma under the Commission on Civil Rights, meeting of the National Advisory girls, students of color, and students Oklahoma Advisory Committee link. Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other with disabilities. Persons interested in the work of this Populations (NAC). The NAC will Members of the public can listen to Committee are directed to the address census policies, research and the discussion. This meeting is available Commission’s Web site, http:// methodology, tests, operations, to the public through the following toll- www.usccr.gov, or may contact the communications/messaging and other free call-in number: 888–466–4462, Midwestern Regional Office at the above activities to ascertain needs and best conference ID: 7610695. Any interested email or street address. practices to improve censuses, surveys, member of the public may call this Agenda operations and programs. The NAC will number and listen to the meeting. The meet in a plenary session on March 26– conference call operator will ask callers Welcome and Introductions 27, 2015. Last-minute changes to the to identify themselves, the organization schedule are possible, which could 3 p.m. to 3:05 p.m. they are affiliated with (if any), and an prevent giving advance public notice of Vicki Limas, Chair schedule adjustments. Please visit the email address prior to placing callers Census Advisory Committees Web site mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES into the conference room. Callers can Discussion of Proposal on School to expect to incur charges for calls they Prison Pipeline in Oklahoma for the most current meeting agenda at: initiate over wireless lines, and the http://www.census.gov/cac/. Commission will not refund any 3:05 p.m. to 3:35 p.m. DATES: March 26–27, 2015. On March incurred charges. Callers will incur no Oklahoma Advisory Committee 26, the meeting will begin at charge for calls they initiate over land- Planning Next Steps approximately 8:30 a.m. and end at line connections to the toll-free approximately 5:00 p.m. On March 27, telephone number. Persons with hearing 3:35 p.m. to 4 p.m. the meeting will begin at approximately VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:04 Mar 06, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\09MRN1.SGM 09MRN1

Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 45 / Monday, March 9, 2015 / Notices 12433 8:30 a.m. and end at approximately 1:30 Bureau on the day of the meeting. A association, estate, trust, corporation, or p.m. photo ID must be presented in order to other organization (whether or not ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at receive your visitor’s badge. Visitors are organized under the laws of any State), the U.S. Census Bureau, 4600 Silver Hill not allowed beyond the first floor. and any government (including a Road, Suitland, Maryland 20746. Dated: March 2, 2015. foreign government, the United States FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kim John H. Thompson, Government, a State or local Collier, Assistant Division Chief, government, and any agency, Director, Bureau of the Census. Customer Liaison and Marketing corporation, financial institution, or [FR Doc. 2015–05279 Filed 3–6–15; 8:45 am] Services Office, kimberly.l.collier@ other entity or instrumentality thereof, BILLING CODE 3510–07P census.gov, Department of Commerce, including a government-sponsored U.S. Census Bureau, Room 8H185, 4600 agency). Silver Hill Road, Washington, DC (b) United States person means any DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 20233, telephone 301–763–6590. For person resident in the United States or TTY callers, please use the Federal Bureau of Economic Analysis subject to the jurisdiction of the United Relay Service 1–800–877–8339. States. [Docket No. 150127081–5081–01] (c) United States, when used in a SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NAC comprises up to thirty-two members. RIN 0691–XC031 geographic sense, means the 50 States, The Committee provides an organized the District of Columbia, the BE–29: Annual Survey of Foreign Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and all and continuing channel of Ocean Carriers’ Expenses in the territories and possessions of the United communication between race, ethnic, United States States. and other populations and the Census Bureau. The Committee advises the AGENCY: Bureau of Economic Analysis, (d) Foreign person means any person Director of the Census Bureau on the Commerce. resident outside the United States or full range of economic, housing, subject to the jurisdiction of a country ACTION: Notice of reporting demographic, socioeconomic, linguistic, other than the United States. requirements. technological, methodological, (e) Carriers means owners or geographic, behavioral and operational SUMMARY: By this notice, the Bureau of operators of dry cargo, passenger variables affecting the cost, accuracy Economic Analysis (BEA), Department (including cruise and combination) and and implementation of Census Bureau of Commerce, is informing the public tanker vessels, including very large programs and surveys, including the that it is conducting the mandatory crude carriers (VLCCs), calling at U.S. decennial census. survey titled Annual Survey of Foreign ports. The Committee is established in Ocean Carriers’ Expenses in the United (f) Foreign Carriers means those accordance with the Federal Advisory States (BE–29). This survey is carriers whose residence is outside the Committee Act (Title 5, United States authorized by the International United States, including those who own Code, Appendix 2, Section 10(a)(b)). Investment and Trade in Services or operate their own chartered (U.S.-flag All meetings are open to the public. Survey Act. or foreign-flag) vessels. They also A brief period will be set aside at the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This include foreign subsidiaries of U.S. meeting for public comment on March notice constitutes legal notification to companies operating their own or 27. However, individuals with extensive all United States persons (defined chartered vessels as carriers for their questions or statements must submit below) who meet the reporting own accounts. them in writing to: requirements set forth in this Notice that Reporting census.national.advisory.committee@ they must respond to, and comply with, census.gov (subject line ‘March 2015 the survey. Reports are due 90 days after Who Must Report: (a) Reports are NAC Meeting Public Comment’’), or by the end of each calendar year. This required from U.S. agents of foreign letter submission to the Committee notice is being issued in conformance carriers who handle 40 or more port Liaison Officer, March 2015 NAC with the rule BEA issued in 2012 (77 FR calls in the reporting period by foreign Meeting, Department of Commerce, U.S. 24373) establishing guidelines for ocean vessels, or have total annual Census Bureau, Room 8H185, 4600 collecting data on international trade in covered expenses for all foreign ocean Silver Hill Road, Washington, DC services and direct investment through vessels handled by the U.S. agent of 20233. notices, rather than through rulemaking. $250,000 or more. If you plan to attend the meeting, Additional information about BEA’s (b) Entities required to report will be please register by Monday, March 23. collection of data on international trade contacted individually by BEA. Entities You may access the online registration in services and direct investment can be not contacted by BEA have no reporting from the following link: http:// found in the 2012 rule, the International responsibilities. www.regonline.com/nac_mar2015_ Investment and Trade in Services What To Report: This survey collects meeting. Seating is available to the Survey Act (22 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.), and information on foreign ocean carriers’ public on a first-come, first-served basis. 15 CFR part 801. Survey data on expenses in the United States. These meetings are physically international trade in services and direct How To Report: Reports can be filed accessible to people with disabilities. investment that are not collected using BEA’s electronic reporting system Requests for sign language pursuant to the 2012 rule are described at www.bea.gov/efile. Copies of the mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES interpretation or other auxiliary aids separately in 15 CFR part 801. The BE– survey forms and instructions, which should be directed to the Committee 29 survey forms and instructions are contain complete information on point of contact as soon as possible, available on the BEA Web site at reporting procedures and definitions, preferably two weeks prior to the www.bea.gov/ssb. may be obtained at the BEA Web site meeting. given above. Form BE–29 inquiries can Due to increased security and for Definitions be made by phone to BEA at (202) 606– access to the meeting, please call 301– (a) Person means any individual, 5588 or by sending an email to 763–9906 upon arrival at the Census branch, partnership, associated group, be29help@bea.gov. VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:04 Mar 06, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\09MRN1.SGM 09MRN1


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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of public meeting.
DatesMarch 26-27, 2015. On March 26, the meeting will begin at approximately 8:30 a.m. and end at approximately 5:00 p.m. On March 27, the meeting will begin at approximately 8:30 a.m. and end at approximately 1:30 p.m.
ContactKim Collier, Assistant Division Chief, Customer Liaison and Marketing Services Office, [email protected], Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Room 8H185, 4600 Silver Hill Road, Washington, DC 20233, telephone 301-763-6590. For TTY callers, please use the Federal Relay Service 1-800-877-8339.
FR Citation80 FR 12432 
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