80 FR 62015 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 199 (October 15, 2015)

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of 
information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 
U.S.C. chapter 35).
    Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
    Title: Redistricting Data Program.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-XXXX.
    Form Number(s): N/A.
    Type of Request: Regular Submission.
    Number of Respondents: 416.
    FY 2016: 156.
    FY 2017: 52.
    FY 2018: 156.
    FY 2019: 52.
    Average Hours per Response: Varies.
    Average Time per Response Phase 1:
    Block Boundary Suggestion Project (BBSP) Annotation: 124 hours.
    BBSP Verification: 62 hours.
    Average Time per Response Phase 2:
    Voting District Project (VTDP) Delineation: 248 hours.
    VTDP Verification: 124 hours.
    Average Time per Response Phase 4:
    115th Congressional Districts (CDs) & State Legislative Districts 
(SLDs) Collection: 2 hours.
    115th CDs & SLDs Verification: 2 hours.
    116th CDs & SLDs Collection: 2 hours.
    116th CDs & SLDs Verification: 2 hours.
    Burden Hours: 29,432 (All Phases, All FYs).
    FY 2016 Burden Hours: 6,656.
    FY 2017 Burden Hours: 3,224.
    FY 2018 Burden Hours: 13,104.
    FY 2019 Burden Hours: 6,448.
    Burden Hours Phase 1:
    BBSP Annotation (FY 2016): 6,448 hours.
    BBSP Verification (FY 2017): 3,224 hours.
    Phase 1 Total Burden Hours: 9,672 hours.
    Burden Hours Phase 2:
    VTD Delineation (FY 2018): 12,896 hours.
    VTD Verification (FY 2019): 6,448 hours.
    Phase 2 Total Burden Hours: 19,344 hours.
    Burden Hours Phase 4:
    115th CDs & SLDs Collection (FY 2016): 104 hours.
    115th CDs & SLDs Verification (FY 2016): 104 hours.
    116th CDs & SLDs Collection (FY 2018): 104 hours.
    116th CDs & SLDs Verification (FY 2018): 104 hours.
    Phase 4 Total Burden Hours: 416 hours.
    Needs and Uses: The mission of the Geography Division (GEO) within 
the U.S. Census Bureau is to plan, coordinate, and administer all 
geographic and cartographic activities needed to facilitate Census 
Bureau statistical programs throughout the United States and its 
territories. GEO manages programs that continuously update features, 
boundaries, addresses, and geographic entities in the Master Address 
File/Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/
TIGER) System. GEO, also, conducts research into geographic concepts, 
methods, and standards needed to facilitate Census Bureau data 
collection and dissemination programs.
    The Census Bureau is requesting a new collection to cover the five 
phases of the Redistricting Data Program (RDP) that was originally part 
of the Geographic Partnership Programs (GPPs) generic clearance. The 
Census Bureau requests a three-year clearance and a project specific 
OMB Control Number for RDP. GEO is creating a separate clearance for 
this critical program. A project specific clearance allows the Census 
Bureau to provide RDP specific materials, burden hours, and procedures. 
The need to only provide RDP materials ensures the program phases are 
uninterrupted by other program clearances unrelated to RDP. The RDP 
specific clearance provides flexibility in the timing, allowing the 
program to establish the schedule for RDP clearance needs and renewal.
    Under the provisions of Title 13, Section 141(c) of the United 
States Code (U.S.C.), the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) is required 
to provide the ``officers or public bodies having initial 
responsibility for the legislative apportionment or districting of each 
state . . .'' with the opportunity to specify geographic areas (e.g., 
voting districts) for which they wish to receive Decennial Census 
population counts for the purpose of reapportionment or redistricting.
    By April 1 of the year following the Decennial Census, the 
Secretary is required to furnish the state officials or their designees 
with population counts for American Indian areas (AIAs), counties, 
cities, census blocks, and state-specified congressional, legislative, 
and voting districts.
    The Census Bureau has issued an invitation to the officers or 
public bodies having initial responsibility for legislative 
reapportionment and redistricting, through the Census Redistricting and 
Voting Rights Data Office (CRVRDO), inviting states to identify a non-
partisan liaison that will work directly with the Census Bureau on the 
2020 Census RDP.
    Since the 1990 Census, participation in the Census RDP BBSP and 
VTDP, 2020 Census RDP Phases 1 and 2 under

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Title 13, U.S.C., is voluntary on the part of each state. However, if 
states choose not to participate in Phase 1 and Phase 2, the Census 
Bureau cannot ensure that the 2020 Decennial Census tabulation 
geography will support the redistricting needs of their state.
    The RDP invites respondent participation in the following phases of 
the program:

Phase 1: BBSP

    The purpose of the BBSP is to afford states the opportunity to 
identify non-standard Features often used as electoral boundaries (such 
as a power line or stream, rather than a street centerline, which might 
divide voters on different sides of a street into two districts) as 
Census block boundaries. The BBSP option affords the state liaison the 
opportunity to provide suggestions for 2020 Census tabulation block 
boundaries, resulting in more meaningful block data for the state. 
Liaisons are able to work with local officials including county 
election officers and others to ensure local geography is represented 
in the 2020 Census tabulation block inventory. In addition, the 
liaison, on behalf of the state, will make suggestions for features not 
desirable as census tabulation blocks. By identifying undesirable 
features, the liaison may assist the Census Bureau in reducing the 
overall number of census tabulation blocks from the 2010 inventory. 
Beginning in late fall of 2015, states that choose to participate in 
Phase 1 will begin receiving guidelines and training for providing 
their suggestions for the 2020 Census tabulation blocks, as well as 
their suggestions for exclusion of line segments, for consideration in 
the final 2020 Census tabulation block inventory. For the first time, 
states will have the opportunity to review legal limits, such as county 
and incorporated place boundaries, as reported through the Boundary and 
Annexation Survey (BAS). The Census Bureau conducts the BAS annually to 
update information about the legal boundaries and names of all 
governmental units. The alignment of the BAS with the BBSP will 
facilitate the cooperation between state and local government. A 
verification phase will occur in early 2017.

Phase 2: VTDP

    The VTDP will provide the state liaison, on behalf of the state, to 
submit the voting Districts (a generic term used to represent areas 
that administer elections such as precincts, election districts, wards, 
etc.) to the Census Bureau for representation in the 2020 Census Public 
Law 94-171 products (data and geographic products). Beginning in late 
2017, states that choose to participate in VTDP will receive on a flow 
basis, geographic products that allow them the opportunity to update 
the Voting Districts (VTDs) for inclusion in the 2020 Census tabulation 
geography. State liaisons will continue to align their effort with 
updates from state and local government officials participating in the 
BAS. The VTD/BAS update and alignment will continue through spring of 
2018. A verification phase will occur in early 2019 for states that 
participated in VTDP.

Phase 3: Delivery of the 2020 Decennial Census Redistricting Data

    By April 1, 2021, the Director of the Census Bureau will, in 
accordance with Title 13, U.S.C., furnish the Governor and state 
legislative leaders, both the majority and minority, with 2020 Census 
population counts for standard census tabulation areas (e.g., state, 
Congressional district, state legislative district, AIA, county, city, 
town, census tract, census block group, and census block) regardless of 
a state's participation in Phase 1 or 2. The Director of the Census 
Bureau will provide 2020 Census population counts for those states 
participating in Phase 2, for both the standard tabulation areas and 
for VTDs. For each state, this delivery will occur prior to general 
release and no later than April 1, 2021.

Phase 4: Collection of Post-Census Redistricting Data Plans

    The Census Bureau requests from every state, the newly drawn 
Legislative and Congressional district plans and prepares appropriate 
data sets based on new districts. Between the 2010 Census and the 2020 
Census, the effort began in 2011 using the 2010 Census as a baseline. 
Beginning in 2021, the Census Bureau will use the 2020 Census as a 
baseline. This effort will occur every two years in advance of the next 
Census in order to update these boundaries with new or changed plans. A 
verification phase will occur with each update.

Phase 5: Review of the 2020 Census RDP and Recommendations for the 2030 
Census RDP

    As the final phase of the 2020 Census RDP, the Census Bureau will 
work with the states to conduct a thorough review of the RDP. The 
intent of this review, and the final report that results, is to provide 
guidance to the Secretary and the Census Bureau Director in planning 
the 2030 Census RDP.
    Affected Public: All fifty states, the District of Columbia, and 
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Title 13, U.S.C., Sections 16, 141, and 193.
    This information collection request may be viewed at 
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view Department of Commerce 
collections currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to [email protected] or fax to (202) 395-5806.

    Dated: October 8, 2015.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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report. The Board will discuss the status Budget (OMB) for clearance the needed to facilitate Census Bureau
of several current CSB investigations, following proposal for collection of statistical programs throughout the
including ExxonMobil Torrance, West information under the provisions of the United States and its territories. GEO
Fertilizer, Freedom Industries, DuPont Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. manages programs that continuously
LaPorte, Macondo, and Williams chapter 35). update features, boundaries, addresses,
Olefins. The Board will also discuss the Agency: U.S. Census Bureau. and geographic entities in the Master
agency action plan for FY 15 in addition Title: Redistricting Data Program. Address File/Topologically Integrated
to the newly confirmed Chairperson’s OMB Control Number: 0607–XXXX. Geographic Encoding and Referencing
overview of her first 60 days. An Form Number(s): N/A. (MAF/TIGER) System. GEO, also,
opportunity for public comment will be Type of Request: Regular Submission. conducts research into geographic
provided. Number of Respondents: 416. concepts, methods, and standards
FY 2016: 156. needed to facilitate Census Bureau data
Additional Information FY 2017: 52. collection and dissemination programs.
The meeting is free and open to the FY 2018: 156. The Census Bureau is requesting a
public. If you require a translator or FY 2019: 52. new collection to cover the five phases
interpreter, please notify the individual Average Hours per Response: Varies. of the Redistricting Data Program (RDP)
listed below as the ‘‘Contact Person for Average Time per Response Phase 1: that was originally part of the
Further Information,’’ at least three Block Boundary Suggestion Project Geographic Partnership Programs
business days prior to the meeting. (BBSP) Annotation: 124 hours. (GPPs) generic clearance. The Census
This meeting will be webcast for those BBSP Verification: 62 hours. Bureau requests a three-year clearance
who cannot attend in person. Please Average Time per Response Phase 2: and a project specific OMB Control
visit www.csb.gov for access to the live Voting District Project (VTDP) Number for RDP. GEO is creating a
webcast. Delineation: 248 hours. separate clearance for this critical
The CSB is an independent federal VTDP Verification: 124 hours. program. A project specific clearance
agency charged with investigating Average Time per Response Phase 4: allows the Census Bureau to provide
accidents and hazards that result, or 115th Congressional Districts (CDs) & RDP specific materials, burden hours,
may result, in the catastrophic release of State Legislative Districts (SLDs) and procedures. The need to only
extremely hazardous substances. The Collection: 2 hours. provide RDP materials ensures the
agency’s Board Members are appointed 115th CDs & SLDs Verification: 2 program phases are uninterrupted by
by the President and confirmed by the hours. other program clearances unrelated to
Senate. CSB investigations look into all 116th CDs & SLDs Collection: 2 hours. RDP. The RDP specific clearance
aspects of chemical accidents and 116th CDs & SLDs Verification: 2 provides flexibility in the timing,
hazards, including physical causes such hours. allowing the program to establish the
as equipment failure as well as Burden Hours: 29,432 (All Phases, All schedule for RDP clearance needs and
inadequacies in regulations, industry FYs). renewal.
standards, and safety management FY 2016 Burden Hours: 6,656. Under the provisions of Title 13,
systems. FY 2017 Burden Hours: 3,224. Section 141(c) of the United States Code
FY 2018 Burden Hours: 13,104. (U.S.C.), the Secretary of Commerce
Public Comment FY 2019 Burden Hours: 6,448. (Secretary) is required to provide the
The time provided for public Burden Hours Phase 1: ‘‘officers or public bodies having initial
statements will depend upon the BBSP Annotation (FY 2016): 6,448 responsibility for the legislative
number of people who wish to speak. hours. apportionment or districting of each
Speakers should assume that their BBSP Verification (FY 2017): 3,224 state . . .’’ with the opportunity to
presentations will be limited to three hours. specify geographic areas (e.g., voting
minutes or less, but commenters may Phase 1 Total Burden Hours: 9,672 districts) for which they wish to receive
submit written statements for the hours. Decennial Census population counts for
record. Burden Hours Phase 2: the purpose of reapportionment or
VTD Delineation (FY 2018): 12,896 redistricting.
Contact Person for Further Information hours. By April 1 of the year following the
Shauna Lawhorne, Public Affairs VTD Verification (FY 2019): 6,448 Decennial Census, the Secretary is
Specialist, public@csb.gov or (202) 384– hours. required to furnish the state officials or
2839. Further information about this Phase 2 Total Burden Hours: 19,344 their designees with population counts
public meeting can be found on the CSB hours. for American Indian areas (AIAs),
Web site at: www.csb.gov. Burden Hours Phase 4: counties, cities, census blocks, and
Dated: October 9, 2015. 115th CDs & SLDs Collection (FY state-specified congressional, legislative,
Kara Wenzel, 2016): 104 hours. and voting districts.
115th CDs & SLDs Verification (FY The Census Bureau has issued an
Acting General Counsel, Chemical Safety and
Hazard Investigation Board. 2016): 104 hours. invitation to the officers or public
116th CDs & SLDs Collection (FY bodies having initial responsibility for
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2018): 104 hours. legislative reapportionment and
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2018): 104 hours. Redistricting and Voting Rights Data
Phase 4 Total Burden Hours: 416 Office (CRVRDO), inviting states to
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE hours. identify a non-partisan liaison that will
Needs and Uses: The mission of the work directly with the Census Bureau
Submission for OMB Review;
Geography Division (GEO) within the on the 2020 Census RDP.
Comment Request
U.S. Census Bureau is to plan, Since the 1990 Census, participation
The Department of Commerce will coordinate, and administer all in the Census RDP BBSP and VTDP,
submit to the Office of Management and geographic and cartographic activities 2020 Census RDP Phases 1 and 2 under

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Title 13, U.S.C., is voluntary on the part (data and geographic products). Affected Public: All fifty states, the
of each state. However, if states choose Beginning in late 2017, states that District of Columbia, and the
not to participate in Phase 1 and Phase choose to participate in VTDP will Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
2, the Census Bureau cannot ensure that receive on a flow basis, geographic Frequency: Annually.
the 2020 Decennial Census tabulation products that allow them the Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
geography will support the redistricting opportunity to update the Voting Legal Authority: Title 13, U.S.C.,
needs of their state. Districts (VTDs) for inclusion in the Sections 16, 141, and 193.
The RDP invites respondent 2020 Census tabulation geography. State This information collection request
participation in the following phases of liaisons will continue to align their may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
the program: effort with updates from state and local Follow the instructions to view
Phase 1: BBSP government officials participating in the Department of Commerce collections
BAS. The VTD/BAS update and currently under review by OMB.
The purpose of the BBSP is to afford alignment will continue through spring Written comments and
states the opportunity to identify non- of 2018. A verification phase will occur recommendations for the proposed
standard Features often used as electoral in early 2019 for states that participated information collection should be sent
boundaries (such as a power line or in VTDP. within 30 days of publication of this
stream, rather than a street centerline, notice to OIRA_Submission@
which might divide voters on different Phase 3: Delivery of the 2020 Decennial
omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395–5806.
sides of a street into two districts) as Census Redistricting Data
Census block boundaries. The BBSP Dated: October 8, 2015.
By April 1, 2021, the Director of the Glenna Mickelson,
option affords the state liaison the
Census Bureau will, in accordance with
opportunity to provide suggestions for Management Analyst, Office of the Chief
Title 13, U.S.C., furnish the Governor Information Officer.
2020 Census tabulation block
and state legislative leaders, both the
boundaries, resulting in more [FR Doc. 2015–26127 Filed 10–14–15; 8:45 am]
majority and minority, with 2020
meaningful block data for the state. BILLING CODE 3510–07–P
Liaisons are able to work with local Census population counts for standard
officials including county election census tabulation areas (e.g., state,
officers and others to ensure local Congressional district, state legislative DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
geography is represented in the 2020 district, AIA, county, city, town, census
Census tabulation block inventory. In tract, census block group, and census International Trade Administration
addition, the liaison, on behalf of the block) regardless of a state’s
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state, will make suggestions for features participation in Phase 1 or 2. The
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blocks. By identifying undesirable provide 2020 Census population counts From Canada: Final Results of
features, the liaison may assist the for those states participating in Phase 2, Antidumping Duty Administrative
Census Bureau in reducing the overall for both the standard tabulation areas Review; 2013–2014
number of census tabulation blocks and for VTDs. For each state, this
from the 2010 inventory. Beginning in delivery will occur prior to general AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance,
late fall of 2015, states that choose to release and no later than April 1, 2021. International Trade Administration,
participate in Phase 1 will begin Department of Commerce.
Phase 4: Collection of Post-Census
receiving guidelines and training for Redistricting Data Plans SUMMARY: On June 8, 2015, the
providing their suggestions for the 2020 Department of Commerce (the
Census tabulation blocks, as well as The Census Bureau requests from Department) published the preliminary
their suggestions for exclusion of line every state, the newly drawn Legislative results of the fifth administrative review
segments, for consideration in the final and Congressional district plans and of the antidumping duty order on citric
2020 Census tabulation block inventory. prepares appropriate data sets based on acid and certain citrate salts (citric acid)
For the first time, states will have the new districts. Between the 2010 Census from Canada.1 The review covers one
opportunity to review legal limits, such and the 2020 Census, the effort began in producer and exporter of the subject
as county and incorporated place 2011 using the 2010 Census as a merchandise, Jungbunzlauer Canada
boundaries, as reported through the baseline. Beginning in 2021, the Census Inc. (JBL Canada).
Boundary and Annexation Survey Bureau will use the 2020 Census as a Based on our analysis of the
(BAS). The Census Bureau conducts the baseline. This effort will occur every comments received, we made changes to
BAS annually to update information two years in advance of the next Census our margin calculations. The final
about the legal boundaries and names of in order to update these boundaries weighted-average dumping margin for
all governmental units. The alignment with new or changed plans. A JBL Canada is listed below in the ‘‘Final
of the BAS with the BBSP will facilitate verification phase will occur with each Results of the Review’’ section of this
the cooperation between state and local update. notice.
government. A verification phase will Phase 5: Review of the 2020 Census DATES: Effective Date: October 15, 2015.
occur in early 2017. RDP and Recommendations for the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Phase 2: VTDP 2030 Census RDP Rebecca Trainor or Kate Johnson, AD/
CVD Operations, Office II, Enforcement
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The VTDP will provide the state As the final phase of the 2020 Census
liaison, on behalf of the state, to submit RDP, the Census Bureau will work with and Compliance, International Trade
the voting Districts (a generic term used the states to conduct a thorough review Administration, U.S. Department of
to represent areas that administer of the RDP. The intent of this review, Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution
elections such as precincts, election and the final report that results, is to 1 See Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts from
districts, wards, etc.) to the Census provide guidance to the Secretary and Canada: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty
Bureau for representation in the 2020 the Census Bureau Director in planning Administrative Review; 2013–2014, 80 FR 32342
Census Public Law 94–171 products the 2030 Census RDP. (June 8, 2015) (Preliminary Results).

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