83_FR_20879 83 FR 20790 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

83 FR 20790 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 89 (May 8, 2018)

Page Range20790-20791
FR Document2018-09766

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 89 (Tuesday, May 8, 2018) 
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 89 (Tuesday, May 8, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20790-20791]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-09766]


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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

[[Page 20791]]

information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act.
    Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
    Title: Annual Survey of School System Finances.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-0700.
    Form Number(s): F-33, F-33-L1, F-33-L2, F-33-L3.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Number of Respondents: 3,681.
    Average Hours per Response: 1 hour and 4 minutes.
    Burden Hours: 3,951.
    Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census Bureau, on behalf of the U.S. 
Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics 
(NCES), requests an extension of approval for the Annual Survey of 
School System Finances, the source of the most comprehensive national 
data set on school district finances.
    The Census Bureau collects these data from the universe of school 
districts using uniform definitions and concepts of revenue, 
expenditure, debt, and assets as defined by the NCES handbook Financial 
Accounting for Local and State School Systems. This survey and the 
Annual Surveys of State and Local Government Finances (OMB No. 0607-
0585) are conducted as part of the Census Bureau's State and Local 
Government Finance program. Through this program, the Census Bureau 
collects data from cities, counties, states, and special district 
governments as well as local school systems in order to produce state 
and national totals of government spending. Local school system 
spending comprises a significant portion of total government spending. 
In 2015, public elementary-secondary expenditures accounted for 34 
percent of local government spending.
    This comprehensive and ongoing time series collection of local 
education agency finances, dating back to 1957, provides historical 
continuity in the state and local government statistics community. 
Education finance statistics provided by the Census Bureau allow for 
analyses of how public elementary-secondary school systems receive and 
spend funds and is vital for policy making. Increased focus on 
education has led to a demand for data reflecting student performance, 
graduation rates, and school finance policy--all of which are related 
to the collection of this local education finance data. State 
legislatures, local leaders, university researchers, and parents 
increasingly rely on data to make substantive decisions about 
education.
    The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) uses data from the survey to 
develop figures for the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Elementary-
secondary education finance data items specifically contribute to the 
estimates for National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA), Input-Output 
accounts (I-O), and gross domestic investments. BEA also uses the data 
to assess other public fiscal spending trends and events.
    The NCES use these annual data as part of the Common Core of Data 
(CCD) program. The education finance data collected by the Census 
Bureau are the sole source of school district fiscal information for 
the CCD as well as for the publication of annual reports on the fiscal 
state of education.
    Form (F-33) covers elementary-secondary education finance items. In 
practice, this form serves more as a data processing guide rather than 
as a data collection instrument because the Census Bureau relies 
heavily on collecting this public school system finance data centrally 
from state education agencies centrally via the internet using File 
Transfer Protocol (FTP). Supplemental forms are sent to school systems 
in states where the state education agency cannot provide information 
on assets (F-33-L1), indebtedness (F-33-L2), or both (F-33-L3).
    The Census Bureau makes available detailed files for all school 
systems from its internet website, https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/school-finances.html. That website currently contains data 
files and statistical tables for the 1992 through 2015 fiscal year 
surveys. Historical files and publications prior to 1992 are also 
available upon request for data users engaged in longitudinal studies. 
In addition to numerous academic researchers who use F-33 products, 
staff receive inquiries from state government officials, legislatures, 
public policy analysts, local school officials, non-profit 
organizations, and various Federal agencies.
    Affected Public: State, local or tribal government.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., Sections 8(b), 161, and 182 
(Census authority); Title 20 U.S.C., Sections 9543-44 (NCES authority).
    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 OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov or fax to (202)395-5806.

Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental Lead PRA Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2018-09766 Filed 5-7-18; 8:45 am]
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20790 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 89 / Tuesday, May 8, 2018 / Notices Dated: March 1, 2018. remain identical to the version fielded telephone interviews in conjunction John A. Bricker, since 2015. with the regular February, March and VA State Conservationist. Information on work experience, April CPS interviewing. All interviews [FR Doc. 2018–09677 Filed 5–7–18; 8:45 am] personal income, noncash benefits, are conducted using computer-assisted BILLING CODE 3410–16–P current and previous year health interviewing. insurance coverage, employer- sponsored insurance take-up, and III. Data migration is collected through the OMB Control Number: 0607–0354. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Form Number: There are no forms. ASEC. The work experience items in the Census Bureau ASEC provide a unique measure of the We conduct all interviewing on dynamic nature of the labor force as computers. Proposed Information Collection; viewed over a one-year period. These Type of Review: Regular submission. Comment Request; Current Population items produce statistics that show Affected Public: Households. Survey, Annual Social and Economic movements in and out of the labor force Frequency: Annually Supplement by measuring the number of periods of Estimated Number of Respondents: unemployment experienced by people, 78,000. AGENCY: U.S. Census Bureau, the number of different employers Estimated Time Per Response: 25 Commerce. worked for during the year, the minutes. ACTION: Notice. principal reasons for unemployment, Estimated Total Annual Burden and part-/full-time attachment to the Hours: 32,500. SUMMARY: The Department of labor force. We can make indirect Estimated Total Annual Cost to Commerce, as part of its continuing measurements of discouraged workers Public: There are no costs to the effort to reduce paperwork and and others with a casual attachment to respondents other than their time. respondent burden, invites the general the labor market. Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. public and other Federal agencies to The income data from the ASEC are Legal Authority: Title 13, United take this opportunity to comment on used by social planners, economists, States Code, Sections 141 and 182; and proposed and/or continuing information government officials, and market Title 29, United States Code, Sections collections, as required by the researchers to gauge the economic well- 1–9. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. being of the country as a whole, and IV. Request for Comments DATES: To ensure consideration, written selected population groups of interest. comments must be submitted on or Government planners and researchers Comments are invited on: (a) Whether before July 9, 2018. use these data to monitor and evaluate the proposed collection of information the effectiveness of various assistance is necessary for the proper performance ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments programs. Market researchers use these of the functions of the agency, including to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental data to identify and isolate potential whether the information shall have Paperwork Clearance Officer, customers. Social planners use these practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the Department of Commerce, Room 6616, data to forecast economic conditions agency’s estimate of the burden 14th and Constitution Avenue NW, and to identify special groups that seem (including hours and cost) of the Washington, DC 20230 (or via the to be especially sensitive to economic proposed collection of information; (c) internet at PRAcomments@doc.gov). fluctuations. Economists use ASEC data ways to enhance the quality, utility, and FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: clarity of the information to be Requests for additional information or to determine the effects of various economic forces, such as inflation, collected; and (d) ways to minimize the copies of the information collection burden of the collection of information instrument(s) and instructions should recession, recovery, and so on, and their differential effects on various on respondents, including through the be directed to Lisa Cheok, U.S. Census use of automated collection techniques Bureau, ADDP/CPS HQ–7H136A, population groups. The ASEC is the official source of or other forms of information Washington, DC 20233–8400, (301) 763– technology. national poverty estimates calculated in 3806 (or via the internet at dsd.cps@ Comments submitted in response to accordance with the Office of census.gov). this notice will be summarized and/or Management and Budget’s Statistical SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Policy Directive 14. Two other included in the request for OMB important national estimates derived approval of this information collection; I. Abstract from the ASEC are real median they also will become a matter of public The Census Bureau plans to request household income and the number and record. clearance from the Office of percent of individuals without health Sheleen Dumas, Management and Budget (OMB) for the insurance coverage. collection of data concerning the Departmental Lead PRA Officer, Office of the The ASEC also contains questions Chief Information Officer. Annual Social and Economic related to: (1) Medical expenditures; (2) Supplement (ASEC) to be conducted in [FR Doc. 2018–09762 Filed 5–7–18; 8:45 am] presence and cost of a mortgage on conjunction with the February, March, property; (3) child support payments; BILLING CODE 3510–07–P and April Current Population Survey and (4) amount of child care assistance (CPS). The Census Bureau has received. These questions enable conducted this supplement annually for DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES analysts and policymakers to obtain more than 50 years. The Census Bureau better estimates of family and household Submission for OMB Review; and the Bureau of Labor Statistics income, and more precisely gauge Comment Request sponsor this supplement. The current poverty status. clearance expires December 31, 2018. The Department of Commerce will The ASEC data collection was last II. Method of Collection submit to the Office of Management and redesigned in 2015. For 2019, the data The ASEC information will be Budget (OMB) for clearance the collection questions and design will collected by both personal visit and following proposal for collection of VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:41 May 07, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\08MYN1.SGM 08MYN1

Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 89 / Tuesday, May 8, 2018 / Notices 20791 information under the provisions of the Product (GDP). Elementary-secondary notice to OIRA_Submission@ Paperwork Reduction Act. education finance data items omb.eop.gov or fax to (202)395–5806. Agency: U.S. Census Bureau. specifically contribute to the estimates Title: Annual Survey of School Sheleen Dumas, for National Income and Product System Finances. Accounts (NIPA), Input-Output Departmental Lead PRA Officer, Office of the OMB Control Number: 0607–0700. Chief Information Officer. accounts (I–O), and gross domestic Form Number(s): F–33, F–33–L1, F– investments. BEA also uses the data to [FR Doc. 2018–09766 Filed 5–7–18; 8:45 am] 33–L2, F–33–L3. assess other public fiscal spending BILLING CODE 3510–07–P Type of Request: Extension of a trends and events. currently approved collection. The NCES use these annual data as Number of Respondents: 3,681. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE part of the Common Core of Data (CCD) Average Hours per Response: 1 hour program. The education finance data Foreign-Trade Zones Board and 4 minutes. Burden Hours: 3,951. collected by the Census Bureau are the Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census sole source of school district fiscal [S–44–2018] Bureau, on behalf of the U.S. information for the CCD as well as for Department of Education’s National the publication of annual reports on the Approval of Subzone Status; Brose Center for Education Statistics (NCES), fiscal state of education. Tuscaloosa, Inc. Vance, Alabama requests an extension of approval for the Form (F–33) covers elementary- secondary education finance items. In On March 6, 2018, the Executive Annual Survey of School System Secretary of the Foreign-Trade Zones Finances, the source of the most practice, this form serves more as a data processing guide rather than as a data (FTZ) Board docketed an application comprehensive national data set on submitted by the City of Birmingham, school district finances. collection instrument because the Census Bureau relies heavily on grantee of FTZ 98, requesting subzone The Census Bureau collects these data status subject to the existing activation from the universe of school districts collecting this public school system finance data centrally from state limit of FTZ 98, on behalf of Brose using uniform definitions and concepts Tuscaloosa, Inc., in Vance, Alabama. of revenue, expenditure, debt, and education agencies centrally via the internet using File Transfer Protocol The application was processed in assets as defined by the NCES handbook accordance with the FTZ Act and Financial Accounting for Local and (FTP). Supplemental forms are sent to school systems in states where the state Regulations, including notice in the State School Systems. This survey and Federal Register inviting public the Annual Surveys of State and Local education agency cannot provide information on assets (F–33–L1), comment (83 FR 10657, March 12, Government Finances (OMB No. 0607– 2018). The FTZ staff examiner reviewed 0585) are conducted as part of the indebtedness (F–33–L2), or both (F–33– L3). the application and determined that it Census Bureau’s State and Local meets the criteria for approval. Pursuant Government Finance program. Through The Census Bureau makes available to the authority delegated to the FTZ this program, the Census Bureau detailed files for all school systems from Board Executive Secretary (15 CFR Sec. collects data from cities, counties, its internet website, https:// 400.36(f)), the application to establish states, and special district governments www.census.gov/programs-surveys/ Subzone 98E was approved on May 1, as well as local school systems in order school-finances.html. That website 2018, subject to the FTZ Act and the to produce state and national totals of currently contains data files and Board’s regulations, including Section government spending. Local school statistical tables for the 1992 through 400.13, and further subject to FTZ 98’s system spending comprises a significant 2015 fiscal year surveys. Historical files 611.80-acre activation limit. portion of total government spending. In and publications prior to 1992 are also available upon request for data users Dated: May 3, 2018. 2015, public elementary-secondary expenditures accounted for 34 percent engaged in longitudinal studies. In Andrew McGilvray, of local government spending. addition to numerous academic Executive Secretary. This comprehensive and ongoing time researchers who use F–33 products, staff [FR Doc. 2018–09758 Filed 5–7–18; 8:45 am] series collection of local education receive inquiries from state government BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P agency finances, dating back to 1957, officials, legislatures, public policy provides historical continuity in the analysts, local school officials, non- state and local government statistics profit organizations, and various Federal DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE community. Education finance statistics agencies. provided by the Census Bureau allow Affected Public: State, local or tribal Foreign-Trade Zones Board for analyses of how public elementary- government. Frequency: Annually. [S–39–2018] secondary school systems receive and spend funds and is vital for policy Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. Approval of Subzone Status; CEVA making. Increased focus on education Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., Freight LLC; Mount Juliet and has led to a demand for data reflecting Sections 8(b), 161, and 182 (Census Lebanon, Tennessee student performance, graduation rates, authority); Title 20 U.S.C., Sections and school finance policy—all of which 9543–44 (NCES authority). On February 26, 2018, the Executive are related to the collection of this local This information collection request Secretary of the Foreign-Trade Zones may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. (FTZ) Board docketed an application sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES education finance data. State legislatures, local leaders, university Follow the instructions to view submitted by the Metropolitan researchers, and parents increasingly Department of Commerce collections Government of Nashville and Davidson rely on data to make substantive currently under review by OMB. County, grantee of FTZ 78, requesting decisions about education. Written comments and subzone status subject to the existing The Bureau of Economic Analysis recommendations for the proposed activation limit of FTZ 78, on behalf of (BEA) uses data from the survey to information collection should be sent CEVA Freight LLC in Mount Juliet and develop figures for the Gross Domestic within 30 days of publication of this Lebanon, Tennessee. VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:41 May 07, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\08MYN1.SGM 08MYN1


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