83 FR 43638 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 166 (August 27, 2018)
Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 166 (August 27, 2018)
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[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 166 (Monday, August 27, 2018)] [Notices] [Pages 43638-43640] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-18443] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Agency: U.S. Census Bureau. Title: Boundary and Annexation Survey & Boundary Validation Program. OMB Control Number: 0607-0151. Form Number(s): BAS 1, BAS 2, BAS 3, BAS 5, BAS 6, BAS ARF, BASSC, BVP 1, BVP 2. Type of Request: Regular Submission. Number of Respondents: 132,465. Average Hours per Response: Varies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Estimated time Stage of review or response per response (hours) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Annual Response Notification............................ 0.5 No Change Response...................................... 4 Telephone Follow-up..................................... 0.5 Packages with Changes................................... 8 State Certification Review.............................. 10 State Certification Local Review........................ 2 Boundary Quality Assessment Reconciliation Project...... 25 [[Page 43639]] Boundary Validation Program............................. 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Respondent Burden Hour: 265,590 \1\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ The respondent burden hour was incorrectly estimated at 270,710 hours in the previously published 60-Day presubmission notice. This mistake is corrected in the 30-Day FRN. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Needs and Uses: The Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS) is one of the seven voluntary geographic partnership programs that collect boundaries, addresses, and streets to update the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File/Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing database (MAF/TIGER). The Census Bureau uses its geographic database to link demographic data from surveys and the decennial census to locations and areas, such as cities, school districts, and counties. In order to tabulate statistics by localities, the Census Bureau must have accurate addresses and boundaries. The boundaries collected during the BAS and other geographic programs become bounding features for census blocks, which are the building blocks for all Census Bureau geographic boundaries. While the Census Bureau's geographic programs differ in requirements, time frame, and participants, the BAS and other geographic programs all follow the same basic process: 1. The Census Bureau invites eligible participants to the program. For the BAS, the Census Bureau invites legal governments. 2. If they elect to participate in the program, participants receive a copy of the boundaries or addresses that the Census Bureau has on file. BAS participants can choose to review and update their boundaries using Geographic Update Partnership Software--which is a free customized mapping software--paper maps, or their own mapping software. 3. Participants return their updates to the Census Bureau. 4. The Census Bureau processes and verifies all submissions for accuracy, and updates its geographic database with boundary or address updates submitted by the participants. 5. The Census Bureau uses the newly updated boundaries and addresses to tabulate statistics. The Census Bureau uses its geographic database to link demographic data from surveys and the decennial census to locations and areas, such as cities, congressional and legislative districts, and counties. To tabulate statistics by localities, the Census Bureau must have accurate addresses and boundaries. The BAS annually updates incorporated place boundaries, minor civil divisions, counties, and the federally recognized American Indian areas inventory for compliance with responsibilities specified in the OMB Circular A-16, Governmental Units and Administrative and Statistical Boundaries Data Theme. BAS supports the spatial data steward responsibilities of the OMB E-Gov, Data.gov, The National Map, and updates to the Geographic Names Information Systems. The results of the BAS are needed to provide information documenting the creation of newly incorporated places, minor civil divisions, counties, federally recognized American Indian Areas (including American Indian reservations, and off-reservation trust lands). BAS also includes the dissolution of incorporated places and minor civil divisions, and changes in the boundaries of incorporated places, minor civil divisions, counties, and American Indian Areas. Alaska Native Regional Corporations will be updated in the 2020 Census Participant Statistical Areas Program rather than BAS. BAS information provides an appropriate record for reporting the results of the decennial census, economic census, the Population Estimates Program, and surveys such as the American Community Survey. In the year 2020, all legal documentation for inclusion in the 2020 Census must be effective January 1, 2020. All legal boundary changes will be placed on hold and updated during the 2021 BAS if effective January 2, 2020 or later. The BAS universe and mailing materials vary depending both upon the needs of the Census Bureau in fulfilling its censuses and household surveys and upon budget constraints. Counties or equivalent entities, federally recognized American Indian reservations, off-reservation trust lands, and tribal subdivisions are included in every BAS. There are projects to support the BAS among various levels of governments and obtain the most accurate boundary information. These are the:Boundary Quality Assessment and Reconciliation Project. Boundary Validation Program. State Certification Program. The Boundary Quality and Reconciliation Project (BQARP) supports the BAS program, improves boundary quality in the Census Bureau's MAF/ TIGER database and lessens the burden on BAS participants. BQARP works with state level cadastral or geographic information system coordinators to update state, county and incorporated place boundaries. The BAS would then continue the collection of annexations and de- annexations on a transaction basis as they occur over time. Ensuring quality and spatially accurate boundaries is a critical component of the geographic preparations for the 2020 Census and the Census Bureau's ongoing geographic partnership programs and surveys. 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 the OMB Circular A-16. The Census Bureau will conduct the 2020 Boundary Validation Program (BVP) in conjunction with the 2020 BAS. The BVP is a part of BAS conducted in preparation for the decennial census. The Census Bureau conducts the BVP every ten years to provide the highest elected or appointed officials of tribal and local governments an opportunity to review the boundary data collected during the BAS over the last decade. The 2020 BVP will cover: All actively functioning counties or statistically equivalent entities. Incorporated places (including consolidated cities). All actively functioning minor civil divisions. All federally recognized American Indian reservations and off-reservation trust land entities in the United States. Municipios, barrios, barrio-pueblos and subbarrios in Puerto Rico. In addition, the Census Bureau will send a letter to the governor of each state explaining the 2020 BVP process and advising them the Census Bureau will review the state boundaries in conjunction with relevant county boundaries as part of the BVP. The Census Bureau will conduct the 2020 BVP in two phases, initial and final. During the initial BVP phase, every highest elected official in the BAS universe will receive a BVP form, a letter with instructions, and paper maps or a CD/DVD containing a complete set of 2020 BAS maps in PDF format for their governmental unit with the option to request other formats. The Census Bureau asks the highest elected official to review their boundaries and return the BVP form within ten days of receipt. If the highest elected official determines that there are no changes to report, the highest elected official will sign and return the validated BVP form. If the highest elected official determines that their entity requires boundary changes, the Census Bureau requests the highest elected official to work with their BAS contact to submit boundary changes through the 2020 BAS process. If either the highest elected official or the BAS [[Page 43640]] contact submits 2020 BAS boundary updates, effective as of January 1, 2020, or before, by the deadline of March 1, 2020, the entity will be included in the final phase of the BVP. The government will have the option to submit the corrections on either paper or digital maps. In the final BVP phase, once the Census Bureau applies the participant's 2020 BAS boundary updates to the MAF/TIGER database, the Census Bureau will provide each highest elected official a complete set of updated 2020 BAS maps or shapefiles. The governments may request CD/ DVD, download or plotted paper maps. This is their final opportunity to review the boundary and verify that the Census Bureau clearly reflects the correct boundary in the MAF/TIGER database, effective January 1, 2020, for the 2020 Census. In the final BVP phase, each highest elected official submits any remaining corrections within five days directly to the Census Bureau using the instructions provided in the BAS respondent guide. The final stage of BAS is the annual State Certification Program. This program allows state level agencies to verify that the status and boundary updates received through the previous years' BAS updates were accomplished according to state law. The State Certification Program will be held in 2018 and 2019. The BVP replaces the State Certification in 2020. During each cycle of this program, Governor-designated state certifying officials review listings of incorporated place legal boundary and functional status changes reported to the BAS during the previous year. The extent of the State Certification program varies depending on the laws governing annexations, deannexations, incorporations, and disincorporations in the given state. Some states have strong laws that require local governments to report legal boundary changes to the state government. In these states, the state certifying official is able to certify, edit, add, or reverse reported annexations, and may mark a legal boundary change as a duplicate of a previously reported change. In these states, the state certifying official also has the authority to request that the Census Bureau edit or delete information received from the local government. In states that do not require local governments to report legal boundary changes to the state, the Census Bureau will not edit or delete information without confirmation from the local government. If the state certifying official adds legal boundary changes missing from the Census Bureau's annexation list, the Census Bureau will contact the local government to request information. The State Certification program helps to ensure that all levels of government represent boundaries consistently and accurately. The data and information collected from the BAS and BVP serve tribal, federal, state and local governments, and the private sector. The BVP provides validation for the information collected through the BAS. The BAS is the primary provider for the following services and products: (1) Classify data collected in the periodic decennial and economic censuses and annual surveys. (2) Serve as the primary source of information regarding new incorporations, disincorporations, and other changes in the local and tribal government inventory for the Federal Information Processing Series and Geographic Names Information Systems programs, tribal, state and local officials, and private data users. (3) Update its estimates of the population as a result of the creation of new governments, the dissolution of governments, or changes in boundaries for existing local or tribal governments. (4) Serve as the source for governmental unit boundary information as a framework layer of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure for The National Map and the data.gov website. Information quality is an integral part of the pre-dissemination review of the information disseminated by the Census Bureau. Information quality is also integral to the information collections conducted by the Census Bureau, and we incorporate it into the clearance process as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. Affected Public: Tribal, state and local governments. Frequency: Annually. 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 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. Sheleen Dumas, Departmental Lead PRA Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer. [FR Doc. 2018-18443 Filed 8-24-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-07-P
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submission mechanisms. Stakeholder attendees and oral commenters is extension. Agriculture in this context is
input received from the two limited due to time and space defined broadly and includes research,
mechanisms is treated equally. The constraints (see below). Oral commenter extension, and education in food, fiber,
challenges, needed breakthroughs, and slots will be allotted on a first-come, forestry, range, nutritional and social
priorities identified by this effort will be first-served basis. All interested sciences, including food safety and
evaluated in conjunction with input stakeholders, regardless of attendance, positive youth development. This
from NIFA staff. This information will are welcome to submit written listening effort will focus on the
be critical for NIFA’s evaluation of comments. agricultural science that NIFA invests
existing science emphasis areas and to Comments: Written comments are due in, but not on NIFA processes or
identify investment opportunities and by 5 p.m. Eastern time November 30, procedures.
gaps in the current portfolio of 2018. Written comments must be All parties interested in attending an
programs. The information obtained submitted electronically through in-person listening session must RSVP
through this iterative analysis and https://nifa.usda.gov/nifalistens or no later than one week prior to the
synthesis will help to ensure the emailed to NIFAlistens@nifa.usda.gov. scheduled session they will attend.
strategic positioning and relevancy of ADDRESSES: The in-person listening Abstracts from in-person speakers can
NIFA’s investments in advancing sessions will take place at conference be submitted upon registration via
agricultural research, education and facilities in Hartford, CT (October 11, https://nifa.usda.gov/nifalistens.
extension. 2018), New Orleans, LA (October 18, Written comments by all interested
2018), Minneapolis, MN (October 25, stakeholders are welcomed through 5
DATES:
2018), and Albuquerque, NM p.m. Eastern time, November 30, 2018.
(A) Online Input: Submission of
(November 1, 2018). All input will become a part of the
online stakeholder input to the target
All parties interested in attending an official record and available on the
questions will be open upon publishing
in-person listening session must RSVP NIFA website, https://nifa.usda.gov/
of this Notice through 5 p.m. Eastern
no later than one week prior to the nifalistens.
time November 30, 2018.
(B) In-person Listening Sessions: Four scheduled session they wish to attend. Done at Washington, DC, this day of
listening sessions, each a full day, will FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: August 1, 2018.
be organized throughout the United Megan Haidet, Program Specialist, Thomas Shanower,
States to obtain input from all NIFA, at 202–401–6617, email Acting Director, National Institute of Food
stakeholders, including small NIFAlistens@nifa.usda.gov, or visit and Agriculture.
institutions, local business and other https://nifa.usda.gov/nifalistens for [FR Doc. 2018–18535 Filed 8–24–18; 8:45 am]
stakeholder groups. The listening detailed information about providing BILLING CODE 3410–22–P
sessions will take place on October 11, written comments, joining the in-person
2018, October 18, 2018, October 25, sessions remotely, or registering to
2018, and November 1, 2018. Each speak at an in-person session. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
session will begin at 8:30 a.m. and is SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
scheduled to end no later than 5:00 p.m. science priority-setting process at NIFA Submission for OMB Review;
Each session will include a presentation involves soliciting stakeholder input on Comment Request
of the goals and background information agricultural research, education and The Department of Commerce will
on NIFA programs, followed by extension needs, obtaining input from submit to the Office of Management and
comments from stakeholders. Each NIFA’s science staff who are informed Budget (OMB) for clearance the
registered speaker will receive 5 through interactions with scientific following proposal for collection of
minutes to share their comments with communities, and evaluating existing information under the provisions of the
the Agency. If time allows after all programs to identify critical gaps in the Paperwork Reduction Act.
comments from registered speakers are current portfolio of programs in order to Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
made, unscheduled speakers will be address challenges in U.S. agriculture. Title: Boundary and Annexation
allowed 5 minutes to present their This listening effort will focus on Survey & Boundary Validation Program.
comments to the Agency. The length of answers to the following questions, OMB Control Number: 0607–0151.
the sessions will be adjusted according ‘‘When considering all of agriculture, Form Number(s): BAS 1, BAS 2, BAS
to numbers of participants seeking to what is the greatest challenge that 3, BAS 5, BAS 6, BAS ARF, BASSC,
provide input. All parties interested in should be addressed through NIFA’s BVP 1, BVP 2.
attending an in-person listening session research, education, and extension?’’, Type of Request: Regular Submission.
must RSVP no later than one week prior ‘‘In your field, what is the most-needed Number of Respondents: 132,465.
to the scheduled session. These sessions breakthrough in science/technology that Average Hours per Response: Varies.
will be webcast and transcribed. would advance your agricultural
Information about registering for the in- enterprise?’’, and ‘‘What is your top Estimated
time per
person session, providing written priority in food and agricultural Stage of review or response response
comments and viewing the webcast can research, extension, or education that (hours)
be found at https://nifa.usda.gov/ NIFA should address?’’
nifalistens. NIFA welcomes stakeholder input Annual Response Notifica-
Registration: The website, https:// from any group or individual interested tion .................................... 0.5
nifa.usda.gov/nifalistens, includes in agricultural research, extension or No Change Response .......... 4
amozie on DSK3GDR082PROD with NOTICES1
instructions on submitting written education priorities for NIFA. NIFA is Telephone Follow-up ............ 0.5
Packages with Changes ....... 8
comments and registering to attend or eager to listen to stakeholder’s
State Certification Review .... 10
speak at the in-person listening comments on the challenges, needed State Certification Local Re-
sessions. All parties interested in breakthroughs, and priorities, solutions view ................................... 2
attending an in-person listening session and opportunities that will facilitate Boundary Quality Assess-
must RSVP no later than one week prior long-term sustainable agricultural ment Reconciliation
to the scheduled session. The number of production, research, education and Project ............................... 25
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contact submits 2020 BAS boundary Bureau will contact the local DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
updates, effective as of January 1, 2020, government to request information. The
or before, by the deadline of March 1, State Certification program helps to International Trade Administration
2020, the entity will be included in the ensure that all levels of government [A–484–803]
final phase of the BVP. The government represent boundaries consistently and
will have the option to submit the accurately. Large Diameter Welded Pipe From
corrections on either paper or digital The data and information collected Greece: Preliminary Determination of
maps. from the BAS and BVP serve tribal, Sales at Less Than Fair Value and
In the final BVP phase, once the federal, state and local governments, Postponement of Final Determination
Census Bureau applies the participant’s and the private sector. The BVP
2020 BAS boundary updates to the provides validation for the information AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance,
MAF/TIGER database, the Census collected through the BAS. The BAS is International Trade Administration,
Bureau will provide each highest the primary provider for the following Department of Commerce.
elected official a complete set of services and products: SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce
updated 2020 BAS maps or shapefiles. (1) Classify data collected in the (Commerce) preliminarily determines
The governments may request CD/DVD, periodic decennial and economic that large diameter welded pipe (welded
download or plotted paper maps. This censuses and annual surveys. pipe) from Greece is being, or is likely
is their final opportunity to review the (2) Serve as the primary source of to be, sold in the United States at less
boundary and verify that the Census information regarding new than fair value (LTFV). The period of
Bureau clearly reflects the correct incorporations, disincorporations, and investigation (POI) is January 1, 2017,
boundary in the MAF/TIGER database, other changes in the local and tribal through December 31, 2017. Interested
effective January 1, 2020, for the 2020 government inventory for the Federal parties are invited to comment on this
Census. In the final BVP phase, each Information Processing Series and preliminary determination.
highest elected official submits any Geographic Names Information Systems DATES: Applicable August 27, 2018.
remaining corrections within five days programs, tribal, state and local officials, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
directly to the Census Bureau using the and private data users. Brittany Bauer, AD/CVD Operations,
instructions provided in the BAS (3) Update its estimates of the Office II, Enforcement and Compliance,
respondent guide. population as a result of the creation of
The final stage of BAS is the annual International Trade Administration,
new governments, the dissolution of U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401
State Certification Program. This governments, or changes in boundaries
program allows state level agencies to Constitution Avenue NW, Washington,
for existing local or tribal governments. DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–3860.
verify that the status and boundary (4) Serve as the source for
updates received through the previous SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
governmental unit boundary
years’ BAS updates were accomplished information as a framework layer of the Background
according to state law. The State National Spatial Data Infrastructure for
Certification Program will be held in This preliminary determination is
The National Map and the data.gov
2018 and 2019. The BVP replaces the made in accordance with section 733(b)
website.
State Certification in 2020. During each of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended
Information quality is an integral part
cycle of this program, Governor- (the Act). Commerce published the
of the pre-dissemination review of the
designated state certifying officials notice of initiation of this investigation
information disseminated by the Census
review listings of incorporated place on February 20, 2018.1 On June 8, 2018,
Bureau. Information quality is also
legal boundary and functional status Commerce postponed the preliminary
integral to the information collections
changes reported to the BAS during the determination of this investigation; the
conducted by the Census Bureau, and
previous year. The extent of the State revised deadline is now August 20,
we incorporate it into the clearance
Certification program varies depending 2018.2 For a complete description of the
process as required by the Paperwork
on the laws governing annexations, events that followed the initiation of
Reduction Act of 1995.
deannexations, incorporations, and Affected Public: Tribal, state and local this investigation, see the Preliminary
disincorporations in the given state. governments. Decision Memorandum.3 A list of topics
Some states have strong laws that Frequency: Annually. included in the Preliminary Decision
require local governments to report legal Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. Memorandum is included as Appendix
boundary changes to the state Legal Authority: Title 13, U.S.C., II to this notice. The Preliminary
government. In these states, the state Section 6. Decision Memorandum is a public
certifying official is able to certify, edit, This information collection request document and is on file electronically
add, or reverse reported annexations, may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. via Enforcement and Compliance’s
and may mark a legal boundary change Follow the instructions to view
as a duplicate of a previously reported Department of Commerce collections
1 See Large Diameter Welded Pipe from Canada,
change. In these states, the state Greece, India, the People’s Republic of China, the
currently under review by OMB. Republic of Korea, and the Republic of Turkey:
certifying official also has the authority Written comments and Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations, 83
to request that the Census Bureau edit recommendations for the proposed FR 7154 (February 20, 2018) (Initiation Notice).
or delete information received from the information collection should be sent 2 See Large Diameter Welded Pipe from Canada,
local government. In states that do not Greece, India, the People’s Republic of China, the
within 30 days of publication of this Republic of Korea, and the Republic of Turkey:
require local governments to report legal notice to OIRA_Submission@
amozie on DSK3GDR082PROD with NOTICES1
Postponement of Preliminary Determinations in the
boundary changes to the state, the omb.eop.gov or fax to (202)395–5806. Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations, 83 FR 27953
Census Bureau will not edit or delete (June 15, 2018).
information without confirmation from Sheleen Dumas, 3 See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for
the local government. If the state Departmental Lead PRA Officer, Office of the the Preliminary Determination in the Less-Than-
Chief Information Officer. Fair-Value Investigation of Large Diameter Welded
certifying official adds legal boundary Pipe from Greece,’’ dated concurrently with, and
changes missing from the Census [FR Doc. 2018–18443 Filed 8–24–18; 8:45 am] hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary
Bureau’s annexation list, the Census BILLING CODE 3510–07–P Decision Memorandum).
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