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Dominic Mancini
Deputy Director
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
Office of Management and Budget
Washington, DC
Subject: Request for Emergency Review and Clearance
Dear Mr. Mancini:
Pursuant to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) procedures established at 5 CFR Part
1320, Controlling Paperwork Burdens on the Public, I request that the proposed information
collection project, “Supplemental Questions related to the effects of the COVID‐19 Pandemic
on businesses” be processed as an Emergency Revision Request in accordance with section
1320.13, Emergency Processing.
I have determined that this information must be collected prior to the expiration of time
periods established under Part 1320, and that this information is essential to the U.S. Census
Bureau’s emergency response to the COVID‐19 Pandemic. We plan to immediately add
questions to measure the impact of the COVID‐19 Pandemic upon businesses to the following
surveys designated as Primary Economic Indicators:
Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories & Orders (M3) Survey
Building Permits Survey
Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey
Monthly Retail Surveys
Quarterly Services Survey
As Primary Economic Indicators, each of these surveys produce timely and closely‐watched
statistics about the health of the U.S economy. Given the importance of these indicator surveys
and of the statistics they produce, it is imperative we measure to what extent businesses have
been impacted in terms of their ability to maintain operations during this turbulent period.
The Census Bureau cannot reasonably comply with the normal clearance given the urgent
necessity to collect these data. Therefore, the Census Bureau requests a 180‐day emergency
clearance to launch collection of data. Please provide an approval/disapproval determination of
census.gov
this request to collect information under an emergency clearance by close of business on April
8, 2020.
Respectfully,
RON JARMIN
Digitally signed by RON
JARMIN
Date: 2020.04.06 15:46:24
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Ron Jarmin
Deputy Director,
U.S. Census Bureau
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