30-day notice

Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 143 / Thursday, July 29, 2021 / Notices
Dated: July 26, 2021.
David Mussatt,
Supervisory Chief, Regional Programs Unit.
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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Report of Building or Zoning
Permits Issued for New PrivatelyOwned Housing Units
The Department of Commerce will
submit the following information
collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, on or after the date of publication
of this notice. We invite the general
public and other Federal agencies to
comment on proposed, and continuing
information collections, which helps us
assess the impact of our information
collection requirements and minimize
the public’s reporting burden. Public
comments were previously requested
via the Federal Register on May 7, 2021
during a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days
for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau,
Commerce.
Title: Report of Building or Zoning
Permits Issued for New PrivatelyOwned Housing Units.
OMB Control Number: 0607–0094.
Form Number(s): C–404.
Type of Request: Regular submission,
Request for an Extension, without
Change, of a Currently Approved
Collection.
Number of Respondents: 20,000
respondents providing a total of 114,743
responses per year.
Average Hours per Response: 9.22
minutes.
Burden Hours: 17,625.
Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau
conducts the Report of Building or
Zoning Permits Issued for New
Privately-Owned Housing Units,
otherwise known as the Building
Permits Survey (BPS) to collect data on
new residential buildings from state and
local permit-issuing offices. The key
estimates from the survey are the
numbers of new housing units
authorized by building permits; data are
also collected on the valuation of the
housing units. Form C–404 specifically
collects information on changes to the

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geographic coverage of the permitissuing place, the number and valuation
of new residential housing units
authorized by building permits, and
additional information on residential
permits valued at $2 million or more,
including, but not limited to, site
address and type of building.
The Census Bureau produces statistics
used to monitor activity in the large and
dynamic construction industry. Given
the importance of this industry, several
of the statistical series have been
designated by the Office of Management
and Budget as Principal Economic
Indicators. Two such indicators are
directly dependent on the key estimates
from the BPS. For New Residential
Construction (which includes Housing
Units Authorized by Building Permits,
Housing Starts, and Housing
Completions), form C–404 is used to
collect the estimate for Housing Units
Authorized by Building Permits. For
New Residential Construction and
Sales, the number of housing units
authorized by building permits is a key
component utilized in the estimation of
housing units started, completed, and
sold.
These statistics help state, local, and
federal governments, as well as private
industry, analyze this important sector
of the economy. The building permit
series are available monthly based on a
sample of building permit offices, and
annually based on the entire universe of
permit offices. Published data from the
survey can be found on the Census
Bureau’s website at www.census.gov/
permits.
Beginning January 2022, the U.S.
Census Bureau is proposing to change
the methodology for the tabulation of
monthly Building Permit Survey. The
methodology will change from a
representative sample to a cutoff sample
based on recent permit activity by
jurisdiction.
Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal
government.
Frequency: There are roughly 20,000
permit issuing jurisdictions in the
United States. Slightly less than onehalf of those permit offices are requested
to report monthly. The remaining offices
are surveyed annually.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Title 13, United
States Code, Sections 131 and 182.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view the
Department of Commerce collections
currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be
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publication of this notice on the
following website www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain. Find this
particular information collection by
selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day
Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or
by using the search function and
entering either the title of the collection
or the OMB Control Number 0607–0094.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Spatial, Address, and
Imagery Data Program
Census Bureau, Commerce.
Notice of information collection,
request for comment.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

The Department of
Commerce, in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of
1995, invites the general public and
other Federal agencies to comment on
proposed, and continuing information
collections, which helps us assess the
impact of our information collection
requirements and minimize the public’s
reporting burden. The purpose of this
notice is to allow for 60 days of public
comment on the proposed extension of
the Spatial, Address, and Imagery Data
(SAID) Program, prior to the submission
of the information collection request
(ICR) to OMB for approval.
DATES: To ensure consideration,
comments regarding this proposed
information collection must be received
on or before September 27, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments by
email to robin.a.pennington@
census.gov. Please reference Spatial,
Address, and Imagery Data Program in
the subject line of your comments. You
may also submit comments, identified
by Docket Number USBC–2021–0016, to
the Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. All comments
received are part of the public record.
No comments will be posted to http://
www.regulations.gov for public viewing
until after the comment period has
closed. Comments will generally be
posted without change. All Personally
Identifiable Information (for example,
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