30dayFRN_ASEC 11.8.21

lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1

61754

Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 213 / Monday, November 8, 2021 / Notices

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 19,
2020 during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau,
Department of Commerce.
Title: Survey of Income and Program
Participation.
OMB Control Number: 0607–1000.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission,
Request for a Revision of a Currently
Approved Collection.
Number of Respondents: 70,560.
Average Hours Per Response: 63
minutes.
Burden Hours: 74,088.
Needs and Uses: The SIPP collects
information about a variety of topics
including demographics, household
composition, education, nativity and
citizenship, health insurance coverage,
Medicaid, Medicare, employment and
earnings, unemployment insurance,
assets, child support, disability, housing
subsidies, migration, Old-Age Survivors
and Disability Insurance (OASDI),
poverty, and participation in various
government programs like
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP), Supplemental Security
Income (SSI), and Temporary Assistance
for Needy Families (TANF). In the
spring of 2021, as part of the American
Rescue Plan, the child tax credit was
expanded, and the Internal Revenue
Service (IRS) was instructed to pay out
monthly benefits. The 2022 SIPP
instrument will collect receipt of the
child tax credit payments.
The SIPP sample is nationally
representative, with an oversample of
low-income areas, in order to increase
the ability to measure participation in
government programs.
The SIPP program provides critical
information necessary to understand
patterns and relationships in income
and program participation. It will fulfill
its objectives to keep respondent burden
and costs low, maintain high data
quality and timeliness, and use a refined
and vetted instrument and processing
system. The SIPP data collection
instrument maintains the improved data
collection experience for respondents
and interviewers and focuses on
improvements in data quality and better
topic integration.
Starting in 2019, the Census Bureau
and the Social Security Administration
(SSA) entered into a joint agreement
where both agencies support the SIPP
program by contributing resources to
add, process, review, and maintain

VerDate Sep<11>2014

18:37 Nov 05, 2021

Jkt 256001

additional content on marital history,
parental mortality, retirement and
pension, and disability. This joint
agreement started in September 2019
and goes until September 30, 2023.
The SIPP instrument is currently
written in Blaise and C#. It incorporates
an Event History Calendar (EHC) design
to help ensure that the SIPP will collect
intra-year dynamics of income, program
participation, and other activities with
at least the same data quality as earlier
panels. The EHC is intended to help
respondents recall information in a
more natural ‘‘autobiographical’’
manner by using life events as triggers
to recall other economic events. For
example, a residence change may often
occur contemporaneously with a change
in employment. The entire process of
compiling the calendar focuses, by its
nature, on consistency and sequential
order of events, and attempts to correct
for otherwise missing data.
Since the SIPP EHC collects
information using this
‘‘autobiographical’’ manner for the prior
year, due to the coronavirus pandemic,
select questions were modified to
include answer options related to the
pandemic as well as adding new
questions pertaining to the pandemic.
For instance, we adjusted the question
regarding being away from work parttime to include being possibly
furloughed due to coronavirus
pandemic business closures. We also
added new questions to collect
information on whether the respondent
received any stimulus payments.
Affected Public: Individual or
households.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Title 13, United
States Code, Sections 141, 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
submitted within 30 days of the
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

PO 00000

Frm 00008

Fmt 4703

Sfmt 4703

entering either the title of the collection
or the OMB Control Number 0607–1000.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
[FR Doc. 2021–24369 Filed 11–5–21; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510–07–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Current Population Survey,
Annual Social and Economic
Supplement
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 April 1,
2021, and on September 3, 2021, during
a 60-day comment period. This notice
allows for an additional 30 days for
public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau,
Department of Commerce.
Title: Current Population Survey,
Annual Social and Economic
Supplement.
OMB Control Number: 0607–0354.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission,
Revision of a Currently Approved
Collection.
Number of Respondents: 78,000.
Average Hours per Response: 0.41667.
Burden Hours: 32,500.
Needs and Uses: Information on work
experience, personal income, noncash
benefits, current and previous year
health insurance coverage, employersponsored insurance take-up, and
migration is collected through the
ASEC. The work experience items in the
ASEC provide a unique measure of the
dynamic nature of the labor force as
viewed over a one-year period. These
items produce statistics that show
movements in and out of the labor force
by measuring the number of periods of
unemployment experienced by people,

E:\FR\FM\08NON1.SGM

08NON1

lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1

Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 213 / Monday, November 8, 2021 / Notices
the number of different employers
worked for during the year, the
principal reasons for unemployment,
and part-/full-time attachment to the
labor force. We can make indirect
measurements of discouraged workers
and others with a casual attachment to
the labor market. The ASEC data
collection questions remain largely
unchanged from its most recent
collection in 2021, however, there are
minor changes and additions requested.
The changes are limited to questions on
stimulus payments, free and reduced
price school lunch, pandemic school
meals, and advanced child tax credit
payments.
The income data from the ASEC are
used by social planners, economists,
government officials, and market
researchers to gauge the economic wellbeing of the country as a whole, and
selected population groups of interest.
Government planners and researchers
use these data to monitor and evaluate
the effectiveness of various assistance
programs. Market researchers use these
data to identify and isolate potential
customers. Social planners use these
data to forecast economic conditions
and to identify special groups that seem
to be especially sensitive to economic
fluctuations. Economists use ASEC data
to determine the effects of various
economic forces, such as inflation,
recession, recovery, and so on, and their
differential effects on various
population groups.
The ASEC is the official source of
national poverty estimates calculated in
accordance with the Office of
Management and Budget’s Statistical
Policy Directive 14. Two other
important national estimates derived
from the ASEC are real median
household income and the number and
percent of individuals without health
insurance coverage.
The ASEC also contains questions
related to: (1) Medical expenditures; (2)
presence and cost of a mortgage on
property; (3) child support payments;
and (4) amount of child care assistance
received. These questions enable
analysts and policymakers to obtain
better estimates of family and household
income, and more precisely gauge
poverty status.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Title 13, United
States Code, Sections 141 and 182; and
Title 29, United States Code, Sections
1–9.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view the

VerDate Sep<11>2014

18:37 Nov 05, 2021

Jkt 256001

Department of Commerce collections
currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be
submitted within 30 days of the
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 0607–0354.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
[FR Doc. 2021–24378 Filed 11–5–21; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510–07–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Services Surveys: BE–29,
Annual Survey of Foreign Ocean
Carriers’ Expenses in the United States
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 (PRA), 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
August 30, 2021, during a 60-day
comment period. This notice allows for
an additional 30 days for public
comments.
Agency: Bureau of Economic
Analysis, Department of Commerce.
Title: Annual Survey of Foreign
Ocean Carriers’ Expenses in the United
States.
OMB Control Number: 0608–0012.
Form Number(s): BE–29.
Type of Request: Regular submission,
extension of a current information
collection.
Number of Respondents: 80 annually
(70 reporting mandatory data, and 10
that would file exemption claims or
voluntary responses).

PO 00000

Frm 00009

Fmt 4703

Sfmt 4703

61755

Average Hours per Response: 3 hours
is the average for those reporting data
and one hour is the average for those
filing an exemption claim. Hours may
vary considerably among respondents
because of differences in company size
and complexity.
Burden Hours: 220 hours annually.
Needs and Uses: The data are needed
to monitor U.S. trade in transport
services, to analyze the impact of these
cross-border services on the U.S. and
foreign economies, to compile and
improve the U.S. economic accounts, to
support U.S. commercial policy on trade
in services, to conduct trade promotion,
and to improve the ability of U.S.
businesses to identify and evaluate
market opportunities. The data are used
in estimating the trade in transport
services component of the U.S.
international transactions accounts
(ITAs) and national income and product
accounts (NIPAs).
Affected Public: U.S. agents of foreign
ocean carriers.
Frequency: Annual.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: International
Investment and Trade in Services
Survey Act (Pub. L. 94–472, 22 U.S.C.
3101–3108, as amended).
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
submitted within 30 days of the
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 0608–0012.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
[FR Doc. 2021–24374 Filed 11–5–21; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510–06–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Economic Development Administration
Notice of Petitions by Firms for
Determination of Eligibility To Apply
for Trade Adjustment Assistance
Economic Development
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce.

AGENCY:

E:\FR\FM\08NON1.SGM

08NON1