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FNS will utilize these comments to
adjust the information collection as
necessary.
Cynthia Long,
Acting Administrator, Food and Nutrition
Service.
[FR Doc. 2021–19764 Filed 9–13–21; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Information Collection: Urban Forest
Engagement in Atlanta, GA
Forest Service, Agriculture
(USDA).
ACTION: Notice; request for comment.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
USDA Forest Service is seeking
comments from all interested
individuals and organizations on the
extension with revisions of a currently
approved information collection, Urban
Forest Engagement in Atlanta, Georgia.
DATES: Comments must be received in
writing on or before November 15, 2021
to be assured of consideration.
Comments received after that date will
be considered to the extent practicable.
ADDRESSES: Commenters are encouraged
to submit comments by email, if
possible. You may submit comments by
any of the following methods:
• Email: cassandra.johnson@
usda.gov.
• Mail: Cassandra Johnson Gaither,
Forestry Sciences Lab, 320 Green Street,
Athens, GA 30602.
• Hand Delivery/Courier: Cassandra
Johnson Gaither, Forestry Sciences Lab,
320 Green Street, Athens, GA 30602.
• Facsimile: (706) 559–4266.
The public may inspect comments
received at Forestry Sciences Lab, 320
Green Street, Athens, GA 30602, during
normal business hours. Visitors are
encouraged to call ahead to (706) 559–
4270 to facilitate entry to the building.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Cassandra Johnson Gaither, USDA
Forest Service, Southern Research
Station, by phone at (706) 559–4270 or
email at [email protected].
Individuals who use telecommunication
devices for the hearing-impaired (TDD)
may call the Federal Relay Service (FRS)
at 1–800–877–8339 twenty-four hours a
day, every day of the year, including
holidays.

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SUMMARY:

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Urban Forest Engagement in
Atlanta, GA.
OMB Number: 0596–0237.

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Expiration Date of Approval: February
28, 2022.
Type of Request: Extension with
revisions of a currently approved
information collection.
Abstract: This information collection
will continue to gather data on City of
Atlanta residents’ interest in and
engagement with the urban forest in the
city. This information collection focuses
more narrowly on urban forest patches,
a collection or stand of trees, in public
spaces. Engagement is defined as
residents’ interest in and awareness of
urban forest patches and resident
participation in decisions about how the
patches should be maintained or
repurposed. The information collection
also gathers data on social factors such
as neighborhood transiency and
perception of neighborhood conditions,
conceptualized as collective efficacy
and social cohesion. The neighborhood
conditions data provides information on
the broader context from which people
make decisions about engaging with
urban forest patches. If neighborhood
transiency (i.e., frequent involuntary
moving of people in and out of
neighborhoods) is problematic in
communities or people lack basic needs
such as access to healthy foods or safe
neighborhoods, it is unlikely that they
would demonstrate a high degree of
engagement with the city’s urban forest.
This collection extends the existing
information collection effort by
examining the environmental justice
implications of neighborhood-level
decision making about the forest
patches. Prior door-to-door data
collection in south Atlanta
neighborhoods revealed the presence of
forest patches on vacant properties.
However, there is little to no data on
how residents perceive of these spaces
or how residents might contribute to
decision processes about the outcome of
these spaces. This is an important
question given the sites are providing
ecological benefits such as stormwater
mitigation.
For the proposed data collection,
survey questions were included on
people’s awareness of forest patches on
vacant properties near their
neighborhoods and on potential barriers
residents might face in contributing to
decision making processes about the
patches. Many contextual factors
constrain people’s ability to engage in
local-level environmental decision
making, the procedural component of
environmental justice. The data
collected via this effort will provide
important input on factors that might
facilitate or constrain engagement and
will inform the USDA Forest Service’s
efforts to address Executive Order

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14008, Tackling the Climate Crisis at
Home and Abroad, and Executive Order
12898, Federal Actions to Address
Environmental Justice in Minority
Populations and Low Income
Populations.
Data collection will center on south
Atlanta neighborhoods adjacent to
vacant land with forest patches. These
neighborhoods are overwhelmingly
African American, with poverty rates
ranging from roughly 30 percent to 64
percent. The neighborhoods are also
near multiple transportation companies,
the activities of which compromise air
quality.
The survey will be conducted at the
household, using proportionate-guided
random sampling where the survey is
left for the appropriate respondent to
complete and is picked up later by a
survey administrator. This methodology
limits contact between the surveyor and
the household but provides the inperson contact that is helpful for
increasing response rates which are
considerably lower in minority
communities. Survey administrators
will include USDA Forest Service social
scientists, neighborhood residents
trained in door-to-door data collection
methods, and university college
students. Researchers with USDA Forest
Service Research & Development staff
will analyze the data.
If the information proposed herein is
not collected, the opportunity to address
environmental justice from a procedural
perspective will be missed. The
information collection also will assist
the Agency in better understanding how
urban green spaces in southern cities
impact residents’ quality of life.
Comparatively fewer Forest Service led
studies have examined this topic for
these populations.
Type of Respondents: City of Atlanta
residents.
Estimated Annual Number of
Respondents: 600.
Estimated Annual Number of
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 120 hours.
Comment Is Invited: Comment is
invited on: (1) Whether this collection
of information is necessary for the stated
purposes and the proper performance of
the functions of the Agency, including
whether the information will have
practical or scientific utility; (2) the
accuracy of the Agency’s estimate of the
burden of the collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (3)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (4) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information

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on respondents, including the use of
automated, electronic, mechanical, or
other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology.
All comments received in response to
this notice, including names and
addresses when provided, will be a
matter of public record. Comments will
be summarized and included in the
submission request for Office of
Management and Budget approval.
Dated: September 9, 2021.
Alexander L. Friend,
Deputy Chief, Research & Development.
[FR Doc. 2021–19766 Filed 9–13–21; 8:45 am]
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I. Abstract

Census Bureau

Since its founding, the U.S. Census
Bureau has balanced the demands of a
growing country requiring information
about its people and economy, with
concerns for respondents’
confidentiality and the time and effort it
takes respondents to answer questions.
Beginning with the 1810 Census,
Congress added questions to support a
range of public concerns and uses, and
over the course of a century, federal
agencies requested to add questions
about agriculture, industry, and
commerce, as well as individuals’
occupation, ancestry, marital status,
disabilities, place of birth and other
topics. In 1940, the Census Bureau
introduced the long-form census in
order to ask more detailed questions to
only a sample of the public.
In the early 1990s, the demand for
current, nationally consistent data from
a wide variety of users led federal
government policymakers to consider
the feasibility of collecting social,
economic, and housing data
continuously throughout the decade.
The benefits of providing current data,
along with the anticipated decennial
census benefits in cost savings,
planning, improved census coverage,
and more efficient operations, led the
Census Bureau to plan the
implementation of the continuous
measurement survey, later called the
American Community Survey (ACS).
After years of testing, the ACS replaced
the long form in 2005. The ACS is
conducted throughout the United States
and in Puerto Rico, where it is called
the Puerto Rico Community Survey
(PRCS). Each year a sample of
approximately 3.5 million households
and about 170,000 persons living in
group quarters (GQ) in the United States
are selected to participate in the ACS
and PRCS.

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; American Community Survey
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 American Community Survey, prior
to the submission of the information
collection request (ICR) to OMB for
approval.

SUMMARY:

To ensure consideration,
comments regarding this proposed
information collection must be received
on or before November 15, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments by
email to [email protected]. Please
reference the American Community
Survey in the subject line of your
comments. You may also submit
comments, identified by Docket Number
USBC–2021–0019, to the Federal eRulemaking 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
DATES:

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posted without change. All Personally
Identifiable Information (for example,
name and address) voluntarily
submitted by the commenter may be
publicly accessible. Do not submit
Confidential Business Information or
otherwise sensitive or protected
information. You may submit
attachments to electronic comments in
Microsoft Word, Excel, or Adobe PDF
file formats.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
specific questions related to collection
activities should be directed to Dameka
Reese, U.S. Census Bureau, American
Community Survey Office, 301–763–
3804, [email protected].
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II. Method of Collection
To encourage self-response in the
ACS, the Census Bureau sends up to
five mailings to housing units selected
to be in the sample. The first mailing,
sent to all mailable addresses in the
sample, includes an invitation to
participate in the ACS online and states
that a paper questionnaire will be sent
in a few weeks to those unable to
respond online. The second mailing is
a letter that reminds respondents to
complete the survey online, thanks
them if they have already done so, and
informs them that a paper form will be
sent at a later date if we do not receive
their response. In a third mailing, the
questionnaire package is sent only to
those sample addresses that have not
completed the online questionnaire
within two weeks. The fourth mailing is
a postcard that reminds respondents to
respond and informs them that an
interviewer may contact them if they do
not complete the survey. A fifth mailing
is sent to respondents who have not
completed the survey within five weeks.
This letter provides a due date and
reminds the respondents to return their
questionnaires to be removed from
future contact. The Census Bureau will
ask those who fill out the survey online
to provide an email address, which will
be used to send an email reminder to
households that did not complete the
online form. The reminder asks them to
log back in to finish responding to the
survey. If the Census Bureau does not
receive a response or if the household
refuses to participate, the address may
be selected for computer-assisted
personal interviewing (CAPI).
Some addresses are deemed
unmailable because the address is
incomplete or directs mail only to a post
office box. The Census Bureau currently
collects data for these housing units
using both online and CAPI.
For sample housing units in the
Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS),
a different mail strategy is employed.
The Census Bureau continues to use the
previously used mail strategy with no
references to an internet response
option. The Census Bureau sends up to
five mailings to a Puerto Rico address
selected to be in the sample. The first
mailing includes a prenotice letter. The
second and fourth mailings include the
paper survey. The third and fifth
mailings serve as a reminder to respond
to the survey. Puerto Rico addresses
deemed unmailable because the address
is incomplete or directs mail only to a
post office box are collected by CAPI.
The Census Bureau employs a
different strategy to collect data from
GQs. The Census Bureau defines GQs as

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