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Federal Register
Vol. 90, No. 88
Thursday, May 8, 2025

This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER
contains documents other than rules or
proposed rules that are applicable to the
public. Notices of hearings and investigations,
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rulings, delegations of authority, filing of
petitions and applications and agency
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section.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Marketing Service
[Doc. No. AMS–FGIS–25–0004]

Grain Inspection Advisory Committee
Meeting
AGENCY:

Agricultural Marketing Service,

USDA.
Notice of Federal advisory
committee meeting.

ACTION:

Pursuant to the Federal
Advisory Committee Act, this notice
announces an upcoming meeting of the
Grain Inspection Advisory Committee
(Committee). The Committee meets no
less than once annually to advise the
Secretary of Agriculture on the
programs and services delivered by the
Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)
under the U.S. Grain Standards Act.
Recommendations by the Committee
help AMS meet the needs of its
customers, who operate in a dynamic
and changing marketplace.
DATES: The meeting will be held on June
11, 2025, from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Eastern.
Written Comments: Any member of
the public may file written comments
with the Committee before or within 15
days after the date on which the meeting
concludes. Comments should be
submitted via email to Kendra.C.Kline@
usda.gov. The Committee will consider
comments submitted on or before 11:59
p.m. ET on June 9, 2025, prior to the
meeting. Comments submitted after this
date will be provided to the Committee,
but the Committee may not have
adequate time to consider those
comments prior to the meeting.
Comments submitted after the
conclusion of the meeting will be posted
on the public website.
Oral Comments: The Committee is
providing the public an opportunity to
present oral comments and will
accommodate as many individuals and
organizations as time permits. Persons

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or organizations wishing to make oral
comments must pre-register by 11:59
p.m. ET, June 9, 2025, and may only
register for one speaking slot.
Instructions for registering and
participating in the meeting can be
obtained by contacting the person listed
in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section by or before the
deadline.
ADDRESSES: Meeting Location: Virtual.
Meeting information can be found at
https://www.ams.usda.gov/about-ams/
facas-advisory-councils/giac.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kendra Kline by phone at (202) 690–
2410 or by email at Kendra.C.Kline@
usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
purpose of the Committee is to provide
advice to AMS with respect to the
implementation of the U.S. Grain
Standards Act (7 U.S.C. 71–87k).
Information about the Committee is
available on the AMS website at https://
www.ams.usda.gov/about-ams/facasadvisory-councils/giac.
The agenda for the upcoming meeting
will include status briefings on
recommendations, general program
updates, and a guest speaker on export
trends.
The meeting will be open to the
public. Public participation will be
limited to written statements and
interested parties who have registered to
present comments orally to the
Committee.
Equal opportunity practices, in
accordance with USDA policies, will be
followed in all membership
appointments to the Committee.
In accordance with Federal civil
rights law and U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) civil rights
regulations and policies, the USDA, its
Agencies, offices, and employees, and
institutions participating in or
administering USDA programs are
prohibited from discriminating based on
race, color, national origin, religion, sex,
disability, age, marital status, family/
parental status, income derived from a
public assistance program, political
beliefs, or reprisal or retaliation for prior
civil rights activity, in any program or
activity conducted or funded by USDA
(not all bases apply to all programs).
Remedies and complaint filing
deadlines vary by program or incident.
Persons with disabilities who require
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program information (e.g., Braille, large
print, audiotape, American Sign
Language, etc.) should contact the State
or local Agency that administers the
program or contact USDA through the
Telecommunications Relay Service at
711 (voice and TTY). Additionally,
program information may be made
available in languages other than
English.
Dated: May 5, 2025.
Cikena Reid,
USDA Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2025–08020 Filed 5–7–25; 8:45 am]
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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; The American Community
Survey (ACS) and Puerto Rico
Community Survey (PRCS)
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 November 5,
2024, during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: The American Community
Survey and the Puerto Rico Community
Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0607–0810.
Form Number(s): ACS–1, ACS–1(SP),
ACS–1(PR), ACS–1(PR)SP, ACS–1(GQ),
ACS–1(PR)(GQ), ACS Housing Unit
internet electronic instrument (no form
number), ACS nonresponse follow up
CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal
Interview) electronic instrument (no
form number), ACS Failed Edit Follow
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Interview) electronic instrument (no
form number), ACS Telephone
Questionnaire Assistance CATI
electronic instrument (no form number),
ACS Group Quarters internet listing
instrument (no form number), ACS
Group Quarters Facility Questionnaire
CAPI GQFQ electronic instrument (no
form number), ACS Group Quarters
internet electronic instrument (no form
number), ACS Group Quarters Resident
CAPI electronic instrument (no form
number). ACS Reinterview CATI/CAPI
HU RI electronic instrument (no form
number), ACS Reinterview CATI/CAPI
GQ RI electronic instrument (no form
number).
Type of Request: Regular submission.
Request for an extension.
Number of Respondents: 3,576,000 for
household respondents; 20,100 for
facility contacts in group quarters;
153,600 people in group quarters;
22,875 households for reinterview; and
1,422 group quarters facility contacts for
reinterview. The total estimated number
of respondents is 3,773,997.
Average Hours per Response: 40
minutes for the average household
questionnaire; 15 minutes for a group
quarters facility contact questionnaire;
25 minutes for a group quarters person
questionnaire; 10 minutes for a
household reinterview; 10 minutes for a
group quarters facility contact
reinterview.
Burden Hours: 2,384,000 for
household respondents; 5,025 for
contacts in group quarters; 64,000 for
group quarters residents; 3,813
households for reinterview; and 237
group quarters contacts for reinterview.
The estimate is an annual average of
2,457,075 burden hours.
Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census
Bureau requests authorization from the
OMB for revisions to the ACS. The ACS
is one of the Department of Commerce’s
most valuable data products, used
extensively by businesses,
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs),
local governments, and many federal
agencies. In conducting this survey, the
Census Bureau’s top priority is
respecting the time and privacy of the
people providing information while
preserving its value to the public.
ACS Background
The Census Bureau developed the
ACS to collect and update demographic,
social, economic, and housing data
every year that are essentially the same
as the ‘‘long-form’’ data that the Census
Bureau formerly collected once a decade
as part of the census. The ACS is an
ongoing monthly survey that collects
detailed data from about 3.54 million
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36,000 addresses in Puerto Rico each
year. The ACS also collects detailed
socioeconomic data from about 153,000
residents living in group quarters
facilities in the United States and about
600 in Puerto Rico. The ACS is the only
source of comparable data about social,
economic, housing, and demographic
characteristics for small areas and small
subpopulations across the nation and in
Puerto Rico. Every community in the
nation continues to receive a detailed,
statistical portrait of its social,
economic, housing, and demographic
characteristics each year through oneyear and five-year ACS products.
ACS Contact Strategies for Housing
Units
To collect ACS data, the Census
Bureau uses a well-researched mail
contact strategy to encourage selfresponse to the survey. For addresses
that were mailed survey materials but
did not respond by mail, internet, or by
calling our telephone questionnaire
assistance line, the Census Bureau
selects a subsample of all households
and assigns them to the nonresponse
follow-up data collection operation.
Unmailable household addresses are
sampled and also included in the
nonresponse follow-up data collection
operation.
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 questionnaire
will be sent at a later date if the Census
Bureau does not receive their response.
In a third mailing, the paper
questionnaire package is sent only to
those sample addresses that have not
completed the online questionnaire
within two and a half 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 a letter sent to
respondents who have not completed
the survey within five weeks. This letter
provides a due date and reminds the
respondents to complete their survey 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 respondents

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who started but 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 nonresponse follow-up
data collection where the interview can
be collected by telephone or personal
visit using computer-assisted
interviewing.
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 in
the nonresponse follow-up data
collection using online, computerassisted personal interviewing, and
computer-assisted telephone
interviewing. A small sample of
respondents from the nonresponse
follow-up data collection interview are
recontacted for quality assurance
purposes.
PRCS Contact Strategies for Housing
Units
For sample housing units in the
Puerto Rico Community Survey, a
different mail strategy is employed. 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
questionnaire. The third and fifth
mailings serve as a reminder to respond
to the survey. The mail strategy has no
references to an internet response
option. If the Census Bureau does not
receive a response or if the household
refuses to participate, the address may
be selected for nonresponse follow-up
data collection where the interview can
be collected by telephone or personal
visit using computer-assisted
interviewing technology.
The Puerto Rico addresses deemed
unmailable because the address is
incomplete or directs mail only to a post
office box are collected by telephone or
person visit using computer-assisted
interviewing technology during
nonresponse follow-up data collection.
A small sample of respondents from the
nonresponse follow-up data collection
interview are recontacted for quality
assurance purposes.
ACS and PRCS Contact Strategy for
Group Quarters
The Census Bureau collects data for
group quarters through personal
interview, online, or by paper. The
Census Bureau can obtain the facility
information by allowing the group
quarters contact to upload the roster of
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personal visit interview with a group
quarters contact. Once the interviewer
obtains the roster of residents, they
randomly select residents for personlevel interviews. During the personlevel phase, a computer-assisted
personal interviewing instrument is
used to collect detailed information for
each sampled resident. Interviewers also
have the option to distribute a bilingual
(English/Spanish) questionnaire to
residents for self-response if they are
unable to complete a computer-assisted
personal interviewing interview.
Residents in some group quarters types
have the option to self-respond to the
survey online. A small sample of
respondents are recontacted for quality
assurance purposes.
Statistics produced from the ACS
program may include a combination of
data collected on the survey from
respondents as well as administrative
data from other sources.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Frequency: Monthly.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C. 141,
193, 221, and 223.
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 0607–0810.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Compliance Officer, Office
of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
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Census Bureau
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Annual Survey of School
System Finances
AGENCY:

Census Bureau, Commerce.

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Notice of information collection,
request for comment.

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 Annual Survey of School System
Finances, 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 July 7, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments by
email to [email protected].
Please reference Annual Survey of
School System Finances in the subject
line of your comments. You may also
submit comments, identified by Docket
Number USBC–2025–0004, 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,
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 Kaitlin
Hanak, Survey Statistician, Educational
Finance Branch, 301–763–0229,
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U. S.
Census Bureau plans to extend the
current Office of Management and
Budget clearance for the Annual Survey
of School System Finances. The Annual
Survey of School System Finances is a
comprehensive source of
prekindergarten through 12th grade
public elementary-secondary school
system finance data collected on a
nationwide scale using uniform
definitions, concepts, and procedures.
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The collection covers the revenues,
expenditures, debt, and assets of all
public elementary-secondary school
systems. This data collection is
cosponsored by and coordinated with
the National Center for Education
Statistics (NCES) under interagency
agreement in conjunction with the
National Public Education Financial
Survey (NPEFS) (OMB #1850–0067) and
the School-Level Finance Survey (SLFS)
(OMB #1850–0930).
The NCES uses this collection to
satisfy its need for school district-level
finance data. Data from this survey is
included in the Annual Surveys of State
and Local Government Finances (OMB
No. 0607–0585) to produce state and
national totals of government spending.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
uses data from the survey to develop
figures for the Gross Domestic Product
(GDP) and to assess other public fiscal
spending trends and events.
Data will be collected from State
Education Agencies (SEAs) for all 50
states and the District of Columbia.
SEAs appoint state fiscal coordinators to
work with NCES and the U.S. Census
Bureau to provide accurate and
comparable data across states and
jurisdictions. SEAs typically collect
finance data from school districts for
their own uses. Many states produce a
state-specific chart of accounts or
accounting manual to assist school
districts in classifying and reporting
finance data and producing governmentwide financial statements. Uniform
definitions and concepts of revenue,
expenditure, debt, and assets are
defined by the NCES handbook
Financial Accounting for Local and
State School Systems.
Data on resources and spending
patterns is helpful for parents to make
choices for the education of their child.
Uniform and comparable data helps
states measure the effectiveness of
resource allocation. The products of this
data collection make it possible for data
users to search a single database to
obtain information on such things as per
pupil expenditures and the percent of
state, local, and federal funding for each
school system. Elementary-secondary
education related spending is the single
largest financial activity of state and
local governments. Education finance
statistics provided by the Census Bureau
allow for analyses of how public
elementary-secondary school systems
receive their funding and how they are
spending their funds.
II. Method of Collection
A letter is mailed electronically at the
beginning of each survey period to
solicit the assistance of the state

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