[Federal Register: May 21, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 98)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

 
Submission For OMB Review; Comment Request

    DOC has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
clearance the following proposal for collection of information under 
the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35).
    Agency: Bureau of the Census.
    Title: Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation, Independent Listing 
Operation Activities.
    Form Number(s): D-1302, D-1302PR.
    Agency Approval Number: None.
    Type of Request: New collection.
    Burden: 70,513 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 2,035,700.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 2 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The Bureau of the Census requests approval from the 
Office of Management and Budget for clearance of the independent 
listing forms, Form D-1302 and D-1302PR, to be used in the Accuracy and 
Coverage Evaluation (ACE), Independent listing operation activities in 
the Census 2000. The ACE is a national survey of sample block clusters 
within the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. The 
Bureau of the Census developed the ACE approach for measuring coverage 
of the population in the decennial census. In ACE, we independently 
count a sample of housing units and the people living in those units, 
then compare those results to the census. We then use this comparative 
information to produce final estimates of the coverage for Census 2000. 
The ACE approach was tested during the Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal in 
Columbia, South Carolina. The ACE was formerly referred to as the Post-
Enumeration Survey (PES) in the Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal.
    The Independent Listing Operation is the first step in the ACE 
process. It will be used to obtain a complete housing unit inventory of 
all addresses within the Census 2000 ACE sample of block clusters 
before the Census 2000 enumeration commences. There will be two 
Independent Listing forms, D-1302 and D-1302PR. The D-1302 is the

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English language version of the listing form and will be used in the 
ACE sample areas except in Puerto Rico. The D-1302PR is the Spanish 
language version of the listing form and will be used only in the ACE 
sample areas in Puerto Rico.
    The listings will be matched to the address list used in the 
census; the unmatched cases will be sent to the field for 
reconciliation during the next phase of the ACE--Housing Unit Follow-
up. The forms and procedures to be used in the Housing Unit Follow-up 
phase of the ACE in the Census 2000 and all subsequent ACE phases will 
be submitted separately.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Frequency: One-time only.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    Legal Authority: Title 13 USC, Sections 141, 193, and 221.
    OMB Desk Officer: Nancy Kirkendall, (202) 395-7313.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Linda Engelmeier, DOC Forms Clearance Officer, 
(202) 482-3272, Department of Commerce, room 5033, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to Nancy Kirkendall, OMB Desk Officer, room 10201, New Executive Office 
Building, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: May 14, 1999.
Linda Engelmeier,
Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer.
[FR Doc. 99-12820 Filed 5-20-99; 8:45 am]
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