Collection from businesses

Attachment I

C-700-L2B
(10-2015)

FROM THE ECONOMIC INDICATORS DIVISION
U.S. CENSUS BUREAU
A few months ago, we sent you a “Construction Progress Reporting Survey” (Form C-700(SL) or C700(F)) requesting information about a construction project associated with your organization. At that
time, you informed us that construction work had not yet started and indicated an expected start date. We
are now returning the form to you to ask if the project has started.
If it has started, please verify the project description and location, enter the start date, projected
completion date, total cost estimates, and monthly figures on the value of work done from the start of
construction through the previous month. Thereafter, we will ask you to report only a single figure each
month for the construction value of work done, until the project is completed. If the project still has not
started, please enter the expected start date. On the back of this letter, you will find disclosure
descriptions regarding Office of Management and Budget Number, authority and confidentiality, and
burden estimate statement.
You may submit your data via the Internet. The enclosed Form C-700 (SL) or C-700(F) displays
the User ID and Password that you need to access the survey via the Internet at
econhelp.census.gov/cprs
To assist you further in your reporting, you may submit your survey by mail or fax (1–800–845–8245)
within 7 days, even if the project has not started.
If you have any questions, call our toll-free number (1–800–845–8246) Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. (Eastern Time). A supervisor may monitor the call to ensure accurate and courteous service.
For your information and use, already published construction spending data are available online at
www.census.gov/constructionspending
Thank you.
Enclosure

OMB Number
This collection has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The eight-digit
OMB approval number is 0607-0153 and appears at the upper right of the report form/login
screen. Without this approval we could not conduct this survey.
Authority and Confidentiality
Title 13, United States Code, Sections 131 and 182 authorizes the Census Bureau to conduct this
collection and to request your voluntary assistance. These data are subject to provisions of Title 13,
United States Code, Section 9(b) exempting data that are customarily provided in public records from
rules of confidentiality.
Burden Estimate Statement
We estimate this survey will take an average of 30 minutes to complete for your first month of reporting
and 10 minutes for subsequent months, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing
data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of
information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of
information, including suggestions for reducing this burden to: ECON Survey Comments 0607-0153,
U.S. Census Bureau, 4600 Silver Hill Road, Room EMD-6K064, Washington, DC 20233. You may email comments to ECON.Survey.Comments@census.gov. Be sure to use ECON Survey Comments
0607-0153 as the subject.