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conference call number and conference
ID number.
Members of the public are also
entitled to submit written comments;
the comments must be received in the
regional office one week prior to the
start of the meeting, by Tuesday
November 8, 2016. Written comments
may be mailed to the Regional Programs
Unit Office, U.S. Commission on Civil
Rights, 55 W. Monroe St., Suite 410,
Chicago, IL 60615. They may also be
faxed to the Commission at (312) 353–
8324, or emailed to Carolyn Allen at
callen@usccr.gov. Persons who desire
additional information may contact the
Regional Programs Unit Office at (312)
353–8311.
Records generated from this meeting
may be inspected and reproduced at the
Regional Programs Unit Office, as they
become available, both before and after
the meeting. Records of the meeting will
be available via www.facadatabase.gov
under the Commission on Civil Rights,
Indiana Advisory Committee link
(http://www.facadatabase.gov/
committee/meetings.aspx?cid=247).
Persons interested in the work of this
Committee are directed to the
Commission’s Web site, http://
www.usccr.gov, or may contact the
Regional Programs Unit Office at the
above email or street address.
Agenda
Welcome and Introductions
Civil Rights Report, Final Review and
Approval
Civil Rights and the School to Prison
Pipeline in Indiana
Public Comment
Future Plans and Actions
Adjournment
Dated: September 27, 2016.
David Mussatt,
Chief, Regional Programs Unit.
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COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS
Notice of Public Meeting of the Indiana
Advisory Committee for a Meeting To
Discuss an Updated Draft Report on
Civil Rights and the School to Prison
Pipeline in the State
U.S. Commission on Civil
Rights.
ACTION: Announcement of meeting.

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AGENCY:

Notice is hereby given,
pursuant to the provisions of the rules
and regulations of the U.S. Commission
on Civil Rights (Commission) and the
Federal Advisory Committee Act that
the Indiana Advisory Committee

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(Committee) will hold a meeting on
Wednesday, October 19, 2016, at
2:00pm EDT for the purpose of
discussing a draft report regarding the
school to prison pipeline in the state.
DATES: The meeting will be held on
Wednesday, October 19, 2016, at 2:00
p.m. EDT.
Public call information: Dial: 888–
455–2265, Conference ID: 3309385.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Melissa Wojnaroski, DFO, at
mwojnaroski@usccr.gov or 312–353–
8311.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Members
of the public can listen to the
discussion. This meeting is available to
the public through the following tollfree call-in number: 888–455–2265,
conference ID: 3309385. Any interested
member of the public may call this
number and listen to the meeting. An
open comment period will be provided
to allow members of the public to make
a statement as time allows. The
conference call operator will ask callers
to identify themselves, the organization
they are affiliated with (if any), and an
email address prior to placing callers
into the conference room. Callers can
expect to incur regular charges for calls
they initiate over wireless lines,
according to their wireless plan. The
Commission will not refund any
incurred charges. Callers will incur no
charge for calls they initiate over landline connections to the toll-free
telephone number. Persons with hearing
impairments may also follow the
proceedings by first calling the Federal
Relay Service at 1–800–977–8339 and
providing the Service with the
conference call number and conference
ID number.
Members of the public are also
entitled to submit written comments;
the comments must be received in the
regional office within 30 days following
the meeting. Written comments may be
mailed to the Regional Programs Unit
Office, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights,
55 W. Monroe St., Suite 410, Chicago,
IL 60615. They may also be faxed to the
Commission at (312) 353–8324, or
emailed to Carolyn Allen at callen@
usccr.gov. Persons who desire
additional information may contact the
Regional Programs Unit Office at (312)
353–8311.
Records generated from this meeting
may be inspected and reproduced at the
Regional Programs Unit Office, as they
become available, both before and after
the meeting. Records of the meeting will
be available via www.facadatabase.gov
under the Commission on Civil Rights,
Indiana Advisory Committee link
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committee/meetings.aspx?cid=247).
Persons interested in the work of this
Committee are directed to the
Commission’s Web site, http://
www.usccr.gov, or may contact the
Regional Programs Unit Office at the
above email or street address.
Agenda
Welcome and Introductions
Discussion Draft Report: Civil Rights
and the School to Prison Pipeline in
Indiana
Public Comment
Future Plans and Actions
Adjournment
Dated: September 27, 2016.
David Mussatt,
Chief, Regional Programs Unit.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will
submit 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: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: American Community Survey
(ACS) Methods Panel, Online
Communications Improving Survey
Response Campaign.
OMB Control Number: 0607–0936.
Form Number(s): ACS–1, ACS–1
(Spanish), ACS CATI, ACS CAPI, ACS
Internet.
Type of Request: Nonsubstantive
Change Request.
Number of Respondents: None.
Average Hours per Response: None.
Burden Hours: No additional burden
hours are requested under this
nonsubstantive change request.
Needs and Uses: The American
Community Survey collects detailed
socioeconomic data from about 3.5
million households in the United States
and 36,000 in Puerto Rico each year.
The ACS also collects detailed
socioeconomic data from about 195,000
residents living in Group Quarter (GQ)
facilities. An ongoing data collection
effort with an annual sample of this
magnitude requires that the ACS
continue research, testing, and
evaluations aimed at improving data
quality, achieving survey cost
efficiencies, and improving ACS
questionnaire content and related data
collection materials. The ACS Methods

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Panel is a research program that is
designed to address and respond to
issues and survey needs. In line with
the Census Bureau’s goal to increase
survey response rates through
communications, the Census Bureau
seeks to launch a pilot of a targeted
digital advertising campaign. During the
2000 and 2010 decennial enumerations,
the Census Bureau saw an uptick of
ACS response rates.1 A year-over-year
increase of 6.4 percentage points was
observed in the Savannah, GA media
market during the 2015 Census Site
Test.2
Outside of decennial years, traditional
broad-based advertising methods are
cost-prohibitive because of the relatively
small sample size for most Census
Bureau surveys compared to the general
population. With the advent of digital
advertising tactics, however, the Census
Bureau now has the potential
opportunity to cost-effectively deliver
promotional messages to individual
households within a survey sample. The
ACS offers a large enough national
sample to field a test of such tactics and
determine whether they lift response
rates. If digital advertisements
encourage recipients to respond to a
survey early in the process of data
collection, including responding online,
then the Census Bureau will save money
on costly follow-up efforts to collect
data from nonrespondents, including
sending Census Bureau interviewers to
respondents’ households in person.
Offsetting data-collection costs in this
way would ultimately save taxpayers
money. Findings from this pilot
campaign will have applications across
the range of the Census Bureau’s
collection efforts as advertisements will
not be survey-specific and will focus on
the value of the Census Bureau’s work
in general.
We propose to execute the pilot
campaign aiming to using the January
and February 2017 ACS production
samples. We will deliver targeted digital
advertisements to a panel of in-sample
residents that can be linked by
household address to digital profiles
(including cookies and/or device ID) by
a third-party data vendor. This
technique is an emerging standard in
online advertising, in line with the
advertising households receive from
1 Chesnut, J. & M. Davis. (2011). ‘‘Evaluation of
the ACS Mail Materials and Mailing Strategy during
the 2010 Census.’’ American Community Survey
Research and Evaluation Program. U.S. Census
Bureau.
2 Walejko, G. et al. (2015). ‘‘Modeling the Effect
of Diverse Communication Strategies on Decennial
Census Test Response Rates.’’ Presentation. 2015
Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology
Research Conference. December 2nd, 2015.
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companies and organizations every day.
We will place video, display banners,
and paid social media advertisements.
Linked households will be served ads
shortly before they receive a mailed
survey questionnaire and during the
ACS data collection process. Ads will
not directly call on recipients to
complete the ACS or any particular
survey, nor will they mention any
survey by name. Rather they will be
designed to create positive associations
with the Census Bureau’s work
generally and make the case for the
importance of completing a Census
Bureau questionnaire if selected. When
an advertisement is clicked, the user
will be directed to a Census.gov web
landing page featuring general
information about the value of the
Census Bureau’s work and a link to the
‘‘Are You in a Survey?’’ page.3
The purpose of this test is to study the
impact of these changes on self-response
behavior and assess any potential
savings overall or with subgroups. The
advertisements will include a mix of
online video, banner display ads, and
paid social media content on both
desktop and mobile devices. They will
be displayed around the web on various
Web sites targeted to linked households
in the treatment groups. Ad serving will
be optimized based on audience reach
and user engagement with the ads
(measured in terms of video and click
metrics). The optimal media mix will be
applied evenly across both treatments.
We will prioritize rich media
placements including video and social
video over standard placements such as
banner display, with the goal to
maximize video advertising to tell a
compelling story to raise awareness of
the Census Bureau’s work.
This pilot will include two
experimental treatments (a high-spend
group and a low-spend group) as well as
a control group. Households in the highspend group will receive roughly twice
the number of advertisement exposures
as households in the low-spend
treatment group, though the channel
mix and content of the advertisements
will remain the same between the two
groups. The Control group will not
receive any advertisements.
To field this test, we plan to use ACS
production (clearance number: 0607–
0810, expires 06/30/2018). Thus, there
is no increase in burden from this test
since the treatment will result in
approximately the same burden estimate
per interview (40 minutes). The ACS
sample design consists of randomly
assigning each monthly sample panel
3 See https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/
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into 24 groups of approximately 12,000
addresses each. Each group, called a
methods panel group, within a monthly
sample is representative of the full
monthly sample. Each monthly sample
is a representative subsample of the
entire annual sample and is
representative of the sampling frame.
The test will include two months of
production sample (aiming for January
and February 2017). We will choose
eight randomly selected methods panel
groups per month for each of the two
experimental treatments; the remaining
eight methods panel groups will be the
control. Over the two production
months, each treatment will use 16
methods panel groups, or a mail out
sample of roughly 192,000 addresses,
which will be used for linking to
establish eligibility for micro targeted
digital advertising. We estimate that
approximately 31 percent of the
mailable addresses will be eligible for
digital advertising, which is
approximately 30,000 addresses for each
of the two experimental treatments per
month.
We will compare the Internet return
rates at the cut date for the replacement
mailing, the Internet, mail, and selfresponse return rates before the start of
Computer Assisted Telephone
Interviewing (CATI), and the Internet,
mail, self-response, and CATI return
rates prior to the start of Computer
Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI).
We will compare the self-response and
CAPI return rates as well as the overall
response rates when all data collection
activities end. Additionally, the overall
response rate will be calculated for all
sample addresses. For each comparison,
we will use a = 0.1 and a two-tailed test
so that we can measure the impact on
the evaluation measure in either
direction with 80 percent power. Based
on previous year’s data for the January
and February panels we calculated
effective sample sizes. We assumed an
Undeliverable as Addressed (UAA) rate
of 18.0 percent (these addresses may be
advertised to, but will be removed from
self-response analysis because they do
not have an opportunity to respond), a
self-response rate of 57.5 percent for all
three groups, a CATI response rate of 25
percent, and a CAPI response rate of 85
percent. We expect to be able to detect
self-response differences between the
high- and low-spend treatment panel of
0.8 percentage points, and between a
treatment panel and the control on the
order of 0.8 percentage points.
Additional metrics of interest include
overall costs and response rates by
subgroups.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.

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Frequency: One-time test as part of
the monthly American Community
Survey.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13, United
States Code, Sections 141, 193, and 221.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view
Department of Commerce collections
currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.
gov or fax to (202) 395–5806.
Sheleen Dumas,
PRA Departmental Lead, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016–23821 Filed 9–30–16; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Membership of the Departmental
Performance Review Board
Department of Commerce.
Notice of membership on the
Departmental Performance Review
Board.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

In accordance with statutes
on ratings for performance appraisals,
the Department of Commerce (DOC),
announces the appointment of those
individuals who have been selected to
serve as members of the Departmental
Performance Review Board. The
Performance Review Board is
responsible for reviewing performance
appraisals and ratings of Senior
Executive Service (SES) members and
making recommendations to the
appointing authority on other
performance management issues, such
as pay adjustments, bonuses and
Presidential Rank Awards. The
appointment of these members to the
Performance Review Board will be for a
period of twenty-four (24) months.
DATES: The period of appointment for
those individuals selected for the
Departmental Performance Review
Board begins on October 3, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Nancy Osborn, U.S. Department of
Commerce, Office of Human Resources
Management, Office of Executive
Resources, 14th and Constitution
Avenue NW., Room 51010, Washington,
DC 20230, at (202) 482–5815.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with Ratings for
Performance Appraisals, 5 U.S.C.
4314(c)(4), the Department of Commerce

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(DOC), announces the appointment of
those individuals who have been
selected to serve as members of the
Departmental Performance Review
Board. The Performance Review Board
is responsible for (1) reviewing
performance appraisals and ratings of
Senior Executive Service (SES) members
and (2) making recommendations to the
appointing authority on other
performance management issues, such
as pay adjustments, bonuses and
Presidential Rank Awards. The
appointment of these members to the
Performance Review Board will be for a
period of twenty-four (24) months.
The name, position title, and type of
appointment of each member of the
Performance Review Board are set forth
below:
1. Jon Alexander, Deputy Director,
Financial Management Systems,
Career SES
2. Dennis Alvord, Senior Advisor for
Policy and Program Integration,
Career SES
3. Stephen Burke, Chief Financial
Officer and Director for
Administration, Career SES
4. Kathleen James, Chief Administrative
Officer, Career SES
5. Lauren Leonard, Director of the Office
of White House Liaison and Senior
Advisor to the Secretary, Noncareer
SES
6. Holly Vineyard, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Global Markets, Career
SES
Dated: September 20, 2016.
Denise A. Yaag,
Director, Office of Executive Resources, Office
of Human Resources Management, Office of
the Secretary/Office of the CFO/ASA,
Department of Commerce.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Office of the Secretary
Membership of the Performance
Review Board for the Office of the
Secretary
Office of the Secretary,
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of membership on the
Office of the Secretary Performance
Review Board.
AGENCY:

In accordance with 5 U.S.C.
4314(c)(4), the Office of the Secretary,
Department of Commerce (DOC),
announces the appointment of those
individuals who have been selected to
serve as members of the Performance
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Board is responsible for (1) reviewing
performance appraisals and ratings of
Senior Executive Service (SES) and
Senior Level (SL) members and (2)
making recommendations to the
appointing authority on other
performance management issues, such
as pay adjustments, bonuses and
Presidential Rank Awards. The
appointment of these members to the
Performance Review Board will be for a
period of twenty-four (24) months.
DATES: The period of appointment for
those individuals selected for the Office
of the Secretary Performance Review
Board begins on October 3, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Nancy Osborn, U.S. Department of
Commerce, Office of Human Resources
Management, Office of Executive
Resources, 14th and Constitution
Avenue NW., Room 51010, Washington,
DC 20230, at (202) 482–5815.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with 5 U.S.C. 4314(c)(4), the
Office of the Secretary, Department of
Commerce (DOC), announces the
appointment of those individuals who
have been selected to serve as members
of the Office of the Secretary
Performance Review Board. The
Performance Review Board is
responsible for (1) reviewing
performance appraisals and ratings of
Senior Executive Service (SES) and
Senior Level (SL) members and (2)
making recommendations to the
appointing authority on other
performance management issues, such
as pay adjustments, bonuses and
Presidential Rank Awards. The
appointment of these members to the
Performance Review Board will be for a
period of twenty-four (24) months.
DATES: The period of appointment for
those individuals selected for the Office
of the Secretary Performance Review
Board begins on October 3, 2016. The
name, position title, and type of
appointment of each member of the
Performance Review Board are set forth
below:
1. Gordon Alston, Director, Financial
Reporting and Internal Controls,
Career SES
2. Paige Atkins, Associate Administrator
for Spectrum Management, Career
SES
3. Kurt Bersani, Deputy Chief Financial
and Administrative Officer, Career
SES
4. Theodore LeCompte, Deputy Chief of
Staff and Senior Advisor to the
Secretary, Noncareer SES
5. Lauren Leonard, Director of the Office
of White House Liaison and Senior
Advisor to the Secretary, Noncareer
SES

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