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Management and Budget under the
emergency processing provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA).
Although that process allowed us to
implement the collections in a timely
manner, information collections cleared
under the emergency processing
provisions of the PRA are limited to a
6-month clearance period. This
hampered our efforts to collect data on
an ongoing basis as the Pandemic
continued throughout 2020 and beyond.
We believe that a generic clearance will
benefit the Census Bureau, the reporting
public, and the many stakeholders who
will have great need for information
during times of future unanticipated
events.
Procedurally, the generic clearance
will operate in the following manner:
The Census Bureau will first obtain
OMB clearance under the regular
processing provisions of the PRA for the
initial generic clearance. The clearance
request will define the scope and overall
burden of information collections to be
conducted under the generic clearance.
As future triggering emergencies arise,
the Census Bureau will submit quick
turnaround requests to OMB which will
document the circumstances requiring
the EEIC and will include the specific
question(s) to be asked. The questions
will be chosen from a pretested bank of
questions. The question bank will be
submitted to OMB for approval along
with the initial generic clearance
request. The Census Bureau will ask
that OMB review and act on requests for
individual EEIC’s within 72 hours.
Information collections conducted
under the generic clearance will last a
maximum of 6 months. A new quick
turnaround request may be submitted
under the generic clearance if the
Census Bureau determines the need to
continue the collection past 6 months.
Events that could trigger the need for
an EEIC may have global, national, or
regional impact and may include:
—Pandemic or other health emergency
—Natural or manmade disaster
—New legislation
—Economic crisis
As mentioned above, the Census
Bureau is developing and cognitively
testing a question bank it will utilize to
create EEICs. The question bank may,
for some subjects, include specific
questionnaire content. In other cases,
the bank may include topics which will
then be addressed with questions
developed to meet data needs that arise
during a future unknown event.
As data collections will be tailored to
the emergency, users of the data may
vary, but may include: Federal, state, or
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making during the emergency; business
leaders and policymakers wishing to
develop plans to ameliorate the effects
of the emergency; academics and
members of the press wishing to study
and disseminate information about the
emergency; and the public. The data
collected would help us understand
how and why data we collect in our
ongoing surveys may be affected by the
emergency, as well as allow us to
disseminate data as part of existing
releases, new releases, or experimental
releases.
II. Method of Collection
EEIC questions may be included as
supplemental questions on existing
Census Bureau surveys or conducted as
new surveys. The data will be collected
by paper or electronic instruments,
depending on the survey or program.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0607–XXXX.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission,
Regular Submission, New Information
Collection Request.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations; Not-for-profit
institutions; State, Local, or Tribal
government.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
300,000.
Estimated Time per Response: 10
minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 50,000.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $0 (This is not the cost of
respondents’ time, but the indirect costs
respondents may incur for such things
as purchases of specialized software or
hardware needed to report, or
expenditures for accounting or records
maintenance services required
specifically by the collection.)
Respondent’s Obligation: EEIC
questions appearing on a voluntary
collection would be voluntary. EEIC
questions appearing on a mandatory
collection would be mandatory. When
an EEIC is conducted as a new survey,
that survey will be voluntary.
Legal Authority: EEIC collections are
authorized under Title 13 U.S.C.,
Sections 131, 161, 182, and 196.
IV. Request for Comments
We are soliciting public comments to
permit the Department/Bureau to: (a)
Evaluate whether the proposed
information collection is necessary for
the proper functions of the Department,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the
accuracy of our estimate of the time and
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including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c)
Evaluate ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (d) Minimize the
reporting burden on those who are to
respond, including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. We will include, or
summarize, each comment in our
request to OMB to approve this ICR.
Before including your address, phone
number, email address, or other
personal identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment—including your
personal identifying information—may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you may ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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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; National Survey of Children’s
Health
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
10, 2020 during a 60-day comment
period. This notice allows for an
additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: National Survey of Children’s
Health.
OMB Control Number: 0607–0990

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Form Number(s): NSCH–S1 (English
Screener), NSCH–T1 (English Topical
for 0- to 5-year-old children), NSCH–T2
(English Topical for 6- to 11-year-old
children), NSCH–T3 (English Topical
for 12- to 17-year-old children), NSCH–
S–S1 (Spanish Screener), NSCH–S–T1
(Spanish Topical for 0- to 5-year-old
children), NSCH–S–T2 (Spanish Topical
for 6- to 11-year-old children), and
NSCH–S–T3 (Spanish Topical for 12- to
17-year-old children).
Type of Request: Regular submission,
Request for a Revision of a Currently
Approved Collection.
Number of Respondents: 64,160 for
the screener only and 50,658 for the
combined screener and topical, for a
total of 114,818 respondents.
Average Hours per Response: 5
minutes per screener response and 35–
36 minutes per topical response, which
in total is approximately 40–41 minutes
for households with eligible children.
Burden Hours: 39,400.
Needs and Uses: The National Survey
of Children’s Health (NSCH) enables the
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
(MCHB) of the Health Resources and
Services Administration (HRSA) of the
U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) along with supplemental
sponsoring agencies, states, and other
data users to produce national and statebased estimates on the health and wellbeing of children, their families, and
their communities as well as estimates
of the prevalence and impact of children
with special health care needs.
Data will be collected using one of
two modes. The first mode is a web
instrument (Centurion) survey that
contains the screener and topical
instruments. The web instrument first
will take the respondent through the
screener questions. If the household
screens into the study, the respondent
will be taken directly into one of the
three age-based topical sets of questions.
The second mode is a mailout/mailback
of a self-administered paper-and-pencil
interviewing (PAPI) screener instrument
followed by a separate mailout/mailback
of a PAPI age-based topical instrument.
The National Survey of Children’s
Health (NSCH) is a large-scale (sample
size is up to 300,000 addresses) national
survey with up to 186,000 addresses
included in the base production survey
and approximately 114,000 addresses
included as part of eight separate agebased, state-based, or region-based
oversamples. The 2021 NSCH will
include a topical incentive test. Prior
cycles of the survey have included a $5
unconditional cash incentive with the
initial mailing of the paper topical
questionnaire. The incentive has proven
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increasing survey response and
reducing nonresponse bias. The 2021
NSCH will test a $10 cash incentive,
with a focus on lower responding
households.
As in prior cycles of the NSCH, there
remain two key, non-experimental
design elements. The first additional
non-experimental design element is a $5
screener cash incentive mailed to 90%
of sampled addresses; the remaining
10% (the control) will receive no
incentive to monitor the effectiveness of
the cash incentive. This incentive is
designed to increase response and
reduce nonresponse bias. The incentive
amount was chosen based on the results
of the 2020 NSCH as well as funding
availability. The second additional nonexperimental design element is a data
collection procedure based on the block
group-level paper-only response
probability used to identify households
(30% of the sample) that would be more
likely to respond by paper and send
them a paper questionnaire in either the
initial mailing or first nonresponse
follow-up.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Frequency: The 2021 collection is the
sixth administration of the NSCH. It is
an annual survey, with a new sample
drawn for each administration.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Census Authority: 13
U.S.C. Section 8(b).
HRSA MCHB Authority: Title 42
U.S.C. Section 701(a)(2).
United States Department of
Agriculture Authority: The Healthy,
Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, Public
Law 111–296. In particular, 42 U.S.C.
1769d(a) authorizes USDA to conduct
research on the causes and
consequences of childhood hunger
included in 1769d(a)(4)(B), the
geographic dispersion of childhood
hunger and food insecurity.
United States Department of Health
and Human Services’ Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention,
National Center on Birth Defects and
Developmental Disabilities Authority:
Public Health Service Act, Section 301,
42 U.S.C. 241.
United States Department of Health
and Human Services’ Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention,
National Center for Chronic Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion
Authority: Sections 301(a), 307, and
399G of the Public Health Service [42
U.S.C. 241(a), 242l, and 280e-11], as
amended.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
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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 0607–0990.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of the Census
Census Scientific Advisory Committee
Bureau of the Census,
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public virtual meeting.
AGENCY:

The Bureau of the Census
(Census Bureau) is giving notice of a
virtual meeting of the Census Scientific
Advisory Committee (CSAC). The
Committee will address policy,
research, and technical issues relating to
a full range of Census Bureau programs
and activities, including decennial,
economic, field operations, information
technology, and statistics. Last minute
changes to the schedule are possible,
which could prevent giving advance
public notice of schedule adjustments.
Please visit the Census Advisory
Committees website at http://
www.census.gov/cac for the CSAC
meeting information, including the
agenda, and how to join the meeting.
DATES: The virtual meeting will be held
on:
• Thursday, March 18, 2021, from 11:00
a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EDT, and
• Friday, March 19, 2021, from 11:00
a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EDT
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held
via the WebEx platform at the following
presentation links:
• March 18, 2021: https://
uscensus.webex.com/uscensus/
onstage/g.php?MTID=ee154a100916c
6d1a7e86cbb55d5762ac
• March 19, 2021: https://
uscensus.webex.com/uscensus/
onstage/g.php?MTID=e8cb3b9b59b
c61507d29c4118d48c7a71
SUMMARY:

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