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Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 137 / Wednesday, July 19, 2023 / Notices

subject to the provisions of Executive
Order 12372, which requires
intergovernmental consultation with
State and local officials.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau

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USDA Non-Discrimination Policy
In accordance with Federal civil
rights law and USDA civil rights
regulations and policies, 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,
gender identity (including gender
expression), sexual orientation,
disability, age, marital status, family or
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.
Individuals who require alternative
means of communication for program
information (for example, braille, large
print, audiotape, American Sign
Language, etc.) should contact the
responsible Agency or USDA TARGET
Center at (202) 720–2600 (voice and text
telephone) or dial 711 for
Telecommunications Relay Service
(both voice and text telephone users can
initiate this call from any phone).
Additionally, program information may
be made available in languages other
than English.
To file a program discrimination
complaint, complete the USDA Program
Discrimination Complaint Form, AD–
3027, found online at: https://
www.usda.gov/oascr/how-to-file-aprogram-discrimination-complaint and
at any USDA office or write a letter
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the form. To request a copy of the
complaint form, call (866) 632–9992.
Submit your completed form or letter to
USDA by mail to: U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Civil Rights, 1400
Independence Avenue SW, Washington,
DC 20250–9410 or email: OAC@
usda.gov.
USDA is an equal opportunity
provider, employer, and lender.
Ronald Alvarado,
Oregon State Conservationist, Natural
Resources Conservation Service.
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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Household Pulse Survey
On June 6, 2023, the Department of
Commerce received clearance from the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 to
conduct Phase 3.9 of the Household
Pulse Survey (OMB No. 0607–1013,
Exp. 10/31/23). The Household Pulse
Survey was designed to meet a need for
timely information associated with
household experiences during the
Covid-19 pandemic. The Department is
committed to ensuring that the data
collected by the Household Pulse
Survey continue to meet information
needs as they may evolve over the
course of the pandemic. This notice
serves to inform of the Department’s
intent to request clearance from OMB to
make some revisions to the Household
Pulse Survey questionnaire. To ensure
that the data collected by the Household
Pulse Survey continue to meet
information needs as they evolve over
the course of the pandemic, the Census
Bureau submits this Request for
Revision to an Existing Collection for a
revised Phase 3.10 questionnaire.
Phase 3.10 includes split-panel tests
of two versions of the gender identity
question and the placement of the
health items in the instrument. The
Phase 3.10 instrument also includes the
return of the original Hispanic origin,
race/ethnicity, childcare arrangements,
and children’s mental health behaviors
items, and new questions on military
participation of a spouse, shortages of
critical products, difficulty accessing
medical care/treatment during natural
disasters, and a question asking the
respondent if they will opt-in to receive
optional surveys and email updates
from the Bureau. There are also
modifications to existing children’s
vaccine booster, infant formula, reasons
not working, unemployment insurance,
natural disaster, and contact
information items. Several questions
will be removed for Phase 3.10,
including questions about obtaining at
home COVID tests, not working due to
the pandemic or natural disaster,
households affected by the infant
formula shortage, type of formula used,
and best contact method.
It is the Department’s intention to
commence data collection using the
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23, 2023. The Department 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.
Public comments were previously
sought on the Household Pulse Survey
via the Federal Register on May 19,
2020, June 3, 2020, February 1, 2021,
April 13, 2021, June 24, 2021, October
26, 2021, January 24, 2022, April 18,
2022, July 2, 2022, November 10, 2022,
and April 28, 2023. This notice allows
for an additional 30 days for public
comments on the proposed revisions.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau,
Department of Commerce.
Title: Household Pulse Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0607–1013.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Request for a
Revision of a Currently Approved
Collection.
Number of Respondents: 141,552.
Average Hours per Response: 20
minutes.
Burden Hours: 46,712.
Needs and Uses: Data produced by
the Household Pulse Survey are
designed to inform on a range of topics
related to households’ experiences
during the COVID–19 pandemic. Topics
to date have included employment,
facility to telework, travel patterns,
income loss, spending patterns, food
and housing security, amount of
monthly rent and changes in monthly
rent, access to benefits, mental health
and access to care, difficulty with selfcare and communicating, intent to
receive the COVID–19 vaccine/booster,
timing of coronavirus testing, use of
coronavirus treatments, the experience
of long COVID, post-secondary
educational disruption, access to infant
formula, the effects of increasing prices,
natural disasters, school meals for
children, and children’s mental health
treatment. The requested revision, if
approved by OMB, will remove selected
items from the questions for which
utility has declined and add questions
based on information needs expressed
via public comment and in consult with
other Federal agencies. The overall
burden change to the public will be
insignificant.
The Household Pulse Survey was
initially launched in April, 2020 as an
experimental project (see https://
www.census.gov/data/experimentaldata-products.html) under emergency
clearance from the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) initially
granted April 19, 2020; regular
clearance was subsequently sought and

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approved by OMB on October 30, 2020
(OMB No. 0607–1013; Exp. 10/30/2023).
Affected Public: Households.
Frequency: Households will be
selected once to participate in a 20minute survey.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Title 13, United
States Code, Sections 8(b), 182 and 193.
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 0607–1013.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Services Surveys: BE–140,
Benchmark Survey of Insurance
Transactions by U.S. Insurance
Companies With Foreign Persons
Bureau of Economic Analysis,
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of information collection,
request for comment.
AGENCY:

The Department of
Commerce, in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), 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 preceding submission of the
collection to OMB.
DATES: To ensure consideration,
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information collection must be received
on or before September 18, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments to
Christopher Stein, Chief, Services
Surveys Branch, Bureau of Economic
Analysis, by email to christopher.stein@
bea.gov or PRAcomments@doc.gov.
Please reference OMB Control Number
0608–0073 in the subject line of your
comments. Do not submit Confidential
Business Information or otherwise
sensitive or protected information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
specific questions related to collection
activities should be directed to
Christopher Stein, Chief, Services
Surveys Branch, Bureau of Economic
Analysis; 301–278–9189; or via email at
christopher.stein@bea.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The Benchmark Survey of Insurance
Transactions by U.S. Insurance
Companies with Foreign Persons (Form
BE–140) is a periodic survey, conducted
every five years, that collects data from
U.S. persons who engage in
international trade in covered insurance
transactions. This mandatory
benchmark survey, conducted under the
authority of the International
Investment and Trade in Services
Survey Act, covers the universe of
transactions in insurance services with
foreign persons and is BEA’s most
comprehensive survey of such
transactions. The survey was last
conducted in 2019, covering the 2018
reporting year. A response is required
from U.S. persons subject to the
reporting requirements of the BE–140,
whether or not they are contacted by
BEA, to ensure complete coverage of
transactions in insurance services
between U.S. and foreign persons. A
U.S. person means any individual,
branch, partnership, associated group,
association, estate, trust, corporation, or
other organization (whether or not
organized under the laws of any State),
resident in the United States or subject
to the jurisdiction of the United States.
A U.S. person must report if they had
transactions with foreign persons in the
categories covered by the survey during
the 2023 calendar year. For U.S. persons
that had combined transactions that
were $2 million or less (based on
absolute value) in the insurance services
covered by the survey for calendar year
2023, a completed benchmark would
include totals for each type of
transaction in which they engaged. A
U.S. person whose combined
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exceeded $2 million (based on absolute
value) in the insurance categories
covered by the survey for calendar year
2023, is required to provide data on the
total transactions of each of the covered
types of insurance transactions and
must disaggregate the totals by country
and by relationship to the foreign
counterparty (foreign affiliate, foreign
parent group, or unaffiliated).
The data are needed to monitor U.S.
trade in insurance services, to analyze
the impact of these cross-border services
on the U.S. and foreign economies, to
compile and improve the U.S. economic
accounts, to support U.S. commercial
policy on trade in services, to conduct
trade promotion, and to improve the
ability of U.S. businesses to identify and
evaluate market opportunities. The data
are used in estimating the trade in
insurance services component of the
U.S. international transactions accounts
(ITAs) and national income and product
accounts (NIPAs).
The Bureau of Economic Analysis
(BEA) is proposing to make several
modifications to the survey for 2023 to
further align BEA’s statistics with
international guidelines and to collect
additional information that can be used
to improve the current estimation
methodologies for published insurance
services transactions, increasing the
quality and usefulness of BEA’s
statistics on trade in insurance services.
To evaluate the feasibility of these
changes, BEA conducted outreach to a
sample of nine respondents to the
Quarterly Survey of Insurance
Transactions by U.S. Insurance
Companies with Foreign Persons (BE–
45). Reporter feedback gathered
substantiated the ability of the
respondents to comply with the
additional data requests, and that the
survey changes should not impose a
material increase in reporting burden.
BEA does not plan to change the
exemption levels used for the previous
benchmark survey in 2018.
BEA proposes to:
(1) Add a question to collect
information on the largest states,
districts, or territories (up to three) for
exports and imports of services. This
information would be required of all
survey respondents and would allow
BEA to produce estimates of the value
of exports and imports of services by
U.S. state for the first time.
(2) Add a question on employment
size class. This information would be
required of all survey respondents to aid
in identifying the number of small
businesses reporting on the survey, and
the volume of services trade data
reported by small businesses.

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