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of Congress regarding the substantive
rationale for such direction.
If the IG has been placed on non-duty
status by the President, the Deputy IG
will perform the functions and duties of
USDA’s IG temporarily in an acting
capacity, subject to relevant limitations
for acting officers described above
related to time serving in an OIG
position. If the Deputy IG is unable to
perform those functions or if the office
is vacant, the President may direct a
USDA OIG employee to assume those
duties, provided that the employee also
meets the requirements described above
regarding pay rates and demonstrated
ability in relevant areas of expertise, and
provided that the employee also meets
the requirements above regarding time
served in an OIG position, and that they
must meet those requirements through
service with USDA OIG.
II. For purposes of this order of
succession, the designated official is the
person holding a permanent
appointment to the position. Persons
filling positions in an acting capacity do
not substitute for officials holding a
permanent appointment to a position. If
a position is vacant or an official
occupying the position on a permanent
basis is absent or unavailable, authority
passes to the next available official
occupying a position in the order of
succession.
III. This delegation is not in
derogation of any authority residing in
the above officials relating to the
operation of their respective programs,
nor does it affect the validity of any
delegations currently in force and effect
and not specifically cited as revoked or
revised herein.
IV. The authorities delegated herein
may not be re-delegated.
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 3345–3349d; 5
U.S.C. 401–424.
Dated: September 26, 2024.
Phyllis K. Fong,
Inspector General.
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Census Bureau
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Redistricting Data Program
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

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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 May 6, 2024,
during a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days
for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau,
Commerce.
Title: Redistricting Data Program.
OMB Control Number: 0607–0988.
Form Number(s): Certification Forms
(4), Verification Forms (2) and Feedback
Form.
• Phase 4 Certification Form (States
with Multiple Congressional Districts).
• Phase 4 Certification Form (States
with a Single Congressional District).
• Phase 4 Certification Form (District
of Columbia).
• Phase 4 Certification Form
(Commonwealth of Puerto Rico).
• Phase 4 Verification Form
(Congressional Districts).
• Phase 4 Verification Form (State
Legislative Districts).
• RDP Feedback Form
Type of Request: Regular submission,
request for a revision of a currently
approved collection.
Number of Respondents:
• Solicitation of Non-Partisan
Liaisons: 52.
• Collection of Post-2020 Census
Congressional and State Legislative
District Plans: 52.
• Block Boundary Suggestion Project
(BBSP) Delineation Phase: 52.
• BBSP Verification Phase: 52.
• Feedback: 52.
Average Hours per Response:
• Solicitation of Non-Partisan
Liaisons: 6 hours.
• Collection of Post-2020 Census
Congressional and State Legislative
District Plans: 8 hours.
• BBSP Delineation Phase: 124 hours.
• BBSP Verification Phase: 62 hours.
• Feedback: 1 hour.
Burden Hours: 10,452.
• Solicitation of Non-Partisan
Liaisons: 312 hours.
• Collection of Post-2020 Census
Congressional and State Legislative
District Plans: 416 hours.
• BBSP Delineation Phase: 6,448
hours.
• BBSP Verification Phase: 3,224
hours.
• Feedback: 52 hours.
Needs and Uses: The Redistricting
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the provisions of title 13, section 141(c)
of the United States Code (U.S.C.).
Under the provisions of Public Law 94–
171, as amended (title 13, United States
Code (U.S.C.), section 141(c)), the
Secretary of Commerce, who designates
this responsibility to the Director of the
Census Bureau, is required to provide
the ‘‘officers or public bodies having
initial responsibility for the legislative
apportionment or districting of each
state’’ with the opportunity to ‘‘identify
the geographic areas’’ (e.g., Voting
Districts (wards and election precincts),
congressional and state legislative
districts, census blocks) ‘‘for which
specific tabulations of population are
desired’’ and to deliver those counts in
a timely manner.
The Solicitation of Non-Partisan
Liaisons occurs by mail (U.S. Postal
Service) beginning in January 2025 and
includes follow up emails to the
governors and the majority and minority
legislative leadership in the 50 states,
the District of Columbia (DC), and the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (PR).
Non-partisan liaisons are appointed
through a response to that solicitation
letter mailed or emailed to the Census
Bureau and signed by the legislative
leadership. Once appointed, the liaisons
serve as the primary point of contact for
the Census Bureau to execute the
Collection of Post-2020 Census
Congressional and State Legislative
District Plans and the BBSP.
Additionally, once the liaisons have
been appointed, they serve as liaisons
through the entire RDP, ending in 2035.
Liaisons are emailed an invitation to
submit any updates to their Post-2020
Census Congressional and State
Legislative Districts in 2025. This
collection is performed every two years.
Changes are submitted to the Census
Bureau electronically using email to
confirm changes or no changes and the
Census Bureau’s secure online data
sharing portal to submit their boundary
and data updates when necessary. This
process is the same as that used for the
prior collection in 2024.
Liaisons are emailed an invitation to
participate in the delineation cycle of
the BBSP in 2026 and the verification
cycle of the BBSP in 2027. Changes are
submitted to the Census Bureau
electronically using email to report no
changes (during the verification cycle)
and the Census Bureau’s secure online
data sharing portal to submit their BBSP
updates. The BBSP has not appreciably
changed since it last occurred from
2016–2017 as a part of the 2020 RDP.
These activities directly support the
Census Bureau’s efforts to comply with
Public Law 94–171 by providing states,
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the small area tabulations they need for
legislative redistricting and by
supplying them with that data in a
timely manner. Participation is strictly
voluntary. The states, DC, and PR are
the only authorities that can choose
where and how to draw their district
boundaries.
In addition, these activities assist in
maintaining the Master Address File/
Topologically Integrated Geographic
Encoding and Referencing (MAF/
TIGER) System, in partnership with
tribal, state, and local governments
nationwide. Because tribal, state, and
local governments have current
knowledge of, and data about, where
housing growth and change are
occurring in their jurisdictions, their
input into the overall development of
geographic data for the Census Bureau
makes a vital contribution. Similarly,
those governments are in the best
position to work with local geographic
boundaries, and they benefit from
accurate address and geographic data.
The Census Bureau is adding a
feedback component to its geographic
partnership programs to allow for the
solicitation of feedback to improve the
administration of the respective
program and potentially reduce the
future burden. Liaisons may be asked to
provide their feedback on materials,
method(s) of data collection, manner of
communications, and the usability of
the program applications and tools.
Affected Public: State and local
governments.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Public Law 94–171,
as amended (title 13, U.S.C., section
141(c)).
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 0607–0988.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
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; Boundary and Annexation
Survey
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 May 6, 2024,
during a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days
for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau,
Commerce.
Title: Boundary and Annexation
Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0607–0151.
Form Number(s) BAS–6. This is the
Consolidated BAS (CBAS) Agreement
Form. BASSC–1. This is the Boundary
and Annexation Survey (BAS) State
Certification State Certifying Official
(SCO) Appointment Form. BAS
Feedback Form. This is the form used to
capture feedback.
Type of Request: Regular submission,
request for a revision of a currently
approved collection.
Number of Respondents:
• BAS/State Certification/Boundary
Quality Project: 40,000 governments.
• Feedback: 1,000 governments.
Average Hours per Response:
• BAS/State Certification/Boundary
Quality Project: 7.5 hours. This estimate
is based on an average of 5 hours for an
eligible government with no changes
and 10 hours for an eligible government
with changes.
• Feedback: 30 minutes.
Burden Hours: 300,500 hours.
• BAS/State Certification/Boundary
Quality Project: 300,000 hours.
• Feedback: 500 hours.
Needs and Uses: The Boundary and
Annexation Survey (BAS) provides
eligible governments, which include
tribal, state, and general-purpose local
governments, an opportunity to review
the Census Bureau’s legal boundary data
to ensure the Census Bureau has the

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correct boundary, name, and status
information and make necessary
updates. BAS also allows for the review
and update of census designated place
(CDP) boundaries and linear features. It
fulfills the agency’s responsibility as
part of the National Spatial Data
Infrastructure, for which the OMB
Circular A–16 designates the Census
Bureau as the lead federal agency for
maintaining national data about legal
government boundaries, as well as
statistical and administrative
boundaries. It also supports the
geospatial data steward responsibilities
of the Geospatial Data Act, the Evidence
Act, OMB E-Gov, the Federal
Geographic Data Committee, Data.gov,
GeoPlatform.gov, the National Map, the
Geographic Names Information System,
and the Geospatial One-Stop.
The Census Bureau uses the
boundaries collected during BAS to
tabulate data for various censuses and
surveys including the decennial census
and American Community Survey
(ACS) as well as the Population
Estimates Program (PEP). It also uses the
boundaries collected through BAS to
support other programs such as the
Redistricting Data Program, the
Economic Census, the Geographically
Updated Population Certification
Program, and the Special Census
program.
Other federal programs also rely on
accurate boundaries collected through
BAS. The Department of Housing and
Urban Development uses boundaries to
determine jurisdictional eligibility for
various grant programs, such as the
Community Development Block Grant
program. In addition, the Department of
Agriculture uses boundaries to
determine eligibility for various rural
housing and economic development
programs.
The following collection methods
allow the Census Bureau to coordinate
among various levels of government to
obtain the most accurate legal boundary,
CDP, linear feature, and contact
information:
• BAS.
• State Certification.
• Boundary Quality Project.
BAS
BAS provides eligible governments,
which include tribal, state, and generalpurpose local governments, an
opportunity to review the Census
Bureau’s legal boundary data to ensure
the Census Bureau has the correct
boundary, name, and status information
and make necessary updates. BAS also
allows for the review and update of
CDPs and linear features.

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