Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Boundary and Annexation Survey

Published date18 May 2021
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review; Notice of
Request for Emergency Approval
May 13, 2021.
In compliance with the requirements
of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), the Department of Agriculture
(USDA) has submitted a request to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for a six-month emergency
approval of the following information
collection: ICR 0570–NEW, Rural
Development Cooperative Agreements
(RDCA). The requested approval would
enable the collection of this information
and the implementation of this program
while USDA completes the normal PRA
approval process.
Rural Business-Cooperative Service
Title: Rural Development Cooperative
Agreements (RDCA).
OMB Control Number: 0570–NEW.
Summary of Collection: Due to a
three-fold decision by the White House,
Congress, and the USDA it is paramount
that this program be implemented no
later than May 20, 2021. In part due to
the critical need to deliver funding to
rural communities, and to ensure that
the information is collected for this new
information collection remains active
during the PRA approval process, USDA
has submitted a request to the OMB for
a short-term emergency approval, to
November 30, 2021.
On May 10, 2021 the Director,
Regulations Management Division
Innovation Center, Rural Development,
USDA signed a memorandum to the
Administrator of the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
OMB. The memorandum included a
request for an emergency approval,
explained USDA’s justification for this
approval, and was electronically
submitted to OMB on May 11, 2021.
Levi S. Harrell,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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Notice of Public Meeting of the South
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SUMMARY
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Federal Advisory Committee Act that
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the meeting is to for the Committee to
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David Mussatt,
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U.S. 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
AGENCY
: Census Bureau, Commerce.
ACTION
: Notice of information collection,
request for comment.
SUMMARY
: The Department of
Commerce, in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of
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1995, 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 on the proposed revision of
the Boundary and Annexation Survey,
prior to the submission of the
information collection request (ICR) to
OMB for approval.
DATES
: To ensure consideration,
comments regarding this proposed
information collection must be received
on or before July 19, 2021.
ADDRESSES
: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments by
email to robin.a.pennington@
census.gov. Please reference ‘‘Boundary
and Annexation Survey’’ in the subject
line of your comments. You may also
submit comments, identified by Docket
Number USBC–2021–0012, to the
Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. All comments
received are part of the public record.
No comments will be posted to http://
www.regulations.gov for public viewing
until after the comment period has
closed. Comments will generally be
posted without change. All Personally
Identifiable Information (for example,
name and address) voluntarily
submitted by the commenter may be
publicly accessible. Do not submit
Confidential Business Information or
otherwise sensitive or protected
information. You may submit
attachments to electronic comments in
Microsoft Word, Excel, or Adobe PDF
file formats.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
:
Requests for additional information or
specific questions related to collection
activities should be directed to Michael
Clements, Geography Division, Spatial
Data Collection and Products Branch, at
301–763–9124 or michael.j.clements@
census.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
:
I. Abstract
The U.S. Census Bureau conducts
many voluntary geographic programs
designed to collect addresses,
boundaries, and linear features for
incorporation into Master Address File
and Topologically Integrated
Geographic Encoding and Reference
(MAF/TIGER) System. The Boundary
and Annexation Survey (BAS) is one of
these programs. It provides tribal, state,
and 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. BAS also allows
participants to review and provide
updates to Census Designated Places
(CDPs). BAS fulfills the agency’s
responsibility as part of the National
Spatial Data Infrastructure, for which
the Office of Management and Budget
(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. BAS supports the spatial
data steward responsibilities of the
OMB E-Gov, Data.gov, the National
Map, and Geographic Names
Information System.
The Census Bureau uses the
boundaries collected in BAS to tabulate
data for various censuses and surveys
including the decennial census,
American Community Survey (ACS),
and Population Estimates Program
(PEP). It also uses the legal boundaries
collected through BAS to support
several other programs such as
Congressional and State Legislative
redistricting, the Economic Census, the
Geographic Update Population
Certification Program, and the Special
Census program.
Numerous federal programs also rely
on accurate boundaries collected
through BAS. The U.S. Geological
Survey’s National Map is updated
annually to depict the legal boundaries
provided by BAS. The Department of
Housing and Urban Development uses
legal boundaries to determine
jurisdictional eligibility for various
grant programs, such as the Community
Development Block Grant program. In
addition, the Department of Agriculture
uses legal boundaries to determine
eligibility for various rural housing and
economic development programs.
The BAS participation process is like
the Census Bureau’s other geographic
programs with key differences in the
participants, requirements, and
timeframe of the program. BAS follows
the process outlined below:
The Census Bureau notifies all
eligible tribal, state, and local
governments that the program has
started. BAS participants receive
notification through email and mail.
Tribal, state, and local governments
are instructed to review the legal
boundary, name, and status information,
along with the contact information the
Census Bureau has on file for their
government. Eligible governments can
review their boundaries using the
Census Bureau’s TIGERweb online
Geographic Information System (GIS)
viewer, partnership shapefiles, or PDF
maps.
Eligible governments respond if
they have legal boundary, CDP, or
contact updates to report through an
online form, email, fax, or mail.
Participants with boundary updates can
choose to report updates using the
Census Bureau’s Geographic Update
Partnership Software (GUPS), their own
GIS, or on paper maps. Participants
choose to receive the materials through
download, by mail on CD/DVD, or on
large format paper maps.
Tribal, state, and local governments
return updates to the Census Bureau.
Paper map updates are returned through
the mail, while updates created using
GUPS or participant’s own GIS are
returned through the Census Bureau’s
Secure Web Incoming Module (SWIM)
file transfer module.
The Census Bureau processes and
verifies all tribal, state, and local
government boundary updates for
accuracy and completeness. The
updates are incorporated into the
Census Bureau’s database and quality
control is performed.
The Census Bureau uses the
updated boundaries to tabulate data for
various censuses and surveys, including
the decennial census, ACS, and PEP.
Legal Information
The Census Bureau reviews and
maintains a list of each state’s legal
boundary laws and statutes. This
information is made available to tribal,
state, and local government participants
on the BAS website. In addition, the
Census Bureau uses this information to
verify that updates provided by program
participants are made in accordance
with state law.
If it comes to the Census Bureau’s
attention that an area of non-tribal land
is in dispute between two or more
jurisdictions, the Census Bureau will
not make annexations or boundary
corrections until all affected parties
come to a written agreement, or there is
a documented final court decision
regarding the matter and/or dispute.
If there is a dispute over an area of
tribal land, the Census Bureau will not
make boundary updates until the
participants provide supporting
documents or the U.S. Department of
the Interior issues a comment. If
necessary, the Census Bureau will
request clarification regarding current
boundaries or supporting
documentation, from the U.S.
Department of the Interior, Office of the
Solicitor.
BAS Universe
BAS includes approximately 40,000
tribal, state, and local governments.
Annually, the following government
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types are invited to participate in the
program:
Federally recognized tribes with a
reservation or off-reservation trust land
(including tribal subdivisions).
States.
Counties and county equivalent
governments.
Incorporated Places (including
Consolidated Cities).
Minor Civil Divisions.
A single respondent for the
Hawaiian home land boundary and
status information.
A single respondent for the
municipio, barrio, barrio-pueblo, and
subbarrio boundary and status
information in Puerto Rico.
The Census Bureau also established
state and county-level partnership
agreements where either the state or
county responds on behalf of the local
governments within its jurisdiction.
Local governments within these
agreements are notified of the BAS
program, however, do not receive
materials or provide boundary updates
directly. Those governments are
instructed to work with their state or
county BAS contact to provide the
updates to the Census Bureau.
II. Method of Collection
The Census Bureau collects legal
boundary, CDP, and contact updates
through the BAS program. The BAS
program also works with tribal, state,
and local governments on other efforts
to update and maintain the quality of
the legal boundary data. The following
collection methods allow the Census
Bureau to coordinate among various
levels of governments to obtain the most
accurate legal boundary, CDP, and
contact information:
BAS
ÆAnnual Response
ÆSubmissions—Digital and Paper
ÆNon-Response Follow-Up
ÆState Agreements
ÆConsolidated BAS (CBAS)
Agreements
State Certification
Boundary Quality
BAS
The Census Bureau collects legal
boundary, CDP, and contact updates
from tribal, state, and local governments
during BAS. Governments are first
contacted during annual response where
they are asked if they have legal
boundary, CDP, or contact updates to
report. Those indicating they have
updates to provide can choose to create
a submission using an approved
response method. Those governments
that do not respond to annual response
or those governments that indicate they
have updates to provide are followed up
with during BAS non-response follow-
up. The BAS schedule is outlined
below.
January 1—Boundary updates must
be legally in effect on or before this date
to be reported in the current survey
year.
January to May—Tribal, state, and
local governments respond during
annual response or non-response
follow-up indicating if they have legal
boundary, CDP, or contact updates to
report. Those with boundary updates to
report download or request materials to
create a submission to return to the
Census Bureau.
Early January—The Census Bureau
sends the annual response email. Tribal,
state, and local governments are
contacted through email to determine if
they have legal boundary, CDP, or
contact updates to report.
Late January—The Census Bureau
sends the annual response letter. Tribal,
state, and local governments that do not
have an email address on file with the
Census Bureau or did not respond to the
annual response email are contacted
through mail to determine if they have
legal boundary, CDP, or contact updates
to report.
Mid-February—The Census Bureau
conducts BAS non-response follow-up
through email. Governments that have
not responded to annual response, along
with those that indicated they have
boundary changes to report, are
contacted through email.
March 1—Boundary updates
returned by this date will be reflected in
the ACS and PEP data and in next year’s
BAS materials.
March to May—The Census Bureau
conducts BAS non-response telephone
follow-up. Governments that did not
respond to the annual response email,
letter, and non-response email are
contacted over the phone to determine
if they have any legal boundary, CDP, or
contact updates to report.
May 31—Boundary updates
returned by this date will be reflected in
next year’s BAS materials.
BAS—Annual Response
The Census Bureau first contacts
tribal, state, and local governments
during annual response. During this
phase, the Census Bureau contacts all
eligible governments through email and
mail. The BAS annual response email
includes program information and
directs governments to respond through
an online form if they have legal
boundary, CDP, or contact updates to
report. Only those governments that do
not have an email address on file with
the Census Bureau or did not respond
to the annual response email are
contacted through mail. The mailed
package consists of a letter, one-page
response form, and program flyer.
Through annual response,
participants are instructed to review the
legal boundary, name, and status
information, along the contact
information that the Census Bureau has
on file for their government. BAS
participants are also able to review CDP
boundaries. Eligible governments can
review their boundaries using the
Census Bureau’s TIGERweb online GIS
viewer, partnership shapefiles, or PDF
maps.
Participants respond if they have legal
boundary, CDP, or contact updates to
report through an online form, email,
fax, or mail. Those indicating they have
updates to provide can choose to create
a submission using the Census Bureau’s
GUPS tool, their own GIS, or on paper
maps. Participants can request to
receive the materials to create their
submission through download, by mail
on CD/DVD or on large format paper
maps.
The Census Bureau uses email and
encourages participants to use the
online form to respond to annual
response to reduce cost and participant
burden.
BAS—Submissions
Tribal, state, and local governments
with boundary updates can choose to
create a submission using either digital
or paper response methods during
annual response. The data provided to
the partners, by the Census Bureau, are
derived from its MAF/TIGER database.
The boundary data reflects updates
reported by partners through the prior
year’s BAS.
BAS—Digital Submission Methods
The Census Bureau offers participants
two digital submission methods.
Governments with boundary updates
can create a submission using the GUPS
tool or their own GIS. When completing
annual response, participants select one
of the following options:
CD/DVD. Participants can choose to
receive GUPS and the partnership
shapefiles through mail on CD/DVD.
Download. Participants can choose
to download GUPS and partnership
shapefiles, or partnership shapefiles
only to use in their own GIS. The
Census Bureau also offers a partnership
toolbox that can be used in the partner’s
own GIS.
Those partners that elect to receive
digital materials on CD/DVD will
receive a package through the mail
containing the following materials:
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Letter.
State specific inserts.
Form specific to the government
type.
ÆBAS–1—Incorporated places and
consolidated cities.
ÆBAS–2—Counties and county
equivalent governments.
ÆBAS–3—Minor civil divisions.
ÆBAS–5—Federally recognized tribal
reservations and off-reservation trust
lands.
CD or DVD containing GUPS tool.
CD or DVD containing partnership
shapefiles, respondent guides, and a
readme text file.
Governments that elect to download
materials can find the software,
partnership shapefiles, respondent
guides, and other information included
in the letter and form on the BAS
website.
Tribal, state, and local governments
use GUPS or their own GIS to create a
submission with legal boundaries
updates, and optionally, CDPs, linear
features and landmarks updates.
Partners return these updates
electronically using the Census Bureau’s
SWIM file transfer module.
Governments selecting one of the digital
response methods during annual
response will receive SWIM access
information through email.
BAS—Paper Submission Method
The Census Bureau also provides
partners a paper map option to create a
submission with legal boundary, CDP,
linear feature, and landmark updates.
When completing annual response,
partners select the following option:
Paper maps. Participants can
choose to receive large format paper
maps through mail.
Those partners that elect to receive
paper maps will receive a package
through the mail containing the
following materials:
Letter.
State specific inserts.
Form specific to the government
type.
ÆBAS–1—Incorporated places and
consolidated cities.
ÆBAS–2—Counties and county
equivalent governments.
ÆBAS–3—Minor civil divisions.
ÆBAS–5—Federally recognized tribal
reservations and off-reservation trust
lands.
Large format paper maps covering
the extent of the government.
Supplies to update the paper maps.
Respondent guide.
Postage-paid return envelope.
Tribal, state, and local governments
use the provided supplies to annotate
legal boundaries updates, and
optionally, CDPs, linear features and
landmarks updates on paper maps.
Partners return these updates using the
Census Bureau provided postage-paid
return envelope.
BAS—Non-Response Follow-Up
Tribal, state, and local governments
that do not respond to annual response
or those governments that indicate they
have updates to provide are followed up
with during BAS non-response follow-
up. Non-response follow-up is
conducted through email and over the
phone.
Governments that have not responded
to annual response, along with those
that indicated they have boundary
changes to report, are first contacted
through email. The email reminds
participants to respond through an
online form if they have legal boundary,
CDP, or contact updates to report. Those
governments that indicated they have
boundary updates to report are
requested to submit those updates to the
Census Bureau by the BAS program
deadline.
Partners that still have not responded
are contacted by phone later in the
program cycle. Governments are
requested to provide a response over the
phone on whether they have legal
boundary, CDP, or contact updates to
report. Again, those governments that
indicated they have boundary updates
to report are reminded to submit those
updates to the Census Bureau by the
program deadline.
State Agreements
BAS state agreements allow for the
coordination and sharing of information
and resources between the Census
Bureau and state governments in
collecting boundary information for
local governments. Through this
agreement with state governments, the
Census Bureau aims to reduce the
duplication of effort across various
levels of governments as well as the cost
and time burden associated with
participating in BAS. To facilitate a state
agreement, the Census Bureau may enter
a Memorandum of Understanding
(MOU) with the state. States interested
in establishing a state agreement MOU
can do so when there is state legislation
requiring local governments to report all
legal boundary updates to a state
agency.
The Census Bureau currently
maintains two types of state agreements.
In the first type of agreement, the state
reports boundary changes for all local
governments within its jurisdiction
during BAS. Local governments in this
type of agreement are notified about
BAS, however, do not receive materials
to participate, and are instructed to
report all boundary updates to the state
so that they are reported to the Census
Bureau. Under the second type of
agreement, the state provides the Census
Bureau with a list of local governments
that reported boundary changes. The
Census Bureau uses the list to target
those local governments during BAS.
States have the option to report the list
of governments with known legal
boundary changes to the Census Bureau.
Consolidated BAS (CBAS) Agreements
The Census Bureau offers CBAS
agreements to counties or county
equivalent governments that are
interested in submitting boundary
updates for legal governments within
their jurisdiction. CBAS agreements
help ensure collection of complete and
accurate boundary data, reduces
duplication of effort between local and
county governments and the Census
Bureau, and reduces the cost and time
burden on local governments. Once
entered into a CBAS agreement, local
governments are notified about BAS,
however, do not receive materials to
participate, and are instructed to report
all boundary updates to the county or
county equivalent government so that
they are reported to the Census Bureau.
State Certification
The state certification program
provides an annual opportunity for state
agencies to verify that the legal
boundary, name, and status information
received through BAS updates were
reported in accordance with state law.
The Census Bureau requests that each
state governor designate a state
certifying official (SCO) to participate in
the program. The SCO reviews listings
of legal boundary changes, as well as
government names and statuses that
were submitted through the previous
year’s BAS. These listings include the
attribute information for new
incorporations, dissolutions, mergers,
consolidations, and legal boundary
changes. The listings also include the
names and functional statuses of all
local governments within the state’s
jurisdiction. The SCO can request that
the Census Bureau edit the attribute
data, add missing records, or remove
invalid records. Invalid records only are
removed if the state government
maintains an official record of all
changes to legal boundaries and
governments as mandated by state law.
The state certification schedule is as
follows:
October—The Census Bureau sends
out governor’s letters requesting the
state appoint an SCO to participate in
the program.
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December—The Census Bureau
distributes the SCO emails. The SCO
email contains information required by
the SCO to participate in the program.
March—The Census Bureau
distributes discrepancy emails to local
governments based on feedback from
the SCO.
The state certification materials
include a governor’s letter, an email to
the SCO, respondent guide, legal
boundary change and government name
and status listings, and discrepancy
email to local governments. The listings
and respondent guide are provided on
the BAS website. The SCO returns all
updates electronically through the
SWIM file transfer module.
Boundary Quality
The Boundary Quality project is
designed to assess, analyze, and
improve the spatial quality of legal,
statistical, and administrative
boundaries within the Census Bureau’s
MAF/TIGER System. Ensuring quality
boundaries is a critical component of
the geographic preparations for each
decennial census and the Census
Bureau’s ongoing geographic programs.
In addition, the improvement of
boundary quality is an essential element
of the Census Bureau’s commitment as
the responsible agency for legal
boundaries under OMB Circular A–16.
The Boundary Quality project
represents an effort to systematically
target and assess boundary quality
within the Census Bureau’s MAF/TIGER
System. Historically, it has relied
exclusively on geographic programs
such as BAS and the Participant
Statistical Areas Program (PSAP) to
obtain updates to tribal, state, local
government, and CDP boundaries.
While programs like BAS play an
essential role in improving boundary
quality, the goal of boundary quality
activities is to establish a more accurate
baseline for legal boundaries and CDPs
within an entire state or county. BAS
would build on this baseline by
collecting individual legal boundary
changes and optionally associated
addresses, and CDP updates, on a
transaction basis as they occur over the
years.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0607–0151.
Form Number(s): BAS–1, BAS–2,
BAS–3, BAS–5, BAS–ARF.
Type of Review: Regular submission,
Request for a Revision of a Currently
Approved Collection.
Affected Public: Tribal, state, and
local governments in all fifty states and
District of Columbia.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
40,000 governments.
Estimated Time per Response: 7.5
hours. This estimate is based on an
average of 5 hours for a no change
participant and 10 hours for a
participant with changes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 300,000.
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: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Title 13, U.S.C.,
Section 6.
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
cost burden for this proposed collection,
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.
[FR Doc. 2021–10369 Filed 5–17–21; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau
National Advisory Committee
AGENCY
: Bureau of the Census,
Department of Commerce.
ACTION
: Notice of public virtual meeting.
SUMMARY
: The Bureau of the Census
(Census Bureau) is giving notice of a
virtual meeting of the National Advisory
Committee (NAC). The Committee will
address ongoing outreach efforts needed
to assist with the designing of a
differential privacy suite for the 2020
Census data products that will meet
programmatic, legal, and statistical
requirements, including work on both
the primary and secondary disclosure
avoidance systems. The Committee will
also finalize its recommendations from
the Spring NAC meeting. 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 NAC
meeting information, including the
agenda, and how to join the meeting.
DATES
: The virtual meeting will be held
on:
Thursday, May 27, 2021, from 2:30
p.m. to 6:00 p.m. EDT
ADDRESSES
: The meeting will be held
via the WebEx platform at the following
presentation link: https://
uscensus.webex.com/uscensus/onstage/
g.php?MTID=e86fe2b4e09472f245694
a495a18d5542.
For audio, please call the following
number: 888–324–9613. When
prompted, please use the following
Password: Census#1, and Passcode:
6877091#.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
:
Shana Banks, Advisory Committee
Branch Chief, Office of Program,
Performance and Stakeholder
Integration (PPSI), shana.j.banks@
census.gov, Department of Commerce,
U.S. Census Bureau, telephone 301–
763–3815. For TTY callers, please use
the Federal Relay Service at 1–800–877–
8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
: The NAC
provides scientific and technical
expertise to address Census Bureau
program needs and objectives. The
members of the NAC are appointed by
the Director of the Census Bureau. The
NAC has been established in accordance
with the Federal Advisory Committee
Act (Title 5, United States Code,
Appendix 2, Section 10).
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