Information Collection Activities, Comment Request
| Published date | 11 February 2021 |
| Citation | 86 FR 9086 |
| Record Number | 2021-02808 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | Labor Department,Labor Statistics Bureau |
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sign appropriate nondisclosure
agreements. All nonconfidential written
submissions will be available for public
inspection on EDIS.
This action is taken under the
authority of section 337 of the Tariff Act
of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1337),
and in Part 210 of the Commission’s
Rules of Practice and Procedure (19 CFR
part 210).
By order of the Commission.
Issued: February 5, 2021.
Lisa Barton,
Secretary to the Commission.
[FR Doc. 2021–02800 Filed 2–10–21; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 7020–02–P
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Information Collection Activities,
Comment Request
AGENCY
: Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Department of Labor.
ACTION
: Notice of information collection,
request for comment.
SUMMARY
: The Department of Labor, as
part of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden,
conducts a pre-clearance consultation
program to provide the general public
and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or continuing collections of
information in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This
program helps to ensure that requested
data can be provided in the desired
format, reporting burden (time and
financial resources) is minimized,
collection instruments are clearly
understood, and the impact of collection
requirements on respondents can be
properly assessed. The Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS) is soliciting comments
concerning the proposed revision of the
‘‘The Consumer Expenditure Surveys:
The Quarterly Interview and the Diary.’’
A copy of the proposed information
collection request can be obtained by
contacting the individual listed below
in the
ADDRESSES
section of this notice.
DATES
: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
Addresses section of this notice on or
before April 12, 2021.
ADDRESSES
: Send comments to Nora
Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer,
Division of Management Systems,
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Room 4080,
2 Massachusetts Avenue NE,
Washington, DC 20212. Written
comments also may be transmitted by
email to BLS_PRA_Public@bls.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
:
Nora Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer, at
202–691–7628 (this is not a toll free
number). (See
ADDRESSES
section.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
:
I. Background
The Consumer Expenditure (CE)
Surveys collect data on consumer
expenditures, demographic information,
and related data needed by the
Consumer Price Index (CPI) and other
public and private data users. The
continuing surveys provide a constant
measurement of changes in consumer
expenditure patterns for economic
analysis and to obtain data for future
CPI revisions. The CE Surveys have
been ongoing since 1979.
The data from the CE Surveys are
used (1) for CPI revisions, (2) to provide
a continuous flow of data on income
and expenditure patterns for use in
economic analysis and policy
formulation, and (3) to provide a
flexible consumer survey vehicle that is
available for use by other Federal
government agencies. Public and private
users of price statistics, including
Congress and the economic
policymaking agencies of the Executive
branch, rely on data collected in the CPI
in their day-to-day activities. Hence,
data users and policymakers widely
accept the need to improve the process
used for revising the CPI. If the CE
Surveys were not conducted on a
continuing basis, current information
necessary for more timely, as well as
more accurate, updating of the CPI
would not be available. In addition, data
would not be available to respond to the
continuing demand from the public and
private sectors for current information
on consumer spending.
In the Quarterly Interview Survey,
each consumer unit (CU) in the sample
is interviewed every three months over
four calendar quarters. The sample for
each quarter is divided into three
panels, with CUs being interviewed
every three months in the same panel of
every quarter. The Quarterly Interview
Survey is designed to collect data on the
types of expenditures that respondents
can be expected to recall for a period of
three months or longer. In general the
expenses reported in the Interview
Survey are either relatively large, such
as property, automobiles, or major
appliances, or are expenses which occur
on a fairly regular basis, such as rent,
utility bills, or insurance premiums.
The Diary (or recordkeeping) Survey
is completed at home by the respondent
family for two consecutive one-week
periods. The primary objective of the
Diary Survey is to obtain expenditure
data on small, frequently purchased
items which normally are difficult to
recall over longer periods of time.
II. Current Action
Office of Management and Budget
approval is being sought for the
proposed revision of the Consumer
Expenditure Surveys: The Quarterly
Interview (CEQ) and the Diary (CED).
The purpose of this request is to
obtain clearance for modifications to the
Consumer Expenditure (CE) Surveys
and to test a self-administered Diary.
CE requests clearance to remove
several point of purchase questions from
the CEQ Computer Assisted Personal
Interview (CAPI) instrument that are no
longer needed by CPI and to add point
of purchase questions for gasoline on
trips including the name of the gas
station or store and the location (city
and state) where gasoline on a trip was
purchased.
CE is also seeking clearance to add a
‘consent request’ question to the CEQ.
The consent request question will ask
respondents for permission to record the
interview for quality control purposes.
This question will be added to test the
impact of the consent request question
on respondent behavior, as well as rates
of consent, and overall interview
duration. The question will be
administered to half of the CUs in their
fourth wave production interview
between October and December 2021.
Respondents in this test group will be
asked the consent request question.
However, no recordings of the interview
will actually take place. The results of
this Consent Request test will inform CE
regarding plans to incorporate Computer
Assisted Recording Instrument (CARI)
technology into CE for quality control
and research purposes.
CE is requesting clearance to test a
self-administered Diary. In lieu of the
production procedures for an in-person
interview in which FRs place the diaries
and train respondents on how to record
the household’s daily expenditures, the
Self-Administered Diary test will entail
Diary placement and collection of
sample unit, demographics, income, and
select expenditure data through the
Household Screener survey.
Additionally, instead of the CED paper
Diary, respondents will use the Online
Diary with slight modifications.
The purpose of the Self-Administered
Diary test is to determine the sampling
and measurement error by comparing
the sample composition of those that
complete an online diary to that of the
BLS CE diary production sample to
determine the differences in
representativeness for various
population subgroups. Additionally,
response and cooperation rates, as well
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as deviations in data quality will be
evaluated. The test will be administered
from October through December of
2021.
As part of the self-administered Diary
test, respondents will receive survey
points redeemable for cash,
merchandise, gift cards or game entries
worth the equivalent of $2 cash for
completing the Household
Characteristics Survey and survey
points redeemable for cash,
merchandise, gift cards or game entries
worth the equivalent of $50 cash for
successfully completing each day of the
fourteen-day diary period.
The Household Characteristics Survey
and Consumer Expenditure Online
Diary will be administered to a
nationally representative sample of
2,000 persons (age 18 and older), with
surveys conducted in English.
Weighting the entire population to U.S.
Census Bureau benchmarks secured
from the latest American Community
Survey (ACS) and the most recent
March supplement of the Current
Population Survey (CPS) along several
dimensions including gender, age, race/
Hispanic origin, education, Census
Region, income, home ownership status,
household size, and metropolitan area.
III. Desired Focus of Comments
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is
particularly interested in comments
that:
•Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility.
•Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used.
•Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected.
•Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submissions
of responses.
Activity Total
respondents Frequency Total
responses
Average time
per response
(minutes)
Total burden
(hours)
Quarterly .............................................................................. 4,925 4.48 22,064 60.89195 22,392
Diary ..................................................................................... 9,366 3.93 36,816 42.77542 26,247
14,291 58,880 48,639
Title of Collection: The Consumer
Expenditure Surveys: The Quarterly
Interview and the Diary.
OMB Number: 1220–0050.
Type of Review: Revision, of a
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Individuals or
Households.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget approval of the
information collection request; they also
will become a matter of public record.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 5th day of
February 2021.
Mark Staniorski,
Division Chief, Division of Management
Systems.
[FR Doc. 2021–02808 Filed 2–10–21; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4510–24–P
NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50–334; NRC–2021–0046]
Energy Harbor Nuclear Corp.; Beaver
Valley Power Station, Unit 1
AGENCY
: Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION
: License amendment application;
opportunity to comment, request a
hearing, and petition for leave to
intervene.
SUMMARY
: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is considering
issuance of an amendment to Renewed
Facility Operating License No. DPR–66,
issued to Energy Harbor Nuclear Corp.,
for operation of the Beaver Valley Power
Station, Unit 1. The proposed
amendment would revise Technical
Specification (TS) 5.5.5.1, ‘‘Unit 1 SG
[Steam Generator] Program,’’ paragraph
d.2 to defer the spring of 2021 refueling
outage (1R27) steam generator
inspections to the fall of 2022 refueling
outage (1R28).
DATES
: Submit comments by March 15,
2021. Requests for a hearing or petition
for leave to intervene must be filed by
April 12, 2021.
ADDRESSES
: You may submit comments
by any of the following methods;
however, the NRC encourages electronic
comment submission through the
Federal Rulemaking Website:
•Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2021–0046. Address
questions about Docket IDs in
Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 301–415–0624; email:
Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical
questions, contact the individual listed
in the
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT
section of this document.
•Mail comments to: Office of
Administration, Mail Stop: TWFN–7–
A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001, ATTN: Program Management,
Announcements and Editing Staff.
For additional direction on obtaining
information and submitting comments,
see ‘‘Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments’’ in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
section of
this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
:
Jennifer C. Tobin, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415–
2328, email: Jennifer.Tobin@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
:
I. Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2021–
0046 when contacting the NRC about
the availability of information for this
action. You may obtain publicly
available information related to this
action by any of the following methods:
•Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2021–0046.
•NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly
available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
adams.html. To begin the search, select
‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.’’ For
problems with ADAMS, please contact
the NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR)
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