Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey Publication: Federal Register Signing Official: Sheleen Dumas Department: Department of Commerce Date: 22 June 2022

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 119 (Wednesday, June 22, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37306-37307]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-13305]


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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; Vehicle Inventory and Use 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 April 15, 2022, during a 60-day comment period. 
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
    Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Commerce.
    Title: Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-0892.
    Form Number(s): TC-9501, TC-9502.
    Type of Request: Regular submission, Request for a Revision of a 
Currently Approved Collection.
    Number of Respondents: 150,000.
    Average Hours per Response: 65 minutes.
    Burden Hours: 162,500.
    Needs and Uses: The 2021 VIUS collects data to measure the physical 
and operational characteristics of trucks from a sample of 
approximately 150,000 trucks. These trucks are selected from more than 
190 million private and commercial trucks registered with motor vehicle 
departments in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The Census 
Bureau is collecting the data for the sampled trucks from the 
registered truck owners.
    The VIUS is the only comprehensive source of information on the 
physical and operational characteristics of the Nation's truck 
population. The VIUS provides unique, essential information for 
government, business, and academia. The U.S. Department of 
Transportation, State Departments of Transportation, and transportation 
consultants compliment VIUS microdata as extremely useful and flexible 
to meet constantly changing requests that cannot be met with 
predetermined tabular publications. The planned microdata file will 
enable them to cross-tabulate data to meet their needs.
    This revision is being submitted to correct the legal citations 
related to the collection authority for the Vehicle Inventory and Use 
Survey (VIUS). We initially received clearance to add the corrected 
citation using the emergency clearance process, which was approved 
separately. The emergency clearance was necessary because we needed to 
implement the change immediately during data collection for the survey. 
This revision is to now add Title 13 U.S.C., Section 221 to the 
collection authority under the original clearance and to allow a full 
review at OMB.

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    Affected Public: Individuals or households; Business or other for-
profit organizations.
    Frequency: One time.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    Legal Authority: The VIUS will be collected under the authority of 
Title 13 U.S.C. 131 and 182, which authorize the collection, and 
Sections 221, 224 and 225, which make the collection mandatory for all 
respondents.
    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 0607-0892.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2022-13305 Filed 6-21-22; 8:45 am]
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