2025-16381 NSSRN 30-Day FRN 8.27.25 Published

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Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 164 / Wednesday, August 27, 2025 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau

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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; National Sample Survey of
Registered Nurses
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 18,
2025 during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau,
Department of Commerce.
Title: National Sample Survey of
Registered Nurses.
OMB Control Number: 0607–1002.
Form Number(s): NSSRN (paper
questionnaire).
Type of Request: Regular submission,
reinstatement with changes request of a
previously approved collection.
Number of Respondents: 37,500
Registered Nurses (RNs) and 25,000
Nurse Practitioners (NPs) for a total of
62,500 respondents.
Average Hours per Response: 30
minutes.
Burden Hours: 31,250.
Needs and Uses: The National Sample
Survey of Registered Nurses (NSSRN),
which is sponsored by the National
Center for Health Workforce Analysis
(NCHWA) under the Health Resources
Services Administration (HRSA) at the
U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, is designed to obtain the
necessary data to determine the
characteristics and distribution of
registered nurses (RNs) throughout the
United States, as well as emerging
patterns in their employment
characteristics. These data will provide
the means for the evaluation and
assessment of the evolving
demographics, educational
qualifications, and career employment
patterns of RNs. Such data have become
particularly important to better
understand workforce issues given the
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population and the transformation of
the healthcare system.
The Census Bureau will request
survey participation from up to 125,000
RNs using one of two modes. The first
mode is a web instrument (Centurion)
survey. All letters mailed to respondents
will include a web link to complete the
survey. The second mode is a mailout/
mailback of a self-administered paperand-pencil interviewing (PAPI)
questionnaire. There will be one paper
questionnaire mailing. All respondents
will have access to a telephone
questionnaire assistance line where they
will be able to get login assistance,
language support, and complete the
interview with a Census Bureau
telephone interview agent.
For the 2026 cycle, the Census Bureau
is proposing a $5 unconditional
incentive for 90% of the sample with
the initial web invitation letter. The
goals of the monetary incentive are to:
(1) increase response, thus reducing
non-response bias, and (2) reduce costs
associated with follow-up mailings. The
unconditional monetary incentive will
be randomly assigned to 90% of the
sample prior to data collection. The
remaining 10% of the sample will not
receive a monetary incentive. The
incentive plan for 2026 is based on an
incentive experiment that was
conducted in the 2022 NSSRN cycle.
Based on the success of the experiment
in increasing response and lowering the
overall survey cost in the 2022 NSSRN,
this incentive strategy is being
implemented for the 2026 NSSRN.
To ensure that the 2026 NSSRN is
delivering timely and relevant data,
there are modifications to the
questionnaire which include removing
items, modifying existing items, and
adding new content for the 2026
NSSRN. Questions relating to the
coronavirus pandemic have been
removed, as have redundant and
unneeded open-ended response options.
Explanatory help text and new response
options have been added where needed.
Finally. additional questions related to
teaching/precepting nurses and nursing
burnout have been added for 2026 and
have undergone cognitive testing.
Affected Public: Nursing populations,
researchers, policy makers.
Frequency: The 2026 collection is the
third administration of the NSSRN. Data
collection is every four years.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Census Bureau
Authority: Title 13, United States Code
(U.S.C.), Section 8(b) (13 U.S.C. 8(b)).
HRSA Authority: Public Health
Service Act, 42 U.S.C. 294n(b)(2)(A) and
42 U.S.C. 295k(a)–(b).

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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 0607–1002.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Compliance 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; Certification of Identity (Form
BC–300)
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 June 9th,
2025, during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau,
Department of Commerce.
Title: Certification of Identity (Form
BC–300).
OMB Control Number: 0607–1018.
Form Number(s): Form BC–300.
Type of Request: Regular submission,
Request for an Extension Without
Change of a Currently Approved
Collection, as a Common Form.
Number of Respondents: 260 (threeyear annualized average).

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