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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
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November 28, 2007.
The Department of Agriculture has
submitted the following information
collection requirement(s) to OMB for
review and clearance under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
Public Law 104–13. Comments
regarding (a) whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
of burden including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility and
clarity of the information to be
collected; (d) ways to 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 should be addressed to: Desk
Officer for Agriculture, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB),
OIRA_Submission@OMB.EOP.GOV or
fax (202) 395–5806 and to Departmental
Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail
Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250–
7602. Comments regarding these
information collections are best assured
of having their full effect if received
within 30 days of this notification.
Copies of the submission(s) may be
obtained by calling (202) 720–8958.
An agency may not conduct or
sponsor a collection of information
unless the collection of information
displays a currently valid OMB control
number and the agency informs
potential persons who are to respond to
the collection of information that such
persons are not required to respond to
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the collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
Food and Nutrition Service
Title: Issuance Reconciliation Report.
OMB Control Number: 0584–0080.
Summary of Collection: The Food
Stamp Act of 1977 (the Act) at Section
7(d) requires State agencies to report on
their Food Stamp Program issuance
operations not less than monthly,
through a reconciliation process. The
Food and Nutrition Service (FNS),
administers the Food Stamp Program in
cooperation with State and local
governments. States are held liable to
USDA for any financial losses involved
in the issuance of food stamp benefits.
Need and Use of the Information: FNS
uses form FNS–46 form, Issuance
Reconciliation Report, to ensure that
State agencies are responsible for
preventing losses or shortages of Federal
funds in the issuance of benefits. The
FNS–46 report is a program
management report which is used on an
ongoing basis to document the
reconciliation process by which State
agencies compare all issuances made
during the month to the record for
issuance.
Description of Respondents: State,
Local, or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 54.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
Monthly.
Total Burden Hours: 5,184.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Proposed Data Sharing Activity
Bureau of Economic Analysis,
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice and request for public
comment.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Bureau of Economic
Analysis (BEA) proposes to provide to
the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data
collected from several surveys that it
conducts on U.S. direct investment
abroad, foreign direct investment in the
United States, and U.S. international
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services transactions for statistical
purposes exclusively. In accordance
with the requirement of Section 524(d)
of the Confidential Information
Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act
of 2002 (CIPSEA), we are providing the
opportunity for public comment on this
data-sharing action.
The data provided to BLS will be used
for two purposes:
(1) The BLS International Price
Program is researching the feasibility of
producing price indexes for imports and
exports of services, such as financial
services, film and tape rentals, and
royalties and license fees. BLS will use
data from BEA surveys to develop
sample frames of companies that trade
these services and to directly collect
price information from the selected
companies. BLS will also use BEA data
as weighting sources for the price
indexes. Should it prove feasible to
produce price indexes for international
services, BEA will share data collected
in its direct investment and
international services surveys with BLS
each time BLS draws a new sample and
reweights the indexes. BLS will share
sample frame and revenue information
that it collects with BEA, which will
allow BEA to identify errors or
omissions in the data collected on its
surveys. This data sharing effort will
improve the quality of price indexes for
imported and exported services that
BEA uses in compiling the National
Income and Product Accounts.
(2) The BLS Division of Foreign Labor
Statistics will use BEA data collected on
employment, compensation, and (as
available) hours worked at the foreign
affiliates of U.S. multinational
companies to estimate their hourly
compensation costs for research
comparing the levels and trends of
hourly compensation costs of foreign
affiliates with the average costs for
establishments in the same industries
and same host countries as the affiliates.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted on or before February 4, 2008.
ADDRESSES: Please direct all written
comments on this proposed program to
the Director, Bureau of Economic
Analysis (BE–1), Washington, DC 20230.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information on
this proposed program should be
directed to Maria Borga, Bureau of
Economic Analysis (BE–50),
Washington, DC 20230, by phone on
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establishments in the same industries
and same host countries as the foreign
affiliates.
Background
CIPSEA (Pub. L. 107–347, Title V) and
the International Investment and Trade
in Services Survey Act (Pub. L. 94–472,
22 United States Code (U.S.C.) 3101–
3108) allow BEA and BLS to share
certain business data for exclusively
statistical purposes. Section 524(d) of
the CIPSEA requires a Federal Register
notice announcing the intent to share
data (allowing 60 days for public
comment), since BEA respondents were
required by law to report the data.
Section 524(d) also requires us to
provide information about the terms of
the agreement for data sharing. For
purposes of this notice, BEA has
decided to group these terms by three
categories.
The categories are:
• Shared data.
• Statistical purposes for the shared
data.
• Data access and confidentiality.
Title 22, U.S.C. 3104 protects the
confidentiality of the data to be
provided by BEA to BLS. The data may
be seen only by persons sworn to
uphold the confidentiality of the
information. Access to the shared data
will be restricted to specifically
authorized personnel and will be
provided for statistical purposes only.
Any results of this research are subject
to BEA disclosure protection. All BLS
employees with access to these data will
become BEA Special Sworn
Employees—meaning that they, under
penalty of law, must uphold the data’s
confidentiality.
Shared Data
BEA proposes to provide BLS with
data from its surveys of U.S. direct
investment abroad, foreign direct
investment in the United States, and
U.S. international services transactions.
BLS will use these data for statistical
purposes exclusively.
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(202) 606–9853, via the Internet at
Maria.Borga@bea.gov, or by fax on (202)
606–5318.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
International Trade Administration
Statistical Purposes for the Shared Data
Data collected in BEA’s surveys of
direct investment are used to develop
estimates of the financing and
operations of U.S. parent companies,
their foreign affiliates, and U.S. affiliates
of foreign companies, and estimates of
transactions between parents and
affiliates. Data collected in BEA’s
surveys of U.S. international services
transactions are used to develop
estimates of services transactions
between U.S. persons (in a broad legal
sense, including companies) and foreign
persons. These estimates are published
in the Survey of Current Business, BEA’s
monthly journal; in other BEA
publications; and on BEA’s Web site at
https://www.bea.gov/. All data are
collected under sections 3101–3108, of
Title 22, U.S.C.
The shared data will be used for
several exclusively statistical purposes
by both agencies, such as the production
of price indexes for imported and
exported services and the making of
international comparisons between the
hourly compensation costs at the foreign
affiliates of U.S. multinational
companies and the average costs for
Import Administration,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On September 12, 2007, the
Department of Commerce published the
preliminary results of an administrative
review of the antidumping duty order
on stainless steel wire rods from India
and a notice of intent to rescind the
antidumping duty administrative review
in part. The administrative review
currently covers one manufacturer/
exporter, Mukand Ltd., and the review
period is December 1, 2005, through
November 30, 2006. We stated our
intent to rescind the review with respect
to the manufacturer/exporter Sunflag
Iron & Steel Co., Ltd., in our preliminary
results.We have received no comments
from interested parties on our
preliminary results. We have made no
changes to our calculations for the final
results of review and, accordingly, have
found that Mukand Ltd. made sales at
less than normal value in the U.S.
market. The final weighted–average
dumping margin for this company is
listed below in the section entitled
‘‘Final Results of the Review.’’ In
addition, we have rescinded the
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J. Steven Landefeld,
Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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Stainless Steel Wire Rods from India:
Final Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review and Notice of
Rescission of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review in Part
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administrative review of sales of
stainless steel wire rods made by
Sunflag Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.
EFFECTIVE DATE: (December 4, 2007.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Edythe Artman, AD/CVD Enforcement,
Office 5, Import Administration,
International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC 20230, telephone: (202)
482–3931.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On September 12, 2007, the
Department of Commerce (the
Department) published the preliminary
results of the administrative review of
the antidumping duty order on stainless
steel wire rods from India and a notice
of intent to rescind the antidumping
duty administrative review in part. See
Stainless Steel Wire Rods from India:
Preliminary Results of Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review and Notice
of Intent to Rescind Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review in Part, 72 FR
52079 (September 12, 2007). We invited
interested parties to comment on the
preliminary results but received no
comments from the parties.
Rescission of Review in Part
In the preliminary results of review,
we stated our intent to rescind the
administrative review with respect to
sales of stainless steel wire rods (wire
rods) made by Sunflag Iron & Steel Co.,
Ltd. (Sunflag), during the period of
review because we had initiated a new–
shipper review of these sales. See
Stainless Steel Wire Rod from India:
Notice of Initiation of Antidumping
Duty New–Shipper Review, 72 FR 13088
(March 20, 2007). We thus preliminarily
determined that it was appropriate to
rescind the administrative review with
respect to Sunflag pursuant to 19 CFR
351.214(j), which permits a rescission
when there are multiple reviews of the
sales of a company.
We received no comments from
interested parties concerning our intent
to rescind. Because Sunflag’s sales are
subject to a new–shipper review, we are
rescinding the administrative review
with respect to Sunflag pursuant to 19
CFR 351.214(j).
Scope of the Order
The merchandise under review is
wire rods, which are hot–rolled or hot–
rolled annealed and/or pickled rounds,
squares, octagons, hexagons or other
shapes, in coils. Wire rods are made of
alloy steels containing, by weight, 1.2
percent or less of carbon and 10.5
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[FR Doc No: E7-23506]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Proposed Data Sharing Activity
AGENCY: Bureau of Economic Analysis, Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice and request for public comment.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) proposes to provide to
the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data collected from several
surveys that it conducts on U.S. direct investment abroad, foreign
direct investment in the United States, and U.S. international services
transactions for statistical purposes exclusively. In accordance with
the requirement of Section 524(d) of the Confidential Information
Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002 (CIPSEA), we are
providing the opportunity for public comment on this data-sharing
action.
The data provided to BLS will be used for two purposes:
(1) The BLS International Price Program is researching the
feasibility of producing price indexes for imports and exports of
services, such as financial services, film and tape rentals, and
royalties and license fees. BLS will use data from BEA surveys to
develop sample frames of companies that trade these services and to
directly collect price information from the selected companies. BLS
will also use BEA data as weighting sources for the price indexes.
Should it prove feasible to produce price indexes for international
services, BEA will share data collected in its direct investment and
international services surveys with BLS each time BLS draws a new
sample and reweights the indexes. BLS will share sample frame and
revenue information that it collects with BEA, which will allow BEA to
identify errors or omissions in the data collected on its surveys. This
data sharing effort will improve the quality of price indexes for
imported and exported services that BEA uses in compiling the National
Income and Product Accounts.
(2) The BLS Division of Foreign Labor Statistics will use BEA data
collected on employment, compensation, and (as available) hours worked
at the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational companies to estimate
their hourly compensation costs for research comparing the levels and
trends of hourly compensation costs of foreign affiliates with the
average costs for establishments in the same industries and same host
countries as the affiliates.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted on or before February 4,
2008.
ADDRESSES: Please direct all written comments on this proposed program
to the Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis (BE-1), Washington, DC
20230.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information on
this proposed program should be directed to Maria Borga, Bureau of
Economic Analysis (BE-50), Washington, DC 20230, by phone on
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(202) 606-9853, via the Internet at Maria.Borga@bea.gov, or by fax on
(202) 606-5318.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
CIPSEA (Pub. L. 107-347, Title V) and the International Investment
and Trade in Services Survey Act (Pub. L. 94-472, 22 United States Code
(U.S.C.) 3101-3108) allow BEA and BLS to share certain business data
for exclusively statistical purposes. Section 524(d) of the CIPSEA
requires a Federal Register notice announcing the intent to share data
(allowing 60 days for public comment), since BEA respondents were
required by law to report the data. Section 524(d) also requires us to
provide information about the terms of the agreement for data sharing.
For purposes of this notice, BEA has decided to group these terms by
three categories.
The categories are:
Shared data.
Statistical purposes for the shared data.
Data access and confidentiality.
Shared Data
BEA proposes to provide BLS with data from its surveys of U.S.
direct investment abroad, foreign direct investment in the United
States, and U.S. international services transactions. BLS will use
these data for statistical purposes exclusively.
Statistical Purposes for the Shared Data
Data collected in BEA's surveys of direct investment are used to
develop estimates of the financing and operations of U.S. parent
companies, their foreign affiliates, and U.S. affiliates of foreign
companies, and estimates of transactions between parents and
affiliates. Data collected in BEA's surveys of U.S. international
services transactions are used to develop estimates of services
transactions between U.S. persons (in a broad legal sense, including
companies) and foreign persons. These estimates are published in the
Survey of Current Business, BEA's monthly journal; in other BEA
publications; and on BEA's Web site at https://www.bea.gov/. All data
are collected under sections 3101-3108, of Title 22, U.S.C.
The shared data will be used for several exclusively statistical
purposes by both agencies, such as the production of price indexes for
imported and exported services and the making of international
comparisons between the hourly compensation costs at the foreign
affiliates of U.S. multinational companies and the average costs for
establishments in the same industries and same host countries as the
foreign affiliates.
Data Access and Confidentiality
Title 22, U.S.C. 3104 protects the confidentiality of the data to
be provided by BEA to BLS. The data may be seen only by persons sworn
to uphold the confidentiality of the information. Access to the shared
data will be restricted to specifically authorized personnel and will
be provided for statistical purposes only. Any results of this research
are subject to BEA disclosure protection. All BLS employees with access
to these data will become BEA Special Sworn Employees--meaning that
they, under penalty of law, must uphold the data's confidentiality.
J. Steven Landefeld,
Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis.
[FR Doc. E7-23506 Filed 12-3-07; 8:45 am]
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