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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will
submit to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for clearance the
following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
chapter 35).
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: Current Industrial Reports
Program.
OMB Control Number: 0607–0476.
Form Number(s): Various.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Burden Hours: 28,131.
Number of Respondents: 19,728.
Average Hours Per Response: 42
minutes.
Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census
Bureau conducts a series of monthly,
quarterly, and annual surveys as part of
the Current Industrial Reports (CIR)
Program. The CIR surveys request
primarily the quantity and value of
shipments of particular products and
occasionally data on production and
inventories; unfilled orders, receipts,
stocks, and consumption; and
comparative data on domestic
production, exports, and imports of the
products they cover.
Previously, the CIR surveys were
divided into three separate waves and
submitted separately for OMB review.
Due to the reduced number of surveys
in the CIR Program, the CIR surveys are
being combined into one wave. During
the economic census years, in the years
ending in 2 and 7 all voluntary annual
surveys are made mandatory.
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Primary users of these data are
government and regulatory agencies,
business firms, trade associations, and
private research and consulting
organizations. The Federal Reserve
Board (FRB) uses CIR data in its
monthly index of industrial production
as well as its annual revision to the
index. The Bureau of Economic
Analysis (BEA) and the Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS) use the CIR data in the
estimate of components of gross
domestic product (GDP) and the
estimate of output for productivity
analysis, respectively. Many
government agencies, such as the
Department of Agriculture, Food and
Drug Administration, Department of
Energy, Federal Aviation
Administration, BEA, and International
Trade Administration use the data for
industrial analysis, projections, and
monitoring import penetration. Private
business firms and organizations use the
data for trend projections, market
analysis, product planning, and other
economic and business-oriented
analysis. Since the CIR program is the
sole, consistent source of information
regarding specific manufactured
products in the intercensal years, the
absence thereof would severely hinder
the Federal Government’s ability to
measure and monitor important
segments of the domestic economy, as
well as the effect of import penetration.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations.
Frequency: Monthly, quarterly, and
annually.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary
and mandatory, depending on the
survey.
Legal Authority: Title 13, United
States Code, Sections 61, 81, 131, 182,
224, and 225.
OMB Desk Officer: Brian HarrisKojetin, (202) 395–7314.
Copies of the above information
collection proposal can be obtained by
calling or writing Diana Hynek,
Departmental Paperwork Clearance
Officer, (202) 482–0266, Department of
Commerce, Room 6625, 14th and
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,
DC 20230 (or via the Internet at
dhynek@doc.gov).
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to Brian Harris-Kojetin, OMB
Desk Officer either by fax (202–395–
7245) or e-mail (bharrisk@omb.eop.gov).
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Dated: August 13, 2008.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will
submit to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for clearance the
following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
chapter 35).
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: Business R&D and Innovation
Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0607–0912.
Form Number(s): BRDI–1, BRDI–1A.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Burden Hours: 155,450.
Number of Respondents: 40,000.
Average Hours Per Response: 3 hours
and 53 minutes.
Needs and Uses: The National
Science Foundation’s (NSF) Division of
Science Resources Statistics (SRS) and
the U.S. Census Bureau’s Economic
Directorate have been engaged in a
significant redesign of the Survey of
Industrial Research and Development.
To better understand how research and
development (R&D) is actually
conducted in today’s innovative and
global based economy, NSF has done
extensive background work, starting
with the Committee on National
Statistics’ Report Measuring Research
and Development Expenditures in the
U.S. Economy. NSF has hosted
numerous meetings/workshops with
external data users both in the federal
government and private sector, and has
conducted a number of recordkeeping
visits to companies to understand what
is collectable. To better understand the
issues in the present survey, NSF has
done extensive review of both the
statistical and subject matter aspects of
it. Current plans for the redesigned
survey call for five core sections, which
will comprise the fixed elements. NSF
and the Census Bureau have conducted
four rounds of cognitive interviews to
test the new content, and a final round
of testing on the entire questionnaire
will be conducted in July and August
2008. Results from these interviews
have been included in a generic
clearance submitted by Census. In order
for the new data to be included, and
actually be the centerpiece of the
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National Science Board’s Science and
Engineering Indicators: 2012 report,
NSF has required delivery of results
from the redesigned survey in December
2010. To ensure this delivery, there are
a number of groups composed of Census
Bureau and SRS staff that have been
working on components of the
redesigned survey, such as; content
testing, instrument development, frame
creation, and sampling, edit, imputation
and estimation methodologies as well as
tabulation design and data
dissemination. In addition, NSF is
consulting with Dr. Donald Dillman of
Washington State University, a noted
survey methodology expert and scholar,
on best approaches to the extensive
questionnaire redesign and methods of
response.
The result of this redesign will be a
substantially new survey, and to
emphasize that fact a new name has
been selected, the Business R&D and
Innovation Survey (BRDIS). This name
was selected not only to highlight the
emergence of the new survey, but also
to emphasize that the survey covers the
R&D and innovation activities of service
as well as manufacturing companies.
The 2008 BRDIS is being conducted as
a pilot of the new survey, hence the
possibility of releasing two years worth
of data as reflected in the project
schedule (section 16). Results from the
2008 BRDIS will be evaluated and may
bring about changes for the 2009 BRDIS.
The National Science Foundation Act
of 1950 as amended authorizes and
directs NSF ‘‘* * * to provide a central
clearinghouse for the collection,
interpretation, and analysis of data on
scientific and engineering resources and
to provide a source of information for
policy formulation by other agencies of
the Federal government.’’ The SIRD has
been and the new BRDIS will be the
vehicle with which NSF carries out the
business portion of this mandate. NSF
together with the Census Bureau, the
collecting and compiling agent, analyze
the data and publish the resulting
statistics.
Companies are the major performers
of R&D in the United States, accounting
for over 70 percent of total U.S. R&D
outlays each year. A consistent business
R&D information base is essential to
government officials formulating public
policy, industry personnel involved in
corporate planning, and members of the
academic community conducting
research. To develop policies designed
to promote and enhance science and
technology, past trends and the present
status of R&D and innovation must be
evaluated. The survey, as now designed,
will be the platform through which data
on innovation activities in the business
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sector will be collected. Without
comprehensive business R&D statistics,
it would be impossible to evaluate the
health of science and technology in the
United States or to make comparisons
between the technological progress of
our country and that of other nations.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C.,
Section 182; National Science
Foundation Act of 1950.
OMB Desk Officer: Brian HarrisKojetin, (202) 395–7314.
Copies of the above information
collection proposal can be obtained by
calling or writing Diana Hynek,
Departmental Paperwork Clearance
Officer, (202) 482–0266, Department of
Commerce, Room 6625, 14th and
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,
DC 20230 (or via the Internet at
dhynek@doc.gov).
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to Brian Harris-Kojetin, OMB
Desk Officer either by fax (202–395–
7245) or e-mail (bharrisk@omb.eop.gov).
Dated: August 13, 2008.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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Foreign–Trade Zone 72 Indianapolis,
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GETRAG Transmission Manufacturing
LLC (Automotive Transmissions)
An application has been submitted to
the Foreign–Trade Zones Board (the
Board) by the Indianapolis Airport
Authority, grantee of FTZ 72, requesting
special–purpose subzone status for the
automotive transmission manufacturing
plant of GETRAG Transmission
Manufacturing LLC (GETRAG), located
in Tipton, Indiana. The application was
submitted pursuant to the provisions of
the Foreign–Trade Zones Act, as
amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), and the
regulations of the Board (15 CFR part
400). It was formally filed on August 8,
2008.
The GETRAG facility (up to 1,170
employees/103 acres/891,000 sq.ft.) is
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44
U.S.C. chapter 35).
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: Current Industrial Reports Program.
OMB Control Number: 0607-0476.
Form Number(s): Various.
Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Burden Hours: 28,131.
Number of Respondents: 19,728.
Average Hours Per Response: 42 minutes.
Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census Bureau conducts a series of
monthly, quarterly, and annual surveys as part of the Current
Industrial Reports (CIR) Program. The CIR surveys request primarily the
quantity and value of shipments of particular products and occasionally
data on production and inventories; unfilled orders, receipts, stocks,
and consumption; and comparative data on domestic production, exports,
and imports of the products they cover.
Previously, the CIR surveys were divided into three separate waves
and submitted separately for OMB review. Due to the reduced number of
surveys in the CIR Program, the CIR surveys are being combined into one
wave. During the economic census years, in the years ending in 2 and 7
all voluntary annual surveys are made mandatory.
Primary users of these data are government and regulatory agencies,
business firms, trade associations, and private research and consulting
organizations. The Federal Reserve Board (FRB) uses CIR data in its
monthly index of industrial production as well as its annual revision
to the index. The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the Bureau of
Labor Statistics (BLS) use the CIR data in the estimate of components
of gross domestic product (GDP) and the estimate of output for
productivity analysis, respectively. Many government agencies, such as
the Department of Agriculture, Food and Drug Administration, Department
of Energy, Federal Aviation Administration, BEA, and International
Trade Administration use the data for industrial analysis, projections,
and monitoring import penetration. Private business firms and
organizations use the data for trend projections, market analysis,
product planning, and other economic and business-oriented analysis.
Since the CIR program is the sole, consistent source of information
regarding specific manufactured products in the intercensal years, the
absence thereof would severely hinder the Federal Government's ability
to measure and monitor important segments of the domestic economy, as
well as the effect of import penetration.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
Frequency: Monthly, quarterly, and annually.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary and mandatory, depending on the
survey.
Legal Authority: Title 13, United States Code, Sections 61, 81,
131, 182, 224, and 225.
OMB Desk Officer: Brian Harris-Kojetin, (202) 395-7314.
Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained
by calling or writing Diana Hynek, Departmental Paperwork Clearance
Officer, (202) 482-0266, Department of Commerce, Room 6625, 14th and
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at
dhynek@doc.gov).
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice
to Brian Harris-Kojetin, OMB Desk Officer either by fax (202-395-7245)
or e-mail (bharrisk@omb.eop.gov).
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Dated: August 13, 2008.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. E8-19058 Filed 8-15-08; 8:45 am]
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