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Title of Collection: Formaldehyde
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Affected Public: Private Sector—
businesses or other for-profits.
Total Estimated Number of
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Total Estimated Number of
Responses: 904,202.
Total Estimated Annual Burden
Hours: 237,854.
Total Estimated Annual Other Costs
Burden: $41,724,296.
Dated: December 12, 2013.
Michel Smyth,
Departmental Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Notice of Action
AGENCY:
Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Labor.
ACTION:
Notice of action.
Effective with the release of
PPI data for January 2014 in February
2014, BLS will transition from the Stage
of Processing (SOP) aggregation system
to the Final Demand-Intermediate
Demand (FD–ID) aggregation system.
This shift will result in significant
changes to the PPI news release, as well
as other documents available from PPI,
including the PPI Detailed Report and
PPI Handbook of Methods.
DATES: The transition to the FD–ID
system will occur with the release of
January 2014 data, scheduled for release
Wednesday, February 19, 2014.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jonathan Weinhagen, Producer Price
Index, Bureau of Labor Statistics,
telephone number 202–691–7709 (this
is not a toll-free number), or by email to:
weinhagen.jonathan@bls.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: To expand
the scope of coverage for the Producer
SUMMARY:
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Price Index (PPI), the Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS) has developed an
aggregation system that includes price
changes for domestic goods, services,
and construction sold to final demand
and intermediate demand.
The transition to the FD–ID system is
the culmination of a long-standing PPI
objective to improve the SOP
aggregation system by incorporating
PPIs for services, construction,
government purchases, and exports. In
comparison to the SOP system, the FD–
ID system more than doubles current
PPI coverage of the United States
economy in its primary aggregate
indexes to over 75 percent of in-scope
domestic production. The FD–ID system
was introduced as a set of experimental
indexes in January 2011. Nearly all new
FD–ID goods, services, and construction
indexes provide historical data back to
either November 2009 or April 2010,
while the indexes for goods that
correspond with the historical SOP
indexes go back to the 1970s or earlier.
To assist with the transition to the
FD–ID system, PPI has been providing a
version of the PPI news release based on
the FD–ID model, starting with the
publication of July 2013 data in August
2013. This document will be labeled
‘‘Experimental’’ through the December
release in January 2014 and is being
posted to the PPI Experimental FD–ID
Aggregation System Web page (https://
www.bls.gov/ppi/
experimentalaggregation.htm) about two
weeks after each month’s regular PPI
release. That Web page also contains
detailed methodological information for
the FD–ID aggregation system.
With the publication of January 2014
data in February 2014, the FD–ID
version of the PPI news release will
become the official news release
document of record.
A Federal Register Notice requesting
comments pertaining to the FD–ID
aggregation system was posted in the
Federal Register Tuesday, May 17,
2011. Federal Register Volume 76,
Number 95 (Tuesday, May 17, 2011),
[Notices], [Pages 28467–28469], [FR Doc
No: 2011–12042.]
The FD–ID system will highlight the
index for final demand, which measures
price changes for goods, services, and
construction sold to final demand:
personal consumption, capital
investment, government purchases, and
exports. The composition of products in
the final demand price index differs
from that of the finished goods index in
two major respects. First, it includes
government purchases and exports.
Second, it includes services and
construction, which are not reflected in
finished goods.
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The FD–ID system also includes two
separate parallel treatments of
intermediate demand: price changes for
goods, services, and construction sold to
business as inputs to production,
excluding capital investment. The first
treatment, intermediate demand by
commodity type, measures price
changes based on similarity of product
and includes aggregate indexes for
processed goods for intermediate
demand, unprocessed goods for
intermediate demand, and services for
intermediate demand.
The second treatment, intermediate
demand by production flow, is a stagebased system of price indexes, where
price changes for goods, services, and
construction can be studied as they
move through the production chain of
the economy to final demand. This
treatment includes four stages of
intermediate demand, which were
established to maximize forward flow of
production through the economy, while
minimizing backflow of production.
These FD–ID indexes are constructed
using PPI commodity indexes for goods,
services, and construction, where
products are assigned to various
categories according to buyer type and
commodity type. A product purchased
by different classes of buyers is assigned
to multiple FD–ID aggregates, with
unique weights allocated to each
aggregate based on the product’s sales
value to each buyer type.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 9th day of
December 2013.
Kimberley Hill,
Chief, Division of Management Systems,
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
[FR Doc. 2013–30072 Filed 12–17–13; 8:45 am]
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MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE
CORPORATION
[MCC FR 13–08]
Report on the Selection of Eligible
Countries for Fiscal Year 2014
Millennium Challenge
Corporation.
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ACTION:
Notice.
This report is provided in
accordance with section 608(d)(1) of the
Millennium Challenge Act of 2003,
Public Law 108–199, Division D, (the
‘‘Act’’), 22 U.S.C. 7708(d)(1).
SUMMARY:
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Dated: December 13, 2013.
Melvin F. Williams, Jr.,
VP/General Counsel and Corporate Secretary,
Millennium Challenge Corporation.
Report on the Selection of Eligible
Countries for Fiscal Year 2014
Summary
This report is provided in accordance
with section 608(d)(1) of the
Millennium Challenge Act of 2003, as
amended, Public Law 108–199, Division
D, (the ‘‘Act’’) (22 U.S.C. 7707(d)(1)).
The Act authorizes the provision of
Millennium Challenge Account
(‘‘MCA’’) assistance under section 605
of the Act (22 U.S.C. 7704) to countries
that enter into compacts with the United
States to support policies and programs
that advance the progress of such
countries in achieving lasting economic
growth and poverty reduction, and are
in furtherance of the Act. The Act
requires the Millennium Challenge
Corporation (‘‘MCC’’) to determine the
countries that will be eligible to receive
MCA assistance during the fiscal year,
based on their demonstrated
commitment to just and democratic
governance, economic freedom, and
investing in their people, as well as on
the opportunity to reduce poverty and
generate economic growth in the
country. The Act also requires the
submission of reports to appropriate
congressional committees and the
publication of notices in the Federal
Register that identify, among other
things:
The countries that are ‘‘candidate
countries’’ for MCA assistance during
fiscal year 2014 (‘‘FY14’’) based on their
per-capita income levels and their
eligibility to receive assistance under
U.S. law, and countries that would be
candidate countries but for specified
legal prohibitions on assistance (section
608(a) of the Act (22 U.S.C. 7707(a)));
The criteria and methodology that the
Board of Directors of MCC (the ‘‘Board’’)
will use to measure and evaluate the
policy performance of the ‘‘candidate
countries’’ consistent with the
requirements of section 607 of the Act
in order to select ‘‘MCA eligible
countries’’ from among the ‘‘candidate
countries’’ (section 608(b) of the Act (22
U.S.C. 7707(b))); and
The list of countries determined by
the Board to be ‘‘MCA eligible
countries’’ for FY14, with justification
for eligibility determination and
selection for compact negotiation,
including with which of the MCA
eligible countries the Board will seek to
enter into MCA compacts (section
608(d) of the Act (22 U.S.C. 7707(d))).
This is the third of the abovedescribed reports by MCC for FY14. It
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identifies countries determined by the
Board to be eligible under section 607
of the Act (22 U.S.C. 7706) for FY14 and
countries with which the MCC will seek
to enter into compacts under section
609 of the Act (22 U.S.C. 7708), as well
as the justification for such decisions.
The report also identifies countries
determined by the Board to be eligible
for MCC’s Threshold Program under
section 616 of the Act (22 U.S.C. 7715).
Eligible Countries
The Board met on December 10, 2013,
to select countries that will be eligible
for MCA compact assistance under
section 607 of the Act (22 U.S.C. 7706)
for FY14. The Board selected the
following country as eligible for such
assistance for FY14: Lesotho. The Board
also reselected the following countries
as eligible for FY14 MCA compact
assistance—Ghana, Liberia, Morocco,
Niger, and Tanzania. Two other
countries currently developing compact
proposals, Benin and Sierra Leone, were
not put up for a vote. The Board
discussed the fact that those two
countries did not pass MCC’s control of
corruption indicator, which is a hard
hurdle for passing the scorecard, and
did not put them to a vote on
reselection. Guatemala and Nepal were
reselected as eligible for threshold
assistance.
Criteria
In accordance with the Act and with
the ‘‘Report on the Criteria and
Methodology for Determining the
Eligibility of Candidate Countries for
Millennium Challenge Account
Assistance in Fiscal Year 2014’’
formally submitted to Congress on
September 19, 2013, selection was based
primarily on a country’s overall
performance in three broad policy
categories: Ruling Justly, Encouraging
Economic Freedom, and Investing in
People. The Board relied, to the
maximum extent possible, upon
transparent and independent indicators
to assess countries’ policy performance
and demonstrated commitment in these
three broad policy areas. The Board
compared countries’ performance on the
indicators relative to their income-level
peers, evaluating them in comparison to
either the group of low income
scorecard countries (‘‘LIC’’) or the group
of lower middle income scorecard
countries (‘‘LMIC’’).
The criteria and methodology used to
assess countries on the annual
scorecards is outlined in the ‘‘Report on
the Criteria and Methodology for
Determining the Eligibility of Candidate
Countries for Millennium Challenge
Account Assistance in Fiscal Year
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[FR Doc No: 2013-30072]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Notice of Action
AGENCY: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Labor.
ACTION: Notice of action.
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SUMMARY: Effective with the release of PPI data for January 2014 in
February 2014, BLS will transition from the Stage of Processing (SOP)
aggregation system to the Final Demand-Intermediate Demand (FD-ID)
aggregation system. This shift will result in significant changes to
the PPI news release, as well as other documents available from PPI,
including the PPI Detailed Report and PPI Handbook of Methods.
DATES: The transition to the FD-ID system will occur with the release
of January 2014 data, scheduled for release Wednesday, February 19,
2014.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jonathan Weinhagen, Producer Price
Index, Bureau of Labor Statistics, telephone number 202-691-7709 (this
is not a toll-free number), or by email to: weinhagen.jonathan@bls.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: To expand the scope of coverage for the
Producer Price Index (PPI), the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has
developed an aggregation system that includes price changes for
domestic goods, services, and construction sold to final demand and
intermediate demand.
The transition to the FD-ID system is the culmination of a long-
standing PPI objective to improve the SOP aggregation system by
incorporating PPIs for services, construction, government purchases,
and exports. In comparison to the SOP system, the FD-ID system more
than doubles current PPI coverage of the United States economy in its
primary aggregate indexes to over 75 percent of in-scope domestic
production. The FD-ID system was introduced as a set of experimental
indexes in January 2011. Nearly all new FD-ID goods, services, and
construction indexes provide historical data back to either November
2009 or April 2010, while the indexes for goods that correspond with
the historical SOP indexes go back to the 1970s or earlier.
To assist with the transition to the FD-ID system, PPI has been
providing a version of the PPI news release based on the FD-ID model,
starting with the publication of July 2013 data in August 2013. This
document will be labeled ``Experimental'' through the December release
in January 2014 and is being posted to the PPI Experimental FD-ID
Aggregation System Web page (https://www.bls.gov/ppi/experimentalaggregation.htm) about two weeks after each month's regular
PPI release. That Web page also contains detailed methodological
information for the FD-ID aggregation system.
With the publication of January 2014 data in February 2014, the FD-
ID version of the PPI news release will become the official news
release document of record.
A Federal Register Notice requesting comments pertaining to the FD-
ID aggregation system was posted in the Federal Register Tuesday, May
17, 2011. Federal Register Volume 76, Number 95 (Tuesday, May 17,
2011), [Notices], [Pages 28467-28469], [FR Doc No: 2011-12042.]
The FD-ID system will highlight the index for final demand, which
measures price changes for goods, services, and construction sold to
final demand: personal consumption, capital investment, government
purchases, and exports. The composition of products in the final demand
price index differs from that of the finished goods index in two major
respects. First, it includes government purchases and exports. Second,
it includes services and construction, which are not reflected in
finished goods.
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The FD-ID system also includes two separate parallel treatments of
intermediate demand: price changes for goods, services, and
construction sold to business as inputs to production, excluding
capital investment. The first treatment, intermediate demand by
commodity type, measures price changes based on similarity of product
and includes aggregate indexes for processed goods for intermediate
demand, unprocessed goods for intermediate demand, and services for
intermediate demand.
The second treatment, intermediate demand by production flow, is a
stage-based system of price indexes, where price changes for goods,
services, and construction can be studied as they move through the
production chain of the economy to final demand. This treatment
includes four stages of intermediate demand, which were established to
maximize forward flow of production through the economy, while
minimizing backflow of production.
These FD-ID indexes are constructed using PPI commodity indexes for
goods, services, and construction, where products are assigned to
various categories according to buyer type and commodity type. A
product purchased by different classes of buyers is assigned to
multiple FD-ID aggregates, with unique weights allocated to each
aggregate based on the product's sales value to each buyer type.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 9th day of December 2013.
Kimberley Hill,
Chief, Division of Management Systems, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
[FR Doc. 2013-30072 Filed 12-17-13; 8:45 am]
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