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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Proposed Information Collection;
Comment Request; Generic Clearance
for the Collection of Qualitative
Feedback on Agency Service Delivery
Office of the Secretary, Office
of the Chief Information Officer,
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Department of
Commerce, as part of its continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and
respondent burden, invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to
take this opportunity to comment on
proposed and/or continuing information
collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Comments must be submitted
April 21, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Written comments may be
submitted to Jennifer Jessup,
Departmental Paperwork Clearance
Officer, Department of Commerce, Room
6616, 14th and Constitution Avenue
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Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
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5190.
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SUMMARY:
I. Abstract
Executive Order 12862 directs Federal
agencies to provide service to the public
that matches or exceeds the best service
available in the private sector. In order
to work continuously to ensure that the
Department of Commerce (DOC)
programs are effective and meet our
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customers’ needs we use a generic
clearance process to collect qualitative
feedback on our service delivery. This
collection of information is necessary to
enable DOC to garner customer and
stakeholder feedback in an efficient,
timely manner, in accordance with our
commitment to improving service
delivery. The information collected
from our customers and stakeholders
will help ensure that users have an
effective, efficient, and satisfying
experience with the programs. This
feedback will provide insights into
customer or stakeholder perceptions,
experiences and expectations, provide
an early warning of issues with service,
or focus attention on areas where
communication, training or changes in
operations might improve delivery of
products or services. These collections
will allow for ongoing, collaborative and
actionable communications between
DOC and its customers and
stakeholders. It will also allow feedback
to contribute directly to the
improvement of program management.
Feedback collected under this generic
clearance will provide useful
information, but it will not yield data
that can be generalized to the overall
population. This type of generic
clearance for qualitative information
will not be used for quantitative
information collections that are
designed to yield reliably actionable
results, such as monitoring trends over
time or documenting program
performance.
This request is an extension of the
‘generic fast-track’ process offered to all
government agencies by OMB in 2010.
Fast-track means each request receives
approval five days after submission, if
no issues are brought to DOC’s attention
by OMB within the five days. Since
2011, DOC has successfully submitted
68 generic requests to OMB.
II. Method of Collection
III. Data
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Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden
(including hours and cost of the
proposed collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice sill be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval of this information collection;
they also will become a matter of public
record.
Dated: February 11, 2014.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Economic Analysis
[Docket No. 140113033–4033–01]
BE–125: Quarterly Survey of
Transactions in Selected Services and
Intellectual Property With Foreign
Persons
Bureau of Economic Analysis,
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of reporting
requirements.
By this Notice, the Bureau of
Economic Analysis (BEA), Department
of Commerce, is informing the public
that it is conducting the mandatory
survey titled Quarterly Survey of
Transactions in Selected Services and
Intellectual Property with Foreign
Persons (BE–125). This mandatory
survey is conducted under the authority
of the International Investment and
Trade in Services Survey Act.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
Notice constitutes legal notification to
all United States persons (defined
SUMMARY:
OMB Control Number: 0690–0030.
Form Number (s): Not Applicable.
Type of Review: Regular submission
(extension of a currently approved
collection).
Affected Public: Individuals or
Households, Businesses or for-profit
organizations, State, Local or Tribal
Government, etc.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
244,710.
Estimated Time per Response: 5 to 30
minutes for surveys; 1 to 2 hours for
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focus groups; 30 minutes to 1 hour for
interviews.
Estimated Total of Burden Hours: 631,
334.
Estimated Total Cost to Public: $0.
Frequency of Requests: One-time.
AGENCY:
The primary method of collection will
be the Internet (electronically), paper
format, email, fax, interviews, etc.
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below) who meet the reporting
requirements set forth in this Notice that
they must respond to, and comply with,
the survey. Reports are due 45 days after
the end of the U.S. person’s fiscal
quarter, except for the final quarter of
the U.S. person’s fiscal year when
reports must be filed within 90 days.
This notice is being issued in
conformance with the rule BEA issued
in 2012 (77 FR 24373) establishing
guidelines for collecting data on
international trade in services and direct
investment through notices, rather than
through rulemakings. The BE–125
survey forms and instructions are
available on the BEA Web site at
www.bea.gov/surveys/iussurv.htm.
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Definitions
(a) Person means any individual,
branch, partnership, associated group,
association, estate, trust, corporation, or
other organization (whether or not
organized under the laws of any State),
and any government (including a
foreign government, the United States
Government, a State or local
government, and any agency,
corporation, financial institution, or
other entity or instrumentality thereof,
including a government-sponsored
agency).
(b) United States person means any
person resident in the United States or
subject to the jurisdiction of the United
States. United States, when used in a
geographic sense, means the 50 States,
the District of Columbia, the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and all
territories and possessions of the United
States.
(c) Foreign person means any person
resident outside the United States or
subject to the jurisdiction of a country
other than the United States.
Who Must Report: Reports are
required from each U.S. person who: (a)
Had sales of covered services or
intellectual property to foreign persons
that exceeded $6 million for the
previous fiscal year or are expected to
exceed that amount during the current
fiscal year, or (b) had purchases of
covered services or intellectual property
from foreign persons that exceeded $4
million for the previous fiscal year or
are expected to exceed that amount
during the current fiscal year. Because
the thresholds are applied separately to
sales and purchases, the reporting
requirements may apply only to sales,
only to purchases, or to both sales and
purchases. Entities required to report
will be contacted individually by the
Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).
Entities not contacted by BEA have no
reporting responsibilities.
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What To Report: The survey is
intended to collect information on U.S.
international trade in selected services
and intellectual property for which
information is not collected on other
BEA surveys and is not available to BEA
from other sources. The survey is
intended to collect information on
transactions in the covered services and
intellectual property occurring in the
last quarter of calendar year 2013 and in
first three quarters of the calendar year
2014.
How To Report: Reports can be filed
via BEA’s electronic reporting system at
www.bea.gov/efile. Additionally, copies
of the survey forms and instructions,
which contain complete information on
reporting procedures and definitions,
can be obtained from the BEA Web site
at www.bea.gov/surveys/iussurv.htm.
Inquiries can be made to BEA at (202)
606–5588.
When To Report: Reports are due to
BEA 45 days after the end of the fiscal
quarter, except for the final quarter of
the reporter’s fiscal year when reports
must be filed within 90 days.
Paperwork Reduction Act Notice: This
data collection has been approved by
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act and assigned
control number 0608–0067. An agency
may not conduct or sponsor, and a
person is not required to respond to, a
collection of information unless it
displays a valid control number
assigned by OMB. The estimated
average annual public reporting burden
for this collection of information is 16
hours per response. Send comments
regarding this burden estimate to
Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis
(BE–1), U.S. Department of Commerce,
Washington, DC 20230; and to the
Office of Management and Budget,
Paperwork Reduction Project 0608–
0067, Washington DC 20503.
Authority: 22 U.S.C. 3101–3108, as
amended.
J. Steven Landefeld,
Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Economic Analysis
[Docket No. 140113031–4031–01]
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BE–37: Survey of U.S. Airline
Operators’ Foreign Revenues and
Expenses
Bureau of Economic Analysis,
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of reporting
requirements.
AGENCY:
By this Notice, the Bureau of
Economic Analysis (BEA), Department
of Commerce, is informing the public
that it is conducting a mandatory survey
titled Survey of U.S. Airline Operators’
Foreign Revenues and Expenses (BE–
37). This mandatory survey is
conducted under the authority of the
International Investment and Trade in
Services Survey Act.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
Notice constitutes legal notification to
all United States persons (defined
below) who meet the reporting
requirements set forth in this Notice that
they must respond to, and comply with,
the survey. Reports are due 45 days after
the end of each calendar quarter. This
notice is being issued in conformance
with the rule BEA issued in 2012 (77 FR
24373) establishing guidelines for
collecting data on international trade in
services and direct investment through
notices, rather than through
rulemakings. The BE–37 survey forms
and instructions are available on the
BEA Web site at www.bea.gov/surveys/
iussurv.htm.
Definitions:
(a) Person means any individual,
branch, partnership, associated group,
association, estate, trust, corporation, or
other organization (whether or not
organized under the laws of any State),
and any government (including a
foreign government, the United States
Government, a State or local
government, and any agency,
corporation, financial institution, or
other entity or instrumentality thereof,
including a government-sponsored
agency).
(b) United States person means any
person resident in the United States or
subject to the jurisdiction of the United
States. United States, when used in a
geographic sense, means the 50 States,
the District of Columbia, the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and all
territories and possessions of the United
States.
(c) Foreign person means any person
resident outside the United States or
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Economic Analysis
[Docket No. 140113033-4033-01]
BE-125: Quarterly Survey of Transactions in Selected Services and
Intellectual Property With Foreign Persons
AGENCY: Bureau of Economic Analysis, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of reporting requirements.
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SUMMARY: By this Notice, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA),
Department of Commerce, is informing the public that it is conducting
the mandatory survey titled Quarterly Survey of Transactions in
Selected Services and Intellectual Property with Foreign Persons (BE-
125). This mandatory survey is conducted under the authority of the
International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Notice constitutes legal notification
to all United States persons (defined
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below) who meet the reporting requirements set forth in this Notice
that they must respond to, and comply with, the survey. Reports are due
45 days after the end of the U.S. person's fiscal quarter, except for
the final quarter of the U.S. person's fiscal year when reports must be
filed within 90 days. This notice is being issued in conformance with
the rule BEA issued in 2012 (77 FR 24373) establishing guidelines for
collecting data on international trade in services and direct
investment through notices, rather than through rulemakings. The BE-125
survey forms and instructions are available on the BEA Web site at
www.bea.gov/surveys/iussurv.htm.
Definitions
(a) Person means any individual, branch, partnership, associated
group, association, estate, trust, corporation, or other organization
(whether or not organized under the laws of any State), and any
government (including a foreign government, the United States
Government, a State or local government, and any agency, corporation,
financial institution, or other entity or instrumentality thereof,
including a government-sponsored agency).
(b) United States person means any person resident in the United
States or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. United
States, when used in a geographic sense, means the 50 States, the
District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and all
territories and possessions of the United States.
(c) Foreign person means any person resident outside the United
States or subject to the jurisdiction of a country other than the
United States.
Who Must Report: Reports are required from each U.S. person who:
(a) Had sales of covered services or intellectual property to foreign
persons that exceeded $6 million for the previous fiscal year or are
expected to exceed that amount during the current fiscal year, or (b)
had purchases of covered services or intellectual property from foreign
persons that exceeded $4 million for the previous fiscal year or are
expected to exceed that amount during the current fiscal year. Because
the thresholds are applied separately to sales and purchases, the
reporting requirements may apply only to sales, only to purchases, or
to both sales and purchases. Entities required to report will be
contacted individually by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).
Entities not contacted by BEA have no reporting responsibilities.
What To Report: The survey is intended to collect information on
U.S. international trade in selected services and intellectual property
for which information is not collected on other BEA surveys and is not
available to BEA from other sources. The survey is intended to collect
information on transactions in the covered services and intellectual
property occurring in the last quarter of calendar year 2013 and in
first three quarters of the calendar year 2014.
How To Report: Reports can be filed via BEA's electronic reporting
system at www.bea.gov/efile. Additionally, copies of the survey forms
and instructions, which contain complete information on reporting
procedures and definitions, can be obtained from the BEA Web site at
www.bea.gov/surveys/iussurv.htm. Inquiries can be made to BEA at (202)
606-5588.
When To Report: Reports are due to BEA 45 days after the end of the
fiscal quarter, except for the final quarter of the reporter's fiscal
year when reports must be filed within 90 days.
Paperwork Reduction Act Notice: This data collection has been
approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act and assigned control number 0608-0067.
An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a valid
control number assigned by OMB. The estimated average annual public
reporting burden for this collection of information is 16 hours per
response. Send comments regarding this burden estimate to Director,
Bureau of Economic Analysis (BE-1), U.S. Department of Commerce,
Washington, DC 20230; and to the Office of Management and Budget,
Paperwork Reduction Project 0608-0067, Washington DC 20503.
Authority: 22 U.S.C. 3101-3108, as amended.
J. Steven Landefeld,
Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis.
[FR Doc. 2014-03361 Filed 2-14-14; 8:45 am]
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