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Wednesday, December 9, 2020
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Virtual Public Listening Session;
Natural Resources Conservation
Service Programs and Western Water
Quantity
Correction
In notice document 2020–26525
appearing on pages 78114–78115 in the
issue of December 3, 2020, make the
following correction:
On page 78114, in the third column,
under the DATES heading, in the 9th
line, ‘‘December 18, 2020’’ should read
‘‘December 8, 2020.’’
[FR Doc. C1–2020–26525 Filed 12–7–20; 11:15 am]
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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Service Annual Survey
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 September
21, 2020 during a 60-day comment
period. This notice allows for an
additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: Service Annual Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0607–0422.
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Form Number(s): There are 91
individual forms, too numerous to list
here.
Type of Request: Regular submission,
Request for a Revision of a Currently
Approved Collection.
Number of Respondents: 93,722.
Average Hours per Response: 1.5305.
Burden Hours: 143,437.
Needs and Uses: Over 50 percent of
all economic activity is generated by
businesses in the services sectors,
defined to exclude retail and wholesale
trade. The U.S. Census Bureau currently
measures the total output of most of the
service industries annually in the
Service Annual Survey (SAS). This
survey currently covers all or portions
of: Utilities; Transportation and
Warehousing; Information; Finance and
Insurance; Real Estate and Rental and
Leasing; Professional, Scientific, and
Technical Services; Administrative and
Support and Waste Management and
Remediation Services; Educational
Services; Health Care and Social
Assistance; Arts, Entertainment, and
Recreation; Accommodation and Food
Services; and Other Services (except
Public Administration) as defined by
the North American Industry
Classification System (NAICS). The SAS
provides the only official source of
annual revenue estimates for the service
industries.
Estimates from the SAS are essential
to measurement of economic growth,
real output, prices, and productivity for
our nation’s economy. A broad
spectrum of government and private
stakeholders use these estimates in
analyzing economic activity; forecasting
economic growth; and compiling data
on productivity, prices and the gross
domestic product (GDP). In addition,
trade and professional organizations use
these estimates to analyze industry
trends, benchmark their own statistical
products and develop forecasts. Private
businesses use these estimates to
measure market share, analyze business
potential, and plan investments.
Collected data include operating
revenue for both taxable and tax-exempt
firms and organizations, sources of
revenue and expenses by type for
selected industries, operating expenses,
and selected industry-specific items. In
addition, e-commerce data is collected
for all industries, and export and
inventory data are collected for selected
industries. The availability of these data
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greatly improves the quality of the
intermediate inputs and value-added
estimates in the annual input-output
and GDP by industry accounts produced
by the Bureau of Economic Analysis
(BEA).
Beginning in survey year 2020, the
operating expenses content on all SAS
questionnaires will change to a version
that will be used in Economic Census
years and non-Economic Census years.
This change will aid in creating a
consistent survey experience for
respondents from year to year and better
meet the needs of our data users. The
proposed expense questions are shown
in Attachment 2. This spreadsheet
shows the different versions of the
expense questions that will appear on
each SAS form variation.
Minor changes will also be made to
various forms to increase clarity of what
is being asked of respondents (e.g.,
improving instructions or removing
parts of a question), improve the quality
of data the Census Bureau receives, and
further reduce respondent burden.
To improve data quality, harmonize
survey content, and reduce respondent
burden, the Service Annual Survey will
alter a question asking about
organizational change within a
company. This question appears as
question 3 for respondents in all
industries SAS covers. The question
inquires about any organizational
changes a company experienced during
the given year and currently refers to
acquisitions, mergers, sales, and
divestitures. The revision will alter the
question text to include instances where
a company ceased operations and would
add ‘‘ceased operation’’ as an answer
choice. This change would provide
additional information about a
company’s activity in a given year,
having the potential to improve data
quality. Additionally, the revision
would synchronize SAS content with
the relevant questions on the Annual
Retail Trade Survey (ARTS) and the
Annual Wholesale Trade Survey
(AWTS), making the surveys more
consistent for respondents.
In addition, with the increased use of
telemedicine services during this public
health emergency, the Service Annual
Survey proposes expanding the scope of
questions on telemedicine beyond
ambulatory health care providers to
include hospitals and nursing homes.
Telemedicine is an important mode of
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[FR Doc No: C1-2020-26525]
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This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains documents other than rules
or proposed rules that are applicable to the public. Notices of hearings
and investigations, committee meetings, agency decisions and rulings,
delegations of authority, filing of petitions and applications and agency
statements of organization and functions are examples of documents
appearing in this section.
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Notices
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Virtual Public Listening Session; Natural Resources Conservation
Service Programs and Western Water Quantity
Correction
In notice document 2020-26525 appearing on pages 78114-78115 in the
issue of December 3, 2020, make the following correction:
On page 78114, in the third column, under the DATES heading, in the
9th line, ``December 18, 2020'' should read ``December 8, 2020.''
[FR Doc. C1-2020-26525 Filed 12-7-20; 11:15 am]
BILLING CODE 1301-00-D
