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The information on this form enables
the Forest Service to evaluate whether a
corporation, partnership, or other legal
entity is eligible and qualified to hold a
term grazing permit authorizing grazing
on certain National Forest System lands,
whether the entity is authorized to
conduct business in the state in which
the National Forest System lands to be
grazed are located, and which
shareholders, partners, or members are
authorized to sign official documents on
behalf of the legal entity.
Type of Respondents: Individuals,
Families, or Businesses (especially those
owning and operating ranches and
farms).
Estimated Annual Number of
Respondents: 1,290.
Estimated Annual Number of
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 504 hours.
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Comment is invited on: (1) Whether
this collection of information is
necessary for the stated purposes and
the proper performance of the functions
of the Agency, including whether the
information will have practical or
scientific utility; (2) the accuracy of the
Agency’s estimate of the burden of the
collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and
assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (4)
ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents, including the use of
automated, electronic, mechanical, or
other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology.
All comments received in response to
this notice, including names and
addresses when provided, will be a
matter of public record. Comments will
be summarized and included in the
submission request toward Office of
Management and Budget approval.
Barnie Gyant,
Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest
System.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
El Dorado County Resource Advisory
Committee
Forest Service, USDA.
Notice of meeting.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
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The El Dorado County
Resource Advisory Committee (RAC)
will hold a virtual meeting. The
committee is authorized under the
Secure Rural Schools and Community
Self-Determination Act (the Act) and
operates in compliance with the Federal
Advisory Committee Act. The purpose
of the committee is to improve
collaborative relationships and to
provide advice and recommendations to
the Forest Service concerning projects
and funding consistent with the Act.
RAC information can be found at the
following website: https://
www.fs.usda.gov/main/eldorado/
workingtogether/advisorycommittees.
DATES: The meeting will be held on
Wednesday, July 13, 2021, 4:00–6:00
p.m., Pacific Daylight Time.
All RAC meetings are subject to
cancellation. For status of meeting prior
to attendance, please contact the person
listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT.
SUMMARY:
The meeting will be held
with virtual attendance only. For virtual
meeting information, please contact the
person listed under FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT.
Written comments may be submitted
as described under SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION. All comments, including
names and addresses when provided,
are placed in the record and are
available for public inspection and
copying. The public may inspect
comments received at: El Dorado
National Forest Supervisor’s Office, 100
Forni Road, Placerville, CA. Please call
ahead to facilitate entry into the
building.
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written statements with the committee
staff before or after the meeting. Written
comments and requests for time to make
oral comments must be sent to Jennifer
Chapman, El Dorado National Forest,
100 Forni Road, Placerville, CA 95667,
by email to jennifer.chapman@usda.gov,
or via facsimile to (530) 621–5297.
Meeting Accommodations: If you are
a person requiring reasonable
accommodation, please make requests
in advance for sign language
interpreting, assistive listening devices,
or other reasonable accommodation. For
access to the facility or proceedings,
please contact the person listed in the
section titled FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT. All reasonable
accommodation requests are managed
on a case-by-case basis.
Dated: June 23, 2021.
Cikena Reid,
USDA Committee Management Officer.
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ADDRESSES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jennifer Chapman, Public Affairs Officer
by phone at (530) 957–9660 or via email
at jennifer.chapman@usda.gov.
Individuals who use
telecommunication devices for the
hearing-impaired (TDD) may call the
Federal Information Relay Service
(FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 between 8:00
a.m. and 8:00 p.m., Eastern Daylight
Time, Monday through Friday.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
purpose of the meeting is to discuss the
next call for project proposals and
provide an update on coordination with
current project managers.
The meeting is open to the public.
The agenda will include time for people
to make oral statements of three minutes
or less. Individuals wishing to make an
oral statement should request in writing
7 days before the meeting to be
scheduled on the agenda. Anyone who
would like to bring related matters to
the attention of the committee may file
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Small Business Pulse 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 May 19,
2020 during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
Agency: Census Bureau, Commerce.
Title: Small Business Pulse Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0607–1014.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular Submission,
Request for a Revision of a Currently
Approved Collection.
Number of Respondents: 810,000
(22,500 responses per week for up to a
maximum of 36 weeks of collection).
Average Hours per Response: 6
minutes.
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Burden Hours: 81,000 + 36 hours for
cognitive testing = 81,036.
Needs and Uses: Phase 1 of the Small
Business Pulse Survey was launched on
April 26, 2020 as an effort to produce
and disseminate high-frequency,
geographic- and industry-detailed
experimental data about the economic
conditions of small businesses as they
experience the coronavirus pandemic. It
is a rapid response endeavor that
leverages the resources of the federal
statistical system to address emergent
data needs. Given the rapidly changing
dynamics of this situation for American
small businesses, the Small Business
Pulse Survey has been successful in
meeting an acute need for information
on changes in revenues, business
closings, employment and hours
worked, disruptions to supply chains,
and expectations for future operations.
In addition, the Small Business Pulse
Survey provided important estimates of
federal program uptake to key survey
stakeholders.
Due to the ongoing nature of the
pandemic, the Census Bureau
subsequently conducted Phases 2, 3, 4
and 5 of the Small Business Pulse
Survey. The Office of Management and
Budget authorized clearance of Phase 5
of the Small Business Pulse Survey on
May 11, 2021. The Census Bureau now
seeks approval to conduct Phase 6 of the
Small Business Pulse Survey which will
occur over 9 weeks starting August 16,
2021.
The continuation of the Small
Business Pulse Survey is responsive to
stakeholder requests for high frequency
data that measure the effect of changing
business conditions during the
Coronavirus pandemic on small
businesses. While the ongoing monthly
and quarterly economic indicator
programs provide estimates of dollar
volume outputs for employer businesses
of all size, the Small Business Pulse
Survey captures the effects of the
pandemic on operations and finances of
small, single location employer
businesses. As the pandemic continues,
the Census Bureau is best poised to
collect this information from a large and
diverse sample of small businesses.
It is hard to predict when a shock will
result in economic activity changing at
a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly
frequency. Early in the pandemic,
federal, state, and local policies were
moving quickly so it made sense to have
a weekly collection. The problem is that
while we are in the moment, we cannot
accurately forecast the likelihood of
policy action. In addition, we are not
able to forecast a change in the
underlying cause of policy actions: The
effect of the Coronavirus pandemic on
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the economy. We cannot predict
changes in the severity of the pandemic
(e.g., will it worsen in flu season?) nor
future developments that will alleviate
the pandemic (e.g., vaccines or
treatments). In a period of such high
uncertainty, the impossibility of
forecasting these inflection points
underscores the benefits of having a
weekly survey. For these reasons, the
Census Bureau will proceed with a
weekly collection.
SBPS Phase 6 content includes core
concepts as previous phases, such as
overall impact, business closures/
openings, revenue and employment
changes, and expectations while also
including questions relevant to
economic recovery and new business
norms. Questions 11–14 are newly
developed content for Phase 6 and are
subjective rather than quantitative by
design. The goal is for the respondent to
provide their own context based on
their discretion.
In the event of a pandemic
reoccurrence scenario, the Census
Bureau would shift to utilize previous
and existing content for Phase 6. In
anticipation that recovery questions will
be utilized, we completed two rounds of
cognitive testing, starting on May 3,
2021 and ending on May 25, 2021. OMB
approved the Phase 6 cognitive testing
on April 30, 2021. An additional flash
round of cognitive testing was
completed from Monday, June 21–
Wednesday, June 23rd to satisfy a late
content request from the International
Trade Administration.
All results from the Small Business
Pulse Survey will continue to be
disseminated as U.S. Census Bureau
Experimental Data Products (https://
portal.census.gov/pulse/data/). This and
additional information on the Small
Business Pulse Survey are available to
the public on census.gov.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations.
Frequency: Small business will be
selected once to participate in a 6minute survey.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C.,
Sections 131 and 182.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view the
Department of Commerce collections
currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be
submitted within 30 days of the
publication of this notice on the
following website www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain. Find this
particular information collection by
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selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day
Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or
by using the search function and
entering either the title of the collection
or the OMB Control Number 0607–1014.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[B–47–2021]
Foreign-Trade Zone 252—Amarillo,
Texas; Application for Reorganization
Under Alternative Site Framework
An application has been submitted to
the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board by
the City of Amarillo, Texas, grantee of
FTZ 252, requesting authority to
reorganize the zone under the
alternative site framework (ASF)
adopted by the FTZ Board (15 CFR Sec.
400.2(c)). The ASF is an option for
grantees for the establishment or
reorganization of zones and can permit
significantly greater flexibility in the
designation of new subzones or ‘‘usagedriven’’ FTZ sites for operators/users
located within a grantee’s ‘‘service area’’
in the context of the FTZ Board’s
standard 2,000-acre activation limit for
a zone. The application was submitted
pursuant to 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 docketed on
June 22, 2021.
FTZ 252 was approved by the FTZ
Board on August 28, 2001 (Board Order
1183, 66 FR 48116–48117, September
18, 2001). The current zone includes the
following sites: Site 1 (4,000 acres)—
Amarillo International Airport and
adjacent industrial park property, 10801
Airport Boulevard, Amarillo (Potter
County); Site 2 (6 acres)—Panhandle
Container Service Center, 1201 South
Johnson Street, Amarillo; Site 3 (345
acres)—Hutchinson County Airport and
Industrial Park, Borger; Site 4 (68
acres)—Ferguson Business Park, 650
Wilson Avenue, Dumas (Moore County);
Site 5 (95 acres)—Industrial Park East,
State Highway 60, Pampa (Gray
County); Site 6 (213 acres)—PEDCO
Park, Tying Avenue, Pampa; Site 7 (0.52
acres)—Donley site, 1⁄2 block from State
Highway 87, Tulia (Swisher County);
Site 8 (6 acres)—RCD site, adjacent to
the Burlington Northern Santa Fe
Railroad in the 1000 block of NW 6th
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Small Business Pulse 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 May 19, 2020 during a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: Census Bureau, Commerce.
Title: Small Business Pulse Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0607-1014.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular Submission, Request for a Revision of a
Currently Approved Collection.
Number of Respondents: 810,000 (22,500 responses per week for up to
a maximum of 36 weeks of collection).
Average Hours per Response: 6 minutes.
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Burden Hours: 81,000 + 36 hours for cognitive testing = 81,036.
Needs and Uses: Phase 1 of the Small Business Pulse Survey was
launched on April 26, 2020 as an effort to produce and disseminate
high-frequency, geographic- and industry-detailed experimental data
about the economic conditions of small businesses as they experience
the coronavirus pandemic. It is a rapid response endeavor that
leverages the resources of the federal statistical system to address
emergent data needs. Given the rapidly changing dynamics of this
situation for American small businesses, the Small Business Pulse
Survey has been successful in meeting an acute need for information on
changes in revenues, business closings, employment and hours worked,
disruptions to supply chains, and expectations for future operations.
In addition, the Small Business Pulse Survey provided important
estimates of federal program uptake to key survey stakeholders.
Due to the ongoing nature of the pandemic, the Census Bureau
subsequently conducted Phases 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the Small Business Pulse
Survey. The Office of Management and Budget authorized clearance of
Phase 5 of the Small Business Pulse Survey on May 11, 2021. The Census
Bureau now seeks approval to conduct Phase 6 of the Small Business
Pulse Survey which will occur over 9 weeks starting August 16, 2021.
The continuation of the Small Business Pulse Survey is responsive
to stakeholder requests for high frequency data that measure the effect
of changing business conditions during the Coronavirus pandemic on
small businesses. While the ongoing monthly and quarterly economic
indicator programs provide estimates of dollar volume outputs for
employer businesses of all size, the Small Business Pulse Survey
captures the effects of the pandemic on operations and finances of
small, single location employer businesses. As the pandemic continues,
the Census Bureau is best poised to collect this information from a
large and diverse sample of small businesses.
It is hard to predict when a shock will result in economic activity
changing at a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly frequency. Early in the
pandemic, federal, state, and local policies were moving quickly so it
made sense to have a weekly collection. The problem is that while we
are in the moment, we cannot accurately forecast the likelihood of
policy action. In addition, we are not able to forecast a change in the
underlying cause of policy actions: The effect of the Coronavirus
pandemic on the economy. We cannot predict changes in the severity of
the pandemic (e.g., will it worsen in flu season?) nor future
developments that will alleviate the pandemic (e.g., vaccines or
treatments). In a period of such high uncertainty, the impossibility of
forecasting these inflection points underscores the benefits of having
a weekly survey. For these reasons, the Census Bureau will proceed with
a weekly collection.
SBPS Phase 6 content includes core concepts as previous phases,
such as overall impact, business closures/openings, revenue and
employment changes, and expectations while also including questions
relevant to economic recovery and new business norms. Questions 11-14
are newly developed content for Phase 6 and are subjective rather than
quantitative by design. The goal is for the respondent to provide their
own context based on their discretion.
In the event of a pandemic reoccurrence scenario, the Census Bureau
would shift to utilize previous and existing content for Phase 6. In
anticipation that recovery questions will be utilized, we completed two
rounds of cognitive testing, starting on May 3, 2021 and ending on May
25, 2021. OMB approved the Phase 6 cognitive testing on April 30, 2021.
An additional flash round of cognitive testing was completed from
Monday, June 21-Wednesday, June 23rd to satisfy a late content request
from the International Trade Administration.
All results from the Small Business Pulse Survey will continue to
be disseminated as U.S. Census Bureau Experimental Data Products
(https://portal.census.gov/pulse/data/). This and additional
information on the Small Business Pulse Survey are available to the
public on census.gov.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
Frequency: Small business will be selected once to participate in a
6-minute survey.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., Sections 131 and 182.
This information collection request may be viewed at
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view the Department of
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of
this notice on the following website www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently
under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search
function and entering either the title of the collection or the OMB
Control Number 0607-1014.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, Commerce Department.
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