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Shana Banks, Advisory Committee
Branch Chief, Office of Program,
Performance and Stakeholder
Integration (PPSI), shana.j.banks@
census.gov, Department of Commerce,
Census Bureau, telephone 301–763–
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recommendations on planning and
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The Committee has been established in
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Committee Act (5 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.).
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Robert L. Santos, Director, Census
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Dated: June 28, 2024.
Shannon Wink,
Program Analyst, Policy Coordination Office,
U.S. Census Bureau.
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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Business Trends and
Outlook 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
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via the Federal Register on November 9,
2021 during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: Business Trends and Outlook
Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0607–1022.
Form Number(s): This online survey
has no form number.
Type of Request: Regular submission,
Request for a Revision of a Currently
Approved Collection.
Number of Respondents: 717,600.
Average Hours per Response: 9
minutes.
Burden Hours: 131,600.
Needs and Uses: The mission of the
U.S. Census Bureau (Census Bureau) is
to serve as the leading source of quality
data about the nation’s people and
economy; in order to fulfill this mission,
it is necessary to innovate to produce
more detailed, more frequent, and more
timely data products. The Coronavirus
pandemic was an impetus for the
creation of new data products by the
Census Bureau to measure the
pandemic’s impact on the economy: the
Small Business Pulse Survey (SBPS)
and the weekly Business Formation
Statistics. Policymakers and other
federal agency officials, media outlets,
and academia commended the Census
Bureau’s rapid response to their data
needs during the largest economic crisis
in recent American history. The Census
Bureau capitalized on the successes that
underlaid the high frequency data
collection and near real time data
dissemination engineered for the SBPS
by creating the Business Trends and
Outlook Survey (BTOS).
BTOS uses ongoing data collection to
produce high frequency, timely, and
granular information about current
economic conditions and trends. BTOS
is the only biweekly business tendency
survey produced by the federal
statistical system, providing unique and
detailed data during times of economic
or other emergencies. The BTOS initial
target population is all nonfarm, singlelocation employer businesses with
receipts of $1,000 or more in the United
States, the District of Columbia, and
Puerto Rico. The current sample
consists of approximately 1.2 million
single-unit businesses split into six
panels. Data collection occurs every two
weeks, and businesses in each panel are
asked to report once every 12 weeks for
one year. Current data from BTOS are
representative of all single location
employer businesses (excluding farms)
in the U.S. economy and are published
every two weeks. The data are available
at the national and state levels, in
addition to the 25 most-populous
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Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs).
North American Industry Classification
System (NAICS) sector, subsector, and
state by sector are also published, as are
employment size class, and sector by
employment size class data, according
to the same timeline.
Data from BTOS are currently used to
provide timely data to understand the
economic conditions being experienced
by single unit businesses; BTOS
provides near real time data on key
items such as revenue, paid employees,
hours worked as well as inventories
which is being added in for the second
sample collection year; a new sample
collection is conducted each year.
BTOS also provides high level
information on the changing share of
businesses facing difficulties stemming
from supply chain issues, interest rate
changes, or weather events. Previously,
there had been few data sources
available to policymakers, media
outlets, and academia that delivered
near real-time insights into economic
trends and outlooks. BTOS data has
been used by the Small Business
Administration to evaluate the impact of
regulatory changes. Use of the BTOS
data (or additional requirements) is
being determined by the Economic
Development Agency (EDA) to
understand the impact of natural
disasters on U.S. businesses for the EDA
to then guide the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) and/or
policymakers in assisting in economic
recovery support missions.
The BTOS consists of a set of core
questions and supplemental content,
when needed. The U.S. Census Bureau
requests approval to add one question
on Work from Home (WFH) schedules
to the BTOS core content. Data
collection for the BTOS core content
will start August 12, 2024.
For 2024, the supplemental
questionnaire will ask respondents
about the business perspective on WFH.
Using the same strategy as the 2023
BTOS AI core questions, the Census
Bureau hopes to field one core WFH
question to run during all cycles in
addition to the supplement. The core
WFH question will be a yes/no question
intended to capture potential
seasonality in WFH at the business
level. Having this baseline will be
important in understanding potential
seasonal patterns picked up in the
supplemental questions; preliminary
findings from cognitive testing
suggested that seasonality could be
important in certain industries.
The Census Bureau plans to resubmit
this package once cognitive testing
concludes to gain approval for the WFH
supplement which we plan to field
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beginning in November 2024. The WFH
supplement is intended to capture
nuances in WFH from business
perspective including intensity of WFH
and factors impacting its availability.
Frequency: Bi-weekly.
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 0607–1022.
Mary Reuling Lenaiyasa,
Paperwork Reduction Act Program Manager,
Policy Coordination Office, U.S. Census
Bureau.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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Background
On June 21, 2019, Commerce
published the countervailing duty
(CVD) order on glycine from India.1 On
August 3, 2023, based on these timely
requests for review, in accordance with
19 CFR 351.221(c)(1)(i), Commerce
published a notice of initiation of an
administrative review the Order.2
Commerce partially extended the time
period for issuing these preliminary
results, in accordance with section
751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (the Act), to June 28, 2024.3
For a complete description of the
events that followed the initiation of
this review, see the Preliminary
Decision Memorandum.4 A list of topics
discussed in the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum is included as Appendix
I to this notice. The Preliminary
Decision Memorandum is a public
document and is on file electronically
via Enforcement and Compliance’s
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Centralized Electronic Service System
(ACCESS). ACCESS is available to
registered users at https://
access.trade.gov. In addition, a complete
version of the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum can be accessed directly
at https://access.trade.gov/public/
FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.
Scope of the Order
[C–533–884]
Glycine From India: Preliminary
Results and Partial Rescission of the
Countervailing Duty Administrative
Review; 2022
The merchandise covered by the
Order is glycine from India. For a
complete description of the scope of the
Order, see the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum.
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of
Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily
determines that countervailable
subsidies are being provided to Kumar
Industries, India (Kumar), a producer
and exporter of glycine from India
during the period of review (POR)
January 1, 2022, through December 31,
2022. Interested parties are invited to
comment on these preliminary results.
DATES: Applicable July 5, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Scarlet Jaldin or Amber Hodak AD/CVD
Operations, Office VI, Enforcement and
Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone:
(202) 482–4275 or (202) 482–8034,
respectively.
1 See Glycine from India and the People’s
Republic of China: Countervailing Duty Orders, 84
FR 29173 (June 21, 2019) (Order).
2 See Initiation of Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 88 FR
51271, 51277 (August 3, 2023) (Initiation Notice).
GEO requested a review of 31 companies, including
Pan Chem Corporation. Pan Chem Corporation was
inadvertently omitted from the Initiation Notice. As
a result, there was an incorrect total of 30, rather
than 31, companies included in the Initiation
Notice for this administrative review. As explained
below, in these preliminary results of review,
Commerce is rescinding the review of many of
those companies, including Pan Chem, based on the
timely withdrawal of the review request.
3 See Memorandum, ‘‘Extension of Deadline for
Preliminary Results of Countervailing Duty
Administrative Review,’’ dated January 24, 2024;
see also Memorandum, ‘‘Extension of Deadline for
Preliminary Results of Countervailing Duty
Administrative Review,’’ dated June 3, 2024.
4 See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for
the Preliminary Results of the Administrative
Review of the Countervailing Duty Order on
Glycine from India; 2022,’’ dated concurrently with,
and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary
Decision Memorandum).
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Rescission of Administrative Review, in
Part
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1),
Commerce will rescind an
administrative review, in whole or in
part, if the party or parties that
requested a review withdraw the request
within 90 days of the date of publication
of the notice of initiation of the
requested review. Between June 28 and
30, 2023, Commerce received timely
requests for administrative reviews of 31
producers/exporters from various
interested parties, in accordance with
section 751(a)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.213(b)(1).5 On September 22, 2023,
Paras withdrew its request for review of
itself.6 On October 31, 2023, the
petitioner 7 timely withdrew its request
for administrative review of 30
producers/exporters.8 Because the
withdrawal letters were timely filed,
and no other party requested a review
of the companies listed in the
withdrawal letters, in accordance with
19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), Commerce is
rescinding this review of the Order with
respect to the 30 companies listed in
Appendix II. For additional information
regarding this determination, see the
Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
Methodology
Commerce is conducting this
administrative review in accordance
with section 751(a)(1)(A) of the Act. For
each of the subsidy programs found to
be countervailable, we preliminarily
determine that there is a subsidy, i.e., a
financial contribution by an ‘‘authority’’
that gives rise to a benefit to the
recipient, and that the subsidy is
specific.9 For a full description of the
5 See Paras Intermediates Private Limited’s (Paras)
Letter, ‘‘Request for Countervailing Duty
Administrative Review,’’ dated June 28, 2023; see
also Kumar’s Letter, ‘‘Request for Administrative
Review of Countervailing duty Order,’’ dated June
29, 2023; GEO Specialty Chemicals, Inc.’s (GEO)
Letter, ‘‘Request for Administrative Review,’’ dated
June 30, 2023 (GEO Request for Administrative
Review); and Memorandum, ‘‘Phone Conversation
with an Interested Party,’’ dated July 20, 2023.
6 See Paras’ Letter, ‘‘Withdrawal of Review
Request for Countervailing Duty Administrative
Review,’’ dated September 22, 2023 (Paras
Withdrawal of Review Request).
7 On January 1, 2024, GEO, the former petitioner
in this proceeding, filed an amended administrative
protective order (APO) application, disclosing that
it transferred all its glycine business to Deer Park
Glycine, LLC. As a result, Deer Park Glycine, LLC
(the petitioner) became the new petitioning party in
this administrative review. See Memorandum,
‘‘Amended APO Application,’’ dated January 17,
2024.
8 See GEO’s Letter, ‘‘Partial Withdrawal of
Request for Administrative Review,’’ dated October
31, 2023 (GEO Withdrawal of Review Request).
9 See sections 771(5)(B) and (D) of the Act
regarding financial contribution; section 771(5)(E)
of the Act regarding benefit; and section 771(5A) of
the Act regarding specificity.
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Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Business Trends and Outlook 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 November 9, 2021 during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: Business Trends and Outlook Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0607-1022.
Form Number(s): This online survey has no form number.
Type of Request: Regular submission, Request for a Revision of a
Currently Approved Collection.
Number of Respondents: 717,600.
Average Hours per Response: 9 minutes.
Burden Hours: 131,600.
Needs and Uses: The mission of the U.S. Census Bureau (Census
Bureau) is to serve as the leading source of quality data about the
nation's people and economy; in order to fulfill this mission, it is
necessary to innovate to produce more detailed, more frequent, and more
timely data products. The Coronavirus pandemic was an impetus for the
creation of new data products by the Census Bureau to measure the
pandemic's impact on the economy: the Small Business Pulse Survey
(SBPS) and the weekly Business Formation Statistics. Policymakers and
other federal agency officials, media outlets, and academia commended
the Census Bureau's rapid response to their data needs during the
largest economic crisis in recent American history. The Census Bureau
capitalized on the successes that underlaid the high frequency data
collection and near real time data dissemination engineered for the
SBPS by creating the Business Trends and Outlook Survey (BTOS).
BTOS uses ongoing data collection to produce high frequency,
timely, and granular information about current economic conditions and
trends. BTOS is the only biweekly business tendency survey produced by
the federal statistical system, providing unique and detailed data
during times of economic or other emergencies. The BTOS initial target
population is all nonfarm, single-location employer businesses with
receipts of $1,000 or more in the United States, the District of
Columbia, and Puerto Rico. The current sample consists of approximately
1.2 million single-unit businesses split into six panels. Data
collection occurs every two weeks, and businesses in each panel are
asked to report once every 12 weeks for one year. Current data from
BTOS are representative of all single location employer businesses
(excluding farms) in the U.S. economy and are published every two
weeks. The data are available at the national and state levels, in
addition to the 25 most-populous Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs).
North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) sector,
subsector, and state by sector are also published, as are employment
size class, and sector by employment size class data, according to the
same timeline.
Data from BTOS are currently used to provide timely data to
understand the economic conditions being experienced by single unit
businesses; BTOS provides near real time data on key items such as
revenue, paid employees, hours worked as well as inventories which is
being added in for the second sample collection year; a new sample
collection is conducted each year.
BTOS also provides high level information on the changing share of
businesses facing difficulties stemming from supply chain issues,
interest rate changes, or weather events. Previously, there had been
few data sources available to policymakers, media outlets, and academia
that delivered near real-time insights into economic trends and
outlooks. BTOS data has been used by the Small Business Administration
to evaluate the impact of regulatory changes. Use of the BTOS data (or
additional requirements) is being determined by the Economic
Development Agency (EDA) to understand the impact of natural disasters
on U.S. businesses for the EDA to then guide the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) and/or policymakers in assisting in economic
recovery support missions.
The BTOS consists of a set of core questions and supplemental
content, when needed. The U.S. Census Bureau requests approval to add
one question on Work from Home (WFH) schedules to the BTOS core
content. Data collection for the BTOS core content will start August
12, 2024.
For 2024, the supplemental questionnaire will ask respondents about
the business perspective on WFH. Using the same strategy as the 2023
BTOS AI core questions, the Census Bureau hopes to field one core WFH
question to run during all cycles in addition to the supplement. The
core WFH question will be a yes/no question intended to capture
potential seasonality in WFH at the business level. Having this
baseline will be important in understanding potential seasonal patterns
picked up in the supplemental questions; preliminary findings from
cognitive testing suggested that seasonality could be important in
certain industries.
The Census Bureau plans to resubmit this package once cognitive
testing concludes to gain approval for the WFH supplement which we plan
to field
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beginning in November 2024. The WFH supplement is intended to capture
nuances in WFH from business perspective including intensity of WFH and
factors impacting its availability.
Frequency: Bi-weekly.
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 0607-1022.
Mary Reuling Lenaiyasa,
Paperwork Reduction Act Program Manager, Policy Coordination Office,
U.S. Census Bureau.
[FR Doc. 2024-14733 Filed 7-3-24; 8:45 am]
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