80_FR_19701 80 FR 19631 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Services Surveys: BE-45, Quarterly Survey of Insurance Transactions by U.S. Insurance Companies With Foreign Persons

80 FR 19631 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Services Surveys: BE-45, Quarterly Survey of Insurance Transactions by U.S. Insurance Companies With Foreign Persons

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Economic Analysis

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 70 (April 13, 2015)

Page Range19631-19632
FR Document2015-08314

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 comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13 (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)).

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 70 (Monday, April 13, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 70 (Monday, April 13, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19631-19632]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-08314]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Economic Analysis


Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Services 
Surveys: BE-45, Quarterly Survey of Insurance Transactions by U.S. 
Insurance Companies With Foreign Persons

AGENCY: Bureau of Economic Analysis, Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: 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 comment on proposed and/or continuing 
information collections, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995, Public Law 104-13 (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)).

DATES: Written comments must be submitted on or before June 12, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental 
Paperwork Clearance Officer, Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 14th 
and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230, or via email at 
jjesup@doc.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Request for additional information or 
copies of the information collection instrument and instructions should 
be directed to Christopher Stein, Chief, Services Surveys Branch BE-50 
(SSB), Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce, 
Washington, DC 20230; phone: (202) 606-9850; fax: (202) 606-5318; or 
via email at christopher.stein@bea.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

    The Quarterly Survey of Insurance Transactions by U.S. Insurance 
Companies with Foreign Persons (BE-45) is a survey that collects data 
on U.S. trade in insurance services. The information collected on this 
survey will be used to formulate U.S. international economic policy and 
analyze the impact of that policy, and the policies of foreign 
countries, on international trade in services. The data are used in 
estimating the insurance component of the U.S. international 
transactions accounts (ITAs) and national income and product accounts 
(NIPAs).
    The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) is proposing no additions, 
modifications, or deletions to the current BE-45 survey. The effort to 
keep current reporting requirements unchanged is intended to minimize

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respondent burden while considering the needs of data users. Existing 
language in the instructions and definitions will be reviewed and 
adjusted as necessary to clarify survey requirements.

II. Method of Collection

    Form BE-45 is a quarterly report that must be filed within 60 days 
after the end of each calendar quarter, or within 90 days after the 
close of the calendar year, and is mandatory for each U.S. insurance 
company whose covered transactions with foreign persons for any of the 
data items on the survey exceeded $8 million (positive or negative) in 
the prior calendar year, or are expected to exceed that amount during 
the current calendar year.
    BEA offers its electronic filing option, the eFile system, for use 
in reporting on Form BE-45. For more information about eFile, go to 
www.bea.gov/efile.

III. Data

    OMB Control Number: 0608-0066.
    Form Number: BE-45.
    Type of Review: Regular submission.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Estimated Number of Responses: 2,000 annually (500 filed each 
quarter; 475 reporting mandatory or voluntary data, and 25 that would 
not report data).
    Estimated Time Per Response: 8 hours is the average for those 
reporting data and 1 hour is the average for those not reporting data, 
but hours may vary considerably among respondents because of 
differences in company size and complexity.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 15,300.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: $612,000.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    Legal Authority: International Investment and Trade in Services 
Survey Act (Pub. L. 94-472, 22 U.S.C. 3101-3108, as amended).

IV. Request for Comments

    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 will 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 will 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: April 7, 2015.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2015-08314 Filed 4-10-15; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 70 / Monday, April 13, 2015 / Notices 19631 packages to the Agency. This condition If selected as a new intermediary, a DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE will require a detailed outline of the MOU between the intermediary and the interested party’s intended procedures. Agency must be signed. The MOU will Bureau of Economic Analysis • Have the capacity to serve as an detail the roles and responsibilities of intermediary in one or more of the Proposed Information Collection; all parties; and will be in effect through following states not currently served Comment Request; Services Surveys: September 30, 2015, or up until the under the existing pilot program: BE–45, Quarterly Survey of Insurance effective date of the final rule on the Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Transactions by U.S. Insurance certified loan application packaging Companies With Foreign Persons Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, process, whichever should occur first. Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, This notice should not be construed as AGENCY: Bureau of Economic Analysis, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, containing all those roles and Department of Commerce. Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New responsibilities. ACTION: Notice. Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Non-Discrimination Statement SUMMARY: The Department of Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Commerce, as part of its continuing Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virgin USDA prohibits discrimination in all effort to reduce paperwork and Islands, Washington, and Wisconsin. its programs and activities on the basis respondent burden, invites the general (Applications that propose covering any of race, color, national origin, age, public and other Federal agencies to of the following states will be disability, and where applicable, sex, comment on proposed and/or automatically removed from marital status, familial status, parental continuing information collections, as consideration since the existing status, religion, sexual orientation, required by the Paperwork Reduction intermediaries are tasked with serving political beliefs, genetic information, Act of 1995, Public Law 104–13 (44 all or part of these states: Alabama, reprisal, or because all or part of an U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, individual’s income is derived from any DATES: Written comments must be Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana, public assistance program. (Not all submitted on or before June 12, 2015. Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, prohibited bases apply to all programs. ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Persons with disabilities who require to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, alternative means for communication of Paperwork Clearance Officer, and Wyoming.) This condition will program information (Braille, large Department of Commerce, Room 6616, require a detailed outline of the print, audiotape, etc.) should contact 14th and Constitution Avenue NW., interested party’s action plan and USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720– Washington, DC 20230, or via email at experience. The outline should include, 2600 (voice and TDD). jjesup@doc.gov. but is not limited to: What state or states FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: the party wishes to cover, how they are If you wish to file a Civil Rights program complaint of discrimination, Request for additional information or well-equipped to handle the proposed copies of the information collection coverage area, how they intend on complete the USDA Program instrument and instructions should be creating affiliations with eligible Discrimination Complaint Form, found directed to Christopher Stein, Chief, nonprofit packagers, confirmation that online at: http://www.ascr.usda.gov/ Services Surveys Branch BE–50 (SSB), they will not serve dual roles (i.e., the complaint_filing_cust.html or at any Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. intermediary and the packager’s USDA Office, or call (866) 632–9992 to Department of Commerce, Washington, employer must have different tax request the form. Send your completed DC 20230; phone: (202) 606–9850; fax: identification numbers and cannot have complaint form or letter by mail to: U.S. (202) 606–5318; or via email at the same board of directors) unless they Department of Agriculture, Director, christopher.stein@bea.gov. intend on operating under the program’s Office of Adjudication, 1400 SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: general provisions for some packages Independence Avenue SW., which means the packaging fee cannot Washington, DC 20250; by fax at (202) I. Abstract exceed $750, their ability to target very- 690–7442; or, by email at: The Quarterly Survey of Insurance low income persons in rural areas program.intake@usda.gov. Individuals Transactions by U.S. Insurance interested in homeownership, and their who are deaf, hard of hearing or have Companies with Foreign Persons (BE– ability to target underserved areas. speech disabilities and who wish to file 45) is a survey that collects data on U.S. • Ensure that their quality assurance a program complaint should please trade in insurance services. The staff completes an Agency-approved contact USDA through the Federal Relay information collected on this survey loan application packaging course and Service at (800) 877–8339 or (800) 845– will be used to formulate U.S. successfully pass the corresponding test. 6136 (in Spanish). USDA is an equal international economic policy and • Not be the developer, builder, seller opportunity provider and employer. The analyze the impact of that policy, and of, or have any other such financial the policies of foreign countries, on full ‘‘Non-Discrimination Statement’’ is interest in, the property for which the international trade in services. The data found at: http://www.usda.gov.wps/ application package is submitted. are used in estimating the insurance portal/usda/usdahome?navtype=Non_ • Acknowledge qualifying as an component of the U.S. international intermediary for the pilot does not Discrimination. transactions accounts (ITAs) and mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES imply any guaranteed qualification Dated: April 1, 2015. national income and product accounts under the certified loan application Tony Hernandez, (NIPAs). packaging process final rule once Administrator, Rural Housing Service. The Bureau of Economic Analysis effective. [FR Doc. 2015–08351 Filed 4–10–15; 8:45 am] (BEA) is proposing no additions, The above conditions generally mimic modifications, or deletions to the BILLING CODE 3410–XV–P those outlined in the proposed rule to current BE–45 survey. The effort to keep create a certified loan application current reporting requirements packaging process. unchanged is intended to minimize VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:02 Apr 10, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\13APN1.SGM 13APN1

19632 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 70 / Monday, April 13, 2015 / Notices respondent burden while considering considerably among respondents Dated: April 7, 2015. the needs of data users. Existing because of differences in company size Glenna Mickelson, language in the instructions and and complexity. Management Analyst, Office of Chief definitions will be reviewed and Estimated Total Annual Burden Information Officer. adjusted as necessary to clarify survey Hours: 15,300. [FR Doc. 2015–08314 Filed 4–10–15; 8:45 am] requirements. Estimated Total Annual Cost to BILLING CODE 3510–06–P II. Method of Collection Public: $612,000. Form BE–45 is a quarterly report that Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE must be filed within 60 days after the Legal Authority: International end of each calendar quarter, or within Investment and Trade in Services Economic Development Administration 90 days after the close of the calendar Survey Act (Pub. L. 94–472, 22 U.S.C. year, and is mandatory for each U.S. 3101–3108, as amended). Notice of Petitions by Firms for insurance company whose covered Determination of Eligibility To Apply transactions with foreign persons for IV. Request for Comments for Trade Adjustment Assistance any of the data items on the survey Comments are invited on: (a) Whether AGENCY: Economic Development exceeded $8 million (positive or the proposed collection of information Administration, Department of negative) in the prior calendar year, or is necessary for the proper performance Commerce. are expected to exceed that amount of the functions of the Agency, during the current calendar year. ACTION: Notice and opportunity for including whether the information will BEA offers its electronic filing option, public comment. have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the eFile system, for use in reporting on the Agency’s estimate of the burden Pursuant to Section 251 of the Trade Form BE–45. For more information (including hours and cost) of the Act 1974, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2341 about eFile, go to www.bea.gov/efile. proposed collection of information; (c) et seq.), the Economic Development III. Data ways to enhance the quality, utility, and Administration (EDA) has received clarity of the information to be petitions for certification of eligibility to OMB Control Number: 0608–0066. collected; and (d) ways to minimize the Form Number: BE–45. apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance Type of Review: Regular submission. burden of the collection of information from the firms listed below. Affected Public: Business or other for- on respondents, including through the Accordingly, EDA has initiated profit organizations. use of automated collection techniques investigations to determine whether Estimated Number of Responses: or other forms of information increased imports into the United States 2,000 annually (500 filed each quarter; technology. of articles like or directly competitive 475 reporting mandatory or voluntary Comments submitted in response to with those produced by each of these data, and 25 that would not report data). this notice will be summarized and/or firms contributed importantly to the Estimated Time Per Response: 8 hours included in the request for OMB total or partial separation of the firm’s is the average for those reporting data approval of this information collection; workers, or threat thereof, and to a and 1 hour is the average for those not they also will become a matter of public decrease in sales or production of each reporting data, but hours may vary record. petitioning firm. LIST OF PETITIONS RECEIVED BY EDA FOR CERTIFICATION ELIGIBILITY TO APPLY FOR TRADE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE [3/28/2015 through 4/7/2015] Date accepted Firm name Firm address for Product(s) investigation Clear Automation, LLC .............. 85 Robert Porter Road, Southington, CT 4/7/2015 The firm manufactures system integrated au- 06489. tomation robotic equipment. Any party having a substantial these petitions are submitted is 11.313, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE interest in these proceedings may Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms. request a public hearing on the matter. Foreign-Trade Zones Board Dated: April 7, 2015. A written request for a hearing must be [Order No. 1969] Michael S. DeVillo, submitted to the Trade Adjustment Eligibility Examiner. Expansion of Subzone 116B; Total Assistance for Firms Division, Room [FR Doc. 2015–08370 Filed 4–10–15; 8:45 am] Petrochemicals & Refining USA, Inc., 71030, Economic Development Administration, U.S. Department of BILLING CODE 3510–WH–P Port Arthur and Jefferson County, Commerce, Washington, DC 20230, no Texas later than ten (10) calendar days Pursuant to its authority under the following publication of this notice. mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Foreign-Trade Zones Act of June 18, Please follow the requirements set 1934, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), forth in EDA’s regulations at 13 CFR the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the 315.9 for procedures to request a public Board) adopts the following Order: hearing. 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CollectionFederal Register
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice.
DatesWritten comments must be submitted on or before June 12, 2015.
ContactRequest for additional information or copies of the information collection instrument and instructions should be directed to Christopher Stein, Chief, Services Surveys Branch BE-50 (SSB), Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230; phone: (202) 606-9850; fax: (202) 606-5318; or via email at [email protected]
FR Citation80 FR 19631 
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