80_FR_25748 80 FR 25662 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Precanvass Operation for the 2017 Commodity Flow Survey

80 FR 25662 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Precanvass Operation for the 2017 Commodity Flow Survey

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 86 (May 5, 2015)

Page Range25662-25663
FR Document2015-10468

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.

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 86 (Tuesday, May 5, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 86 (Tuesday, May 5, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25662-25663]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-10468]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Census Bureau


Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Precanvass 
Operation for the 2017 Commodity Flow Survey

AGENCY: U.S. Census Bureau, 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 take this opportunity to comment on 
proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

DATES: To ensure consideration, written comments must be submitted on 
or before July 6, 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 the Internet 
at [email protected]).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or 
copies of the information collection instrument(s) and instructions 
should be directed to James Hinckley, Census Bureau, Room 6K057-South 
Building, Washington, DC 20233 (or via the Internet at 
[email protected]).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract

    The Census Bureau plans to conduct a Precanvass Operation in 
preparation for the 2017 Commodity Flow Survey to improve the 
efficiency and accuracy of the sample frame. The Commodity Flow Survey 
itself will be the subject of a later notice planned for publication in 
early 2016.
    The Commodity Flow Survey, a component of the Economic Census, is 
the only comprehensive source of multimodal, system-wide data on the 
volume and pattern of goods movement in the United States. The 
Commodity Flow Survey is conducted in partnership with the Bureau of 
Transportation Statistics, Office of the Assistant Secretary for 
Research and Technology, U.S. Department of Transportation.
    The Commodity Flow Survey data are used by policy makers and 
transportation planners in various federal, state, and local agencies 
for accessing the demand for transportation facilities and services, 
energy use, and safety risk and environmental concerns. Additionally, 
business owners, private researchers, and analysts use the Commodity 
Flow Survey data for analyzing trends in the movement of goods, 
mapping, spatial patterns of commodity and vehicle flows, forecasting 
demands for the movement of goods, and determining needs for associated 
infrastructure and equipment.
    In conducting the Precanvass, the Census Bureau will select a 
sample from U.S. manufacturing, mining, and wholesale establishments, 
enterprise support establishments, electronic shopping, mail-order 
houses, and publishing establishments. The Precanvass will determine if 
these establishments are engaged in shipping activities, and if so 
obtain an estimate of the annual value of those shipments, along with 
updating address and contact information for the 2017 Commodity Flow 
Survey. Those establishments that do not engage in shipping activity 
will be eliminated from the sample frame. Identification and 
elimination of the non-shippers will significantly improve the 
efficiency of the sample for the 2017 Commodity Flow Survey. In 
addition, those establishments excluded from the sample frame will be 
saved the added burden of receiving a 2017 Commodity Flow Survey 
questionnaire.

II. Method of Collection

    The Census Bureau will mail letters to (a) enterprise support 
establishments in the Census Bureau's Business Register, and (b) the 
largest establishments in the industries listed in section I that are 
likely to be included in the 2017 Commodity Flow Survey. The estimated 
size of the Precanvass is 150,000 establishments. The size is subject 
to change to meet the goals of the survey, but will be no larger than 
approximately 150,000 establishments.
    The Census Bureau will primarily use electronic data capture 
methodology, with occasional data capture from facsimile receipts, 
secured messaging attachments, and telephone call-in responses. Letter 
mailings and telephone follow-up will be conducted for the nonresponse 
cases. General information on shipping activity and value of shipments 
will be collected via check box style questions. Contact information 
will also be collected and used to improve the mailing and follow-up 
activities for the 2017 Commodity Flow Survey.

III. Data

    OMB Control Number: 0607-0921.
    Form Number(s): CFS-0001.
    Type of Review: Regular submission.
    Affected Public: Businesses and other for-profit organizations.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 150,000.
    Estimated Time per Response: 5 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 12,500.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: $0.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., sections 131, 182, 224 and 225; 
49 U.S.C., section 111.

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 shall have

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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 30, 2015.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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25662 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 86 / Tuesday, May 5, 2015 / Notices advises the Directors of the BEA, the DATES: To ensure consideration, written the annual value of those shipments, Census Bureau, and the Commissioner comments must be submitted on or along with updating address and contact of the Department of Labor’s BLS, on before July 6, 2015. information for the 2017 Commodity statistical methodology and other ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments Flow Survey. Those establishments that technical matters related to the to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental do not engage in shipping activity will collection, tabulation, and analysis of Paperwork Clearance Officer, be eliminated from the sample frame. federal economic statistics. The Department of Commerce, Room 6616, Identification and elimination of the Committee is established in accordance 14th and Constitution Avenue NW., non-shippers will significantly improve with the Federal Advisory Committee Washington, DC 20230 (or via the the efficiency of the sample for the 2017 Act (Title 5, United States Code, Internet at jjessup@doc.gov). Commodity Flow Survey. In addition, Appendix 2). FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: those establishments excluded from the The meeting is open to the public, Requests for additional information or sample frame will be saved the added and a brief period is set aside for public copies of the information collection burden of receiving a 2017 Commodity comments and questions. Persons with instrument(s) and instructions should Flow Survey questionnaire. extensive questions or statements must be directed to James Hinckley, Census II. Method of Collection submit them in writing at least three Bureau, Room 6K057–South Building, days before the meeting to the Washington, DC 20233 (or via the The Census Bureau will mail letters to Designated Federal Official named Internet at james.hinckley@census.gov). (a) enterprise support establishments in above. If you plan to attend the meeting, the Census Bureau’s Business Register, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: please register by Monday, June 1, 2015. and (b) the largest establishments in the You may access the online registration I. Abstract industries listed in section I that are form with the following link: https:// likely to be included in the 2017 The Census Bureau plans to conduct www.regonline.com/fesac_june2015_ Commodity Flow Survey. The estimated a Precanvass Operation in preparation meeting. Seating is available to the size of the Precanvass is 150,000 for the 2017 Commodity Flow Survey to public on a first-come, first-served basis. establishments. The size is subject to improve the efficiency and accuracy of This meeting is physically accessible change to meet the goals of the survey, the sample frame. The Commodity Flow to people with disabilities. Requests for but will be no larger than approximately Survey itself will be the subject of a sign language interpretation or other 150,000 establishments. later notice planned for publication in auxiliary aids should also be directed to The Census Bureau will primarily use early 2016. the Designated Federal Official as soon electronic data capture methodology, The Commodity Flow Survey, a as known, and preferably two weeks with occasional data capture from component of the Economic Census, is prior to the meeting. facsimile receipts, secured messaging the only comprehensive source of attachments, and telephone call-in Due to increased security and for multimodal, system-wide data on the responses. Letter mailings and access to the meeting, please call 301– volume and pattern of goods movement telephone follow-up will be conducted 763–9906 upon arrival at the Census in the United States. The Commodity for the nonresponse cases. General Bureau on the day of the meeting. A Flow Survey is conducted in information on shipping activity and photo ID must be presented in order to partnership with the Bureau of value of shipments will be collected via receive your visitor’s badge. Visitors are Transportation Statistics, Office of the check box style questions. Contact not allowed beyond the first floor. Assistant Secretary for Research and information will also be collected and Dated: April 29, 2015. Technology, U.S. Department of used to improve the mailing and follow- John H. Thompson, Transportation. The Commodity Flow Survey data are up activities for the 2017 Commodity Director, Bureau of the Census. used by policy makers and Flow Survey. [FR Doc. 2015–10456 Filed 5–4–15; 8:45 am] transportation planners in various III. Data BILLING CODE 3510–07–P federal, state, and local agencies for OMB Control Number: 0607–0921. accessing the demand for transportation Form Number(s): CFS–0001. facilities and services, energy use, and Type of Review: Regular submission. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE safety risk and environmental concerns. Affected Public: Businesses and other Census Bureau Additionally, business owners, private for-profit organizations. researchers, and analysts use the Estimated Number of Respondents: Proposed Information Collection; Commodity Flow Survey data for 150,000. Comment Request; Precanvass analyzing trends in the movement of Estimated Time per Response: 5 Operation for the 2017 Commodity goods, mapping, spatial patterns of minutes. Flow Survey commodity and vehicle flows, Estimated Total Annual Burden forecasting demands for the movement Hours: 12,500. AGENCY: U.S. Census Bureau, of goods, and determining needs for Estimated Total Annual Cost to Commerce. associated infrastructure and Public: $0. ACTION: Notice. equipment. Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. In conducting the Precanvass, the Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., SUMMARY: The Department of Census Bureau will select a sample from asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES sections 131, 182, 224 and 225; 49 Commerce, as part of its continuing U.S. manufacturing, mining, and U.S.C., section 111. effort to reduce paperwork and wholesale establishments, enterprise respondent burden, invites the general support establishments, electronic IV. Request for Comments public and other Federal agencies to shopping, mail-order houses, and Comments are invited on: (a) Whether take this opportunity to comment on publishing establishments. The the proposed collection of information proposed and/or continuing information Precanvass will determine if these is necessary for the proper performance collections, as required by the establishments are engaged in shipping of the functions of the agency, including Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. activities, and if so obtain an estimate of whether the information shall have VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:18 May 04, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\05MYN1.SGM 05MYN1

Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 86 / Tuesday, May 5, 2015 / Notices 25663 practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the DATES: Submit comments on or before More specifically, we analyzed the agency’s estimate of the burden June 4, 2015. complex definition of the term ‘‘public (including hours and cost) of the ADDRESSES: The public is invited to safety entity’’ under the Act.3 The proposed collection of information; (c) submit written comments to this Third primary ramification of falling within ways to enhance the quality, utility, and Notice. Written comments may be this definition is that a public safety clarity of the information to be submitted electronically through entity is served by FirstNet directly, collected; and (d) ways to minimize the www.regulations.gov or by mail (to the rather than as a commercial customer of burden of the collection of information address listed below). Comments a secondary user of FirstNet’s spectrum. on respondents, including through the received related to this Notice will be In particular, under our preliminary use of automated collection techniques made a part of the public record and interpretations of network elements in or other forms of information will be posted to www.regulations.gov the First Notice, public safety entities technology. without change. Comments should be would be served by the FirstNet core Comments submitted in response to machine readable and should not be network, through either a FirstNet radio this notice will be summarized and/or copy-protected. Comments should access network (‘‘RAN’’) or the RAN of included in the request for OMB include the name of the person or a State that has chosen to assume approval of this information collection; organization filing the comment as well responsibility for RAN buildout and they also will become a matter of public as a page number on each page of the operation.4 record. submission. All personally identifiable Generally speaking, the Act defines Dated: April 30, 2015. information (e.g., name, address) public safety entities by the types of Glenna Mickelson, voluntarily submitted by the commenter services they provide (i.e., whether they may be publicly accessible. Do not provide public safety services).5 Those Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer. submit confidential business public safety services are further information or otherwise sensitive or defined by, among other things, the [FR Doc. 2015–10468 Filed 5–4–15; 8:45 am] protected information. nature of the services (such as the BILLING CODE 3510–07–P protection of life, health or property), FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eli but also the types of specific entities Veenendaal, First Responder Network DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE providing the services (such as Authority, National emergency response providers).6 The Telecommunications and Information National Telecommunications and Administration, U.S. Department of end result is a complex, multi-layered Information Administration Commerce, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, definition of public safety entity. Our analysis in the First Notice M/S 243, Reston, VA 20192; 703–648– First Responder Network Authority included the virtually self-evident 4167; or elijah.veenendaal@firstnet.gov. preliminary conclusion that the [Docket Number: 140821696–5400–03] SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: definition of public safety entity RIN 0660–XC012 I. Introduction and Background includes traditional first responders— police, fire, and EMS.7 No commenter Further Proposed Interpretations of The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job disagreed with this preliminary Parts of the Middle Class Tax Relief Creation Act of 2012 (Pub. L. 112–96, conclusion. The Act’s definition of and Job Creation Act of 2012 Title VI, 126 Stat. 256 (codified at 47 public safety entity, however, is U.S.C. 1401 et seq.)) (the ‘‘Act’’) expressly not limited to such traditional AGENCY: First Responder Network established the First Responder Network first responders. Thus, in the First Authority, National Authority (‘‘FirstNet’’) as an Notice, we also analyzed the definition Telecommunications and Information independent authority within the with regard to which entities beyond Administration, U.S. Department of National Telecommunications and traditional first responders would Commerce. Information Administration (‘‘NTIA’’). qualify as public safety entities.8 ACTION: Notice and request for The Act establishes FirstNet’s duty and The Act’s public safety entity comments. responsibility to take all actions definition raises three primary necessary to ensure the building, interpretive questions regarding non- SUMMARY: The First Responder Network deployment, and operation of a Authority (‘‘FirstNet’’) publishes this traditional first responders: nationwide public safety broadband 1. Whether an ‘‘entity’’ should be Third Notice to request public comment network (‘‘NPSBN’’).1 on certain proposed interpretations of defined as a group or authority of a As detailed in our Notice entitled certain minimum size or nature (such as its enabling legislation that will inform, ‘‘Proposed Interpretations of Parts of the among other things, consultation, an entire government agency or Middle Class Tax Relief and Job department) or can an ‘‘entity’’ include forthcoming requests for proposals, Creation Act of 2012’’ (79 FR 57058, interpretive rules, and network policies. a sub-group or an individual; September 24, 2014) (herein ‘‘the First 2. Whether and to what extent an This Third Notice responds to Notice’’),2 we preliminary concluded comments and further clarifies proposed ‘‘entity’’ that provides public safety that key issues relating to the services some, but not all the time, can interpretations related to the definition responsibilities and opportunities of and scope of the term ‘‘public safety qualify as a public safety entity; and FirstNet, other federal agencies, States 3. Whether and to what extent an entity’’ as used in FirstNet’s enabling asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES and territories, and state, federal local, ‘‘entity’’ that provides services close or legislation and as discussed in a and tribal public safety entities, among previous FirstNet Notice published on related to, but not identical to other stakeholders, turn on September 24, 2014. With the benefit of interpretation of the Act’s terms and 3 79 FR 57060 (September 24, 2014). the comments received from this Third provisions. 4 79 FR 57059. Notice, FirstNet may proceed to 5 See 47 U.S.C. 1401(26). implement these or other interpretations 1 47U.S.C. 1426(b). 6 See id. § 1401(27). with or without further administrative 2 Allresponses to the First Notice are publically 7 79 FR 57061 (September 24, 2014). procedure. available at www.regulations.gov. 8 79 FR at 57060–2. VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:18 May 04, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\05MYN1.SGM 05MYN1


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ActionNotice.
DatesTo ensure consideration, written comments must be submitted on or before July 6, 2015.
ContactRequests for additional information or copies of the information collection instrument(s) and instructions should be directed to James Hinckley, Census Bureau, Room 6K057-South Building, Washington, DC 20233 (or via the Internet at [email protected]).
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