82_FR_18175 82 FR 18103 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

82 FR 18103 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 72 (April 17, 2017)

Page Range18103-18104
FR Document2017-07625

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 72 (Monday, April 17, 2017)
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 72 (Monday, April 17, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18103-18104]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-07625]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Census Bureau


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of 
information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 
U.S.C. chapter 35).
    Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
    Title: Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-0190.
    Form Number(s): SM4217-A, SM4217-E.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Number of Respondents: 4,200.
    Average Hours per Response: 7 minutes.
    Burden Hours: 5,880.
    Needs and Uses: The Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey (MWTS) canvasses 
firms primarily engaged in merchant wholesale trade that are located in 
the United States, excluding manufacturers' sales branches and offices 
(MSBOs). This survey provides the only continuous measure of monthly 
wholesale sales, end-of-month inventories, and inventories-to-sales 
ratios. The sales and inventories estimates produced from the MWTS 
provide current trends of economic activity by kind of business for the 
United States. Also, the estimates compiled from this survey provide 
valuable information for economic policy decisions by the government 
and are widely used by private businesses, trade organizations, 
professional associations, and other business research and analysis 
organizations.
    Estimates from the MWTS are released in three different reports 
each month. High level aggregate estimates for end-of-month inventories 
are first released as part of the Advance Economic Indicators Report. 
Second, the full Monthly Wholesale Trade Report containing both sales 
and

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inventories estimates is released. Lastly, high level sales and 
inventories estimates from the MWTS are also released as part of the 
Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales (MTIS) report. The 
Advance Economic Indicators Report is a new report first released on 
July 28, 2016, and will be released monthly on an ongoing basis.
    As one of the U.S. Census Bureau's principal economic indicators, 
the estimates produced by the MWTS are critical to the accurate 
measurement of total economic activity of the United States. The 
estimates of sales made by wholesale locations represent only merchant 
wholesalers, excluding MSBOs, who typically take title to goods bought 
for resale and sell to other businesses. The sales estimates include 
sales made on credit as well as on a cash basis, but exclude receipts 
from sales taxes and interest charges from credit sales.
    The estimates of inventories represent all merchandise held in 
wholesale locations, warehouses, and offices, as well as goods held by 
others for sale on consignment or in transit for distribution to 
wholesale establishments. The estimates of inventories exclude fixtures 
and supplies not for resale, as well as merchandise held on 
consignment, which are owned by others. Inventories are an important 
component in the Bureau of Economic Analysis' (BEA) calculation of the 
investment portion of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
    The U.S. Census Bureau publishes wholesale sales and inventories 
estimates based on the North American Industry Classification System 
(NAICS), which has been widely adopted throughout both the public and 
private sectors.
    The Census Bureau tabulates the collected data to provide, with 
measurable reliability, statistics on sales, end-of-month inventories, 
and inventories-to-sales ratios for merchant wholesalers, excluding 
MSBOs.
    The BEA is the primary Federal user of data collected in the MWTS. 
The BEA uses estimates from this survey to prepare the national income 
and product accounts (NIPA), input-output accounts (I-O), and gross 
domestic product (GDP) by industry. End-of-month inventories are used 
to prepare the change in private inventories component of GDP. The BEA 
also uses the Advance Economic Indicators Report to improve the 
inventory valuation adjustments applied to estimates of the Advance 
Gross Domestic Product. Sales are used to prepare estimates of real 
inventories-to-sales ratios in the NIPAs, extrapolate proprietors' 
income for wholesalers (until tax return data become available) in the 
NIPAs, and extrapolate annual current-dollar gross output for the most 
recent year in annual I-O tables, GDP-by-industry, and advance GDP-by-
industry estimates.
    The Bureau of Labor Statistics uses the data as input to its 
Producer Price Indexes and in developing productivity measurements. 
Private businesses use the wholesale sales and inventories data in 
computing business activity indexes. Other government agencies and 
businesses use this information for market research, product 
development, and business planning to gauge the current trends of the 
economy.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
    Frequency: Monthly.
    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 Department of Commerce 
collections currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395-5806.

Sheleen Dumas,
PRA Departmental Lead, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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                                                  database. In particular, the COS                           Electronic reporting will be available               Comments submitted in response to
                                                  supplies critical information on the                    to all 2017–2019 COS respondents.                     this notice will be summarized and/or
                                                  composition, organizational structure,                  Companies will receive and return                     included in the request for OMB
                                                  and operating characteristics of multi-                 responses by secure Internet                          approval of this information collection;
                                                  location companies.                                     transmission. The instrument will                     they also will become a matter of public
                                                    The BR serves two fundamental                         include inquiries on ownership or                     record.
                                                  purposes:                                               control by domestic or foreign parent,
                                                                                                                                                                Sheleen Dumas,
                                                  —First and most important, it provides                  ownership of foreign affiliates, leased
                                                    sampling populations and                              employment and cooperative                            PRA Departmental Lead, Office of the Chief
                                                                                                                                                                Information Officer.
                                                    enumeration lists for the Census                      organization. Further, the instrument
                                                                                                                                                                [FR Doc. 2017–07624 Filed 4–14–17; 8:45 am]
                                                    Bureau’s economic surveys and                         will list an inventory of establishments
                                                    censuses, and it serves as an integral                belonging to the company and its                      BILLING CODE 3510–07–P

                                                    part of the statistical foundation                    subsidiaries, and request updates to
                                                    underlying those programs. Essential                  these inventories, including additions,
                                                    for this purpose is the BR’s ability to                                                                     DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
                                                                                                          deletions and changes to information on
                                                    identify all known United States                      EIN, name and address, industrial                     Census Bureau
                                                    business establishments and their                     classification, end-of-year operating
                                                    parent companies. Further, the BR                     status, mid-March employment, first                   Submission for OMB Review;
                                                    must accurately record basic business                 quarter payroll and annual payroll.                   Comment Request
                                                    attributes needed to control sampling                 Beginning with the 2017 collection, a
                                                    and enumeration. These attributes                     new question regarding cooperative                       The Department of Commerce will
                                                    include industrial and geographic                     organization status will be included in               submit to the Office of Management and
                                                    classifications, and name and address                 the instrument but respondents will no                Budget (OMB) for clearance the
                                                    information.                                          longer receive inquiries pertaining to                following proposal for collection of
                                                  —Second, it provides establishment                      the Enterprise Statistics Program as the              information under the provisions of the
                                                    data that serve as the basis for the                  program has been suspended.                           Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
                                                    annual County Business Patterns                                                                             chapter 35).
                                                    (CBP) statistical series. The CBP                     III. Data                                                Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
                                                    publications present data on number                      OMB Control Number: 0607–0444.                        Title: Monthly Wholesale Trade
                                                    of establishments, first quarter                         Form Number(s): NC–99001 (for                      Survey.
                                                    payroll, annual payroll, and mid-                     multi-establishment enterprises during                   OMB Control Number: 0607–0190.
                                                    March employment summarized by                        2017–2019) and NC–99007 (for single-                     Form Number(s): SM4217–A,
                                                    industry and employment size class                    location companies during 2018–2019).                 SM4217–E.
                                                    for the United States, the District of                   Type of Review: Regular submission.                   Type of Request: Extension of a
                                                    Columbia, island areas, counties, and                    Affected Public: Businesses and not-               currently approved collection.
                                                    country-equivalents. No other annual                  for-profit institutions.                                 Number of Respondents: 4,200.
                                                    or more frequent series of industry                      Estimated Number of Respondents:                      Average Hours per Response: 7
                                                    statistics provides comparable detail,                164,000 for 2017 and 47,000 per year for              minutes.
                                                    particularly for small geographic                     2018–2019.                                               Burden Hours: 5,880.
                                                    areas.                                                   Estimated Time per Response: 0.44                     Needs and Uses: The Monthly
                                                                                                          hours for 2017 and 3.4 hours for 2018–                Wholesale Trade Survey (MWTS)
                                                  II. Method of Collection                                                                                      canvasses firms primarily engaged in
                                                                                                          2019.
                                                     The 2017–2019 COS collection                            Estimated Total Annual Burden                      merchant wholesale trade that are
                                                  strategy will focus on electronic                       Hours: 72,160 hours for 2017 and                      located in the United States, excluding
                                                  reporting as the standard collection                       159,800 hours for 2018–2019.                       manufacturers’ sales branches and
                                                  option. The Census Bureau will conduct                     Estimated Total Annual Cost to                     offices (MSBOs). This survey provides
                                                  the 2017 COS in conjunction with the                    Public: $0.                                           the only continuous measure of monthly
                                                  2017 Economic Census and will                              Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.                wholesale sales, end-of-month
                                                  coordinate these collections to minimize                   Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C.                   inventories, and inventories-to-sales
                                                  response burden. The consolidated                       Sections 131 and 182.                                 ratios. The sales and inventories
                                                  COS/census mail canvass will direct                                                                           estimates produced from the MWTS
                                                                                                          IV. Request for Comments                              provide current trends of economic
                                                  inquiries to the entire universe of multi-
                                                  location enterprises that comprises                        Comments are invited on: (a) Whether               activity by kind of business for the
                                                  roughly 164,000 parent companies and                    the proposed collection of information                United States. Also, the estimates
                                                  more than 1.6 million establishments.                   is necessary for the proper performance               compiled from this survey provide
                                                  Additional COS inquiries will apply to                  of the functions of the agency, including             valuable information for economic
                                                  the 15,000 multi-unit establishments                    whether the information shall have                    policy decisions by the government and
                                                  classified in industries that are out-of-               practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the            are widely used by private businesses,
                                                  scope of the economic census.                           agency’s estimate of the burden                       trade organizations, professional
                                                     The 2018–2019 COS will request                       (including hours and cost) of the                     associations, and other business
                                                  company-level information from a                        proposed collection of information; (c)               research and analysis organizations.
                                                  selection of multi-establishment                        ways to enhance the quality, utility, and                Estimates from the MWTS are
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                                                  enterprises, which comprise roughly                     clarity of the information to be                      released in three different reports each
                                                  42,000 parent companies and more than                   collected; and (d) ways to minimize the               month. High level aggregate estimates
                                                  1.4 million establishments.                             burden of the collection of information               for end-of-month inventories are first
                                                  Additionally, the panel will include                    on respondents, including through the                 released as part of the Advance
                                                  approximately 5,000 large single-                       use of automated collection techniques                Economic Indicators Report. Second,
                                                  location companies that may have                        or other forms of information                         the full Monthly Wholesale Trade
                                                  added locations during the year.                        technology.                                           Report containing both sales and


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                                                  inventories estimates is released. Lastly,               measurable reliability, statistics on                 Department of Commerce collections
                                                  high level sales and inventories                         sales, end-of-month inventories, and                  currently under review by OMB.
                                                  estimates from the MWTS are also                         inventories-to-sales ratios for merchant                Written comments and
                                                  released as part of the Manufacturing                    wholesalers, excluding MSBOs.                         recommendations for the proposed
                                                  and Trade Inventories and Sales (MTIS)                     The BEA is the primary Federal user                 information collection should be sent
                                                  report. The Advance Economic                             of data collected in the MWTS. The BEA                within 30 days of publication of this
                                                  Indicators Report is a new report first                  uses estimates from this survey to                    notice to OIRA_Submission@
                                                  released on July 28, 2016, and will be                   prepare the national income and
                                                                                                                                                                 omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395–5806.
                                                  released monthly on an ongoing basis.                    product accounts (NIPA), input-output
                                                     As one of the U.S. Census Bureau’s                    accounts (I–O), and gross domestic                    Sheleen Dumas,
                                                  principal economic indicators, the                       product (GDP) by industry. End-of-                    PRA Departmental Lead, Office of the Chief
                                                  estimates produced by the MWTS are                       month inventories are used to prepare                 Information Officer.
                                                  critical to the accurate measurement of                  the change in private inventories                     [FR Doc. 2017–07625 Filed 4–14–17; 8:45 am]
                                                  total economic activity of the United                    component of GDP. The BEA also uses                   BILLING CODE 3510–07–P
                                                  States. The estimates of sales made by                   the Advance Economic Indicators
                                                  wholesale locations represent only                       Report to improve the inventory
                                                  merchant wholesalers, excluding                          valuation adjustments applied to                      DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
                                                  MSBOs, who typically take title to                       estimates of the Advance Gross
                                                  goods bought for resale and sell to other                Domestic Product. Sales are used to                   Economic Development Administration
                                                  businesses. The sales estimates include                  prepare estimates of real inventories-to-
                                                  sales made on credit as well as on a cash                sales ratios in the NIPAs, extrapolate                Notice of Petitions by Firms for
                                                  basis, but exclude receipts from sales                   proprietors’ income for wholesalers                   Determination of Eligibility To Apply
                                                  taxes and interest charges from credit                   (until tax return data become available)              for Trade Adjustment Assistance
                                                  sales.                                                   in the NIPAs, and extrapolate annual
                                                     The estimates of inventories represent                current-dollar gross output for the most              AGENCY:Economic Development
                                                  all merchandise held in wholesale                        recent year in annual I–O tables, GDP-                Administration, Department of
                                                  locations, warehouses, and offices, as                   by-industry, and advance GDP-by-                      Commerce.
                                                  well as goods held by others for sale on                 industry estimates.
                                                  consignment or in transit for                                                                                  ACTION: Notice and opportunity for
                                                                                                             The Bureau of Labor Statistics uses
                                                  distribution to wholesale                                                                                      public comment.
                                                                                                           the data as input to its Producer Price
                                                  establishments. The estimates of                         Indexes and in developing productivity
                                                  inventories exclude fixtures and                         measurements. Private businesses use                     Pursuant to Section 251 of the Trade
                                                  supplies not for resale, as well as                      the wholesale sales and inventories data              Act 1974, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2341
                                                  merchandise held on consignment,                         in computing business activity indexes.               et seq.), the Economic Development
                                                  which are owned by others. Inventories                   Other government agencies and                         Administration (EDA) has received
                                                  are an important component in the                        businesses use this information for                   petitions for certification of eligibility to
                                                  Bureau of Economic Analysis’ (BEA)                       market research, product development,                 apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance
                                                  calculation of the investment portion of                 and business planning to gauge the                    from the firms listed below.
                                                  the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).                        current trends of the economy.                        Accordingly, EDA has initiated
                                                     The U.S. Census Bureau publishes                        Affected Public: Business or other for-             investigations to determine whether
                                                  wholesale sales and inventories                          profit.                                               increased imports into the United States
                                                  estimates based on the North American                      Frequency: Monthly.                                 of articles like or directly competitive
                                                  Industry Classification System (NAICS),                    Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.                 with those produced by each of these
                                                  which has been widely adopted                              Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C.,                   firms contributed importantly to the
                                                  throughout both the public and private                   Sections 131 and 182.                                 total or partial separation of the firm’s
                                                  sectors.                                                   This information collection request                 workers, or threat thereof, and to a
                                                     The Census Bureau tabulates the                       may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.                     decrease in sales or production of each
                                                  collected data to provide, with                          Follow the instructions to view                       petitioning firm.

                                                    LIST OF PETITIONS RECEIVED BY EDA FOR CERTIFICATION ELIGIBILITY TO APPLY FOR TRADE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE
                                                                                                                     [4/3/2017 through 4/10/2017]

                                                                                                                               Date accepted
                                                             Firm name                               Firm address                    for                                     Product(s)
                                                                                                                                investigation

                                                  Cortland Machine & Tool Com-          60–62 Grant Street; Post Of-                    4/3/2017    The firm manufactures CNC machined parts of steel, iron,
                                                    pany, Inc.                            fice Box 27, Cortland, NY                                   aluminum, cooper and plastics.
                                                                                          13045.
                                                  Sims Vibration Laboratory, Inc.       50 W Rose Nye Way, Shelton,                     4/6/2017    The firm manufactures vibration dampening accessories for
                                                    d/b/a Limbsaver.                      WA 98584.                                                   firearms and archery as well as minor sales of vibration
                                                                                                                                                      dampening for home hardware and lawn and garden in-
                                                                                                                                                      dustries.
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                                                    Any party having a substantial                         Assistance for Firms Division, Room                   later than ten (10) calendar days
                                                  interest in these proceedings may                        71030, Economic Development                           following publication of this notice.
                                                  request a public hearing on the matter.                  Administration, U.S. Department of                       Please follow the requirements set
                                                  A written request for a hearing must be                  Commerce, Washington, DC 20230, no                    forth in EDA’s regulations at 13 CFR
                                                  submitted to the Trade Adjustment                                                                              315.9 for procedures to request a public


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