82_FR_33180 82 FR 33043 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Annual Retail Trade Survey

82 FR 33043 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Annual Retail Trade Survey

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 137 (July 19, 2017)

Page Range33043-33044
FR Document2017-15112

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 82 Issue 137 (Wednesday, July 19, 2017) 
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 137 (Wednesday, July 19, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33043-33044]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-15112]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Census Bureau


Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Annual Retail 
Trade 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 September 18, 2017.

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 Chris Savage, U.S. Census Bureau, Economy Wide-
Statistics Division, Room 8K045, 4600 Silver Hill Road, Washington, DC 
20233-6500, (301) 763-4834, (or via Email at [email protected]).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

    The Annual Retail Trade Survey (ARTS) covers employer firms with 
establishments located in the United States and classified in the 
Retail Trade sector as defined by the 2012 North American Industry 
Classification System (NAICS).
    The Census Bureau selects firms for this survey from the Business 
Register (BR) using a stratified random sample where strata are defined 
by industry and annual sales. The BR is the Census Bureau's master 
business list and contains basic economic information for more than 7.4 
million employer business and over 22.5 million non-employer 
businesses. The BR contains information collected through direct data 
collections as well as administrative record information from other 
federal agencies. The Census Bureau updates the ARTS sample quarterly 
to reflect employer business ``births'' and ``deaths.'' The births 
reflect new employer businesses identified in the Business and 
Professional Classification Survey; deaths involve deleting firms and 
subunits of firms identified by their Employer Identification Numbers 
(EINs) when it is determined they are no longer active.
    Through the ARTS survey, the Census Bureau asks firms to provide 
annual sales, annual e-commerce sales, year-end inventories held inside 
and outside the United States, sales taxes, total operating expenses, 
purchases, accounts receivables, and, for selected industries, sales by 
merchandise line. These data are used to satisfy a variety of public 
and business needs such as conducting economic market analyses, 
assessing company performance, and forecasting future demands. The 
Census Bureau publishes national data from the survey for selected 
retail trade industries approximately fifteen months after the end of 
the reference year.

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    Effective in survey year 2016 (collected in 2017), ARTS no longer 
includes firms in the accommodation and food services industries. These 
industries are now part of the Service Annual Survey (SAS). Also 
effective in survey year 2016, ARTS introduced a new sample and 
requested that firms provide two years of data in order to link the old 
and new samples. Linking the samples helps ensure that published 
estimates continue to be reliable and accurate. In survey year 2017 and 
subsequent years, ARTS will request only one year of data until a new 
sample is selected again in five years.
    Every five years, in survey years ending in 2 and 7, ARTS requests 
data on detailed operating expenses from firms. During the survey year 
2016 ARTS collection, detailed operating expenses are not collected. 
The last time ARTS collected detailed operating expenses was in 2013 
for the 2012 survey year. The plan is to reinstate these questions in 
2018 as part of the 2017 survey year ARTS data collection.
    In an effort to reduce burden and meet the changing needs of data 
users, as of the 2016 survey year the Census Bureau is no longer 
requesting that department stores provide data regarding sales 
collected from leased departments.
    The ARTS data is only collected electronically using the Census 
Bureau's secure online reporting instrument (Centurion). This 
electronic system of reporting is designed to allow respondents easier 
access, convenience and flexibility. Data is automatically stored and 
results are available immediately. In rare cases where the company has 
no access to the Internet, the Census Bureau can arrange for the 
company to provide data to an analyst via telephone.

II. Method of Collection

    The Census Bureau collects this information via the Internet but in 
rare cases when respondents have no access to the Internet, it is 
collected by telephone.

III. Data

    OMB Control Number: 0607-0013.
    Form Number(s): SA44, SA44-A, SA44-C, SA44-D, SA44-E, SA44-N, SA44-
S, SA44-T.
    Type of Review: Regular submission.
    Affected Public: Retail firms located in the United States.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 19,301.
    Estimated Time per Response: 201.2 minutes (2017 survey year with 
additional items collected). 39.1 minutes (2018 and 2019 survey years).
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 64,723 hours (2017 survey year 
with additional items collected). 12,578 hours (2018 and 2019).
    Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: $0.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    Legal Authority: Title 13, United States Code, Sections 131 and 
182.

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 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.

Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Lead, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-15112 Filed 7-18-17; 8:45 am]
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The title of this revised docket will Estimated Number of Respondents: Requests for additional information or now be Honey and Honey Bee Surveys. 22,500. copies of the information collection As pollinators, honey bees are vital to Estimated Total Annual Burden on instrument(s) and instructions should the agricultural industry for producing Respondents: With an estimated be directed to Chris Savage, U.S. Census food for the world’s population. USDA, response rate of approximately 80%, we Bureau, Economy Wide-Statistics NASS has found that during 2015, estimate the total burden to be Division, Room 8K045, 4600 Silver Hill colonies losses by quarter ranged from approximately 9,200 hours. Road, Washington, DC 20233–6500, 12 to 18 percent. Overall, from January Comments: Comments are invited on: (301) 763–4834, (or via Email at 1, 2015 to January 1, 2016, the total (a) Whether the proposed collection of john.c.savage@census.gov). number of colonies in the United States information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: decreased by 8 percent. Additional data is needed to agency, including whether the I. Abstract accurately describe the costs associated information will have practical utility; with pest/disease control, wintering (b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate The Annual Retail Trade Survey fees, and replacement worker and queen of the burden of the proposed collection (ARTS) covers employer firms with bees. USDA and the Environmental of information including the validity of establishments located in the United Protection Agency (EPA), in the methodology and assumptions used; States and classified in the Retail Trade consultation with other relevant Federal (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, sector as defined by the 2012 North partners, are scaling up efforts to and clarity of the information to be American Industry Classification address the decline of honey bee health collected; and (d) ways to minimize the System (NAICS). with a goal of ensuring the recovery of burden of the collection of information The Census Bureau selects firms for this critical subset of pollinators. NASS on those who are to respond, through this survey from the Business Register supports the Pollinator Research Action the use of appropriate automated, (BR) using a stratified random sample Plan, published May 19, 2015, which electronic, mechanical, technological or where strata are defined by industry and emphasizes the importance of other forms of information technology annual sales. The BR is the Census coordinated action to identify the extent collection methods. Bureau’s master business list and and causal factors in honey bee All responses to this notice will contains basic economic information for mortality. become a matter of public record and be more than 7.4 million employer Authority: These data will be summarized in the request for OMB business and over 22.5 million non- collected under the authority of 7 U.S.C. approval. employer businesses. The BR contains 2204(a). Individually identifiable data information collected through direct Signed at Washington, DC, July 5, 2017. data collections as well as collected under this authority are Hubert Hamer, administrative record information from governed by Section 1770 of the Food Security Act of 1985, 7 U.S.C. 2276, Administrator. other federal agencies. The Census which requires USDA to afford strict [FR Doc. 2017–15156 Filed 7–18–17; 8:45 am] Bureau updates the ARTS sample confidentiality to non-aggregated data BILLING CODE 3410–20–P quarterly to reflect employer business provided by respondents. This notice is ‘‘births’’ and ‘‘deaths.’’ The births reflect submitted in accordance with the new employer businesses identified in Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE the Business and Professional Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C. 3501, et Classification Survey; deaths involve seq.) and Office of Management and Census Bureau deleting firms and subunits of firms Budget regulations at 5 CFR part 1320. identified by their Employer Proposed Information Collection; Identification Numbers (EINs) when it is NASS also complies with OMB Comment Request; Annual Retail determined they are no longer active. Implementation Guidance, Trade Survey Through the ARTS survey, the Census ‘‘Implementation Guidance for Title V of the E-Government Act, Confidential AGENCY: U.S. Census Bureau, Bureau asks firms to provide annual Information Protection and Statistical Commerce. sales, annual e-commerce sales, year- Efficiency Act of 2002 (CIPSEA),’’ ACTION: Notice. end inventories held inside and outside Federal Register, Vol. 72, No. 115, June the United States, sales taxes, total 15, 2007, p. 33362. SUMMARY: The Department of operating expenses, purchases, accounts Estimate of Burden: Public reporting Commerce, as part of its continuing receivables, and, for selected industries, burden for this collection of information effort to reduce paperwork and sales by merchandise line. 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Operations with less than Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. publishes national data from the survey five colonies will receive the newly DATES: To ensure consideration, written for selected retail trade industries combined questionnaire (Bee and Honey comments must be submitted on or approximately fifteen months after the and Colony Loss) which is estimated to before September 18, 2017. end of the reference year. VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:49 Jul 18, 2017 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\19JYN1.SGM 19JYN1

33044 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 137 / Wednesday, July 19, 2017 / Notices Effective in survey year 2016 Estimated Total Annual Burden DATES: This notice will be effective on (collected in 2017), ARTS no longer Hours: 64,723 hours (2017 survey year August 18, 2017. includes firms in the accommodation with additional items collected). 12,578 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: and food services industries. These hours (2018 and 2019). David Cackowski, (301) 763–5423, or at industries are now part of the Service Estimated Total Annual Cost to g.david.cackowski@census.gov, Annual Survey (SAS). Also effective in Public: $0. Geography Division, U.S. Census survey year 2016, ARTS introduced a Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. Bureau, 4600 Silver Hill Road, new sample and requested that firms Legal Authority: Title 13, United Washington, DC 20233; or also by email provide two years of data in order to States Code, Sections 131 and 182. at geo.geography@census.gov. link the old and new samples. Linking SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: IV. Request for Comments the samples helps ensure that published estimates continue to be reliable and Comments are invited on: (a) Whether A. Background accurate. In survey year 2017 and the proposed collection of information MAF/TIGER System is an subsequent years, ARTS will request is necessary for the proper performance abbreviation for the Master Address only one year of data until a new sample of the functions of the agency, including File/Topologically Integrated is selected again in five years. whether the information shall have Geographic Encoding and Referencing Every five years, in survey years practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the System. It is a digital (computer- ending in 2 and 7, ARTS requests data agency’s estimate of the burden readable) geographic database that on detailed operating expenses from (including hours and cost) of the automates the mapping and related firms. During the survey year 2016 proposed collection of information; (c) geographic activities required to support ARTS collection, detailed operating ways to enhance the quality, utility, and the Census Bureau’s census and survey expenses are not collected. The last time clarity of the information to be programs. The Census Bureau ARTS collected detailed operating collected; and (d) ways to minimize the developed TIGER to automate the expenses was in 2013 for the 2012 burden of the collection of information geographic support processes needed to survey year. The plan is to reinstate on respondents, including through the meet the major geographic needs of the these questions in 2018 as part of the use of automated collection techniques 1990 census: Producing cartographic 2017 survey year ARTS data collection. or other forms of information products to support data collection and In an effort to reduce burden and meet technology. map presentations, providing the changing needs of data users, as of Comments submitted in response to geographic structure for tabulation and the 2016 survey year the Census Bureau this notice will be summarized and/or dissemination of the collected statistical is no longer requesting that department included in the request for OMB data, assigning residential and employer stores provide data regarding sales approval of this information collection; addresses to the correct geographic collected from leased departments. they also will become a matter of public location and relating those locations to The ARTS data is only collected record. the geographic entities used for data electronically using the Census Bureau’s Sheleen Dumas, tabulation, and so forth. During the secure online reporting instrument Departmental PRA Lead, Office of the Chief 1990s, the Census Bureau developed an (Centurion). This electronic system of Information Officer. independent Master Address File (MAF) reporting is designed to allow [FR Doc. 2017–15112 Filed 7–18–17; 8:45 am] to support field operations and respondents easier access, convenience allocation of housing units for BILLING CODE 3510–07–P and flexibility. Data is automatically tabulations. After Census 2000, both the stored and results are available address-based MAF and geographic immediately. In rare cases where the DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE TIGER databases merged to form the company has no access to the Internet, MAF/TIGER System. The contents of the Census Bureau can arrange for the Bureau of the Census the MAF/TIGER System undergo company to provide data to an analyst continuous updating and are made via telephone. [Docket Number 170629607–7607–01] available to the public through a variety II. Method of Collection Limited-Access Highway Classification of TIGER products such as shapefiles, Codes geodatabases, and web map services. The Census Bureau collects this information via the Internet but in rare B. Final Change AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, cases when respondents have no access Commerce. The Census Bureau issued in the to the Internet, it is collected by ACTION: Notice of final change. Federal Register a notice and request for telephone. comment on the limited-access highway III. Data SUMMARY: The Bureau of the Census code change on April 25, 2017 (82 FR (U.S. Census Bureau) publishes this 19020). We did not receive any OMB Control Number: 0607–0013. notice to announce the upcoming comments on that initial notice, Form Number(s): SA44, SA44–A, change in the classification of limited- therefore this is an announcement of the SA44–C, SA44–D, SA44–E, SA44–N, access highways in the Census Bureau’s upcoming final change. Please see the SA44–S, SA44–T. Master Address File/Topologically earlier Federal Register notice (82 FR Type of Review: Regular submission. asabaliauskas on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with NOTICES Integrated Referencing and Encoding 19020, April 25, 2017) for a discussion Affected Public: Retail firms located (MAF/TIGER) System. The change of the proposed changes and rationale in the United States. assigns all limited-access highways a for doing so. Estimated Number of Respondents: MAF/TIGER Feature Classification Code The Census Bureau publishes this 19,301. (MTFCC) of S1100 (Primary Roads). notice to announce the upcoming Estimated Time per Response: 201.2 Previously, the classification code for change in the classification of limited- minutes (2017 survey year with limited-access highways was either access highways in the MAF/TIGER additional items collected). 39.1 S1100 (Primary Roads) or S1200 System. Generally, only interstate minutes (2018 and 2019 survey years). 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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice.
DatesTo ensure consideration, written comments must be submitted on or before September 18, 2017.
ContactRequests for additional information or copies of the information collection instrument(s) and instructions should be directed to Chris Savage, U.S. Census Bureau, Economy Wide- Statistics Division, Room 8K045, 4600 Silver Hill Road, Washington, DC 20233-6500, (301) 763-4834, (or via Email at [email protected]).
FR Citation82 FR 33043 
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