82 FR 48790 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 202 (October 20, 2017)

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 202 (Friday, October 20, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48790-48791]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-22848]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


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.
    Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
    Title: Report of Organization (formerly titled Company Organization 
Survey).
    OMB Control Number: 0607-0444.
    Form Number(s): NC-99001 and NC-99007.
    Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Number of Respondents: 87,000.
    Average Hours per Response: 1 hour and 23 minutes.
    Burden Hours: 120,544.
    Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau requests a revision of the 
currently approved Report of Organization data collection for survey 
years 2017, 2018 and 2019. We request an extension of the current 
expiration date to December 2020 to complete the data collection for 
the 2017, 2018 and 2019 Report of Organization. We are changing the 
name of the collection from the Company Organization Survey to the 
Report of Organization to reflect how the survey name is presented in 
the survey instrument and public-facing documentation.
    The Census Bureau conducts the annual Report of Organization to 
update and maintain a centralized, multipurpose Business Register (BR). 
In particular, the survey supplies critical information on the 
organizational structure, operating characteristics, and employment and 
payroll of multi-establishment enterprises.
    For survey year 2017, the Report of Organization will be conducted 
in conjunction with the 2017 Economic Census, as has been done for 
previous economic censuses. During this year, all multi-establishment 
companies will receive Report of Organization inquiries.

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In survey years 2018 and 2019, only a sample of multi-establishment and 
single-location companies will receive Report of Organization 
inquiries.
    Form NC-99001 is directed to multi-establishment location 
enterprises during census and non-census years. For census years, 
however, only establishments with industry classifications that are 
out-of-scope of the economic census will receive this questionnaire. 
In-scope establishments will receive these inquiries through the 
Economic Census questionnaires. We ask questions on ownership or 
control by a domestic parent, ownership or control by a foreign parent, 
and ownership of foreign affiliates; research and development; company 
activities such as employees from a professional employer organization. 
Establishment inquiries include questions on operational status, mid-
March employment, first-quarter payroll, and annual payroll of 
establishments. Beginning with the 2017 collection, a new question 
regarding cooperative organization status will be included in the 
instrument but respondents will no longer receive inquiries pertaining 
to the Enterprise Statistics Program as the program has been suspended.
    During the 2018 and 2019 Report of Organization collection, the 
Census Bureau will use Form NC-99007 to collect data from large single-
location enterprises that may have added some locations. The NC-99007 
questionnaire is not applicable to economic census collections.
    The information collected by the Report of Organization is used to 
maintain and update the BR. The BR serves two fundamental purposes:
     First and most important, the BR provides sampling 
populations and enumeration lists for the Census Bureau's economic 
surveys and censuses. Essential for this purpose is the BR's ability to 
identify all known United States business establishments and their 
parent companies. Further, the BR must accurately record basic business 
attributes needed to control sampling and enumeration. These attributes 
include industry and geographic classifications, measures of size and 
economic activity, ownership characteristics, and contact information 
(for example, name and address).
     Second, the BR provides establishment data that serve as 
the basis for the annual County Business Patterns (CBP) statistical 
series. The CBP reports present data on number of establishments, first 
quarter payroll, annual payroll, and mid-March employment summarized by 
industry and employment size class for the United States, the District 
of Columbia, island areas, counties, and county-equivalents. No other 
annual or more frequent series of industry statistics produced by the 
Census Bureau provides comparable detail, particularly for small 
geographic areas.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit; Not-for-profit 
institutions; Farms; State, local or tribal government.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    Legal Authority: The 2017-2019 Report of Organization will be 
conducted under the provisions of Title 13 of the United States Code, 
Sections 131 and 182. Sections 224 and 225 make the survey mandatory.
    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 [email protected] or fax to (202) 395-5806.

Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Lead, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-22848 Filed 10-19-17; 8:45 am]
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