83_FR_52582 83 FR 52381 - Meeting of Bureau of Economic Analysis Advisory Committee

83 FR 52381 - Meeting of Bureau of Economic Analysis Advisory Committee

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Economic Analysis

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 201 (October 17, 2018)

Page Range52381-52382
FR Document2018-22547

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, we are announcing a meeting of the Bureau of Economic Analysis Advisory Committee. The meeting will address proposed improvements to BEA's economic accounts and provide an update on recent statistical developments.

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 201 (Wednesday, October 17, 2018) 
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 201 (Wednesday, October 17, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52381-52382]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-22547]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Economic Analysis


Meeting of Bureau of Economic Analysis Advisory Committee

AGENCY: Bureau of Economic Analysis, Economics and Statistics 
Administration, Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, we are 
announcing a meeting of the Bureau of Economic Analysis Advisory 
Committee. The meeting will address proposed improvements to BEA's 
economic accounts and provide an update on recent statistical 
developments.

DATES: Friday, November 9, 2018. The meeting will begin at 9:00 a.m. 
and adjourn at 3:30 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place at the Suitland Federal Center, 
which is located at 4600 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD 20746.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gianna Marrone, Program Analyst, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Suitland, MD 
20746; telephone number: (301) 278-9798.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Committee was established September 2, 
1999. The Committee advises the Director of BEA on matters related to 
the development and improvement of BEA's national, regional, industry, 
and international economic accounts, with a focus on new and rapidly 
growing areas of the U.S. economy. The committee provides 
recommendations from the perspectives of the economics profession, 
business, and government.
    Public Participation: This meeting is open to the public. Because 
of security procedures, anyone planning to attend the meeting must 
contact Gianna Marrone of BEA at (301) 278-9798 in advance. The meeting 
is physically accessible to people with disabilities. Requests for 
foreign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids

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should be directed to Gianna Marrone at (301) 278-9798.

    Dated: September 17, 2018.
Brian C. Moyer,
Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis.
[FR Doc. 2018-22547 Filed 10-16-18; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 3510-06-P

Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 201 / Wednesday, October 17, 2018 / Notices 52381 continually relevant, and to be For guidance in proposing action paraphrase the specific content from sufficiently general so as to broadly steps, use the following as examples of referenced material. apply at all federal agencies and across specific practices and associated action Dated: October 10, 2018. all missions. The practices represent steps. These examples are provided for Karen Dunn Kelley, aspirational goals that, when fully guidance only. Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, realized, will enable agencies, • Practice: Prioritize Data Security Performing the Nonexclusive Duties and practitioners, and policymakers to Example Action Steps Functions of the Deputy Secretary of improve the government’s approach to 1. Leverage existing standards for Commerce, Department of Commerce. data stewardship and leverage data to comprehensive and high quality data [FR Doc. 2018–22490 Filed 10–16–18; 8:45 am] create value. management. BILLING CODE 3510–07–P The draft practices are grouped 2. Define, implement, and maintain according to five broad objectives that formal expectations throughout begin to operationalize five government for data oversight and DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE corresponding objectives. transparency. • Govern and Manage Data as a • Practice: Connect Federal Spending to Bureau of Economic Analysis Strategic Asset Outcomes • Protect and Secure Data Example Action Steps Meeting of Bureau of Economic • Promote Efficient Use of Data Assets Analysis Advisory Committee 1. Publish interactive reports with • Build a Culture that Values Data as an spending, performance, and mission- AGENCY: Bureau of Economic Analysis, Asset support data that enable the public to Economics and Statistics • Honor Stakeholder Input and interact with the data and create Administration, Department of Leverage Partners customizable tables and report. These Commerce. In addition to applying across interactive charts and graphics should ACTION: Notice of public meeting. government, the strategy and its be embedded in Federal websites such practices apply across the data lifecycle, as USAspending.gov and SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal which can be depicted in six stages: performance.gov. Advisory Committee Act, we are 1. Creation, collection, or acquisition; announcing a meeting of the Bureau of 2. Standardize reporting data for 2. processing; Economic Analysis Advisory 3. access; federal grants to help make the data more accessible and useful. Committee. The meeting will address 4. use; proposed improvements to BEA’s 5. dissemination; and Guidance for Submitting Documents 6. storage and disposition. economic accounts and provide an See https://strategy.data.gov for more This guidance for submitting update on recent statistical information about how the draft documents is offered to facilitate the developments. practices pertain to each of those stages. analysis and full consideration of the DATES: Friday, November 9, 2018. The The draft practices will be revised and comments. If responding on behalf of an meeting will begin at 9:00 a.m. and further developed in response to public organization or agency, please include adjourn at 3:30 p.m. and agency comments. Specifically, the name and address of your institution ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place comments are requested on the or affiliation, and your name, title, email at the Suitland Federal Center, which is following: addresses, and telephone number. No located at 4600 Silver Hill Road, 1. What framework(s) for organizing specific information about you is Suitland, MD 20746. or classifying the practices would be required, other than that necessary for FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: most useful to Federal practitioners and self-identification, for full consideration of the comment. Gianna Marrone, Program Analyst, U.S. other key stakeholders? For example, Department of Commerce, Bureau of should they be classified according to Comments should be informative for the Federal Data Strategy. Comments on Economic Analysis, Suitland, MD whether they pertain to data creation, 20746; telephone number: (301) 278– collection, or acquisition; processing; issues not related to the strategy will not be considered. 9798. access; use; dissemination; and storage and disposition? Please submit comments through the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 2. List and describe any additional Federal Register portal at Committee was established September practices relevant to data creation, www.regulations.gov or through the 2, 1999. The Committee advises the collection, acquisition, processing, Federal Data Strategy website at https:// Director of BEA on matters related to the access, use, dissemination, storage, and strategy.data.gov. Please submit your development and improvement of BEA’s disposition that are not included in the comment once using your preferred national, regional, industry, and draft practices. feedback platform. international economic accounts, with a 3. Identify any draft practices that Please specify the number of the focus on new and rapidly growing areas should be omitted and explain why. question to which your comment of the U.S. economy. The committee 4. Provide any necessary edits to the applies. If possible, structure your provides recommendations from the practices to ensure that they effectively comments on specific practices so that perspectives of the economics identify objectives, outcomes, or goals they refer to the number of the relevant profession, business, and government. and are helpful to a practitioners and practice. If you have multiple comments Public Participation: This meeting is data policymakers. on one practice, please organize them open to the public. Because of security daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with NOTICES 5. Please provide examples of how together by practice number. procedures, anyone planning to attend Federal, state, local, or tribal If possible, provide comments in a the meeting must contact Gianna government agencies have successfully Microsoft Word or plain text file and Marrone of BEA at (301) 278–9798 in implemented a particular practice. avoid using footnotes, end notes, advance. The meeting is physically 6. 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52382 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 201 / Wednesday, October 17, 2018 / Notices should be directed to Gianna Marrone at ‘‘usage-driven’’ FTZ sites for operators/ ‘‘Reading Room’’ section of the FTZ (301) 278–9798. users located within a grantee’s ‘‘service Board’s website, which is accessible via Dated: September 17, 2018. area’’ in the context of the FTZ Board’s www.trade.gov/ftz. For further Brian C. Moyer, standard 2,000-acre activation limit for information, contact Kathleen Boyce at a zone. The application was submitted Kathleen.Boyce@trade.gov or (202) 482– Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis. pursuant to the Foreign-Trade Zones 1346. [FR Doc. 2018–22547 Filed 10–16–18; 8:45 am] Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), Dated: October 11, 2018. BILLING CODE 3510–06–P and the regulations of the Board (15 CFR Andrew McGilvray, part 400). It was formally docketed on Executive Secretary. October 11, 2018. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE FTZ 142 was approved by the FTZ [FR Doc. 2018–22603 Filed 10–16–18; 8:45 am] Board on August 25, 1987 (Board Order BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P Foreign-Trade Zones Board 358, 52 FR 33855, September 8, 1987). [B–39–2018] The current zone includes the following sites: Site 1 (95 acres)—Port of DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 106— Salem complex, Salem; Site 2 (10 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; acres)—Walnut Street warehouse Foreign-Trade Zones Board Authorization of Production Activity; complex, Salem; and, Site 3 (144 [S–165–2018] Eastman Kodak Company (Printing acres)—Millville Municipal Airport Flexographic Plates), Weatherford, Industrial Park, Millville. Foreign-Trade Zone 294—Western Oklahoma The grantee’s proposed service area Kentucky; Application for Subzone under the ASF would be the Counties of Mayfield Consumer Products Mayfield On June 13, 2018, Eastman Kodak Mercer, Burlington, Camden, and Hickory, Kentucky Company submitted a notification of Gloucester, Salem, Cumberland and proposed production activity to the FTZ Cape May, New Jersey, as described in An application has been submitted to Board for its facility within Subzone the application. If approved, the grantee the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board by 106F, in Weatherford, Oklahoma. would be able to serve sites throughout the Paducah McCracken County The notification was processed in the service area based on companies’ Riverport Authority, grantee of FTZ 294, accordance with the regulations of the needs for FTZ designation. The requesting subzone status for the FTZ Board (15 CFR part 400), including application indicates that the proposed facilities of Mayfield Consumer notice in the Federal Register inviting service area is within and adjacent to Products, located in Mayfield and public comment (83 FR 29541, June 25, the Philadelphia Customs and Border Hickory, Kentucky. The application was 2018). On October 11, 2018, the Protection port of entry. submitted pursuant to the provisions of applicant was notified of the FTZ The applicant is requesting authority the Foreign-Trade Zones Act, as Board’s decision that no further review to reorganize and expand its existing amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), and the of the activity is warranted at this time. zone to include all of the existing sites regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR The production activity described in the as ‘‘magnet’’ sites. The applicant is also part 400). It was formally docketed on notification was authorized, subject to requesting approval of the following October 11, 2018. the FTZ Act and the FTZ Board’s magnet site: Proposed Site 4 (1,630 The proposed subzone would consist regulations, including Section 400.14. acres)—Repauno/Greenwich rail and of the following sites: Site 1 (14.4 acres) Dated: October 11, 2018. port terminal complex, 200 North 112 Industrial Drive, Mayfield; Site 2 Andrew McGilvray, Repauno Avenue, Gibbstown. The (3.47 acres) 1102 Fulton Road, Mayfield; Executive Secretary. application would have no impact on and, Site 3 (25 acres) 22 Rifle Trail, FTZ 142’s previously authorized Hickory Industrial Park, Hickory. A [FR Doc. 2018–22583 Filed 10–16–18; 8:45 am] subzones. notification of proposed production BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P In accordance with the FTZ Board’s activity has been submitted and will be regulations, Kathleen Boyce of the FTZ published separately for public DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Staff is designated examiner to evaluate comment. The proposed subzone would and analyze the facts and information be subject to the existing activation limit Foreign-Trade Zones Board presented in the application and case of FTZ 294. record and to report findings and In accordance with the FTZ Board’s [B–63–2018] regulations, Elizabeth Whiteman of the recommendations to the FTZ Board. Public comment is invited from FTZ Staff is designated examiner to Foreign-Trade Zone 142—Salem/ interested parties. Submissions shall be review the application and make Millville, New Jersey; Application for addressed to the FTZ Board’s Executive recommendations to the Executive Reorganization and Expansion Under Secretary at the address below. The Secretary. Alternative Site Framework closing period for their receipt is Public comment is invited from An application has been submitted to December 17, 2018. Rebuttal comments interested parties. Submissions shall be the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board by in response to material submitted addressed to the FTZ Board’s Executive the South Jersey Port Corporation, during the foregoing period may be Secretary at the address below. The grantee of FTZ 142, requesting authority submitted during the subsequent 15-day closing period for their receipt is to reorganize and expand the zone period to December 31, 2018. November 26, 2018. Rebuttal comments daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with NOTICES under the alternative site framework A copy of the application will be in response to material submitted (ASF) adopted by the FTZ Board (15 available for public inspection at the during the foregoing period may be CFR Sec. 400.2(c)). The ASF is an Office of the Executive Secretary, submitted during the subsequent 15-day option for grantees for the establishment Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room period to December 11, 2018. or reorganization of zones and can 21013, U.S. Department of Commerce, A copy of the application will be permit significantly greater flexibility in 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, available for public inspection at the the designation of new subzones or Washington, DC 20230–0002, and in the Office of the Executive Secretary, VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:46 Oct 16, 2018 Jkt 247001 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\17OCN1.SGM 17OCN1


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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of public meeting.
DatesFriday, November 9, 2018. The meeting will begin at 9:00 a.m. and adjourn at 3:30 p.m.
ContactGianna Marrone, Program Analyst, U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Suitland, MD 20746; telephone number: (301) 278-9798.
FR Citation83 FR 52381 
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