83_FR_5267 83 FR 5242 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Quarterly Survey of Plant Capacity Utilization

83 FR 5242 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Quarterly Survey of Plant Capacity Utilization

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 25 (February 6, 2018)

Page Range5242-5243
FR Document2018-02307

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 83 Issue 25 (Tuesday, February 6, 2018) 
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 25 (Tuesday, February 6, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5242-5243]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-02307]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Census Bureau


Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Quarterly 
Survey of Plant Capacity Utilization

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 April 9, 2018.

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 PRAcomments@doc.gov).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or 
copies of the information collection instrument(s) and instructions 
should be directed to Mary Susan Bucci, U.S.

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Census Bureau, Economic Reimbursable Surveys Division, Room 6H047, 
Washington, DC 20233, (301) 763-4639 (or via the internet at 
Mary.Susan.Bucci@census.gov).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract

    The Census Bureau plans to request an extension of the current OMB 
clearance for the Quarterly Survey of Plant Capacity Utilization (SPC). 
The SPC is conducted quarterly, collecting from manufacturing plants 
and publishers, the value of actual production, the value of production 
that could have been achieved if operating at ``full production'' 
levels, and the value of production that could have been achieved if 
operating at ``national emergency'' levels. The survey also collects 
data on work patterns by shift. These data include hours in operations, 
production workers, and plant hours worked.
    The primary sponsors of this collection and users of these data are 
the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) and the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). 
The FRB uses these data in several ways. First, the capital workweek 
data is used as an indicator of capital use in the estimation of 
monthly output (industrial production). Second, the workweek data is 
used to improve the projections of labor productivity that are used to 
align industrial production (IP) with comprehensive benchmark 
information in the Manufacturing Sector of the Economic Census and the 
Annual Survey of Manufactures. Third, the utilization rate data assists 
in the assessment of recent changes in IP, as most of the high-
frequency movement in utilization rates reflect production changes 
rather than capacity changes. Fourth, the time series of utilization 
rate data for each industry, in combination with the FRB IP data, is 
used to estimate current and historical measures of capacity consistent 
with the FRB production measures. The DLA uses these data to assess 
readiness to meet demand for goods under selected national emergency 
scenarios.

II. Method of Collection

    The Census Bureau mails letters to respondents instructing them how 
to report electronically. Companies are asked to respond within 20 days 
of the initial mailing. The due date will be imprinted at the top of 
the letter. A reminder email is sent a week before the due date to 
delinquent respondents. Letters encouraging participation are mailed to 
companies that have not responded by the designated due date. A final 
email is sent to delinquent respondents with information for reporting 
online. Lastly, we conduct a telephone follow-up.

III. Data

    OMB Control Number: 0607-0175.
    Form Number(s): MQ-C2.
    Type of Review: Regular submission.
    Affected Public: Manufacturing and publishing plants.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 7,500 per quarter.
    Estimated Time per Response: 2 hours and 5 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 62,500.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: $0.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C. Section 8(b);50 U.S.C. Section 98, 
et seq; 12 U.S.C. Section 244.

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 Lead PRA Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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5242 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 25 / Tuesday, February 6, 2018 / Notices TABLE B—BURDEN FOR REQUIRED PROGRAMS UNDER THE PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT—Continued Form Purpose Program(s) * Number submitted annually NRCS–LTP–152 ............................ Transfer Agreement ...................... EWP, HFRP .................................. 5; Estimated time per participant is .495 per response. NRCS–LTP–153 ............................ Agreement Covering Non-Compli- EWP, HFRP .................................. 10; Estimated time per participant ance With Provisions of the is 1.5 per response. Contract. Estimate of Burden: Public reporting COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS Southern Regional Office at the above burden for this collection of information email or street address. is estimated to average 0.30 to 1.5 hours Notice of Public Meeting of the Georgia Advisory Committee Agenda per response. 9:30 a.m. Introductions Type of Respondents: Program AGENCY: U.S. Commission on Civil 9:45–10:55 a.m. Panel 1 participants. Rights. 11:00–12:05 a.m. Panel 2 Estimated Number of Respondents: ACTION: Notice of meeting. 12:10–1:15 p.m. Panel 3 5,390. SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given, 1:15 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Lunch Break Estimated Number of Responses: pursuant to the provisions of the rules 2:00–3:30 p.m. Panel 4 5,390. and regulations of the U.S. Commission 3:35–4:30 p.m. Panel 5 on Civil Rights (Commission) and the 4:35–4:55 p.m. Public Comment and Estimated Number of Responses per Federal Advisory Committee Act that Community Testimonials Respondent: 1. the Georgia (State) Advisory Committee 4:55 p.m. Adjourn Estimated Total Annual Burden on will hold a meeting on Tuesday, Dated: January 31, 2018. Respondents: 3,058.70 hours. February 27, 2018 for hearing testimony David Mussatt, Comments are invited on: (1) Whether regarding the issue of the Olmstead Supervisory Chief, Regional Programs Unit. the proposed collection of information Decision, Civil Rights of Persons with [FR Doc. 2018–02262 Filed 2–5–18; 8:45 am] is necessary for the proper performance Disabilities in Georgia. BILLING CODE P of the functions of the agency, including DATES: The meeting will be held on whether the information will have Tuesday, February 27, 2019 at 9:30 a.m. practical utility, (2) the accuracy of the ADDRESSES: The Shepherd Center, 2020 agency’s estimate of the burden of the DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Peachtree Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30309. proposed collection of information FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff Census Bureau including the validity of the Hinton, DFO, at jhinton@usccr.gov or methodology and assumptions used, (3) 404–562–7706. Proposed Information Collection; ways to enhance the quality, utility, and SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Comment Request; Quarterly Survey clarity of the information to be meeting is open to the public, and will of Plant Capacity Utilization collected, and (4) ways to minimize the take place at The Shepherd Center, 2020 burden of the collection of information AGENCY: U.S. Census Bureau, Peachtree Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30309. Commerce. on those who are to respond, including In addition, members of the public may the use of appropriate automated, ACTION: Notice. submit written comments; the electronic, mechanical, or other comments must be received in the technological collection techniques or SUMMARY: The Department of regional office within 30 days following Commerce, as part of its continuing other forms of information technology. the meeting. Written comments may be Comments may be sent to Kim Berns, effort to reduce paperwork and mailed to the Southern Regional Office, respondent burden, invites the general Natural Resources Conservation Service, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 61 Easement Programs Division, 1400 public and other Federal agencies to Forsyth St., Suite 16T126, Atlanta, take this opportunity to comment on Independence Ave. SW, Room 5241–S, Georgia 30303. They may also be faxed Washington, DC 20250. All comments proposed and/or continuing information to the Commission at (404) 562–7005 or collections, as required by the received will be available for public emailed to Jeff Hinton at jhinton@ inspection during regular business Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. usccr.gov. Persons who desire hours at the same address. DATES: To ensure consideration, written additional information may contact the comments must be submitted on or All responses to this notice will be USCCR, Southern Regional Office at before April 9, 2018. summarized and included in the request (404) 562–7000. for Office of Management and Budget Records generated from this meeting ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments approval. All comments will become a may be inspected and reproduced at the to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental matter of public record. Southern Regional Office, as they Paperwork Clearance Officer, become available, both before and after Department of Commerce, Room 6616, Signed this day of January 18, 2018, in 14th and Constitution Avenue NW, the meeting. Records of the meeting will daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with NOTICES Washington, DC. Washington, DC 20230 (or via the be available via www.facadatabase.gov Leonard Jordan, under the Commission on Civil Rights, internet at PRAcomments@doc.gov). Acting Chief, Natural Resources Conservation Georgia Advisory Committee link. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Service and Vice President, Commodity Credit Persons interested in the work of this Requests for additional information or Corporation. Committee are directed to the copies of the information collection [FR Doc. 2018–02329 Filed 2–5–18; 8:45 am] Commission’s website, http:// instrument(s) and instructions should BILLING CODE 3410–16–P www.usccr.gov, or may contact the be directed to Mary Susan Bucci, U.S. VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:02 Feb 05, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\06FEN1.SGM 06FEN1

Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 25 / Tuesday, February 6, 2018 / Notices 5243 Census Bureau, Economic Reimbursable respondents with information for Whereas, the Foreign-Trade Zones Surveys Division, Room 6H047, reporting online. Lastly, we conduct a (FTZ) Act provides for ‘‘. . . the Washington, DC 20233, (301) 763–4639 telephone follow-up. establishment . . . of foreign-trade (or via the internet at zones in ports of entry of the United III. Data Mary.Susan.Bucci@census.gov). States, to expedite and encourage SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB Control Number: 0607–0175. foreign commerce, and for other Form Number(s): MQ–C2. purposes,’’ and authorizes the Foreign- I. Abstract Type of Review: Regular submission. Trade Zones Board to grant to qualified The Census Bureau plans to request Affected Public: Manufacturing and corporations the privilege of an extension of the current OMB publishing plants. establishing foreign-trade zones in or clearance for the Quarterly Survey of Estimated Number of Respondents: adjacent to U.S. Customs and Border Plant Capacity Utilization (SPC). The 7,500 per quarter. Protection ports of entry; SPC is conducted quarterly, collecting Estimated Time per Response: 2 hours Whereas, Kern County, California, from manufacturing plants and and 5 minutes. grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 276, publishers, the value of actual Estimated Total Annual Burden submitted an application to the Board production, the value of production that Hours: 62,500. (FTZ Docket B–75–2017, docketed could have been achieved if operating at Estimated Total Annual Cost to November 21, 2017) for authority to re- ‘‘full production’’ levels, and the value Public: $0. establish FTZ 276 adjacent to the Los of production that could have been Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. Angeles/Long Beach U.S. Customs and achieved if operating at ‘‘national Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C. Border Protection (CBP) port of entry, emergency’’ levels. The survey also Section 8(b);50 U.S.C. Section 98, et seq; expand Site 2 and remove Sites 1 and collects data on work patterns by shift. 12 U.S.C. Section 244. 3; These data include hours in operations, Whereas, notice inviting public production workers, and plant hours IV. Request for Comments comment was given in the Federal worked. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether Register (82 FR 56213–56214, The primary sponsors of this the proposed collection of information November 28, 2017) and the application collection and users of these data are the is necessary for the proper performance has been processed pursuant to the FTZ Federal Reserve Board (FRB) and the of the functions of the agency, including Act and the Board’s regulations; and, Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). The whether the information shall have Whereas, the Board adopts the FRB uses these data in several ways. practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the findings and recommendations of the First, the capital workweek data is used agency’s estimate of the burden examiner’s report, and finds that the as an indicator of capital use in the (including hours and cost) of the requirements of the FTZ Act and the estimation of monthly output (industrial proposed collection of information; (c) Board’s regulations are satisfied; production). Second, the workweek data ways to enhance the quality, utility, and Now, therefore, the Board hereby is used to improve the projections of clarity of the information to be orders: labor productivity that are used to align collected; and (d) ways to minimize the The application to re-establish FTZ industrial production (IP) with burden of the collection of information 276 adjacent to the Los Angeles/Long comprehensive benchmark information on respondents, including through the Beach CBP port of entry is approved, in the Manufacturing Sector of the use of automated collection techniques subject to the FTZ Act and the Board’s Economic Census and the Annual or other forms of information regulations, including Section 400.13 Survey of Manufactures. Third, the technology. and to the Board’s standard 2,000-acre utilization rate data assists in the Comments submitted in response to activation limit for the zone. assessment of recent changes in IP, as this notice will be summarized and/or most of the high-frequency movement in Dated: January 31, 2018. included in the request for OMB utilization rates reflect production approval of this information collection; Christian B. Marsh, changes rather than capacity changes. they also will become a matter of public Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement Fourth, the time series of utilization rate record. & Compliance, performing the non-exclusive data for each industry, in combination functions and duties of the Assistant with the FRB IP data, is used to estimate Sheleen Dumas, Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance. current and historical measures of Departmental Lead PRA Officer, Office of the [FR Doc. 2018–02317 Filed 2–5–18; 8:45 am] capacity consistent with the FRB Chief Information Officer. BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P production measures. The DLA uses [FR Doc. 2018–02307 Filed 2–5–18; 8:45 am] these data to assess readiness to meet BILLING CODE 3510–07–P demand for goods under selected DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE national emergency scenarios. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE International Trade Administration II. Method of Collection [A–570–898] The Census Bureau mails letters to Foreign-Trade Zones Board respondents instructing them how to Chlorinated Isocyanurates From the report electronically. Companies are [Order No. 2046] People’s Republic of China: Final asked to respond within 20 days of the Results of Antidumping Duty initial mailing. The due date will be Re-Establishment and Expansion of Administrative Review; 2015–2016 daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with NOTICES imprinted at the top of the letter. A Site—Foreign-Trade Zone 276, Kern reminder email is sent a week before the County, California AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, due date to delinquent respondents. International Trade Administration, Pursuant to its authority under the Foreign- Department of Commerce. Letters encouraging participation are Trade Zones Act of June 18, 1934, as mailed to companies that have not amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), the Foreign- SUMMARY: On July 28, 2017, the responded by the designated due date. 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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 April 9, 2018.
ContactRequests for additional information or copies of the information collection instrument(s) and instructions should be directed to Mary Susan Bucci, U.S. Census Bureau, Economic Reimbursable Surveys Division, Room 6H047, Washington, DC 20233, (301) 763-4639 (or via the internet at [email protected]).
FR Citation83 FR 5242 
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