[Federal Register: May 26, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 101)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

 
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    DOC has submitted 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: Current Industrial Reports Program--Wave III (Voluntary).
    Form Number(s): M336G, MQ313D, MA333U.
    Agency Approval Number: 0607-0776.
    Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Burden: 699 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 342.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 31 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau conducts a series of monthly, 
quarterly, and annual surveys as part of its Current Industrial Reports 
(CIR) program. The CIR surveys deal mainly with the quantity and value 
of shipments of particular products and occasionally with data on 
production and inventories; unfilled orders, receipts, stocks and 
consumption; and comparative data on domestic production, exports, and 
imports of the products they cover.
    The information collected in the CIR program provides continuing 
and timely national statistical data on manufacturing. The results of 
these surveys are used extensively by individual firms, trade 
associations, and market analysts in planning or recommending marketing 
and legislative strategies.

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    The CIR program includes both mandatory and voluntary surveys. 
Typically, surveys conducted monthly and quarterly are voluntary and 
surveys conducted annually are mandatory. The frequency of collection 
is based on the cyclical nature of production, the need for frequent 
trade monitoring in particular industries, and the use of certain 
production data in Government economic indicator series. In some cases, 
companies reporting in the more frequent voluntary surveys that choose 
not to respond are subject to a special annual counterpart survey which 
is mandatory. Due to the large number of surveys in the CIR program, 
for clearance purposes we group the surveys into three Waves. The 
mandatory and voluntary surveys in each Wave are separately submitted 
(with the exception that mandatory counterpart surveys are included in 
the same request as their voluntary equivalents). Thus, a total of six 
clearances cover all of the surveys in the CIR program. One Wave (two 
separate clearance requests) is submitted for reclearance each year.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: Monthly, Quarterly, Annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary (Annual counterparts are 
Mandatory).
    Legal Authority: Title 13 USC, Sections 182, 224, 225.
    OMB Desk Officer: Linda Hutton, (202) 395-7858.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Linda Engelmeier, DOC Forms Clearance Officer, 
(202) 482-3272, Department of Commerce, room 5033, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230 (or via Internet at 
LEngelme@doc.gov).
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to Linda Hutton, OMB Desk Officer, room 10201, New Executive Office 
Building, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: May 20, 1999.
Linda Engelmeier,
Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer.
[FR Doc. 99-13314 Filed 5-25-99; 8:45 am]
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