[Federal Register: July 9, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 131)]
[Notices]               
[Page 37099-37100]
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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: Bureau of Export Administration.
    Title: Miscellaneous Activities.
    Form number(s): Not applicable.
    Agency Approval Number: 0694-0102.
    Type of Request: Renewal of an existing collection.
    Burden: 10 hours.
    Number of respondents: 2.
    Average hours per response: 5.
    Needs and uses: On September 30, 1993, the Secretary of Commerce 
submitted to the Congress a report of the Trade Promotion Coordinating 
Committee, entitled Toward a National Export Strategy. The report 
included the goal to ``Undertake a comprehensive review of the Export 
Administration Regulations to simplify, clarify, and make the 
regulations more user-friendly.'' To carry out this recommendation, BXA 
has rewritten the entire EAR. During the course of this process, many 
activities imposed on the public were changed to reduce the burden, 
however the methods varied. Some were merely eliminated; others had old 
activities replaced with newer, simpler activities, and still others 
had new activities added to permit participation in programs where 
prohibitions once existed. Therefore, to the extent activities have 
been added or changed but not deleted, this collection represents the 
authority to collect, on rare occasions, certain information from the 
public. This assembly of information collection activities is comprised 
of two activities. The two of these--``Registration Of U.S. 
Agricultural Commodities For Exemption From Short Supply Limitations On 
Export'' and ``Petitions For The Imposition Of Monitoring Or Controls 
On Recyclable Metallic materials; Public Hearings'' are statutory in 
nature and--though they never have been applied--must remain a part of 
BXA's information collection budget authorization.
    Affected Public: Individuals, businesses or other for-profit and 
not-for-profit institutions.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required for benefit.
    OMB Desk Officer: David Rostker, (202) 395-3897.

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    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Linda Engelmeier, DOC Forms Clearance Officer, 
Office of the Chief Information Officer, (202) 482-3272, Department of 
Commerce, room 5327, 14th and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 
20230 (or via the 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 David Rostker, OMB Desk Officer, room 10202, New Executive Office 
Building, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: July 2, 1999.
Linda Engelmeier,
Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer.
[FR Doc. 99-17483 Filed 7-8-99; 8:45 am]
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