99-21100. Submission for OMB Review: Comment Request

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 157 (Monday, August 16, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 44479]
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[FR Doc No: 99-21100]


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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 of 1995, Public Law 104-
13.
    Bureau: International Trade Administration.
    Title: Export Assistance Center Website Form.
    Agency Form Number: N/A.
    OMB Number: None.
    Type of Request: Regular Submission.
    Burden: 417 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 5,000.
    Avg. Hours Per Response: 5 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The New York Export Assistant Center, which is a 
combined effort of the U.S. Department of Commerce's International 
Trade Administration (ITA), Export-Import Bank, and Small Business 
Administration provides a comprehensive array of export counseling and 
trade finance services to small and medium-sized U.S. exporting firms. 
In 1998, it launched an interactive website, www.nyuseac.org that is 
geared to the needs of New York and New Jersey metropolitan industry. 
One electronic form is proposed to be added to the website in order to 
improve the usefulness of the site. The form will ask U.S. exporting 
firm respondents to provide general background information and identify 
which service(s) they are interested in. This generic form will also be 
available for use by all of ITA's Export Assistance Centers.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for profit.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain a benefit, 
voluntary.
    OMB Desk Officer: David Rostker, [phone].
    Copies of the above information collection can be obtained by 
calling or writing Linda Engelmeier, Department Forms Clearance 
Officer, [phone], Department of Commerce, Room 5033, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington D.C. 20230 (or via the internet 
at [e-mail]).
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent to David Rostker, OMB Desk Officer, Room 
10202, New Executive Office Building, Washington D.C. 20503 within 30 
days of the publication of this notice.

    Dated: August 10, 1999.
Linda Engelmeier,
Department Forms Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer.
[FR Doc. 99-21100 Filed 8-13-99; 8:45 am]
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