99-21462. Submission For OMB Review; Comment Request  

  • [Federal Register Volume 64, Number 159 (Wednesday, August 18, 1999)]
    [Notices]
    [Page 44889]
    From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
    [FR Doc No: 99-21462]
    
    
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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: Annual Survey of Manufactures.
        Form Number(s): MA-1000(L), MA-1000(S).
        Agency Approval Number: 0607-0449.
        Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
        Burden: 190,080 hours.
        Number of Respondents: 55,000.
        Avg Hours Per Response: Three and a half hours.
        Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau has conducted the Annual Survey 
    of Manufactures (ASM) since 1949 to provide key measures of 
    manufacturing activity during intercensal periods. In census years 
    ending in ``2'' and ``7'', we mail and collect the ASM as part of the 
    census of manufactures. This survey is an integral part of the 
    Government's statistical program. The ASM furnishes up-to-date 
    estimates of employment and payrolls, hours and wages of production 
    workers, value added by manufacture, cost of materials, value of 
    shipments by product class, inventories, and expenditures for both 
    plant and equipment and structures. The survey provides data for most 
    of these items for each of the 474 industries as defined in the North 
    American Industry Classification System (NAICS). It also provides 
    geographic data by state at a more aggregated industry level.
        The survey also provides valuable information to private companies, 
    research organizations, and trade associations. Industry makes 
    extensive use of the annual figures on product class shipments at the 
    U.S. level in its market analysis, product planning, and investment 
    planning. The ASM data are used to benchmark and reconcile monthly and 
    quarterly data on manufacturing production and inventories.
        The content of the questionnaires for the 1999-2001 ASM is 
    identical to the 1998 ASM report forms with the exception of our plans 
    to use the ASM to collect some very basic base-line information about 
    manufacturers use of e-commerce and e-business. We are still in the 
    process of determining whether to include the questions on the bottom 
    of the current ASM form or to put them on a separate one-page flier. We 
    will make that determination based on how best to reach the appropriate 
    respondent and our own internal processing efficiencies. These 
    questions will be asked only during the 1999 ASM collection.
        We are also still working on the exact wording and structure of the 
    questions. The basic content will not change and is included with this 
    submission. We will continue to refine the wording of these questions 
    over the next few weeks. We estimate that these questions can be 
    completed without referring to company records and can be completed in 
    five minutes or less.
        Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit organizations.
        Frequency: Annually.
        Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
        Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., Sections 182, 224, and 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 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 Linda Hutton, OMB Desk Officer, room 10201, New Executive Office 
    Building, Washington, DC 20503.
    
        Dated: August 13, 1999.
    Linda Engelmeier,
    Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
    Officer.
    [FR Doc. 99-21462 Filed 8-17-99; 8:45 am]
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Document Information

Published:
08/18/1999
Department:
Commerce Department
Entry Type:
Notice
Document Number:
99-21462
Pages:
44889-44889 (1 pages)
PDF File:
99-21462.pdf