95-22287. Agency Form Under Review by the Office of Management and Budget

[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 174 (Friday, September 8, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46816-46817]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-22287]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Agency Form Under Review by the Office of Management and Budget

    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 the Census.
    Title: Business and Professional Classification Report.
    Form Number(s): B-625(97).
    Agency Approval Number: 0607-0189.
    Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Burden: 9,101 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 42,000.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 13 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The Bureau of the Census conducts the Business and 
Professional Classification Report to collect sales and other 
information from a sample redrawn every quarter of retail, wholesale, 
service, and unclassified businesses recently assigned Federal Employer 
Identification numbers (EIN). We are informed of the existence of these 
new businesses from lists provided by the Internal Revenue Service and 
the Social Security Administration. From the information we collect in 
this survey, we determine an appropriate measure of size, company 
organization and establishment information, taxable or tax-exempt 
status, wholesale inventories, type of operation, and assign a new or 
more refined kind-of-business classification. We use this information 
to include these businesses in our retail, wholesale, and service 
surveys. This keeps the sampling frames for our current business 
surveys up-to-date with the business universe. This request for 
revision revises the data collection form by removing questions that 
are no longer needed and simplifying the wording and format of the 
essential questions.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit, Not-for-profit 
institutions.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    OMB Desk Officer: Maria Gonzalez, [phone].
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Gerald Tache, DOC Forms Clearance Officer, (202) 
482-3271, Department of Commerce, room 5312, 14th and Constitution 
Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent to Maria Gonzalez, OMB Desk Officer, room 
10201, New Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20503.


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    Dated: September 1, 1995.
Gerald Tache,
Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of Management and 
Organization.
[FR Doc. 95-22287 Filed 9-7-95; 8:45 am]
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