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[FR Doc No: 94-9475]


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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: Current Retail Sales and Inventory Surveys.
    Form Number(s): B-101(92), B-102(92), B-103(92), B-111(92), B-
112(92), B-113(92), B-111(92)L.
    Agency Approval Number: 0607-0717.
    Type of Request: Extension of the expiration date of a currently 
approved collection without any change in the substance or in the 
method of collection.
    Burden: 31,561 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 23,436.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 15 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The Current Retail Sales Survey requests 
information on monthly sales for retail stores in the United States and 
the Current Retail Inventory Survey requests information on value of 
end-of-month merchandise inventories. Data collected in these surveys 
provide monthly sales estimates and dollar volume end-of-month 
inventory for retail stores. Monthly estimates of changes in sales and 
the value and levels of inventory are used by government and non-
government analysts in gauging economic trends. These surveys were 
previously conducted separately, but are now combined onto one form 
because respondents selected for the Current Retail Inventory Survey 
are a sub-sample of the Current Retail Sales Survey. Tabulations for 
the two surveys are independent of each other with both inventory and 
sales data published in the Monthly Retail Trade Report, Sales and 
Inventories Report and the Manufacturing and Trade, Inventories and 
Sales Report.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit organizations, 
Small businesses or organizations.
    Frequency: Monthly.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    OMB Desk Officer: Maria Gonzalez, (202) 395-7313.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Edward Michals, 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 
3208, New Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: April 14, 1994.
Edward Michals,
Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of Management and 
Organization.
[FR Doc. 94-9475 Filed 4-19-94; 8:45 am]
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