[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 163 (Wednesday, August 23, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43759-43760]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-20862]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Agency Forms Under Review by the Office of Management and Budget

    DOC has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget for 
clearance the following proposals for collection of information under 
the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).
    Agency: Bureau of Export Administration.
    Title: Short Supply Regulations - Petroleum Products.
    Agency Form Number: None.
    OMB Approval Number: 0694-0026.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Burden: 3 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 5.
    Avg Hours Per Response: Approximately 30 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The Naval Petroleum Production Act restricts the 
export of any petroleum product produced from crude oil derived from 
National Petroleum Reserves. Under very limited circumstances, 
petroleum products can be exported if a validated license is obtained 
and supported by special documentation.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    OMB Desk Officer: Don Arbuckle, (202) 395-7340.
    Agency: Bureau of Export Administration.
    Title of Survey: License Exception for Western Red Cedar.
    Agency Form Number: None.
    OMB Approval Number: 0694-0065.
    Type of Request: Extension of the expiration date of a currently 
approved collection.
    Burden: 50 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 50.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 1.
    Needs and Uses: BXA established a General License for the shipment 
of unprocessed western red cedar. Under this license, exporters are 
required to maintain records to ensure that the timber exported was not 
harvested from prohibited public lands. Exporters without evidence of 
origin are subject to penalty.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain a benefit.
    OMB Desk Officer: Don Arbuckle, (202) 395-7340.
    Agency: International Trade Administration.
    Title: Application for an Export Trade Certificate of Review.
    Agency Form Number: ITA-4039P.
    OMB Approval Number: 0625-0125.
    Type of Request: Extension of the expiration date of a currently 
approved collection.
    Burden: 960 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 30.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 32.
    Needs and Uses: The information provided by private or public 
entities of this application enables the Department of Commerce and 
Justice to begin to determine whether an antitrust Export Trade 
Certificate of Review should be issued in accordance with TITLE III of 
the Export Trading Company Act of 1992. This Certificate provides the 
holder with virtual immunity from government action under state and 
federal antitrust laws for the export conduct specified in the 
certificate.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit organizations, not-
for-profit institutions, and state government.

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    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain a benefit.
    OMB Desk Officer: Don Arbuckle, (202) 395-7340.
    Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
    Title: National Ice Center Customer Survey of Products and 
Services.
    Agency Form Number: None.
    OMB Approval Number: None.
    Type of Request: New Collection.
    Burden: 50 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 200.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 15 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The National Ice Center is an interagency 
organization comprised of personnel from Navy, NOAA, and the Coast 
Guard. Its mission is to provide worldwide operational sea ice analyses 
and forecasts for the U.S. armed forces and allied nations, other 
government agencies, and the civil sector. The questionnaire will be 
used to determine which ice products and services are most useful to 
customers and to ascertain which future products would be beneficial.
    Affected Public: Individuals, businesses or other for-profit 
organizations, not-for-profit institutions, federal, state, local and 
tribal governments.
    Frequency: One-time survey.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    OMB Desk Officer: Don Arbuckle, (202) 395-7340.
    Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
    Title of Survey: Pacific Tuna Fisheries.
    Agency Form Number: None assigned.
    OMB Approval Number: 0648-0148.
    Type of Request: Extension of the expiration date of a currently 
approved collection.
    Burden: 815 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 72 (8,150 responses).
    Avg Hours Per Response: 0.1 hours.
    Needs and Uses: Fishing vessels in the Pacific Tuna fishery must 
maintain logbooks with catch-related information. The data are used by 
the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Inter-American Tuna 
Commission biologists to determine the effects of fishing on tuna 
abundance. Results form the basis of stock assessments.
    Affected Public: Individuals, businesses or other for-profit 
organizations.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    OMB Desk Officer: Don Arbuckle (202) 395-7340.
    Copies of the above information collection proposals can be 
obtained by calling or writing Gerald Tache, DOC Forms Clearance 
Officer, (202) 482-3271, Department of Commerce, Room 5327, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collections should be sent to Don Arbuckle, OMB Desk Officer, Room 
10202, New Executive Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20503.

    Dated: August 11, 1995
Gerald Tache,
Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of Management and 
Organization.
[FR Doc. 95-20862 Filed 8-22-95; 8:45 am]
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