[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 14 (Wednesday, January 22, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 3268]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-1525]


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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: 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.
    Average 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 business 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. We plan to make the 
necessary revisions to the B-625 form to enable us to assign kind-of-
business codes based on the new North American Industry Classification 
Systems (NAICS) in addition to the existing Standard Industrial 
Classification (SIC) system.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations, Not-
for-profit institutions.
    Frequency: One time only per respondent.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Title, 13 U.S.C., Section 182.
    OMB Desk Officer: Jerry Coffey, (202) 395-7314.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Linda Engelmeier, Acting 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 information collection 
proposal should be sent within 30 days of publication to this notice to 
Jerry Coffey, OMB Desk Officer, Room 10201, New Executive Office 
Building, Washington, D.C. 20503.

    Dated: January 14, 1997.
Linda Engelmeier,
Acting Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of Management and 
Organization.
[FR Doc. 97-1525 Filed 1-21-97; 8:45 am]
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