[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] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] BILLING CODE 3510-07-F