[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 134 (Monday, July 14, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 37543]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-18428]


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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: 1997 Business Expenditures Survey.
    Form Number(s): B-450(S), 451(S), 151(S), 151A(S), 151D(S), 153(S), 
153D(S), 500(SA), 500(SE).
    Agency Approval Number: None.
    Type of Request: New collection.
    Burden: 72,100 hours in FY 1998.
    Number of Respondents: 57,700.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 1.25.
    Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau plans to conduct the 1997 
Business Expenditures Survey (BES), previously known as the Assets and 
Expenditures Survey (AES), as part of the 1997 Economic Censuses. This 
information collection will supplement basic economic statistics 
produced by the 1997 Censuses of Wholesale Trade, Retail Trade, and 
Service Industries with estimates of operating expenses. It will also 
provide measures of value produced for wholesale trade and retail 
trade. This survey is the sole source of expense input data for 
domestic merchant wholesale, retail, and service businesses. Detailed 
inquiries on fixed assets and capital expenditures, included in the 
1992 survey, have been dropped.
    Data will be collected only from employer businesses included in 
the business current sample surveys (BSR-97) database. This information 
will be used by the Bureau of Economic Analysis to benchmark national 
economic accounts such as the input-output account, and to derive 
economic measures of value produced, such as value added. Other 
government agencies, private industry, and academia also will use these 
data for policymaking, market and economic research, and planning.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit, Not-for-profit 
institutions.
    Frequency: One time.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., Sections 131, 193, 195, and 224.
    OMB Desk Officer: Jerry Coffey, (202) 395-7314.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Linda Engelmeier, DOC Forms Clearance Officer, 
(202) 482-3272, Department of Commerce, room 5327, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to Jerry Coffey, OMB Desk Officer, room 10201, New Executive Office 
Building, Washington, DC 20503.


    Dated: July 8, 1997.
Linda Engelmeier,
Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of Management and 
Organization.
[FR Doc. 97-18428 Filed 7-11-97; 8:45 am]
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