[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 178 (Monday, September 15, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 48212]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-24321]


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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: Service Annual Survey.
    Form Number(s): B-500T, B-500T1, B-500T2, B-500T3, B-500T4, B-
500T5, B-500T6, B-500M, B-500M1, B-500M2, B-500M3, B-500IT, B-500IM, B-
900-L1, B-900-L2, B-900-L3, B-900-L4.
    Agency Approval Number: 0607-0422.
    Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Burden: 13,200 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 33,000.
    Avg. Hours Per Response: 24 minutes (over all forms).
    Needs and Uses: The Service Annual Survey (SAS) provides dollar 
volume estimates of the total output of personal, business, amusement, 
social, health, and other professional services in the United States. 
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), the primary Federal user, uses 
the information in developing the national income and product accounts, 
compiling benchmark and annual input-output tables, and computing gross 
domestic product by industry. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) uses 
the data as input to its Producer Price Indexes and in developing 
productivity measurements. Other government agencies such as the Health 
Care Financing Administration (HCFA) use the data for program, 
planning, and development. The Census Bureau uses these data to provide 
new insight into changing structural and cost conditions that will 
directly impact the planning and design of future economic census 
questionnaires. Private industry uses the data in planning and as a 
tool for marketing analysis.
    Data are collected from all of the largest firms and from a sample 
of small- and medium-sized businesses, selected using a stratified 
random sampling procedure. The SAS sample is reselected periodically, 
generally at 5-year intervals. The largest firms continue to be 
canvassed when the sample is re-drawn, while nearly all of the small- 
and medium-sized firms from the old sample are replaced.
    In this request, the burden hours are increasing due to the 
implementation of a new sample drawn for the 1996 survey. We have also 
expanded coverage to include School and Educational Services (SIC 
8299), not elsewhere classified.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit organizations, Not-
for-profit institutions.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., Sections 182, 224, and 225.
    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: September 8, 1997.
Linda Engelmeier,
Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of Management and 
Organization.
[FR Doc. 97-24321 Filed 9-12-97; 8:45 am]
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