[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 4 (Friday, January 5, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1076-1077]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-279]


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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 an extension of a currently 
approved collection of information under the provisions of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35).
    Agency: Bureau of Economic Analysis.
    Title: (1) Survey of Ocean Freight Revenues and Expenses of United 
States Carriers (BE-30). (2) Survey of U.S. Airline Operators' Foreign 
Revenues and Expenses (BE-37).
    Form Number(s): BE-30/BE-37.
    Agency Approval Number: 0608-0011.

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    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Burden: 780 hours/368 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 39/23.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 5 hours/4 hours.
    Needs and Uses: The Bureau of Economic Analysis is responsible for 
the computation and publication of the U.S. balance of payments 
accounts. The information collected in these surveys are an integral 
part of the ``transportation'' portion of the U.S. balance of payments 
accounts. The balance of payments accounts, which are published 
quarterly in the Bureau's monthly publication, the Survey of Current 
Business, are one of the major statistical products of BEA. The 
accounts provide a statistical summary of U.S. international 
transactions. They are used by government and private organizations for 
national and international policy formulation, and analytical studies. 
Without the information collected in these surveys, an integral 
component of the transportation account would be omitted. No other 
Government agency collects comprehensive quarterly data on U.S. ocean 
carriers' freight revenues and expenses or U.S. airline operators' 
foreign revenues and expenses.
    These surveys request information from U.S. ocean and air carriers 
engaged in the international transportation of goods and/or passengers. 
Information is collected on a quarterly basis from U.S. ocean and air 
carriers with total annual covered revenues and total annual covered 
expenses, each over $500,000. U.S. ocean and air carriers with total 
annual covered revenues and expenses below $500,000 are exempt from 
reporting.
    Frequency: Quarterly.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    Legal Authority: The International Investment and Trade in Services 
Act, 22 U.S.C. 3101-3108.
    OMB Desk Officer: Paul Bugg, (202) 395-3093.
    Copies of the above extension of a currently approved collection 
can be obtained by calling or writing Madeleine Clayton, DOC Forms 
Clearance Officer, (202) 482-3129, Department of Commerce, room 6086, 
14th and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.
    Written comments and recommendations in response to this extension 
of a currently approved collection should be sent within 30 days of 
publication of this notice to Paul Bugg, OMB Desk Officer, room 10102, 
New Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: December 29, 2000.
Madeleine Clayton,
DOC Forms Clearance Officer, Office of Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 01-279 Filed 1-4-01; 8:45 am]
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