[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 4 (Friday, January 5, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1077-1078]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-281]


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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: Survey of Foreign Airline Operators' Revenues and Expenses 
in the United States.
    Form Number(s): BE-36.
    Agency Approval Number: 0608-0013.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Burden: 360 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 72.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 5 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 this survey is 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

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transactions. They are used by government and private organizations for 
national and international policy formulation, and analytical studies. 
Without the information collected in this survey, an integral component 
of the transportation account would be omitted. No other Government 
agency collects comprehensive annual data on foreign airline operators' 
revenues and expenses in the United States.
    The survey requests information from foreign air carriers operating 
in the United States. Information is collected on an annual basis from 
foreign air carriers with total annual covered revenues and total 
annual covered expenses incurred in the U.S., each over $500,000. 
Foreign air carriers with total annual covered revenues and expenses 
below $500,000 are exempt from reporting.
    Frequency: Annually.
    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. 01-281 Filed 1-4-01; 8:45 am]
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