[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 10 (Tuesday, January 16, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3826-3827]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-1131]



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Part VIII





Office of Management and Budget





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North American Industry Classification System--Revision for 2002; 
Notice

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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET


North American Industry Classification System--Revision for 2002

AGENCY: Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the 
President.

ACTION: Notice of final decision.

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SUMMARY: Under Title 44 U.S.C. 3504(e), the Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) is announcing its final decision to adopt the North 
American Industry Classification System (NAICS) revisions for 2002 as 
recommended by the Economic Classification Policy Committee in OMB's 
notice for solicitation of comments in Part II of the April 20, 2000, 
Federal Register (65 FR 21241). In addition, OMB is adopting one change 
not included in the April 20, 2000, notice--the move of Map and Atlas 
Publishing from Industry 511199, All Other Publishing, to Industry 
511130, Book Publishing.
    In the April 20, 2000, notice, OMB's Economic Classification Policy 
Committee (ECPC) recommended a revision of the industry classification 
system to extend the three-country agreement level for the Construction 
sector and to recognize important changes in the Information sector. In 
addition, as an interim measure in the United States, the ECPC 
recommended restructuring the Wholesale Trade sector to reflect 
differences in production functions and to capture more accurately the 
rapidly-growing business-to-business electronic markets developing in 
the United States. For the Retail Trade sector, the United States is 
creating additional national level detail for department stores and 
nonstore retailers to create more meaningful, homogeneous industries 
for the United States. More details of this decision are presented in 
the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below.

EFFECTIVE DATE: Federal statistical data published for reference years 
beginning on or after January 1, 2002, should be published using the 
2002 NAICS United States codes. Agencies may adopt the 2002 NAICS 
earlier at their discretion. Publication of a 2002 NAICS United States 
Manual is planned for January 2002.

ADDRESSES: You should send correspondence about the adoption and 
implementation of 2002 NAICS as shown in the April 20, 2000, Federal 
Register notice, and modified by Attachments 1, 2, and 3 of this 
notice, to: Katherine K. Wallman, Chief Statistician, Office of 
Management and Budget, 10201 New Executive Office Building, Washington, 
DC 20503, telephone number: (202) 395-3093, FAX number: (202) 395-7245.
    You should address inquiries about the content of industries or 
requests for electronic copies of the 2002 NAICS tables to: John 
Murphy, Assistant Division Chief for Classification Activities, Service 
Sector Statistics Division, Bureau of the Census, Room 2641-3, 
Washington, DC 20233, telephone number: (301) 457-2672, FAX number: 
(301) 457-1343.

Electronic Availability and Comments:

    This document and the April 20, 2000, Federal Register are 
available on the Internet from the Census Bureau via WWW browser and E-
mail. To obtain this document via WWW browser, connect to http://www.census.gov/naics. This WWW page also contains previous NAICS 
Federal Register notices and related documents.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul Bugg, 10201 New Executive Office 
Building, Washington, DC 20503, E-mail address: [email protected], 
telephone number: (202) 395-3095, FAX number: (202) 395-7245.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The April 20, 2000, Federal Register notice 
(1) summarized the background for the proposed revisions to NAICS 1997 
in Part I; (2) contained a summary of public comments in Part II; (3) 
detailed the structure changes agreed upon by the three countries in 
Part III; and (4) provided a comprehensive listing of changes for 
national industries and their links to NAICS 1997 industries in Part 
IV.
    Subsequent to the release of the April 20 Federal Register, 
representatives from the statistical agencies of Mexico, Canada, and 
the United States who were working on a parallel three-country product 
classification system proposed to the three-country Steering Committee 
that Atlas and Map Publishers, currently in NAICS Industry 51119 Other 
Publishers, be moved to Industry 51113 Book Publishers. This proposal 
stemmed from the fact that the process of publishing atlases is similar 
to the publishing process for books such as reference books, and that 
the same industries often produce both atlases and maps. Informal 
discussions with these industries confirmed their support of this 
change. OMB's final decision regarding revision of NAICS for 2002 is to 
adopt the proposal contained in the April 20, 2000, Federal Register, 
with the one change to move Atlas and Map Publishers into Industry 
51113. Attachments 1, 2, and 3 show the corrected lines for Tables 1, 
2, and 3, as contained in the April 20 Federal Register.
    After taking into consideration other comments submitted in direct 
response to the April 20, 2000, Federal Register notice, as well as 
benefits and costs, and after consultation with the Economic 
Classification Policy Committee (ECPC), Mexico's Instituto Nacional de 
Estadistica, Geografiia e Informatica (INEGI) and Statistics Canada, 
OMB made no other changes to the scope and substance of the April 20, 
2000, Federal Register notice. The other comments that were received 
either supported proposed changes, or suggested changes that would be 
incompatible with the production-based foundation of NAICS or be 
incompatible with proposals that were accepted.
    NAICS was jointly developed by Canada, Mexico, and the United 
States. For the 2002 revision the three countries focused on 
harmonizing and updating the Construction and Information sectors of 
NAICS. In the 1997 NAICS, the Construction sector was comparable among 
all three countries only at the highest levels of aggregation. Although 
new in 1997, the Information sector lacked finite categories related to 
important new and emerging industries, prompting the three countries to 
re-evaluate and restructure this sector. The United States will 
implement structural changes for the Wholesale Trade and Retail Trade 
sectors which will not impact the three country comparability for these 
sectors. It was not the intent of the ECPC to open for consideration 
all areas of NAICS that currently lack three-country comparability or 
to revise sectors other than those specifically listed above. Other 
sectors will be re-evaluated for future NAICS revisions.

Sally Katzen,
Deputy Director for Management.

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Attachment 1--Revisions to Table 1 of the April 20, 2000, Federal 
Register Part II

                     Table 1.--2002 NAICS United States Matched to 1997 NAICS United States
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                                     2002 NAICS and U.S.                 1997 NAICS
          2002 NAICS code                description      Status  code      code        1997 NAICS description
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51113.............................  Book Publishers.....            R      * 511199  All Other Publishers (atlas
                                                                                      and map publishers, except
                                                                                      Internet Publishing).
                                    ....................            R      * 511130  Book Publishers (except
                                                                                      Internet Publishing).
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Attachment 2--Revisions to Table 2 of the April 20, 2000, Federal 
Register Part II

                            Table 2.--1997 NAICS Matched to 2002 NAICS United States
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                                                                             2002 NAICS     2002 NAICS and U.S.
          1997 NAICS code                1997 NAICS U.S. description            code            description
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511199............................  All Other Publishers:
                                      Atlas and Map Publishers..........          511130   Book Publishers.
                                      (except Internet Publishers)......
                                      Atlas and Map Publishers (Internet          516110   Internet Publishers
                                     Publishers) and All Other Internet                     (pt.)
                                     Publishers.
                                    All Other Publishers (except                  511199   All Other Publishers.
                                     Internet Publishers).
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Attachment 3--Revisions to Table 3 of the April 20, 2000, Federal 
Register Part II

              Table 3.--2002 NAICS United States Matched to 1987 Standard Industrial Classification
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                       2002 NAICS
 2002 NAICS code       description       1987 SIC code   1987 SIC description
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51113...........  Book Publishers:      ...............  ....................
                  Atlas and Map                   2741   Miscellaneous
                   Publishers and                         Publishing (atlases
                   Technical Book and                     and books,
                   Manual Publishers.                     technical books and
                    (except Internet).                    manuals, except
                                                          Internet
                                                          publishing)
                    Book Publishers               2731   Books: Publishing or
                   (except Internet).                     Publishing and
                                                          Printing (except
                                                          music books and
                                                          Internet book
                                                          publishing).
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