[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 35 (Wednesday, February 23, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 8765]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-3393]


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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: U.S. Census Bureau.
    Title: Business and Professional Classification Report.
    Form Number(s): SQ-CLASS.
    Agency Approval Number: 0607-0189.
    Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Burden: 10,835 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 50,000.
    Avg. Hours Per Response: 13 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census Bureau sponsors the SQ-CLASS, 
``Business and Professional Classification Report,'' to collect 
information needed to keep the retail, wholesale, and services samples 
current with the business universe. Because of rapid changes in the 
marketplace caused by the emergence of new businesses, the death of 
others, and changes in company organization, the Census Bureau 
canvasses a sample of new Employer Identification Numbers (EINs) 
obtained from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Social 
Security Administration (SSA). Each firm selected in this sample is 
canvassed once for data on the establishment(s) associated with the new 
EIN. A different sample of EINs is canvassed four times a year.
    We are revising the layout and wording of Item 9 of the SQ-CLASS 
form and the corresponding section of the instruction sheet to improve 
the assignment of kind-of-business codes based on the North American 
Industry Classification System (NAICS). We do not expect these changes 
to increase burden.
    The completed SQ-CLASS form provides sales, receipts, or revenue; 
company organization; new or refined NAICS codes; and other key 
information needed for sampling to maintain proper coverage of the 
universe. Based on the collected information, EINs meeting the criteria 
for inclusion in the Census Bureau's retail, wholesale, or service 
surveys are subjected to second sampling. The retail and wholesale EINs 
selected in this second sampling are placed on a panel to report in our 
monthly surveys. Additional panels of selected units are included in 
the annual surveys. The selected service EINs report on an annual 
basis.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit; Not-for-profit 
institutions.
    Frequency: Respondents are contacted only once.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: 13 U.S.C. 182.
    OMB Desk Officer: Susan Schechter, (202) 395-5103.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Diana Hynek, Departmental Paperwork Clearance 
Officer, (202) 482-0266, Department of Commerce, room 6625, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 
[email protected]).
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to Susan Schechter, OMB Desk Officer either by fax ((202) 395-7245) or 
e-mail ([email protected]).

    Dated: February 16, 2005.
Madeleine Clayton,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 05-3393 Filed 2-22-05; 8:45 am]
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