[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 168 (Wednesday, August 30, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 51569]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-14357]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    DOC will submit 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: 2007 Company Organization Survey.
    Form Number(s): NC-99001.
    Agency Approval Number: 0607-0444.
    Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Burden: 26,583 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 80,000.
    Avg. Hours per Response: 20 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau requests a revision of the 
currently approved Company Organization Survey (COS) data collection 
for the 2007 survey year. The Census Bureau will conduct the 2007 COS 
in conjunction with the 2007 Economic Census and will coordinate these 
collections so as to minimize response burden. We request an extension 
of the current expiration date to November 2008 to complete the data 
collection for the 2007 COS.
    The Census Bureau conducts the annual COS in order to maintain and 
update a centralized, multipurpose Business Register (BR). In 
particular, the COS supplies critical information on the organizational 
structure, operating characteristics, and employment and payroll of 
multi-location enterprises.
    The 2007 COS will request company-level information from 80,000 
multi-establishment enterprises with 50 or more employees or with 
industries out-of-scope of the 2007 Economic Census. The Census Bureau 
will include questions on ownership or control by a domestic parent, 
ownership or control by a foreign parent, ownership of foreign 
affiliates, research and development, and employees from a professional 
employer organization.
    The 2007 COS will request additional information from 15,000 multi-
location establishments with industry classifications that are out-of-
scope of the Economic Census. For those out-of-scope establishments, we 
will collect the following basic operating data for each listed 
establishment: End-of-year operating status, mid-March employment, 
first quarter payroll, and annual payroll. The Economic Census will 
collect data for all other establishments of multi-establishment 
enterprises, including those items above.
    The information collected by the COS is used to maintain and update 
the BR. The BR serves two fundamental purposes:
    First and most important, it provides sampling populations and 
enumeration lists for the Census Bureau's economic surveys and 
censuses, and it serves as an integral part of the statistical 
foundation underlying those programs. Essential for this purpose is the 
BR's ability to identify all known United States business 
establishments and their parent companies. Further, the BR must 
accurately record basic business attributes needed to control sampling 
and enumeration. These attributes include industrial and geographic 
classifications, measures of size and economic activity, ownership 
characteristics, and contact information (for example, name and 
address).
    Second, it provides establishment data that serve as the basis for 
the annual County Business Patterns (CBP) statistical series. The CBP 
reports present data on number of establishments, first quarter 
payroll, annual payroll, and mid-March employment summarized by 
industry and employment size class for the United States, the District 
of Columbia, Puerto Rico, counties, and county-equivalents. No other 
annual or more frequent series of industry statistics provides 
comparable detail, particularly for small geographic areas.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit; Not-for-profit 
institutions; Farms; State, local or Tribal government.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., Sections 131, 182, 224, and 225.
    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: August 24, 2006.
Madeleine Clayton,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. E6-14357 Filed 8-29-06; 8:45 am]
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