[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 173 (Wednesday, September 7, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55346-55347]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-22860]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce 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: Annual Survey of Manufactures.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-0449.
    Form Number(s): MA-10000(L), MA-10000(S), NC-99530.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Burden Hours: 181,120.
    Number of Respondents: 51,000.
    Average Hours Per Response: 2 hours and 40 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau is requesting an extension of the 
currently approved collection for the ASM. The Census Bureau has 
conducted the ASM since 1949 to provide key measures of manufacturing 
activity during intercensal periods. In census years ending in ``2'' 
and ``7,'' we mail and collect the ASM as part of the Economic Census 
Covering the Manufacturing Sector. The ASM will be included in the 
collection of the 2012 Economic Census and therefore all collection 
activities for 2012 will be on hiatus. In 2013, collection activities 
will resume for this clearance.
    The ASM statistics are based on a survey that includes both mail 
and nonmail components. The mail portion of the survey is comprised of 
a probability sample of approximately 51,000 manufacturing 
establishments from a frame of approximately 117,000 establishments. 
These 117,000 establishments are primarily comprised of manufacturing 
establishments of multiunit companies (companies with operations at 
more than one location) and large single-location manufacturing 
companies. The nonmail component is comprised of the remaining small 
and medium-sized single-location companies, approximately 211,000. No 
data are collected from companies in the nonmail component. Data are 
directly obtained from the administrative records of the Internal 
Revenue Service (IRS), the Social Security Administration (SSA), and 
the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The nonmail companies account for 63 
percent of the population and for less than 7 percent of the 
manufacturing output.
    This survey is an integral part of the Government's statistical 
program. Its results provide a factual background for decision making 
by the executive and legislative branches of the Federal Government. 
Federal agencies use the annual survey's input and output data as 
benchmarks for their statistical programs, including the Federal 
Reserve Board's Index of Industrial Production and the Bureau of 
Economic Analysis' estimates of the gross domestic product. The data 
also provide the Department of Energy with primary information on the 
use of energy by the manufacturing sector to produce manufactured 
products. These data also are used as benchmark data for the 
Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey, which is conducted for the 
Department of Energy by the Census Bureau. The Department of Commerce 
uses the exports of manufactured products data to measure the 
importance of exports to the manufacturing economy of each state. 
Within the Census Bureau, the ASM data are used to benchmark and 
reconcile monthly and quarterly data on manufacturing production and 
inventories.
    The ASM is the only source of complete establishment statistics for 
the programs mentioned above.
    The ASM furnishes up-to-date estimates of employment and payrolls, 
hours and wages of production workers, value added by manufacture, cost 
of materials, value of shipments by class of product, inventories, cost 
of employer's fringe benefits, operating expenses, and expenditures for 
new and used plant and equipment. The survey provides data for most of 
these items for all 5-digit and selected 6-digit industries as defined 
in the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). We also 
provide geographic data by state at a more aggregated industry level.
    The survey also provides valuable information to private companies, 
research organizations, and trade associations. Industry makes 
extensive use of the annual figures on product class shipments at the 
U.S. level in its market analysis, product planning, and investment 
planning. State development/planning agencies rely on the survey as a 
major source of comprehensive economic data for policymaking, planning, 
and administration.
    The Ownership or Control forms will be used to update the Business 
Register, the basic sampling frame for many of our current surveys. 
This enables us to update establishments in the Census Bureau's 
Business Register that are incorrectly identified as being single-
establishment firms.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    Legal Authority: Title 13, United States Code, Sections 182, 224, 
225.
    OMB Desk Officer: Brian Harris-Kojetin, (202) 395-7314.
    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 6616, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 
[email protected]).

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    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to Brian Harris-Kojetin,
    OMB Desk Officer either by fax (202-395-7245) or e-mail 
([email protected]).

    Dated: September 1, 2011.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2011-22860 Filed 9-6-11; 8:45 am]
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