[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 40 (Friday, February 28, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11399-11400]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-04438]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Economic Analysis

[Docket No. 140110027-4027-01]


BE-29: Survey of Foreign Ocean Carriers' Expenses in the United 
States

AGENCY: Bureau of Economic Analysis, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of Reporting Requirements.

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SUMMARY: By this Notice, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), 
Department of Commerce is informing the public that it is conducting 
the mandatory survey titled Survey of Foreign Ocean Carriers' Revenues 
and Expenses in the United States (BE-29). This mandatory survey is 
authorized by the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey 
Act.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Notice constitutes legal notification 
to all United States persons (defined below) who meet the reporting 
requirements set forth in this Notice that they must respond to, and 
comply with, the survey. Reports are due 90 days after the end of each 
calendar year. This notice is being issued in conformance with the rule 
BEA issued in 2012 (77 FR 24373) establishing guidelines for collecting 
data on international trade in services and direct investment through 
notices, rather than through rulemakings. The BE-29 survey forms and 
instructions are available on the BEA Web site at www.bea.gov/surveys/iussurv.htm.

Definitions

    (a) Person means any individual, branch, partnership, associated 
group, association, estate, trust, corporation, or other organization 
(whether or not organized under the laws of any State), and any 
government (including a foreign government, the United States 
Government, a State or local government, and any agency, corporation, 
financial institution, or other entity or instrumentality thereof, 
including a government-sponsored agency).
    (b) United States person means any person resident in the United 
States or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
    (c) Foreign person means any person resident outside the United 
States or subject to the jurisdiction of a country other than the 
United States.
    (d) Carriers means owners or operators of dry cargo, passenger 
(including cruise and combination) and tanker vessels, including very 
large crude carriers (VLCCs), calling at U.S. ports.
    (e) Foreign Carriers means those carriers whose residence is 
outside the United States, including those who own or operate their own 
chartered (U.S.-flag or foreign-flag) vessels. They also include 
foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies operating their own or chartered 
vessels as carriers for their own accounts.
    Who Must Report: Reports are required from U.S. agents of foreign 
carriers who: (a) Handle 40 or more port calls in the reporting period 
by foreign ocean vessels, or (b) have total annual covered expenses for 
all foreign ocean vessels handled by the U.S. agent of $250,000 or 
more. Entities required to report will be contacted individually by 
BEA. Entities not contacted by BEA have no reporting responsibilities.
    What To Report: This survey is intended to collect information on 
foreign ocean carriers' expenses in the United States. The survey is 
intended to collect information on transactions in the covered services 
occurring in calendar year 2013.
    How To Report: Reports can be filed via BEA's electronic reporting 
system at www.bea.gov/efile. Additionally, copies of the survey forms 
and instructions, which contain complete information on reporting 
procedures and definitions, can be obtained from the BEA Web site at 
www.bea.gov/surveys/iussurv.htm. Inquiries can be made to BEA at (202) 
606-5588.
    When To Report: Reports are due to BEA 90 days after the end of 
each calendar year.
    Paperwork Reduction Act Notice: This data collection has been 
approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in accordance 
with the Paperwork Reduction Act and assigned control number 0608-0012. 
An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to 
respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a valid 
control number assigned by OMB. The estimated average annual public 
reporting burden for this collection of information is 3 hours per 
response. Send comments regarding this burden estimate to Director, 
Bureau of Economic Analysis (BE-1), U.S. Department of Commerce,

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Washington, DC 20230; and to the Office of Management and Budget, 
Paperwork Reduction Project 0608-0012, Washington, DC 20503.

    Authority: 22 U.S.C. 3101-3108, as amended.

J. Steven Landefeld,
Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis.
[FR Doc. 2014-04438 Filed 2-27-14; 8:45 am]
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