[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 186 (Tuesday, September 25, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48411-48412]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-20784]


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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: Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), Department of Commerce.
    Title: Quarterly Survey of Foreign Airline Operators' Revenues and 
Expenses in the United States.
    OMB Control Number: 0608-0068.
    Form Number: BE-9.
    Type of Request: Regular submission.
    Number of Responses: 180 annually (45 filed each quarter; 44 
reporting mandatory data, and one that would file an exemption claim).
    Average Hours per Response: 6 hours is the average for those 
reporting data,

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and one hour is the average for those filing an exemption, but hours 
may vary considerably among respondents because of differences in 
company size and complexity.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,060.
    Needs and Uses: The Quarterly Survey of Foreign Airline Operators' 
Revenues and Expenses in the United States (BE-9) is a survey that 
collects data from U.S. offices, agents, or other representatives of 
foreign airline operators that transport freight and express to or from 
the United States and whose total covered revenues or total covered 
expenses were $5 million or more in the previous year or are expected 
to be $5 million or more during the current year. The covered revenues 
are freight revenue on merchandise exported from, or imported into, the 
United States. The covered expenses are expenses incurred in the United 
States for: (1) Fuel and oil; (2) wages and salaries paid to employees 
in the United States; (3) agents' and brokers' fees and commissions for 
arrangement of freight and passenger transportation; (4) aircraft 
handling and terminal services, (5) aircraft (with crew) leasing 
expenses, and (6) all other expenses incurred in the United States 
except aircraft leasing (without crew) expenses.
    Respondents are also asked to report: (1) Shipping weights on which 
freight revenues were earned; (2) the number of passengers transported 
to/from the United States; and (3) revenues associated with these 
passengers.
    The data collected on the survey are needed to monitor U.S. trade 
in transport services, to analyze the impact of these cross-border 
services on the U.S. and foreign economies, to compile and improve the 
U.S. economic accounts, to support U.S. commercial policy on trade in 
transport services, to conduct trade promotion, and to improve the 
ability of U.S. businesses to identify and evaluate market 
opportunities. The data are used in estimating the transport component 
of the U.S. international transactions accounts (ITAs) and national 
income and product accounts (NIPAs).
    The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) is not making any 
modifications to the current BE-9 survey. The effort to keep current 
reporting requirements unchanged is intended to minimize respondent 
burden while considering the needs of data users. Existing language in 
the instructions and definitions will be reviewed and adjusted as 
necessary to clarify survey requirements.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: Quarterly.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    OMB Desk Officer: Robert Sivinski, (202) 395-1205.
    This information collection request may be viewed at reginfo.gov 
http://www.reginfo.gov/public/. Follow the instructions to view 
Department of Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to [email protected].

Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental Lead PRA Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2018-20784 Filed 9-24-18; 8:45 am]
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