[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 184 (Monday, September 27, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 53277]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-20945]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Economic Analysis


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; Services Surveys: BE-185, Quarterly Survey of Financial 
Services Transactions Between U.S. Financial Services Providers and 
Foreign Persons

    The Department of Commerce will submit the following information 
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
review and clearance, in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995 (PRA), on or after the date of publication of this notice. We 
invite the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on 
proposed and continuing information collections, which helps us assess 
the impact of our information collection requirements and minimize the 
public's reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested 
via the Federal Register on May 26, 2021, during a 60-day comment 
period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public 
comments.
    Agency: Bureau of Economic Analysis, Department of Commerce.
    Title: Quarterly Survey of Transactions between U.S. Financial 
Services Providers and Foreign Persons.
    OMB Control Number: 0608-0065.
    Form Number(s): BE-185.
    Type of Request: Regular submission, extension of a current 
information collection.
    Number of Respondents: 2,860 annually (715 filed each quarter; 580 
reporting mandatory data, and 135 that would file exemption claims or 
voluntary responses).
    Average Hours per Response: 10 hours is the average for those 
reporting data and one hour is the average for those filing an 
exemption claim. Hours may vary considerably among respondents because 
of differences in company size and complexity.
    Burden Hours: 24,140 hours annually.
    Needs and Uses: The data are needed to monitor U.S. trade in 
financial 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 
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 trade in financial services component of the 
U.S. international transactions accounts (ITAs) and national income and 
product accounts (NIPAs).
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: Quarterly.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    Legal Authority: International Investment and Trade in Services 
Survey Act (Pub. L. 94-472, 22 U.S.C. 3101-3108, as amended), and 
Section 5408 of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988.
    This information collection request may be viewed at 
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view the Department of 
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of 
this notice on the following website www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 
Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently 
under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search 
function and entering either the title of the collection or the OMB 
Control Number 0608-0065.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2021-20945 Filed 9-24-21; 8:45 am]
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