[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 119 (Wednesday, June 22, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37307-37309]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-13313]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Census Bureau

[Docket Number 220519-0116]


Current Mandatory Business Surveys

AGENCY: Census Bureau, Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of determination.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of the Census (Census Bureau) will conduct the 
following current mandatory business surveys in 2022: Annual Business 
Survey, Annual Capital Expenditures Survey, Annual Retail Trade Survey, 
Annual Survey of Manufactures, Annual Wholesale Trade Survey, Business 
and Professional Classification Report, Business Enterprise Research 
and Development Survey, Management and Organizational Practices Survey, 
Management and Organizational Practices Survey for Hospitals, 
Manufacturers' Unfilled Orders Survey, Report of Organization, Service 
Annual Survey, and the Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey. We have 
determined that data collected from these surveys are needed to aid the 
efficient performance of essential governmental functions and have 
significant application to the needs of the public and industry. The 
data derived from these surveys, most of which have been conducted for 
many years, are not publicly available from nongovernmental or other 
governmental sources.

ADDRESSES: The Census Bureau will make available the reporting 
instructions to the organizations included in the surveys. Additional 
copies are available upon written request to the Director, 4600 Silver 
Hill Road, U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, DC 20233-0101.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nick Orsini, Associate Director for 
Economic Programs, Telephone: 301-763-1858; Email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The surveys described herein are authorized 
by Title 13, United States Code (U.S.C.), Section 182 and are necessary 
to furnish current data on the subjects covered by the major censuses. 
These surveys are made mandatory under the provisions of Sections 224 
and 225 of Title 13, U.S.C. These surveys will provide continuing and 
timely national statistical data for the period between economic 
censuses. The data collected in the surveys will be within the general 
scope and nature of those inquiries covered in the economic census. The 
most recent economic census was conducted in 2018 for the reference 
year 2017. The next economic census will occur in 2023 for the 
reference year 2022.
    Notice of specific reporting requirements for each survey, 
including who is to report, the information to be reported, the manner 
of reporting, and the time and place of filing reports, will be 
provided by mail or email only to those required to complete these 
surveys.

Annual Business Survey (ABS)

    The ABS provides information on selected economic and demographic 
characteristics for businesses and business owners by sex, ethnicity, 
race, and veteran status. Further, the survey measures research and 
development for microbusinesses, new business topics such as innovation 
and technology, as well as other business characteristics. The ABS 
includes all nonfarm employer businesses filing Internal Revenue 
Service (IRS) tax forms as individual proprietorships, partnerships, or 
any other type of corporation, with receipts of $1,000 or more. The ABS 
is sponsored by the National Center for Science and Engineering 
Statistics (NCSES) within the National Science Foundation (NSF) and 
conducted by the Census Bureau for five years (2018-2022).
    More information regarding the ABS can be found in the Information 
Collection Request approved by the Office of Management and Budget on 
June 17, 2021 at the following link: https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202102-0607-002.

Annual Capital Expenditures Survey (ACES)

    The ACES collects annual data on the amount of business 
expenditures for new and used structures and equipment from a sample of 
non-farm, non-governmental companies, organizations, and associations. 
Both employer and nonemployer companies are included in the survey. The 
data are the sole source of investment in buildings and other 
structures, machinery, and equipment by all private nonfarm businesses 
in the United States, by the investing industry, and by kind of 
investment.
    More information regarding the ACES can be found in the Information 
Collection Request approved by the Office of Management and Budget on 
February 11, 2021 at the following link: https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202012-0607-004.

Annual Retail Trade Survey (ARTS)

    The ARTS collects data on annual sales, sales tax, e-commerce 
sales, year-end inventories, total operating expenses, purchases, and 
accounts receivable from a sample of employer firms with establishments 
classified in retail trade as defined by the North American Industry 
Classification System (NAICS). These data serve as a benchmark for the 
more frequent estimates compiled from the Monthly Retail Trade Survey.
    More information regarding the ARTS can be found in the Information 
Collection Request approved by the Office of Management and Budget on 
February 2, 2021 at the following link: https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202010-0607-001.

Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM)

    The ASM collects annual industry statistics, such as total value of 
shipments, employment, payroll, workers' hours, capital expenditures, 
cost of materials consumed, supplemental labor costs, and so forth. 
This survey is conducted on a sample basis, and covers all 
manufacturing industries, including data on plants under construction 
but not yet in operation. The ASM data are used to benchmark and 
reconcile monthly data on manufacturing production and inventories.

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    More information regarding the ASM can be found in the Information 
Collection Request approved by the Office of Management and Budget on 
January 4, 2021 at the following link: https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202011-0607-003.

Annual Wholesale Trade Survey (AWTS)

    The AWTS collects data on annual sales, e-commerce sales, year-end 
inventories held both inside and outside of the United States, method 
of inventory valuation, total operating expenses, purchases, gross 
selling value, and commissions from a sample of employer firms with 
establishments classified in wholesale trade as defined by the NAICS. 
These data serve as a benchmark for the more frequent estimates 
compiled from the Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey.
    More information regarding the AWTS can be found in the Information 
Collection Request approved by the Office of Management and Budget on 
December 10, 2020 at the following link: https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202009-0607-002.

Business and Professional Classification Report

    The Business and Professional Classification Report collects one-
time data on a firm's type of business activity from a sample of 
businesses that were recently assigned Federal Employer Identification 
Numbers or recently added to the scope of the Census Bureau's current 
business surveys. The data are used to update the sampling frames for 
our current business surveys. Additionally, the business classification 
data will help ensure businesses are directed to complete the correct 
report in the economic census.
    More information regarding the Business and Professional 
Classification Report can be found in the Information Collection 
Request approved by the Office of Management and Budget on September 
15, 2021 at the following link: https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202105-0607-002.

Business Enterprise Research and Development Survey (BERD)

    The BERD collects annual data on spending for research and 
development activities by businesses. The BERD collects foreign as well 
as domestic spending information, more detailed information about the 
R&D workforce, and information regarding intellectual property from 
U.S. businesses. The Census Bureau collects and compiles this 
information in accordance with a joint project agreement between the 
National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Census Bureau. The NSF posts 
the joint project's information results on their website.
    More information regarding the BERD can be found in the Information 
Collection Request approved by the Office of Management and Budget on 
December 15, 2021 at the following link: https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202108-0607-005.

Management and Organizational Practices Survey (MOPS)

    The MOPS will be conducted as a joint project by the Census Bureau, 
the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Stanford School of 
Humanities and Sciences, and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered 
Artificial Intelligence. The MOPS will collect information on 
management and organizational practices of manufacturing firms at the 
establishment level. Data obtained from the survey will allow the 
Census Bureau to estimate a firm's stock of management and 
organizational assets, specifically the use of establishment 
performance data, such as production targets in decision-making and the 
prevalence of decentralized decision rights. The results will provide 
information on investments in management and organizational practices 
thus providing a better understanding of the benefits from these 
investments when measured in terms of firm productivity or firm market 
value.
    More information regarding the MOPS can be found in the Information 
Collection Request approved by the Office of Management and Budget on 
March 7, 2022 at the following link: https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202111-0607-002.

Management and Organizational Practices Survey for Hospitals (MOPS-HP)

    The MOPS-HP collects information on the use of structured 
management practices from Chief Nursing Officers (CNOs) at 
approximately 3,200 hospitals with the goal of producing four publicly-
available indices that measure key characteristics of these structured 
management practices. The MOPS-HP collects data for reference years 
2020 and 2019.
    The MOPS-HP will provide a deeper understanding of the business 
processes which impact an increasingly important sector of the economy; 
total national health expenditures represented almost 18 percent of 
U.S. gross domestic product in 2017 (National Center for Health 
Statistics).
    More information regarding the MOPS-HP can be found in the 
Information Collection Request approved by the Office of Management and 
Budget on June 25, 2021 at the following link: https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202102-0607-003.

Manufacturers' Unfilled Orders Survey (M3UFO)

    The M3UFO collects annual data on sales and unfilled orders in 
order to provide annual benchmarks for unfilled orders for the monthly 
Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders (M3) survey. The 
M3UFO data are also used to determine whether it is necessary to 
collect unfilled orders data for specific industries on a monthly 
basis, as some industries are not requested to provide unfilled orders 
data in the M3 Survey.
    More information regarding the M3UFO can be found in the 
Information Collection Request approved by the Office of Management and 
Budget on September 23, 2021 at the following link: https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202104-0607-003.

Report of Organization

    The Report of Organization collects annual data on ownership or 
control by a domestic or foreign parent and ownership of foreign 
affiliates. This includes research and development, company activities 
such as employees from a professional employer organization, 
operational status, mid-March employment, first-quarter payroll, and 
annual payroll of establishments from a sample of multi-establishment 
enterprises in order to update and maintain a centralized, multipurpose 
Business Register.
    More information regarding the Report of Organization can be found 
in the Information Collection Request approved by the Office of 
Management and Budget on December 30, 2020 at the following link: 
https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202007-0607-007.

Service Annual Survey (SAS)

    The SAS collects annual data on total revenue, select detailed 
revenue, total and detailed expenses, and e-commerce revenue for a 
sample of businesses in the service industries. These industries 
include Utilities; Transportation and Warehousing; Information; Finance 
and Insurance; Real Estate and Rental and Leasing; Professional, 
Scientific, and Technical Services; Administration and Support and 
Waste Management and Remediation Services; Educational Services; Health 
Care and Social

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Assistance; Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation; Accommodation and Food 
Services; and Other Services as defined by the NAICS. These data serve 
as a benchmark for the more frequent estimates compiled from the 
Quarterly Services Survey.
    More information regarding the SAS can be found in the Information 
Collection Request approved by the Office of Management and Budget on 
February 2, 2021 at the following link: https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202012-0607-002.

Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey (VIUS)

    The VIUS will collect data to measure the physical and operational 
characteristics of trucks from a sample of approximately 150,000 
trucks. These trucks are selected from more than 190 million private 
and commercial trucks registered with motor vehicle departments in the 
50 states and the District of Columbia. The VIUS is the only 
comprehensive source of information on the physical and operational 
characteristics of the Nation's truck population. The VIUS provides 
unique, essential information for government, business, and academia.
    More information regarding the VIUS can be found in the Information 
Collection Request approved by the Office of Management and Budget on 
October 12, 2021 at the following link: https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202108-0607-001.

Paperwork Reduction Act

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person is required 
to respond to, nor shall a person be subject to a penalty for failure 
to comply with a collection of information subject to the requirements 
of the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) unless that collection of 
information displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) control number. In accordance with the PRA, 44 U.S.C., Chapter 
45, OMB approved the surveys described in this notice under the 
following OMB control numbers: ABS, 0607-1004; ACES, 0607-0782; ARTS, 
0607-0013; ASM, 0607-0449; AWTS, 0607-0195; Business and Professional 
Classification Report, 0607-0189; BERD, 0607-0912; MOPS, 0607-0963; 
MOPS-HP, 0607-1016; M3UFO, 0607-0561; Report of Organization, 0607-
0444; SAS, 0607-0422; and VIUS, 0607-0892.
    Based upon the foregoing, I have directed that the current 
mandatory business surveys be conducted for the purpose of collecting 
these data.
    Robert L. Santos, Director, Census Bureau, approved the publication 
of this Notice in the Federal Register.

    Dated: June 14, 2022.
Mary Reuling Lenaiyasa,
Program Manager, Paperwork Reduction Act, Policy Coordination Office, 
Census Bureau.
[FR Doc. 2022-13313 Filed 6-21-22; 8:45 am]
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