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    <Category>Executive Branch: Departments</Category>
    <IntroductoryHeader>EDITORIAL NOTE</IntroductoryHeader>
    <IntroductoryParagraph>The Department of Commerce did not meet the publication deadline for submitting updated information of its activities, functions, and sources of information as required by the automatic disclosure provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552(a)(1)(A)).</IntroductoryParagraph>
    <AgencyName>Department of Commerce</AgencyName>
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          <WebAddress>http://www.doc.gov</WebAddress>
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        <Address>Fourteenth Street and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230</Address>
        <Phone>202-482-2000</Phone>
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        <ShowFootNote>Yes</ShowFootNote>
        <ShowHeader>Yes</ShowHeader>
        <ShowHeaderParagraph>Yes</ShowHeaderParagraph>
        <ShowNameColumnHeader>Yes</ShowNameColumnHeader>
        <ShowTitleColumnHeader>Yes</ShowTitleColumnHeader>
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            <NameColumnValue>Penny S. Pritzker</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Secretary of Commerce</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Bruce H. Andrews</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Deputy Secretary</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Margaret Louise Cummisky</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Assistant Secretary for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Ellen C. Herbst</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary for Administration</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Simon Szykman</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Chief Information Officer</TitleColumnValue>
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          <Values EntityLeadershipTableValuesId="2601" SortOrder="6">
            <NameColumnValue>Kelly R. Welsh</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>General Counsel</TitleColumnValue>
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          <Values EntityLeadershipTableValuesId="2602" SortOrder="7">
            <NameColumnValue>Todd J. Zinser</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Inspector General</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Matthew T. McGuire</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Director, Office of Business Liaison</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>(vacancy)</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Director, Office of Policy and Strategic Planning</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Ciaran Clayton, Acting</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Director, Office of Public Affairs</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Christine L. Turner</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Director, Executive Secretariat</TitleColumnValue>
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          <Values EntityLeadershipTableValuesId="2607" SortOrder="12">
            <NameColumnValue>Theodore Jonston</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Director, Office of White House Liaison</TitleColumnValue>
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        <Paragraph MissionStatmentId="36" SortOrder="1">The Department of Commerce promotes the Nation's domestic and international trade, economic growth, and technological advancement by fostering a globally competitive free enterprise system, supporting fair trade practices, compiling social and economic statistics, protecting Earth's physical and oceanic resources, granting patents and registering trademarks, and providing assistance to small and minority-owned businesses.</Paragraph>
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    <ProgramAndActivities>
      <ProgramAndActivity ProgramAndActivitiesId="81" SortOrder="1">
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          <WebAddress/>
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        <PointOfContact/>
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              <Paragraph>The Department was designated as such by act of March 4, 1913 (15 U.S.C. 1501), which reorganized the Department of Commerce and Labor, created by act of February 14, 1903 (15 U.S.C. 1501), by transferring all labor activities into a new, separate Department of Labor.</Paragraph>
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      <ProgramAndActivity ProgramAndActivitiesId="82" SortOrder="2">
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        <ProgramName>Office of the Secretary</ProgramName>
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          <Heading>Secretary</Heading>
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              <Paragraph>The Secretary is responsible for the administration of all functions and authorities assigned to the Department of Commerce and for advising the President on Federal policy and programs affecting the industrial and commercial segments of the national economy. The Secretary is served by the offices of Deputy Secretary, Inspector General, General Counsel, and the Assistant Secretaries of Administration, Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, and Public Affairs. Other offices whose public purposes are widely administered are detailed below.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Business Liaison</Heading>
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                <Footer>For further information, call 202-482-1360.</Footer>
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              <Paragraph>The Office of Business Liaison directs the business community to the offices and policy experts who can best respond to their needs by promoting proactive, responsive, and effective outreach programs and relationships with the business community. It also informs the Secretary and Department officials of the critical issues facing the business community, informs the business community of Department and administration initiatives and priorities, as well as information regarding Department resources, policies, and programs, and provides general assistance to the business community.</Paragraph>
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          <Email/>
          <Footer/>
          <WebAddress/>
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        <Header>Age and Citizenship</Header>
        <Paragraph>Age search and citizenship information is available from the Personal Census Search Unit, Bureau of the Census, National Processing Center, P.O. Box 1545, Jeffersonville, IN 47131. Phone, 812-218-3046. Internet, http://www.eda.gov.</Paragraph>
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          <Email/>
          <Footer/>
          <WebAddress>http://www.eda.gov</WebAddress>
        </FooterDetails>
        <Header>Economic Development Information Clearinghouse</Header>
        <Paragraph>The EDA will host on its Web site the Economic Development Information Clearinghouse, an online depository of information on economic development.  Internet, http://www.osec.doc.gov/osdbu.</Paragraph>
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      <EntitySourceOfInformation EntitySourceOfInformationId="167" SortOrder="3">
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          <Email/>
          <Footer/>
          <WebAddress>http://www.osec.doc.gov/osdbu</WebAddress>
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        <Header>Contracting and Small Business</Header>
        <Paragraph>For information regarding contract opportunities, contact the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization. Phone, 202-482-1472.</Paragraph>
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          <Email/>
          <Footer/>
          <WebAddress/>
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        <Header>Employment</Header>
        <Paragraph>Information is available electronically through the Internet, at www.doc.gov/ohrm. Phone, 202-482-5138. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has field employment offices at the Western Administrative Support Center, Bin C15700, 7600 Sand Point Way NE., Seattle, WA 98115 (phone, 206-526-6294); 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80303 (phone, 303-497-6332); 601 East Twelfth Street, Kansas City, MO 64106 (phone, 816-426-2056); and 200 World Trade Center, Norfolk, VA 23510-1624 (phone, 757-441-6516).</Paragraph>
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      <EntitySourceOfInformation EntitySourceOfInformationId="169" SortOrder="5">
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          <Email/>
          <Footer>For further information, contact the Office of Communications, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Room 6013, Fourteenth Street and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230. Phone, 202-482-6090. Fax, 202-482-3154.</Footer>
          <WebAddress>http://www.noaa.gov</WebAddress>
        </FooterDetails>
        <Header>Environment</Header>
        <Paragraph>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration conducts research and gathers data about the oceans, atmosphere, space, and Sun, and applies this knowledge to science and service in ways that touch the lives of all Americans, including warning of dangerous weather, charting seas and skies, guiding our use and protection of ocean and coastal resources, and improving our understanding and stewardship of the environment which sustains us all.</Paragraph>
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          <Email>hotline@oig.doc.gov</Email>
          <Footer/>
          <WebAddress>http://www.oig.doc.gov</WebAddress>
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        <Header>Inspector General Hotline</Header>
        <Paragraph>The Office of Inspector General works to promote economy, efficiency, and effectiveness and to prevent and detect fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in departmental programs and operations. Contact the Hotline, Inspector General, Complaint Intake Unit, Mail Stop 7886, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230. Phone, 202-482-2495 or 800-424-5197 (toll free). TTD, 202-482-5923 or 856-860-6950 (toll free). Fax, 855-569-9235.</Paragraph>
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      <EntitySourceOfInformation EntitySourceOfInformationId="173" SortOrder="7">
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          <Email/>
          <Footer/>
          <WebAddress/>
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        <Header>Publications</Header>
        <Paragraph>The titles of selected publications are printed below with the operating units responsible for their issuance. These and other publications dealing with a wide range of business, economic, environmental, scientific, and technical matters are announced in the weekly Business Service Checklist, which may be purchased from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. Phone, 202-512-1800.</Paragraph>
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      <Footer>For further information, contact the Office of Public Affairs, Department of Commerce, Fourteenth Street and Constitution Avenue NW., Room 5040, Washington, DC 20230. Phone, 202-482-3263.</Footer>
      <Email/>
      <WebAddress>http://www.doc.gov</WebAddress>
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