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of this advisory committee are advised 

to go to the Commission’s Web site, 

http://www.usccr.gov, or to contact the 

Western Regional Office at the above email or street address. The meeting will 

be conducted pursuant to the provisions 

of the rules and regulations of the 

Commission and FACA. 

Dated in Washington, DC on August 2, 

2011. 

Peter Minarik, 

Acting Chief, Regional Programs 

Coordination Unit. 

[FR Doc. 2011–19891 Filed 8–4–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6335–01–P 

COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS 

Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting 

of the Tennessee Advisory Committee 

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to 

the provisions of the rules and 

regulations of the U.S. Commission on 

Civil Rights (Commission) and the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA) that a planning meeting of the 

Tennessee Advisory Committee 

(Committee) to the Commission will be 

held on Tuesday, August 30, 2011 at the 

Nashville Public Library, 615 Church 

Street, Nashville, Tennessee 37219. The 

meeting is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. 

and adjourn at approximately 4 p.m. 

The purpose of the meeting is for 

Committee members to receive annual 

ethics training and for the Committee to 

plan future activities. 

Members of the public are entitled to 

submit written comments. The 

comments must be received in the 

Southern Regional Office of the 

Commission by September 30, 2011. 

The address is Southern Regional 

Office, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 

61 Forsyth Street, Suite 16T126, 

Atlanta, GA 30303. Persons wishing to 

e-mail their comments, or to present 

their comments verbally at the meeting, 

or who desire additional information 

should contact Peter Minarik, Regional 

Director, Southern Regional Office, at 

(404) 562–7000, (or for hearing impaired 

TDD 800–877–8339), or by e-mail 

klee@usccr.gov. Hearing-impaired 

persons who will attend the meeting 

and require the services of a sign 

language interpreter should contact the 

Regional Office at least ten (10) working 

days before the scheduled date of the 

meeting. 

Records generated from this meeting 

may be inspected and reproduced at the 

Southern Regional Office, as they 

become available, both before and after 

the meeting. Persons interested in the 

work of this advisory committee are 

advised to go to the Commission’s Web 

site, http://www.usccr.gov, or to contact 

the Southern Regional Office at the 

above e-mail or street address. The 

meeting will be conducted pursuant to 

the provisions of the rules and 

regulations of the Commission and 

FACA. 

Dated in Washington, DC on August 2, 

2011. 

Peter Minarik, 

Acting Chief, Regional Programs 

Coordination Unit. 

[FR Doc. 2011–19892 Filed 8–4–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6335–01–P 

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: U.S. Census Bureau. 

Title: 2012 Economic Census— 

Commodity Flow Survey. 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0932. 

Form Number(s): CFS 1000 (2012), 

CFS 2000 (2012), CFS–1100, CFS–1200, 

CFS–1000–L1, CFS–1000–F, CFS–1000– 

LE, CFS–1000–L1a. 

Type of Request: Reinstatement, with 

change, of an expired collection. 

Burden Hours: 800,000. 

Number of Respondents: 100,000. 

Average Hours per Response: 2 hours. 

Needs and Uses: The 2012 

Commodity Flow Survey (CFS), a 

component of the 2012 Economic 

Census, is the only comprehensive 

source of multi-modal, system-wide 

data on the volume and pattern of goods 

movement in the United States. The 

CFS is conducted through a partnership 

between the U.S. Census Bureau and the 

Research and Innovative Technology 

Administration (RITA), Bureau of 

Transportation Statistics (BTS), 

Department of Transportation (DOT). 

The survey provides a crucial set of 

statistics on the value, weight, mode, 

and distance of commodities shipped by 

mining, manufacturing, wholesale, and 

selected retail and services 

establishments, as well as auxiliary 

establishments that support these 

industries. The U.S. Census Bureau will 

publish these shipment characteristics 

for the nation, census regions and 

divisions, states, and CFS defined 

geographic areas. As with the 2007 

Commodity Flow Survey, this survey 

also identifies export and hazardous 

material shipments. 

The DOT consistently views updated 

information on freight flows as critical 

to understanding the use, performance, 

and condition of the nation’s 

transportation system, as well as 

transportation investments and the 

unintended consequences of 

transportation. Data on the movement of 

freight also are important for effective 

analyses of changes in regional and 

local economic development, safety 

issues, and environmental concerns. 

They also provide the private sector 

with valuable data needed for critical 

decision-making on a variety of issues 

including market trends, analysis, and 

segmentation. Each day, governments, 

businesses, and consumers make 

countless decisions about where to go, 

how to get there, what to ship and 

which transportation modes to use. 

Transportation constantly responds to 

external forces such as shifting markets, 

changing demographics, safety 

concerns, weather conditions, energy 

and environmental constraints, and 

national defense requirements. Good 

decisions require having the right 

information in the right form at the right 

time. 

The CFS is the primary source of 

information about freight movement in 

the United States. Estimates of shipment 

characteristics are published for 

differing levels of aggregation. The CFS 

produces summary statistics only, and 

no confidential data are released. The 

survey covers shipments from 

establishments in the mining, 

manufacturing, wholesale, and selected 

retail industries, as well as auxiliary 

establishments that support these 

industries. Federal agencies, state and 

local transportation planners and policy 

makers, and private sector 

transportation managers, analysts, and 

researchers have strongly supported the 

conduct of the CFS. 

The 2012 CFS will be a mail-out/mailback or electronic reporting sample 

survey of approximately 100,000 

business establishments in the mining, 

manufacturing, wholesale, and selected 

retail and services industries, as well as 

auxiliary establishments that support 

these industries. Respondents will be 

asked to provide a quarterly response 

for a one-year period. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profit. 

Frequency: Every 5 years. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

Legal Authority: Title 13, United 

States Code, Sections 131, 193, and 224. 

OMB Desk Officer: Brian HarrisKojetin, (202) 395–7314. 

Copies of the above information 

collection proposal can be obtained by 

calling or writing Diana Hynek, 


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