3994 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 10 / Friday, January 15, 2021 / Notices 

available on a nationwide basis for state 

and local government tax collections. 

The Census Bureau needs state and 

local tax data to publish benchmark 

statistics on taxes, to provide data to the 

Bureau of Economic Analysis for Gross 

Domestic Product (GDP) calculations 

and other economic indicators, and to 

provide data for economic research and 

comparative studies of governmental 

finances. Tax collection data are used to 

measure economic activity for the 

Nation as a whole, as well as for 

comparison among the various states. 

Economists and public policy analysts 

use the data to assess general economic 

conditions and state and local 

government financial activities. 

The Census Bureau plans to revise the 

F–72 (Quarterly Survey of State Tax 

Collections). We plan to add the 

collection of cannabis and sports betting 

sales taxes. Sports betting will include 

pari-mutuels, which were previously 

shown separately. This will modernize 

the survey’s content to maintain the 

relevancy and sustainability of these 

data. License taxes will no longer be 

collected on a quarterly basis; they will 

continue to be provided on an annual 

basis through the related Annual Survey 

of State Tax Collections, reducing 

duplication of effort. Additionally, 

cognitive testing showed the addition 

and removal of questions did not impact 

overall response time. 

II. Method of Collection 

For the Quarterly Survey of Property 

Tax Collections (Form F–71) the Census 

Bureau will mail letters quarterly to a 

sample of approximately 5,500 local tax 

collection agencies, known to have 

substantial collections of property tax, 

requesting their online data 

submissions. 

For the Quarterly Survey of State Tax 

Collections (Form F–72) the Census 

Bureau will email letters to each of the 

50 state governments and the District of 

Columbia quarterly requesting their 

online data submissions or continued 

coordinated submission through the 

state government revenue office. 

For the Quarterly Survey of NonProperty Taxes (Form F–73) the Census 

Bureau will mail letters quarterly to a 

sample of approximately 1,800 local tax 

collection agencies, known to have 

substantial collections of local general 

sales and/or local individual/ 

corporation net income taxes, requesting 

their online data submissions. 

F–71 and F–73 survey data will be 

collected via the internet. Data for the 

F–72 survey are collected via email or 

compilation of data in coordination 

with the state government revenue 

office. 

In addition to reporting current 

quarter data, respondents may report 

data for the previous eight quarters or 

submit revisions to their previously 

submitted data. In the event that a 

respondent cannot report online, they 

may request a form. 

In those instances when the Census 

Bureau are not able to obtain a response, 

follow-up operations will be conducted 

using email and phone calls. 

Nonresponse weighting adjustments are 

used to adjust for any unreported units 

in the sample. These adjustments are 

based on the latest available data. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0112. 

Form Number(s): F–71, F–72, F–73. 

Type of Review: Regular submission, 

Request for a Revision of a Currently 

Approved Collection. 

Affected Public: State and Local 

Governments and the Government of the 

District of Columbia. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

7,351. 

Estimated Time per Response: F–71 = 

15 minutes, F–72 = 30 minutes, F–73 = 

20 minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 8002 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: $0 (This is not the cost of 

respondents’ time, but the indirect costs 

respondents may incur for such things 

as purchases of specialized software or 

hardware needed to report, or 

expenditures for accounting or records 

maintenance services required 

specifically by the collection.) 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., 

Sections 161 and 182. 

IV. Request for Comments 

We are soliciting public comments to 

permit the Department/Bureau to: (a) 

Evaluate whether the proposed 

information collection is necessary for 

the proper functions of the Department, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the 

accuracy of our estimate of the time and 

cost burden for this proposed collection, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

Evaluate ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (d) Minimize the 

reporting burden on those who are to 

respond, including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. We will include, or 

summarize, each comment in our 

request to OMB to approve this ICR. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you may ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Chief Information Officer, Commerce 

Department. 

[FR Doc. 2021–00872 Filed 1–14–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–07–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Bureau of Industry and Security 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Miscellaneous Short Supply 

Activities 

AGENCY: Bureau of Industry and 

Security, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection, 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), invites 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. The purpose of this 

notice is to allow for 60 days of public 

comment preceding submission of the 

collection to OMB. 

DATES: To ensure consideration, 

comments regarding this proposed 

information collection must be received 

on or before March 16, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments by email to 

Mark Crace, IC Liaison, Bureau of 

Industry and Security, at mark.crace@

bis.doc.gov or to PRAcomments@

doc.gov). Please reference OMB Control 

Number 0694–0102 in the subject line of 

your comments. Do not submit 

Confidential Business Information or 

otherwise sensitive or protected 

information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

specific questions related to collection 

activities should be directed to Mark 

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Crace, IC Liaison, Bureau of Industry 

and Security, phone 202–482–8093 or 

by email at mark.crace@bis.doc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

This information collection comprises 

two rarely used short supply activities: 

‘‘Registration of U.S. Agricultural 

Commodities for Exemption from Short 

Supply Limitations on Export (USAG)’’, 

and ‘‘Petitions for the Imposition of 

Monitoring or Controls on Recyclable 

Metallic Materials; Public Hearings 

(Petitions).’’ Under provisions of 

sections 754.6 and 754.7 of the Export 

Administration Regulations (EAR), 

agricultural commodities of U.S. origin 

purchased by or for use in a foreign 

country and stored in the United States 

for export at a later date may voluntarily 

be registered with the Bureau of 

Industry and Security for exemption 

from any quantitative limitations on 

export that may subsequently be 

imposed under the EAR for reasons of 

short supply. 

II. Method of Collection 

Any entity, including a trade 

association, firm or certified or 

recognized union or group of workers, 

which is representative of an industry or 

a substantial segment of an industry 

which processes metallic materials 

capable of being recycled with respect 

to which an increase in domestic prices 

or a domestic shortage, either of which 

results from increased exports, has or 

may have a significant adverse effect on 

the national economy or any sector 

thereof, may submit a written petition to 

BIS requesting the monitoring of 

exports, or the imposition of export 

controls, or both, with respect to such 

materials. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0694–0102. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Review: Extension of a current 

information collection. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 2. 

Estimated Time per Response: 100.5 

hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 201. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: 0. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: 754.6 and 754.7 of 

the Export Administration Regulations 

(EAR). 

IV. Request for Comments 

We are soliciting public comments to 

permit the Department/Bureau to: (a) 

Evaluate whether the proposed 

information collection is necessary for 

the proper functions of the Department, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the 

accuracy of our estimate of the time and 

cost burden for this proposed collection, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

Evaluate ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (d) Minimize the 

reporting burden on those who are to 

respond, including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. We will include or 

summarize each comment in our request 

to OMB to approve this ICR. Before 

including your address, phone number, 

email address, or other personal 

identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you may ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Chief Information Officer, Commerce 

Department. 

[FR Doc. 2021–00931 Filed 1–14–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–33–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Notice of Discontinuation of Policy To 

Issue Liquidation Instructions After 15 

Days in Applicable Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative 

Proceedings 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; discontinuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) is announcing 

that, effective immediately upon 

publication of this notice, it is 

discontinuing its policy to issue 

liquidation instructions in certain 

segments of antidumping duty (AD) and 

countervailing duty (CVD) 

administrative proceedings to U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 15 

days after publication or mailing, 

whichever applies, of final 

administrative determinations where no 

statutory injunction was requested, 

which was announced on its website 

August 14, 2002, revised in November 

2006, and again modified by an 

announcement on its website November 

9, 2010. Such timeframes for AD/CVD 

administrative proceedings involving 

subject merchandise from Canada and 

Mexico were not affected by the 15-day 

policy. 

DATES: Applicable January 15, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Wendy Frankel, Director, Customs 

Liaison Unit, Enforcement & 

Compliance, Department of Commerce, 

(202) 482–5849, or Elisabeth Urfer, 

Associate Director, Customs Liaison 

Unit, Enforcement & Compliance, 

Department of Commerce (202) 482– 

0414. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 2002, 

Commerce instituted its 15-day policy 

in response to International Trading Co. 

v. United States, 281 F.3d 1268 (Fed. 

Cir. 2002), in which the six-month 

deemed liquidation deadline in 19 

U.S.C. 1504(d) was made applicable to 

administrative reviews of AD/CVD 

orders. The policy, as modified, has 

required parties to seek consent from 

the government for statutory injunctions 

under section 516A(c)(2) of the Tariff 

Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), no 

later than 15 days after publication or 

mailing of applicable final 

administrative determinations by 

Commerce, or Commerce will issue 

liquidation instructions to CBP. The 

policy has provided CBP with over five 

months to ensure liquidation at the 

assessed rate, lessening the risk that 

entries will be deemed liquidated. Since 

2002, parties challenging Commerce’s 

final determinations in AD/CVD 

administrative proceedings conducted 

under applicable provisions of Title VII 

of the Act at the U.S. Court of 

International Trade who missed the 15- 

day deadline have run the risk that 

some or all of their entries would 

liquidate before receiving any courtordered statutory injunction. 

Notwithstanding any language in 

preliminary determinations in 

applicable AD/CVD administrative 

proceedings indicating Commerce’s 

intent to apply the 15-day policy in 

corresponding final determinations that 

have not yet been issued, Commerce is 

discontinuing this policy immediately 

upon publication of this notice to 

effectively administer and enforce the 

AD/CVD laws. Because the 15-day 

policy has not applied to AD/CVD 

administrative proceedings involving 

subject merchandise from Canada and 

Mexico, this notice has no effect on AD/