[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 166 (Friday, August 28, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44349-44350]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-20696]


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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: 2009--2011 Company Organization Survey.
    Form Number(s): NC-99001, NC-99007.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-0444.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Burden Hours: 127,517.
    Number of Respondents: 48,000.
    Average Hours per Response: 2 hours and 40 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau is requesting an extension of the 
currently approved Company Organization Survey (COS) to conduct the 
2009, 2010 and 2011 COS. This collection will direct inquiries to 
multi-establishment enterprises and selected single-establishment 
companies. The Census Bureau conducts the annual COS in order to update 
and maintain a central, multipurpose Business Register (BR). In 
particular, the COS supplies critical information on the organizational 
structure, operating characteristics, and employment and payroll of 
multi-location enterprises. The 2009-2011 COS collection will not 
differ from the 2008. The sample size will remain the same as in 2008 
surveying 48,000 respondents.
    Form NC-99001 is mailed to multi-location enterprises. We ask 
questions on ownership or control by a domestic parent, ownership or 
control by a foreign parent, and ownership of foreign affiliates; 
research and development, and employees from a professional employer 
organization. Establishment inquiries include questions on operational 
status, mid-March employment, first-quarter payroll, and annual payroll 
of establishments (see Attachment A, Item 5 of NC-99001).
    In addition to the mailing of multi-location enterprises, the 
Census Bureau will mail Form NC-99007 to some large single-location 
enterprises that may have added some locations. Form NC-99007 contains 
questions on ownership and control by a domestic company, number of 
locations of operation, physical location, locations of operation, and 
inquiries on mid-March employment, first-quarter payroll, and annual 
payroll for each separate location.
    The BR serves two fundamental purposes: First and most important, 
it provides sampling populations and enumeration lists for the Census 
Bureau's economic surveys and censuses, and it serves as an integral 
part of the statistical foundation underlying those programs. Essential 
for this purpose is the BR's ability to identify all known United 
States business establishments and their parent companies. Further, the 
BR must accurately record basic business attributes needed to control 
sampling and enumeration. These attributes include industrial and 
geographic classifications, measures of size and economic activity, 
ownership characteristics, and contact information (for example, name 
and address).
    Second, it provides establishment data that serve as the basis for 
the annual County Business Patterns (CBP) statistical series. The CBP 
reports present data on number of

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establishments, first quarter payroll, annual payroll, and mid-March 
employment summarized by industry and employment size class for the 
United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, counties, and 
county-equivalents. No other annual or more frequent series of industry 
statistics provides comparable detail, particularly for small 
geographic areas.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit; Not-for-profit 
institutions; Farms; State, local or Tribal governments.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., Sections 182, 195, 224, and 225.
    OMB Desk Officer: Brian Harris-Kojetin, (202) 395-7314.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Diana Hynek, Departmental Paperwork Clearance 
Officer, (202) 482-0266, Department of Commerce, Room 7845, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#9bfff3e2f5fef0dbfff4f8b5fcf4ed"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="62060a1b0c070922060d014c050d14">[email protected]</span></a>).
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to Brian Harris-Kojetin, OMB Desk Officer either by fax (202-395-7245) 
or e-mail (<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#cfada7aebdbda6bca48fa0a2ade1aaa0bfe1a8a0b9"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="14767c7566667d677f547b79763a717b643a737b62">[email protected]</span></a>).

    Dated: August 24, 2009.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. E9-20696 Filed 8-27-09; 8:45 am]
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