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planning meeting. 

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Dated at Washington, DC, August 13, 2007. 

Ivy L. Davis, 

Acting Chief, Regional Programs 

Coordination Unit. 

[FR Doc. E7–16150 Filed 8–15–07; 8:45 am] 

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COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS 

Sunshine Act Meeting. 

AGENCY: United States Commission on 

Civil Rights. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

DATE AND TIME: Friday, August 24, 2007; 

9:30 a.m. 

PLACE: U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 

624 Ninth Street, NW., Rm. 540, 

Washington, DC 20425. 

Meeting Agenda: 

I. Approval of Agenda. 

II. Approval of Minutes of August 16, 

Meeting. 

III. Announcements. 

IV. Staff Director’s Report. 

V. Management and Operations 

• Information Quality Guidelines. 

VI. Program Planning 

• Briefing Report on Racial 

Categorization in the Census. 

• Briefing Report on Educational 

Effectiveness of HBCUs. 

• Discovery Plan and Outline for FY 

2008 Statutory Report. 

• Update: Briefing on Minorities in 

Foster Care and Adoption. 

VII. Future Agenda Items. 

VIII. Adjourn. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Manuel Alba, Press and 

Communications (202) 376–8582. 

Dated: August 14, 2007. 

David Blackwood, 

General Counsel. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Bureau of the Census 

Proposed Data Sharing Activity 

AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, 

Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice and request for public 

comment. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of the Census 

(Census Bureau) conducts the Survey of 

Industrial Research and Development 

(R&D) under a joint partnership 

agreement with the National Science 

Foundation (NSF). The U.S. Census 

Bureau proposes to provide data 

collected from the 2004–2009 R&D 

surveys to the Bureau of Economic 

Analysis (BEA) for statistical purposes 

exclusively. In accordance with the 

requirement of Section 524(d) of the 

Confidential Information Protection and 

Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002 

(CIPSEA), we are providing the 

opportunity for public comment on this 

data-sharing action. Through the use of 

these shared data, the BEA will augment 

its existing R&D-related data, identify 

data quality issues arising from 

reporting differences in the BEA and 

Census Bureau surveys, and improve its 

survey sample frames. The NSF will be 

provided non-confidential aggregate 

data (public use) and reports that have 

cleared Census Bureau disclosure 

review. Disclosure review is a process 

conducted to verify that the data to be 

released do not reveal any confidential 

information. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted on or before October 15, 

2007. 

ADDRESSES: Please direct all written 

comments on this proposed program to 

the Director, U.S. Census Bureau, 4600 

Silver Hill Road, Washington, DC 

20233–0100. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information on 

this proposed program should be 

directed to Mr. Richard Hough, Special 

Studies Branch, Manufacturing and 

Construction Division, U.S. Census 

Bureau, 4600 Silver Hill Road, 

Washington, DC 20233–6900, by phone 

on (301) 763–4823 or by fax (301) 763–

7783. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

CIPSEA (Pub. L. 107–347, Subtitle V) 

allows the Census Bureau and the BEA 

to share certain business data for 

exclusively statistical purposes. Section 

524(d) of the Act requires a Federal 

Register notice announcing the intent to 

share data (allowing 60 days for public 

comment). 

Section 524(d) also requires the 

Census Bureau to provide information 

about the terms of the agreement for 

data sharing. For purposes of this 

notice, the Census Bureau has decided 

to group these terms by three categories. 

The categories are: 

• Shared data. 

• Statistical purposes for the shared 

data. 

• Data access and confidentiality. 

Shared Data 

The Census Bureau proposes to 

provide the BEA with data collected 

from the 2004–2009 R&D surveys. The 

agreement also calls for the BEA to 

share data from its Foreign Direct 

Investment in the United States and 

U.S. Direct Investment Abroad surveys 

with the Census Bureau. The BEA has 

issued a separate notice addressing this 

activity. 

The BEA will use these data for 

statistical purposes exclusively. 

Through record linkage, the BEA will 

augment its existing R&D-related data, 

identify data quality issues arising from 

reporting differences in the BEA and 

Census Bureau surveys, and improve its 

survey sample frames. 

Statistical Purposes for the Shared Data 

The data collected from the R&D 

estimate the expenditures of research 

and development performed by United 

States-based industrial firms. The 

survey is conducted annually, however, 

the proposed data to be shared are from 

the 2004–2009 surveys only. Statistics 

from the annual surveys are published 

in the NSF’s annual publication series 

‘‘Research and Development in 

Industry.’’ Data collected by this survey 

include company characteristics and 

R&D spending information. 

Characteristics data include net sales, 

total employment, and employment of 

scientists and engineers. R&D spending 

data include the following: Total 

spending; federally funded (total and by 

agency) spending for basic and applied 

R&D, for basic research by field, and for 

applied R&D by product group; R&D 

spending by state; and R&D financed by 

domestic firms but performed abroad. 

All data are collected under Sections 

131, 182, 224, and 225 of Title 13, 

United States Code (U.S.C.). 

Benefits 

The aggregated data will provide a 

more integrated data set on R&D 

performance and funding with domestic 

and foreign ownership detail and will 

lead to a more complete account of 

international aspects of R&D 


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