43698 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 158 / Friday, August 15, 1997 / Notices

COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM

PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR

SEVERELY DISABLED

Procurement List; Proposed Additions

and Deletion

AGENCY: Committee for Purchase From

People Who Are Blind or Severely

Disabled.

ACTION: Proposed Additions to and

Deletion from Procurement List.

SUMMARY: The Committee has received

proposals to add to the Procurement List

commodities and a service to be

furnished by nonprofit agencies

employing persons who are blind or

have other severe disabilities, and to

delete a service previously furnished by

such agencies.

Comments must be received on or

before: September 15, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase

From People Who Are Blind or Severely

Disabled, Crystal Square 3, Suite 403,

1735 Jefferson Davis Highway,

Arlington, Virginia 22202–3461.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Beverly Milkman (703) 603–7740.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This

notice is published pursuant to 41

U.S.C. 47(a)(2) and 41 CFR 51–2.3. Its

purpose is to provide interested persons

an opportunity to submit comments on

the possible impact of the proposed

actions.

Additions

If the Committee approves the

proposed addition, all entities of the

Federal Government (except as

otherwise indicated) will be required to

procure the commodities and service

listed below from nonprofit agencies

employing persons who are blind or

have other severe disabilities. I certify

that the following action will not have

a significant impact on a substantial

number of small entities. The major

factors considered for this certification

were:

1. The action will not result in any

additional reporting, recordkeeping or

other compliance requirements for small

entities other than the small

organizations that will furnish the

commodities and service to the

Government.

2. The action does not appear to have

a severe economic impact on current

contractors for the commodities and

service.

3. The action will result in

authorizing small entities to furnish the

commodities and service to the

Government.

4. There are no known regulatory

alternatives which would accomplish

the objectives of the Javits-WagnerO’Day Act (41 U.S.C. 46–48c) in

connection with the commodities and

service proposed for addition to the

Procurement List. Comments on this

certification are invited. Commenters

should identify the statement(s)

underlying the certification on which

they are providing additional

information.

The following commodities and

service have been proposed for addition

to Procurement List for production by

the nonprofit agencies listed:

Commodities

Towel, Paper, Industrial Wiping

7920–00–010–7106

NPA: East Texas Lighthouse for the Blind

Tyler, Texas

Towel, Machinery Wiping

7920–00–010–7156

NPA: East Texas Lighthouse for the Blind

Tyler, Texas

Cap, Camouflage, Desert

8415–01–326–1570 thru –1581

NPA: Southeastern Kentucky Rehabilitation

Industries, Inc.

Corbin, Kentucky

Service

Grounds Maintenance

Base Hospital

Buildings 5520, 5521 & 5522

Edwards Air Force Base, California

NPA: Desert Haven Enterprises, Inc.

Lancaster, California

Deletion

I certify that the following action will

not have a significant impact on a

substantial number of small entities.

The major factors considered for this

certification were:

1. The action will not result in any

additional reporting, recordkeeping or

other compliance requirements for small

entities.

2. The action does not appear to have

a severe economic impact on future

contractors for the service.

3. The action will result in

authorizing small entities to furnish the

service to the Government.

4. There are no known regulatory

alternatives which would accomplish

the objectives of the Javits-WagnerO’Day Act (41 U.S.C. 46–48c) in

connection with the service proposed

for deletion from the Procurement List.

The following service has been

proposed for deletion from the

Procurement List:

Document Destruction

Internal Revenue Service

Cincinnati Service Center

Covington, KY

G. John Heyer,

General Counsel.

[FR Doc. 97–21645 Filed 8–14–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6353–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Submission for OMB Review;

Comment Request

DOC has submitted 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: Bureau of the Census.

Title: 1997 Company Organization

Survey.

Form Number(s): NC–9901.

Agency Approval Number: 0607–

0444.

Type of Request: Revision of a

currently approved collection.

Burden: 90,832 hours.

Number of Respondents: 181,000.

Avg Hours Per Response: 30 minutes.

Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau

conducts the annual Company

Organization Survey (COS) in order to

update and maintain a central,

multipurpose business register, known

as the Standard Statistical

Establishment List (SSEL). In particular,

the COS supplies critical information to

the SSEL concerning the establishment

composition, organizational structure,

and operating characteristics of multiestablishment enterprises. The SSEL

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 SSEL’s ability

to identify all known United States

business establishments and their

parent enterprises. Further, the SSEL

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. CBP reports

present data on number of

establishments, first quarter payroll,

annual payroll, and mid-March

employment summarized by industry

and employment size class for the

United States, states, the District of

Columbia, Puerto Rico, counties, and

county-equivalents. No other annual

or more frequent series of industry

statistics provides comparable detail,