42866 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 165 / Friday, August 24, 2018 / Notices 

Disability Briefing; Closed to public 

1:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Celebration of the 

50th Anniversary of the 

Architectural Barriers Act 

ADDRESSES: Meetings will be held at the 

Access Board Conference Room, 1331 F 

Street NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 

20004. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information regarding the 

meetings, please contact David Capozzi, 

Executive Director, (202) 272–0010 

(voice); (202) 272–0054 (TTY). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In lieu of 

its regularly scheduled Board meeting, 

the Access Board plans to hold a special 

event celebrating 50 years of the 

Architectural Barriers Act (ABA). Guest 

presentations include Judith E. 

Heumann from the Ford Foundation 

and federal agencies that issue 

accessibility standards under the ABA. 

Registration for this event is not 

required and members of the public are 

invited to join the celebration and a 

reception that follows. This event will 

be live streamed with captioning. More 

information about the ABA Anniversary 

can be found at: https://www.accessboard.gov/news/1935-access-board-tocelebrate-50-years-of-the-architecturalbarriers-act. 

All meetings are accessible to persons 

with disabilities. An assistive listening 

system, Communication Access 

Realtime Translation (CART), and sign 

language interpreters will be available at 

the ABA anniversary event and 

committee meetings. 

Persons attending Board meetings are 

requested to refrain from using perfume, 

cologne, and other fragrances for the 

comfort of other participants (see 

www.access-board.gov/the-board/ 

policies/fragrance-free-environment for 

more information). 

You may view the Friday, September 

7, 2018 ABA event through a live 

webcast from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at: 

www.access-board.gov/webcast. 

David M. Capozzi, 

Executive Director. 

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COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS 

Notice of Public Meeting of the 

Maryland Advisory Committee; 

Correction 

AGENCY: U.S. Commission on Civil 

Rights. 

ACTION: Correction: Announcement of 

meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Commission on Civil 

Rights published a document August 14, 

2018, announcing an upcoming 

Maryland Advisory Committee. The 

document contained incorrect address 

to the meeting. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Barbara de La Viez, DFO, at bdelaviez@

usccr.gov or 202–376–7533. 

CORRECTION: In the Federal Register of 

August 14, 2018, in FR Doc. 2018– 

17401, on pages 40223–40224 in the 

first and second columns, delete the 

‘‘Address’’ and replace it with Murphy 

Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall, 2201 

Argonne Dr., Baltimore, MD 21251. 

Dated: August 20, 2018. 

David Mussatt, 

Supervisory Chief, Regional Programs Unit. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Census Bureau 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request; 2018–2020 

Business Research and Development 

Surveys 

AGENCY: U.S. Census Bureau, 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, invites the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

comment on proposed and/or 

continuing information collections, as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995. 

DATES: To ensure consideration, written 

or on-line comments must be submitted 

on or before October 23, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental 

Paperwork Clearance Officer, 

Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 

14th and Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20230 (or via the 

internet at docpra@doc.gov). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument(s) and instructions should 

be directed to Michael Flaherty, U.S. 

Census Bureau, HQ–6H149, 4600 Silver 

Hill Rd., Suitland, MD 20746, (301) 

763–7699 (or via the internet at 

michael.j.flaherty@census.gov). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The U.S. Census Bureau, with support 

from the National Science Foundation 

(NSF), plans to conduct the Business 

Research and Development Survey 

(BRDS) for the 2018–2020 survey years. 

The BRDS covers all domestic, nonfarm, for-profit businesses with at least 

10 paid employees. The BRDS provides 

the only comprehensive data on 

Research and Development (R&D) costs 

and detailed expenses by type and 

industry. 

The Census Bureau has conducted an 

R&D survey since 1957, collecting 

primarily financial information on the 

systematic work companies undertake 

to discover new knowledge or use 

existing knowledge to develop new or 

improved goods and services. 

Beginning in 2018, the BRDS will 

collect new data about R&D on artificial 

intelligence and geographic detail of 

companies’ R&D workforce. There is 

increasing interest among domestic 

policy-makers and in the international 

community, as well as among U.S. 

researchers in academia, government 

and industry, for more data on artificial 

intelligence. Domestic and foreign 

geographic information for R&D 

workforce will address Bureau of 

Economic Analysis (BEA) requests on 

inputs for enhanced estimation and 

evaluation of gross domestic product by 

state, foreign direct investment in the 

U.S., and U.S. direct investment abroad. 

The 2018–2020 BRDS will continue to 

collect the following types of 

information: 

• R&D expense based on accepted 

accounting standards. 

• Worldwide R&D of domestic 

companies. 

• Business segment detail. 

• R&D-related capital expenditures. 

• Detailed data about the R&D 

workforce. 

• R&D strategy and data on the 

potential impact of R&D on the market. 

• R&D directed to application areas of 

particular national interest. 

• Data measuring intellectual 

property protection activities and 

technology transfer. 

Domestic and foreign researchers in 

academia, business, and government 

analyze and cite data from the BRDS. 

Among the federal government users are 

the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) 

and the White House’s Office of Science 

and Technology Policy (OSTP). BEA 

includes R&D in the system of national 

accounts that measures the economic 

well-being of the country. BRDS data are 

key inputs into these accounts, which 

feed into the calculation of the U.S. 

Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The 


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