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bearing from the airport extending from the

5 mile radius to 7.6 miles northeast of the airport. This Class E airspace area is effective during specific dates and times established in advance by a Notice to Airmen. The effective date and time will thereafter be continuously published in the Airport/Facility Directory.

Issued in College Park, Georgia, on August

5, 2011.
Mark D. Ward,

Manager, Operations Support Group, Eastern Service Center, Air Traffic Organization.

[FR Doc. 2011–20504 Filed 8–11–11; 8:45 am]

**BILLING CODE 4910–13–P**

**DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE**

**Bureau of Economic Analysis**

**15 CFR Part 801**

**[Docket No. 110112021–1439–02]**

**RIN 0691–AA76**

**International Services Surveys: Amendments to the BE–120,**  **Benchmark Survey of Transactions in Selected Services and Intangible**  **Assets With Foreign Persons**

**AGENCY :**  Bureau of Economic Analysis,

Commerce.

**ACTION :**  Notice of proposed rulemaking.

**SUMMARY :**  This proposed rule would amend the regulations of the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Department of Commerce (BEA) to set forth the reporting requirements for the BE–120, Benchmark Survey of Transactions in
Selected Services and Intellectual Property with Foreign Persons. The proposed BE–120 would include both definition changes and the addition of
three schedules to better collect data in
accordance with new international standards. In addition, this proposed rule would change the BE–120 survey title from ‘‘Benchmark Survey of
Transactions in Selected Services and Intangible Assets with Foreign Persons’’ to ‘‘Benchmark Survey of Transactions
in Selected Services and Intellectual Property with Foreign Persons’’ because the term ‘‘intellectual property’’ is better understood by U.S. respondents.

The proposed BE–120 survey is
intended to cover transactions in
selected services and intellectual property with foreign persons in benchmark years. In non-benchmark years, the universe estimates for these
transactions would be derived fromsample data reported on BEA’s followon survey, which is the Quarterly Survey of Transactions in Selected Services and Intangible Assets with Foreign Persons (BE–125). The data will be used by BEA to
estimate the trade in services component of the U.S. International
Transactions Accounts and other economic accounts compiled by BEA. The data are also needed by the U.S. government to monitor U.S. exports and imports of selected services and intellectual property; analyze their impact on the U.S. and foreign economies; support U.S. international trade policy for selected services and intellectual property; and assess and promote U.S. competitiveness in
international trade in services. In addition, the data will improve the ability of U.S. businesses to identify and evaluate market opportunities.

**DATES :**  Comments on this proposed rule
will receive consideration if submitted in writing on or before 5 p.m. October

11, 2011.

**ADDRESSES :**  You may submit comments by any of the following methods:

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments. For agency, select ‘‘Commerce Department—all.’’

• E-mail: Christopher.Emond@bea.gov.

• Fax: Chris Emond, Chief, Special Surveys Branch, (202) 606–5318.

• Mail: Chris Emond, Chief, Special Surveys Branch, Balance of Payments Division, U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, BE–50, Washington, DC 20230.

• Hand Delivery: Chris Emond, Chief, Special Surveys Branch, Balance of Payments Division, U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, BE–50, Shipping and Receiving Section, M100, 1441 L Street, NW., Washington, DC 20005.

Please include in your comment a
reference to RIN 0691–AA76 in the subject line.

Written comments regarding the burden-hour estimates or other aspects
of the collection-of-information requirements contained in the proposed rule should be sent both to BEA, through any of the methods listed above, and to the Office of Management and Budget, O.I.R.A., Paperwork Reduction Project, Attention PRA Desk Officer for BEA, via e-mail at pbugg@omb.eop.gov, or by FAX at 202–

395–7245.

Public Inspection: All comments received are a part of the public record and will generally be posted to http:// www.regulations.gov without change. All personal identifying information (for example, name, address, etc. ) voluntarily submitted by the commentator may be publicly accessible. Do not submit confidential
business information or other sensitive or protected information. BEA will
accept anonymous comments.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT :**  Chris Emond, Chief, Special Surveys Branch, Balance of Payments Division (BE–50), Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230; e-mail Christopher.Emond@bea.gov; or phone (202) 606–9826.

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION :**  This proposed rule would amend 15 CFR 801.10 to update certain reporting requirements for the BE–120, Benchmark Survey of Transactions in Selected Services and Intangible Assets with Foreign Persons. The proposed
BE–120 would include both definition changes and the addition of three
schedules to better collect data in
accordance with new international standards. In addition, this proposed rule would change the title of the BE– 120 survey and make other nonsubstantive format changes to the regulations.

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.

Description of Changes

The BE–120 survey as proposed in this rule would be conducted by BEA every five years beginning with transactions occurring in fiscal year 2011, under the authority provided by
the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act (Pub. L. 94–472, 90 Stat. 2059, 22 U.S.C. 3101–3108), hereinafter, ‘‘the Act,’’ and would be mandatory for those U.S. persons that engage in the covered transactions in amounts that exceed the exemption level. The proposed BE–120 survey is intended to cover sales to foreign persons of any of the 36 types of services or intellectual property listed in proposed paragraph 801.10(c) in benchmark years. In non-benchmark years, the universe estimates for these
transactions would be derived fromsample data reported on BEA’s followon survey, which is the Quarterly Survey of Transactions in Selected Services and Intangible Assets with Foreign Persons (BE–125). If this proposed rule is implemented, BEA would send the survey to potential respondents in March of 2012; responses would be due by June 30,

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As proposed, the BE–120 will collect data on a mandatory basis for the same services categories that were covered by the previous version of the survey. However, some of the services categories that were included in the ‘‘other selected services’’ category in the prior survey will now be collected separately. These services include agricultural services; disbursements to fund production costs of motionpictures; disbursements to fund newsgathering costs and production costs of program material other than news; and waste treatment and depollution

services.

In addition, the proposed survey would include three new schedules, Schedules D, E and F, to collect, on a voluntary basis, additional information related to intellectual property, contract manufacturing services, and merchanting services. The regulations at 15 U.S.C. 801.10(b)(ii) are amended to
describe the three new schedules and to indicate the entity who is to complete each schedule and to provide instructions for the type of data to be reported. For example, Schedule D is to be completed by a U.S. person who engages in contract manufacturing services transactions with foreign persons. Schedule E is to be completed by a U.S. person who engages in intellectual property transactions with foreign persons. Schedule F is to be completed by U.S. persons who engage in merchanting services transactions with foreign persons. Responses from these schedules will help BEA determine whether respondents are able to supply data in a manner that would allow BEA to publish statistics on
international services transactions in
accordance with international economic accounting guidelines.

Finally, this proposed rule would change the BE–120 survey title from ‘‘Benchmark Survey of Transactions in Selected Services and Intangible Assets with Foreign Persons’’ to ‘‘Benchmark Survey of Transactions in Selected Services and Intellectual Property with Foreign Persons’’ because the term ‘‘intellectual property’’ is better understood by U.S. respondents.

BEA maintains a continuing dialogue with respondents and with data users, including its own internal users, to ensure that, as far as possible, the required data serve their intended purposes and are available from existing records, that instructions are clear, and
that unreasonable burdens are not imposed. In reaching decisions about the questions to include in the survey,
BEA considered the Government’s need for the data, the burden imposed on respondents, the quality of the likely responses (for example, whether the data are available on respondents’ books), and BEA’s experience in previous benchmark, annual, and quarterly surveys.

Survey Background

The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), U.S. Department of Commerce, would conduct the survey under the
International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act (22 U.S.C. 3101– 3108), which provides that the President shall, to the extent he deems necessary and feasible, conduct a regular data collection program to secure current
information related to international
investment and trade in services and publish for the use of the general public and United States Government agencies periodic, regular, and comprehensive
statistical information collected pursuant to this subsection.

In Section 3 of Executive Order 11961, as amended by Executive Orders 12318 and 12518, the President delegated the responsibilities under the Act for performing functions concerning
international trade in services to the Secretary of Commerce, who has redelegated them to BEA.

Data from the proposed survey are needed to monitor U.S. exports and imports of selected services and intellectual property; analyze their impact on the U.S. and foreign economies; compile and improve the U.S. international transactions, national income and product, and input-output accounts; support U.S. international trade policy for services and intellectual property; assess and promote U.S. competitiveness in international trade in services; and improve the ability of U.S. businesses to identify and evaluate market opportunities.

Executive Order 12866

This proposed rule has been determined to be not significant for purposes of E.O. 12866.

Executive Order 13132

This proposed rule does not contain policies with Federalism implications as
that term is defined under E.O. 13132.

Paperwork Reduction Act

This proposed rule contains a collection-of-information requirement subject to review and approval by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act. The requirement will be submitted to OMB as a request to reinstate, with changes, a previously approved collection for which approval has expired under OMB Control Number

0608–0058. Notwithstanding any other provisions of the law, no person is required to respond to, nor shall any person be subject to a penalty for failure to comply with, a collection of information subject to the requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act unless that collection displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget Control
Number.

The benchmark survey, as proposed, is expected to result in the filing of reports from approximately 15,000 respondents. Approximately 7,500 respondents would report either mandatory or voluntary data on the survey and approximately 7,500 would file exemption claims. The respondent
burden for this collection of information would vary from one respondent to another, but is estimated to average twelve hours for the respondents that file mandatory or voluntary data. This estimate includes time for reviewing the instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the required data, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. For other responses, the estimate is two hours. Thus, the total respondent burden for the survey is estimated at 105,000 hours.

Comments are requested concerning: (a) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information will have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the burden estimate; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on the respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology.

Written comments regarding the burden-hour estimates or other aspects
of the collection-of-information requirements contained in the proposed rule should be sent both to BEA, through any of the methods listed above, and to the Office of Management and Budget, O.I.R.A., Paperwork Reduction Project, Attention PRA Desk Officer for BEA, via e-mail at pbugg@omb.eop.gov, or by FAX at 202–

395–7245.

Regulatory Flexibility Act

The Chief Counsel for Regulation, Department of Commerce, has certified to the Chief Counsel for Advocacy, Small Business Administration, under provisions of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 605(b)), that this proposed rulemaking, if adopted, will not have a significant economic impact on a
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description of the changes proposed by this rule is described in the preamble and is not repeated here.

The proposed benchmark survey will be required from U.S. persons whose
covered services and intellectual property transactions with foreign persons exceeded $2 million in sales or $1 million in purchases for fiscal year 2011. Although the survey does not
collect data on total sales or other
measures of the overall size of the businesses that respond to the survey, historically the respondents to the existing quarterly survey of transactions
in the covered services and intellectual property and to the previous benchmark surveys have been comprised mainly of major U.S. corporations. Most small
businesses would be excluded from responding to the survey because the exemption levels far exceed the
threshold defined for a business to be
considered ‘‘small’’ under the Small
Business Administration’s size standards. Any small businesses that may be required to report would likely have engaged in only a small number of transactions covered by this survey and
so the burden on them would be
minimal. BEA estimates that the burden on small entities that may be required to report is 2 hours per respondent.

List of Subjects in 15 CFR Part 801

International transactions, Economic statistics, Foreign trade, Penalties, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.

Dated: July 15, 2011.
J. Steven Landefeld, Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis.

For the reasons set forth in the preamble, BEA proposes to amend 15 CFR part 801, as follows:

**PART 801—SURVEY OF**
**INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN SERVICES**
**BETWEEN U.S. AND FOREIGN**
**PERSONS**

1. The authority citation for 15 CFR part 801 continues to read as follows:

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 15 U.S.C. 4908; 22 U.S.C. 3101–3108; and E.O. 11961, 3 CFR, 1977 Comp., p.86, as amended by E.O. 12318, 3 CFR, 1981 Comp., p. 173, and E.O. 12518, 3 CFR, 1985 Comp., p. 348.

2. Revise § 801.10 to read as follows:

**§ 801.10 Rules and regulations for the BE– 120, Benchmark Survey of Transactions in**  **Selected Services and Intellectual Property with Foreign Persons.** 

The BE–120, Benchmark Survey of
Transactions in Selected Services and Intellectual Property with Foreign Persons, will be conducted covering fiscal year 2011 and every fifth year thereafter. All legal authorities, provisions, definitions, and requirements contained in section 801.1 through 801.9(a) are applicable to this survey. Additional rules and regulations for the BE–120 survey are given in paragraphs (a) through (c) of this
section. More detailed instructions and descriptions of the individual types of transactions covered are given on the report form itself.

(a) The BE–120 survey consists of two parts and six schedules. Part I requests
information needed to contact the respondent and the reporting period. Part II requests information needed to determine whether a report is required and information about the reporting entity. Each of the six schedules covers one or more types of transactions and is to be completed only if the U.S. reporter has transactions of the type(s) covered by the particular schedule.

(b) Who must report—(1) Mandatory reporting. A BE–120 report is required from each U.S. person that had sales to foreign persons that exceeded $2 million during the fiscal year covered of any of the types of services or intellectual property listed in paragraph (c) of this section, or had purchases from foreign persons that exceeded $1 million during the fiscal year covered of any of the types of services or intellectual property listed in paragraph (c) of this section. Because the reporting threshold ($2 million for sales and $1 million for purchases) applies separately to sales and purchases, the mandatory reporting requirement may apply only to sales, only to purchases, or to both sales and purchases.

(i) The determination of whether a U.S. person is subject to this mandatory reporting requirement may be judgmental, that is, based on the judgment of knowledgeable persons in a company who can identify reportable transactions on a recall basis, with a reasonable degree of certainty, without conducting a detailed records search.

(ii) U.S. persons that file pursuant to this mandatory reporting requirement must complete Parts I and II of Form BE–120 and all applicable schedules.
The total values of transactions applicable to schedules A, B, and C are to be entered in the appropriate column(s) and, except for sales of merchanting services, these amounts must be distributed among the countries
involved in the transactions. For sales of merchanting services, the data are not required to be reported by individual foreign country, although this information may be provided voluntarily. Schedule D is to be completed by a U.S. person who engages in contract manufacturing services transactions with foreign persons. Schedule E is to be completed by a U.S. person who engages in intellectual property transactions with foreign persons. Schedule F is to be completed by U.S. persons who engage in merchanting services transactions with foreign persons.

(iii) Application of the exemption
levels to each covered transaction is
indicated on the schedule for that particular type of transaction. It should
be noted that an item other than sales or purchases may be used as the measure of a given type of transaction for purposes of determining whether the threshold for mandatory reporting of the
transaction is exceeded.

(2) Voluntary reporting. If, during the fiscal year covered, the U.S. person’s total transactions (either sales or purchases) in any of the types of transactions listed in paragraph (c) of this section are $2 million or less for sales or $1 million or less for purchases, the U.S. person is requested to provide an estimate of the total for each type of
transaction. Provision of this information is voluntary. The estimates may be judgmental, that is, based on recall, without conducting a detailed records search. Because the exemption threshold applies separately to sales and purchases, the voluntary reporting option may apply only to sales, only to purchases, or to both sales and purchases.

(3) Any U.S. person that receives the BE–120 survey form from BEA, but is not subject to the mandatory reporting requirements and chooses not to report voluntarily, must file an exemption claim by completing pages one through five of the BE–120 survey and returning it to BEA. This requirement is necessary to ensure compliance with reporting requirements and efficient administration of the Act by eliminating unnecessary follow-up contact.

(c) Covered types of services. The services covered by the BE–120 include sales and purchases for the following transactions (transaction types 1–8 include rights to use, rights to distribute, or outright sales or purchases): (1) Rights related to industrial processes and products; (2) rights related to books, CD’s, digital music, etc.; (3) rights related to trademarks; (4) rights related to performances and events pre-recorded on motion picture film and TV tape (including digital recordings); (5) rights related to broadcast and recording of live performances and events; (6) rights related to general use computer software; (7) business format franchising fees; (8) other intellectual property; (9) accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping


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services; (10) advertising services; (11) auxiliary insurance services; (12) computer and data processing services; (13) construction services; (14) data base and other information services; (15) educational and training services; (16) engineering, architectural, and surveying services; (17) financial services (purchases only); (18) industrialengineering services; (19) industrialtype maintenance, installation, alteration, and training services; (20) legal services; (21) management, consulting, and public relations services (includes expenses allocated to/from a parent and its affiliates); (22) merchanting services; (23) mining services; (24) operational leasing services; (25) trade-related services, other than merchanting services; (26) performing arts, sports, and other live performances, presentations, and events; (27) premiums paid on primary insurance (payments only); (28) losses recovered on primary insurance; (29) research and development services; (30) telecommunications services; (31) agricultural services; (32) contract manufacturing services; (33) disbursements to fund production costs of motion pictures; (34) disbursements to fund news-gathering costs and production costs of program material other than news; (35) waste treatment and depollution services; and (36) other
selected services.

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[FR Doc. 2011–20418 Filed 8–11–11; 8:45 am]

**BILLING CODE 3510–06–P**

**DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND**
**SECURITY**

**Coast Guard**

**33 CFR Part 117**

**[Docket No. USCG–2011–0698]**

**RIN 1625–AA09**

**Drawbridge Operation Regulation; New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway (NJICW),**  **Atlantic City, NJ**

**AGENCY :**  Coast Guard, DHS.

**ACTION :**  Notice of proposed rulemaking.

**SUMMARY :**  The Coast Guard proposes to change the regulations that govern the operation of two New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) bridges: The Route 30/Abescon Boulevard Bridge across Beach Thorofare, NJICW mile 67.2 and the US 40–322 (Albany Avenue) Bridge across Inside Thorofare, NJICW mile 70.0, both at Atlantic City, NJ. The proposed changes will alter the dates that these bridges are allowed to have delayed openings or remain in the closed position to accommodate heavy
volumes of vehicular traffic due to the annual July 4th fireworks shows and the
annual Air Show at Bader Field.

**DATES :**  Comments and related material
must reach the Coast Guard on or before October 11, 2011.

**ADDRESSES :**  You may submit comments identified by docket number USCG– 2011–0698 using any one of the following methods:

(1) Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.

(2) Fax: 202–493–2251. (3) Mail: Docket Management Facility (M–30), U.S. Department of Transportation, West Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, 20590–

0001.

(4) Hand delivery: Same as mail address above, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. The telephone number

is 202–366–9329.

To avoid duplication, please use only
one of these four methods. See the ‘‘Public Participation and Request for Comments’’ portion of the

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION** section below for instructions on submitting

comments.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT :**  If you have questions on this proposed rule, call or e-mail Lindsey Middleton, Coast Guard; telephone 757–398–6629,
e-mail Lindsey.R.Middleton@uscg.mil. If you have questions on viewing or submitting material to the docket, call Renee V. Wright, Program Manager, Docket Operations, telephone 202–366–

9826.

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION :** 
Public Participation and Request for

Comments

We encourage you to participate in this rulemaking by submitting
comments and related materials. All comments received will be posted, without change to http:// www.regulations.gov and will include any personal information you have provided.

Submitting Comments

If you submit a comment, please
include the docket number for this rulemaking (USCG–2011–0698), indicate the specific section of this
document to which each comment applies, and provide a reason for each suggestion or recommendation. You may submit your comments and material online (http:// www.regulations.gov ), or by fax, mail or hand delivery, but please use only one of these means. If you submit a
comment online via http:// www.regulations.gov, it will be considered received by the Coast Guard when you successfully transmit the comment. If you fax, hand deliver, or mail your comment, it will be considered as having been received by
the Coast Guard when it is received at the Docket Management Facility. We recommend that you include your name and a mailing address, an e-mail address, or a phone number in the body of your document so that we can contact you if we have questions regarding your
submission.

To submit your comment online, go to http://www.regulations.gov, click on the ‘‘submit a comment’’ box, which will then become highlighted in blue. In the ‘‘Document Type’’ drop down menu select ‘‘Proposed Rules’’ and insert ‘‘USCG–2011–0698’’ in the ‘‘Keyword’’
box. Click ‘‘Search’’ then click on the balloon shape in the ‘‘Actions’’ column. If you submit your comments by mail or hand delivery, submit them in an unbound format, no larger than 8 1 ⁄ 2 by 11 inches, suitable for copying and electronic filing. If you submit them by mail and would like to know that they reached the Facility, please enclose a stamped, self-addressed postcard or envelope. We will consider all comments and material received during the comment period and may change the rule based on your comments.

Viewing Comments and Documents

To view comments, as well as documents mentioned in this preamble as being available in the docket, go to http://www.regulations.gov, click on the ‘‘read comments’’ box, which will then become highlighted in blue. In the ‘‘Keyword’’ box insert ‘‘USCG–2011–
0698’’ and click ‘‘Search.’’ Click the ‘‘Open Docket Folder’’ in the ‘‘Actions’’ column. You may also visit the Docket Management Facility in Room W12–140 on the ground floor of the Department of Transportation West Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. We have an agreement with the Department of Transportation to use the Docket Management Facility.

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Anyone can search the electronic form of comments received into any of our dockets by the name of the individual submitting the comment (or signing the comment, if submitted on behalf of an association, business, labor union, etc.). You may review a Privacy Act notice regarding our public dockets