24458 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 79 / Tuesday, April 24, 2012 / Notices 

• Not officers or employees of any 

government body with a population of 

less than 50,000 and has experience and 

is active in urban and community 

forestry. 

Dated: April 16, 2012. 

James E. Hubbard, 

Deputy Chief, State & Private Forestry. 

[FR Doc. 2012–9828 Filed 4–23–12; 8:45 am] 

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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: Quarterly Financial Report 

(QFR) Program. 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0432. 

Form Number(s): QFR–200(MT), 

QFR–201(MG), QFR–300(S). 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Burden Hours: 115,111. 

Number of Respondents: 12,574. 

Average Hours per Response: 2 hours 

and 17 minutes. 

Needs and Uses: The QFR program 

has published up-to-date aggregate 

statistics on the financial results and 

position of U.S. corporations since 1947. 

The program currently collects and 

publishes financial data for the 

manufacturing, mining, wholesale trade, 

retail trade, information, and 

professional, scientific, and technical 

services (except legal) sectors. The 

survey is a principal economic indicator 

that provides financial data essential to 

calculation of key U.S. Government 

measures of national economic 

performance. The importance of this 

data collection is reflected by the 

granting of specific authority to conduct 

the program in Title 13 of the United 

States Code, Section 91, which requires 

that financial statistics of business 

operations be collected and published 

quarterly. Public Law 109–79, Section 

91 extended the authority of the 

Secretary of Commerce to conduct the 

QFR program through September 30, 

2015. 

The QFR is planning to expand the 

scope of collection to include, along 

with corporations currently surveyed, 

additional service sectors. The 

expanded collection will include the 

real estate and rental and leasing (except 

lessors of nonfinancial intangible 

assets), administrative and support and 

waste management and remediation 

services, health care and social 

assistance, and accommodation and 

food services. We plan to begin 

collecting data for these service sectors 

beginning with the collection of data for 

fourth quarter of 2012. Services 

represent the largest block of industries 

in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 

about 55 percent of the economy. By 

expanding into these four service 

sectors, the QFR program can begin 

providing statistics on the financial 

results and position for important parts 

of the economy for which no current 

and systematically collected data are 

now available. 

The survey forms used to conduct the 

QFR are: QFR–200 (MT) Long Form 

(manufacturing, mining, wholesale 

trade, and retail trade); QFR–201 (MG) 

Short Form (manufacturing); and the 

QFR–300 (S) Long Form (services). 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit. 

Frequency: Quarterly. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., 

Section 91. 

OMB Desk Officer: Brian HarrisKojetin, (202) 395–7314. 

Copies of the above information 

collection proposal can be obtained by 

calling or writing Jennifer Jessup, 

Departmental Paperwork Clearance 

Officer, (202) 482–0336, Department of 

Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and 

Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 

jjessup@doc.gov). 

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 email (bharrisk@omb.eop.gov). 

Dated: April 17, 2012. 

Glenna Mickelson, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2012–9734 Filed 4–23–12; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[Order No. 1823] 

Reorganization and Expansion of 

Foreign-Trade Zone 109 Under 

Alternative Site Framework, Jefferson 

County, NY 

Pursuant to its authority under the ForeignTrade Zones Act of June 18, 1934, as 

amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), the ForeignTrade Zones Board (the Board) adopts the 

following Order: 

Whereas, the Board adopted the 

alternative site framework (ASF) (74 FR 

1170, 01/12/2009; correction 74 FR 

3987, 01/22/2009; 75 FR 71069–71070, 

11/22/2010) as an option for the 

establishment or reorganization of 

general-purpose zones; 

Whereas, the County of Jefferson, New 

York, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 

109, submitted an application to the 

Board (FTZ Docket 70–2011, filed 11/ 

07/2011) for authority to reorganize and 

expand under the ASF with a service 

area of Jefferson County, New York, 

adjacent to the Alexandria Bay U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection port of 

entry, FTZ 109’s existing Sites 1 and 

new Sites 3 and 4 would be categorized 

as magnet sites, and existing Site 2 

would be removed from the zone 

project; 

Whereas, notice inviting public 

comment was given in the Federal 

Register (76 FR 70110, 11/10/2011) and 

the application has been processed 

pursuant to the FTZ Act and the Board’s 

regulations; and, 

Whereas, the Board adopts the 

findings and recommendations of the 

examiner’s report, and finds that the 

requirements of the FTZ Act and 

Board’s regulations are satisfied, and 

that the proposal is in the public 

interest; 

Now, therefore, the Board hereby 

orders: 

The application to reorganize and 

expand FTZ 109 under the alternative 

site framework is approved, subject to 

the FTZ Act and the Board’s regulations, 

including Section 400.28, to the Board’s 

standard 2,000-acre activation limit for 

the overall general-purpose zone 

project, to an ASF sunset provision for 

magnet sites that would terminate 

authority for Site 3 if not activated by 

April 30, 2017 and Site 4 if not activated 

by April 30, 2020. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 16th day of 

April 2012. 

Paul Piquado, 

Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import 

Administration, Alternate Chairman, ForeignTrade Zones Board. 

Attest: 

Andrew McGilvray, 

Executive Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2012–9823 Filed 4–23–12; 8:45 am] 

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