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For the reasons discussed above, I 

certify this proposed regulation: 

(1) Is not a ‘‘significant regulatory 

action’’ under Executive Order 12866, 

(2) Is not a ‘‘significant rule’’ under 

the DOT Regulatory Policies and 

Procedures (44 FR 11034, February 26, 

1979), 

(3) Will not affect intrastate aviation 

in Alaska, and 

(4) Will not have a significant 

economic impact, positive or negative, 

on a substantial number of small entities 

under the criteria of the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act. 

List of Subjects in 14 CFR Part 39 

Air transportation, Aircraft, Aviation 

safety, Incorporation by reference, 

Safety. 

The Proposed Amendment 

Accordingly, under the authority 

delegated to me by the Administrator, 

the FAA proposes to amend 14 CFR part 

39 as follows: 

PART 39—AIRWORTHINESS 

DIRECTIVES 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 39 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40113, 44701. 

§ 39.13 [Amended] 

■ 2. The FAA amends § 39.13 by adding 

the following new airworthiness 

directive (AD): 

The Boeing Company: Docket No. FAA– 

2014–0571; Directorate Identifier 2014– 

NM–059–AD. 

(a) Comments Due Date 

We must receive comments by September 

29, 2014. 

(b) Affected ADs 

None. 

(c) Applicability 

This AD applies to The Boeing Company 

Model 767–200,–300, and–400ER series 

airplanes, certificated in any category, as 

identified in Boeing Alert Service Bulletin 

767–38A0073, dated November 12, 2013. 

(d) Subject 

Air Transport Association (ATA) of 

America Code 38, Water/Waste. 

(e) Unsafe Condition 

This AD was prompted by a report of the 

engine indication and crew alerting system 

(EICAS) display system malfunctioning 

during flight. We are issuing this AD to 

prevent an uncontrolled water leak from a 

defective potable water system coupling, 

which could cause the main equipment 

center (MEC) line replaceable units (LRUs) to 

become wet, resulting in an electrical short 

and potential loss of several functions 

essential for safe flight. 

(f) Compliance 

Comply with this AD within the 

compliance times specified, unless already 

done. 

(g) Inspection and Installation 

At the applicable times identified in 

paragraph 1.E., ‘‘Compliance,’’ of Boeing 

Alert Service Bulletin 767–38A0073, dated 

November 12, 2013, except as required by 

paragraph (h) of this AD: Do a general visual 

inspection for plastic potable water 

couplings, do all applicable corrective 

actions, and install new spray shrouds 

(including a new hose assembly, as 

applicable), in accordance with the 

Accomplishment Instructions of Boeing Alert 

Service Bulletin 767–38A0073, dated 

November 12, 2013. Do all applicable 

corrective actions within the compliance 

time identified in paragraph 1.E., 

‘‘Compliance,’’ of Boeing Alert Service 

Bulletin 767–38A0073, dated November 12, 

2013, except as required by paragraph (h) of 

this AD. 

(h) Exception to the Service Information 

Where paragraph 1.E., ‘‘Compliance,’’ of 

Boeing Alert Service Bulletin 767–38A0073, 

dated November 12, 2013, specifies a 

compliance time ‘‘after the original issue date 

of this service bulletin,’’ this AD requires 

compliance within the specified compliance 

time after the effective date of this AD. 

(i) Parts Installation Prohibition 

As of the effective date of this AD, no 

person may install any plastic potable water 

coupling having part number (P/N) CA620 or 

P/N CA625 on any airplane. 

(j) Alternative Methods of Compliance 

(AMOCs) 

(1) The Manager, Seattle Aircraft 

Certification Office (ACO), FAA, has the 

authority to approve AMOCs for this AD, if 

requested using the procedures found in 14 

CFR 39.19. In accordance with 14 CFR 39.19, 

send your request to your principal inspector 

or local Flight Standards District Office, as 

appropriate. If sending information directly 

to the manager of the ACO, send it to the 

attention of the person identified in 

paragraph (k)(1) of this AD. Information may 

be emailed to: 9-ANM-Seattle-ACO-AMOCRequests@faa.gov. 

(2) Before using any approved AMOC, 

notify your appropriate principal inspector, 

or lacking a principal inspector, the manager 

of the local flight standards district office/

certificate holding district office. 

(3) If the service information contains steps 

that are labeled as RC (Required for 

Compliance), those steps must be done to 

comply with this AD; any steps that are not 

labeled as RC are recommended. Those steps 

that are not labeled as RC may be deviated 

from, done as part of other actions, or done 

using accepted methods different from those 

identified in the specified service 

information without obtaining approval of an 

AMOC, provided the steps labeled as RC can 

be done and the airplane can be put back in 

a serviceable condition. Any substitutions or 

changes to steps labeled as RC require 

approval of an AMOC. 

(k) Related Information 

(1) For more information about this AD, 

contact Stanley Chen, Aerospace Engineer, 

Cabin Safety and Environmental Systems 

Branch, ANM–150S, FAA, Seattle Aircraft 

Certification Office (ACO), 1601 Lind Avenue 

SW., Renton, WA 98057–3356; phone: 425– 

917–6585; fax: 425–917–6590; email: 

stanley.chen@faa.gov. 

(2) For service information identified in 

this AD, contact Boeing Commercial 

Airplanes, Attention: Data & Services 

Management, P.O. Box 3707, MC 2H–65, 

Seattle, WA 98124–2207; telephone 206– 

544–5000, extension 1; fax 206–766–5680; 

Internet https://www.myboeingfleet.com. You 

may view this referenced service information 

at the FAA, Transport Airplane Directorate, 

1601 Lind Avenue SW., Renton, WA. For 

information on the availability of this 

material at the FAA, call 425–227–1221. 

Issued in Renton, Washington, on August 

4, 2014. 

Jeffrey E. Duven, 

Manager, Transport Airplane Directorate, 

Aircraft Certification Service. 

[FR Doc. 2014–19248 Filed 8–13–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Bureau of Economic Analysis 

15 CFR Part 801 

[Docket No. 140613502–4502–01] 

RIN 0691–XC026 

Direct Investment Surveys: BE–10, 

Benchmark Survey of U.S. Direct 

Investment Abroad 

AGENCY: Bureau of Economic Analysis, 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking. 

SUMMARY: This proposed rule would 

amend regulations of the Department of 

Commerce’s Bureau of Economic 

Analysis (BEA) to reinstate reporting 

requirements for the 2014 BE–10, 

Benchmark Survey of U.S. Direct 

Investment Abroad. Benchmark surveys 

are conducted every five years; the prior 

survey covered 2009. The benchmark 

survey covers the universe of U.S. direct 

investment abroad, and is BEA’s most 

comprehensive survey of such 

investment in terms of subject matter. 

For the 2014 benchmark survey, BEA 

proposes changes in the data items 

collected. No changes are proposed to 

the reporting requirements for the 

survey. This mandatory survey would 

be conducted under the authority of the 

International Investment and Trade in 

Services Survey Act (the Act). Unlike 

most other BEA surveys conducted 

pursuant to the Act, a response would 


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be required from persons subject to the 

reporting requirements of the BE–10, 

Benchmark Survey of U.S. Direct 

Investment Abroad, whether or not they 

are contacted by BEA, in order to insure 

that respondents subject to the 

requirements for U.S. direct investment 

abroad are identified. 

DATES: Comments on this proposed rule 

will receive consideration if submitted 

in writing on or before 5:00 p.m. 

October 14, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by RIN 0691–XC026, and 

referencing the agency name (Bureau of 

Economic Analysis), by any of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

For Keyword or ID, enter ‘‘EAB–2014– 

0002.’’ 

• Email: Barbara.Hubbard@bea.gov. 

• Fax: Office of the Chief, Direct 

Investment Division, (202) 606–2894. 

• Mail: Office of the Chief, Direct 

Investment Division, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, Bureau of Economic 

Analysis, BE–50, Washington, DC 

20230. 

• Hand Delivery/Courier: Office of the 

Chief, Direct Investment Division, U.S. 

Department of Commerce, Bureau of 

Economic Analysis, BE–50, Shipping 

and Receiving, Section M100, 1441 L 

Street NW., Washington, DC 20005. 

Written comments regarding the 

burden-hour estimates or other aspects 

of the collection-of-information 

requirements contained in the proposed 

rule should be sent to both BEA through 

any of the methods above and to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB), OIRA, Paperwork Reduction 

Project 0608–0049, Attention PRA Desk 

Officer for BEA, via email 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 commenter 

may be publicly accessible. Do not 

submit confidential business 

information or otherwise sensitive or 

protected information. BEA will accept 

anonymous comments (enter N/A in 

required fields if you wish to remain 

anonymous). Attachments to electronic 

comments will be accepted in Microsoft 

Word, Excel, or Adobe portable 

document file (pdf) formats only. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Barbara K. Hubbard, Acting Chief, 

Direct Investment Division (BE–50), 

Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. 

Department of Commerce, Washington, 

DC 20230; phone (202) 606–9846. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The BE– 

10, Benchmark Survey of U.S. Direct 

Investment Abroad, is a mandatory 

survey and is conducted once every five 

years by BEA under the International 

Investment and Trade in Services 

Survey Act, 22 U.S.C. 3101–3108 (the 

Act). Section 3103(b) of the Act 

provides that ‘‘with respect to United 

States direct investment abroad, the 

President shall conduct a benchmark 

survey covering year 1982, a benchmark 

survey covering year 1989, and 

benchmark surveys covering every fifth 

year thereafter.’’ In Section 3 of 

Executive Order 11961, as amended by 

Executive Orders 12318 and 12518, the 

President delegated responsibility for 

performing functions under the Act 

concerning direct investment to the 

Secretary of Commerce, who has 

redelegated it to BEA. 

Section 3103(b) also instructs BEA to: 

(1) Identify the location, nature, and 

magnitude of, and changes in total 

investment by any parent in each of its 

affiliates and the financial transactions 

between any parent and each of its 

affiliates; 

(2) Obtain (A) information on the 

balance sheet of parents and affiliates 

and related financial data, (B) income 

statements, including the gross sales by 

primary line of business (with as much 

product line detail as is necessary and 

feasible) of parents and affiliates in each 

country in which they have significant 

operations, and (C) related information 

regarding trade, including trade in both 

goods and services, between a parent 

and each of its affiliates and between 

each parent or affiliate and any other 

person; 

(3) Collect employment data showing 

both the number of United States and 

foreign employees of each parent and 

affiliate and the levels of compensation, 

by country, industry, and skill level; 

(4) Obtain information on tax 

payments by parents and affiliates by 

country; and 

(5) Determine, by industry and 

country, the total dollar amount of 

research and development expenditures 

by each parent and affiliate, payments 

or other compensation for the transfer of 

technology between parents and their 

affiliates, and payments or other 

compensation received by parents or 

affiliates from the transfer of technology 

to other persons. 

By rule issued in 2012 (77 FR 24373), 

BEA established guidelines for 

collecting data on international trade in 

services and direct investment through 

notices, rather than through rulemaking. 

This proposed rule would amend the 

regulations to require a response from 

persons subject to the reporting 

requirements of the BE–10, whether or 

not they are contacted by BEA, in order 

to ensure complete coverage of U.S. 

direct investment abroad. 

The benchmark survey covers the U.S. 

direct investment abroad universe and 

is BEA’s most comprehensive survey of 

such investment in terms of subject 

matter. U.S. direct investment abroad is 

defined as the ownership or control, 

directly or indirectly, by one U.S. 

person of 10 percent or more of the 

voting securities of an incorporated 

foreign business enterprise or an 

equivalent interest in an unincorporated 

foreign business enterprise, including a 

branch. 

The purpose of the benchmark survey 

is to obtain universe data on the 

financial and operating characteristics 

of, and on positions and transactions 

between, U.S. parent companies and 

their foreign affiliates. The data are 

needed to measure the size and 

economic significance of U.S. direct 

investment abroad, measure changes in 

such investment, and assess its impact 

on the U.S. and foreign economies. 

These data are used to derive current 

universe estimates of direct investment 

from sample data collected in other BEA 

surveys in non-benchmark years. In 

particular, they would serve as 

benchmarks for the quarterly direct 

investment estimates included in the 

U.S. international transactions, 

international investment position, and 

national income and product accounts, 

and for annual estimates of the 

operations of U.S. parent companies and 

their foreign affiliates. 

This proposed rule would amend 15 

CFR part 801 by adding a new section 

801.8 to set forth the reporting 

requirements for the BE–10, Benchmark 

Survey of U.S. Direct Investment 

Abroad. 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, 44 

U.S.C. 3501–3520 (PRA). 

Description of Changes 

The proposed changes would amend 

the regulations and the survey forms for 

the BE–10 benchmark survey. These 

amendments include changes in the 

data items collected and questionnaire 

design. 

If this proposed rule is made final, 

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conducted pursuant to the Act, persons 

subject to the reporting requirements of 

the BE–10, Survey of U.S. Direct 

Investment Abroad, would be required 

to respond whether or not they are 

contacted by BEA. 

BEA proposes to add and delete some 

items on the benchmark survey forms. 

Most of the additions are proposed in 

response to suggestions from data users. 

The following items would be added to 

the benchmark survey: 

(1) For U.S. parent companies, 

questions will be added to collect data 

on the U.S. imports of goods by the 

intended use of the goods and by 

whether the shipper of the goods is a 

foreign affiliate or an unaffiliated 

foreign entity. 

(2) For larger U.S. parent companies 

(those with assets, sales, or net income 

greater than $300 million), questions 

will be added to collect information on 

assets, liabilities, and interest receipts 

and payments that are related to 

banking activities. These questions are 

collected on the Annual Survey of U.S. 

Direct Investment Abroad (BE–11). 

(3) A question will be added to 

identify the city in which each foreign 

affiliate is located. 

(4) For majority-owned foreign 

affiliates with assets, sales, or net 

income greater than $80 million, a 

question will be added to the balance 

sheet to collect data on cash and cash 

equivalents. 

(5) For larger majority-owned foreign 

affiliates (those with assets, sales, or net 

income greater than $300 million), 

questions will be added to the section 

to collect sales data on the top five 

countries (besides the U.S. and the 

country of the affiliate) to which the 

affiliates made sales. For each country, 

sales will be categorized by customer: 

‘‘other foreign affiliates of the U.S. 

Reporter(s)’’ and ‘‘unaffiliated 

customers.’’ An ‘‘all other’’ item will 

also be added after the top five 

countries. Questions on sales by region 

of destination will be retained. 

(6) For majority-owned foreign 

affiliates with assets, sales, or net 

income greater than $80 million, 

questions will be added to the section 

on royalties and license fees to collect 

receipts from U.S. parents, receipts from 

other U.S. persons, payments to U.S. 

parents, and payments to other U.S. 

persons. On the previous benchmark 

survey, this section only included 

receipts from and payments to foreign 

persons. 

(7) For foreign affiliates with assets, 

sales, or net income greater than $25 

million, several check-box questions 

will be added to ensure that certain 

types of finance companies do not 

report intercompany debt to BEA that is 

already reported on Treasury 

International Capital surveys. Similar 

questions are included in the Quarterly 

Survey of U.S. Direct Investment 

Abroad (BE–577). 

(8) For foreign affiliates with assets, 

sales, or net income between $25 

million and $80 million, a question will 

be added to collect expenditures for 

research and development performed by 

the foreign affiliate. 

Several questions will be modified: 

(1) Questions on contract 

manufacturing will be updated to 

incorporate improved wording. 

(2) The cash item on the balance sheet 

for U.S. parent companies will be 

modified to include cash equivalents. 

BEA proposes to eliminate the 

following items from the benchmark 

survey because they are no longer used: 

(1) Official foreign identification 

numbers issued by host-country 

governments to foreign affiliates on BE– 

10B. 

(2) Withholding taxes on interest 

received from and paid to U.S. parent 

companies by foreign affiliates on BE– 

10B. 

In addition, BEA plans to redesign the 

survey questionnaires. The new design 

will incorporate improvements made to 

other BEA surveys. Survey instructions 

and data item descriptions will be 

changed to improve clarity and make 

the benchmark survey forms more 

consistent with those of other BEA 

surveys. 

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 

sufficient to warrant preparation of a 

Federalism assessment under E.O. 

13132. 

Paperwork Reduction Act 

This proposed rule contains a 

collection-of-information requirement 

subject to review and approval by OMB 

under the PRA. The requirement will be 

submitted to OMB for approval as a 

reinstatement, with change, of a 

previously approved collection under 

OMB control number 0608–0049. 

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 PRA unless 

that collection displays a currently valid 

OMB control number. 

The BE–10 survey, as proposed, is 

expected to result in the filing of reports 

from approximately 3,900 respondents. 

The respondent burden for this 

collection of information will vary from 

one company to another, but is 

estimated to average 144 hours per 

response, including time for reviewing 

instructions, searching existing data 

sources, gathering and maintaining the 

data needed, and completing and 

reviewing the collection of information. 

Thus the total respondent burden for 

this survey is estimated at 561,100 

hours, compared to 459,400 hours for 

the previous (2009) benchmark survey. 

The increase in burden hours is due to 

an increase in the size of the respondent 

universe. 

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 to both BEA and 

OMB following the instructions given in 

the ADDRESSES section above. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act 

The Chief Counsel for Regulation, 

Department of Commerce, has certified 

to the Chief Counsel for Advocacy, 

Small Business Administration, under 

the provisions of the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act (RFA), 5 U.S.C. 605(b), 

that this proposed rulemaking, if 

adopted, will not have a significant 

economic impact on a substantial 

number of small entities. The changes 

proposed in this rule are discussed in 

the preamble and are not repeated here. 

A BE–10 report is required of any U.S. 

company that had a foreign affiliate— 

that is, that had direct or indirect 

ownership or control of at least 10 

percent of the voting stock of an 

incorporated foreign business 

enterprise, or an equivalent interest in 

an unincorporated foreign business 

enterprise, including a branch—at any 

time during the U.S. company’s 2014 

fiscal year. U.S. companies that have 

direct investments abroad tend to be 

quite large, and few small U.S. 

businesses are subject to the reporting 

requirements of this survey. Also, U.S. 


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businesses that meet the SBA small 

business standards tend to have few 

foreign affiliates and the foreign 

affiliates that they do own are small. 

BEA estimates that approximately 800 

of the approximately 3,900 U.S. parent 

companies that will be required to 

respond to the BE–10 benchmark survey 

are small businesses according to the 

standards established by the SBA. The 

number of items required to be reported 

for a foreign affiliate is determined by 

the size of the affiliate’s assets, sales, 

and net income. In the BE–10 survey, 

for the smallest foreign affiliates—those 

with total assets, sales or gross operating 

revenues, and net income of less than or 

equal to $25 million (positive or 

negative)—only a few selected items 

would be reported on a schedule-type 

form, Form BE–10D. To further ease the 

reporting burden on smaller U.S. 

companies, U.S. Reporters with total 

assets, sales or gross operating revenues, 

and net income less than or equal to 

$300 million (positive or negative) are 

required to report only selected items on 

the BE–10A form for U.S. Reporters, in 

addition to forms they may be required 

to file for their foreign affiliates. Further, 

public reporting burden for the BE–10 

collection of information is estimated to 

vary from 14 hours for the smallest and 

least complex U.S. Reporter with only 

one foreign affiliate, to approximately 

18,000 hours for a very large U.S. 

Reporter with up to 800 affiliates with 

a wide range of activities. We estimate 

that most small reporters that will be 

subject to this rule will cluster around 

the 14 hour reporting burden. 

Because a very small percentage of the 

over 5 million U.S. small businesses are 

impacted by this rule (.016 percent or 

less than 2/100th of 1 percent of all 

small businesses), and because those 

small businesses that will be impacted 

will be subject to only minimal 

reporting burdens, the Chief Counsel for 

Regulation certifies that this proposed 

rule will not have a significant 

economic impact on a substantial 

number of small entities. 

List of Subjects in 15 CFR Part 801 

Economic statistics, International 

transactions, Multinational companies, 

Penalties, Reporting and record keeping 

requirements, U.S. direct investment 

abroad. 

Dated: July 30, 2014. 

Brian C. Moyer, 

Acting Director, Bureau of Economic 

Analysis. 

For 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 AND SURVEYS OF DIRECT 

INVESTMENT 

■ 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; 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 § 801.3 to read as follows: 

§ 801.3 Reporting requirements. 

Except for surveys subject to 

rulemaking in §§ 801.7 and 801.8, 

reporting requirements for all other 

surveys conducted by the Bureau of 

Economic Analysis shall be as follows: 

(a) Notice of specific reporting 

requirements, including who is required 

to report, the information to be reported, 

the manner of reporting, and the time 

and place of filing reports, will be 

published by the Director of the Bureau 

of Economic Analysis in the Federal 

Register prior to the implementation of 

a survey; 

(b) In accordance with section 

3104(b)(2) of title 22 of the United States 

Code, persons notified of these surveys 

and subject to the jurisdiction of the 

United States shall furnish, under oath, 

any report containing information 

which is determined to be necessary to 

carry out the surveys and studies 

provided for by the Act; and 

(c) Persons not notified in writing of 

their filing obligation by the Bureau of 

Economic Analysis are not required to 

complete the survey. 

■ 3. Add § 801.8 to read as follows: 

§ 801.8 Rules and regulations for the BE– 

10, Benchmark Survey of U.S. Direct 

Investment Abroad—2014. 

A BE–10, Benchmark Survey of U.S. 

Direct Investment Abroad will be 

conducted covering 2014. All legal 

authorities, provisions, definitions, and 

requirements contained in §§ 801.1 

through 801.2 and §§ 801.4 through 

801.6 are applicable to this survey. 

Specific additional rules and regulations 

for the BE–10 survey are given in 

paragraphs (a) through (d) of this 

section. More detailed instructions are 

given on the report forms and 

instructions. 

(a) Response required. A response is 

required from persons subject to the 

reporting requirements of the BE–10, 

Benchmark Survey of U.S. Direct 

Investment Abroad—2014, contained 

herein, whether or not they are 

contacted by BEA. Also, a person, or 

their agent, that is contacted by BEA 

about reporting in this survey, either by 

sending them a report form or by 

written inquiry, must respond in writing 

pursuant this section. This may be 

accomplished by: 

(1) Certifying in writing, by the due 

date of the survey, to the fact that the 

person had no direct investment within 

the purview of the reporting 

requirements of the BE–10 survey; 

(2) Completing and returning the 

‘‘BE–10 Claim for Not Filing’’ by the due 

date of the survey; or 

(3) Filing the properly completed BE– 

10 report (comprising Form BE–10A and 

Form(s) BE–10B, BE–10C, and/or BE– 

10D) by May 29, 2015, or June 30, 2015, 

as required. 

(b) Who must report. (1) A BE–10 

report is required of any U.S. person 

that had a foreign affiliate—that is, that 

had direct or indirect ownership or 

control of at least 10 percent of the 

voting stock of an incorporated foreign 

business enterprise, or an equivalent 

interest in an unincorporated foreign 

business enterprise, including a 

branch—at any time during the U.S. 

person’s 2014 fiscal year. 

(2) If the U.S. person had no foreign 

affiliates during its 2014 fiscal year, a 

‘‘BE–10 Claim for Not Filing’’ must be 

filed by the due date of the survey; no 

other forms in the survey are required. 

If the U.S. person had any foreign 

affiliates during its 2014 fiscal year, a 

BE–10 report is required and the U.S. 

person is a U.S. Reporter in this survey. 

(3) Reports are required even if the 

foreign business enterprise was 

established, acquired, seized, 

liquidated, sold, expropriated, or 

inactivated during the U.S. person’s 

2014 fiscal year. 

(4) The amount and type of data 

required to be reported vary according 

to the size of the U.S. Reporters or 

foreign affiliates, and, for foreign 

affiliates, whether they are majorityowned or minority-owned by U.S. direct 

investors. For purposes of the BE–10 

survey, a ‘‘majority-owned’’ foreign 

affiliate is one in which the combined 

direct and indirect ownership interest of 

all U.S. parents of the foreign affiliate 

exceeds 50 percent; all other affiliates 

are referred to as ‘‘minority-owned’’ 

affiliates. 

(c) Forms to be filed. (1) Form BE–10A 

must be completed by a U.S. Reporter. 

If the U.S. Reporter is a corporation, 

Form BE–10A is required to cover the 

fully consolidated U.S. domestic 

business enterprise. It must also file 

Form(s) BE–10B, C, and/or D for its 

foreign affiliates, whether held directly 

or indirectly. 

(2) Form BE–10B must be filed for 

each majority-owned foreign affiliate for 


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which any of the following three 

items—total assets, sales or gross 

operating revenues excluding sales 

taxes, or net income after provision for 

foreign income taxes—was greater than 

$80 million (positive or negative) at any 

time during the affiliate’s 2014 fiscal 

year. 

(3) Form BE–10C must be filed: 

(i) For each majority-owned foreign 

affiliate for which any one of the three 

items listed in paragraph (c)(2) of this 

section was greater than $25 million but 

for which none of these items was 

greater than $80 million (positive or 

negative), at any time during the 

affiliate’s 2014 fiscal year, and 

(ii) For each minority-owned foreign 

affiliate for which any one of the three 

items listed in (c)(2) of this section was 

greater than $25 million (positive or 

negative), at any time during the 

affiliate’s 2014 fiscal year. 

(4) Form BE–10D must be filed for 

majority- or minority-owned foreign 

affiliates for which none of the three 

items listed in paragraph (c)(2) of this 

section was greater than $25 million 

(positive or negative) at any time during 

the affiliate’s 2014 fiscal year. Form BE– 

10D is a schedule; a U.S. Reporter 

would submit one or more pages of the 

form depending on the number of 

affiliates that are required to be filed on 

this form. 

(d) Due date. A fully completed and 

certified BE–10 report comprising Form 

BE–10A and Form(s) BE–10B, C, and/or 

D (as required) is due to be filed with 

BEA not later than May 29, 2015, for 

those U.S. Reporters filing fewer than 

50, and June 30, 2015, for those U.S. 

Reporters filing 50 or more, foreign 

affiliate Forms BE–10B, C, and/or D. If 

the U.S. person had no foreign affiliates 

during its 2014 fiscal year, it must file 

a BE–10 Claim for Not Filing by May 29, 

2015. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

18 CFR Part 40 

[Docket No. RM14–7–000] 

Modeling, Data, and Analysis 

Reliability Standards 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking; 

correction. 

SUMMARY: This document contains 

corrections to the proposed rule (RM14– 

7–000) which was published in the 

Federal Register of Thursday, June 26, 

2014 (79 FR 36269). The regulations 

propose to approve Modeling, Data, and 

Analysis Reliability Standard MOD– 

001–2 developed by the North American 

Electric Reliability Corporation. 

DATES: Comments are due August 25, 

2014. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael Gandolfo (Technical 

Information), Office of Electric 

Reliability, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE., 

Washington, DC 20426, Telephone: 

(202) 502–6817, Michael.Gandolfo@

ferc.gov. Robert T. Stroh (Legal 

Information), Office of the General 

Counsel, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE., 

Washington, DC 20426, Telephone: 

(202) 502–8473, Robert.Stroh@ferc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Need for Correction 

On June 19, 2014, the Commission 

issued a ‘‘Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking’’ in the above-captioned 

proceeding, Modeling, Data, and 

Analysis Reliability Standards, 147 

FERC ¶ 61,208 (2014) (NOPR). 

This errata notice serves to correct 

paragraphs 17 and 19. 

In proposed rule FR Doc. 2014–14850, 

beginning on page 36269 in the issue of 

June 26, 2014, make the following 

corrections: 

In paragraph 17 on page 36271 in the 

third column, the following is inserted 

as a footnote at the end of the first 

sentence: ‘‘The proposed Reliability 

Standard MOD–001–2 will increase 

paperwork burden and the number of 

responses to FERC–725L (OMB Control 

No. 1902–0261) and the retirement of 

the current MOD Reliability Standards 

will decrease the paperwork burden and 

the number of responses to FERC–725A 

(OMB Control No. 1902–0244).’’ 

Accordingly, all subsequent footnote 

numbers are numerically revised to 

reflect this additional footnote. 

In addition, on page 36272 of the 

NOPR in the first column, ‘‘changes to 

FERC–725A and’’ is inserted after 

‘‘Proposed’’ in the ‘‘Action’’ field, and 

‘‘1902–0244 and’’ is inserted into the 

‘‘OMB Control No.’’ field before the 

OMB control number that is already 

present. 

In paragraph 19 on page 36272 in the 

third column, in the last sentence, 

remove ‘‘FERC–725Q’’ and insert the 

following ‘‘FERC–725A (OMB Control 

No. 1902–0244), FERC–725L (OMB 

Control No. 1902–0261).’’ 

Dated: August 6, 2014. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Parole Commission 

28 CFR Part 2 

[Docket No. USPC–2014–01] 

Paroling, Recommitting and 

Supervising Federal Prisoners 

Prisoners Serving Sentences Under 

the United States and District of 

Columbia Codes 

AGENCY: United States Parole 

Commission, Justice. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking. 

SUMMARY: The United States Parole 

Commission proposes to revise its rules 

pertaining to decisions to revoke terms 

of supervision without a hearing. 

Specifically, we propose a rule that 

would allow a releasee charged with 

only administrative violations or 

specifically identified misdemeanor 

crimes to apply for a prison sanction of 

8 months or less. If a releasee qualifies 

and applies for a sanction under this 

section, the Commission may approve a 

revocation decision that includes no 

more than 8 months of imprisonment 

without using its normal guidelines for 

decision-making. 

DATES: Submit Comments on or before 

October 14, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification 

number USPC–2014–01 by one of the 

following methods: 

1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments . 

2. Mail: Office of the Case Operations, 

U.S. Parole Commission, attention: 

Stephen J. Husk, Case Operations 

Administrator, 90 K Street, NE., 

Washington, DC 20530. 

3. Fax: (202) 357–1086. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stephen J. Husk, Case Operations 

Administrator U.S. Parole Commission, 

90 K Street, NE., Washington, DC 20530, 

telephone (202) 346–7061. Questions 

about this publication are welcome, but 

inquiries concerning individual cases 

cannot be answered over the telephone. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Parole 

Commission is responsible for paroling 

those federal and District of Columbia 

offenders serving parole-eligible 


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