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Subrecipient meets the criteria under 2 

CFR part 170) to the Recipient by the 

end of the month following the month 

in which the subaward was made. 

VII. Agency Contacts 

A. Web site: http://www.usda.gov/rus/ 

water. The Rural Utilities Service Web 

site maintains up-to-date resources and 

contact information for the RFP. 

B. Phone: 202–720–9589. 

C. Fax: 202–690–0649. 

D. Email: Joyce M.Taylor@

wdc.usda.gov. 

E. Main point of contact: Joyce M. 

Taylor, Community Programs Specialist, 

Water and Environmental Programs, 

Water Programs Division, Rural Utilities 

Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. 

VIII. Non-Discrimination Statement 

USDA Non-Discrimination Statement 

The U.S. Department of Agriculture 

(USDA) prohibits discrimination against 

its customers, employees, and 

applicants for employment on the bases 

of race, color, national origin, age, 

disability, sex, gender identity, religion, 

reprisal, and where applicable, political 

beliefs, marital status, familial or 

parental status, sexual orientation, or all 

or part of an individual’s income is 

derived from any public assistance 

program, or protected genetic 

information in employment or in any 

program or activity conducted or funded 

by the Department. (Not all prohibited 

bases will apply to all programs and/or 

employment activities.) 

How To File a Complaint 

If you wish to file an employment 

complaint, you must contact your 

agency’s EEO Counselor within 45 days 

of the date of the alleged discriminatory 

act, event, or in the case of a personnel 

action. Additional information can be 

found online at http://

www.ascr.usda.gov/complaint_filing_

file.html. 

If you wish to file a Civil Rights 

program complaint of discrimination, 

complete the USDA Program 

Discrimination Complaint Form (PDF), 

found online at http://

www.ascr.usda.gov/complaint_filing_

cust.html, or at any USDA office, or call 

(866) 632–9992 to request the form. You 

may also write a letter containing all of 

the information requested in the form. 

Send your completed complaint form or 

letter to us by mail at U.S. Department 

of Agriculture, Director, Office of 

Adjudication, 1400 Independence 

Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20250– 

9410, by fax (202) 690–7442 or email at 

program.intake@usda.gov. 

Persons With Disabilities 

Individuals who are deaf, hard of 

hearing or have speech disabilities and 

you wish to file either an EEO or 

program complaint please contact 

USDA through the Federal Relay 

Service at (800) 877–8339 or (800) 845– 

6136 (in Spanish). 

Persons with disabilities who wish to 

file a program complaint, please see 

information above on how to contact us 

by mail directly or by email. If you 

require alternative means of 

communication for program information 

(e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.) 

please contact USDA’s TARGET Center 

at (202) 720–2600 (voice and TDD). 

Dated: January 6, 2015. 

Jasper Schneider, 

Acting Administrator, Rural Utilities Service. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02702 Filed 2–11–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–15–P 

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: 2014–2016 Company 

Organization Survey. 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0444. 

Form Number(s): NC–99001, NC– 

99007. 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Number of Respondents: 47,000. 

Average Hours per Response: 3 hours 

and 10 minutes. 

Burden Hours: 148,566. 

Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau 

requests an extension of the currently 

approved Company Organization 

Survey (COS) data collection for survey 

years 2014, 2015 and 2016. 

The Census Bureau conducts the 

annual COS to update and maintain a 

centralized, multipurpose Business 

Register (BR). In particular, the COS 

supplies critical information on the 

organizational structure, operating 

characteristics, and employment and 

payroll of multi-location enterprises. 

The 2014–2016 COS collection will not 

differ from the 2013. The sample size 

will remain the same as in 2013 

surveying 47,000 respondents. 

Form NC–99001 is mailed to multilocation enterprises. We ask questions 

on ownership or control by a domestic 

parent, ownership or control by a 

foreign parent, and ownership of foreign 

affiliates; research and development; 

company activities such as—employees 

from a professional employer 

organization, operating revenue and net 

sales, royalties and license fees for the 

use of intellectual property and 

manufacturing activities. Establishment 

inquiries include questions on 

operational status, mid-March 

employment, first-quarter payroll, and 

annual payroll of establishments. 

In 2011, we submitted a nonsubstantive change to the COS 

questionnaire. This revision added three 

new inquiries as part of the Enterprise 

Statistics Program (ESP). These three 

inquiries were: (1) Operating Revenues 

and Net Sales; (2) Royalties and 

Licenses Fees for the Use of Intellectual 

Property; and (3) Manufacturing 

Activities. In 2012 and 2013 we 

continued to ask these questions on 

Form NC–99001 and it is our intention 

to continue to ask these additional 

questions for 2014–2016 on Form NC– 

99001. We also ask questions on 

ownership or control by a foreign 

parent, and ownership of foreign 

affiliates; research and development; 

royalties and license fees for the use of 

intellectual property and manufacturing 

activities. In addition to the mailing of 

multi-location enterprises, the Census 

Bureau will collect data for singlelocation companies on Form NC–99007 

to some large single-location enterprises 

that may have added some locations. 

The 2014–2016 COS will request 

company-level information from a 

selection of multi-establishment 

enterprises, which comprises roughly 

42,000 parent companies and more than 

1.4 million establishments. COS 

inquiries sent to each of the 42,000 

multi-establishment enterprises will 

include inquiries on ownership or 

control by a domestic parent, ownership 

or control by a foreign parent, and 

ownership of foreign affiliates; research 

and development; company activities, 

such as—employees from a professional 

employer organization, operating 

revenue and net sales, royalties and 

license fees for the use of intellectual 

property, and manufacturing activities. 

Establishment inquiries include 

questions on operational status, midMarch employment, first-quarter 

payroll, and annual payroll of 

establishments. 

In addition to the 42,000 multiestablishment enterprises, the 2014— 

2016 COS will include approximately 

5,000 single-location companies that 

may have added some locations. The 

NC–99007 Form will collect data for the 

5,000 single-location businesses. 


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The information collected by the COS 

is used to maintain and update the BR. 

The BR 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 BR’s ability to 

identify all known United States 

business establishments and their 

parent companies. Further, the BR must 

accurately record basic business 

attributes needed to control sampling 

and enumeration. These attributes 

include industry 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. The 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, the District of Columbia, 

island areas, counties, and countyequivalents. No other annual or more 

frequent series of industry statistics 

provides comparable detail, particularly 

for small geographic areas 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit; Not-for-profit institutions; Farms; 

State, local or tribal governments. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

Legal Authority: Title 13 United States 

Code, Sections 182, 195, 224, and 225. 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. 

Follow the instructions to view 

Department of Commerce collections 

currently under review by OMB. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to OIRA_Submission@

omb.eop.gov or fax to (202)395–5806. 

Dated: February 6, 2015. 

Glenna Mickelson, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02865 Filed 2–11–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–07–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Census Bureau 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request; Advance Monthly 

Retail Trade Survey 

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 

take this opportunity to comment on 

proposed and/or continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A)). 

DATES: To ensure consideration, written 

comments must be submitted on or 

before April 13, 2015. 

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 jjessup@doc.gov). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument(s) and instructions should 

be directed to Karla Allen, U.S. Census 

Bureau, EID HQ–8K183A, 4600 Silver 

Hill Road, Washington, DC 20233–6500, 

(301) 763–7208 (or via the Internet at 

Karla.l.Allen@census.gov). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The Advance Monthly Retail Trade 

Survey (MARTS) provides an early 

indication of monthly sales for firms 

located in the United States and 

classified in the Retail Trade or Food 

Services sectors as defined by the North 

American Industry Classification 

System (NAICS). 

The MARTS sample is comprised of 

approximately 4,900 firms selected from 

the larger Monthly Retail Trade Survey 

(MRTS) sample of about 12,000 firms 

(OMB Control Number: 0607–0717). 

Firms are selected into the MARTS 

sample using a stratified design where 

the strata are defined by industry and 

size. The MARTS sample is re-selected, 

generally at 21⁄2 to 3 year intervals, to 

ensure it is representative of the target 

population. 

The survey requests sales and 

e-commerce sales for the month just 

ending. If reporting data for a period 

other than the calendar month, the 

survey asks for the period’s length (4 or 

5 weeks) and the date on which the 

period ended. The survey also asks for 

the number of establishments covered 

by the data provided and whether or not 

the sales data provided are estimates or 

more accurate ‘‘book’’ figures. 

Survey results are published 

approximately 9 working days after the 

end of the reference month. There 

would be a delay in the availability of 

these results if the survey were not 

conducted, as results from the MRTS are 

not published until approximately 6 

weeks after the end of the reference 

month. The Bureau of Economic 

Analysis (BEA) uses the survey results 

as critical inputs to the calculation of 

the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). 

Policymakers such as the Federal 

Reserve Board (FRB) need to have the 

timeliest estimates in order to anticipate 

economic trends and act accordingly. 

The Council of Economic Advisors 

(CEA) and other government agencies 

and businesses use the survey results to 

formulate and make decisions about 

economic policy. 

II. Method of Collection 

We will collect this information by 

mail, FAX, telephone follow-up, and 

Internet. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0104. 

Form Number: SM–44(12)A, SM– 

44(12)AE, SM–44(12)AS, and SM– 

72(12)A. 

Type of Review: Regular submission. 

Affected Public: Retail and Food 

Services firms in the United States. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

4,900. 

Estimated Time per Response: 5 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 4,900. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: $0. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: Title 13, United States 

Code, Section 182. 

IV. Request for Comments 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden 

(including hours and cost) of the 

proposed collection of information; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 


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