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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. 2015–02680 Filed 2–9–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Census Bureau 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request; Annual Survey of 

Business Owners 

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. 

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 Patrice Norman, U.S. 

Census Bureau, EWD, 6K071, 

Washington, DC 20233–6600, (301) 763– 

7198, Patrice.C.Norman@census.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The Census Bureau plans to conduct 

the Annual Survey of Business Owners 

(ASBO) for employer businesses. In the 

ASBO, respondents will be asked 

questions about their businesses as well 

as several questions about the gender, 

ethnicity, race, and veteran status of the 

principal owner(s). This survey will be 

the first annual collection of 

information on the characteristics of 

U.S. businesses by ownership 

categories, i.e., by gender, ethnicity, 

race, and veteran status. The survey will 

be conducted as a joint project with the 

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a 

Missouri nonprofit corporation and a 

private foundation exempt from taxes 

under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal 

Revenue Code. The ASBO will 

supplement the five-year Survey of 

Business Owners program and provide 

more timely updates on the status, 

nature, and scope of women-, 

minority-, and veteran-owned 

businesses. The ASBO statistics will be 

used by government program officials, 

industry organization leaders, economic 

and social analysts, and business 

entrepreneurs. Examples of data uses 

include: 

• To assess business assistance needs 

and allocate available program 

resources. 

• To establish and evaluate contract 

procurement practices affecting small 

and disadvantaged businesses. 

• To create a framework for planning, 

directing, and assessing programs that 

promote the activities of disadvantaged 

groups. 

• To assess minority-owned 

businesses by industry and area and to 

educate industry associations, 

corporations, and government entities. 

• To analyze economic and 

demographic shifts and differences in 

ownership and performance among 

geographic areas. 

• To analyze business operations in 

comparison to similar firms, compute 

market share, and assess business 

growth and future prospects. 

The ASBO will be based on the 

quinquennial 2012 Survey of Business 

Owners long form (SBO–1) with 19 

additional questions, including a set of 

questions on the sources of capital used 

for expansion, which will be asked each 

year, and a rotating panel of questions 

that will be determined prior to data 

collection each year. Each year the new 

panel of questions will be submitted to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) as a revision to the current data 

collection’s OMB approval. The 

following changes will be made to the 

2012 SBO: 

• An additional question on where 

the business’s customers are located in 

relation to the business. 

• An additional question on the 

reasons for owning the business. 

• An additional question on whether 

the business had profits, losses, or broke 

even. 

• An additional question on where 

the owner would like the company to be 

in five years. 

• An additional question on issues 

that have negatively impacted the 

profitability of the business. 

• The question on what sources of 

capital were used for expansion or 

capital improvements to the business 

during the reference year has been 

expanded into seven questions. The 

new questions ask: 

Æ The total amount of money put into 

the business in 2014. 

Æ The total amount of money that the 

owner personally put into the business. 

Æ The total amount of money 

received from family, friends, and 

employees that was put into the 

business. 

Æ The total amount of money 

received from any formal debit 


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financing from a bank or other financial 

institution, a business credit card 

carrying a balance, or a business line of 

credit. 

Æ The total amount of financial 

capital received from angel investors, 

venture capitalists, or other businesses 

in return for a share(s) of ownership in 

the business. 

Æ What types of funding the owner 

tried to get and whether or not the 

owner received the funds. 

Æ Whether the business needed 

financing but did not apply and why the 

business did not apply. 

• The 2014 ASBO’s rotating panel of 

questions will focus on Innovation and 

Research and Development and is 

modeled after questions asked on the 

Microbusiness Innovation Science and 

Technology Survey (MIST). The 

National Science Foundation (NSF) is 

currently conducting a pilot for the 

MIST during 2015. The sample size is 

limited to 4,000 businesses and only 

covers the manufacturing and 

professional and technical services 

industries. Expanding the ASBO to 

include these questions will 

significantly increase the industry 

coverage by including all NAICS 

industries except 111, 112, 481111, 482, 

491, 525, 813, 814, and 92. This section 

will consist of eight questions that will 

only be asked on the 2014 survey. A 

new set of questions will be asked on 

the 2015 survey. The 2014 new 

questions consist of the following: 

Æ During 2014, were any of the 

following improvements made to the 

goods and/or services sold by this 

business: 

D Sold a new good or service that no 

company has ever offered before. 

D Sold a new good or service that 

your company has never offered before. 

D Improved good’s performance by 

making changes in materials, 

equipment, components, or software. 

D Developed a new use for a good or 

service. 

D Added a new feature to a good or 

service. 

D Made it easier for customers to use 

a good or service. 

D Don’t know. 

D Did not make any innovations to the 

goods and/or services sold by this 

business. 

Æ During 2014, were any of the 

following improvements made to the 

production processes used by this 

business? 

D Applied a new way of purchasing, 

accounting, computing, maintenance, 

inventory control, or other support 

activities. 

D Reduced costs by changing the way 

a good or service was distributed. 

D Upgraded a technique, equipment, 

or software to significantly improve a 

good or service. 

D Made a significant improvement in 

a technique or process by increasing 

automation, decreasing energy 

consumption, or using better software. 

D Decreased production costs by 

improving the materials, software, or 

other components. 

D Changed a delivery method to be 

faster or more reliable. 

D Don’t know. 

D Did not make any improvements to 

the production processes used by this 

business. 

Æ Did this business conduct any of 

the following research and development 

activities in 2014: 

D Conducted work that might lead to 

a patent. 

D Developed and tested prototypes 

that were derived from scientific 

research or technical findings. 

D Produced findings that could be 

published in academic journals or 

presented at scientific conferences. 

D Applied scientific or technical 

knowledge in a way that has never been 

done before. 

D Created new scientific or technical 

solutions that can be generalized to 

other situations. 

D Conducted work to discover 

previously unknown scientific facts, 

structures, or relationships. 

D Conducted work to extend the 

understanding of scientific facts, 

relationships or principles in ways that 

could be useful to others. 

Æ What was the total cost paid for 

research and development activities? 

Æ How much of the total cost was 

used for research and development 

activities performed by this business? 

Æ How much of the cost for research 

and development performed by this 

business was spent on the following: 

D Employee payroll. 

D Equipment purchases. 

D Software and licensing purchases. 

D Other expenses. 

Æ How much of the cost for research 

and development performed by this 

business was paid for by the following: 

D This business. 

D Another U.S. business. 

D U.S. college or university. 

D U.S. nonprofit organization. 

D U.S. federal government. 

D U.S. state or local government. 

D Other. 

Æ How many of each type of worker 

worked on the research and 

development activities: 

D Owners. 

D Paid employees. 

D Other paid workers. 

D Unpaid workers. 

Businesses which reported any 

business activity on any one of the 

following Internal Revenue Service tax 

forms will be eligible for selection: 1040 

(Schedule C), ‘‘Profit or Loss from 

Business (Sole Proprietorship); 1065, 

‘‘U.S. Return of Partnership Income’’; 

941, ‘‘Employer’s Quarterly Federal Tax 

Return’’; 944, ‘‘Employer’s Annual 

Federal Tax Return’’; or any one of the 

1120 corporate tax forms. Current plans 

will only request responses from 

businesses filing the 941, 944, or 1120 

tax forms. Estimates for businesses filing 

the 1040 or 1065 tax returns will be 

created using statistical modeling of 

administrative data and will only 

provide data by race, gender, ethnicity, 

and veteran status by geography, 

industry, and size of firm. 

We will seek separate clearance from 

OMB to test our proposed ASBO 

questionnaire. We intend to conduct 

cognitive interviews with between 15 

and 20 businesses in two rounds. 

Cognitive interviews will begin in 

January 2015 and will continue through 

March 2015. Upon completion of each 

round of interviews, the interview team 

will meet and decide on the 

recommended changes to the 

questionnaire. The questionnaire will be 

revised after each round and the 

interview protocol updated to reflect the 

new version of the questionnaire. We 

will also conduct usability testing of the 

electronic instrument. We intend to 

conduct interviews with between 10 

and 12 businesses in two rounds. These 

interviews will be conducted in July 

2015. 

The 2014 data collection of the ASBO 

will begin in September 2015 and will 

continue through January 2016. The 

2015 data collection will begin in June 

2016 and will continue through 

September 2016 and the 2016 data 

collection will begin in June 2017 and 

will continue through September 2017. 

II. Method of Collection 

The Census Bureau will use a letteronly mailout with an electronic-only 

data collection. The mailout will be 

conducted from our National Processing 

Center in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Two 

mail follow-ups to nonrespondents will 

be conducted at approximately onemonth intervals. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0607–XXXX 

(this is a new collection). 

Form Number(s): ASBO–1, Annual 

Survey of Business Owners. 

Type of Review: Regular submission. 

Affected Public: Large and small 

businesses. 


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1See letter from Pacific Accelerator Limited 

entitled, ‘‘Request for Administrative Review of the 

Antidumping Duty Order on Potassium 

Permanganate from the People’s Republic of 

China,’’ dated January 30, 2014. 

2See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and 

Request for Revocation in Part, 79 FR 11401 

(February 28, 2014). 

3See the Department’s letter to Pacific 

Accelerator Limited entitled, ‘‘Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review of Potassium Permanganate 

from the People’s Republic of China: 

Questionnaire,’’ dated March 20, 2014 

(‘‘Questionnaire’’). 

4See the Department’s letter to Pacific 

Accelerator Limited entitled, ‘‘Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review of Potassium Permanganate 

from the People’s Republic of China: Supplemental 

Section C Questionnaire,’’ dated July 10, 2014 

(‘‘Section C Supplemental’’). 

5See Memorandum to Christian Marsh, Deputy 

Assistant Secretary, through James Doyle, Office 

Director, from Alexander Montoro, International 

Trade Compliance Analyst, ‘‘Potassium 

Permanganate from the People’s Republic of China; 

Continued 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

200,000. 

Estimated Time per Response: 35 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 116,667. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: $0. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C. 

Sections 8(b), 131, 193, and 224. 

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 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of this information collection; 

they also will become a matter of public 

record. 

Dated: February 5, 2015 

Glenna Mickelson, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02734 Filed 2–9–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–07–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[B–6–2015] 

Foreign-Trade Zone 27; Boston, 

Massachusetts; Application for 

Subzone Spectro Coating Corporation 

d/b/a Claremont Flock, LLC; 

Leominster, Massachusetts 

An application has been submitted to 

the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board by 

the Massachusetts Port Authority, 

grantee of FTZ 27, requesting subzone 

status for the facility of Spectro Coating 

Corporation d/b/a Claremont Flock, 

LLC, located in Leominster, 

Massachusetts. The application was 

submitted pursuant to the provisions of 

the Foreign-Trade Zones Act, as 

amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), and the 

regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR 

part 400). It was formally docketed on 

February 3, 2015. 

The proposed subzone (14.45 acres) is 

located at 107 Scott Drive, Leominster, 

Massachusetts. A notification of 

proposed production activity has been 

submitted and will be published 

separately for public comment. 

In accordance with the FTZ Board’s 

regulations, Kathleen Boyce of the FTZ 

Staff is designated examiner to review 

the application and make 

recommendations to the FTZ Board. 

Public comment is invited from 

interested parties. Submissions shall be 

addressed to the FTZ Board’s Executive 

Secretary at the address below. The 

closing period for their receipt is March 

23, 2015. Rebuttal comments in 

response to material submitted during 

the foregoing period may be submitted 

during the subsequent 15-day period to 

April 6, 2015. 

A copy of the application will be 

available for public inspection at the 

Office of the Executive Secretary, 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 

21013, U.S. Department of Commerce, 

1401 Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20230–0002, and in the 

‘‘Reading Room’’ section of the FTZ 

Board’s Web site, which is accessible 

via www.trade.gov/ftz. 

For further information, contact 

Kathleen Boyce at Kathleen.Boyce@

trade.gov or (202) 482–1346. 

Dated: February 4, 2015. 

Andrew McGilvray, 

Executive Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02736 Filed 2–9–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–001] 

Potassium Permanganate From the 

People’s Republic of China: 

Preliminary Results of Antidumping 

Duty Administrative Review; 2013 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: In response to a request by 

Pacific Accelerator Limited (‘‘PAL’’), the 

Department of Commerce 

(‘‘Department’’) is conducting an 

administrative review of the 

antidumping duty (‘‘AD’’) order on 

potassium permanganate from the 

People’s Republic of China (‘‘PRC’’) for 

the period of review (‘‘POR’’) January 1, 

2013, through December 31, 2013. The 

Department has preliminarily 

determined that PAL had no reviewable 

entries of subject merchandise during 

the POR. 

DATES: Effective Date: February 10, 

2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Alexander Montoro, AD/CVD 

Operations, Office V, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, Department of 

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; 

telephone: (202) 482–0238. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Scope of the Order 

Imports covered by the order are 

shipments of potassium permanganate, 

an inorganic chemical produced in freeflowing, technical, and pharmaceutical 

grades. Potassium permanganate is 

currently classifiable under item 

2841.61.00 of the Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). 

Although the HTSUS item number is 

provided for convenience and customs 

purposes, the written description of the 

merchandise remains dispositive. 

Background 

On February 28, 2014, based on a 

timely request for review by PAL 1, the 

Department initiated an administrative 

review of the antidumping order on 

potassium permanganate from the PRC.2

On March 20, 2014, the Department 

issued Section A, C, and D 

questionnaires to PAL.3 On April 24, 

May 16, and May 23, 2014, we received 

Section A, C and D questionnaire 

responses from PAL, respectively. On 

July 10, 2014, the Department issued a 

supplemental questionnaire asking PAL 

to confirm whether it had any entries of 

subject merchandise during the POR.4

On September 5, 2014, we extended the 

preliminary results to December 3, 

2014.5 On November 18, 2014, we fully 


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