19706 Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 76 /Tuesday, April 21, 1998 / Notices

directed to Paul Hanczaryk, Bureau of

the Census, Room 2761, Federal

Building 3, Washington, DC 20233–

6100; telephone (301) 457–2580.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

The Census Bureau conducts the

annual Company Organization Survey

(COS) in order to update and maintain

a central, multipurpose business

register, known as the Standard

Statistical Establishment List (SSEL). In

particular, the COS supplies critical

information to the SSEL concerning the

establishment composition,

organizational structure, and operating

characteristics of multi establishment

enterprises.

The SSEL 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 SSEL’s ability to

identify all known United States

business establishments and their

parent enterprises. Further, the SSEL

must accurately record basic business

attributes needed to control sampling

and enumeration. These attributes

include industrial 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. 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, states, the District of

Columbia, Puerto Rico, counties, and

county-equivalents. No other annual or

more frequent series of industry

statistics provides comparable detail,

particularly for small geographic areas.

II. Method of Collection

The Census Bureau will conduct the

1998 COS similar to the 1996 COS. In

1997 the COS was conducted in

conjunction with the 1997 Economic

Census to minimize response burden.

The 1998 COS will direct inquiries to

approximately 85,000 multi

establishment enterprises, which

operate 1.1 million establishments. This

panel will be drawn from the SSEL

universe of nearly 200,000 multi

establishment enterprises, which

operate 1.5 million establishments.

Additionally, the panel will include

approximately 1,000 new entities that

have become active during 1998. The

procedure for constructing the COS

panel selectively targets enterprises that

are most likely to report changes in

organization and/or operating

characteristics, and it also targets new

entities that are most likely to report

affiliation with multi establishment

enterprises. In general, the selection of

these units is based on enterprise size/

complexity and administrative records

indications. Additionally, the panel will

include a small probability sample of

the multi establishment enterprises not

selected by the targeting procedure.

The survey is conducted by mail

canvass. More than 300 larger

enterprises (accounting for

approximately 22 percent of covered

establishments) return their COS reports

by automated/electronic means. All

other survey respondents return a paper

questionnaire. Data content is identical

for all reporting modes. The instrument

includes inquiries on ownership or

control by a domestic parent, ownership

or control by a foreign parent, and

ownership of foreign affiliates. Further,

the instrument lists an inventory of

establishments belonging to the

enterprise and its subsidiaries, and it

requests updates to the inventory,

including additions, deletions, and

changes to information on Federal

employer identification number, name

and address, industrial payroll, end-ofyear operating status, mid-March

employment, first quarter payroll, and

annual payroll.

III. Data

OMB Number: 0607–0444.

Form Number: NC–9901.

Type of Review: Regular submission.

Affected Public: Businesses or other

for-profit, not-for-profit institutions.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

85,000 enterprises.

Estimated Time per Response: 1.7

hours.

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours: 144,500.

Estimated Total Annual Cost:

$2,023,000 @ $14/hr.

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.

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

Sections 131 and 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

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: April 16, 1998.

Linda Engelmeier,

Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office

of Management and Organization.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of the Census

Current Population Survey (CPS)

School Enrollment Supplement;

Proposed Collection; Comment

Request

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: Submit written comments on or

before June 22, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments

to Linda Engelmeier, Departmental

Forms Clearance Officer, Department of

Commerce, Room 5327, 14th and

Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington,

DC 20230.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or

copies of the information collection

instrument(s) and instructions should

be directed to Tim Marshall, Bureau of

the Census, FOB 3, Room 3340,

Washington, DC 20233–8400, (301) 457–

3806.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

The Census Bureau is requesting

clearance for the collection of data

concerning the School Enrollment

Supplement to be conducted in

conjunction with the October 1998 CPS.
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Title 13, United States Code, Section

182; and Title 29 United States Code,

Sections 1–9, authorize the collection of

CPS information. The Bureau of the

Census and the Bureau of Labor

Statistics (BLS) sponsor the basic annual

school enrollment questions, which

have been collected annually in the CPS

for 30 years.

This survey provides information on

public/private elementary school,

secondary school, and college

enrollment, and on characteristics of

private school students and their

families, which is used for tracking

historical trends, for policy planning,

and support. This survey is the only

source of national data on the age

distribution and family characteristics

of college students, and the only source

of demographic data on preprimary

school enrollment. As part of the

Federal Government’s efforts to collect

data and provide timely information to

local governments for policymaking

decisions, the survey provides national

trends in enrollment and progress in

school.

II. Method of Collection

The school enrollment information

will be collected by both personal visit

and telephone interviews in conjunction

with the regular October CPS

interviewing. All interviews are

conducted using computer-assisted

interviewing.

III. Data

OMB Number: 0607–0464.

Form Number: There are no forms.

We conduct all interviewing on

computers.

Type of Review: Regular.

Affected Public: Households.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

48,000.

Estimated Time per Response: 5

minutes.

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours: 4,000.

Estimated Total Annual Cost: The

only cost to respondents is that of their

time.

Respondents’ Obligation: Voluntary.

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

Section 182; and Title 29 U.S.C.,

Sections 1–9.

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: April 16, 1998.

Linda Engelmeier,

Department Forms Clearance Officer, Office

of Management and Organization.

[FR Doc. 98–10490 Filed 4–20–98; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 21–98]

Foreign-Trade Zone 226—Merced

County, CA, Request for

Manufacturing Authority Grundfos

Manufacturing Corporation (Industrial/

Commercial Pumps)

An application has been submitted to

the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the

Board) by the Board of Supervisors of

the County of Merced, California,

grantee of FTZ 226, pursuant to

§ 400.28(a)(2) of the Board’s regulations

(15 CFR part 400), requesting authority

on behalf of Grundfos Manufacturing

Corporation (Inc.)(GMC)(a subsidiary of

Grundfos International, Denmark) to

manufacture industrial and commercial

pumps under FTZ procedures, subject

to restriction, within FTZ 226. It was

formally filed on April 14, 1998.

The GMC plant (243,000 sq. ft.) is

located within Site 8 of FTZ 226 at 5900

East Shields Avenue, Airways East

Business Park, in Fresno, California.

The GMC plant (400 employees) is used

to produce liquid pumps for residential,

agricultural, and industrial uses,

including circulating pumps, multistage centrifugal pumps, submersible

water pumps, and environmental

monitoring well pumps. End uses

include heating systems, environmental

sampling, car washes, refineries, fire

protection, ground water pumping.

Components and materials sourced from

abroad (representing about 70% of all

parts consumed in manufacturing)

include: lubricating oils, articles of

plastic/rubber, thermoplastic resins,

corrugated boxes, adhesive labels,

ceramic articles, stainless steel strips,

stainless/alloy steel shafts, flanges, pipe

fittings, fasteners, springs, parts of

pumps, housings, stators, rotors,

bearings, seals/gaskets, sleeves,

bushings, blades, impellers, valves and

seats, couplings, electric motors,

transformers, capacitors, resistors,

voltage limiters, relays, switches, cable,

terminal boxes, and copper wire (duty

rate range: free-6.4%). The application

indicates a willingness to accept a

restriction requiring that all foreignorigin stainless steel mill products

mentioned above shall be entered for

consumption with Customs duties paid

prior to admission to FTZ 226. Some 25

percent of the plant’s shipments are

exported.

FTZ procedures would exempt GMC

from Customs duty payments on the

foreign components (except stainless

steel mill products) used in export

production. On its domestic sales, GMC

would be able to choose the duty rates

during Customs entry procedures that

apply to finished pumps (0.6%) for the

foreign inputs noted above, except

stainless steel mill products. The

request indicates that the savings from

FTZ procedures would help improve

the plant’s international

competitiveness.

In accordance with the Board’s

regulations, a member of the FTZ Staff

has been designated examiner to

investigate the application and report to

the Board.

Public comment on the application is

invited from interested parties.

Submissions (original and three copies)

shall be addressed to the Board’s

Executive Secretary at the address

below. The closing period for their

receipt is June 22, 1998. Rebuttal

comments in response to material

submitted during the foregoing period

may be submitted during the subsequent

15-day period (to July 6, 1998).

A copy of the application and the

accompanying exhibits will be available

for public inspection at the following

location: Office of the Executive

Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board,

U.S. Department of Commerce, Room

3716, 14th Street & Pennsylvania

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230–

0002.

Dated: April 14, 1998.

Dennis Puccinelli,

Acting Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98–10571 Filed 4–20–98; 8:45 am]

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