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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: Written comments must be

submitted on or before September 8,

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 Alan Stevens, U.S. Bureau

of the Census, Governments Division,

Washington, DC 20233–6800, (301) 457–

1550.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

The Annual Survey of Government

Employment collects data on the

employment, payrolls, and hours

worked by part-time employees of state

and local governments for one pay

period in March. Data are collected from

all agencies, departments, and

institutions of the fifty state

governments and from a sample of all

local governments (counties, cities,

townships, school districts, and special

districts).

This is a mail canvass survey with an

initial mailing and one follow-up

mailing. Telephone follow-up is used to

contact non-respondents and, as

necessary, to correct apparent errors and

incomplete responses. These forms and

procedures are similar to those used in

the previous annual survey conducted

in March 1998.

Results from this survey are used

directly in a variety of Federal

programs: By the Bureau of Economic

Analysis to develop the public sector

components of the National Income and

Product Accounts and to develop

personal income statistics; by the

Department of Housing and Urban

Development for the allocation of

operating subsidies to local housing

authorities; and by the Bureau of Labor

Statistics to bench mark the government

component in their monthly

employment and earnings statistics

program. Other users include state and

local government executives and

legislators, policy makers, economists,

researchers, and the general public.

II. Method of Collection

Data collection is primarily

accomplished through the use of mail

canvass questionnaires that are tailored

to the type of government, agency or

institution being surveyed. Mail canvass

replies are screened for completeness,

electronically recorded for processing,

and electronically edited. Special data

reporting arrangements exist with many

state governments and some local

governments to facilitate data reporting

in ways that help minimize reporting

burden (e.g. central reporting of data for

all agencies and institutions of

individual state governments, electronic

reporting of data by some state and local

governments, central reporting of school

systems data by a number of state

education agencies, etc.).

III. Data

OMB Number: 0607–0452.

Form Number: E–1, E–2, E–3, E–4, E–

6, E–7, E–9.

Type of Review: Regular.

Affected Public: State, local or tribal

government.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

20,244.

Estimated Time Per Response: 1.06.

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours: 21,437.

Estimated Total Cost: The estimated

cost to respondents for the employment

survey is $326,277. The budgeted cost to

the Federal government for all phases of

this survey is $1.1 million.

Legal Authority: This survey is

authorized by Title 13, United States

Code, Section 161.

Respondents’ Obligation: This is a

voluntary survey.

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 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: July 6, 1998.

Linda Engelmeier,

Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office

of Management and Organization.

[FR Doc. 98–18335 Filed 7–9–98; 8:45 a.m.]

BILLING CODE 3510–07–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Economic Analysis

Annual Survey of Foreign Direct

Investment in the United States

ACTION: 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

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: Written comments must be

submitted on or before September 8,

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

instruments and instructions should be

directed to: R. David Belli, U.S.

Department of Commerce, Bureau of

Economic Analysis, BE–50(OC),

Washington, D.C. 20230 (Telephone:

202–606–9800).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

The Annual Survey of Foreign Direct

Investment in the United States (Form

BE–15) is necessary to provide reliable,

useful, and timely measures of foreign

direct investment in the United States.

The annual survey covers all affiliates

above a size-exemption level and

collects annual data on the financial

structure and operations of nonbank

U.S. affiliates of foreign companies

needed to update similar data for the

universe of U.S. affiliates collected once

every 5 years in the BE–12 benchmark

survey. The data are used to derive

annual estimates of the operations of

U.S. affiliates of foreign companies,

including their balance sheets; income

statements; property, plant, and

equipment; external financing;

employment and employee
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compensation; merchandise trade; sales

of goods and services; taxes; and

research and development (R&D)

activity. The data will be used to

measure the economic significance of

foreign direct investment in the United

States and to analyze its effect on the

U.S. economy. They will also be used in

formulating, and assessing the impact

of, U.S. policy on foreign direct

investment.

Several revisions to the survey are

being proposed to bring it into

conformity with the BE–12 Benchmark

Survey of Foreign Direct Investment in

the United States—1997. BEA proposes

to raise the exemption level for the

survey to $30 million on the BE–15(SF)

short form, up from $10 million

(measured by the company’s total assets,

sales, or net income or loss), thereby

reducing respondent burden for small

companies; on the survey’s long form,

the BE–15(LF), the exemption level will

be raised to $100 million, up from $50

million. In addition, BEA proposes to

base industry coding on the North

American Industry Classification

System (NAICS) in place of the U.S.

Standard Industrial Classification

system, and to modify the detail

collected on the composition of external

financing of the reporting enterprise, on

research and development expenditures,

and on the operations of foreign-owned

businesses in individual States.

II. Method of Collection

The BE–15 annual survey will be sent

to potential respondents at the end of

March each year. A completed report

covering a reporting company’s fiscal

year ending during the previous

calendar year will be due to be filed by

May 31, 60 days after mailing. Reports

must be filed by every nonbank U.S.

business enterprise that is owned 10

percent or more by a foreign investor

and that has total assets, sales, or net

income (or loss) of over $30 million.

Potential respondents are those U.S.

business enterprises that report in the

1997 benchmark survey of foreign direct

investment in the United States, along

with affiliates that subsequently enter

the direct investment universe. The BE–

15 is a cutoff-sample survey, as

described; universe estimates are

developed from the reported data.

III. Data

OMB Number: 0608–0034.

Form Number: BE–15.

Type of Review: Regular submission.

Affected Public: Businesses or other

for-profit organizations.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

4,975.

Estimated Time Per Response: 26

hours.

Estimated Total Annual Burden:

128,000 hours.

Estimated Total Annual Cost:

$3,840,000 (based on an estimated

reporting burden of 128,000 hours and

an estimated hourly cost of $30).

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 has 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: July 6, 1998.

Linda Engelmeier,

Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office

of Management and Organization.

[FR Doc. 98–18334 Filed 7–9–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–06–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration

Technical Advisory Committees;

Notice of Recruitment of Private-Sector

Members

SUMMARY: Technical Advisory

Committees (TACs) advise the

Department of Commerce on the

technical parameters for export controls

applicable to dual-use commodities and

technology and on the administration of

those controls. The TACs are composed

of representatives from industry and

Government representing diverse points

of view on the concerns of the exporting

community. Industry representatives are

selected from firms producing a broad

range of goods, technologies, and

software presently controlled for

national security, foreign policy, nonproliferation, and short supply reasons

or that are proposed for such controls,

balanced to the extent possible among

large and small firms.

TAC members are appointed by the

Secretary of Commerce and serve terms

of not more than four consecutive years.

The membership reflects the

Department’s commitment to attaining

balance and diversity. TAC members

must obtain secret-level clearances prior

to appointment. These clearances are

necessary so that members can be

permitted access to relevant classified

information needed in formulating

recommendations to the Department of

Commerce. Each TAC meets

approximately 4 times per year.

Members of the Subcommittee will not

be compensated for their services.

Three TACs are currently seeking to

fill membership vacancies. Those TACs

and the areas in which they advise the

Department of Commerce are the

following: the Materials Processing

Equipment TAC—Control List Category

2 (materials processing); the Regulations

and Procedures TAC—the Export

Administration Regulations (EAR) and

procedures for implementing the EAR:

and the Transportation and Related

Equipment TAC—Control List

Category), and Category 9 (propulsion

systems, space vehicles, and related

equipment).

To respond to this Notice of

Recruitment, please send a fact sheet on

your company as well as a resume/

biography to the following address: Ms.

Lee Ann Carpenter, OAS/EA/BXA MS:

3886C, U.S. Department of Commerce,

15th St. & Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20230.

Materials may also be faxed to Ms.

Carpenter at (202) 501–8024.

DEADLINE: This Notice of Recruitment

will be open for 20 days from date of

publication in the Federal Register.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.

Lee Ann Carpenter on (202) 482–2583.

Dated July 6, 1998.

Iain S. Baird,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Export

Administration.

[FR Doc. 98–18419 Filed 7–9–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–33–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration

Materials Technical Advisory

Committee; Notice of Open Meeting

A meeting of the Materials Technical

Advisory Committee (MTAC) will be

held July 23, 1998, 10:30 a.m., in the

Herbert C. Hoover Building, Room

1617M(2), 14th Street between

Constitution & Pennsylvania Avenues,

N.W., Washington, D.C. The Committee

advises the Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Export Administration

with respect to technical questions that