Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 169 / Friday, September 3, 2021 / Notices 49505 

MEDIAN DEPRECIATION RATES OF

RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE BORROWERS BY EQUIPMENT CATEGORY

FOR PERIOD ENDING DECEMBER 31, 

2020 

Telecommunications plant 

category 

Depreciation 

rate 

1. Land and Support Assets: 

a. Motor vehicles ............... 18.00 

b. Aircraft ........................... 11.13 

c. Special purpose vehicles ................................ 12.00 

d. Garage and other work 

equipment ...................... 10.00 

e. Buildings ....................... 3.25 

f. Furniture and office 

equipment ...................... 10.00 

g. General purpose computers ............................. 20.00 

2. Central Office Switching: 

a. Digital ............................ 10.00 

b. Analog & Electro-mechanical ......................... 10.00 

c. Operator Systems ......... 10.00 

3. Central Office Transmission: 

a. Radio Systems .............. 10.00 

b. Circuit equipment .......... 10.00 

4. Information origination/termination: 

a. Station apparatus .......... 12.25 

b. Customer premises wiring .................................. 10.00 

c. Large private branch exchanges ......................... 11.90 

d. Public telephone terminal equipment ............ 12.00 

e. Other terminal equipment ............................... 10.15 

5. Cable and wire facilities: 

a. Aerial cable—poles ....... 6.00 

b. Aerial cable—metal ....... 6.00 

c. Aerial cable—fiber ......... 5.10 

d. Underground cable— 

metal .............................. 5.00 

e. Underground cable— 

fiber ................................ 5.00 

f. Buried cable—metal ...... 5.15 

g. Buried cable—fiber ....... 5.00 

h. Conduit systems ........... 4.00 

i. Other .............................. 5.00 

Christopher McLean, 

Acting Administrator, Rural Utilities Service. 

[FR Doc. 2021–19018 Filed 9–2–21; 8:45 am] 

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COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS 

Notice of Public Meeting of the 

Tennessee Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: Commission on Civil Rights. 

ACTION: Announcement of meeting. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given, 

pursuant to the provisions of the rules 

and regulations of the U.S. Commission 

on Civil Rights (Commission), and the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA), that a meeting of the Tennessee 

Advisory Committee to the Commission 

will convene by conference call on 

Thursday, September 16, 2021, at 12:00 

p.m. (CT). The purpose is to consider 

topics for their next project. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on: 

Thursday, September 16, 2021, 12:00 

p.m. CT. 

Join via Webex: https://

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Join via phone: 800–360–9505 USA 

Toll Free; Access Code: 199 769 7332#. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Victoria Moreno at vmoreno@usccr.gov 

or by phone at 434–515–0204. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

meeting is available to the public 

through the WebEx link above. If joining 

only via phone, callers can expect to 

incur charges for calls they initiate over 

wireless lines, and the Commission will 

not refund any incurred charges. 

Individuals who are deaf, deafblind and 

hard of hearing may also follow the 

proceedings by first calling the Federal 

Relay Service at 1–800–877–8339 and 

providing the Service with the call-in 

number found through registering at the 

web link provided above for the 

meeting. 

Members of the public are entitled to 

make comments during the open period 

at the end of the meeting. Members of 

the public may also submit written 

comments; the comments must be 

received in the Regional Programs Unit 

within 30 days following the respective 

meeting. Written comments may be 

emailed to Victoria Moreno at 

vmoreno@usccr.gov. All written 

comments received will be available to 

the public. 

Persons who desire additional 

information may contact the Regional 

Programs Unit at (202) 809–9618. 

Records and documents discussed 

during the meeting will be available for 

public viewing as they become available 

at the www.facadatabase.gov. Persons 

interested in the work of this advisory 

committee are advised to go to the 

Commission’s website, www.usccr.gov, 

or to contact the Regional Programs Unit 

at the above phone number or email 

address. 

Agenda: Thursday, September 16, 

2021; 12:00 p.m. (CT). 

1. Welcome & Roll Call 

2. Chair’s Comments 

3. Committee Discussion 

4. Next Steps 

5. Public Comment 

6. Other Business 

7. Adjourn 

Dated: August 31, 2021. 

David Mussatt, 

Supervisory Chief, Regional Programs Unit. 

[FR Doc. 2021–19115 Filed 9–2–21; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Census Bureau 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Business Enterprise 

Research and Development Survey 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit the following information 

collection request to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and clearance in accordance 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995, on or after the date of publication 

of this notice. We invite the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

comment on proposed, and continuing 

information collections, which helps us 

assess the impact of our information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. Public 

comments were previously requested 

via the Federal Register on June 28, 

2021 during a 60-day comment period. 

This notice allows for an additional 30 

days for public comments. 

Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, 

Department of Commerce. 

Title: Business Enterprise Research 

and Development Survey. 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0912. 

Form Number(s): BRD–1. 

Type of Request: Regular submission, 

Request for a Revision of a Currently 

Approved Collection. 

Number of Respondents: 47,500. 

Average Hours per Response: 2 hours 

and 37 minutes. 

Burden Hours: 124,450. 

Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau 

is requesting clearance to conduct the 

Business Enterprise Research and 

Development Survey (BERD) for the 

2021–2023 survey years with the 

revisions outlined in this document. 

Companies are the major performers of 

research and development (R&D) in the 

United States, accounting for over 70 

percent of total U.S. R&D expenditures 

each year. A consistent business R&D 

information base is essential to 

government officials formulating public 

policy, industry personnel involved in 

corporate planning, and members of the 

academic community conducting 

research. To develop policies designed 

to promote and enhance science and 

technology, past trends and the present 


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