20630 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 79 / Tuesday, April 24, 2001 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Economic Analysis

Proposal To Collect Information on the

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 June 25, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments

to Madeleine Clayton, Departmental

Paperwork Clearance Officer, Office of

the Chief Information Officer, (202)

482–3129, Department of Commerce,

Room 6086, 14th Street 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, DC 20230 (Telephone:

202–606–9800).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

The Annual Survey of Foreign Direct

Investment in the United States (Form

BE–15) obtains cut-off sample data on

the financial structure and operations of

nonbank U.S. affiliates of foreign

investors. The data are needed to

provide reliable, useful, and timely

measures of foreign direct investment in

the United States, assess its impact on

the U.S. economy, and based upon this

assessment, make informed policy

decisions regarding foreign direct

investment in the United States. The

data are used to derive annual estimates

of the operations of U.S. affiliates of

foreign investors, including their

balance sheets; income statements;

property, plant, and equipment; external

financing; employment and employee

compensation; merchandise trade; sales

of goods and services; taxes; and

research and development (R&D)

activity. The data are also used to

update similar data for the universe of

U.S. affiliates collected once every five

years in the BE–12 benchmark survey.

No changes to the forms and

instructions are proposed.

II. Method of Collection

The BE–15 annual survey is 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 is due 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

nonbank U.S. business enterprises that

report in the 1997 benchmark survey of

foreign direct investment in the United

States, along with nonbank 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 sample 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: April 19, 2001.

Madeleine Clayton,

Departmental Paperwork Clearance Officer,

Office of the Chief Information Officer.

[FR Doc. 01–10087 Filed 4–23–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–06–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–122–837]

Initiation of Antidumping Duty

Investigation: Greenhouse Tomatoes

From Canada

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 24, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mark Ross or Thomas Schauer, Import

Administration, International Trade

Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230;

telephone: (202) 482–4794 or (202) 482–

0410, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The Applicable Statute and Regulations

Unless otherwise indicated, all

citations to the statute are references to

the provisions effective January 1, 1995,

the effective date of the amendments

made to the Tariff Act of 1930 (the Act)

by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act

(URAA). In addition, unless otherwise

indicated, all citations to Department of

Commerce’s (the Department’s)

regulations are to the provisions at 19

CFR part 351 (2000).

The Petition

On March 28, 2001, the Department

received a petition on imports of

greenhouse tomatoes filed in proper

form by Carolina Hydroponic Growers

Inc., Eurofresh, HydroAge, Sunblest

Management LLC, Sunblest Farms LLC,

and Village Farms (referred to hereafter

as ‘‘the petitioners’’). On April 2, 2001,

the Department requested additional

information and clarification of certain

areas of the petition. The petitioners

filed supplements to the petition on

April 9 and 11, 2001.

In accordance with section 732(b) of

the Act, the petitioners allege that

imports of greenhouse tomatoes from

Canada are being, or are likely to be,

sold in the United States at less than fair

value within the meaning of section 731

of the Act and that such imports are

materially injuring and threaten to

injure an industry in the United States.

The Department finds that the

petitioners filed this petition on behalf