3826 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 10 / Tuesday, January 16, 2001 / Notices

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND

BUDGET

North American Industry Classification

System—Revision for 2002

AGENCY: Office of Management and

Budget, Executive Office of the

President.

ACTION: Notice of final decision.

SUMMARY: Under Title 44 U.S.C. 3504(e),

the Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) is announcing its final decision

to adopt the North American Industry

Classification System (NAICS) revisions

for 2002 as recommended by the

Economic Classification Policy

Committee in OMB’s notice for

solicitation of comments in Part II of the

April 20, 2000, Federal Register (65 FR

21241). In addition, OMB is adopting

one change not included in the April 20,

2000, notice—the move of Map and

Atlas Publishing from Industry 511199,

All Other Publishing, to Industry

511130, Book Publishing.

In the April 20, 2000, notice, OMB’s

Economic Classification Policy

Committee (ECPC) recommended a

revision of the industry classification

system to extend the three-country

agreement level for the Construction

sector and to recognize important

changes in the Information sector. In

addition, as an interim measure in the

United States, the ECPC recommended

restructuring the Wholesale Trade sector

to reflect differences in production

functions and to capture more

accurately the rapidly-growing businessto-business electronic markets

developing in the United States. For the

Retail Trade sector, the United States is

creating additional national level detail

for department stores and nonstore

retailers to create more meaningful,

homogeneous industries for the United

States. More details of this decision are

presented in the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section below.

EFFECTIVE DATE: Federal statistical data

published for reference years beginning

on or after January 1, 2002, should be

published using the 2002 NAICS United

States codes. Agencies may adopt the

2002 NAICS earlier at their discretion.

Publication of a 2002 NAICS United

States Manual is planned for January

2002.

ADDRESSES: You should send

correspondence about the adoption and

implementation of 2002 NAICS as

shown in the April 20, 2000, Federal

Register notice, and modified by

Attachments 1, 2, and 3 of this notice,

to: Katherine K. Wallman, Chief

Statistician, Office of Management and

Budget, 10201 New Executive Office

Building, Washington, DC 20503,

telephone number: (202) 395–3093, FAX

number: (202) 395–7245.

You should address inquiries about

the content of industries or requests for

electronic copies of the 2002 NAICS

tables to: John Murphy, Assistant

Division Chief for Classification

Activities, Service Sector Statistics

Division, Bureau of the Census, Room

2641–3, Washington, DC 20233,

telephone number: (301) 457–2672, FAX

number: (301) 457–1343.

Electronic Availability and Comments:

This document and the April 20,

2000, Federal Register are available on

the Internet from the Census Bureau via

WWW browser and E-mail. To obtain

this document via WWW browser,

connect to http://www.census.gov/

naics. This WWW page also contains

previous NAICS Federal Register

notices and related documents.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul

Bugg, 10201 New Executive Office

Building, Washington, DC 20503, E-mail

address: pbugg@omb.eop.gov, telephone

number: (202) 395–3095, FAX number:

(202) 395–7245.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The April

20, 2000, Federal Register notice (1)

summarized the background for the

proposed revisions to NAICS 1997 in

Part I; (2) contained a summary of

public comments in Part II; (3) detailed

the structure changes agreed upon by

the three countries in Part III; and (4)

provided a comprehensive listing of

changes for national industries and their

links to NAICS 1997 industries in Part

IV.

Subsequent to the release of the April

20 Federal Register, representatives

from the statistical agencies of Mexico,

Canada, and the United States who were

working on a parallel three-country

product classification system proposed

to the three-country Steering Committee

that Atlas and Map Publishers, currently

in NAICS Industry 51119 Other

Publishers, be moved to Industry 51113

Book Publishers. This proposal

stemmed from the fact that the process

of publishing atlases is similar to the

publishing process for books such as

reference books, and that the same

industries often produce both atlases

and maps. Informal discussions with

these industries confirmed their support

of this change. OMB’s final decision

regarding revision of NAICS for 2002 is

to adopt the proposal contained in the

April 20, 2000, Federal Register, with

the one change to move Atlas and Map

Publishers into Industry 51113.

Attachments 1, 2, and 3 show the

corrected lines for Tables 1, 2, and 3, as

contained in the April 20 Federal

Register.

After taking into consideration other

comments submitted in direct response

to the April 20, 2000, Federal Register

notice, as well as benefits and costs, and

after consultation with the Economic

Classification Policy Committee (ECPC),

Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de

Estadı ́stica, Geografı ́ia e Informa ́tica

(INEGI) and Statistics Canada, OMB

made no other changes to the scope and

substance of the April 20, 2000, Federal

Register notice. The other comments

that were received either supported

proposed changes, or suggested changes

that would be incompatible with the

production-based foundation of NAICS

or be incompatible with proposals that

were accepted.

NAICS was jointly developed by

Canada, Mexico, and the United States.

For the 2002 revision the three countries

focused on harmonizing and updating

the Construction and Information

sectors of NAICS. In the 1997 NAICS,

the Construction sector was comparable

among all three countries only at the

highest levels of aggregation. Although

new in 1997, the Information sector

lacked finite categories related to

important new and emerging industries,

prompting the three countries to reevaluate and restructure this sector. The

United States will implement structural

changes for the Wholesale Trade and

Retail Trade sectors which will not

impact the three country comparability

for these sectors. It was not the intent of

the ECPC to open for consideration all

areas of NAICS that currently lack threecountry comparability or to revise

sectors other than those specifically

listed above. Other sectors will be reevaluated for future NAICS revisions.

Sally Katzen,

Deputy Director for Management.

Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 10 / Tuesday, January 16, 2001 / Notices 3827

Attachment 1—Revisions to Table 1 of the April 20, 2000, Federal Register Part II

TABLE 1.—2002 NAICS UNITED STATES MATCHED TO 1997 NAICS UNITED STATES

2002 NAICS code 2002 NAICS and U.S. description

Status

code

1997 NAICS

code 1997 NAICS description

51113 ................................ Book Publishers ............... R * 511199 All Other Publishers (atlas and map publishers, except

Internet Publishing).

.......................................... R * 511130 Book Publishers (except Internet Publishing).

Attachment 2—Revisions to Table 2 of the April 20, 2000, Federal Register Part II

TABLE 2.—1997 NAICS MATCHED TO 2002 NAICS UNITED STATES

1997 NAICS code 1997 NAICS U.S. description 2002 NAICS

code

2002 NAICS

and U.S. description

511199 ................................ All Other Publishers:

Atlas and Map Publishers ....................................................................................

(except Internet Publishers) .................................................................................

511130 Book Publishers.

Atlas and Map Publishers (Internet Publishers) and All Other Internet Publishers.516110 Internet Publishers (pt.)

All Other Publishers (except Internet Publishers) .................................................... 511199 All Other

Publishers.

Attachment 3—Revisions to Table 3 of the April 20, 2000, Federal Register Part II

TABLE 3.—2002 NAICS UNITED STATES MATCHED TO 1987 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION

2002 NAICS

code 2002 NAICS description 1987 SIC code 1987 SIC description

51113 ........... Book Publishers: ........................

Atlas and Map Publishers and Technical

Book and Manual Publishers.

(except Internet) ..........................................

2741 Miscellaneous Publishing (atlases and books,

technical books and manuals, except Internet publishing)

Book Publishers (except Internet) ............... 2731 Books: Publishing or Publishing and Printing

(except music books and Internet book

publishing).

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