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Vol. 72, No. 216 

Thursday, November 8, 2007 

APPALACHIAN STATES LOW-LEVEL 

RADIOACTIVE WASTE COMMISSION 

Annual Meeting 

TIME AND DATE: 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., 

November 9, 2007. 

PLACE: Harrisburg Hilton and Towers, 

One North Second Street, Harrisburg, 

PA 17101. 

STATUS: Most of the meeting will be 

open to the public. However, the 

executive session will be closed to the 

public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Portions 

Open to the Public: The primary 

purpose of this meeting is to: (1) Review 

the independent auditors’ report of 

Commission’s financial statements for 

fiscal year 2006–2007; (2) Review the 

Low-Level Radioactive Waste (LLRW) 

generation information for 2006; (3) 

Consider a proposal budget for fiscal 

year 2008–2009; (4) Review recent 

national developments regarding low 

activity and LLRW management and 

disposal; and (5) Provide an update on 

PADEP Agreement State Status with the 

NRC; and (6) Elect the Commission’s 

Officers. 

Portions Closed to the Public: An 

Executive Session, will be held to 

discuss a potential legal matter. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Richard R. Janati, Administrator of the 

Commission, at 717–787–2163. 

Richard R. Janati, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 07–5589 Filed 11–7–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for clearance the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

chapter 35). 

Agency: U.S. Census Bureau. 

Title: Annual Capital Expenditures 

Survey. 

Form Number(s): ACE–1(S), ACE– 

1(M), ACE–1(L), ACE–2. 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0782. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Burden Hours: 132,900. 

Number of Respondents: 61,000. 

Average Hours per Response: 2 hours 

and 10 minutes. 

Needs and Uses: A major concern of 

economic policymakers is the adequacy 

of investment in plant and equipment. 

The data on the amount of business 

expenditures for new plant and 

equipment and measures of the stock of 

existing facilities are critical to 

evaluating productivity growth, the 

ability of U.S. business to compete with 

foreign business, changes in industrial 

capacity, and overall economic 

performance. The ACES survey is the 

sole source of detailed comprehensive 

statistics on investment in buildings and 

other structures, machinery, and 

equipment by private nonfarm 

businesses in the United States. 

Data users tell us that they need 

comprehensive and consistent data on 

investment by all private nonfarm 

businesses, by industry, by kind of 

investment, i.e., whether in new or used 

structures or equipment. The objectives 

of the ACES survey are: 

(a) To provide estimates of capital 

expenditures for all private nonfarm 

sectors of the economy by 3-digit and 

selected 4-digit North American 

Industry Classification System (NAICS) 

levels; 

(b) To base the survey on a probability 

sample that yields measures of the 

statistical reliability of the survey 

estimates; 

(c) To develop a base survey to 

benchmark more frequent surveys on 

capital expenditures that do not have 

complete industry coverage; 

(d) To produce annual enterpriselevel data with the level of detail, 

coverage, and quality which previously 

was only available as part of the 

quinquennial economic census; 

(e) To provide detail on capital 

expenditures for estimating the national 

income and product accounts, 

estimating the productivity of U.S. 

industries, evaluating fiscal and 

monetary policy, and conducting 

research using capital expenditures 

data; and 

(f) To provide industry analysts with 

capital expenditures data for market 

analysis, economic forecasting, product 

development, and business planning. 

This request is for a revision of a 

currently approved collection and will 

cover the 2007 through 2009 ACES 

(conducted in fiscal years 2008–2010). 

Changes from the previous ACES 

authorization are the collection of 

capital expenditures by type of structure 

and type of equipment in the 2008 

ACES, and the incorporation of the 2007 

North American Industry Classification 

System (NAICS) in the 2009 ACES. 

Capital expenditures by type of 

structure and type of equipment were 

last collected from employer companies 

in the 2003 ACES. These data, collected 

together once every five years, will 

again be collected in the 2008 ACES. 

The data are critical to evaluating the 

comprehensiveness of capital 

expenditures statistics in years detailed 

data on types of structures and 

equipment are not collected. The 

detailed structures data will provide a 5- 

year benchmark for estimates of new 

construction put in place. The detailed 

equipment data will provide a periodic 

measure of expenditures by type of 

equipment and assist in evaluating 

estimates of the private equipment and 

software components of nonresidential 

fixed investment. 

Through the 2008 ACES, data will be 

based on the 2002 NAICS. Beginning 

with the 2009 ACES, however, we will 

collect and publish data based on the 

2007 NAICS. Industries in the survey 

will comprise 3-digit and 4-digit 2007 

NAICS codes. 

To collect data, the Census Bureau 

will rely primarily on mail out/mail 

back survey forms. Employer companies 

will be mailed one of three forms based 

on the diversity of their operations, i.e., 

the number of industries in which they 

have payroll. All employer forms will 

have the 3-digit or selected 4-digit 

NAICS industries imprinted on the form 

to minimize the need for industry self 

coding. 

Companies that operate in only one 

industry will receive an ACE–1(S) form. 

These companies will not be asked to 

report capital expenditures by industry, 

thus eliminating the need for industry 


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