13114 Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 47 / Friday, March 10, 1995 / Notices

Compliance Division at the above

address. Comments and other available

information will be considered in

determining which pilot programs to

conduct. FGIS will publish notice of any

pilot programs to be conducted.

Any information collection or

recordkeeping requirements that may

result from a pilot program will be

submitted to the Office of Management

and Budget for approval under the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (44

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).

Authority: Pub. L. 94–582, 90 Stat. 2867,

as amended (7 U.S.C. 71 et seq.)

Dated: March 3, 1995.

Neil E. Porter,

Director, Compliance Division.

[FR Doc. 95–5996 Filed 3–9–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3410–EN–F

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Agency Form Under Review by the

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB)

DOC has submitted 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: National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration.

Title: West Coast Salmon Northwest

Emergency Assistance Plan.

Agency Form Number: None.

OMB Approval Number: None.

Type of Request: New Collection.

Burden: 11,706 burden hours.

Number of Respondents: 5,445.

Avg Hours Per Response: Varies

depending on the requirement but

ranges between 1 and 40 hours.

Needs and Uses: A Federal financial

assistance program has been established

for fishermen in the Northwest who can

document losses resulting from the

resource disaster in the salmon fishery.

Fishermen will be able to apply for two

short–term job programs or apply for

participation in a fishing permit buy–

back program.

Affected Public: Individuals,

businesses or other for–profit

organizations, not–for–profit

institutions, state, local or tribal

government.

Frequency: Varies by requirement

from one–time to quarterly.

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to

obtain or retain benefits.

OMB Desk Officer: Don Arbuckle,

(202) 395–7340.

Copies of the above information

collection proposal can be obtained by

calling or writing Gerald Tache, DOC

Forms Clearance Officer, (202) 482–

3271, Department of Commerce, Room

5327, 14th and Constitution Avenue,

N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230.

Written comments and

recommendations for the proposed

information collection should be sent to

Don Arbuckle, OMB Desk Officer, Room

10202, New Executive Office Building,

Washington, D.C. 20503.

Dated: March 6, 1995.

Gerald Tache,

Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office

of Management and Organizations.

[FR Doc. 95–5932 Filed 3–9–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–CW–F

Bureau of Economic Analysis

[Docket 950–3020–64–5064–01]

Final Redefinition of the BEA

Economic Areas

AGENCY: Bureau of Economic Analysis,

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of final changes.

SUMMARY: This is the third and final

Federal Register notice relating to the

redefinition of the BEA economic areas

(EA’s). In the first notice (56 FR 13049,

March 9, 1993), BEA announced its

‘‘Intent to Revise the Boundaries of the

BEA Economic Areas’’ and presented

the procedures used to define the thencurrent EA’s. In the second notice (59

FR 55416, November 7, 1994), BEA

presented for public comment a

‘‘Proposed Redefinition of the BEA

Economic Areas,’’ which reduced their

number from 183 to 174. This third

notice presents the 172 EA’s of the final

redefinition, which reflects changes

based on the comments received. In

Alaska and western Montana, BEA is

combining two EA’s into one; and in

Washington and Minnesota, BEA is

reassigning a county from one EA to

another.

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 10, 1995, BEA’s

regional economic measurement,

analysis, and projections programs will

use the new set of 172 EA’s whenever

EA data are presented.

ADDRESSES: Written inquiries may be

sent to Kenneth Johnson, U.S.

Department of Commerce, Bureau of

Economic Analysis BE–61, Regional

Economic Analysis Division,

Washington, DC 20230; fax (202) 606–

5321. Inquiries also may be sent by

electronic mail on the Internet to

‘‘kenneth.johnson@bea.doc.gov’’.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kenneth Johnson, (202) 606–9219; fax

(202) 606–5321.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Part I: Background

Under authority granted in 15 U.S.C.

¶ 175 et seq., BEA develops and

presents geographically detailed

economic data and facilitates regional

economic analysis. As part of this

obligation, in 1977, BEA defined 183

economic area (EA’s) covering the entire

nation. The 1995 redefinition is

necessary to maintain the analytical

usefulness of the areas in light of the

substantial changes in area commuting

patterns shown by the 1990 Census of

Population.

Each EA consists of one or more

economic nodes—metropolitan areas or

similar areas that serve as centers of

economic activity—and the surrounding

counties that are economically related to

the nodes. (Metropolitan areas include

metropolitan statistical areas (MSA’s),

primary metropolitan statistical areas

(PMSA’s), and New England county

metropolitan areas (NECMA’s).)

Commuting patterns are the main factor

used in determining the economic

relationship among counties. The EA

definition procedure requires that, as far

as possible, each area include both the

place of work and the place of residence

of its labor force.

For some analyses, government

agencies and businesses need data that

are more geographically detailed than

EA data. Government agencies often use

relatively small areas for design of their

program regulations or implementation

of their licensing programs. Businesses

need such detail for determining plant

locations and for defining sales and

marketing territories. BEA is responding

to these needs as part of the EA

redefinition by first defining a set of 348

‘‘Component Economic Areas’’ (CEA’s)

and then using these as building blocks

for redefining the larger EA’s.

Each CEA consists of a single

economic node and the surrounding

counties that are economically related to

the node. Of the nodes, 90 percent are

metropolitan, and 10 percent are

nonmetropolitan. Each metropolitan

area is the node of a different CEA; with

minor exceptions, the nonmetropolitan

nodes are nonmetropolitan counties

where newspapers widely read in these

areas are published.

In general, the procedure used to

redefine the EA’s is similar to that used

in 1977. First, nodes are identified.

Then, non-nodal counties are assigned

to nodes, mainly based on commuting

patterns and on newspaper circulation.

A procedural difference is that now

node identification and the assignment

to nodes of non-nodal counties are done

in a more systematic way and at a more