Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 110 / Thursday, June 10, 2021 / Notices 30913 

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 that 

the Tennessee Advisory Committee 

(Committee) will hold a meeting via 

web-conference on Thursday, June 17, 

2021, at 12:00 p.m. Central Time. The 

purpose of the meeting is for the 

committee to discuss proposed civil 

rights topics of study. 

DATES: The meetings will be held on: 

Thursday, June 17, 2021, at 12:00 p.m. 

Central Time https://

civilrights.webex.com/civilrights/ 

j.php?MTID=m992749f83df222

cdaaa858ecac88662f or Join by phone: 

800–360–9505 USA Toll Free; Access 

code: 1992 414 037. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Barreras, Designated Federal 

Officer, at dbarreras@usccr.gov or (202) 

499–4066. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Members 

of the public may listen to this 

discussion through the above call-in 

number. An open comment period will 

be provided to allow members of the 

public to make a statement as time 

allows. Callers can expect to incur 

regular charges for calls they initiate 

over wireless lines, according to their 

wireless plan. 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 

conference call number and conference 

ID number. 

Members of the public are entitled to 

submit written comments; the 

comments must be received in the 

regional office within 30 days following 

the meeting. Written comments may be 

emailed to David Barreras at dbarreras@

usccr.gov. 

Records generated from this meeting 

may be inspected and reproduced at the 

Regional Programs Unit Office, as they 

become available, both before and after 

the meeting. Records of the meeting will 

be available via www.facadatabase.gov 

under the Commission on Civil Rights, 

Tennessee Advisory Committee link. 

Persons interested in the work of this 

Committee are directed to the 

Commission’s website, http://

www.usccr.gov, or may contact the 

Regional Programs Unit at the above 

email or street address. 

Agenda 

I. Welcome & Roll Call 

II. Chair’s Comments 

III. Committee Discussion 

IV. Next Steps 

V. Public Comment 

VI. Adjournment 

Dated: June 7, 2021. 

David Mussatt, 

Supervisory Chief, Regional Programs Unit. 

[FR Doc. 2021–12190 Filed 6–9–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Bureau of Economic Analysis 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Services Surveys: BE–45, 

Quarterly Survey of Insurance 

Transactions by U.S. Insurance 

Companies With Foreign Persons 

AGENCY: Bureau of Economic Analysis, 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of Information 

Collection, request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), invites 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. The purpose of this 

notice is to allow for 60 days of public 

comment preceding submission of the 

collection to OMB. 

DATES: To ensure consideration, 

comments regarding this proposed 

information collection must be received 

on or before August 9, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments to 

Christopher Stein, Chief, Services 

Surveys Branch, Bureau of Economic 

Analysis, by email to christopher.stein@

bea.gov or PRAcomments@doc.gov. 

Please reference OMB Control Number 

0608–0066 in the subject line of your 

comments. Do not submit Confidential 

Business Information or otherwise 

sensitive or protected information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

specific questions related to collection 

activities should be directed to 

Christopher Stein, Chief, Services 

Surveys Branch, Bureau of Economic 

Analysis; 301–278–9189; or via email at 

christopher.stein@bea.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The Quarterly Survey of Insurance 

Transactions by U.S. Insurance 

Companies with Foreign Persons (Form 

BE–45) is a survey that collects data 

from U.S. persons who engage in 

covered insurance transactions. A U.S. 

person means any individual, branch, 

partnership, associated group, 

association, estate, trust, corporation, or 

other organization (whether or not 

organized under the laws of any State), 

resident in the United States or subject 

to the jurisdiction of the United States. 

A U.S. person must report if they had 

combined transactions in the covered 

insurance services with foreign persons 

that exceeded $8 million (based on 

absolute value) for the previous 

calendar year or are expected to exceed 

that amount during the current calendar 

year. 

The data are needed to monitor U.S. 

trade in insurance services, to analyze 

the impact of these cross-border services 

on the U.S. and foreign economies, to 

compile and improve the U.S. economic 

accounts, to support U.S. commercial 

policy on trade in services, to conduct 

trade promotion, and to improve the 

ability of U.S. businesses to identify and 

evaluate market opportunities. The data 

are used in estimating the trade in 

insurance services component of the 

U.S. international transactions accounts 

(ITAs) and national income and product 

accounts (NIPAs). 

The Bureau of Economic Analysis 

(BEA) is proposing a single modification 

to the survey reporting requirements 

and a change to the survey due date, 

beginning with reporting for first quarter 

2022. The proposed modifications to the 

BE–45 survey would allow BEA to 

increase the quality and usefulness of 

BEA’s statistics on trade in insurance 

services. 

BEA proposes to adjust the reporting 

requirements of the survey so they are 

applied based on a combined threshold 

for premiums, losses, and auxiliary 

services, for the eight covered 

transaction categories: (1) Premiums 

earned on reinsurance assumed from 

insurance companies resident abroad; 

(2) losses incurred on reinsurance 

assumed from insurance companies 

resident abroad; (3) premiums earned on 

primary insurance sold to foreign 

persons; (4) losses incurred on primary 

insurance sold to foreign persons; (5) 

premiums incurred on reinsurance 

ceded to insurance companies resident 

abroad; (6) losses recovered on 

reinsurance ceded to insurance 

companies resident abroad; (7) receipts 

for auxiliary insurance services; and (8) 

payments for auxiliary insurance 


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services. U.S. persons with combined 

transactions in excess of $8 million 

(based on absolute value), would be 

required to disaggregate all transaction 

types by country and by relationship of 

the foreign transactor to the U.S. 

reporter (foreign affiliate, foreign parent 

group, or unaffiliated) on the mandatory 

schedule(s). On the current survey, the 

reporting requirements are applied for 

each transaction type separately. This 

change will align the survey’s reporting 

requirements with those of the other 

quarterly services surveys conducted by 

BEA. 

BEA also proposes to change the due 

date of the survey to 30 days after the 

close of each calendar quarter from 45 

days for the three quarters that are not 

the final calendar quarter of the year. 

For the close of the final calendar 

quarter of the year, reports would be 

due 45 days after the close of the quarter 

instead of 90 days. Shortening the 

reporting timeline will allow BEA to 

produce more accurate and complete 

trade in services statistics in 

preliminary estimates of the ITAs, 

which is critical information for 

policymakers’ timely decisions on 

international trade policy. The earlier 

due date will allow BEA to use more 

reported data for preliminary statistics, 

improving the accuracy of both the 

aggregates and the country detail, and 

reducing revisions in subsequent 

statistical releases. In addition, the 

proposed reporting deadlines are also 

consistent with the reporting deadlines 

of BEA’s quarterly direct investment 

surveys. 

BEA estimates there will be a small 

change in the number of respondents 

that would now be required to provide 

additional country and affiliation detail 

on the mandatory schedules due to the 

change in reporting requirements. Most 

quarterly respondents are large enough 

that they are already required to report 

detail on the mandatory schedules. BEA 

estimates that approximately 13 

additional respondents would now be 

required to provide the additional detail 

that were not previously required to do 

so, and on average would report 

transactions with 3 countries. 

The additional mandatory reporting 

for individual transactions previously 

below the reporting thresholds, 

resulting from the application of the 

threshold to combined transactions, 

should have a minimal impact on 

reporting burden for the reporters who 

will now be required to complete the 

mandatory schedules. Since these 

respondents represent only a small 

portion of the total number of reporters 

already filing full country and affiliation 

detail, and because BEA believes this 

data is readily available in their existing 

accounting records, overall burden for 

completing the full survey with data 

will continue to average 9 hours per 

response. 

BEA estimates there will be no change 

in burden hours per response as a result 

of the proposed change in survey due 

dates. While survey respondents will 

have to file earlier, the burden for the 

survey is unchanged because the same 

information will be required on the 

survey as in the past. The language in 

the instructions and definitions will be 

reviewed and adjusted as necessary to 

clarify survey requirements. 

II. Method of Collection 

BEA contacts potential respondents 

by mail at the end of each quarter. 

Respondents would be required to file 

the completed BE–45 forms within 30 

days after the end of each calendar 

quarter that is not the final quarter of 

the year and within 45 days after the 

close of the final calendar quarter of the 

year. Reports would be required from 

each U.S. person that had combined 

transactions in the covered insurance 

services with foreign persons that 

exceeded $8 million (based on absolute 

value), for the previous calendar year or 

are expected to exceed that amount 

during the current calendar year. 

Entities required to report will be 

contacted individually by BEA. Entities 

not contacted by BEA have no reporting 

responsibilities. 

BEA offers its electronic filing option, 

the eFile system, for use in reporting on 

Form BE–45. For more information 

about eFile, go to www.bea.gov/efile. In 

addition, BEA posts all its survey forms 

and reporting instructions on its 

website, www.bea.gov/ssb. These may 

be downloaded, completed, printed, and 

submitted via fax or mail. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0608–0066. 

Form Number(s): BE–45. 

Type of Review: Regular submission. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

2,200 annually (550 filed each quarter; 

515 reporting mandatory data, and 35 

that would file exemption claims or 

voluntary responses). 

Estimated Time per Response: 9 hours 

is the average for those reporting data 

and one hour is the average for those 

filing an exemption claim. Hours may 

vary considerably among respondents 

because of differences in company size 

and complexity. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 18,680. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: $0. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

Legal Authority: International 

Investment and Trade in Services 

Survey Act (Pub. L. 94–472, 22 U.S.C. 

3101–3108, as amended). 

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 will 

have 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 that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. We will include or 

summarize each comment in our request 

to OMB to approve this ICR. Before 

including your address, phone number, 

email address, or other personal 

identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you may ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Chief Information Officer, Commerce 

Department. 

[FR Doc. 2021–12194 Filed 6–9–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[B–7–2021] 

Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 134— 

Chattanooga, Tennessee; 

Authorization of Production Activity; 

Wacker Polysilicon North America, 

LLC (Hydrophilic Fumed Silica); 

Charleston, Tennessee 

On February 5, 2021, Wacker 

Polysilicon North America, LLC 

submitted a notification of proposed 

production activity to the FTZ Board for 

its facility within Subzone 134B, in 

Charleston, Tennessee. 


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