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Community Survey in 1997 and 1998.

We also plan to add testing of

procedures for identification, sampling,

and data collection for special

populations, i.e. American Indian

reservations, military bases, college

dormitories, and institutional group

quarters such as hospitals.

The American Community Survey

will include a national sample, the

present survey sites, and additional sites

in Douglas County, Nebraska; Otero

County, New Mexico; Harris and Fort

Bend Counties, Texas; and Franklin

County, Ohio, including the entire city

of Columbus.

II. Method of Collection

In the urban areas, the Census Bureau

will mail questionnaires to the

households covered by the American

Community Survey and request a

response as soon as possible after

receipt. In the rural sites where citystyle addresses are not available, Field

Representatives will deliver the

questionnaires to the household. For

those households not returning the

questionnaire, we will collect

household information by both

telephone interview and personal visit.

Participation of the selected households

will be mandatory in accordance with

the provisions of Title 13.

III. Data

OMB Number: 0607–0810.

Form Number: TACS–1/1A, TACS–

10/10A, TACS–12(L)/12A(L), TACS–

13(L)/13A(L), TACS–14(L)/14A(L),

TACS–15(L), TACS–16(L), TACS–20/

20A, TACS–30/30A.

Type of Review: Regular.

Affected Public: Individuals or

households.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

135,000.

Estimated Time Per Response: 30

minutes.

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours: 67,500 hours.

Estimated Total Annual Cost: $19.5

million.

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 shall 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 collections techniques

or others 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: May 15, 1996.

Linda Engelmeier,

Acting Departmental Forms Clearance

Officer, Office of Management and

Organization.

(FR Doc. 96–12667 Filed 5–20–96; 8:45 a.m.)

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Company Organization Survey

ACTION: Proposed agency information

collection activity; 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

take this opportunity 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 July 22, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments

to Linda Engelmeier, Acting

Departmental Forms Clearance Officer,

Department of Commerce, Room 5327,

14th and Constitution Avenue, NW,

Washington, DC 20230.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or

copies of the information collection

instrument and instructions should be

directed to Paul S. Hanczaryk, Bureau of

the Census, Room 2546, Federal

Building 3, Washington, DC 20233–

6100; telephone (301) 457–2580.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

The Census Bureau conducts the

annual Company Organization Survey

(COS) in order to update and maintain

a central, multipurpose business

register, known as the Standard

Statistical Establishment List (SSEL). In

particular, the COS supplies critical

information to the SSEL concerning the

establishment composition,

organizational structure, and operating

characteristics of multiestablishment

enterprises.

The SSEL serves two fundamental

purposes:

• First and most important, it

provides sampling populations and

enumeration lists for the Census

Bureau’s economic surveys and

censuses, and it serves as an integral

part of the statistical foundation

underlying those programs. Essential for

this purpose is the SSEL’s ability to

identify all known United States

business establishments and their

parent enterprises. Further, the SSEL

must accurately record basic business

attributes needed to control sampling

and enumeration. These attributes

include industrial and geographic

classifications, measures of size and

economic activity, ownership

characteristics, and contact information

(for example, name and address).

• Second, it provides establishment

data that serve as the basis for the

annual County Business Patterns (CBP)

statistical series. CBP reports present

data on number of establishments, first

quarter payroll, annual payroll, and

mid-March employment summarized by

industry and employment size class for

the United States, states, the District of

Columbia, Puerto Rico, counties, and

county-equivalents. No other annual or

more frequent series of industry

statistics provides comparable detail,

particularly for small geographic areas.

The Census Bureau plans to revise the

existing COS collection, which is

approved through November 1997. This

revision will not make substantive

changes to the survey’s content. Rather,

it will amend instructions and add

relatively short reference lists for

respondents to use as guides when

reporting updated industrial

classifications for selected

establishments. These changes will

improve collection of classification

information and obtain industry detail

that is needed to prepare for

implementation of the North American

Industry Classification System in the

1997 Economic Censuses. The revised

collection will employ procedures that

the Census Bureau tested and used for

the 1987 COS, when the agency

implemented the most recent revision to

the Standard Industrial Classification in

conjunction with the 1987 Economic

Censuses.

The planned change in the 1996 COS

collection will affect reporting for some

120,000 establishments operated by

approximately 30,000

multiestablishment enterprises. The

impact on response burden for those

enterprises should be small, and overall

estimated response burden for the

survey will actually decrease. The

decrease is due primarily to a reduction

in panel size made possible by

improved methodology for selectively
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targeting the collection to enterprises

affected by changes in organization and/

or operating characteristics.

A complementary collection, the 1997

Economic Censuses Refile Classification

Survey, will obtain improved

classification information from singleestablishment enterprises and from

selected small multiestablishment

enterprises not covered by the 1996

COS. The Census Bureau will

coordinate these collections so as to

avoid duplication and minimize

response burden on businesses.

II. Method of Collection

The 1996 COS will direct inquiries to

85,000 multiestablishment enterprises,

which operate 1.1 million

establishments. This panel will be

drawn from the SSEL universe of nearly

200,000 multiestablishment enterprises,

which operate 1.5 million

establishments. Additionally, the panel

will include approximately 1,000 new

payroll tax entities that have become

active during 1996. The procedure for

constructing the COS panel selectively

targets enterprises that are most likely to

report changes in organization and/or

operating characteristics, and it also

targets new payroll tax entities that are

most likely to report affiliation with a

multiestablishment enterprise. In

general, the selection of these units is

based on enterprise size/complexity and

administrative records indications.

Additionally, the panel will include a

small probability sample of the

multiestablishment enterprises not

selected by the targeting procedure.

The survey is conducted by mail

canvass. More than 300 larger

enterprises (accounting for

approximately 22 percent of covered

establishments) return their COS reports

by automated/electronic means. All

other survey respondents return a paper

questionnaire. Data content is identical

for all reporting modes. The instrument

includes inquiries on ownership or

control by a domestic parent, ownership

or control by a foreign parent, and

ownership of foreign affiliates. Further,

the instrument lists an inventory of

establishments belonging to the

enterprise and its subsidiaries, and it

requests updates to the inventory,

including additions, deletions, and

changes to information on Federal

employer identification number, name

and address, industrial classification,

end-of-year operating status, mid-March

employment, first quarter payroll, and

annual payroll.

III. Data

OMB Number: 0607–0444.

Form Number: NC–9901.

Type of Review: Regular submission.

Affected Public: Businesses or other

for-profit institutions, not-for-profit

institutions.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

85,000 enterprises.

Estimated Time Per Response: 1.7

hour.

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours: 144,500.

Estimated Total Annual Cost:

Included in the total annual cost of the

SSEL, which is estimated to be $6.1

million for fiscal year 1996.

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 shall 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 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: May 15, 1996.

Linda Engelmeier,

Acting Departmental Forms Clearance

Officer, Office of Management and

Organization.

[FR Doc. 96–12668 Filed 5–20–96; 8:45 a.m.]

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National Institute of Standards and

Technology

Computer System Security and Privacy

Advisory Board; Meeting

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards

and Technology.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal

Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App.,

notice is hereby given that the Computer

System Security and Advisory Board

will meet Wednesday, June 12 and

Thursday, June 13, 1996 from 9:00 a.m.

to 5:00 p.m. The Advisory Board was

established by the Computer Security

Act of 1987 (P.L. 100–235) to advise the

Secretary of Commerce and the Director

of NIST on security and privacy issues

pertaining to federal computer systems.

All sessions will be open to the public.

DATES: The meeting will be held on June

12 and 13, 1996 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00

p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place

at the National Institute of Standards

and Technology, Gaithersburg,

Maryland 20899–0001.

AGENDA:

—Welcome and Overview

—Issues Update

—Encryption Update

—Privacy Update

—Fingerprint Identification Briefing

—Pending Business

—Public Participation

—Agenda development for September

meeting

—Wrap-up.

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION: The Board agenda

will include a period of time, not to

exceed thirty minutes, for oral

comments and questions from the

public. Each speaker will be limited to

five minutes. Members of the public

who are interested in speaking area

asked to contact the Board Secretariat at

the telephone number indicated below.

In addition, written statements are

invited and may be submitted to the

Board at any time. Written statements

should be directed to the Computer

Systems Laboratory, Building 820,

Room 426, National Institute of

Standards and Technology,

Gaithersburg, MD 20899–0001. It would

be appreciated if fifteen copies of

written material were submitted for

distribution to the Board by June 5,

1996. Approximately 20 seats will be

available for the public and media.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mr. Edward Roback, Board Secretariat,

Computer Systems Laboratory, National

Institute of Standards and Technology,

Building 820, Room 426, Gaithersburg,

MD 20899–0001, telephone: (301) 975–

3696.

Dated: May 16, 1996.

Samuel Kramer,

Associate Director.

[FR Doc. 96–12749 Filed 5–20–96; 8:45 am]

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Announcement of an Opportunity To

Join a Cooperative Research and

Development Consortium for the

Manufacturing Engineering Tool Kits

Project

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards

and Technology, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

SUMMARY: The National Institute of

Standards and Technology (NIST)