Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 175 / Tuesday, September 9, 2008 / Notices 52263 

Propane was used as fuel inside the 

building. The explosion leveled the 

store, destroyed a responding 

ambulance, and damaged other nearby 

vehicles. 

On the day of the incident, a propane 

technician was preparing to transfer 

liquid propane from an existing tank to 

a newly installed replacement tank. 

When the technician removed a plug 

from the existing tank’s liquid 

withdrawal valve, liquid propane 

unexpectedly released and formed a 

vapor cloud. About 15 minutes after the 

release began, a 911 call was made. 

Shortly after, emergency responders and 

another propane technician arrived on 

scene. Little General employees closed 

the store but did not evacuate. Minutes 

after the emergency responders arrived, 

the propane ignited killing the two 

propane technicians and two emergency 

responders in the area of the tank, 

injuring four store employees inside the 

building and two other emergency 

responders outside. 

Following the conclusion of the 

public comment period, the Board will 

consider whether to approve the final 

report and recommendations. All staff 

presentations are preliminary and are 

intended solely to allow the Board to 

consider in a public forum the issues 

and factors involved in this case. No 

factual analyses, conclusions or findings 

presented by staff should be considered 

final. Only after the Board has 

considered the final staff presentation, 

listened to the witnesses and the public 

comments and approved the staff report 

will there be an approved final record 

of this incident. 

The meeting will be open to the 

public. Please notify CSB if a translator 

or interpreter is needed, at least 5 

business days prior to the public 

meeting. For more information, please 

contact the Chemical Safety and Hazard 

Investigation Board at (202) 261–7600, 

or visit our Web site at: http:// 

www.csb.gov. 

Christopher W. Warner, 

General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. E8–20986 Filed 9–5–08; 4:15 pm] 

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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: 2008 Company Organization 

Survey. 

Form Number(s): NC–99001, NC–

99007. 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0444. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Burden Hours: 127,517. 

Number of Respondents: 48,000. 

Average Hours Per Response: 2 hours 

and 40 minutes. 

Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau 

conducts the annual Company 

Organization Survey (COS) in order to 

update and maintain a central, 

multipurpose Business Register (BR). In 

particular, the COS supplies critical 

information on the organizational 

structure, operating characteristics, and 

employment and payroll of multilocation enterprises. 

The 2008 COS will direct inquiries to 

multi-establishment enterprises and 

selected single-establishment 

companies. The 2008 COS collection 

will differ from 2007 in the following 

ways: due to the 2007 COS being 

conducted in coordination with the 

2007 Economic Census, the 2008 COS 

has decreased its sample size by about 

50%, however, with more detailed 

inquiries being added (revision to the 

research and development question) to 

the 2008 COS and the inclusion of form, 

NC–99007 (only for single unit 

establishments), there will be an overall 

increase in the reporting response 

burden. Note that we will also mail 

Form NC–99001 for the 2008 COS. 

Form NC–99001 is mailed to multilocation enterprises. We ask questions 

on ownership or control by a domestic 

parent, ownership or control by a 

foreign parent, and ownership of foreign 

affiliates; research and development, 

and employees from a professional 

employer organization. Establishment 

inquiries include questions on 

operational status, mid-March 

employment, first-quarter payroll, and 

annual payroll of the establishments. 

In addition to the mailing of multilocation enterprises, the Census Bureau 

will mail Form NC–99007 to some large 

single-location enterprises that may 

have added locations. Form NC–99007 

contains questions on ownership and 

control by a domestic company, number 

of locations of operation, physical 

location, locations of operation, and 

inquiries on mid-March employment, 

first-quarter payroll, and annual payroll 

for each separate location. 

The information collected by the COS 

is used to maintain and update the BR. 

The BR 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 BR’s ability to 

identify all known United States 

business establishments and their 

parent companies. Further, the BR 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. The 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, the District of Columbia, 

Puerto Rico, counties, and countyequivalents. No other annual or more 

frequent series of industry statistics 

provides comparable detail, particularly 

for small geographic areas. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations, Not-for-profit 

institutions, Farms, and State, Local or 

Tribal Government. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., 

Sections 182, 195, 224 and 225. 

OMB Desk Officer: Brian HarrisKojetin, (202) 395–7314. 

Copies of the above information 

collection proposal can be obtained by 

calling or writing Diana Hynek, 

Departmental Paperwork Clearance 

Officer, (202) 482–0266, Department of 

Commerce, Room 6625, 14th and 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 

dhynek@doc.gov). 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to Brian Harris-Kojetin, OMB 

Desk Officer either by fax (202–395–

7245) or e-mail (bharrisk@omb.eop.gov). 

Dated: September 3, 2008. 

Gwellnar Banks, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. E8–20780 Filed 9–8–08; 8:45 am] 

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