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contains documents other than rules or

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Notices Federal Register

27088 

Vol. 74, No. 108 

Monday, June 8, 2009 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Okanogan and Wenatchee National 

Forests Resource Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of field trip. 

SUMMARY: The Eastern Washington 

Cascades and Yakima Provincial 

Advisory Committees will meet for a 

field trip on Wednesday, June 17 at the 

Tonasket Ranger District office, 1 West 

Winesap, Tonasket, WA. This field trip 

will begin at 9 a.m. and continue until 

3 p.m. Provincial Advisory committee 

members will be visiting a grazing 

allotment near Wauconda, WA. This 

field tour is open to Provincial Advisory 

Committee members. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Direct questions regarding this meeting 

to Robin DeMario, Public Affairs 

Specialist, Okanogan-Wenatchee 

National Forest, 215 Melody Lane, 

Wenatchee, Washington 98801, (509) 

664–9200. 

Dated: June 1, 2009. 

Roland Giller, 

Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, Public 

Affairs Group Leader. 

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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: Quarterly Services Survey. 

Form Number(s): QSS–1(A), QSS– 

1(E), QSS–2(A), QSS–2(E), QSS–3(A), 

QSS–3(E), QSS–4(A), QSS–4(E), QSS– 

5(A), QSS–5(E), QSS–1A–PEO, QSS– 

1E–PEO. 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0907. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Burden Hours: 13,500. 

Number of Respondents: 15,400. 

Average Hours per Response: 13 

minutes. 

Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census 

Bureau requests an extension with 

revision of the current OMB approval of 

the Quarterly Services Survey (QSS). 

The QSS currently canvasses and 

collects data from employer businesses 

in select service industries. These 

industries include truck transportation; 

couriers and messengers; warehousing 

and storage; information; credit 

intermediation and related activities; 

securities, commodity contracts, and 

other financial investments and related 

activities; rental and leasing; 

professional, scientific and technical 

services; administrative and support 

and waste management and remediation 

services; healthcare and social 

assistance; arts, entertainment, and 

recreation; and other services (except 

public administration). The QSS 

provides the most current reliable 

measures of total operating revenue and 

percentage of revenue by class of 

customer (for selected industries) on a 

quarterly basis. In addition, the QSS 

provides the only current quarterly 

measure of total operating expenses 

from tax-exempt firms in industries that 

have a large not-for-profit component. 

The QSS is a major source for the 

development of quarterly Gross 

Domestic Product (GDP) and an 

indicator of short-term economic 

change. The total operating revenue 

estimates produced from the QSS 

provide current trends of economic 

service industry activity in the United 

States from service providers with paid 

employees. In addition to revenue, we 

also collect total operating expenses 

from tax-exempt firms in industries that 

have a large not-for-profit component. 

Operating expenses provide a better 

measure of the economic activity of 

these firms. Expense estimates produced 

by the QSS, in addition to inpatient 

days and discharges for the hospital 

industry, are used by the Centers for 

Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) 

to project and study hospital regulation, 

Medicare payment adequacy, and other 

related projects. 

Beginning in June 2010, the U.S. 

Census Bureau will expand the QSS to 

include coverage of utilities; air 

transportation; water transportation; 

transit and ground passenger 

transportation; pipeline transportation; 

scenic and sightseeing transportation; 

support activities for transportation; 

monetary authorities-central bank; 

insurance carriers and related services; 

real estate; lessors of nonfinancial 

intangible assets (except copyrighted 

works); and educational services. 

In the year 2010, for select 

questionnaires, we may replace select 

questions with industry specific 

variable content. This questionnaire 

adjustment was proposed by the Bureau 

of Economic Analysis (BEA). According 

to the BEA, an implementation of such 

proposed changes would assist them in 

making better use of the QSS data and 

lead to improved estimates of Personal 

Consumption Expenditures (PCE) 

services. 

The BEA is the primary Federal user 

of data collected in the QSS. The BEA 

utilizes these timely data to make 

improvements to the national accounts 

for service industries. In the National 

Income and Product Accounts (NIPA), 

the quarterly data allow more accurate 

estimates of both PCE and private fixed 

investment. For example, recently 

published revisions to the quarterly 

NIPA estimates resulted from the 

incorporation of new source data from 

the QSS. Revenue data from the QSS are 

also used to produce estimates of gross 

output by industry that allow BEA to 

produce a much earlier version of the 

gross domestic product by industry 

estimates. 

Estimates produced from the QSS are 

used by the BEA as a component of 

quarterly GDP estimates. The estimates 

also provide the Federal Reserve Board 

(FRB) and Council of Economic 

Advisors (CEA) with timely information 

on current economic performance. All 

estimates collected from this survey are 

used extensively by various government 

agencies and departments on economic 

policy decisions; private businesses; 

trade organizations; professional 

associations; academia; and other 

various business research and analysis 

organizations. 


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Affected Public: Business or other forprofit; not-for-profit institutions. 

Frequency: Quarterly. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

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

Section 182. 

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 7845, 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: June 2, 2009. 

Glenna Mickelson, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–13197 Filed 6–5–09; 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: School Enrollment Supplement 

to the Current Population Survey. 

Form Number(s): None. 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0464. 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Burden Hours: 2,750. 

Number of Respondents: 55,000. 

Average Hours per Response: 3 

minutes. 

Needs and Uses: The purpose of this 

request for review is to obtain continued 

clearance for the supplemental inquiry 

concerning school enrollment to be 

conducted in conjunction with the 

October Current Population Survey 

(CPS). The School Enrollment 

Supplement is jointly sponsored by the 

U.S. Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor 

Statistics (BLS), and the National Center 

for Education Statistics (NCES). A 

number of questions in this supplement 

may appear in the American 

Community Survey (ACS) and in other 

demographic surveys. However, this 

supplement’s comprehensive set of 

questions does not duplicate any other 

single information collection, and 

ensures the historical continuity of a 

data series that spans over 4 decades. 

This data series provides basic 

information on enrollment status of 

various segments of the population 

necessary as background for policy 

formulation and implementation. The 

CPS October supplement is the only 

annual source of data on public/private 

elementary and secondary school 

enrollment and characteristics of private 

school students and their families, 

which are used for tracking historical 

trends and for policy planning and 

support. The basic school enrollment 

questions have been collected annually 

in the CPS for 50 years. Consequently, 

this supplement is the only source of 

historical data—at the national level— 

on the age distribution and family 

characteristics of college students, and 

on the demographic characteristics of 

preprimary school enrollment. As part 

of the Federal government’s efforts to 

collect data and provide timely 

information to local governments for 

policymaking decisions, this 

supplement provides national trends in 

enrollment and progress in school. 

Discontinuance of these data would 

mean not complying with the Federal 

government’s obligation to provide data 

to decision makers on current 

educational issues and would disrupt a 

data series that has been in existence for 

50 years. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: Title 13, United 

States Code, section 182 and Title 29, 

United States Code, sections 1–9. 

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 7845, 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: June 2, 2009. 

Glenna Mickelson, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–13221 Filed 6–5–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–878] 

Continuation of Antidumping Duty 

Order on Saccharin from the People’s 

Republic of China 

AGENCY: Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 8, 2009. 

SUMMARY: As a result of the 

determinations by the Department of 

Commerce (‘‘Department’’) and the 

International Trade Commission (‘‘ITC’’) 

that revocation of the antidumping duty 

order on saccharin from the People’s 

Republic of China (‘‘PRC’’) would likely 

lead to a continuation or recurrence of 

dumping and material injury to an 

industry in the United States, the 

Department is publishing a notice of 

continuation of the antidumping duty 

order. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Andrea Staebler Berton, AD/CVD 

Operations, Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 

Street & Constitution Avenue, NW, 

Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 

482–4037. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 5, 

2008, the Department published the 

notice of initiation of the sunset review 

of the antidumping duty order on 

saccharin from the PRC pursuant to 

section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, 

as amended (‘‘the Act’’). See Initiation 

of Five-year (‘‘Sunset’’) Review, 73 FR 

31974 (June 5, 2008). 

As a result of its review, the 

Department determined that revocation 

of the antidumping duty order on 

saccharin from the PRC would likely 

lead to a continuation or recurrence of 

dumping and, therefore, notified the ITC 

of the magnitude of the margins likely 

to prevail should the order be revoked. 

See Saccharin from the People’s 

Republic of China: Final Results of the 

Expedited Sunset Review of the 

Antidumping Duty Order, 73 FR 59604 

(October 9, 2008). 

On June 1, 2009, the ITC determined, 

pursuant to section 751(c) of the Act, 

that revocation of the antidumping duty 

order on saccharin from the PRC would 


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