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Agenda 

I. Welcome 

II. Approval of Minutes 

III. Discussion on Draft Report on 

‘‘Responses to 21st Century Policing 

in Minnesota’’ 

IV. Public Comment 

V. Next Steps 

VI. Adjournment 

Dated: October 16, 2017. 

David Mussatt, 

Supervisory Chief, Regional Programs Unit. 

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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. 

Agency: U.S. Census Bureau. 

Title: Annual Wholesale Trade 

Survey. 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0195. 

Form Number(s): SA–42, SA–42A, 

SA–42A(MSBO), SA–42(AGBR), SA– 

42A(AGBR). 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Number of Respondents: 8,900. 

Average Hours per Response: 1 hour 

and 15 minutes. 

Burden Hours: 11,085. 

Needs and Uses: The Annual 

Wholesale Trade Survey (AWTS) covers 

employer firms with establishments 

located in the United States and 

classified in wholesale trade as defined 

by the North American Industry 

Classification System (NAICS). This 

sector annually publishes two main 

categories for wholesalers: (1) Merchant 

wholesalers that sell goods on their own 

account (including sales offices and 

sales branches, except retail stores, 

maintained by manufacturing, refining, 

or mining enterprises apart from their 

plants or mines for the purpose of 

marketing their products) and (2) 

electronic markets, agents, and brokers 

that arrange sales for purchases for 

others generally for a commission or fee. 

Respondents are separated into three 

type of operation classifications: (1) 

Merchant wholesale establishments, 

excluding manufacturers’ sales branches 

and offices; (2) manufacturers’ sales 

branches and offices; and (3) agents, 

brokers, and business-to-business 

electronic markets. The survey requests 

firms to provide annual sales, annual ecommerce sales, year-end inventories 

held inside or outside of the United 

States, total operating expenses, 

purchases, and for selected industries, 

commissions, and sales on their own 

account. These data are used to satisfy 

a variety of public and business needs 

such as conducting economic market 

analysis, gauging company performance, 

and forecasting future demand as well 

as serving as a benchmark for the 

estimates compiled from the Monthly 

Wholesale Trade Survey [OMB No. 

0607–0190]. 

Results will be published on the 

current 2012 NAICS basis, by type of 

wholesaler, at the United States 

summary level, and for selected 

wholesale industries approximately 14 

months after the end of the reference 

year 

A new sample was introduced with 

the 2016 AWTS. Approximately 73% of 

the sample asked to report will be doing 

so for the first time (and, consequently, 

approximately 73% of the old sample 

will no longer be asked to report). For 

the 2016 AWTS the Census Bureau 

requested two years of data, 2016 and 

2015, in order to link old and new 

samples and ensure that the published 

estimates continue to be reliable and 

accurate. Every 5 years AWTS collects 

detailed operating expenses and sales 

tax. These items were last collected in 

2013 for the 2012 survey year. The plan 

is to reinstate these questions in 2018 as 

part of the 2017 AWTS data collection. 

These detailed expense questions are 

only applicable to the merchant 

wholesale establishments, excluding 

manufacturers’ sales branches and 

offices. 

The Bureau of Economic Analysis 

(BEA) uses the data to estimate the 

change in the private inventories 

component of gross domestic product 

(GDP) and output in both the 

benchmark and annual input-output (I– 

O) accounts and GDP by industry. The 

tax data are used to prepare estimates of 

GDP by industry and to derive industry 

output for the I–O accounts. The data on 

detailed operating expenses are used to 

produce national estimates of value 

added, gross output, and intermediate 

inputs and serve as a benchmark for the 

annual industry accounts, which 

provide the control totals for the GDPby-state accounts. 

The Bureau of Labor Statistics uses 

the data as input to its Producer Price 

Indices and in developing productivity 

measurements. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

Legal Authority: The Census Bureau 

conducts this survey under the 

authority of Title 13, United States 

Code, Sections 131 and 182. Sections 

224 and 225 make this survey 

mandatory. 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. 

Follow the instructions to view 

Department of Commerce collections 

currently under review by OMB. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to OIRA_Submission@

omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395–5806. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Departmental PRA Lead, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

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