Notice2021-23995
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; 2022 Commodity Flow Survey
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November 3, 2021
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 210 (Wednesday, November 3, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60614-60615]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-23995]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; 2022 Commodity Flow Survey
The Department of Commerce will submit the following information
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite 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. Public comments were previously requested via the
Federal Register on July 23, 2021 during a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce.
Title: 2022 Commodity Flow Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0607-0932.
Form Number(s): CFS-1000.
Type of Request: Regular submission, Request for a Reinstatement,
with Change, of a Previously Approved Collection.
Number of Respondents: 160,000.
Average Hours per Response: Quarters 1 and 4-2.5 hours; Quarters 2
and 3-1.5 hours.
Burden Hours: 1,280,000.
Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census Bureau plans to conduct the 2022
Commodity Flow Survey (CFS), a component of the 2022 Economic Census,
as it is the only comprehensive source of multi-modal, system-wide data
on the volume and pattern of goods movement in the United States. The
CFS is conducted in partnership with the Bureau of Transportation
Statistics (BTS), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and
Technology, U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Pipeline
and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), U.S. Department
of Transportation.
The survey provides a crucial set of statistics on the value,
weight, mode, and distance of commodities shipped by mining,
manufacturing, wholesale, and selected retail and services
establishments, as well as auxiliary establishments that support these
industries. The Census Bureau will publish these shipment
characteristics for the nation, census regions and divisions, states,
and CFS defined geographic areas. As with the 2017 Commodity Flow
Survey, this survey also identifies export, hazardous material, and
temperature-controlled shipments.
BTS is mandated by Congress under Title 49 to collect economic data
on transportation mode choice and goods movement. This information
informs freight flows and is critical to understanding the use,
performance, and condition of the nation's transportation system, as
well as informing transportation investments. Data on the movement of
freight also are important for effective analyses of changes in
regional and local economic development, safety issues, and
environmental concerns. They also provide the private sector with
valuable data needed for critical decision-making on a variety of
issues including market trends, analysis, and segmentation. Each day,
governments, businesses, and consumers make countless decisions about
where to go, how to get there, what to ship and which transportation
modes to use. Transportation constantly responds to external forces
such as shifting markets, changing demographics, safety concerns,
weather conditions, energy and environmental constraints, and national
defense requirements. Good decisions require having the right
information in the right form at the right time.
The CFS provides critical data to federal, state and local
government agencies to make a wide range of transportation investment
decisions for developing and maintaining an efficient transportation
infrastructure that supports economic growth and competitiveness.
Transportation planners require the periodic benchmarks provided by
a continuing CFS to evaluate and respond to ongoing geographic shifts
in production and distribution centers, as well as policies such as
``just in time delivery.''
The 2022 CFS will be an electronic reporting sample survey of
approximately 160,000 business establishments in the mining,
manufacturing, wholesale, and selected retail and services industries,
as well as auxiliary establishments that support these industries.
Respondents will report online for all four quarters of 2022, including
the CFS expanded hazardous materials supplement in quarters 1 and 4.
The CFS is the primary source of information about freight movement
in the United States. Estimates of shipment characteristics are
published at different levels of aggregation. The CFS produces summary
statistics and a public use data file. The survey covers shipments from
establishments in the mining, manufacturing, wholesale, and selected
retail industries, as well as auxiliary establishments that support
these industries. Federal agencies, state and local transportation
planners and policy makers, and private sector transportation managers,
analysts, and researchers strongly support the conduct of the CFS.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
Frequency: The survey will be conducted quarterly over the course
of one year.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., Sections 8(b), 131 and, 193.
Title 13, U.S.C. 224 and 225 require response. The BTS also has
authority to collect these data based on its enabling legislation, 49
U.S.C. 6302.
This information collection request may be viewed at
<a href="http://www.reginfo.gov">www.reginfo.gov</a>. Follow the instructions to view the Department of
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of
this notice on the following website www.reginfo.gov/
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public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information collection by
selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments''
or by using the search function and entering either the title of the
collection or the OMB Control Number 0607-0932.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2021-23995 Filed 11-2-21; 8:45 am]
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