Agency information collection activities: Submission for OMB review; comment request,

[Federal Register: September 24, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 185)]

[Notices]

[Page 51055]

From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

The Department of Commerce (DoC) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of information under provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 5).

Agency: Economic Development Administration (EDA).

Title: Petition by a Firm for Certification of Eligibility to Apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance.

Agency Form Number: Not Applicable.

OMB Approval Number: 0610-0091.

Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.

Burden: l,296 hours.

Average Hours Per Response: Approximately 8 hours.

Number of Respondents: Approximately 162 respondents.

Needs and Uses: This information collection is needed to determine whether a firm is eligible to apply for trade adjustment assistance. This assistance helps U.S. manufacturing firms injured by imports to develop strategies for competing in the global market place. The information submitted is a major phase in obtaining a firm's history, including sales, production and employment data (the firm provides quarterly unemployment security forms submitted to the state, a description of the products produced by such firm, tax returns and/or financial statements, a firm's decline in sales accounts, and brochures of such firm's production). The information collection provides an essential tool for firms to use in submitting the information required to demonstrate that they qualify for certification of eligibility. The information is required under Section 251 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended.

Affected Public: Businesses, farms or other for-profit organizations.

Frequency: One time.

Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain benefits.

OMB Desk Officer: Victoria Baecher-Wassmer, (202) 395-7340.

Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained by calling or writing Linda Engelmeier, DoC Forms Clearance Officer, (202) 482-3272, U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 5327, 14th and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230.

Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice to Victoria Baecher-Wassmer, OMB Desk Officer, Room 10202, New Executive Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20503.

Dated: September 18, 1998. Linda Engelmeier, Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.

[FR Doc. 98-25613Filed9-23-98; 8:45 am]

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