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Cynthia Long,
Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service.
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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Construction Progress
Reporting Surveys
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 August 27,
2021 during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau,
Commerce.
Title: Construction Progress Reporting
Surveys.
OMB Control Number: 0607–0153.
Form Number(s): C–700, C–700(R), C–
700(SL), C–700(F).
Type of Request: Regular submission,
Request for an Extension, without
change of a currently approved
collection.
Number of Respondents: 22,000.
Average Hours per Response:
Respondents will each complete 12
monthly reports on average. We
estimate it will take 30 minutes to
complete the survey the first month and
10 minutes each remaining month that
the project is under construction.
Burden Hours: 51,333.
Needs and Uses: The Construction
Progress Reporting Surveys (CPRS)
collect information on the dollar value
of construction put in place on nonresidential building projects under
construction by private companies or
individuals, private multifamily
residential buildings, and building
projects under construction by federal
and state and local governments.
Form C–700 is used to collect data on
the construction of privately-owned
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Form C–700(R) is used to collect data on
privately-owned residential building
projects with two or more housing units.
Form C–700(SL) is used to collect data
on state and local government
construction projects. Form C–700(F) is
used to collect data on federal
government construction projects.
The Census Bureau uses the
information collected on these forms to
publish estimates of the monthly dollar
value of construction put in place.
Statistics from the CPRS become part of
the monthly ‘‘Value of Construction Put
in Place’’ or ‘‘Construction Spending’’
series, a Principal Economic Indicator.
Published estimates are used by a
variety of private business and trade
associations to estimate the demand for
building materials and to schedule
production, distribution, and sales
efforts. They also provide various
government agencies with a tool to
evaluate economic policy. For example,
Bureau of Economic Analysis staff use
data to develop the construction
components of gross private domestic
investment in the gross domestic
product. The Federal Reserve Board and
the Department of the Treasury use the
value put in place data to predict the
gross domestic product, which is
presented to the Board of Governors and
has an impact on monetary policy.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations; Not-for-profit
institutions; State, Local, or Tribal
government; Federal government.
Frequency: Monthly.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Title 13, United
States Code, Sections 131 and 182.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
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/
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 0607–0153.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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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; Management and
Organizational Practices 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 29,
2021 during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau,
Commerce.
Title: Management and Organizational
Practices Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0607–0963.
Form Number(s): MP–10002.
Type of Request: Regular submission,
Request for a Reinstatement, with
Change, of a Previously Approved
Collection.
Number of Respondents: 51,000.
Average Hours per Response: 45
minutes.
Burden Hours: 38,250.
Needs and Uses: The 2021
Management and Organizational
Practices Survey (MOPS) will be
conducted as a joint project by the
Census Bureau, the University of
Chicago Booth School of Business,
Stanford School of Humanities and
Sciences, and the Stanford Institute for
Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.
The MOPS will utilize the Annual
Survey of Manufactures (ASM) sample
and collect information on management
and organizational practices at the
establishment level. Data obtained from
the survey will allow the Census Bureau
to estimate a firm’s stock of management
and organizational assets, specifically
the use of establishment performance
data, such as production targets in
decision-making and the prevalence of
decentralized decision rights. The
results will provide information on
investments in management and
organizational practices thus providing
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from these investments when measured
in terms of firm productivity or firm
market value.
The MOPS has been conducted
periodically since 2010 and provides a
linkage to the Census Bureau’s data sets
on plant level outcomes. Since every
establishment in the MOPS sample is
also in the ASM, the results of MOPS
2015 were linked with certainty to
annual performance data at the plant
level, including outcomes on sales,
shipments, payroll, employment,
inventories, capital expenditure, and
more for the period 2014–2018. There is
no other source for the MOPS data
collection.
Understanding the determinants of
productivity growth is essential to
understanding the dynamics of the U.S.
economy. The MOPS provides
information to assist in determining
whether the large and persistent
differences in productivity across
establishments (even within the same
industry) are partly driven by
differences in management and
organizational practices. In addition to
increasing the understanding of the
dynamics of the economy, MOPS data
can provide insight to policymakers
interested in productivity growth or
other metrics of business performance
into the current state of management
and organizational practices in the U.S.
manufacturing sector. This insight could
inform economic forecasts or policies.
The MOPS provides information on
differences in manufacturing
management and organizational
practices by region, industry, and firm
size. These results can be used by U.S.
manufacturing businesses to benchmark
their own management and
organizational practices relative to their
peers and inform changes in those
practices. The survey sponsors have
used the published tables and
methodology documentation to set up a
self-scoring tool for benchmarking
purposes. Similarly, interested
businesses can use the published tables
to examine how their implementation of
specific practices compares to national
rates of adoption or use published tables
in conjunction with the methodology
documentation to evaluate how their
use of structured management practices
compares to subsector, state,
establishment size class, and
establishment age class. Industry trade
organizations may also wish to
communicate this information to their
members. For example, a printing
industry publication communicated the
results of the 2015 MOPS (https://
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Wisconsin cited the state’s ranking in
the 2015 MOPS when announcing a
program aimed at increasing
manufacturing productivity in the state
(https://biztimes.com/new-initiativeaimed-at-addressing-manufacturingproductivity/). Since the MOPS data are
also connected with annual
performance data, the MOPS results can
directly aid policy discussions regarding
what policymakers can do to assist U.S.
manufacturing companies as they react
to a changing economy.
The 2021 MOPS includes a new
purchased services module on the
establishment’s use of its own
employees, contractors, temporary staff,
or leased workers for select business
expenses. These data will help the
Census Bureau, businesses, and
policymakers understand the
relationship between an important
organizational decision—what activities
are the responsibility of the business’s
own employees and what activities are
contracted to other businesses—and
business outcomes such as growth and
survivorship when linked with the
ASM, Economic Census, and Business
Register.
For the 2021 MOPS, the Data and
Decision Making module has been
modified to remove some existing
components and expanded to include
questions focused on the frontier uses of
data to inform artificial intelligence. As
such, the module has been re-titled
‘‘Data, Decision Making, and Artificial
Intelligence.’’ Understanding the
characteristics of businesses that rely
upon data in making decisions helps
businesses and policymakers
understand the role that data collection
and analysis play in business outcomes.
By producing statistics on the use of
frontier technologies for decision
making, the Census Bureau can help
businesses and policymakers identify
potential use cases for these
technologies. In addition, the Census
Bureau can better plan future
collections and reduce respondent
burden if it understands how businesses
retain and analyze their own data.
Additionally, the 2021 MOPS
includes three questions added to the
background characteristics module
inquiring about an establishment’s use
of an external Certified Public
Accountant. Use of an external Certified
Public Accountant affects how
businesses retain and review their own
data, which can have implications for
management practices and can help the
Census Bureau plan future collections
and reduce respondent burden.
The 2021 MOPS simplified questions
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module by combining them into a single
table and removing write-in responses,
removed some forecasting questions in
the uncertainty module, removed two
background characteristic questions,
and removed all questions regarding a
five-year recall period.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations.
Frequency: One time.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13 U/S.C.
Sections 131 and 182.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
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/
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 0607–0963.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[B–76–2021]

Application for Expansion Under
Alternative Site Framework; ForeignTrade Zone 79—Tampa, Florida
An application has been submitted to
the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board by
the City of Tampa, grantee of FTZ 79,
requesting authority to expand magnet
Site 5 of the zone under the alternative
site framework (ASF) adopted by the
FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.2(c)). The
application was submitted pursuant to
the Foreign-Trade Zones Act, as
amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), and the
regulations of the Board (15 CFR part
400). It was formally docketed on
November 16, 2021.
The grantee proposes to expand
magnet Site 5—Port Tampa Bay, to
include additional terminal facilities/
acreage located within the Port Tampa
Bay seaport complex. Modified Site 5
will consist of 1,444 acres total and will
encompass the following: Hookers Point

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