Report Forms for 2007 Economic Census Covering Mining Sector

EC-G-L31
(2007)

DC

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Economics and Statistics Administration

U.S. Census Bureau
Washington, DC 20233-0001

OVERDUE NOTICE

FROM THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
FOR ECONOMIC PROGRAMS
U.S. CENSUS BUREAU
Your 2007 Economic Census report form is overdue. This is your third notice.
The form was due February 12, 2008. We are enclosing another form. Please complete
and return your Economic Census form immediately.
You may use reasonable estimates if book figures are not readily available.
Title 13, United States Code, requires your response to the Economic Census and
guarantees that your response is confidential and will be used only for statistical purposes.
You may be subject to penalties for not returning this form. Applicable provisions of the
law are shown on the back of this letter.
If we do not receive your completed Economic Census forms within 2 weeks, we may
refer your case to the General Counsel of the Department of Commerce for further action.
We are ready to help you complete the Economic Census:
• Go to to access on-line services, find answers to
questions about the census, get tips on how to use census data, and find links to
previous census results.You can report electronically, by downloading electronic
reporting software available there.
• If you cannot find an answer on the helpsite, our customer help line (1-800-233-6136) is
available Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern time.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
Sincerely,

C. Harvey Monk, Jr.
Enclosure
Please reply to: U.S. Census Bureau, 1201 East Tenth Street, Jeffersonville, IN 47134-0001

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• AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT ECONOMIC CENSUSES — SECTION 131
131. Collection and publication; five-year periods
The Secretary shall take, compile, and publish censuses of manufactures, of mineral
industries, and of other businesses, including the distributive trades, service
establishments, and transportation (exclusive of means of transportation for which
statistics are required by law to be filed with, and are compiled and published by, a
designated regulatory body), in the year 1964, then in the year 1968, and every fifth
year thereafter, and each such census shall relate to the year immediately preceding
the taking thereof.

• MANDATORY PROVISIONS OF LAW — SECTION 224 as amended by
Section 3571 of Title 18 United States Code
224. Failure to answer questions affecting companies, businesses, religious bodies,
and other organizations; false answers.
Whoever, being the owner, official, agent, person in charge, or assistant to the person
in charge, of any company, business, institution, establishment, religious body, or
organization of any nature whatsoever, neglects or refuses, when requested by the
Secretary or other authorized officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or
bureau or agency thereof, to answer completely and correctly to the best of his
knowledge all questions relating to his company, business, institution, establishment,
religious body, or other organization, or to records or statistics in his official custody,
contained on any census or other schedule or questionnaire prepared and submitted
to him under the authority of this title, shall be fined not more than $5,000; and if he
willfully gives a false answer to any such question, he shall be fined not more than
$10,000.

EC-G-L31 (12-28-2006)