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will provide data users a more complete
picture of R&D and innovation in the
business sector and will allow policy
makers and researchers to investigate
questions about R&D, innovation, and
competiveness in small businesses.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13, United
States Code, Sections 8(b), 131, and 182,
and Title 42, United States Code,
Sections 1861–76 (National Science
Foundation Act of 1950, as amended).
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,
PRA Departmental Lead, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau
Proposed Information Collection;
Comment Request; Longitudinal
Employer-Household Dynamics
(LEHD)
U.S. Census Bureau,
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Department of
Commerce, as part of its continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and
respondent burden, invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to
take this opportunity to comment on
proposed and/or continuing information
collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: To ensure consideration, written
comments must be submitted on or
before February 6, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments
to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental
Paperwork Clearance Officer,
Department of Commerce, Room 6616,
14th and Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230 (or via the
Internet at [email protected]).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection

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instrument(s) and instructions should
be directed to Robert Sienkiewicz;
[email protected]; phone:
301–763–1234.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
A 21st century statistical system must
provide information about the dynamic
economy quickly, using data assets
efficiently while minimizing the burden
of collecting and providing data and
fully preserving confidentiality. The
Census Bureau’s Longitudinal
Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD)
program has demonstrated the power
and usefulness of linking multiple
business and employee data sets with
state-of-the-art confidentiality
protections to build a longitudinal
national frame of jobs.
This program supports the
Department of Commerce plan to
improve American competitiveness and
measures of innovation. It provides
federal, state, and local policymakers
and planners, businesses, private sector
decision makers, and Congress with
comprehensive and timely national,
state, and local information on the
dynamic nature of employers and
employees.
The LEHD program significantly
reduces the overall effort for the
generation of its quarterly data product
by:
• Leveraging exiting federal
administrative and state data
• Avoiding costs required to expand
existing surveys to collect the
information directly
• Reducing respondent burden by
limiting the number of required
resources to just the owners of the
required data
The LEHD program is a member of a
partnership between the US Census
Bureau and the Labor Market
Information (LMI) agencies from 49
states, the District of Columbia, and the
territories of Puerto Rico and the Virgin
Islands. This partnership supports the
development, promotion, and
distribution of the following data
products:
• QWI Public Use—The flagship data
product of the LEHD program is the
QWI Public Use which provides 32
statistical indicators on employment,
job creation and destruction, accessions
(hires and recalls), and separations (e.g.
exits and layoffs). These statistics are
released for the following by-groups for
all quarters for which data are available
for each partner state:
Æ County, metropolitan, and
workforce investment area

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Æ Age, sex, race, and ethnicity
categories
Æ Detailed industry (i.e., type, firm
age, firm size)
• LEHD Origin Destination
Employment Statistics (LODES)—
LODES data provide detailed spatial
distributions of workers’ employment
and residential locations and the
relation between the two at the Census
Block level. LODES also provides
characteristic detail on age, earnings,
industry distributions, and local
workforce indicators.
• Job-to-Job Flows (J2J)—Job-to-Job
Flows (J2J) is a new set of statistics on
worker reallocation in the United States
constructed from the LEHD data. The
initial release of national data
distinguishes hires and separations
associated with job change from hires
and separations to non-employment.
Future releases will be published at
more detailed levels of aggregations, and
will tabulate the origin and destination
job characteristics of workers changing
jobs.
These data products highlight state
and local labor market dynamics that
cannot be learned from other statistical
sources and are therefore used in many
different arenas. For example, the QWI
can be used as local-labor-market
controls in regression analysis; to
identify long-term trends; to provide
local context in performance
evaluations, and a host of other
applications.
II. Method of Collection
The collection of data occurs in
accordance with the rules established by
interagency agreements with the
participating state partners or data
sharing agreements that have been
established within the Census Bureau.
For state partners, their data is
submitted directly to the Census secure
servers where Personally Identifiable
Information (PII) goes through a process
to replace it with Protected
Identification Keys (PIK). This ‘‘PIKing’’
process also applies to all other
administrative data that are used by the
LEHD program. For all other required
administration data, they are transferred
or referenced by the QWI production
system. Data collection and processing
also includes activities such as
validation of data quality.
The data products created by the
LEHD program are not generated by a
traditional survey. Rather, all input data
required is collected electronically as
follows:
• State Unemployment Insurance (UI)
and Quarterly Census of Employment
and Wages (QCEW) are provided via
secure File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

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where each state LMI agency sends
these data directly to the Census
Bureau. This transfer of data is governed
by a Memorandum of Understandings
(MOUs) with each state partner.
• Federal and Census Administrative
data are acquired from other directorates

or divisions within the Census Bureau
where an internal agreement has been
established for the use of the data.
• Public Use data sets are acquired
from public source Web sites or public
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers.

III. Data
Data that is used by the LEHD
program is defined in the following
table.

TABLE III–1—INPUT DATA SETS FOR THE LEHD PROGRAM
Source

Delivery schedule

American Housing Survey (AHS) .............................................
Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) ........................................
Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) ..........
Current Population Survey (CPS) .............................................
Federal Workers .......................................................................

Census Bureau .......................
Census Bureau .......................
Bureau of Labor Statistics ......
Census Bureau .......................
Office of Personnel Management.
Census Bureau .......................
Census Bureau .......................
Census Bureau .......................
Pitney Bowes Corporation ......
Census Bureau .......................
Census Bureau .......................
Census Bureau .......................
Census Bureau .......................
Census Bureau .......................

Yearly ......................................
Quarterly .................................
Quarterly .................................
Yearly ......................................
Quarterly .................................

1
1
1
1
1

Yearly ......................................
Yearly ......................................
Yearly ......................................
Quarterly .................................
Yearly ......................................
Yearly ......................................
Yearly ......................................
Yearly ......................................
Yearly ......................................

1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

State Partners .........................
State Partners .........................
State Partners .........................

Quarterly .................................
Quarterly .................................
Acquired as needed ................

52
52
52

Geographic Reference File .......................................................
Master Address File Extract .....................................................
New Business Register .............................................................
Geographic Database ...............................................................
Composite Person Record ........................................................
Master Address File Auxiliary Reference File ..........................
Residence Candidate File .........................................................
Survey of Income and Program Participation ...........................
Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing.
Unemployment Insurance Wage File .......................................
Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (ES–202) .........
WIB Definitions files ..................................................................

OMB Control Number: 0607–XXXX.
Form Number(s): Not applicable as
survey forms are not required to collect
this data.
Type of Review: Regular submission
as defined in Table III–1.
Affected Public: 0.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
As defined in Table III–1.
Estimated Time per Response: No
more than 4 hours required to identify
and send/post required data sets.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: Approximately 1964 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: Census Bureau collection of this
data imposes no such costs to the
respondents.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: The authority to
conduct the LEHD program is 13 U.S.C.
Section 6. Of course, confidentiality is
assured by 13 U.S.C. Section 9.

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burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval of this information collection;
they also will become a matter of public
record.
Sheleen Dumas,
PRA Departmental Lead, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

International Trade Administration

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Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden
(including hours and cost) of the
proposed collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the

Production Activity Not Authorized
Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 134—
Chattanooga, Tennessee, Wacker
Polysilicon North America LLC,
(Polysilicon), Charleston, Tennessee

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Dated: December 5, 2016.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
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IV. Request for Comments

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The notification was processed in
accordance with the regulations of the
FTZ Board (15 CFR part 400), including
notice in the Federal Register inviting
public comment (81 FR 54554, August
16, 2016). Pursuant to Section 400.37,
the FTZ Board has determined that
further review is warranted and has not
authorized the proposed activity. If the
applicant wishes to seek authorization
for this activity, it will need to submit
an application for production authority,
pursuant to Section 400.23.

On August 5, 2016, Wacker
Polysilicon North America LLC
submitted a notification of proposed
production activity to the Foreign-Trade
Zones (FTZ) Board for its facility within
FTZ 134, in Charleston, Tennessee.

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Glycine From the People’s Republic of
China: Final Results of the Expedited
Sunset Review of the Antidumping
Duty Order
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: As a result of this sunset
review, the Department of Commerce
(the Department) finds that revocation
AGENCY:

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