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Federal Register / Vol. 91, No. 209 / Friday, October 30, 2026 / Notices
entering either the title of the collection
or the OMB Control Number 0607–0110.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Compliance Officer, Office
of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; 2027 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 May 20th,
2026, during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau,
Commerce.
Title: 2027 Commodity Flow Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0607–0932.
Form Number(s): There are no forms
associated with the 2027 CFS. All
collection will be done through
Centurion electronic instruments.
Type of Request: Regular submission,
Request for a Reinstatement, with
Change, of a Previously Approved
Collection.
Number of Respondents: 45,000 for
the Pre-screener survey, 140,000 (each
responding 4 times) during the 2027
survey cycle.
Average Hours per Response: 5
minutes (pre-screener survey), 1.5 hours
(2027 survey cycle).
Burden Hours: 843,750.
Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census
Bureau, in partnership with the Bureau
of Transportation Statistics (BTS), Office
of the Assistant Secretary for Research
and Technology, U.S. Department of
Transportation (DOT), requests Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
approval to conduct the 2027
Commodity Flow Survey (CFS), a

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component of the 2027 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 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 2022
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 policy and
investment decisions. Data on the
movement of freight 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.’’

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The 2027 CFS will be split into 2
separate, but related surveys: the prescreener survey and the main survey.
• The pre-screener survey is the first
survey and is an electronic reporting
sample survey of approximately 45,000
business establishments in selected
retail industries, as well as auxiliary
establishments. The pre-screener survey
is used to determine if the establishment
ships goods or not. If the respondent
indicates that no shipments are made
from the establishment, the business
establishment will be removed from the
main survey.
• The main survey is an electronic
reporting sample survey of
approximately 140,000 business
establishments in the mining,
manufacturing, wholesale, and selected
retail and services industries, as well as
auxiliary establishments that support
these industries.
Frequency: The survey will be
conducted quarterly over the course of
one year.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: As part of the 2027
Economic Census, the CFS information
collection is authorized by law under
Title 13, U.S.C., Sections 8(b), 131 and,
193. Title 13, U.S.C., Sections 224 and
225 require response. The BTS also has
authority to collect these data based on
its enabling legislation 49 U.S.C.,
Section 6302.
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 0607–0932.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Compliance Officer, Office
of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2026–22169 Filed 10–29–26; 8:45 am]
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