DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE S00300-001 Fiscal System. OMB Funding Title/Code: Salaries and Expenses / 13-0120-0-1-376. Program: Departmental Staff Services Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce; House Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce and Judiciary Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources; Senate Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce, The Judiciary Subcommittee. Authority: P.L. 57-87, § 1. Availability: Output is normally used internally and frequently is of a budgetary nature used in the President's Budget. It is not publicly available. Purpose: The system is to prepare spread sheets for budget analysis. The primary users are budget analysts within the office. However, at times these spread sheets are given to budget analysts in the bureaus or OMB. Input: The input is received from a variety of budget documents prepared in the office, at OMB, the Congress, or bureaus. Content: The content is normally arranged by bureau and appropriation and normally contains such information as budget authority, appropriation, obligations, outlays, and employment. Output: The principal output is hardcopy spread sheets. Agency Contact: (202) 377-4891. S00300-002 Commerce Resource Allocation and Management Information System (CRAMIS). OMB Funding Title/Code: Salaries and Expenses / 13-0120-0-1-376. Program: Departmental Staff Services Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce; House Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce and Judiciary Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources; Senate Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce, The Judiciary Subcommittee. Authority: P.L. 57-87, § 1. Availability: Output at present is distributed internally, but it is available to the Congress and the public to supply additional details to existing Treasury reports. Purpose: This system processes information to support management in planning, budgeting, and allocating resources to accomplish program objectives. It includes obligations and outlays for all appropriations of the Department and employment for all bureaus of the Department. The detail in the system is at the same level as the budget justifications submitted to the Appropriations Committees. Input: The source of information is the various bureaus of the Department. They prepare and submit monthly and quarterly plans and then use accounting records to report actual progress in achieving their plans. Content: The monthly plans and reports consist of obligations by appropriation, outlays by appropriation, and permanent and total employment by Bureau. The quarterly plans and reports consist of costs by budget line item, average employment by budget line item, obligations by appropriation, and selected performance measures. Output: All output is hardcopy and consists of monthly reports of obligations, outlays, and employment, and quarterly reports of costs and performance measures. Agency Contact: (202) 377-4891. INDUSTRY AND TRADE ADMINISTRATION S00301-001 Foreign Traders Index (FTI). OMB Funding Title/Code: Operations and Administration / 131250-0-1-376. Program: International Trade Development Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Armed Services; House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs; House Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce and Judiciary Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Armed Services; Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Senate Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce, The Judiciary Subcommittee. Authority: Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (P.L. 87-256, § 102). Availability: Agency contact; Remarks--output is available for a fee. Geographic Relevance: International; National Purpose: This system is designed to produce lists of potential direct-use purchasers and other importers of U.S. goods. Input: Input information is supplied by the U.S. Foreign Service. Content: Information includes data on manufacturers, service organizations, agent representatives, retailers, wholesalers/distributors, and cooperatives which import from the United States which have a high potential as purchasers of U.S. goods. It also includes firms which express interest in representing U.S. exporters. Output: Hardcopy output is produced in response to information retrieval requests. Agency Contact: Industry and Trade Administration. (202) 3772208. S00301-002 American International Traders Index Register (AITR). OMB Funding Title/Code: Operations and Administration / 131250-0-1-376. Program: International Trade Development; East-West Trade; Field Operations Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Armed Services; House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs; House Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce and Judiciary Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Armed Services; Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Senate Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce, The Judiciary Subcommittee. Authority: Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (P.L. 87-256, §102). Availability: Agency contact; Remarks--output is available for a fee Geographic Relevance: International; National Purpose: This system is designed to produce lists of U.S. firms interested or engaged in international trade and investment. Input: System input is largely synonymous with system information content. Content: The system contains commercial data on approximately 30,000 U.S. firms, including firm name, address, telephone, name and title of chief executive, geographic location codes, and product codes. Approximately 800,000 product codes are maintained to the appropriate 7-digit 1972 SIC code. Output: Output is available as computer listings, punchcards, 5x8 index cards, and computer tapes. Agency Contact: Industry and Trade Administration. (202) 3774203. S00301-005 American Traders Index Retrieval System (ATI). OMB Funding Title/Code: Operations and Administration / 131250-0-1-376. Program: Domestic Business Development Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Armed Services; House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs; House Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce and Judiciary Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Armed Services; Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Senate Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce, The Judiciary Subcommittee. Authority: Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (P.L. 81774). Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (P.L. 87-256, § 102). P.L. 57-87, § 1. Availability: Reports are for internal use only. Purpose: This system provides access to a fully automated file containing detailed commercial data on approximately 600,000 American business establishments. Input: System input is synonymous with information content. Content: This system is based on the Dun and Bradstreet File, updated every six weeks, which contains information on every U.S. manufacturing firm and on all nonmanufacturing firms with more than 20 employees. Each company record contains address, principal executive, geographic location, parent firm and headquarters information, SIC data, and several fields of quantitative data. Output: The system has query capability; output is triggered by a retrieval request, Form DIB-85, submitted by system users to specify type of output desired, sequence, and retrieval criteria. Agency Contact: Industry and Trade Administration. (202) 3773674. S00301-006 Tailormade Statistics (Import/Export Commodity Data Base). OMB Funding Title/Code: Operations and Administration / 131250-0-1-376. Program: Domestic Business and Industry Affairs; International Trade Development Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Armed Services; House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs; House Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce and Judiciary Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Armed Services; Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Senate Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce, The Judiciary Subcommittee. Authority: P.L. 57-87, § 1. Mutual Educational and Cultural Ex- Purpose: This system provides information on selected U.S. exports and imports for analysis purposes. Input: Input to this system is two import/export data files purchased from the Bureau of the Census, IM-145 and EM-522. Content: The system contains information on foreign trade, exports, and imports, in terms of units, dollar value, commodity, and country. Output: Two series of monthly reports, one by commodity classification sequence and one by commodity sequence within the OBPA commodity division, are produced. Agency Contact: Industry and Trade Administration. (202) 3773674. S00301-007 Franchising System (FRANSHYS). OMB Funding Title/Code: Operations and Administration / 131250-0-1-376. Program: Domestic Business and Industry Affairs Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Armed Services; House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs; House Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce and Judiciary Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Armed Services; Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Senate Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce, The Judiciary Subcommittee. Authority: P.L. 57-87, § 1. Availability: Output is for internal use only Geographic Relevance: International; National; State Purpose: The objective of this system is to provide tabulations and selected ratios on data supplied by a franchising survey conducted annually. Input: Input data are prepared from the BDC F910 Franchising Survey Form, completed by U.S. firms responding to the survey. Content: Operational data relating to franchise characteristics comprise information content. Output: Output includes: 1) A tabulation by type of businesses showing number of franchising firms, number of outlets owned and operated by the franchisor, and number of outlets operated by the franchisee for the latest 3-year period; and 2) a report by type of business and by individual firms of the amount of sales to a franchisee for products, supplies, resale, etc. These tabulations are used as input to the Department of Commerce publication, Franchising in the Economy. Agency Contact: Industry and Trade Administration. (202) 3773674. S00301-008 National Water Assessment Model. OMB Funding Title/Code: Operations and Administration / 131250-0-1-376. Program: Domestic Business and Industry Affairs Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Armed Services; House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs; House Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce and Judiciary Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Armed Services; Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Senate Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce, The Judiciary Subcommittee. Authority: P.L. 57-87, § 1. Availability: Internal use only Geographic Relevance: National; State Purpose: This system aids in the analysis and forecasting of water requirements for the manufacturing sector of the U.S. economy. Input: Input includes a file containing water usage data for 9,300 large manufacturing plants, a file containing data on economic activity by geographical region, and a data file of technical co-efficients such as consumption and recirculation rates. Content: Content is basically equivalent to system input data but also includes the forecasting model. Output: Output includes a report by 2-digit SIC code showing projected industrial water use, aggregated by water basin regions, and reports of the input data of each firm sorted and summarized by region, SIC code, and SIC code by State. Agency Contact: Industry and Trade Administration. (202) 3773674. S00301-010 Commodity Early Warning System. OMB Funding Title/Code: Operations and Administration / 131250-0-1-376. Program: Domestic Business and Industry Affairs Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Armed Services; House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs; House Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce and Judiciary Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Armed Services; Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Senate Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce, The Judiciary Subcommittee. Authority: P.L. 57-87, § 1. Availability: Output is for internal use only. Geographic Relevance: National; State; SMSA; County Purpose: This system is intended to identify and forecast material short supply situations and their impact on given industries and the economy and to assist in evaluating policy alternatives formulated to ameliorate short supply situations. Input: The system utilizes a wide variety of data sources, both governmental and commercial, such as, the iron and steel industry data base developed by Data Resources, Inc. Content: For any given industry, the system contains information such as inventory and price data, raw material availability, market conditions, and manufacturing lead times. Output: Quarterly hardcopy printouts are produced. Agency Contact: Industry and Trade Administration. (202) 3772498. S00301-012 Export Market Search System. OMB Funding Title/Code: Operations and Administration / 131250-0-1-376. Program: East-West Trade Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Armed Services; House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs; House Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce and Judiciary Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Armed Services; Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Senate Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce, The Judiciary Subcommittee. Authority: Defense Production Act of 1950 (P.L. 81-774). Purpose: This system enables the Bureau of East-West Trade to determine product categories for which the United States is competitive in Eastern Europe and the U.S.S.R. Input: The primary sources of information for this system are the Census Bureau's monthly and annual export and import files and the United Nations' data files for 14 industrialized Western nations. Content: The system computes total export shipments to Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, U.S.S.R., and the People's Republic of China. The system also computes projected total shipments for the above countries and the U.S. market share. Output: The system has query capability. Agency Contact: Industry and Trade Administration. (202) 3772498. S00301-013 Computer Export Monitoring System (Three COM System). OMB Funding Title/Code: Operations and Administration / 131250-0-1-376. Program: Export Administration Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Armed Services; House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs; House Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce and Judiciary Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Armed Services; Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Senate Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce, The Judiciary Subcommittee. Authority: Export Administration Act of 1969 (P.L. 91-184). Purpose: This system provides a data base on applications for export licenses for computer equipment to selected countries. Input: Input includes applications for export licenses for computer and computer-related equipment, together with associated documentation. Content: Content includes names of firms seeking to export computers, types of equipment in question, and status of license applications. Output: Output includes export status reports by case and summaries by applicant, country, and commodity. Agency Contact: Industry and Trade Administration. (202) 3772823. S00301-014 Voluntary Steel Import Quota System. OMB Funding Title/Code: Operations and Administration / 131250-0-1-376. Program: Resources and Import Programs Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Armed Services; House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs; House Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce and Judiciary Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Armed Services; Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Senate Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce, The Judiciary Subcommittee. Authority: Establishment of Departments of Commerce and Labor Availability: Data are for internal use only. Purpose: This system enables the monitoring of imported steel mill products. Input: Input is derived from Bureau of the Census import data. Content: Content is data on the value and quantity of steel mill products imported into the United States summarized by commodity, country, and origin of entry. Output: Monthly reports compare most recent steel import data with the same month's data of the previous year. Agency Contact: Industry and Trade Administration. (202) 3773791. S00301-015 Reporting of Economic Data for Negotiation of International Transportation Conventions (REDNITRAC). OMB Funding Title/Code: Operations and Administration / 131250-0-1-376. Program: International Economic Policy and Research Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Armed Services; House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs; House Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce and Judiciary Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Armed Services; Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Senate Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce, The Judiciary Subcommittee. Authority: Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (P.L. 87-256 § 102). P.L. 57-87, § 1. Availability: Agency contact Geographic Relevance: International; National Purpose: This system provides economic data for the negotiation or renegotiation of international conventions for the carriage of goods by air, sea, and intermodal transport. Input: Basic input consists of two tapes prepared each year by the Bureau of the CensusAnnual Census Import Trade Statistics and Annual Census Export Trade Statistics. Content: The system contains information on the quantities and values of products imported by and exported from the United States. Output: This system produces 18 reports about imported and exported products according to mode of transportation. Agency Contact: Industry and Trade Administration. (202) 3775012. S00301-017 Boycott Report Systems (BRS). OMB Funding Title/Code: Operations and Administration / 131250-0-1-376. Program: Trade Regulation Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce and Judiciary Subcommittee; House Committee on International Relations; Senate Committee on Appropria tions: State, Justice, Commerce, The Judiciary Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Authority: Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (P.L. 87-794). Export Administration Act of 1969 (P.L. 91-184). Trade Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-618). Availability: Agency contact; Internal use only; An unclassified report to Congress is prepared from these data Geographic Relevance: National Purpose: Administration Act of 1969, as amemded, U.S. persons must report to the Department of Commerce any request for a restrictive trade practice or boycott against countries friendly to the United States. The BRS processes boycott reports to produce statistical summary information for management purposes and information for enforcement purposes. Input: Reports of restrictive trade practices required to be filed by U.S. persons under the Export Administration Act of 1969, as amended, provide the input for this system. Content: BRS contains two subsystems. One, the Firm Identification File, assigns a unique number to each reporting entity. The second, the Boycott Report subsystem, is a data bank containing information extracted from the boycott reports. Output: This system produces quarterly and semi-annual statistical summary print-outs. Agency Contact: Industry and Trade Administration. (202) 3773961. S00301-018 License Accounting and Review System (LARS). OMB Funding Title/Code: Operations and Administration / 131250-0-1-376. Program: Trade Regulation Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce and Judiciary Subcommittee; House Committee on International Relations; Senate Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce, The Judiciary Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Authority: Export Administration Act of 1969 (P.L. 91-184). Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (P.L. 87-794). Trade Act of 1974 (P.L. 93618). Availability: Internal use only Geographic Relevance: National Purpose: The Office of Export Administration, Bureau of Trade Regulation, receives and processes applications from U.S. businesses to export certain commodities, approves or disapproves applications, and grants licenses as appropriate. The volume of such export applications is large, and processing is complex. LARS provides an effective means to track and account for license applications, accurate management information, and a means to audit licensing procedures. Input: Export license applications form the basic input for this system. Content: Information included in the system consists of the exporting firm name, commodity, quantity and value, intended customer, and consignee. Output: This system provides status information relative to export licenses in process (classified) and a daily licensing list (unclassified). Agency Contact: Industry and Trade Administration. (202) 3774738. Availability: Agency contact; Output available on a subscription basis Geographic Relevance: International; National Purpose: The TOPS system provides timely, targeted dissemination of sales lead information to U.S. companies interested or involved in exporting. Input: Trade leads are collected principally by U.S. Foreign Service posts abroad, sent to Washington, and coded, verified, and entered into the system. Content: The system contains information on sales opportunities abroad by type of trade opportunity and information on subscribers' interest by product category. There are 6,600 subscribers to the Notices, 1,500 to the Bulletin, and three to the Data Tape. Output: This system produces a variety of outputs available to subscribers: 1) Trade Opportunity Notices which are sent to subscribers when a "match" occurs; 2) TOP Bulletins which are mailed to subscribers weekly; and 3) TOP Data Tapes which are mailed to subscribers biweekly. Output cannot be delivered offshore. Agency Contact: Industry and Trade Administration. (202) 3772665. S00301-020 Textile Agreement Monitoring System (TAMS). OMB Funding Title/Code: Operations and Administration / 121250-0-1-376. Program: Export Development Trade Regulation Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs; Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. House Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce and Judiciary Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Appropriations: State, Justice, Commerce, The Judiciary Subcommit tee. Authority: Establishment of Departments of Commerce and Labor Geographic Relevance: National Purpose: This system monitors imports of textiles and textile products from countries with which the United States has textile trade agreements. Input: The Census Bureau provides data on all import transactions for each month. The U.S. Customs Service provides data on specific controlled items. Content: Two data files are maintained. One is a cumulative file of imports summarized by product code and is relatively small and static, currently consisting of about 14,000 records. The other is a history file of all import transactions which grows at a rate of about 30,000+ 154-character records per month. The system compares import quantities with negotiated quotas to determine what portion of the quota has been filled. A sub-system produces an intermediate data base, comprising a shipping profile from which the automated performance report is generated. Output: The system produces a performance report on all textile products and an early warning report on those items on which possible overshipments are projected. Both reports are generated monthly. |