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[null,null,null,"                                                                                           ATTACHMENT  C"]
["Attachment A",null," "," "]
["SELECTED SAMPLE OF COMMENTS FROM TRADE ASSOCIATIONS, GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, AND BUSINESSES FOR THE MINING SECTOR",null,null,null," "]
[null,null,null," "]
[" ","SUBSECTOR/",null," "]
["NAME","FORM #","COMMENT(S)","BUREAU  COMMENT(S)"]
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["Del R. Preuss ",null,"We do not manufacture anything.  We are an educational association.  Please "]
["Ornamental Concrete Producers ",null,"remove us from your census, as we have nothing to report. "]
["    Association "]
["502 Kay Ave., S.E. "]
["Bemidji, MN  56601 "]
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["Dana Branson ",null,"I have no comments on the changes. "]
["National Cherry Growers and "]
["    Industries Foundation "]
["P.O. Box 271 "]
["Hood River, OR  97031 "]
["54-386-5761 "]
["nickerson9@earthlink.net"]
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["Dan Davis ",null,"I'm writing on behalf of the Fabricators & Manufacturers Assoc., International, "]
["Fabricators and Manufacturers ",null,"of Rockford, Ill.  The only comment I have pertains to question No. 6.  Is such "]
["    Association, International ",null,"a question still relevant in 2007?  Isn't the use of the Web widespead enough "]
["Rockford, IL ",null,"to make the question irrelevant?  Just a thought.  Thanks for the opportunity "]
["\"Dan Davis\" <dand@thefabricator.",null,"to comment.  "]
["com> "]
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["Eric Males ","MI-21206","The National Lime Association (NLA) appreciates the opportunity to comment ","Thank you for your comments on our plans for the 2007 Economic Census. "]
["Director of Regulatory Issues ",null,"on the Census Bureau's proposed changes to the 2007 Economic Census for ","Your comments will be taken under consideration. "]
["National Lime Association ",null,"Mining.  Our comments are intended to improve the accuracy of the Census "]
["Suite 800 ",null,"Bureau's statistics and to eliminate redundant reporting. ","The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is a great resource that my office uses "]
["200 N. Glebe Road ",null,null,"regularly to help improve the accuracy of the Census statistics for mining. "]
["Arlington, VA  22203-3728 ",null,"NLA is the trade association for manufacturers of high calcium quicklime, ","I also understand your concern over redundancy.  We make every effort to "]
["Office:  703-908-0772  ",null,"dolomitic quicklime, and hydrated lime, collectively referred to as \"lime.\" ","minimize this but sometimes it cannot be avoided.  For example, you "]
["Fax:  703-243-5489 ",null,"Many of our members operate limestone mines to generate feedstock for lime ","mentioned the Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey (MECS) and the "]
["emales@lime.org",null,"manufacturing.  Lime provides cost-effective solutions to many of society's ","collection of electricty.  The MECS is only conducted every four years, it so "]
[null,null,"manufacturing and environmental needs.  Many of our member companies ","happened that in 2002, the collection for both fell during the same time "]
[null,null,"are small businesses. ","frame.  "]
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[null,null,"To improve the statistical estimates generated for our industry group, the "]
[null,null,"Census Bureau should work with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to create "]
[null,null,"and accurate listing of companies and establishments from which to draw "]
[null,null,"samples to survey.  Our comments on the Census for Manufacturing discuss "]
[null,null,"the more accurate company and plant information available from USGS. "]
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[null,null,"Some ot the questions on the economic census are redundant to those on "]
[null,null,"other surveys.  All such questions should be removed from one survey or "]
[null,null,"the other.  For example, the Census Bureau also administers the Manufacturing "]
[null,null,"Energy Consumption Survey, which has extensive questions on electricity use.  "]
[null,null,"Thus, the questions on electricity use (Question 16B) should be deleted from "]
[null,null,"the Economic Census.  Thank you for the opportunity to comment. "]
[]
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["BEA","MI-21301","BEA requests retaining the special inquiry for Mining that collects hours, payroll, and receipts by states.  Based upon the spreadsheet ","We are still collecting the details they are interested in (hours, payroll and receipts) just not in the same format as 2002.  "]
[null,null,"Census provided, it impacts two forms.","The codes were deleted from the special inquiry file because of the form changes.  These are the ARU's.  (per S.B.)"]
[]
[null,null,"Without detailed data on fuels used for each industry, BEA must use the same basket for fuels across all mining industries.  Accordingly, ","Census will not include fuels that are produced in that industry (where we collect a quantity only) on forms that are not primary to the given industry .  (Per your example – we will "]
[null,null,"BEA requests the detail shown below for Item 17 on all 2007 mining forms except MI-21171 (Crude Petroleum and Natural Gas Extraction) ","not put the code 21211013 on the other forms).  Census will make sure that the other fuel codes (not the produced and used in the same plant) are consistent across the forms."]
[null,null,"in order for us to allocate fuel expenses across industries.  We assume MI-21171 is the short form counterpart to MI-21101, so the detail for "]
[null,null,"fuels used will be collected on the latter form.  Is this assumption correct?  "]
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[null,null,null,"We will add code 21211003 to the following forms - 21101, 21102, 21301.  This is the purchased coal.  · We will not add any fuel that is produced and consumed "]
[null,null,null,"to another form.  Let me clarify For example the 21201 collects code 21211013 - Coal from this mine or plant used at this establishment for power or heat."]
[null,null,null,"We will not add it to any of the other forms because they are mining for other types of minerals, not coal.  Does that make sense?  Forms 21171 and 21271 are "]
[null,null,null,"We do not collect detailed fuels (or materials for that matter) on short forms.  21171 relates to the oil and gas industries and the "]
[]
["BEA",212299,"Census proposes collapsing product detail distinguishing bauxite and miscellaneous metal ores into 2122997, 21229971 and 2122993100. ","We are not able to publish the data for bauxite due to disclosure reasons, therefore we will not publish "]
[null,null,"BEA requests the 2002 product detail be retained in order distribute products to intermediate use by user industry.","this separately. "]
[null,null,null,"Suggested changes have been implemented.  "]
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