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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 83 / Monday, May 3, 2021 / Rules and Regulations The enterprise and the establishment are the same for single-establishment firms. Each multi-establishment company forms one enterprisethe enterprise employment and annual payroll are summed from the associated establishments.
Enterprise Size: Enterprise size designations are determined by the summing employment of all associated establishments. Employer enterprises with zero employees are enterprises for which no associated establishments reported paid employees in the midMarch pay period but paid employees at some time during the year.
Firm: A firm is a business organization consisting of one or more domestic establishments in the same geographic area and industry that were specified under common ownership or control. The firm and the establishment are the same for single-establishment
firms. For each multi-establishment firm, establishments in the same industry within a geographic area will be counted as one firm; the firm employment and annual payroll are summed from the associated establishments.
One company or business can have multiple firms. Of the 430 firms noted in the table, 401 firms or 93 percent came from companies with fewer than 500 employees. And these 401 firms accounted for 514 establishments, or 75
percent of all establishments and 62
percent of employment across the industry in the United States.
A Description of and an Estimate of the Number of Small Entities to Which the Rule Will Apply or an Explanation of Why No Such Estimate Is Available This final rule applies to products manufactured on concrete block
Table 3: Block and Brick Manufacturers 2017 by Business Size Size of business by number of Number of employees Number of firms establishments Employment
23273

machines and used for construction. As indicated by the data below and confirmed by industry experts, the industry is dominated by small entities.
The U.S. Small Business Administration size standard to qualify as a small business for Federal Government programs is 500 or fewer employees in this industry.1 According to Census Bureau data, there were 430
firms and 686 establishments engaged in concrete block and brick manufacturing in 2017.2 Of these, 401 firms, or 93
percent, employed fewer than 500
employees, and these small firms accounted for 514 establishments, or 75
percent of all establishments and 62
percent of industry employment.3 Note that a single company or business can have multiple firms, and a single firm can have multiple establishments.

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This action would impose a reporting burden on eligible manufacturers of concrete masonry units. To participate in the referendum, eligible manufacturers would register with the Department in advance of the referendum period. Eligible manufacturers would have the opportunity to complete and submit a ballot to the Department indicating
whether or not they favor implementation of the proposed order.
The specific burdens for registration and the ballot are detailed later in this document in the section titled Paperwork Reduction Act.
There are no special skills required to complete the registration or ballot forms. The Department estimates that the respondent burden of the referendum is 0.5 hours for registration and 0.25 hours to complete the ballot and that approximately 690 small businesses will be affected. This results
in a total estimated burden on small businesses of 517.5 hours. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median pay for industrial production managers is $50.71 per hour.4 Thus, the Department estimates that the cost to firms of participating in the referendum will average $38.03.

1 See Table of Small Business Size Standards Matched to North American Industry Classification System Codes on the U.S. Small Business Administration website. For the economic analysis the Department used statistics for the North American Industry Classification System NAICS
code 327331, concrete block and brick manufacturing.

2 A firm is a business organization consisting of one or more domestic establishments in the same state and industry that were specified under common ownership or control and an establishment is a single physical location at which business is conducted or services or industrial operations are performed. See Statistics of U.S. Businesses Glossary on the U.S. Census Bureau website.

3 See 2017 SUSB Annual Data Tables by Establishment Industry on the U.S. Census Bureau website. For more information, see the County Business Patterns methodology on the Census website.
4 See the Occupational Outlook Handbook on the Bureau of Labor Statistics website, https
www.bls.gov/ooh/.

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Source: U.S. Census Bureau 2017 County Business Patterns and 2017 Economic Census, Table US_6digitnaics_2017, released 03/06/2020