# Direct Investment Surveys: Alignment of Regulations With Current Practices
> **US Department of Commerce** · Final rule. · Published 2011-07-06 · Effective 2011-08-05 · 76 FR 39260
## Document
- **Document number:** 2011-16065
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of Commerce
- **Federal Register citation:** 76 FR 39260
- **CFR reference:** 15 CFR 806
- **Publication date:** 2011-07-06
- **Effective date:** 2011-08-05
- **Commerce docket:** Docket No. 110321207-1206-01
## Abstract

This final rule amends regulations of the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) related to direct investment surveys. Specifically, BEA is eliminating reporting requirements for several direct investment surveys that are no longer necessary because the information is collected on other surveys of direct investment conducted by BEA. The surveys that are eliminated from the regulations are: A survey of foreign direct investment in the U.S. seafood industry, two schedules of expenditures for property, plant, and equipment of U.S. direct investment abroad, and two industry classification questionnaires. In addition, BEA is eliminating the reporting requirements for two surveys of new foreign direct investment in the United States. BEA suspended collection of these surveys in 2009 in order to align its international survey program with available resources. BEA is also making other minor revisions to its regulations to eliminate outdated information.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2011/07/06/2011-16065/direct-investment-surveys-alignment-of-regulations-with-current-practices)
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