Due Date: August 26, 2025
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YOUR RESPONSE IS REQUIRED BY LAW. Title 13, United States Code, Sections 8(b), 131, and 182, and Title 42 United States Code, Sections 1861-76 (National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended) and Section 505 within the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010, authorize this collection. Title 13, United States Code, Sections 224 and 225 require your response and impose a penalty for not responding. The U.S. Census Bureau is required by Section 9 of the same law to keep your information confidential and can use your responses only to produce statistics. In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974 (Title 5 U.S. Code, Section 552a), access to the data is limited to those identified in the Privacy Act System of Record Notice titled “COMMERCE/CENSUS-4, Economic Survey Collection.” The survey collects annual data on the characteristics of U.S. businesses and owners as well as research and development, innovation, and technology. Your information will be used in combination with information from other businesses to produce statistics for your community. The Census Bureau is not permitted to publicly release your responses in a way that could identify your business, organization, or institution. Per the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, your data are protected from cybersecurity risks through screening of the systems that transmit data.
This collection has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The eight-digit 0MB approval number is 0607-1004 and appears at the upper right of this screen. Without this approval we could not conduct this survey.