95-19640. Agency Forms Under Review by the Office of Management and Budget

[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 153 (Wednesday, August 9, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40561-40563]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-19640]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Agency Forms Under Review by the Office of Management and Budget

    DOC has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget for 
clearance the following proposals for collection of information under 
the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).
    Agency: Bureau of Export Administration (BXA).
    Title: Exception to Order Requirement.
    Agency Form Number: None.
    OMB Approval Number: 0694-0011.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Burden: 3 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 10.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 15 minutes for reporting requirements and 1 
minute for recordkeeping.
    Needs and Uses: An export license application must be based on an 
order from a party in a foreign country. On rare occasions, BXA will 
consider granting a waiver to the order requirement when the exporter 
can show that an exception is warranted. The information collected is 
used to determine if an exception should be granted.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: On occasion, recordkeeping.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain a benefit.
    OMB Desk Officer: Don Arbuckle, [phone].
    Agency: International Trade Administration (ITA).
    Title: Mission - Exhibition Evaluation.
    Agency Form Number: ITA-4075P.
    OMB Approval Number: 0625-0034.
    Type of Request: Extension of the expiration date.
    Burden: 167 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 2,000.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 5 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: In support of its export promotion program, ITA 
sponsors trade events abroad. The purpose of this data collection is 
obtain the views of participants on the success of the respective 
events. ITA uses the information to determine the efficiency, impact, 
and effectiveness of its overseas trade promotion activities.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    OMB Desk Officer: Don Arbuckle, [phone].
    Agency: International Trade Administration (ITA).
    Title: Product Characteristics, Design Checkoff List.
    Agency Form Number: ITA-426P.
    OMB Approval Number: 0625-0035.
    Type of Request: Extension of the expiration date.
    Burden: 1,500 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 3,000.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 30 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: ITA sponsors a number of overseas trade events each 
year. This form is used by U.S. firms participating in the trade fairs 
to indicate physical requirements of their displays.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    OMB Desk Officer: Don Arbuckle, [phone].
    Agency: International Trade Administration (ITA).
    Title: Overseas Business Interest Questionnaire.

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    Agency Form Number: ITA-471P.
    OMB Approval Number: 0625-0039.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Burden: 1,000 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 2,000.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 30 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: This information collection allows U.S. firms 
participating in overseas trade events sponsored by the Department of 
Commerce an opportunity to specifically identify the products they wish 
to promote. The information is used to schedule business appointments 
and to invite foreign companies to trade events.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain a benefit.
    OMB Desk Officer: Don Arbuckle, [phone].
    Agency: International Trade Administration.
    Title: Commercial News USA -- Worldwide Services Program.
    Agency Form Number: ITA-4099P.
    OMB Approval Number: 0625-0127.
    Type of Request: Extension of the expiration date.
    Burden: 167 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 500.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 20 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: This collection allows ITA to promote U.S. services 
available for export in overseas markets as part of its trade promotion 
activities. The information in incorporated into ITA's magazine, 
COMMERCIAL NEWS USA.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain a benefit.
    OMB Desk Officer: Don Arbuckle, [phone].
    Agency: International Trade Administration (ITA).
    Title: Information Services Order Form Program.
    Agency Form Number: ITA-4096P.
    OMB Approval Number: 0625-0143.
    Type of Request: Extension of the expiration date.
    Burden: 1,366 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 7,659.
    Avg Hours Per Response: Varies but ranges between 5 and 60 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The United States and Foreign Commercial Service 
offers their clients programs, market research, and services to enable 
them to begin exporting or to expand existing export efforts. This form 
is design to elicit information so that the trade specialists can make 
recommendations on which services or programs would help the client 
meet individual goals.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain a benefit.
    OMB Desk Officer: Don Arbuckle, [phone].
    Agency: International Trade Administration.
    Title: Advocacy Questionnaire.
    Agency Form Number: ITA-4133P.
    OMB Approval Number: 0625-0220
    Type of Request: Extension of the expiration date.
    Burden: 100 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 200 respondents (multiple responses).
    Avg Hours Per Response: 15 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: ITA's Advocacy Center marshals federal resources to 
assist U.S. firms competing for major procurement worldwide. To provide 
this service, the Advocacy Center must determine whether the U.S. firm 
is eligible for U.S. government advocacy support.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain a benefit.
    OMB Desk Officer: Don Arbuckle, [phone].
    Agency: International Trade Administration (ITA).
    Title: Commerce Trade Fair Privatization Application.
    Agency Form Number: ITA-4134P.
    OMB Approval Number: 0625--0222.
    Type of Request: Extension of the expiration date.
    Burden: 2,400 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 200.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 12 hours.
    Needs and Uses: DOC has identified overseas trade fairs for which 
it seeks to transfer organization and management of U.S. pavilions from 
ITA to U.S. firms or trade associations. The information provided is 
used to assess the qualifications of applicants and to make selections 
for managing U.S. pavilions selected for this privatization effort.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit organizations, not-
for-profit institutions.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain a benefit.
    OMB Desk Officer: Don Arbuckle, [phone].
    Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
    Title: Sea Grant Control.
    Agency Form Number: NOAA 90-1.
    OMB Approval Number: 0648-0008.
    Type of Request: Extension of the expiration date.
    Burden: 20 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 40.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 30 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The information collected identifies the 
participating organizations and personnel in a proposed Sea Grant 
project. It is used in the review of proposals.
    Affected Public: Not-for-profit institutions.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain a benefit.
    OMB Desk Officer: Don Arbuckle, [phone].
    Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
    Title: Monthly Cold Storage Fish Report.
    Agency Form Number: NOAA 88-16.
    OMB Approval Number: 0648-0015.
    Type of Request: Extension of the expiration date.
    Burden: 1,000.
    Number of Respondents: 200 (monthly responses).
    Avg Hours Per Response: 8 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: Data on cold storage of fish holdings are needed by 
the National Marine Fisheries Service for fishery management and 
development purposes, and by industry for the orderly distribution and 
purchase of fishery products.
    Affected Public: Businsses or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: Monthly.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    OMB Desk Officer: Don Arbuckle, [phone].
    Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
    Title: Processed Product Family of Forms.
    Agency Form Number: NOAA 88-13.
    OMB Approval Number: 0648-0018.
    Type of Request: Extension of the expiration date.
    Burden: 617 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 5,141 (some more than 1 response).
    Avg Hours Per Response: Approximately 8 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: Data from seafood processors and wholesale dealers 
are needed by NMFS to develop economic forecasts on the impacts of 
fishery management regulations.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit institutions.
    Frequency: Monthly, annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    OMB Desk Officer: Don Arbuckle, [phone].
    Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
    Title: Pacific Billfish Angler Survey.
    Agency Form Number: 88-10.
    OMB Approval Number: 0648-0020.

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    Type of Request: Extension of the expiration date.
    Burden: 175 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 2,500.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 4 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: Recreational fishermen who have fished for billfish 
in the Pacific Ocean are asked to report on their effort and catch. The 
information obtained is used to determine annual trends and is used in 
domestic and international fishery management discussions and plans.
    Affected Public: Individuals.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    OMB Desk Officer: Don Arbuckle, [phone].
    Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
    Title: Sea Grant Budget.
    Agency Form Number: NOAA 90-4.
    Type of Request: Extension of the expiration date.
    Burden: 200 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 40 (multiple responses).
    Avg Hours Per Response: 15 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The object of the Sea Grant Program is to increase 
the understanding, assessment, development utilization, and 
conservation of the Nation's ocean and coastal resources. Both single 
and multi-project grants are given. The information on the budget form 
is used by both the grantee and grantor to determine the cost of each 
project and to determine the allowability of matching costs offered. 
Also is used in negotiating costs and administrative controls of 
expenditures by both parties.
    Affected Public: Not-for-profit institutions.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain a benefit.
    OMB Desk Officer: Don Arbuckle, [phone].
    Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
    Title: Saltonstall-Kennedy (S-K) Grant Application.
    Agency Form Number: NOAA 88-204 and 88-205.
    OMB Approval Number: 0648-0135.
    Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Burden: 2,566 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 265 (some with multiple responses).
    Avg Hours Per Response: Ranges between 2 and 13 hours depending on 
the requirement.
    Needs and Uses: Under the S-K Act, financial assistance is made 
available through the Secretary of Commerce to the public for projects 
that help to strengthen or develop the U.S. fishing industry. 
Information is needed to decide which projects should be funded and to 
monitor and assess the success of completed projects.
    Affected Public: Individuals, businesses or other for-profit 
organizations, not-for-profit institutions, federal, state, local or 
tribal government.
    Frequency: On occasion, semi-annually, annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain a benefit.
    OMB Desk Officer: Don Arbuckle, [phone].
    Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
    Title: Deep Seabed Mining Regulations for Exploration Licenses.
    Agency Form Number: None.
    OMB Approval Number: 0648-0145.
    Type of Request: Extension of the expiration date.
    Burden: 80 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 4.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 20 hours.
    Needs and Uses: Information is required under the mandate of the 
Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act for the purpose of issuing 
exploration licenses for deep seabed mining. Licensees are required to 
submit an annual report.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    OMB Desk Officer: Don Arbuckle, [phone].
    Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
    Title: Applications and Reports for Registration as a Tanner or 
Agent.
    Agency Form Number: None.
    OMB Approval Number: 0648-0179.
    Type of Request: Extension of the expiration date.
    Burden: 78 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 39.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 2 hours.
    Needs and Uses: Under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, Alaskan 
natives may take marine mammals for subsistence or for creating and 
selling native handicrafts. Possession of marine mammals so taken is 
allowed only to natives or registered agents or tanners. The requested 
information is needed to register the agent or tanner and to monitor 
activities through reports.
    Affected Public: Individuals, businesses or other for-profit 
organizations.
    Frequency: Annually, recordkeeping, on occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    OMB Desk Officer: Don Arbuckle, [phone].
    Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
    Title: GOES Weather Facsimile Transmission System (WEFAX).
    Agency Form Number: None assigned.
    OMB Approval Number: 0648-0227.
    Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Burden: 50 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 300.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 10 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: Respondents are an international user community in 
the public domain who desire to receive and use satellite-derived 
products from GOES, TIROS, GMS, and METESAT satellite. NOAA requires a 
minimal amount of information from respondents in order to determine 
their station location, receiving status, and the satellites to be 
received.
    Affected Public: Individuals, businesses or other for-profit 
organizations, not-for-profit institutions, farms, federal, state, 
local or tribal governments.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain a benefit.
    OMB Desk Officer: Don Arbuckle, [phone].
    Copies of the above information collection proposals can be 
obtained by calling or writing Gerald Tache, DOC Forms Clearance 
Officer, [phone], Department of Commerce, Room 5327, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D. C. 20230.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collections should be sent to Don Arbuckle, OMB Desk Officer, Room 
10202, New Executive Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20503.

    Dated: July 31, 1995
Gerald Tache,
Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of Management and 
Organization.
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