02-24270. Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

The Department of Commerce has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for emergency clearance the following proposal for collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).

Agency: Technology Administration (TA).

Title: Commercial Space Launch Range User Requirements.

Form Number(s): None.

OMB Approval Number: None.

Type of Review: Emergency.

Burden Hours: 70.

Number of Respondents: 7.

Average Hours Per Response: 10.

Needs and Uses: The information collected would allow the Department of Commerce and the Department of Transportation to follow the terms of a Memorandum of Agreement with the U.S. Air Force. The information will ensure consideration of commercial space launch range users' needs in the U.S. Air Force's range modernization planning.

Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations, not-for-profit institutions, and State, Local or Tribal Government.

Frequency: Biennially.

Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.

OMB Desk Officer: David Rostker, [phone].

Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained by calling or writing Diana Hynek, Departmental Paperwork Clearance Officer, [phone], Department of Commerce, Room 6625, 14th and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at [e-mail]).

Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent by September 30, 2002 to David Rostker, OMB Desk Officer, Room 10202, New Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: September 19, 2002.

Gwellnar Banks,

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.