Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request, 5841-5842 [2011-2285]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 22 / Wednesday, February 2, 2011 / Notices decommissioning services for Progressive Furniture. Workers of Progressive Furniture producing wooden furniture were certified eligible to apply for TAA on the basis of increased company imports of articles like or directly competitive with those manufactured by the worker group at the subject firm. During the reconsideration investigation, the Department determined that the workers at Progressive Furniture, Inc., a Subsidiary of Sauder Furniture, Claremont, North Carolina, who are engaged in employment related to the supply of decommissioning services, have met the criteria of Section 222(a). Conclusion After careful review of the facts provided during the initial investigation, I determine that workers of Progressive Furniture, Inc., Claremont, North Carolina, who are engaged in employment related to the supply of decommissioning services, meet the worker group certification criteria under Section 222(a) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. 2272(a). In accordance with Section 223 of the Act, 19 U.S.C. 2273, I make the following certification: ‘‘All workers of Progressive Furniture, Inc., a Subsidiary of Sauder Furniture, Claremont, North Carolina, who became totally or partially separated from employment on or after March 19, 2009, through two years from the date of this revised certification, and all workers in the group threatened with total or partial separation from employment on date of certification through two years from the date of certification, are eligible to apply for adjustment assistance under Chapter 2 of Title II of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended.’’ Signed in Washington, DC, this 21st day of January, 2011. Del Min Amy Chen, Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance. [FR Doc. 2011–2247 Filed 2–1–11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4510–FN–P NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request National Science Foundation. Submission for OMB review; comment request. AGENCY: srobinson on DSKHWCL6B1PROD with NOTICES ACTION: The National Science Foundation (NSF) has submitted the following information collection requirement to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, SUMMARY: VerDate Mar<15>2010 16:00 Feb 01, 2011 Jkt 223001 Public Law 104–13. This is the second notice for public comment; the first was published in the Federal Register at 75 FR 68829, and no substantial comments were received. NSF is forwarding the proposed renewal submission to OMB for clearance simultaneously with publication of this second notice. The full submission may be found at: https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ PRAMain. Comments regarding: (a) Whether the collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the burden, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology should be addressed to: Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs of OMB, Attention: Desk Officer for National Science Foundation, 725 17th Street, NW., Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503, and to Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports Clearance Officer, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 295, Arlington, VA 22030, or send e-mail to splimpto@nsf.gov. Comments regarding these information collections are best assured of having their full effect if received within 30 days of this notification. Copies of the submission(s) may be obtained by calling (703) 292– 7556. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Suzanne H. Plimpton at (703) 292–7556 or send e-mail to splimpto@nsf.gov. Individuals who use a telecommunications devise for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern time, Monday through Friday. NSF may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless the collection of information displays a currently valid OMB control number and the agency informs potential persons who are to respond to the collection of information that such persons are not required to respond to the collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. Under OMB regulations, NSF may continue to conduct or sponsor the collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB. PO 00000 Frm 00064 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 5841 Title of Collection: EHR Generic Clearance. OMB Approval Number: 3145–0136. Abstract: The National Science Foundation requests renewal of program accountability and communication data collections (e.g., surveys, face-to-face and telephone interviews, observations, and focus groups) that describe and track the impact of NSF funding that focuses on the Nation’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and STEM workforce. NSF funds grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements to colleges, universities, and other eligible institutions, and provides graduate research fellowships to individuals in all parts of the United States and internationally. The Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR), a unit within NSF, promotes rigor and vitality within the Nation’s STEM education enterprise to further the development of the 21st century’s STEM workforce and public scientific literacy. EHR does this through diverse projects and programs that support research, extension, outreach, and hands-on activities that service STEM learning and research at all institutional (e.g., pre-school through postdoctoral) levels in formal and informal settings; and individuals of all ages (birth and beyond). EHR also focuses on broadening participation in STEM learning and careers among United States citizens, permanent residents, and nationals, particularly those individuals traditionally underemployed in the STEM research workforce, including but not limited to women, persons with disabilities, and racial and ethnic minorities. At the request of OMB an EHR Generic Clearance was established in 1995 to integrate management, monitoring, and evaluation information pertaining to the NSF’s Education and Training (E&T) portfolio in response to the Government Performance and Results Acts (GPRA) of 1993. Under this generic survey clearance (OMB 3145–0136), data from the NSF administrative databases are incorporated with findings gathered through initiative-, divisional-, and program-specific data collections. The scope of the EHR Generic Clearance primarily covers descriptive information gathered from education and training projects that are funded by NSF. Most programs subject to EHR Generic data collection are funded by the EHR Directorate, but some are funded in whole or in part by disciplinary directorates or multi-disciplinary or cross-cutting programs. Since 2001 in accordance with OMB’s Terms of SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: E:\FR\FM\02FEN1.SGM 02FEN1 srobinson on DSKHWCL6B1PROD with NOTICES 5842 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 22 / Wednesday, February 2, 2011 / Notices Clearance (TOC), NSF primarily uses the data from the EHR Generic Clearance for program planning, management, and audit purposes to respond to queries from the Congress, the public, NSF’s external merit reviewers who serve as advisors, including Committees of Visitors (COVs), and the NSF’s Office of the Inspector General. OMB has limited the collection to three categories of descriptive data: (1) Staff and project participants (data that are also necessary to determine individual-level treatment and control groups for future third-party study); (2) project implementation characteristics (also necessary for future use to identify well-matched comparison groups); and (3) project outputs (necessary to measure baseline for pre- and postNSF-funding-level impacts). Use of the Information: This information is required for effective administration, communication, program and project monitoring and evaluation, and for measuring attainment of NSF’s program, project, and strategic goals, and as identified by the President’s Accountable Government Initiative; the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010, and the NSF’s Strategic Plan. The Foundation’s FY 2006–2011 Strategic Plan describes four strategic outcome goals of Discovery, Learning, Research Infrastructure, and Stewardship. NSF’s complete strategic plan may be found at: https://www.nsf.gov/publications/ pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf0648. Since the EHR Generic Clearance research is primarily used for accountability purposes, including responding from queries from COVs and other scientific experts, a census rather than sampling design typically is necessary. At the individual project level funding can be adjusted based on individual project’s responses to some of the surveys. Some data collected under the EHR Clearance serve as baseline data for separate research and evaluation studies. In order to conduct program- or portfolio-level evaluations, however, both experimental and quasiexperimental evaluation research studies on STEM education interventions require researchers to identify individual-level and organization- or project-level control and treatment groups or comparison groups. NSF-funded contract or grantee researchers and evaluators in part may identify control, comparison, or treatment groups for NSF’s E&T portfolio using some of the descriptive data gathered through OMB 3145–0136 to conduct well-designed, rigorous VerDate Mar<15>2010 16:00 Feb 01, 2011 Jkt 223001 research and portfolio evaluation studies. In accordance with the 2001, 2005, and 2008 OMB TOCs, NSF requests separate stand-alone clearance (and separately announces for comment in the Federal Register) any program or portfolio research or evaluation. Two examples of third-party evaluations that used EHR OMB 3145–0136 data to inform study design are: OMB No. 3145–0187 (Expiring 8/2011) Evaluation of the NSF’s Graduate STEM Fellows in K–12 Education (GK–12) Program and OMB No. 3145–0182 (Expiring 3/2011) Evaluation of the NSF’s Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Program: Followup Study of IGERT Graduates, both conducted by Abt Associates. Respondents: Individuals or households, not-for-profit institutions, business or other for profit, and Federal, State, local or tribal government. Number of Respondents: 7,470. Burden of the Public: The total estimate for this collection is 49,556 annual burden hours. This figure is based on the previous 3 years of collecting information under this clearance and anticipated collections. The average annual reporting burden is between 1 and 72 hours per ‘‘respondent,’’ depending on whether a respondent is a direct participant who is self-reporting or representing a project and reporting on behalf of many project participants. Dated: January 28, 2011. Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports Clearance Officer, National Science Foundation. [FR Doc. 2011–2285 Filed 2–1–11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7555–01–P OVERSEAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT CORPORATION Sunshine Notice; March 10, 2011 Board of Directors Meeting Thursday, March 10, 2011, 10 a.m. (Open Portion) 10:15 a.m. (Closed Portion). PLACE: Offices of the Corporation, Twelfth Floor Board Room, 1100 New York Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. STATUS: Meeting Open to the Public from 10 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Closed portion will commence at 10:15 a.m. (approx.) MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 1. President’s Report. 2. Approval of September 23, 2010 Minutes (Open Session). 3. Tribute—Sanford L. Gottesman. 4. Confirmations: TIME AND DATE: PO 00000 Frm 00065 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Kevin G. Nealer as Member of Board Audit Committee. Judith D. Pryor as Vice President, Office of External Affairs. FURTHER MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: (Closed to the Public 10:15 a.m.) 1. Reports. 2. Finance Project—Liberia. 3. Finance Project—Georgia. 4. Insurance Project—Ghana. 5. Approval of September 23, 2010 Minutes (Closed Session). 6. Pending Major Projects. Written summaries of the projects to be presented will be posted on OPIC’s Web site on or about February 3, 2011. CONTACT PERSON FOR INFORMATION: Information on the meeting may be obtained from Connie M. Downs at (202) 336–8438. Dated: January 28, 2011. Connie M. Downs, Corporate Secretary, Overseas Private Investment Corporation. [FR Doc. 2011–2310 Filed 1–28–11; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 3210–01–P OVERSEAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT CORPORATION Sunshine Notice; February 24, 2011 Public Hearing 2 p.m., Thursday, February 24, 2011. PLACE: Offices of the Corporation, Twelfth Floor Board Room, 1100 New York Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. STATUS: Hearing Open to the Public at 2 p.m. PURPOSE: Public Hearing in conjunction with each meeting of OPIC’s Board of Directors, to afford an opportunity for any person to present views regarding the activities of the Corporation. PROCEDURES: Individuals wishing to address the hearing orally must provide advance notice to OPIC’s Corporate Secretary no later than 5 p.m. Thursday, February 17, 2011. The notice must include the individual’s name, title, organization, address, and telephone number, and a concise summary of the subject matter to be presented. Oral presentations may not exceed ten (10) minutes. The time for individual presentations may be reduced proportionately, if necessary, to afford all participants who have submitted a timely request an opportunity to be heard. Participants wishing to submit a written statement for the record must submit a copy of such statement to OPIC’s Corporate Secretary no later than 5 p.m. Thursday, February 17, 2011. TIME AND DATE: E:\FR\FM\02FEN1.SGM 02FEN1

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[Notices]
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION


Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request

AGENCY: National Science Foundation.

ACTION: Submission for OMB review; comment request.

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SUMMARY: The National Science Foundation (NSF) has submitted the 
following information collection requirement to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13. This is the second 
notice for public comment; the first was published in the Federal 
Register at 75 FR 68829, and no substantial comments were received. NSF 
is forwarding the proposed renewal submission to OMB for clearance 
simultaneously with publication of this second notice. The full 
submission may be found at: https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 
Comments regarding: (a) Whether the collection of information is 
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, 
including whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) the 
accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden, including the validity 
of the methodology and assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance the 
quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and 
(d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on 
those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate 
automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection 
techniques or other forms of information technology should be addressed 
to: Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs of OMB, Attention: 
Desk Officer for National Science Foundation, 725 17th Street, NW., 
Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503, and to Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports 
Clearance Officer, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, 
Suite 295, Arlington, VA 22030, or send e-mail to splimpto@nsf.gov. 
Comments regarding these information collections are best assured of 
having their full effect if received within 30 days of this 
notification. Copies of the submission(s) may be obtained by calling 
(703) 292-7556.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Suzanne H. Plimpton at (703) 292-7556 
or send e-mail to splimpto@nsf.gov. Individuals who use a 
telecommunications devise for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 
Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339 between 8 a.m. and 8 
p.m., Eastern time, Monday through Friday.
    NSF may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless 
the collection of information displays a currently valid OMB control 
number and the agency informs potential persons who are to respond to 
the collection of information that such persons are not required to 
respond to the collection of information unless it displays a currently 
valid OMB control number. Under OMB regulations, NSF may continue to 
conduct or sponsor the collection of information while this submission 
is pending at OMB.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title of Collection: EHR Generic Clearance.
    OMB Approval Number: 3145-0136.
    Abstract: The National Science Foundation requests renewal of 
program accountability and communication data collections (e.g., 
surveys, face-to-face and telephone interviews, observations, and focus 
groups) that describe and track the impact of NSF funding that focuses 
on the Nation's science, technology, engineering, and mathematics 
(STEM) education and STEM workforce. NSF funds grants, contracts, and 
cooperative agreements to colleges, universities, and other eligible 
institutions, and provides graduate research fellowships to individuals 
in all parts of the United States and internationally.
    The Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR), a unit 
within NSF, promotes rigor and vitality within the Nation's STEM 
education enterprise to further the development of the 21st century's 
STEM workforce and public scientific literacy. EHR does this through 
diverse projects and programs that support research, extension, 
outreach, and hands-on activities that service STEM learning and 
research at all institutional (e.g., pre-school through postdoctoral) 
levels in formal and informal settings; and individuals of all ages 
(birth and beyond). EHR also focuses on broadening participation in 
STEM learning and careers among United States citizens, permanent 
residents, and nationals, particularly those individuals traditionally 
underemployed in the STEM research workforce, including but not limited 
to women, persons with disabilities, and racial and ethnic minorities.
    At the request of OMB an EHR Generic Clearance was established in 
1995 to integrate management, monitoring, and evaluation information 
pertaining to the NSF's Education and Training (E&T) portfolio in 
response to the Government Performance and Results Acts (GPRA) of 1993. 
Under this generic survey clearance (OMB 3145-0136), data from the NSF 
administrative databases are incorporated with findings gathered 
through initiative-, divisional-, and program-specific data 
collections. The scope of the EHR Generic Clearance primarily covers 
descriptive information gathered from education and training projects 
that are funded by NSF. Most programs subject to EHR Generic data 
collection are funded by the EHR Directorate, but some are funded in 
whole or in part by disciplinary directorates or multi-disciplinary or 
cross-cutting programs. Since 2001 in accordance with OMB's Terms of

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Clearance (TOC), NSF primarily uses the data from the EHR Generic 
Clearance for program planning, management, and audit purposes to 
respond to queries from the Congress, the public, NSF's external merit 
reviewers who serve as advisors, including Committees of Visitors 
(COVs), and the NSF's Office of the Inspector General.
    OMB has limited the collection to three categories of descriptive 
data: (1) Staff and project participants (data that are also necessary 
to determine individual-level treatment and control groups for future 
third-party study); (2) project implementation characteristics (also 
necessary for future use to identify well-matched comparison groups); 
and (3) project outputs (necessary to measure baseline for pre- and 
post- NSF-funding-level impacts).
    Use of the Information: This information is required for effective 
administration, communication, program and project monitoring and 
evaluation, and for measuring attainment of NSF's program, project, and 
strategic goals, and as identified by the President's Accountable 
Government Initiative; the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010, and the 
NSF's Strategic Plan. The Foundation's FY 2006-2011 Strategic Plan 
describes four strategic outcome goals of Discovery, Learning, Research 
Infrastructure, and Stewardship. NSF's complete strategic plan may be 
found at: https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf0648.
    Since the EHR Generic Clearance research is primarily used for 
accountability purposes, including responding from queries from COVs 
and other scientific experts, a census rather than sampling design 
typically is necessary. At the individual project level funding can be 
adjusted based on individual project's responses to some of the 
surveys. Some data collected under the EHR Clearance serve as baseline 
data for separate research and evaluation studies.
    In order to conduct program- or portfolio-level evaluations, 
however, both experimental and quasi-experimental evaluation research 
studies on STEM education interventions require researchers to identify 
individual-level and organization- or project-level control and 
treatment groups or comparison groups. NSF-funded contract or grantee 
researchers and evaluators in part may identify control, comparison, or 
treatment groups for NSF's E&T portfolio using some of the descriptive 
data gathered through OMB 3145-0136 to conduct well-designed, rigorous 
research and portfolio evaluation studies.
    In accordance with the 2001, 2005, and 2008 OMB TOCs, NSF requests 
separate stand-alone clearance (and separately announces for comment in 
the Federal Register) any program or portfolio research or evaluation. 
Two examples of third-party evaluations that used EHR OMB 3145-0136 
data to inform study design are: OMB No. 3145-0187 (Expiring 8/2011) 
Evaluation of the NSF's Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12) 
Program and OMB No. 3145-0182 (Expiring 3/2011) Evaluation of the NSF's 
Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) 
Program: Follow-up Study of IGERT Graduates, both conducted by Abt 
Associates.
    Respondents: Individuals or households, not-for-profit 
institutions, business or other for profit, and Federal, State, local 
or tribal government.
    Number of Respondents: 7,470.
    Burden of the Public: The total estimate for this collection is 
49,556 annual burden hours. This figure is based on the previous 3 
years of collecting information under this clearance and anticipated 
collections. The average annual reporting burden is between 1 and 72 
hours per ``respondent,'' depending on whether a respondent is a direct 
participant who is self-reporting or representing a project and 
reporting on behalf of many project participants.

    Dated: January 28, 2011.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science Foundation.
[FR Doc. 2011-2285 Filed 2-1-11; 8:45 am]
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