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Download as PDF 45196 Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 144 / Friday, July 26, 2013 / Notices experience and resources, and it would take several years for a third-party provider to complete the development process and begin supplying AGBs for the PW1100G. This delay would make such third-party entry insufficient to prevent any potential anticompetitive effects from the proposed transaction. Similarly, entry into the market for engines powering the A320neo is also unlikely to deter or counter the anticompetitive effects of the proposed transaction. The design and production of an aircraft engine, along with the necessary certification of that engine on the aircraft platform, takes many years and a large financial investment. tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES V. Effects of the Acquisition The proposed transaction, if consummated, would provide GE with both the ability and the incentive to disrupt the design and certification of the Avio-supplied AGB for the Pratt & Whitney PW1100G engine. A delay in the development of the PW1100G engine would substantially increase GE’s market power for the sale of engines for the A320neo, as it manufactures the only other engine option for that aircraft. In response to such a delay, a significant number of Pratt &Whitney customers would likely switch to the CFM Leap 1–A, and GE would likely use its increased market power to raise price, reduce quality, or delay delivery of engines to customers of the A320neo aircraft. VI. The Consent Agreement The proposed Consent Agreement remedies the acquisition’s likely anticompetitive effects by removing GE’s ability and incentive to disrupt Avio’s AGB work during the design, certification, and initial production ramp-up phase. The proposed Consent Agreement incorporates portions of a recent commercial agreement between GE, Avio, and Pratt & Whitney and Pratt & Whitney’s original contract with Avio that relate to the design and development of the AGB and related parts for the PW1100G. A breach by GE of these aspects of these agreements therefore would constitute a violation of the Consent Agreement. The Consent Agreement further requires GE not to interfere with Avio staffing decisions as they relate to work on the AGB for the PW1100G. It allows Pratt & Whitney to have a technical representative and a customer representative on-site at GE/Avio’s facility to observe work on the PW1100G AGB. In addition, should Pratt & Whitney terminate its agreement with Avio, GE will be required to provide certain transition services, VerDate Mar<15>2010 18:54 Jul 25, 2013 Jkt 229001 including licenses to intellectual property and access to specialized Avio tools, to help Pratt & Whitney or a thirdparty supplier produce AGBs and related parts for the PW1100G. The Consent Agreement also contains a firewall provision that limits GE’s access, through Avio, to Pratt & Whitney’s proprietary information relating to the AGB. Finally, the Consent Agreement allows for the appointment of an FTC-approved monitor to oversee GE’s compliance with its obligations under the Consent Agreement. The purpose of this analysis is to facilitate public comment on the proposed Consent Agreement, and it is not intended to constitute an official interpretation of the proposed Consent Agreement or to modify its terms in any way. By direction of the Commission, Commissioner Wright recused. Donald S. Clark Secretary. [FR Doc. 2013–17947 Filed 7–25–13; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6750–01–P DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION [OMB Control No. 9000–0090; Docket 2012– 0076; Sequence 71] Federal Acquisition Regulation; Information Collection; Rights in Data and Copyrights Department of Defense (DOD), General Services Administration (GSA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). ACTION: Notice of request for public comments regarding an extension to an existing OMB clearance. AGENCY: Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Regulatory Secretariat will be submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a previously approved information collection requirement concerning rights in data and copyrights. DATES: Submit comments on or before September 24, 2013. ADDRESSES: Submit comments identified by Information Collection 9000–0090, Rights in Data and Copyrights, by any of the following methods: SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00028 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 • Regulations.gov: https:// www.regulations.gov. Submit comments via the Federal eRulemaking portal by searching the OMB control number. Select the link ‘‘Submit a Comment’’ that corresponds with ‘‘Information Collection 9000– 0090, Rights in Data and Copyrights’’. Follow the instructions provided at the ‘‘Submit a Comment’’ screen. Please include your name, company name (if any), and ‘‘Information Collection 9000– 0090, Rights in Data and Copyrights’’ on your attached document. • Fax: 202–501–4067. • Mail: General Services Administration, Regulatory Secretariat (MVCB), 1800 F Street NW., Washington, DC 20405. ATTN: Hada Flowers/IC 9000–0090, Rights in Data and Copyrights. Instructions: Please submit comments only and cite Information Collection 9000–0090, Rights in Data and Copyrights, in all correspondence related to this collection. All comments received will be posted without change to https://www.regulations.gov, including any personal and/or business confidential information provided. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Marissa Petrusek, Procurement Analyst, Contract Policy Branch, GSA (202) 501– 0136 or email marissa.petrusek@gsa.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A. Purpose Subpart 27.4, Rights in Data and Copyrights is a regulation which concerns the rights of the Government and contractors with whom the Government contracts, regarding the use, reproduction, and disclosure of information developed under such contracts. The delineation of such rights is necessary in order to protect the contractor’s rights to not disclose proprietary data and to ensure that data developed with public funds is available to the public. The specific clauses associated with this information collection are as follows: (1) FAR 52.227–15, Representation of Limited Rights Data and Restricted Computer Software. This clauses is included in solicitations if the contracting officer requires an offeror to state whether limited rights data or restricted computer software are likely to be used in meeting the requirements. FAR 52.227–15 requires the contractor to identify whether data proposed for fulfilling the requirements is limited to data rights or restricted software. If the government does not receive unlimited rights, the contractor must provide a list of the data not covered. This E:\FR\FM\26JYN1.SGM 26JYN1 tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 144 / Friday, July 26, 2013 / Notices information is submitted with a contractor’s proposal to the Government. The Government uses the information to identify when there are only limited data rights or restricted software rights. (2) FAR 52.227–16, Additional Data Requirements. This clause is included in all contracts for experimental, developmental, research, or demonstration work (other than basic or applied research to be performed solely by a university or college where the contract amount will be $500,000 or less). The clause requires that the contractor keep all data first produced in the performance of the contract for a period of three years from the final acceptance of all items delivered under the contract. FAR 52.227–16 allows the Government to require delivery of data not initially asked for at anytime during the contract and up to three years after completion. All data covered by this clause is paid for by the Government. FAR 52.227–16 also requires a recordkeeping burden from the contractor to maintain data first produced or specifically used in performance of the contract within three years after acceptance of all items delivered under the contract. Much of this data will be in the form of the deliverables provided to the Government under the contract (final report, drawings, specifications, etc.). Some data, however, will be in the form of computations, preliminary data, records of experiments, etc., and these will be the data that will be required to be kept over and above the deliverables. The purpose of such recordkeeping requirements is to ensure that the Government can fully evaluate the research in order to ascertain future activities and to ensure that the research was completed and fully reported, as well as to give the public an opportunity to assess the research results and secure any additional information. When FAR 52.227–16 was first proposed, comments were received from educational institutions, which stated that requiring their investigators to keep records of unlimited rights data for three years after acceptance of deliverables was unreasonable because investigators do not segregate their research by contract, but rather combine it with other data to continue their research. In light of this, a $500,000 threshold was adopted after surveying the major civilian R&D agencies, whose data suggested that the average value of an R&D contract ranged between $250,000 to $300,000; commensurate with other clause thresholds (e.g., small business subcontracting). Thus, for most R&D VerDate Mar<15>2010 18:54 Jul 25, 2013 Jkt 229001 contracts with universities, no recordkeeping is required. (3) FAR 52.227–17, Rights in DataSpecial Works. This clause is included in solicitations and contracts primarily for production or compilation of data. FAR 52.227–17 is used in rare and exceptional circumstances to permit the Government to limit the Contractor’s rights in data by preventing the release, distribution and publication of any data first produced in the performance of the contract. This clause may also be limited to particular items and not the entire contract. (4) FAR 52.227–18, Rights in DataExisting Works. This clause is included in contracts for audiovisual or similar works. FAR 52.227–18 is used when the Government is acquiring existing audiovisual or similar works, such as books, without modification. This clause requires contractors to grant license for the Government to reproduce, prepare derivative works, and perform or display the materials publically. (5) FAR 52.227–19, Commercial Computer Software License. This clause is used in contracts and purchase orders for the acquisition of commercial software. FAR 52.227–19 requires the Government to set forth the minimum data rights it requires above and beyond what is set forth in the contractor’s standard commercial license. The contractor is responsible for affixing a notice on any commercial software delivered under the contract that provides notice that the Government’s rights regarding the data are set forth in the contract. (6) FAR 52.227–20, Rights in Data— SBIR Program. This clause is only required for small business innovation research (SBIR) contracts and it limits the Government’s rights to disclose data first produced under the contract. (7) FAR 52.227–21, Technical Data Declaration, Revisions and Withholding of Payment—Major Systems. This clause requires the contractor to certify that the data delivered under the contract is complete, accurate and compliant with the requirements of the contract. (8) FAR 52.227–22 Major Systems— Minimum Rights. This clause is used in Civilian Agency Contracts, except for NASA and Coast Guard, providing the Government unlimited rights in any technical data, other than computer software, developed in the performance of the contract and related to a major system or supplies for a major system. As this provision is for major systems only, and few civilian agencies have such major systems, only about 30 contracts will require this certification. PO 00000 Frm 00029 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 45197 (9) FAR 52.227–23, Rights to Proposal Data (technical). This clause allows the Government to identify pages of a proposal that, as a condition of contact award, would be subject to unlimited rights in the technical data. (10) FAR 52.227–14, Rights in Data— General. Paragraph (d) outlines a procedure whereby a contracting officer can challenge restrictive markings on data delivered. Under civilian agency contracts, limited rights data or restricted computer software is rarely, if ever, delivered to the Government. Therefore, there will rarely be any challenges. Thus, there is no burden on the public and no information collection associated with this clause. B. Annual Reporting Burden A reassessment of the rights in data and copyright provisions was performed. Based on the comprehensive reassessment performed, this information collection requirement represents a decrease from what was published in the Federal Register at 75 FR 27782 on May 18, 2010. The decrease is most likely a result of increased use of Governmentwide contracts including the GSA Federal Supply Schedule contracts, an increased use of commercial products since the inception of the clauses, and budget constraints over the last several years that have reduced research and development budgets and the ability to purchase costly data rights. There is no centralized database in the Federal Government that maintains information regarding the use of rights in data and copyright clauses. Subject matter experts in the intellectual property law field were consulted to obtain additional information that helped in estimating the revised public burden. FedBizOpps was searched to determine the use of these clauses in competitive contract solicitations throughout the Government. The Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) was used to determine the likely contracts that would contain rights in data and copyright provisions. An assumption was made that sole source contracts citing the existence of limited rights in data, patent rights, copyrights or secret processes would contain the rights in data and copyright clauses, and were used as the basis for this information collection. Consequently, the FPDS data formed the basis for the estimated the number of respondents per year based on the likely contracts awarded that would include the applicable clauses associated with this collection (52.227–15 through 52.227– 23). The estimated number of contracts was then totaled to determine the E:\FR\FM\26JYN1.SGM 26JYN1 45198 Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 144 / Friday, July 26, 2013 / Notices overall number of respondents associated with this collection. Estimates were based on the total number of unique contractors awarded a sole source contract based on the existence of limited rights in data, patent rights, copyrights or secret processes. Similarly, FPDS data was used to estimate the number of responses per respondent for this collection. The estimate was based on the average number of actions per contractor and rounded to the nearest whole number. The estimates were then averaged to determine the overall number of responses per respondent associated with this collection. One burden hour was estimated per response to read and prepare information. No public comments were received in prior years that have challenged the validity of the Government’s estimate. Respondents: 419. Responses Per Respondent: 2.76. Annual Responses: 1,156. Hours Per Response: 1. Total Burden Hours: 1,156. C. Annual Recordkeeping Burden The annual recordkeeping burden is estimated as follows: Recordkeepers: 446. Responses: 5. Annual Response: 2,230. Hours per Recordkeeper: 2. Total Recordkeeping Burden Hours: 4,460. Obtaining Copies of Proposals: Requesters may obtain a copy of the information collection documents from the General Services Administration, Regulatory Secretariat (MVCB), 9000– 0090, Rights in Data and Copyrights, telephone (202) 501–4755. Please cite OMB Control No. 9000–0090, Rights in Data and Copyrights, in all correspondence. Dated: July 18, 2013. Karlos Morgan, Acting Director, Federal Acquisition Policy Division, Office of Governmentwide Acquisition Policy, Office of Acquisition Policy, Office of Governmentwide Policy. [FR Doc. 2013–17941 Filed 7–25–13; 8:45 am] tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES BILLING CODE 6820–EP–P VerDate Mar<15>2010 18:54 Jul 25, 2013 Jkt 229001 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION [Docket 2012–0076; Sequence 47; OMB Control No. 9000–0091] Federal Acquisition Regulation; Submission for OMB Review; AntiKickback Procedures Department of Defense (DOD), General Services Administration (GSA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). ACTION: Notice of request for public comments regarding an extension of an existing OMB clearance. AGENCY: Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Regulatory Secretariat will be submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a previously approved information collection requirement concerning antikickback procedures. A notice was published in the Federal Register at 77 FR 75164, on December 19, 2012. One respondent submitted comments. DATES: Submit comments on or before August 26, 2013. ADDRESSES: Submit comments identified by Information Collection 9000–0091, Anti-Kickback Procedures, by any of the following methods: • Regulations.gov: https:// www.regulations.gov. Submit comments via the Federal eRulemaking portal by searching the OMB control number. Select the link ‘‘Submit a Comment’’ that corresponds with ‘‘Information Collection 9000– 0091, Anti-Kickback Procedures’’. Follow the instructions provided at the ‘‘Submit a Comment’’ screen. Please include your name, company name (if any), and ‘‘Information Collection 9000– 0091, Anti-Kickback Procedures’’ on your attached document. • Fax: 202–501–4067. • Mail: General Services Administration, Regulatory Secretariat (MVCB), 1800 F Street Street NW., Washington, DC 20405–0001. ATTN: Hada Flowers/IC 9000–0091, AntiKickback Procedures. Instructions: Please submit comments only and cite Information Collection 9000–0091, Anti-Kickback Procedures, in all correspondence related to this collection. All comments received will be posted without change to https:// www.regulations.gov, including any SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00030 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 personal and/or business confidential information provided. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Cecelia L. Davis, Procurement Analyst, Office of Governmentwide Acquisition Policy, GSA, (202) 219–0202 or email Cecelia.davis@gsa.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A. Purpose Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 52.203–7, Anti-Kickback Procedures, requires that all contractors have in place and follow reasonable procedures designed to prevent and detect in its own operations and direct business relationships, violations of 41 U.S.C. chapter 87, Kickbacks. Whenever prime contractors or subcontractors have reasonable grounds to believe that a violation of the statute may have occurred, they are required to report the possible violation in writing to the contracting agency inspector general, the head of the contracting agency if an agency does not have an inspector general, or the Department of Justice. The information is used to determine if any violations of the statute have occurred. There is no Governmentwide data collection process or system which identifies the number of alleged violations of 41 U.S.C. chapter 87, Kickbacks that are reported annually to agency inspectors general, the heads of the contracting agency if an agency does not have an inspector general, or the Department of Justice. B. Discussion and Analysis The analysis of the public comment is summarized as follows: Comment: The respondent commented that the extension of the information collection would violate the fundamental purposes of the Paperwork Reduction Act because of the burden it puts on the entity submitting the information and the agency collecting the information. Response: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), agencies can request OMB approval of an existing information collection. The PRA requires that agencies use the Federal Register notice and comment process, to extend OMB’s approval, at least every three years. This extension, to a previously approved information collection, pertains to the requirements at FAR 52.203–7((c)(2), which requires contractors and subcontractors to promptly report possible violations of the Kickbacks statute to the Government. There are no aspects of this requirement that can be reduced or eliminated without negatively E:\FR\FM\26JYN1.SGM 26JYN1

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

[OMB Control No. 9000-0090; Docket 2012-0076; Sequence 71]


Federal Acquisition Regulation; Information Collection; Rights in 
Data and Copyrights

AGENCY: Department of Defense (DOD), General Services Administration 
(GSA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

ACTION: Notice of request for public comments regarding an extension to 
an existing OMB clearance.

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SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, the 
Regulatory Secretariat will be submitting to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a 
previously approved information collection requirement concerning 
rights in data and copyrights.

DATES: Submit comments on or before September 24, 2013.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments identified by Information Collection 9000-
0090, Rights in Data and Copyrights, by any of the following methods:
     Regulations.gov: https://www.regulations.gov.
    Submit comments via the Federal eRulemaking portal by searching the 
OMB control number. Select the link ``Submit a Comment'' that 
corresponds with ``Information Collection 9000-0090, Rights in Data and 
Copyrights''. Follow the instructions provided at the ``Submit a 
Comment'' screen. Please include your name, company name (if any), and 
``Information Collection 9000-0090, Rights in Data and Copyrights'' on 
your attached document.
     Fax: 202-501-4067.
     Mail: General Services Administration, Regulatory 
Secretariat (MVCB), 1800 F Street NW., Washington, DC 20405. ATTN: Hada 
Flowers/IC 9000-0090, Rights in Data and Copyrights.
    Instructions: Please submit comments only and cite Information 
Collection 9000-0090, Rights in Data and Copyrights, in all 
correspondence related to this collection. All comments received will 
be posted without change to https://www.regulations.gov, including any 
personal and/or business confidential information provided.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Marissa Petrusek, Procurement 
Analyst, Contract Policy Branch, GSA (202) 501-0136 or email 
marissa.petrusek@gsa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

A. Purpose

    Subpart 27.4, Rights in Data and Copyrights is a regulation which 
concerns the rights of the Government and contractors with whom the 
Government contracts, regarding the use, reproduction, and disclosure 
of information developed under such contracts. The delineation of such 
rights is necessary in order to protect the contractor's rights to not 
disclose proprietary data and to ensure that data developed with public 
funds is available to the public. The specific clauses associated with 
this information collection are as follows:
    (1) FAR 52.227-15, Representation of Limited Rights Data and 
Restricted Computer Software. This clauses is included in solicitations 
if the contracting officer requires an offeror to state whether limited 
rights data or restricted computer software are likely to be used in 
meeting the requirements. FAR 52.227-15 requires the contractor to 
identify whether data proposed for fulfilling the requirements is 
limited to data rights or restricted software. If the government does 
not receive unlimited rights, the contractor must provide a list of the 
data not covered. This

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information is submitted with a contractor's proposal to the 
Government. The Government uses the information to identify when there 
are only limited data rights or restricted software rights.
    (2) FAR 52.227-16, Additional Data Requirements. This clause is 
included in all contracts for experimental, developmental, research, or 
demonstration work (other than basic or applied research to be 
performed solely by a university or college where the contract amount 
will be $500,000 or less). The clause requires that the contractor keep 
all data first produced in the performance of the contract for a period 
of three years from the final acceptance of all items delivered under 
the contract.
    FAR 52.227-16 allows the Government to require delivery of data not 
initially asked for at anytime during the contract and up to three 
years after completion. All data covered by this clause is paid for by 
the Government. FAR 52.227-16 also requires a record-keeping burden 
from the contractor to maintain data first produced or specifically 
used in performance of the contract within three years after acceptance 
of all items delivered under the contract. Much of this data will be in 
the form of the deliverables provided to the Government under the 
contract (final report, drawings, specifications, etc.). Some data, 
however, will be in the form of computations, preliminary data, records 
of experiments, etc., and these will be the data that will be required 
to be kept over and above the deliverables. The purpose of such 
recordkeeping requirements is to ensure that the Government can fully 
evaluate the research in order to ascertain future activities and to 
ensure that the research was completed and fully reported, as well as 
to give the public an opportunity to assess the research results and 
secure any additional information.
    When FAR 52.227-16 was first proposed, comments were received from 
educational institutions, which stated that requiring their 
investigators to keep records of unlimited rights data for three years 
after acceptance of deliverables was unreasonable because investigators 
do not segregate their research by contract, but rather combine it with 
other data to continue their research. In light of this, a $500,000 
threshold was adopted after surveying the major civilian R&D agencies, 
whose data suggested that the average value of an R&D contract ranged 
between $250,000 to $300,000; commensurate with other clause thresholds 
(e.g., small business subcontracting). Thus, for most R&D contracts 
with universities, no recordkeeping is required.
    (3) FAR 52.227-17, Rights in Data-Special Works. This clause is 
included in solicitations and contracts primarily for production or 
compilation of data. FAR 52.227-17 is used in rare and exceptional 
circumstances to permit the Government to limit the Contractor's rights 
in data by preventing the release, distribution and publication of any 
data first produced in the performance of the contract. This clause may 
also be limited to particular items and not the entire contract.
    (4) FAR 52.227-18, Rights in Data-Existing Works. This clause is 
included in contracts for audiovisual or similar works. FAR 52.227-18 
is used when the Government is acquiring existing audiovisual or 
similar works, such as books, without modification. This clause 
requires contractors to grant license for the Government to reproduce, 
prepare derivative works, and perform or display the materials 
publically.
    (5) FAR 52.227-19, Commercial Computer Software License. This 
clause is used in contracts and purchase orders for the acquisition of 
commercial software. FAR 52.227-19 requires the Government to set forth 
the minimum data rights it requires above and beyond what is set forth 
in the contractor's standard commercial license. The contractor is 
responsible for affixing a notice on any commercial software delivered 
under the contract that provides notice that the Government's rights 
regarding the data are set forth in the contract.
    (6) FAR 52.227-20, Rights in Data--SBIR Program. This clause is 
only required for small business innovation research (SBIR) contracts 
and it limits the Government's rights to disclose data first produced 
under the contract.
    (7) FAR 52.227-21, Technical Data Declaration, Revisions and 
Withholding of Payment--Major Systems. This clause requires the 
contractor to certify that the data delivered under the contract is 
complete, accurate and compliant with the requirements of the contract.
    (8) FAR 52.227-22 Major Systems--Minimum Rights. This clause is 
used in Civilian Agency Contracts, except for NASA and Coast Guard, 
providing the Government unlimited rights in any technical data, other 
than computer software, developed in the performance of the contract 
and related to a major system or supplies for a major system. As this 
provision is for major systems only, and few civilian agencies have 
such major systems, only about 30 contracts will require this 
certification.
    (9) FAR 52.227-23, Rights to Proposal Data (technical). This clause 
allows the Government to identify pages of a proposal that, as a 
condition of contact award, would be subject to unlimited rights in the 
technical data.
    (10) FAR 52.227-14, Rights in Data--General. Paragraph (d) outlines 
a procedure whereby a contracting officer can challenge restrictive 
markings on data delivered. Under civilian agency contracts, limited 
rights data or restricted computer software is rarely, if ever, 
delivered to the Government. Therefore, there will rarely be any 
challenges. Thus, there is no burden on the public and no information 
collection associated with this clause.

B. Annual Reporting Burden

    A reassessment of the rights in data and copyright provisions was 
performed. Based on the comprehensive reassessment performed, this 
information collection requirement represents a decrease from what was 
published in the Federal Register at 75 FR 27782 on May 18, 2010. The 
decrease is most likely a result of increased use of Governmentwide 
contracts including the GSA Federal Supply Schedule contracts, an 
increased use of commercial products since the inception of the 
clauses, and budget constraints over the last several years that have 
reduced research and development budgets and the ability to purchase 
costly data rights.
    There is no centralized database in the Federal Government that 
maintains information regarding the use of rights in data and copyright 
clauses. Subject matter experts in the intellectual property law field 
were consulted to obtain additional information that helped in 
estimating the revised public burden. FedBizOpps was searched to 
determine the use of these clauses in competitive contract 
solicitations throughout the Government. The Federal Procurement Data 
System (FPDS) was used to determine the likely contracts that would 
contain rights in data and copyright provisions. An assumption was made 
that sole source contracts citing the existence of limited rights in 
data, patent rights, copyrights or secret processes would contain the 
rights in data and copyright clauses, and were used as the basis for 
this information collection. Consequently, the FPDS data formed the 
basis for the estimated the number of respondents per year based on the 
likely contracts awarded that would include the applicable clauses 
associated with this collection (52.227-15 through 52.227-23). The 
estimated number of contracts was then totaled to determine the

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overall number of respondents associated with this collection. 
Estimates were based on the total number of unique contractors awarded 
a sole source contract based on the existence of limited rights in 
data, patent rights, copyrights or secret processes. Similarly, FPDS 
data was used to estimate the number of responses per respondent for 
this collection. The estimate was based on the average number of 
actions per contractor and rounded to the nearest whole number. The 
estimates were then averaged to determine the overall number of 
responses per respondent associated with this collection. One burden 
hour was estimated per response to read and prepare information. No 
public comments were received in prior years that have challenged the 
validity of the Government's estimate.
    Respondents: 419.
    Responses Per Respondent: 2.76.
    Annual Responses: 1,156.
    Hours Per Response: 1.
    Total Burden Hours: 1,156.

C. Annual Recordkeeping Burden

    The annual recordkeeping burden is estimated as follows:
    Recordkeepers: 446.
    Responses: 5.
    Annual Response: 2,230.
    Hours per Recordkeeper: 2.
    Total Recordkeeping Burden Hours: 4,460.
    Obtaining Copies of Proposals: Requesters may obtain a copy of the 
information collection documents from the General Services 
Administration, Regulatory Secretariat (MVCB), 9000-0090, Rights in 
Data and Copyrights, telephone (202) 501-4755. Please cite OMB Control 
No. 9000-0090, Rights in Data and Copyrights, in all correspondence.

    Dated: July 18, 2013.
Karlos Morgan,
Acting Director, Federal Acquisition Policy Division, Office of 
Governmentwide Acquisition Policy, Office of Acquisition Policy, Office 
of Governmentwide Policy.
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