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Dated: August 19, 2013.
Helen M. Golde,
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Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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Comment Request
The United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) will submit
to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for clearance the following
proposal for collection of information
under the provisions of the Paperwork
Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).
Agency: United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO).
Title: Patent Term Extension.
Form Number(s): None.
Agency Approval Number: 0651–
0020.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Burden: 7,252 hours annually.
Number of Respondents: 1,950
responses per year.
Avg. Hours per Response: The USPTO
estimates that it will take the public
from 1 to 25 hours, depending on the
complexity and type of filing, to gather
the necessary information, prepare the
appropriate documents, and submit the
information to the USPTO.
Needs and Uses: The patent term
restoration portion of the Drug Price
Competition and Patent Term
Restoration Act of 1984 (Pub. L. 98–
417), which is codified at 35 U.S.C. 156,
permits the United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) to extend
the term of protection under a patent to
compensate for delay during regulatory
review and approval by the Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) or
Department of Agriculture. Only patents
for drug products, medical devices, food
additives, or color additives are
potentially eligible for extension. The
maximum length that a patent may be
extended under 35 U.S.C. 156 is five
years. The USPTO administers 35 U.S.C.
156 through 37 CFR 1.710–1.791.
Separate from the extension
provisions of 35 U.S.C. 156, the USPTO
may in some cases extend the term of an
original patent due to certain delays in
the prosecution of the patent
application, including delays caused by
interference proceedings, secrecy
orders, or appellate review by the Patent
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court in which the patent is issued
pursuant to a decision reversing an
adverse determination of patentability.
The patent term provisions of 35 U.S.C.
154(b), as amended by Title IV, Subtitle
D of the Intellectual Property and
Communications Omnibus Reform Act
of 1999, require the USPTO to notify the
applicant of the patent term adjustment
in the notice of allowance and give the
applicant an opportunity to request
reconsideration of the USPTO’s patent
term adjustment determination. The
USPTO administers 35 U.S.C. 154
through 37 CFR 1.701–1.705.
The public uses this information
collection to file requests related to
patent term extensions and
reconsideration or reinstatement of
patent term adjustments. The
information in this collection is used by
the USPTO to consider whether an
applicant is eligible for a patent term
extension or reconsideration of a patent
term adjustment and, if so, to determine
the length of the patent term extension
or adjustment.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profits; not-for-profit institutions.
Frequency: On occasion.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain benefits.
OMB Desk Officer: Nicholas A. Fraser,
email: Nicholas_A._Fraser@
omb.eop.gov.
Once submitted, the request will be
publicly available in electronic format
through the Information Collection
Review page at www.reginfo.gov.
Paper copies can be obtained by:
• Email: InformationCollection@
uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0020 copy
request’’ in the subject line of the
message.
• Mail: Susan K. Fawcett, Records
Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, United States Patent and
Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450,
Alexandria, VA 22313–1450.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent on
or before September 23, 2013 to
Nicholas A. Fraser, OMB Desk Officer,
via email to Nicholas_A._Fraser@
omb.eop.gov, or by fax to 202–395–
5167, marked to the attention of
Nicholas A. Fraser.
Dated: August 19, 2013.
Susan K. Fawcett,
Records Officer, USPTO, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
COMMISSION
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Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Commodity Futures
Trading Commission (‘‘CFTC’’ or
‘‘Commission’’) is announcing an
opportunity for public comment on a
proposed collection of information by
the agency. Under the Paperwork
Reduction Act (‘‘PRA’’), 44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq., Federal agencies are required to
publish notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of
information and to allow 60 days for
public comment. The CFTC’s Office of
Consumer Outreach (‘‘OCO’’) develops
campaigns to change consumer
behaviors so that consumers can better
avoid fraud as defined under the
Commodities Exchange Act. The CFTC
is posing survey questions to the public.
This survey will include screening
questions to identify the correct
respondents and questions to determine
optimal messages to help consumers
identify, avoid, and report financial
fraud as part of a consumer-facing antifraud campaign. This survey will follow
qualitative message testing research (for
which CFTC received fast-track OMB
approval) and is necessary to identify,
with statistical validation, which of
these messages most effectively help
consumers to identify, avoid, and report
financial fraud.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before October 21, 2013.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
regarding the burden estimated or any
other aspect of the information
collection, including suggestions for
reducing the burden, by any of the
following methods:
Agency Web site, via its Comments
Online process: https://
comments.cftc.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments
through the Web site.
Mail: Send to Melissa D. Jurgens,
Secretary of the Commission,
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission, 1155 21st Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20581.
Hand delivery/Courier: Same as Mail
above.
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov/search/index.jsp.
Follow the instructions for submitting
comments.
Please submit your comments using
only one method.
All comments must be submitted in
English, or if not, accompanied by an
SUMMARY:
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English translation. Comments will be
posted as received to https://
www.cftc.gov. You should submit only
information that you wish to make
available publicly. If you wish the
Commission to consider information
that you believe is exempt from
disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act, a petition for
confidential treatment of the exempt
information may be submitted according
to the procedures established in § 145.9
of the Commission’s regulations.1
The Commission reserves the right,
but shall have no obligation, to review,
pre-screen, filter, redact, refuse or
remove any or all of your submission
from https://www.cftc.gov that it may
deem to be inappropriate for
publication, such as obscene language.
All submissions that have been redacted
or removed that contain comments on
the merits of the rulemaking will be
retained in the public comment file and
will be considered as required under the
Administrative Procedure Act and other
applicable laws, and may be accessible
under the Freedom of Information Act.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Nisha Smalls, Consumer Education &
Outreach Specialist, 202–418–5000,
consumers@cftc.gov, Office of Consumer
Outreach, Commodity Futures Trading
Commission, Three Lafayette Centre,
1155 21st Street NW., Washington, DC
20581.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
PRA, federal agencies must obtain
approval from the Office of Management
and Budget (‘‘OMB’’) for each collection
of information they collect or sponsor.
‘‘Collection of information’’ is defined
in 44 U.S.C. 3502(3) as ‘‘the obtaining,
causing to be obtained, soliciting . . .
facts or opinions by or for an agency,
regardless of form or format [from] ten
or more persons.’’ An agency may not
conduct or sponsor, and a person is not
required to respond to, a collection of
information unless it displays a valid
OMB control number.
Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA, 44
U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A), requires federal
agencies to provide a 60-day notice in
the Federal Register for each proposed
collection of information before
submitting the collection to OMB for
approval. Under OMB regulations,
which implement provisions of the
PRA, certain ‘‘facts or opinions
submitted in response to general
solicitations of comments from the
public, published in the Federal
Register or other publications,’’ 5 CFR
1320.3(h)(4), or ‘‘facts or opinions
obtained or solicited at or in connection
with public hearings or meetings,’’ 5
CFR 1320.3(h)(8), are excluded from the
OMB approval process.
In 2010, the Dodd-Frank Act 2
expanded the Commission’s authority
to, among other matters related to
regulatory oversight, establish funding
of consumer education initiatives under
its new Whistleblower authority.3
Under this new authority, the
Commission established an Office of
Consumer Outreach (‘‘OCO’’) to, among
other efforts, survey the public
regarding consumer education
initiatives.4 This notice announces a
public survey. The survey will include
screening questions to identify the
correct respondents and questions to
determine optimal messages to help
consumers identify, avoid, and report
financial fraud as part of a consumerfacing anti-fraud campaign. This survey
will follow qualitative message testing
research (for which CFTC received fasttrack OMB approval) and is necessary to
identify, with statistical validation,
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which of these messages most
effectively help consumers to identify,
avoid, and report financial fraud.
The OCO will use the information
collected in the survey to develop
effective methods to inform the public
on how best to detect and report
financial fraud. This will be done by
creating a final summary report that
combines key findings from both the
survey as well as other qualitative
research.
Findings from the summary report
will be used to inform a directional
document to be used by the OCO that
will include recommendations on
primary messages, support points,
content, overall tone, phrasing and
imagery of outreach efforts on financial
fraud, as well as how to use these
messages in various communications
channels (e.g. online, print, radio, TV
and collateral materials).
The survey will be administered using
an online survey tool. The online
modality approach will allow
presentation of test material to
participants in a more convenient and
time-efficient manner than other
collection methods such as mall
intercepts. The online method also
allows for a quicker turnaround for data
collection. No other collection methods
will be used.
The screening questions will take
about 1 minute to complete. It is
anticipated that 2,200 people will be
screened. The survey will take 15
minutes. 1,100 people will take the 15
minute survey. Based on these
assumptions, the total burden hours will
be 330 hours. This estimate includes the
time to prepare the survey and transmit
it to the Commission. The Commission
estimates the average burden of this
collection of information as follows:
ESTIMATED ANNUAL REPORTING BURDEN HOURS
Annual
Frequency
17 CFR Part 165 ........................................................
2,200
17 CFR Part 165 ........................................................
1,100
Hours per
Total
1 response per respondent.
1 response per respondent.
1 minute per response.
15 minutes per response.
2,200
1,100
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2013, by the Commission.
Melissa D. Jurgens,
Secretary of the Commission.
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CFR 145.9.
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and
Consumer Protection Act, Public Law. 111–203,124
2 See
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Stat. 1376 (2010). The text of the Dodd-Frank Act
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36.7 hours—$96.36
per burden hour.
293.3 hours—$96.36
per burden hour.
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AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``CFTC'' or
``Commission'') is announcing an opportunity for public comment on a
proposed collection of information by the agency. Under the Paperwork
Reduction Act (``PRA''), 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq., Federal agencies are
required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each
proposed collection of information and to allow 60 days for public
comment. The CFTC's Office of Consumer Outreach (``OCO'') develops
campaigns to change consumer behaviors so that consumers can better
avoid fraud as defined under the Commodities Exchange Act. The CFTC is
posing survey questions to the public. This survey will include
screening questions to identify the correct respondents and questions
to determine optimal messages to help consumers identify, avoid, and
report financial fraud as part of a consumer-facing anti-fraud
campaign. This survey will follow qualitative message testing research
(for which CFTC received fast-track OMB approval) and is necessary to
identify, with statistical validation, which of these messages most
effectively help consumers to identify, avoid, and report financial
fraud.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before October 21, 2013.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, regarding the burden estimated or
any other aspect of the information collection, including suggestions
for reducing the burden, by any of the following methods:
Agency Web site, via its Comments Online process: https://comments.cftc.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments
through the Web site.
Mail: Send to Melissa D. Jurgens, Secretary of the Commission,
Commodity Futures Trading Commission, 1155 21st Street NW., Washington,
DC 20581.
Hand delivery/Courier: Same as Mail above.
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov/search/index.jsp. Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
Please submit your comments using only one method.
All comments must be submitted in English, or if not, accompanied
by an
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English translation. Comments will be posted as received to https://www.cftc.gov. You should submit only information that you wish to make
available publicly. If you wish the Commission to consider information
that you believe is exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act, a petition for confidential treatment of the exempt
information may be submitted according to the procedures established in
Sec. 145.9 of the Commission's regulations.\1\
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\1\ 17 CFR 145.9.
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The Commission reserves the right, but shall have no obligation, to
review, pre-screen, filter, redact, refuse or remove any or all of your
submission from https://www.cftc.gov that it may deem to be
inappropriate for publication, such as obscene language. All
submissions that have been redacted or removed that contain comments on
the merits of the rulemaking will be retained in the public comment
file and will be considered as required under the Administrative
Procedure Act and other applicable laws, and may be accessible under
the Freedom of Information Act.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nisha Smalls, Consumer Education &
Outreach Specialist, 202-418-5000, consumers@cftc.gov, Office of
Consumer Outreach, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Three
Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st Street NW., Washington, DC 20581.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the PRA, federal agencies must obtain
approval from the Office of Management and Budget (``OMB'') for each
collection of information they collect or sponsor. ``Collection of
information'' is defined in 44 U.S.C. 3502(3) as ``the obtaining,
causing to be obtained, soliciting . . . facts or opinions by or for an
agency, regardless of form or format [from] ten or more persons.'' An
agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB
control number.
Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A), requires
federal agencies to provide a 60-day notice in the Federal Register for
each proposed collection of information before submitting the
collection to OMB for approval. Under OMB regulations, which implement
provisions of the PRA, certain ``facts or opinions submitted in
response to general solicitations of comments from the public,
published in the Federal Register or other publications,'' 5 CFR
1320.3(h)(4), or ``facts or opinions obtained or solicited at or in
connection with public hearings or meetings,'' 5 CFR 1320.3(h)(8), are
excluded from the OMB approval process.
In 2010, the Dodd-Frank Act \2\ expanded the Commission's authority
to, among other matters related to regulatory oversight, establish
funding of consumer education initiatives under its new Whistleblower
authority.\3\ Under this new authority, the Commission established an
Office of Consumer Outreach (``OCO'') to, among other efforts, survey
the public regarding consumer education initiatives.\4\ This notice
announces a public survey. The survey will include screening questions
to identify the correct respondents and questions to determine optimal
messages to help consumers identify, avoid, and report financial fraud
as part of a consumer-facing anti-fraud campaign. This survey will
follow qualitative message testing research (for which CFTC received
fast-track OMB approval) and is necessary to identify, with statistical
validation, which of these messages most effectively help consumers to
identify, avoid, and report financial fraud.
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\2\ See Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection
Act, Public Law. 111-203,124 Stat. 1376 (2010). The text of the
Dodd-Frank Act may be accessed at https://www.cftc.gov/LawRegulation/DoddFrankAct/index.htm.
\3\ See 7 U.S.C. 26.
\4\ See 17 CFR 165.12.
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The OCO will use the information collected in the survey to develop
effective methods to inform the public on how best to detect and report
financial fraud. This will be done by creating a final summary report
that combines key findings from both the survey as well as other
qualitative research.
Findings from the summary report will be used to inform a
directional document to be used by the OCO that will include
recommendations on primary messages, support points, content, overall
tone, phrasing and imagery of outreach efforts on financial fraud, as
well as how to use these messages in various communications channels
(e.g. online, print, radio, TV and collateral materials).
The survey will be administered using an online survey tool. The
online modality approach will allow presentation of test material to
participants in a more convenient and time-efficient manner than other
collection methods such as mall intercepts. The online method also
allows for a quicker turnaround for data collection. No other
collection methods will be used.
The screening questions will take about 1 minute to complete. It is
anticipated that 2,200 people will be screened. The survey will take 15
minutes. 1,100 people will take the 15 minute survey. Based on these
assumptions, the total burden hours will be 330 hours. This estimate
includes the time to prepare the survey and transmit it to the
Commission. The Commission estimates the average burden of this
collection of information as follows:
Estimated Annual Reporting Burden Hours
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Annual Frequency Hours per Total
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17 CFR Part 165.................... 2,200 1 response per respondent.... 1 minute per response....... 2,200 36.7 hours--$96.36 per burden
hour.
17 CFR Part 165.................... 1,100 1 response per respondent.... 15 minutes per response..... 1,100 293.3 hours--$96.36 per burden
hour.
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Issued in Washington, DC, on August 16, 2013, by the Commission.
Melissa D. Jurgens,
Secretary of the Commission.
[FR Doc. 2013-20419 Filed 8-21-13; 8:45 am]
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