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Notice and request for
comments.
ACTION:
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Research Service
Agricultural Research Service,
USDA.
ACTION: Notice of intent.
AGENCY:
Notice is hereby given that
the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Agricultural Research Service, intends
to grant to Arkion Life Sciences LLC of
New Castle, Delaware, an exclusive
license to U.S. Patent Application Serial
No. 13/755,671, ‘‘ULTRAVIOLET
STRATEGY FOR AVIAN
REPELLENCY’’, filed on January 31,
2013.
SUMMARY:
Comments must be received on
or before April 4, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to: USDA,
ARS, Office of Technology Transfer,
5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Rm. 4–1174,
Beltsville, Maryland 20705–5131.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: June
Blalock of the Office of Technology
Transfer at the Beltsville address given
above; telephone: 301–504–5989.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Federal Government’s patent rights in
this invention are assigned to the United
States of America, as represented by the
Secretary of Agriculture. It is in the
public interest to so license this
invention as Arkion Life Sciences LLC
of New Castle, Delaware has submitted
a complete and sufficient application for
a license. The prospective exclusive
license will be royalty-bearing and will
comply with the terms and conditions
of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7. The
prospective exclusive license may be
granted unless, within thirty (30) days
from the date of this published Notice,
the Agricultural Research Service
receives written evidence and argument
which establishes that the grant of the
license would not be consistent with the
requirements of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37
CFR 404.7.
DATES:
Mojdeh Bahar,
Assistant Administrator.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Economic Research Service
Notice of Request for Approval of a
New Information Collection
AGENCY:
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In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35), this notice
announces the Economic Research
Service’s intention to request approval
for a new information collection for the
study of ‘‘Census of Users of the
National Plant Germplasm System.’’
This is a new collection to provide
information on usage and expectations
of future use among requestors of
genetic resources from USDA’s National
Plant Germplasm System.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by May 5, 2014 to be assured
of consideration.
Additional Information or Comments:
Address all comments concerning this
notice to Kelly Day Rubenstein,
Resource and Rural Economics Division,
Economic Research Service, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Mail Stop
1800, 1400 Independence Ave. SW.,
Washington, DC 20250. Comments may
also be submitted via fax to the attention
of Kelly Day Rubenstein at 202–694–
4847 or via email to kday@ers.usda.gov.
For further information contact Kelly
Day Rubenstein at the address above, or
telephone 202–694–5515.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Census of Users of the National
Plant Germplasm System.
OMB Number: 0536–XXXX.
Expiration Date of Approval: Three
years from approval date.
Type of Request: New information
collection.
Abstract: The Census of Users of the
National Plant Germplasm System will
solicit data from the 7,207 institutional
representatives who requested
germplasm (i.e., living tissue from
which plants can be grown) for any of
ten crops including beans, barley,
cotton, maize, sorghum, squash,
soybeans, potato, rice, and wheat from
the National Plant Germplasm System
over a five year period. Each respondent
will be asked to provide information via
a web-based questionnaire. Legislative
authority for the planned data collection
is 7 U.S.C. 2204(a) and 7 U.S.C. 2661.
The information to be collected by the
‘‘Census of Users of the National Plant
Germplasm System’’ is necessary to
assess and understand the types and
varieties of germplasm needed by
breeders and other scientists in both the
public and private sectors. This study
will provide data not currently available
to program officials and researchers,
thereby broadening the scope of
economic analyses of genetic
enhancement, and in turn, enhancing
R&D and productivity research at the
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Economic Research Service (ERS), the
National Plant Germplasm System, and
the National Germplasm Resource
Laboratory. The database would contain
a wealth of empirical information on
germplasm use in breeding and
research. This includes information by
specific crops (e.g., the use of landraces
in corn breeding, the search for biotic
tolerance in wheat); the quantity of
germplasm by type and purpose;
institutional needs for germplasm (both
public and private); and requestors’
anticipated future use. This information
will also assess biological traits that are
needed for adaptation to climate change.
Agriculture is highly geographyspecific, given that growing regions vary
by rainfall and temperature conditions,
pest and disease pressures, and soil
types. Accordingly, plant breeders work
to develop unique varieties for different
geographic locations. As a result, each
requestor of NPGS germplasm is likely
to have one characteristic—geographic
location—which is unique and
important to that institution’s use of this
germplasm, particularly in the context
of global climate change. Moreover, it
would be difficult to get adequate
representation of the matrix of crops,
germplasm types, and locations for
some smaller crops (e.g., squash)
without conducting a census of all
germplasm requestors to the NPGS for
any of the ten crops.
A web-based instrument will be used
for information collection. It will be
kept as simple and respondent-friendly
as possible. Responses are voluntary.
The study instrument is based on a
mailed paper-based instrument used in
the 2000 study, ‘‘Demand for Genetic
Resources from the National Plant
Germplasm System.’’ It was jointly
developed by International Food Policy
Research Institute (IFPRI), Auburn
University’s Department of Agricultural
Economics and Rural Sociology, the
National Germplasm Resources Lab of
the National Plant Germplasm System,
and the Economic Research Service. The
instrument used in the 2000 study was
administered by IFPRI and Auburn
University and had a response rate of
35%. Study design for currently
proposed study is consistent with that
of the 2000 study in order to make
comparisons across time. The frame for
this census comprises all germplasm
requestors to the NPGS for any of the
ten crops in the last five years. Although
the NPGS provided germplasm to any
requestor free of cost, it also informed
potential requestors and received their
consent, at the time of a request was
made, that their information could be
used for activities relating to the service
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Research Service
Notice of Intent To Grant Exclusive License
AGENCY: Agricultural Research Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of intent.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, intends to grant to Arkion
Life Sciences LLC of New Castle, Delaware, an exclusive license to U.S.
Patent Application Serial No. 13/755,671, ``ULTRAVIOLET STRATEGY FOR
AVIAN REPELLENCY'', filed on January 31, 2013.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before April 4, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to: USDA, ARS, Office of Technology Transfer,
5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Rm. 4-1174, Beltsville, Maryland 20705-5131.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: June Blalock of the Office of
Technology Transfer at the Beltsville address given above; telephone:
301-504-5989.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Federal Government's patent rights in
this invention are assigned to the United States of America, as
represented by the Secretary of Agriculture. It is in the public
interest to so license this invention as Arkion Life Sciences LLC of
New Castle, Delaware has submitted a complete and sufficient
application for a license. The prospective exclusive license will be
royalty-bearing and will comply with the terms and conditions of 35
U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7. The prospective exclusive license may be
granted unless, within thirty (30) days from the date of this published
Notice, the Agricultural Research Service receives written evidence and
argument which establishes that the grant of the license would not be
consistent with the requirements of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7.
Mojdeh Bahar,
Assistant Administrator.
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