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TABLE 1—CURRENT PRA OMB NUMBERS, EXPIRATION DATES, AND INFORMATION COLLECTION TITLES INCLUDED IN THIS
NOTICE
OMB Control No.
Expiration date
3145–0101 ...............................................
3145–0019 * .............................................
3145–0020 ...............................................
3145–0100 * .............................................
3145–0141 ** ...........................................
3145–0174 * .............................................
3145–0235 ...............................................
08/31/2018
05/31/2018
08/31/2018
09/30/2019
05/31/2018
07/31/2019
06/30/2017
Information collection title
Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities.
Survey of Earned Doctorates.
Survey of Doctorate Recipients.
Higher Education R&D Survey.
National Survey of College Graduates.
Generic Clearance of Survey Improvement Projects . . .
Early Career Doctorates Survey.
* Indicates information collections that are expected to be in the field during the period covered by the 6-month emergency clearance.
** This information collection was also named in a Federal Register Notice from the U.S. Census Bureau (81 FR 94321), since that agency
collects data on NSF’s behalf.
Dated: February 2, 2017.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science
Foundation.
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Notice and Request for Comments
National Science Foundation.
Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104–
13 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the National
Science Foundation (NSF) is inviting
the general public or other Federal
agencies to comment on a proposed
addition to its confidentiality pledge,
presented on surveys conducted by the
National Center for Science and
Engineering Statistics (NCSES). These
revisions are required by the passage
and implementation of provisions of the
Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act
of 2015 (H.R. 2029, Division N, Title II,
Subtitle B, Sec. 223), which permit and
require the Secretary for the Department
of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide
Federal civilian agencies’ information
technology systems with cybersecurity
protection for their Internet traffic.
Comments: Comments are invited on:
(a) The proposed confidentiality
pledge’s fit for use by NCSES, and (b)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the pledge.
DATES: Written comments on this notice
must be received by April 10, 2017 to
be assured consideration. Comments
received after that date will be
considered to the extent practicable.
Send comments to address below.
ADDRESSES: Written comments
regarding the information collection and
requests for copies of the proposed
information collection request should be
addressed to Suzanne Plimpton, Reports
Clearance Officer, National Science
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Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm.
1265, Arlington, VA 22230, or by email
to splimpto@nsf.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports Clearance
Officer, National Science Foundation,
4201 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1265,
Arlington, Virginia 22230; telephone
(703) 292–7556; or send email to
splimpto@nsf.gov. Individuals who use
a telecommunications device for the
deaf (TDD) may call the Federal
Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–
800–877–8339, which is accessible 24
hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a
year (including Federal holidays).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Federal statistics provide key
information that the Nation uses to
measure its performance and make
informed choices about budgets,
employment, health, investments, taxes,
and a host of other significant topics.
The overwhelming majority of Federal
surveys are conducted on a voluntary
basis. Respondents, ranging from
businesses to households to institutions,
may choose whether to provide the
requested information. Many of the
most valuable Federal statistics come
from surveys that ask for highly
sensitive information such as
proprietary business data from
companies or particularly personal
information or practices from
individuals. Strong and trusted
confidentiality and exclusively
statistical use pledges under the CIPSEA
and similar statistical confidentiality
pledges are effective and necessary in
honoring the trust that businesses,
individuals, and institutions, by their
responses, place in statistical agencies.
Under the CIPSEA and similar
statistical confidentiality protection
statutes, many Federal statistical
agencies make statutory pledges that the
information respondents provide will be
seen only by statistical agency
personnel or their sworn agents, and
will be used only for statistical
purposes. The CIPSEA and similar
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statutes protect the confidentiality of
information that agencies collect solely
for statistical purposes and under a
pledge of confidentiality. These Acts
protect such statistical information from
administrative, law enforcement,
taxation, regulatory, or any other nonstatistical use and immunize the
information submitted to statistical
agencies from many legal processes.
Moreover, statutes like the CIPSEA carry
criminal penalties of a Class E felony
(fines up to $250,000, or up to five years
in prison, or both) for conviction of a
knowing and willful unauthorized
disclosure of covered information.
As part of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2016
signed on December 17, 2015, the
Congress enacted the Federal
Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015
(H.R. 2029, Division N, Title II, Subtitle
B, Sec. 223). This Act, among other
provisions, requires the Secretary of
Homeland Security to provide Federal
civilian agencies’ information
technology systems with cybersecurity
protection for their Internet traffic. The
DHS cybersecurity program’s objective
is to protect Federal civilian information
systems from malicious malware
attacks. The Federal statistical system’s
objective is to ensure that the DHS
Secretary performs those essential
duties in a manner that honors the
Government’s statutory promises to the
public to protect their confidential data.
Given that the DHS is not a Federal
statistical agency, both DHS and the
Federal statistical system have been
successfully engaged in finding a way to
balance both objectives and achieve
these mutually reinforcing objectives.
As required by passage of the Federal
Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of
2015, the Federal statistical community
will implement DHS’ cybersecurity
protection program, called Einstein.
The technology currently used to
provide this protection against cyber
malware electronically searches Internet
traffic in and out of Federal civilian
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agencies in real time for malware
signatures. When such a signature is
found, the Internet packets that contain
the malware signature are shunted aside
for further inspection by DHS
personnel. Because it is possible that
such packets entering or leaving a
statistical agency’s information
technology system may contain
confidential statistical data, statistical
agencies can no longer promise their
respondents that their responses will be
seen only by statistical agency
personnel or their sworn agents.
However, they can promise, in
accordance with provisions of the
Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act
of 2015, that such monitoring can be
used only to protect information and
information systems from cybersecurity
risks, thereby, in effect, providing
stronger protection to the security and
integrity of the respondents’
submissions.
Accordingly, DHS and Federal
statistical agencies have developed a
Memorandum of Agreement for the
installation of Einstein cybersecurity
protection technology to monitor their
Internet traffic.
In a separate Federal Register Notice,
NSF notified the public that the
confidentiality pledge for NCSES
surveys was being revised, effective
immediately. Table 1 contains a listing
of the current numbers and information
collection titles for those NSF programs
whose confidentiality pledges will
change to reflect the statutory
implementation of DHS’ Einstein
monitoring for cybersecurity protection
purposes. For the Information
Collections listed in the table below,
NSF statistical confidentiality pledges
will be modified to include the
following sentence, ‘‘Per the Federal
Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of
2015, your data are protected from
cybersecurity risks through screening of
the systems that transmit your data.’’
TABLE 1—CURRENT PRA OMB NUMBERS, EXPIRATION DATES, AND INFORMATION COLLECTION TITLES INCLUDED IN THIS
NOTICE
OMB Control No.
3145–0101 ..............
3145–0019 ..............
3145–0020 ..............
3145–0100 ..............
3145–0141 * ............
3145–0174 ..............
3145–0235 ..............
Expiration date
08/31/2018
05/31/2018
08/31/2018
09/30/2019
05/31/2018
07/31/2019
06/30/2017
Information collection title
.............
.............
.............
.............
.............
.............
.............
Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities (Facilities).
Survey of Earned Doctorates.
Survey of Doctorate Recipients.
Higher Education R&D Survey.
National Survey of College Graduates.
Generic Clearance of Survey Improvement Projects.
Early Career Doctorates Survey.
* This information collection was also named in a Federal Register Notice from the U.S. Census Bureau (81 FR 94321), since that agency collects data on NSF’s behalf.
Dated: February 2, 2017.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science
Foundation.
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Advisory Committee on Reactor
Safeguards (ACRS); Meeting of the
ACRS Subcommittee on APR 1400;
Notice of Meeting
The ACRS Subcommittee on APR
1400 will hold a meeting on February
24, 2017, Room T–2B1, 11545 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland.
The meeting will be open to public
attendance with the exception of
portions that may be closed to protect
information that is proprietary pursuant
to 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4). The agenda for
the subject meeting shall be as follows:
Friday, February 24, 2017—8:30 a.m.
until 12:00 p.m.
The Subcommittee will review the
APR 1400 Safety Evaluation Report with
Open Items—Chapter 12, ‘‘Radiation
Protection.’’ The Subcommittee will
hear presentations by and hold
discussions with the NRC staff and
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regarding this matter. The
Subcommittee will gather information,
analyze relevant issues and facts, and
formulate proposed positions and
actions, as appropriate, for deliberation
by the Full Committee.
Members of the public desiring to
provide oral statements and/or written
comments should notify the Designated
Federal Official (DFO), Christopher
Brown (Telephone 301–415–7111 or
Email: Christopher.Brown@nrc.gov) five
days prior to the meeting, if possible, so
that appropriate arrangements can be
made. Thirty-five hard copies of each
presentation or handout should be
provided to the DFO thirty minutes
before the meeting. In addition, one
electronic copy of each presentation
should be emailed to the DFO one day
before the meeting. If an electronic copy
cannot be provided within this
timeframe, presenters should provide
the DFO with a CD containing each
presentation at least thirty minutes
before the meeting. Electronic
recordings will be permitted only
during those portions of the meeting
that are open to the public. Detailed
procedures for the conduct of and
participation in ACRS meetings were
published in the Federal Register on
October 17, 2016, (81 FR 71543).
Detailed meeting agendas and meeting
transcripts are available on the NRC
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Web site at https://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/doc-collections/acrs. Information
regarding topics to be discussed,
changes to the agenda, whether the
meeting has been canceled or
rescheduled, and the time allotted to
present oral statements can be obtained
from the Web site cited above or by
contacting the identified DFO.
Moreover, in view of the possibility that
the schedule for ACRS meetings may be
adjusted by the Chairman as necessary
to facilitate the conduct of the meeting,
persons planning to attend should check
with these references if such
rescheduling would result in a major
inconvenience.
If attending this meeting, please enter
through the One White Flint North
building, 11555 Rockville Pike,
Rockville, Maryland. After registering
with Security, please contact Mr.
Theron Brown (Telephone 240–888–
9835) to be escorted to the meeting
room.
Dated: February 1, 2017.
Mark L. Banks,
Chief, Technical Support Branch, Advisory
Committee on Reactor Safeguards.
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Notice and Request for Comments
AGENCY: National Science Foundation.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13
(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the National Science Foundation (NSF) is
inviting the general public or other Federal agencies to comment on a
proposed addition to its confidentiality pledge, presented on surveys
conducted by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
(NCSES). These revisions are required by the passage and implementation
of provisions of the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015
(H.R. 2029, Division N, Title II, Subtitle B, Sec. 223), which permit
and require the Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
to provide Federal civilian agencies' information technology systems
with cybersecurity protection for their Internet traffic.
Comments: Comments are invited on: (a) The proposed confidentiality
pledge's fit for use by NCSES, and (b) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the pledge.
DATES: Written comments on this notice must be received by April 10,
2017 to be assured consideration. Comments received after that date
will be considered to the extent practicable. Send comments to address
below.
ADDRESSES: Written comments regarding the information collection and
requests for copies of the proposed information collection request
should be addressed to Suzanne Plimpton, Reports Clearance Officer,
National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm. 1265, Arlington, VA
22230, or by email to splimpto@nsf.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports
Clearance Officer, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard,
Suite 1265, Arlington, Virginia 22230; telephone (703) 292-7556; or
send email to splimpto@nsf.gov. Individuals who use a
telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal
Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339, which is accessible
24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year (including Federal
holidays).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Federal statistics provide key information that the Nation uses to
measure its performance and make informed choices about budgets,
employment, health, investments, taxes, and a host of other significant
topics. The overwhelming majority of Federal surveys are conducted on a
voluntary basis. Respondents, ranging from businesses to households to
institutions, may choose whether to provide the requested information.
Many of the most valuable Federal statistics come from surveys that ask
for highly sensitive information such as proprietary business data from
companies or particularly personal information or practices from
individuals. Strong and trusted confidentiality and exclusively
statistical use pledges under the CIPSEA and similar statistical
confidentiality pledges are effective and necessary in honoring the
trust that businesses, individuals, and institutions, by their
responses, place in statistical agencies.
Under the CIPSEA and similar statistical confidentiality protection
statutes, many Federal statistical agencies make statutory pledges that
the information respondents provide will be seen only by statistical
agency personnel or their sworn agents, and will be used only for
statistical purposes. The CIPSEA and similar statutes protect the
confidentiality of information that agencies collect solely for
statistical purposes and under a pledge of confidentiality. These Acts
protect such statistical information from administrative, law
enforcement, taxation, regulatory, or any other non-statistical use and
immunize the information submitted to statistical agencies from many
legal processes. Moreover, statutes like the CIPSEA carry criminal
penalties of a Class E felony (fines up to $250,000, or up to five
years in prison, or both) for conviction of a knowing and willful
unauthorized disclosure of covered information.
As part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2016
signed on December 17, 2015, the Congress enacted the Federal
Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015 (H.R. 2029, Division N, Title II,
Subtitle B, Sec. 223). This Act, among other provisions, requires the
Secretary of Homeland Security to provide Federal civilian agencies'
information technology systems with cybersecurity protection for their
Internet traffic. The DHS cybersecurity program's objective is to
protect Federal civilian information systems from malicious malware
attacks. The Federal statistical system's objective is to ensure that
the DHS Secretary performs those essential duties in a manner that
honors the Government's statutory promises to the public to protect
their confidential data. Given that the DHS is not a Federal
statistical agency, both DHS and the Federal statistical system have
been successfully engaged in finding a way to balance both objectives
and achieve these mutually reinforcing objectives.
As required by passage of the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act
of 2015, the Federal statistical community will implement DHS'
cybersecurity protection program, called Einstein.
The technology currently used to provide this protection against
cyber malware electronically searches Internet traffic in and out of
Federal civilian
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agencies in real time for malware signatures. When such a signature is
found, the Internet packets that contain the malware signature are
shunted aside for further inspection by DHS personnel. Because it is
possible that such packets entering or leaving a statistical agency's
information technology system may contain confidential statistical
data, statistical agencies can no longer promise their respondents that
their responses will be seen only by statistical agency personnel or
their sworn agents. However, they can promise, in accordance with
provisions of the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, that
such monitoring can be used only to protect information and information
systems from cybersecurity risks, thereby, in effect, providing
stronger protection to the security and integrity of the respondents'
submissions.
Accordingly, DHS and Federal statistical agencies have developed a
Memorandum of Agreement for the installation of Einstein cybersecurity
protection technology to monitor their Internet traffic.
In a separate Federal Register Notice, NSF notified the public that
the confidentiality pledge for NCSES surveys was being revised,
effective immediately. Table 1 contains a listing of the current
numbers and information collection titles for those NSF programs whose
confidentiality pledges will change to reflect the statutory
implementation of DHS' Einstein monitoring for cybersecurity protection
purposes. For the Information Collections listed in the table below,
NSF statistical confidentiality pledges will be modified to include the
following sentence, ``Per the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of
2015, your data are protected from cybersecurity risks through
screening of the systems that transmit your data.''
Table 1--Current PRA OMB Numbers, Expiration Dates, and Information
Collection Titles Included in This Notice
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Information collection
OMB Control No. Expiration date title
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3145-0101................... 08/31/2018..... Survey of Science and
Engineering Research
Facilities (Facilities).
3145-0019................... 05/31/2018..... Survey of Earned
Doctorates.
3145-0020................... 08/31/2018..... Survey of Doctorate
Recipients.
3145-0100................... 09/30/2019..... Higher Education R&D
Survey.
3145-0141 *................. 05/31/2018..... National Survey of
College Graduates.
3145-0174................... 07/31/2019..... Generic Clearance of
Survey Improvement
Projects.
3145-0235................... 06/30/2017..... Early Career Doctorates
Survey.
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* This information collection was also named in a Federal Register
Notice from the U.S. Census Bureau (81 FR 94321), since that agency
collects data on NSF's behalf.
Dated: February 2, 2017.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science Foundation.
[FR Doc. 2017-02461 Filed 2-6-17; 8:45 am]
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