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Dated: March 8, 2017.
Kathy Plowitz-Worden,
Committee Management Officer, National
Endowment for the Arts.
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Comment Request
National Science Foundation.
Submission for OMB review;
comment request.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The National Science
Foundation (NSF) has submitted the
following information collection
requirement to 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 81 FR 91959, and no
comments were received. NSF is
forwarding the proposed submission to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for clearance simultaneously
with the publication of this second
notice. The full submission (including
comments) may be found at: https://
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
COMMENTS: Comments are invited on: (a)
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
Foundation, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of the Foundation’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information; (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 automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology.
DATES: Written comments on this notice
must be received by April 12, 2017, to
be assured consideration. Comments
received after that date will be
considered to the extent practicable.
Send comments to address below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
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
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hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a
year (including federal holidays).
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.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title of Collection: Grantee Reporting
Requirements for the Emerging Frontiers
in Research and Innovation program.
OMB Clearance Number: 3145–0233.
Type of Request: Intent to seek
approval to renew an information
collection system.
Abstract
Proposed Project
The Emerging Frontiers in Research
and Innovation (EFRI) program
recommends, prioritizes, and funds
interdisciplinary initiatives at the
emerging frontier of engineering
research and education. These
investments represent transformative
opportunities, potentially leading to:
New research areas for NSF, ENG, and
other agencies; new industries or
capabilities that result in a leadership
position for the country; and/or
significant progress on a recognized
national need or grand challenge.
Established in 2007, EFRI supports
cutting-edge research that is difficult to
fund through other NSF programs, such
as single-investigator grants or large
research centers. EFRI seeks high-risk
opportunities with the potential for a
large payoff where researchers are
encouraged to stretch beyond their
ongoing activities. Based on input from
workshops, advisory committees,
technical meetings, professional
societies, research proposals, and
suggestions from the research
community the EFRI program identifies
those emerging opportunities and
manages a formal process for funding
their research. The emerging ideas
tackled by EFRI are ‘‘frontier’’ because
they not only push the understood
limits of engineering but actually
overlap multiple fields. The EFRI
funding process inspires investigators
with different expertise to work together
on one emerging concept.
EFRI awards require multidisciplinary teams of at least one
Principal Investigator and two CoPrincipal Investigators. The anticipated
duration of all awards is 4-years. The
anticipated funding level for each
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project team may receive support of up
to a total of $2,000,000 spread over four
years, pending the availability of funds.
In that sense EFRI awards are above the
average single-investigator award
amounts.
EFRI-funded projects could include
research opportunities and mentoring
for educators, scholars, and university
students, as well as outreach programs
that help stir the imagination of K–12
students, often with a focus on groups
underrepresented in science and
engineering.
We are seeking to collect additional
information from the grantees about the
outcomes of their research that goes
above and beyond the standard
reporting requirements used by the NSF
and spans over a period of 5 years after
the award. This data collection effort
will enable program officers to
longitudinally monitor outputs and
outcomes given the unique goals and
purpose of the program. This is very
important to enable appropriate and
accurate evidence-based management of
the program and to determine whether
or not the specific goals of the program
are being met.
Grantees will be required to submit
this information on an annual basis to
support performance review and the
management of EFRI grants by EFRI
officers. EFRI grantees will be required
to submit these indicators to NSF via a
data collection Web site that will be
embedded in NSF’s IT infrastructure.
These indicators are both quantitative
and descriptive and may include, for
example, the characteristics of project
personnel and students; sources of
complementary cash and in-kind
support to the EFRI project;
characteristics of industrial and/or other
sector participation; research activities;
education activities; knowledge transfer
activities; patents, licenses;
publications; descriptions of significant
advances and other outcomes of the
EFRI effort. Such reporting requirements
will be included in the cooperative
agreement which is binding between the
academic institution and the NSF.
Each submission will address the
following major categories of activities:
(1) Knowledge transfer across
disciplines, (2) innovation of ideas in
areas of greater opportunity, (3)
potential for translational research, (4)
project results advance the frontier/
creation of new fields of study, (5)
innovative research methods or
discoveries are introduced to the
classroom, and (6) fostering
participation of underrepresented
groups in science. For each of the
categories, the report will enumerate
specific outputs and outcomes.
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Use of the Information: The data
collected will be used for NSF internal
reports, historical data, and performance
review by peer site visit teams, program
level studies and evaluations, and for
securing future funding for continued
EFRI program maintenance and growth.
Estimate of Burden: Approximately 10
hours per grant for approximately 80
grants per year for a total of 800 hours
per year.
Respondents: Principal Investigators
who lead the EFRI grants.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Report: One report collected for each of
the approximately 80 grantees every
year.
Dated: March 8, 2017.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science
Foundation.
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[NRC–2017–0073]
Non-Light Water Reactor Security
Design Considerations
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Preliminary draft guidance;
request for comment.
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You may submit comments
by any of the following methods (unless
this document describes a different
method for submitting comments on a
specified subject):
• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2017–0073. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol
Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463;
email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For
technical questions, contact the
individual listed in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this
document.
• Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey,
Office of Administration, Mail Stop:
OWFN–12H08, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001.
For additional direction on accessing
information and submitting comments,
see ‘‘Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments’’ in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
George Tartal, Office of New Reactors,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone:
301–415–0016, email: George.Tartal@
nrc.gov.
ADDRESSES:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is issuing for public
comment preliminary draft guidance on
non-light water reactor security design
considerations. The Commission’s
‘‘Policy Statement on the Regulation of
Advanced Reactors’’ states that the
design of advanced reactors should
consider safety and security
requirements together in the design
process such that security issues (e.g.,
newly identified threats of terrorist
attacks) can be effectively resolved
through facility design and engineered
security features, formulation of
mitigation measures, and reduced
reliance on human actions. The NRC’s
preliminary draft guidance document
would set forth a set of ‘‘security design
considerations’’ that a designer should
consider while developing the facility
design.
DATES: Submit comments by April 27,
2017. Comments received after this date
will be considered if it is practical to do
so, but the NRC is able to ensure
consideration only for comments
received on or before this date. Because
this is a preliminary draft, comments
will not be responded to individually
but will be considered by the NRC staff
SUMMARY:
when developing the draft guidance
document.
I. Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2017–
0073 when contacting the NRC about
the availability of information regarding
this action. You may obtain publiclyavailable information related to this
action, by any of the following methods:
• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2017–0073.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
adams.html. To begin the search, select
‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then
select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS
Search.’’ For problems with ADAMS,
please contact the NRC’s Public
Document Room (PDR) reference staff at
1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by
email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The
preliminary draft guidance document is
available in ADAMS under Accession
No. ML16305A328.
• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and
purchase copies of public documents at
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the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC–2017–
0073 in your comment submission.
The NRC cautions you not to include
identifying or contact information that
you do not want to be publicly
disclosed in your comment submission.
The NRC posts all comment
submissions at https://
www.regulations.gov as well as enters
the comment submissions into ADAMS.
The NRC does not routinely edit
comment submissions to remove
identifying or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating
comments from other persons for
submission to the NRC, then you should
inform those persons not to include
identifying or contact information that
they do not want to be publicly
disclosed in their comment submission.
Your request should state that the NRC
does not routinely edit comment
submissions to remove such information
before making the comment
submissions available to the public or
entering the comment submissions into
ADAMS.
II. Additional Information
The NRC is issuing for public
comment preliminary draft guidance on
non-light water reactor security design
considerations. This document would
set forth a set of ‘‘security design
considerations’’ that a designer should
consider while developing the facility
design. Consistent with the
Commission’s ‘‘Policy Statement on the
Regulation of Advanced Reactors,’’
these considerations should be
considered early in the design process.
The preliminary draft guidance
document is available in ADAMS under
Accession No. ML16305A328.
After receiving and considering
comments, the NRC staff intends to
include the security design
considerations in a guidance document
that is being developed for advanced
reactor design criteria for non-light
water reactors (non-LWRs). These
design criteria address the safety aspects
of non-LWRs. The NRC staff intends
that the guidance document will
include both safety design criteria and
security design considerations.
Please note that some of the
referenced documents within the
security design considerations are not
publicly available because they contain
safeguards information, security-related
information, or other types of
information that the NRC cannot release
to the public.
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[FR Doc No: 2017-04889]
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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 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 81 FR 91959, and no comments were received.
NSF is forwarding the proposed submission to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for clearance simultaneously with the publication of
this second notice. The full submission (including comments) may be
found at: https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
COMMENTS: Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection
of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions
of the Foundation, including whether the information will have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the Foundation's estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of information; (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 automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
DATES: Written comments on this notice must be received by April 12,
2017, to be assured consideration. Comments received after that date
will be considered to the extent practicable. Send comments to address
below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 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).
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.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title of Collection: Grantee Reporting Requirements for the
Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation program.
OMB Clearance Number: 3145-0233.
Type of Request: Intent to seek approval to renew an information
collection system.
Abstract
Proposed Project
The Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) program
recommends, prioritizes, and funds interdisciplinary initiatives at the
emerging frontier of engineering research and education. These
investments represent transformative opportunities, potentially leading
to: New research areas for NSF, ENG, and other agencies; new industries
or capabilities that result in a leadership position for the country;
and/or significant progress on a recognized national need or grand
challenge.
Established in 2007, EFRI supports cutting-edge research that is
difficult to fund through other NSF programs, such as single-
investigator grants or large research centers. EFRI seeks high-risk
opportunities with the potential for a large payoff where researchers
are encouraged to stretch beyond their ongoing activities. Based on
input from workshops, advisory committees, technical meetings,
professional societies, research proposals, and suggestions from the
research community the EFRI program identifies those emerging
opportunities and manages a formal process for funding their research.
The emerging ideas tackled by EFRI are ``frontier'' because they not
only push the understood limits of engineering but actually overlap
multiple fields. The EFRI funding process inspires investigators with
different expertise to work together on one emerging concept.
EFRI awards require multi-disciplinary teams of at least one
Principal Investigator and two Co-Principal Investigators. The
anticipated duration of all awards is 4-years. The anticipated funding
level for each project team may receive support of up to a total of
$2,000,000 spread over four years, pending the availability of funds.
In that sense EFRI awards are above the average single-investigator
award amounts.
EFRI-funded projects could include research opportunities and
mentoring for educators, scholars, and university students, as well as
outreach programs that help stir the imagination of K-12 students,
often with a focus on groups underrepresented in science and
engineering.
We are seeking to collect additional information from the grantees
about the outcomes of their research that goes above and beyond the
standard reporting requirements used by the NSF and spans over a period
of 5 years after the award. This data collection effort will enable
program officers to longitudinally monitor outputs and outcomes given
the unique goals and purpose of the program. This is very important to
enable appropriate and accurate evidence-based management of the
program and to determine whether or not the specific goals of the
program are being met.
Grantees will be required to submit this information on an annual
basis to support performance review and the management of EFRI grants
by EFRI officers. EFRI grantees will be required to submit these
indicators to NSF via a data collection Web site that will be embedded
in NSF's IT infrastructure. These indicators are both quantitative and
descriptive and may include, for example, the characteristics of
project personnel and students; sources of complementary cash and in-
kind support to the EFRI project; characteristics of industrial and/or
other sector participation; research activities; education activities;
knowledge transfer activities; patents, licenses; publications;
descriptions of significant advances and other outcomes of the EFRI
effort. Such reporting requirements will be included in the cooperative
agreement which is binding between the academic institution and the
NSF.
Each submission will address the following major categories of
activities: (1) Knowledge transfer across disciplines, (2) innovation
of ideas in areas of greater opportunity, (3) potential for
translational research, (4) project results advance the frontier/
creation of new fields of study, (5) innovative research methods or
discoveries are introduced to the classroom, and (6) fostering
participation of underrepresented groups in science. For each of the
categories, the report will enumerate specific outputs and outcomes.
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Use of the Information: The data collected will be used for NSF
internal reports, historical data, and performance review by peer site
visit teams, program level studies and evaluations, and for securing
future funding for continued EFRI program maintenance and growth.
Estimate of Burden: Approximately 10 hours per grant for
approximately 80 grants per year for a total of 800 hours per year.
Respondents: Principal Investigators who lead the EFRI grants.
Estimated Number of Responses per Report: One report collected for
each of the approximately 80 grantees every year.
Dated: March 8, 2017.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science Foundation.
[FR Doc. 2017-04889 Filed 3-10-17; 8:45 am]
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