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Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 201 / Thursday, October 17, 2019 / Notices
Secretary for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duties, at U.S.
Department of Commerce, Room 18022,
1401 Constitution Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20230.
Dated: October 9, 2019.
James Maeder,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping
and Countervailing Duty Operations.
[FR Doc. 2019–22692 Filed 10–16–19; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and
Technology
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental Lead PRA Officer, Office of the
Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
The Department of Commerce 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: National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST).
Title: Baldrige Performance Excellent
Program (BPEP) Team Leader Consensus
and Team Leader Site Visit Information
Collections.
OMB Control Number: 0693–0079.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Extension and
revision of a current information
collection.
Number of Respondents: Examiner
Performance Assessment—40 per year;
Team Leader Performance Assessment—
300 per year.
Average Hours per Response:
Examiner Performance Assessment—20
minutes; Team Leader Performance
Assessment—5 minutes.
Burden Hours: Examiner Performance
Assessment—13.5 hours; Team Leader
Performance Assessment—25 hours.
Needs and Uses: The purpose of the
information is to help staff collect data
on the skills of the examiners, including
alumni examiners, in order to best
manage training and selection. Because
the examiner selection is so
competitive, examiners need to
demonstrate competencies such as
understanding the Baldrige Criteria,
team skills, and writing skills. The
program also needs to collect peer-based
information to understand an
examiner’s skill level in order to make
decisions on whether the examiner
should be elevated to ‘‘senior examiner’’
and therefore team leader. The blinded
data will be shared with the team leader
for improvement purposes, and for
future assignments.
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Affected Public: Individual or
Households.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
This information collection request
may be viewed at reginfo.gov. Follow
the instructions to view Department of
Commerce collections currently under
review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to OIRA_Submission@
omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395–5806.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and
Technology
Deprecation of the United States (U.S.)
Survey Foot
The National Institute of
Standards and Technology and the
National Geodetic Survey (NGS),
National Ocean Service (NOS), National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), Department of
Commerce (DOC).
ACTION: Notice; request for comment.
AGENCY:
The National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) and
the National Geodetic Survey (NGS),
National Ocean Service (NOS), National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), are taking
collaborative action to provide national
uniformity in the measurement of
length. This notice announces a
decision to deprecate the use of the
‘‘U.S. survey foot’’ on December 31,
2022. After that date, the ‘‘U.S. survey
foot’’ will be superseded by the ‘‘foot’’
(formerly known as the ‘‘international
foot’’), which is already in use
throughout the U.S. This notice
describes the plan, resources, training,
and other activities of NIST and NOAA
that will assist those affected by this
transition, and invites comments and
other information from land surveyors,
engineers, Federal, State and local
government officials, businesses, and
any other member of the public engaged
in or affected by surveying and mapping
operations.
DATES: Comments and other information
must be received by December 2, 2019.
SUMMARY:
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NIST and NOAA are using
the https://www.regulations.gov system
for the submission and posting of public
comments in this proceeding. All
comments in response to this notice are
therefore to be submitted electronically
through https://www.regulations.gov,
via the web form accessed by following
the ‘‘Submit a Formal Comment’’ link
near the top right of the Federal
Register web page for this notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
U.S. survey foot deprecation
resources: https://www.nist.gov/pml/ussurveyfoot.
Information on standards
development and maintenance:
Elizabeth Gentry, 301–975–3690,
Elizabeth.Gentry@nist.gov.
Technical and historical information
on usage of the foot: Michael Dennis,
240–533–9611, Michael.Dennis@
noaa.gov.
ADDRESSES:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
This action is designed to establish
national uniformity in length
measurements based on the foot. For
more than sixty years, two nearly
identical definitions of the foot have
been in use in the U.S. for geodetic and
land surveys. A Federal Register notice
published on July 1, 1959 (24 FR 5348)
by the National Bureau of Standards
(renamed the National Institute of
Standards and Technology in 1988) and
the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
(reorganized as the National Geodetic
Survey under the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration in 1970)
refined the definition of the yard in
terms of the International System of
Units (SI), commonly known as the
metric system. The 1959 notice was
issued after an international agreement
among six nations resolved a longstanding difference in the relationship
of the U.S. yard to the British yard. The
notice reported that there was a slight
difference (2 parts per million) between
the 1959 definition (i.e., one yard =
0.914 4 meter, exactly) and an 1893
definition (i.e., 1 yard = 3600/3937
meter, or approximately 0.914 401 83
meter).
The 1959 Federal Register notice then
adopted a revised value for the foot for
use throughout the U.S., and identified
it as the ‘‘international foot’’ to show
that it corresponded with the foot in use
by the United Kingdom and other
countries. The notice defined this
international foot as 0.304 8 meter (e.g.,
equal to 0.999 999 8 of the value for the
foot officially adopted in 1893).
Additionally, to avoid disrupting the
surveying practices at the time, the
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
The Department of Commerce 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: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Title: Baldrige Performance Excellent Program (BPEP) Team Leader
Consensus and Team Leader Site Visit Information Collections.
OMB Control Number: 0693-0079.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Extension and revision of a current information
collection.
Number of Respondents: Examiner Performance Assessment--40 per
year; Team Leader Performance Assessment--300 per year.
Average Hours per Response: Examiner Performance Assessment--20
minutes; Team Leader Performance Assessment--5 minutes.
Burden Hours: Examiner Performance Assessment--13.5 hours; Team
Leader Performance Assessment--25 hours.
Needs and Uses: The purpose of the information is to help staff
collect data on the skills of the examiners, including alumni
examiners, in order to best manage training and selection. Because the
examiner selection is so competitive, examiners need to demonstrate
competencies such as understanding the Baldrige Criteria, team skills,
and writing skills. The program also needs to collect peer-based
information to understand an examiner's skill level in order to make
decisions on whether the examiner should be elevated to ``senior
examiner'' and therefore team leader. The blinded data will be shared
with the team leader for improvement purposes, and for future
assignments.
Affected Public: Individual or Households.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
This information collection request may be viewed at reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view Department of Commerce collections
currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice
to [email protected] or fax to (202) 395-5806.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental Lead PRA Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer,
Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2019-22620 Filed 10-16-19; 8:45 am]
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