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August 4, 2020 that establish that the
grant of the license would not be
consistent with the requirements
regarding the licensing of federally
owned inventions as set forth in the
Bayh-Dole Act and implementing
regulations. Competing applications
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ADDRESSES: Objections relating to the
prospective license may be submitted to
Mark Homer, Patent Counsel, Office of
the Chief Counsel, NASA Kennedy
Space Center, Mail Code CC, Kennedy
Space Center, FL 32899. Email: kscpatent-counsel@mail.ksc.nasa.gov.
Telephone: 321–867–2076; Facsimile:
321–867–1817.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jonathan Leahy, Patent Attorney, Office
of the Chief Counsel, NASA John F.
Kennedy Space Center, Mail Code CC,
Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899.
Telephone: 321–867–6553; Facsimile:
321–867–1817.
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Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The prospective exclusive patent license
will comply with the requirements of 35
U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR. 404.7.
Information about other NASA
inventions available for licensing can be
found online at https://
technology.nasa.gov.
Helen M. Galus,
Agency Counsel for Intellectual Property.
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SPACE ADMINISTRATION
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Notice of Intent To Grant an Exclusive
Patent License
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA).
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exclusive patent license.
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NASA hereby gives notice of
its intent to grant an exclusive patent
license in the United States to practice
the invention described and claimed in
U.S. Patent No. 9,617,069 entitled
‘‘Thermal Insulation System for NonVacuum Applications Including a
Multilayer Composite,’’ NASA Case
Number KSC–13777, to Cryotek, LLC,
having its principal place of business in
Titusville, Florida. NASA has not yet
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are submitted within the comment
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SUMMARY:
The prospective exclusive
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evidence and argument no later than
August 4, 2020 that establish that the
grant of the license would not be
consistent with the requirements
regarding the licensing of federally
owned inventions as set forth in the
Bayh-Dole Act and implementing
regulations. Competing applications
completed and received by NASA no
later than August 4, 2020 will also be
treated as objections to the grant of the
contemplated partially exclusive
license. Objections submitted in
response to this notice will not be made
available to the public for inspection
and, to the extent permitted by law, will
not be released under the Freedom of
Information Act.
ADDRESSES: Objections relating to the
prospective license may be submitted to
Mark Homer, Patent Counsel, Office of
the Chief Counsel, NASA Kennedy
Space Center, Mail Code CC, Kennedy
Space Center, FL 32899. Email: kscpatent-counsel@mail.ksc.nasa.gov.
Telephone: 321–867–2076; Facsimile:
321–867–1817.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jonathan Leahy, Patent Attorney, Office
of the Chief Counsel, NASA John F.
Kennedy Space Center, Mail Code CC,
Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899.
Telephone: 321–867–6553; Facsimile:
321–867–1817.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice of intent to grant an exclusive
patent license is issued in accordance
with 35 U.S.C. 209(e) and 37 CFR
404.7(a)(1)(i). The patent rights in this
invention have been assigned to the
United States of America as represented
by the Administrator of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The prospective exclusive patent license
will comply with the requirements of 35
U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR. 404.7.
Information about other NASA
inventions available for licensing can be
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found online at https://
technology.nasa.gov.
Helen Galus,
Agency Counsel for Intellectual Property.
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS
ADMINISTRATION
[NARA–2020–053]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Generic Clearance
for the Collection of Qualitative
Feedback on Agency Service Delivery
National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
We are planning to request
that the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) renew its approval for us
to engage in the following generic
information collection request (generic
ICR), and we invite you to comment on
it: ‘‘Generic Clearance for the Collection
of Qualitative Feedback on Agency
Service Delivery.’’ As part of a Federal
Government-wide effort to streamline
the process to seek feedback from the
public on service delivery, we
developed this generic ICR to cover all
of our requests for feedback on our
services.
DATES: We must receive comments in
writing on or before September 18,
2020.
ADDRESSES: Send comments by email to
tamee.fechhelm@nara.gov. Because our
buildings are temporarily closed during
the COVID–19 restrictions, we are not
able to receive comments by mail during
this time.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Tamee Fechhelm, Paperwork Reduction
Act Officer, by email at
tamee.fechhelm@nara.gov or by
telephone at 301.837.1694 with requests
for additional information or copies of
the proposed information collection and
supporting statement.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant
to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(Pub. L. 104–13), we invite the public
and other Federal agencies to comment
on proposed information collections.
The comments and suggestions should
address one or more of the following
points: (a) Whether the proposed
information collections are necessary for
NARA to properly perform its functions;
(b) our estimates of the burden of the
proposed information collections and
their accuracy; (c) ways we could
SUMMARY:
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enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information we collect; (d) ways
we could minimize the burden on
respondents of collecting the
information, including through
information technology; and (e) whether
these collections affect small businesses.
We will summarize any comments
you submit and include the summary in
our request for OMB approval. All
comments will become a matter of
public record. For this reason, please do
not include in your comments
information of a confidential nature,
such as sensitive personal information
or proprietary information.
In this notice, we solicit comments
concerning the following information
collection:
Title: Generic Clearance for the
Collection of Qualitative Feedback on
Agency Service Delivery.
OMB Number: 3095–0070.
Abstract: This information collection
activity provides a means to gather
qualitative customer and stakeholder
feedback in an efficient, timely manner,
in accordance with our commitment to
improving service delivery. By
qualitative feedback, we mean
information that provides useful
insights into customers’ or stakeholders’
perceptions and opinions, but not
statistical surveys that yield quantitative
results that can be generalized to the
population of study. Qualitative
feedback provides insights into
perceptions, experiences, and
expectations, provides an early warning
of issues with service, or focuses
attention on areas where
communication, training or changes in
operations might improve delivery of
products or services. Collecting this
information allows for ongoing,
collaborative, and actionable
communications between NARA and its
customers and stakeholders. It also
allows us to contribute feedback directly
to improving program management.
We collect feedback in areas of service
delivery such as timeliness,
appropriateness, accuracy of
information, plain language, courtesy,
efficiency, and resolution of issues with
service delivery. We use customer
feedback to plan efforts to improve or
maintain the quality of service offered to
the public. If this information is not
collected, vital feedback from customers
and stakeholders on NARA’s services
will be unavailable.
We will only submit a collection for
approval under this generic clearance if
it meets the following conditions:
• The collection is voluntary;
• The collection is low-burden for
respondents (based on considerations of
total burden hours, total number of
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respondents, or burden-hours per
respondent) and is low-cost for both the
respondents and the Federal
Government;
• The collection is non-controversial
and does not raise issues of concern to
other Federal agencies;
• It is targeted to solicit opinions
from respondents who have experience
with the program or may have
experience with the program in the near
future;
• It collects personally identifiable
information (PII) only to the extent
necessary and we will not retain it;
• We will use the information
gathered only internally, for general
service improvement and program
management purposes, and do not
intend to release it outside of the
agency;
• We will not use the information
gathered for substantially informing
influential policy decisions; and
• Information gathered will yield
qualitative information; the collections
will not be designed or expected to
yield statistically reliable results or used
as though the results are generalizable to
the population of study.
Feedback collected under this generic
clearance provides useful information,
but it does not yield data that can be
generalized to the overall population.
This type of generic clearance for
qualitative information will not be used
for quantitative information collections
that are designed to yield reliably
actionable results, such as monitoring
trends over time or documenting
program performance. Such data uses
require more rigorous designs that
address: The target population to which
generalizations will be made, the
sampling frame, the sample design
(including stratification and clustering),
the precision requirements or power
calculations that justify the proposed
sample size, the expected response rate,
methods for assessing potential nonresponse bias, the protocols for data
collection, and any testing procedures
that were or will be undertaken prior to
fielding the study. Depending on the
degree of influence the results are likely
to have, such collections may still be
eligible for submission for other generic
mechanisms that are designed to yield
quantitative results, but do not fall
under the current generic collection.
As a general matter, information
collections under this generic collection
request will not result in any new
system of records containing privacy
information and will not ask questions
of a sensitive nature, such as sexual
behavior and attitudes, religious beliefs,
and other matters that are commonly
considered private.
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Current Actions: OGIS FOIA Program
Compliance Review, NPRC Survey of
Customer Satisfaction, and Training and
Event Evaluations.
Type of Review: Regular.
Affected Public: Individuals and
Households, Businesses and
Organizations, State, Local or Tribal
Government.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
25,000.
Below, we provide projected average
estimates for the next three years:
Swarnali Haldar,
Executive for Information Services/CIO.
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Pursuant to the Federal
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of the Arts Advisory Panel to the
National Council on the Arts will be
held by teleconference or
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approximate.
National Endowment for the
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SW, Washington, DC 20506.
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Further information with reference to
these meetings can be obtained from Ms.
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
[NARA-2020-053]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative
Feedback on Agency Service Delivery
AGENCY: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: We are planning to request that the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) renew its approval for us to engage in the following
generic information collection request (generic ICR), and we invite you
to comment on it: ``Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative
Feedback on Agency Service Delivery.'' As part of a Federal Government-
wide effort to streamline the process to seek feedback from the public
on service delivery, we developed this generic ICR to cover all of our
requests for feedback on our services.
DATES: We must receive comments in writing on or before September 18,
2020.
ADDRESSES: Send comments by email to [email protected]. Because
our buildings are temporarily closed during the COVID-19 restrictions,
we are not able to receive comments by mail during this time.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tamee Fechhelm, Paperwork Reduction
Act Officer, by email at [email protected] or by telephone at
301.837.1694 with requests for additional information or copies of the
proposed information collection and supporting statement.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (Pub. L. 104-13), we invite the public and other Federal agencies
to comment on proposed information collections. The comments and
suggestions should address one or more of the following points: (a)
Whether the proposed information collections are necessary for NARA to
properly perform its functions; (b) our estimates of the burden of the
proposed information collections and their accuracy; (c) ways we could
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enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information we
collect; (d) ways we could minimize the burden on respondents of
collecting the information, including through information technology;
and (e) whether these collections affect small businesses.
We will summarize any comments you submit and include the summary
in our request for OMB approval. All comments will become a matter of
public record. For this reason, please do not include in your comments
information of a confidential nature, such as sensitive personal
information or proprietary information.
In this notice, we solicit comments concerning the following
information collection:
Title: Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback
on Agency Service Delivery.
OMB Number: 3095-0070.
Abstract: This information collection activity provides a means to
gather qualitative customer and stakeholder feedback in an efficient,
timely manner, in accordance with our commitment to improving service
delivery. By qualitative feedback, we mean information that provides
useful insights into customers' or stakeholders' perceptions and
opinions, but not statistical surveys that yield quantitative results
that can be generalized to the population of study. Qualitative
feedback provides insights into perceptions, experiences, and
expectations, provides an early warning of issues with service, or
focuses attention on areas where communication, training or changes in
operations might improve delivery of products or services. Collecting
this information allows for ongoing, collaborative, and actionable
communications between NARA and its customers and stakeholders. It also
allows us to contribute feedback directly to improving program
management.
We collect feedback in areas of service delivery such as
timeliness, appropriateness, accuracy of information, plain language,
courtesy, efficiency, and resolution of issues with service delivery.
We use customer feedback to plan efforts to improve or maintain the
quality of service offered to the public. If this information is not
collected, vital feedback from customers and stakeholders on NARA's
services will be unavailable.
We will only submit a collection for approval under this generic
clearance if it meets the following conditions:
The collection is voluntary;
The collection is low-burden for respondents (based on
considerations of total burden hours, total number of respondents, or
burden-hours per respondent) and is low-cost for both the respondents
and the Federal Government;
The collection is non-controversial and does not raise
issues of concern to other Federal agencies;
It is targeted to solicit opinions from respondents who
have experience with the program or may have experience with the
program in the near future;
It collects personally identifiable information (PII) only
to the extent necessary and we will not retain it;
We will use the information gathered only internally, for
general service improvement and program management purposes, and do not
intend to release it outside of the agency;
We will not use the information gathered for substantially
informing influential policy decisions; and
Information gathered will yield qualitative information;
the collections will not be designed or expected to yield statistically
reliable results or used as though the results are generalizable to the
population of study.
Feedback collected under this generic clearance provides useful
information, but it does not yield data that can be generalized to the
overall population. This type of generic clearance for qualitative
information will not be used for quantitative information collections
that are designed to yield reliably actionable results, such as
monitoring trends over time or documenting program performance. Such
data uses require more rigorous designs that address: The target
population to which generalizations will be made, the sampling frame,
the sample design (including stratification and clustering), the
precision requirements or power calculations that justify the proposed
sample size, the expected response rate, methods for assessing
potential non-response bias, the protocols for data collection, and any
testing procedures that were or will be undertaken prior to fielding
the study. Depending on the degree of influence the results are likely
to have, such collections may still be eligible for submission for
other generic mechanisms that are designed to yield quantitative
results, but do not fall under the current generic collection.
As a general matter, information collections under this generic
collection request will not result in any new system of records
containing privacy information and will not ask questions of a
sensitive nature, such as sexual behavior and attitudes, religious
beliefs, and other matters that are commonly considered private.
Current Actions: OGIS FOIA Program Compliance Review, NPRC Survey
of Customer Satisfaction, and Training and Event Evaluations.
Type of Review: Regular.
Affected Public: Individuals and Households, Businesses and
Organizations, State, Local or Tribal Government.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 25,000.
Below, we provide projected average estimates for the next three
years:
Swarnali Haldar,
Executive for Information Services/CIO.
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