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application for patent and, when
appropriate, issue a patent. The USPTO
is also required to publish patent
applications, with certain exceptions,
promptly after the expiration of a period
of 18 months from the earliest filing
date for which a benefit is sought under
Title 35, U.S.C. (‘‘eighteen-month
publication’’). Certain situations may
arise which require that additional
information be supplied in order for the
USPTO to further process the patent or
application. The USPTO administers the
statutes through various sections of the
rules of practice in 37 CFR part 1. The
information in this collection can be
used by the USPTO to continue the
processing of the patent or application
to ensure that applicants are complying
with the patent regulations and to aid in
the prosecution of the application.
Affected Public: Private sector;
individuals or households.
Frequency: On occasion.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain benefits.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view
Department of Commerce, USPTO
information collections currently under
review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for this information
collection should be submitted within
30 days of the publication of this notice
on the following website
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Find this particular information
collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under
30-day Review—Open for Public
Comments’’ or by using the search
function and entering either the title of
the information collection or the OMB
Control Number 0651–0031.
Further information can be obtained
by:
• Email: InformationCollection@
uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0031
information request’’ in the subject line
of the message.
• Mail: Kimberly Hardy, Office of the
Chief Administrative Officer, United
States Patent and Trademark Office,
P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313–
1450.
Kimberly Hardy,
Information Collections Officer, Office of the
Chief Administrative Officer, United States
Patent and Trademark Office.
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CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Comment Request;
Application Package for AmeriCorps
VISTA Application and Reporting
Forms
Corporation for National and
Community Service (CNCS).
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
CNCS is proposing a revised
information collection.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the individual and office
listed in the ADDRESSES section by
January 29, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by the title of the information
collection activity, by any of the
following methods:
(1) By mail sent to: Corporation for
National and Community Service,
Attention Kelly Daly, 250 E Street SW,
Washington, DC 20525.
(2) By hand delivery or by courier to
the CNCS mailroom at the mail address
given in paragraph (1) above, between
9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time,
Monday through Friday, except federal
holidays.
(3) Electronically through
www.regulations.gov.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice may be made available to the
public through regulations.gov. For this
reason, please do not include in your
comments information of a confidential
nature, such as sensitive personal
information or proprietary information.
If you send an email comment, your
email address will be automatically
captured and included as part of the
comment that is placed in the public
docket and made available on the
internet. Please note that responses to
this public comment request containing
any routine notice about the
confidentiality of the communication
will be treated as public comment that
may be made available to the public,
notwithstanding the inclusion of the
routine notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kelly Daly, 202–606–6849, or by email
at kdaly@cns.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title of
Collection: AmeriCorps VISTA
Application and Reporting Forms.
OMB Control Number: 3045–0038.
Type of Review: Revision.
SUMMARY:
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Respondents/Affected Public:
Organizations and State, Local or Tribal
Governments.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 850.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 20,450.
Abstract: AmeriCorps VISTA is
revising its application and reporting
forms to remove duplicative questions,
improve readability, and reflect changes
in reporting requirements. The VISTA
Progress Report and Progress Report
Supplement allow sponsors to report on
their programmatic and performance
progress. CNCS also seeks to continue
using the currently approved
information collection until the new
information collection is approved by
OMB. The currently approved
information collection is due to expire
on March 31, 2021.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval. Comments are invited on: (a)
Whether the collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
collection of information; (c) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected; (d)
ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents, including through the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology;
and (e) estimates of capital or start-up
costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services
to provide information. Burden means
the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to
generate, maintain, retain, disclose or
provide information to or for a Federal
agency. This includes the time needed
to review instructions; to develop,
acquire, install and utilize technology
and systems for the purpose of
collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search
data sources, to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information. All written comments will
be available for public inspection on
regulations.gov.
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Dated: November 20, 2020.
Desiree Tucker-Sorini,
Director, AmeriCorps VISTA.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Comment Request;
Application Package for Renewal of
Generic Information Collection for Pilot
and Test Data
Corporation for National and
Community Service.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Corporation for National and
Community Service (operating as
AmeriCorps) is proposing to renew an
information collection.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the individual and office
listed in the ADDRESSES section by
January 29, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by the title of the information
collection activity, by any of the
following methods:
(1) By mail sent to: Corporation for
National and Community Service;
Attention Amy Borgstrom; 250 E Street
SW, Washington, DC 20525.
(2) By hand delivery or by courier to
the AmeriCorps mailroom at Room 8100
at the mail address given in paragraph
(1) above, between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00
p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through
Friday, except federal holidays.
(3) Electronically through
www.regulations.gov.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice may be made available to the
public through regulations.gov. For this
reason, please do not include in your
comments information of a confidential
nature, such as sensitive personal
information or proprietary information.
If you send an email comment, your
email address will be automatically
captured and included as part of the
comment that is placed in the public
docket and made available on the
internet. Please note that responses to
this public comment request containing
any routine notice about the
confidentiality of the communication
will be treated as public comment that
may be made available to the public
notwithstanding the inclusion of the
routine notice.
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Amy Borgstrom, 202–606–6930, or by
email at aborgstrom@cns.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title of Collection: Generic Clearance
for the Testing/Piloting of Survey
Instruments.
OMB Control Number: 3045–0163.
Type of Review: Renewal.
Respondents/Affected Public:
Individuals and Households; Businesses
and Organizations; State, Local or Tribal
Governments.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Respondents: 350.
Total Estimated Annual Frequency:
Annual.
Total Estimated Average Response
Time per Response: 7,500 minutes for
50 respondents to respond to test or
pilot surveys. 300 minutes for 50
participants to participate in five focus
groups. 3,000 minutes for 50
participants to participate in individual
interviews.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 10,800.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):
None.
Total Burden Cost (operating/
maintenance): None.
Abstract: AmeriCorps seeks to renew
this generic information collection in
order to conduct focus groups and pilot
test planned surveys. The information
collection activity will enable pilot
testing of survey instruments in an
efficient, timely manner, in accordance
with the Administration’s commitment
to improving service delivery. By pilot
testing we mean information that
provides useful insights on how
respondents interact with the
instrument but are not statistical
surveys that yield quantitative results
that can be generalized to the
population of study. This feedback will
provide insights into customer or
stakeholder perceptions, experiences,
and expectations regarding prospective
studies. It will also allow feedback to
contribute directly to the improvement
of research program management.
AmeriCorps will only submit a
collection for approval under this
generic clearance if it meets the
following conditions:
• The collections are voluntary;
• The collections are low-burden for
respondents (based on considerations of
total burden hours, total number of
respondents, or burden-hours per
respondent) and are low-cost for both
the respondents and the federal
government;
• The collections are noncontroversial and do not raise issues of
concern to other Federal agencies;
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• Any collection is targeted to the
solicitation of opinions from
respondents who have experience with
the program or may have experience
with the program in the near future;
• Personally identifiable information
(PII) is collected only to the extent
necessary and is not retained;
• Information gathered will be used
only internally for general service
improvement and program management
purposes and is not intended for release
outside of the agency;
• Information gathered will not be
used for the purpose of 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.
As a general matter, information
collections 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,
or other matters that are commonly
considered private.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval. Comments are invited on: (a)
Whether the collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
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CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Application Package for AmeriCorps VISTA Application and
Reporting Forms
AGENCY: Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS).
ACTION: Notice of information collection; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, CNCS
is proposing a revised information collection.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the individual and office
listed in the ADDRESSES section by January 29, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by the title of the
information collection activity, by any of the following methods:
(1) By mail sent to: Corporation for National and Community
Service, Attention Kelly Daly, 250 E Street SW, Washington, DC 20525.
(2) By hand delivery or by courier to the CNCS mailroom at the mail
address given in paragraph (1) above, between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, except federal holidays.
(3) Electronically through www.regulations.gov.
Comments submitted in response to this notice may be made available
to the public through regulations.gov. For this reason, please do not
include in your comments information of a confidential nature, such as
sensitive personal information or proprietary information. If you send
an email comment, your email address will be automatically captured and
included as part of the comment that is placed in the public docket and
made available on the internet. Please note that responses to this
public comment request containing any routine notice about the
confidentiality of the communication will be treated as public comment
that may be made available to the public, notwithstanding the inclusion
of the routine notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kelly Daly, 202-606-6849, or by email
at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title of Collection: AmeriCorps VISTA
Application and Reporting Forms.
OMB Control Number: 3045-0038. Type of Review: Revision.
Respondents/Affected Public: Organizations and State, Local or
Tribal Governments.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 850.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 20,450.
Abstract: AmeriCorps VISTA is revising its application and
reporting forms to remove duplicative questions, improve readability,
and reflect changes in reporting requirements. The VISTA Progress
Report and Progress Report Supplement allow sponsors to report on their
programmatic and performance progress. CNCS also seeks to continue
using the currently approved information collection until the new
information collection is approved by OMB. The currently approved
information collection is due to expire on March 31, 2021.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for OMB approval. Comments are invited
on: (a) Whether the collection of information is necessary for the
proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether
the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency's estimate of the burden of the collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of
information on respondents, including through the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology; and (e)
estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information. Burden
means the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide information
to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review
instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise
disclose the information. All written comments will be available for
public inspection on regulations.gov.
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Dated: November 20, 2020.
Desiree Tucker-Sorini,
Director, AmeriCorps VISTA.
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