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Sanctuaries Natural Resource Damage
Assessments for fiscal year 2014.
The National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration’s
(NOAA’s) Office of National Marine
Sanctuaries (ONMS) announces the
establishment of new indirect cost rates
for the recovery of indirect costs for its
component organizations involved in
natural resource damage and restoration
activities for fiscal year (FY) 2014.
NOAA provides the indirect cost rates
for this fiscal year and the dates of
implementation in this notice. The
public can obtain more information on
this rate from the address provided
below in the ADDRESSES section.
DATES: This notice is effective on
November 29, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Vicki Wedell, phone 240–
676–3805; email Vicki.Wedell@
noaa.gov; or 1305 East-West Highway,
N/NMS, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Vicki Wedell, phone 240–676–3805;
email Vicki.Wedell@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
The Natural Resource Damage
Assessment (NRDA) mission of ONMS
is to restore injuries to sanctuary
resources caused by the release of
hazardous substances or oil under the
Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation and Liability
Act (CERCLA; 42 U.S.C., 9601 et seq.) or
the Oil Pollution Action of 1990 (OPA;
33 U.S.C., 2701 et seq.), or physical
injuries under the National Marine
SUMMARY:
Sanctuaries Act (NMSA) (16 U.S.C. 1431
et seq.). ONMS conducts NRDAs as a
basis for recovering damages from
responsible parties and uses the funds
recovered to restore injured sanctuary
resources.
When addressing NRDA incidents,
the costs of the damage assessment are
recoverable from individuals and
organizations who are potentially liable
for an incident. Total costs include both
direct and indirect costs. Direct costs are
costs for activities that are clearly and
readily attributable to a specific case or
other program products. In contrast,
indirect costs reflect the costs for
activities that collectively support
ONMS’ mission and operations. For
example, indirect costs include general
administrative support overheads.
Although indirect costs may not be
readily traced back to a specific direct
activity, indirect costs may be allocated
to direct activities using an indirect cost
distribution rate.
Consistent with standard Federal
accounting requirements, ONMS is
required to account for and report the
full costs of its programs and activities.
Further, ONMS is authorized by law to
recover reasonable costs of damage
assessment and restoration activities
under CERCLA, OPA and the NMSA.
Within the constraints of these laws,
ONMS has the discretion to develop
indirect cost rates subject to its
requirements.
ONMS’s Indirect Cost Effort
NOAA contracted Empirical Concepts
Incorporated (Empirical), who
subcontracted with the public
accounting firm Cotton and Company
LLP to: (1) Evaluate the cost accounting
system and allocation practices; (2)
recommend the appropriate indirect
cost allocation methodology; and (3)
determine the indirect cost rates for the
organizations that comprise ONMS.
Empirical concluded that the cost
accounting system and allocation
practices of ONMS component
organizations are consistent with
Federal accounting requirements.
Empirical also determined that the most
appropriate indirect allocation method
was the Direct Labor Cost Base for all
ONMS component organizations. The
Direct Labor Cost Base is computed by
allocating total indirect costs over the
sum of direct labor dollars plus the
application of NOAA’s leave surcharge
and benefits rates to direct labor.
Empirical further assessed that the
indirect cost rates for the ONMS
component organizations were fair and
equitable. A report on Empirical’s
assessment and their determination can
be obtained from the person identified
in FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
ONMS Indirect Cost Rate and Policies
ONMS will apply the indirect cost
rate for FY2014 as recommended by
Empirical for each of the ONMS
component organizations as provided in
the following table:
Fiscal year 2014
indirect rate
(percent)
ONMS component organization
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Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (except for Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary) ....................................................
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary .....................................................................................................................................
The ONMS indirect rates increased
from the FY2010 rates of 67.95 percent
for all ONMS sites (except Florida Keys
National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS))
and 82.35 percent for FKNMS because
ONMS had less direct case work and
more indirect work during FY2014. The
indirect rates are inversely proportional
to direct costs.
ONMS will apply the FY2014 rates
identified in this notice to all damage
assessment and restoration case costs
incurred from October 1, 2014 until
present, using the Direct Labor Cost base
allocation methodology. For cases that
have settled and for cost claims paid
prior to the effective date of the fiscal
year in question, ONMS will not reopen any resolved matters for the
purpose of applying the rates in this
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notice. For cases not settled and cost
claims not paid prior to the effective
date of the fiscal year in question,
ONMS will calculate costs using the
rates in this notice. ONMS will use the
FY2014 rates for future fiscal years until
year-specific rates are developed.
John Armor,
Director, Office of National Marine
Sanctuaries, National Ocean Service,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Representative and Address
Provisions
The United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) will submit
the following information collection
request to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and clearance
in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, on or after the
date of publication of this notice. The
USPTO invites comment on this
information collection renewal, which
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helps the USPTO assess the impact of
its information collection requirements
and minimize the public’s reporting
burden. Public comments were
previously requested via the Federal
Register on September 7, 2021 during a
60-day comment period. This notice
allows for an additional 30 days for
public comments.
Agency: United States Patent and
Trademark Office, Department of
Commerce.
Title: Representative and Address
Provisions.
OMB Control Number: 0651–0035.
Form Number(s): (AIA = American
Invents; SB = Specimen Book).
• PTO/AIA/80; PTO/SB/80 (Power of
Attorney to Prosecute Applications
Before the USPTO)
• PTO/AIA/81 (Power of Attorney to
One or More of the Joint Inventors
and Change of Correspondence
Address)
• PTO/SB/81 (Power of Attorney or
Revocation of Power of Attorney with
a New Power of Attorney and Change
of Correspondence Address)
• PTO/AIA/81A; PTO/SB/81A
(Patent—Power of Attorney or
Revocation of Power of Attorney with
a New Power of Attorney and Change
of Correspondence Address)
• PTO/AIA/81B (Reexamination or
Supplemental Examination—Patent
Owner Power of Attorney or
Revocation of Power of Attorney With
a New Power of Attorney and Change
of Correspondence Address for
Reexamination or Supplemental
Examination and Patent)
• PTO/SB/81B (Reexamination—Patent
Owner Power of Attorney or
Revocation of Power of Attorney with
a New Power of Attorney and Change
of Correspondence Address)
• PTO/SB/81C (Reexamination—Third
Party Requester Power of Attorney or
Revocation of Power of Attorney with
a New Power of Attorney and Change
of Correspondence Address)
• PTO/AIA/82A; PTO/AIA/82B; PTO/
AIA/82C (Transmittal for Power of
Attorney To One Or More Registered
Practitioners/Power Of Attorney By
Applicant)
• PTO/AIA/83; PTO/SB/83 (Request for
Withdrawal as Attorney or Agent and
Change of Correspondence Address)
• PTO/SB/124 (Request for Customer
Number Data Change)
• PTO/SB/125 (Request for Customer
Number)
• PTO/2248 (Request to Update a PCT
Application with a Customer Number)
Type of Review: Extension and
revision of a currently approved
information collection.
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Estimated Number of Respondents:
184,743 respondents per year.
Estimated Number of Responses:
226,573 responses per year.
Average Hour per Response: The
USPTO estimates that it takes the public
approximately between 0.2 hours (12
minutes) and 1.5 hours (90 minutes) to
submit the information in this
information collection, including the
time to gather the necessary
information, prepare the appropriate
form or document, and submit the
completed item to the USPTO.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Burden Hours: 111,104 hours per year.
Estimated Total Annual Non-Hour
Cost Burden: $26,695 per year.
Needs and Uses: The public uses this
information collection to grant or revoke
power of attorney, to withdraw as
attorney or agent of record, to authorize
a practitioner to act in a representative
capacity, to request a Customer Number,
and to change the data associated with
a Customer Number. This information
collection is necessary so that the
USPTO knows who is authorized to take
action in an application, patent, or
reexamination proceeding and where to
send correspondence regarding an
application, patent, or reexamination
proceeding. In this notice, the USPTO
has updated and slightly revised its
estimated numbers from those originally
published in the 60-day notice.
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 0651–0035.
Further information can be obtained
by:
• Email: InformationCollection@
uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0035
information request’’ in the subject line
of the message.
• Mail: Kimberly Hardy, Office of the
Chief Administrative Officer, United
States Patent and Trademark Office,
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1450.
Kimberly Hardy,
Information Collections Officer, Office of the
Chief Administrative Officer, United States
Patent and Trademark Office.
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Pursuant to the Bayh-Dole Act
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Submit written objections to
James F. McBride, Air Force Materiel
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Telephone: (937) 713–0229; Facsimile:
(937) 255–9318; or Email:
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Department of the Air Force may grant
the prospective license unless a timely
objection is received that sufficiently
shows the grant of the license would be
inconsistent with the Bayh-Dole Act or
implementing regulations. A competing
application for a patent license
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with 35 U.S.C. 209; 37 CFR 404. and
received by the Air Force within the
period for timely objections, will be
treated as an objection and may be
considered as an alternative to the
proposed license.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Representative and Address Provisions
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will submit
the following information collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, on or after the date of
publication of this notice. The USPTO invites comment on this
information collection renewal, which
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helps the USPTO assess the impact of its information collection
requirements and minimize the public's reporting burden. Public
comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on
September 7, 2021 during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows
for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Department of
Commerce.
Title: Representative and Address Provisions.
OMB Control Number: 0651-0035.
Form Number(s): (AIA = American Invents; SB = Specimen Book).
PTO/AIA/80; PTO/SB/80 (Power of Attorney to Prosecute
Applications Before the USPTO)
PTO/AIA/81 (Power of Attorney to One or More of the Joint
Inventors and Change of Correspondence Address)
PTO/SB/81 (Power of Attorney or Revocation of Power of
Attorney with a New Power of Attorney and Change of Correspondence
Address)
PTO/AIA/81A; PTO/SB/81A (Patent--Power of Attorney or
Revocation of Power of Attorney with a New Power of Attorney and Change
of Correspondence Address)
PTO/AIA/81B (Reexamination or Supplemental Examination--Patent
Owner Power of Attorney or Revocation of Power of Attorney With a New
Power of Attorney and Change of Correspondence Address for
Reexamination or Supplemental Examination and Patent)
PTO/SB/81B (Reexamination--Patent Owner Power of Attorney or
Revocation of Power of Attorney with a New Power of Attorney and Change
of Correspondence Address)
PTO/SB/81C (Reexamination--Third Party Requester Power of
Attorney or Revocation of Power of Attorney with a New Power of
Attorney and Change of Correspondence Address)
PTO/AIA/82A; PTO/AIA/82B; PTO/AIA/82C (Transmittal for Power
of Attorney To One Or More Registered Practitioners/Power Of Attorney
By Applicant)
PTO/AIA/83; PTO/SB/83 (Request for Withdrawal as Attorney or
Agent and Change of Correspondence Address)
PTO/SB/124 (Request for Customer Number Data Change)
PTO/SB/125 (Request for Customer Number)
PTO/2248 (Request to Update a PCT Application with a Customer
Number)
Type of Review: Extension and revision of a currently approved
information collection.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 184,743 respondents per year.
Estimated Number of Responses: 226,573 responses per year.
Average Hour per Response: The USPTO estimates that it takes the
public approximately between 0.2 hours (12 minutes) and 1.5 hours (90
minutes) to submit the information in this information collection,
including the time to gather the necessary information, prepare the
appropriate form or document, and submit the completed item to the
USPTO.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent Burden Hours: 111,104 hours per
year.
Estimated Total Annual Non-Hour Cost Burden: $26,695 per year.
Needs and Uses: The public uses this information collection to
grant or revoke power of attorney, to withdraw as attorney or agent of
record, to authorize a practitioner to act in a representative
capacity, to request a Customer Number, and to change the data
associated with a Customer Number. This information collection is
necessary so that the USPTO knows who is authorized to take action in
an application, patent, or reexamination proceeding and where to send
correspondence regarding an application, patent, or reexamination
proceeding. In this notice, the USPTO has updated and slightly revised
its estimated numbers from those originally published in the 60-day
notice.
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 0651-0035.
Further information can be obtained by:
Email: [email protected]. Include ``0651-
0035 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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