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Labor administers the Fair Labor
Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. 201, et
seq. The child labor provisions of the
FLSA establish a minimum age of 16
years for employment in nonagricultural
occupations, but the Secretary of Labor
is authorized to provide by regulation
for 14- and 15-year-olds to work in
suitable occupations other than
manufacturing or mining, and during
periods and under conditions that will
not interfere with their schooling or
health and well-being. 29 CFR 570.35(b)
describes the conditions of employment
that allow the employment of 14- and
15-year-olds, pursuant to a schoolsupervised and school-administered
Work-Study Program (WSP), under
conditions Child Labor Regulation 3
otherwise prohibit. The regulation
requires the implementation of an
information collection with regard to a
WSP. For additional substantive
information about this ICR, see the
related notice published in the Federal
Register on September 28, 2021 (86 FR
53690).
This information collection is subject
to the PRA. A Federal agency generally
cannot conduct or sponsor a collection
of information, and the public is
generally not required to respond to an
information collection, unless the OMB
approves it and displays a currently
valid OMB Control Number. In addition,
notwithstanding any other provisions of
law, no person shall generally be subject
to penalty for failing to comply with a
collection of information that does not
display a valid OMB Control Number.
See 5 CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6.
DOL seeks PRA authorization for this
information collection for three (3)
years. OMB authorization for an ICR
cannot be for more than three (3) years
without renewal. The DOL notes that
information collection requirements
submitted to the OMB for existing ICRs
receive a month-to-month extension
while they undergo review.
Agency: DOL–WHD.
Title of Collection: Work-Study
Program of the Child Labor Regulations.
OMB Control Number: 1235–0024.
Affected Public: State, Local, and
Tribal Governments; Private Sector—
Businesses or other for-profits and notfor-profit institutions.
Total Estimated Number of
Respondents: 510.
Total Estimated Number of
Responses: 1,010.
Total Estimated Annual Time Burden:
528 hours.
Total Estimated Annual Other Costs
Burden: $0.
(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D))
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Mara Blumenthal,
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Notice of Intent To Seek Approval To
Establish an Information Collection
System
National Science Foundation.
Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, and as part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork
and respondent burden, the National
Science Foundation (NSF) is inviting
the general public or other Federal
agencies to comment on this proposed
continuing information collection.
DATES: Written comments on this notice
must be received by April 4, 2022, 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:
Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports Clearance
Officer, National Science Foundation,
2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Suite
W18200, Alexandria, Virginia 22314;
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).
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.
SUMMARY:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title of Collection: Program
Monitoring Data Collections for
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Small Business Innovation Research
(SBIR)/Small Business Technology
Transfer (STTR) Programs.
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OMB Number: 3145–NEW.
Expiration Date of Approval: Not
applicable.
Type of Request: Intent to seek
approval to establish an information
collection for post-award output and
outcome monitoring system.
Abstract: The NSF SBIR/STTR
programs focus on transforming
scientific discovery into products and
services with commercial potential and/
or societal benefit. Unlike fundamental
or basic research activities that focus on
scientific and engineering discovery
itself, the NSF SBIR/STTR programs
support the creation of opportunities to
move fundamental science and
engineering out of the lab and into the
market at scale, through startups and
small businesses representing deep
technology ventures. Here, deep
technologies refer to technologies based
on discoveries in fundamental science
and engineering. The NSF SBIR/STTR
programs are designed to provide nondilutive funding (financing that does not
involve equity, debt, or other elements
of the business ownership structure) at
the earliest stages of technology research
and development.
The NSF SBIR/STTR programs are
Congressionally mandated. By investing
federal research and development funds
into startups and small businesses, NSF
hopes to stimulate the creation of novel
products, services, and solutions in the
private sector, strengthen the role of
small business in meeting federal
research and development needs,
increase the commercial application of
federally supported research results,
build a strong national economy, and
increase and develop the U.S.
workforce, especially by fostering and
encouraging participation of socially
and economically disadvantaged and
women-owned small businesses.
Both the NSF SBIR and NSF STTR
programs have two phases: Phase I and
Phase II. Phase I is a 6–12 month
experimental or theoretical investigation
that allows the awardees to determine
the scientific, technical, and commercial
merit of the idea or concept. Phase II
further develops the proposed concept,
building on the feasibility of the project
undertaken in Phase I, with a goal of
working toward the commercial launch
of the new product, process, or service
being developed.
The NSF SBIR/STTR programs
request the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approval of this clearance
that will allow the programs to improve
the rigor of our surveys for evaluations
and program monitoring, as well as to
initiate new data collections to monitor
the immediate, intermediate, and longterm outcomes of our investments by
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periodically surveying the startup
businesses and their founders/cofounders involved in the businesses.
The clearance will allow the SBIR/STTR
programs to rigorously develop, test,
and implement survey instruments and
methodologies.
The primary objective of this
clearance is to allow the NSF SBIR/
STTR programs to collect
characteristics, output, and outcome
information from the startup companies
funded by the programs. This collection
will enable the evaluation of the
impacts of our investments in
technology translation and innovation
over time. The second, related objective
is to improve our questionnaires and/or
data collection procedures through pilot
tests and other survey methods used in
these activities. Under this clearance a
variety of surveys could be pre-tested,
modified, and used.
Following standard OMB
requirements, NSF will submit to OMB
an individual request for each survey
project we undertake under this
clearance. NSF will request OMB
approval in advance and provide OMB
with a copy of the questionnaire and
materials describing the project.
Data collected will be used for
planning, management, evaluation, and
audit purposes. Summaries of output
and outcome monitoring data are used
to respond to queries from Congress, the
Small Business Administration (SBA),
the public, NSF’s external merit
reviewers who serve as advisors,
including Committees of Visitors
(COVs), NSF’s Office of the Inspector
General, and other pertinent
stakeholders. These data are needed for
effective administration, program
monitoring, evaluation, outreach/
marketing roadmaps, and for strategic
reviews and measuring attainment of
NSF’s program and strategic goals, as
identified by the President’s
Accountable Government Initiative, the
Government Performance and Results
Act Modernization Act of 2010,
Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of
2018, and NSF’s Strategic Plan.
All questions asked in the data
collection are questions that are NOT
included in the annual, final or
outcomes reports, and the intention is to
ask the grantees even beyond the period
of performance on voluntary basis in
order to capture impacts of the research
that occur during and beyond the life of
the award.
Grantees will be invited to submit
information on a periodic basis to
support the management of the NSF
SBIR/STTR investment portfolio. Once
the survey tool for a specific program is
tested, grantees will be invited to submit
these indicators to NSF via data
collection methods that include, but are
not limited to, online surveys,
interviews, focus groups, phone
interviews, etc. These indicators are
both quantitative and descriptive and
may include, for example, the
characteristics of project personnel,
sources of funding and support,
knowledge transfer and technology
translation activities, patents, licenses,
publications, descriptions of significant
advances, and other outcomes of the
funded efforts.
Use of the Information
The data collected will be used for
NSF internal and external reports,
historical data, program level studies
and evaluations, and for securing future
funding for the maintenance and growth
of the NSF SBIR/STTR programs.
Evaluation designs could make use of
metadata associated with the award and
other characteristics to identify a
comparison group to evaluate the
impact of the program funding and
other interesting research questions.
ESTIMATE OF PUBLIC BURDEN
Number of respondents
Program Monitoring Data Collections for National
Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research, (SBIR)/Small Business Technology
Transfer (STTR) Programs.
400 startup businesses per year ..................................
For life-of-award monitoring, the data
collection burden to awardees will be
limited to no more than 30 minutes of
the respondents’ time in each instance.
Respondents
The respondents are either Principal
Investigators (PIs) of the startup
businesses that the NSF SBIR/STTR
Programs awarded, founders, cofounders, and/or key personnel of the
startup businesses. In the case of
Business Survey, only one response
from each startup/small business is
anticipated.
Estimates of Annualized Cost to
Respondents for the Hour Burdens
The overall annualized cost to the
respondents is estimated to be $26,400.
The following table shows the
annualized estimate of costs to PI/
Founders/Business Partners
respondents, who are generally
university assistant professors. This
estimated hourly rate is based on a
Number of
respondents
Respondent type
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Annual
number of
responses/
respondent
Collection title
Annual hour
burden
3
600
report from the American Association of
University Professors, ‘‘Annual Report
on the Economic Status of the
Profession, 2020–21,’’ Academe,
March–April 2021, Survey Report Table
1. According to this report, the average
salary of an assistant professor across all
types of doctoral-granting institutions
(public, private-independent, religiously
affiliated) was $91,408. When divided
by the number of standard annual work
hours (2,080), this calculates to
approximately $44 per hour.
Burden hours
per
respondent
Average
hourly rate
Estimated
annual cost
PIs/Founders, Business Partners ....................................................................
400
1.5
$44
$26,400
Total ..........................................................................................................
400
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26,400
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Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415–
2084; email: Infocollects.Resource@
nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Estimated Number of Responses per
Report
Data collection for the collections
involves all awardees in the programs
involved.
Dated: January 27, 2022.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science
Foundation.
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION
[NRC–2021–0149]
Information Collection: Operators’
Licenses
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Renewal of existing information
collection; request for comment.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) invites public
comment on the renewal of Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
approval for an existing collection of
information. The information collection
is entitled, ‘‘Operators’ Licenses.’’
DATES: Submit comments by April 4,
2022. Comments received after this date
will be considered if it is practical to do
so, but the Commission is able to ensure
consideration only for comments
received on or before this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by any of the following methods;
however, the NRC encourages electronic
comment submission through the
Federal rulemaking website:
• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2021–0149. Address
questions about Docket IDs in
Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 301–415–0624; email:
Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical
questions, contact the individual listed
in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section of this document.
• Mail comments to: David Cullison,
Office of the Chief Information Officer,
Mail Stop: T–6 A10M, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001.
For additional direction on obtaining
information and submitting comments,
see ‘‘Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments’’ in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
David Cullison, Office of the Chief
Information Officer, U.S. Nuclear
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I. Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2021–
0149 when contacting the NRC about
the availability of information for this
action. You may obtain publicly
available information related to this
action by any of the following methods:
• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2021–0149.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly
available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
adams.html. To begin the search, 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. A copy of the
online collections of information and
related instructions may be obtained
without charge by accessing ADAMS
Accession Numbers ML21222A098 and
ML21222A099. The supporting
document is available in ADAMS under
ML21221A100.
• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and
purchase copies of public documents,
by appointment, at the NRC’s PDR,
Room P1 B35, One White Flint North,
11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
Maryland 20852. To make an
appointment to visit the PDR, please
send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov
or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415–
4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
(ET), Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays.
• NRC’s Clearance Officer: A copy of
the collection of information and related
instructions may be obtained without
charge by contacting the NRC’s
Clearance Officer, David Cullison,
Office of the Chief Information Officer,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone:
301–415–2084; email:
Infocollects.Resource@nrc.gov.
B. Submitting Comments
The NRC encourages electronic
comment submission through the
Federal rulemaking website (https://
www.regulations.gov). Please include
Docket ID NRC–2021–0149 in your
comment submission.
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The NRC cautions you not to include
identifying or contact information in
comment submissions that you do not
want to be publicly disclosed in your
comment submission. All comment
submissions are posted at https://
www.regulations.gov and entered into
ADAMS. Comment submissions are not
routinely edited to remove identifying
or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating
comments from other persons for
submission to the OMB, 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 comment submissions are not
routinely edited to remove such
information before making the comment
submissions available to the public or
entering the comment into ADAMS.
II. Background
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
chapter 35), the NRC is requesting
public comment on its intention to
request the OMB’s approval for the
information collection summarized
below.
1. The title of the information
collection: Part 55 of title 10 of the Code
of Federal Regulations (10 CFR),
‘‘Operators’ Licenses.’’
2. OMB approval number: 3150–0018.
3. Type of submission: Extension.
4. The form number, if applicable:
Not applicable.
5. How often the collection is required
or requested: As necessary for the NRC
to meet its responsibilities to determine
the eligibility for applicants and
operators.
6. Who will be required or asked to
respond: Holders of, and applicants for,
facility (i.e., nuclear power and nonpower research and test reactor)
operating licenses and individual
operator licensees.
7. The estimated number of annual
responses: 437 (345 reporting responses
+ 92 recordkeepers).
8. The estimated number of annual
respondents: 92.
9. The estimated number of hours
needed annually to comply with the
information collection requirement or
request: 170,928 hours (149,619 hours
reporting + 21,309 hours
recordkeeping).
10. Abstract: 10 CFR part 55
‘‘Operators’ Licenses,’’ specifies
information and data to be provided by
applicants and facility licensees so that
the NRC may make determinations
concerning the licensing and
requalification of operators for nuclear
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Notice of Intent To Seek Approval To Establish an Information
Collection System
AGENCY: National Science Foundation.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, and as part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, the
National Science Foundation (NSF) is inviting the general public or
other Federal agencies to comment on this proposed continuing
information collection.
DATES: Written comments on this notice must be received by April 4,
2022, 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: Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports Clearance
Officer, National Science Foundation, 2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Suite
W18200, Alexandria, Virginia 22314; telephone (703) 292-7556; or send
email to [email protected]. 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).
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.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title of Collection: Program Monitoring Data Collections for
National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research
(SBIR)/Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs.
OMB Number: 3145-NEW.
Expiration Date of Approval: Not applicable.
Type of Request: Intent to seek approval to establish an
information collection for post-award output and outcome monitoring
system.
Abstract: The NSF SBIR/STTR programs focus on transforming
scientific discovery into products and services with commercial
potential and/or societal benefit. Unlike fundamental or basic research
activities that focus on scientific and engineering discovery itself,
the NSF SBIR/STTR programs support the creation of opportunities to
move fundamental science and engineering out of the lab and into the
market at scale, through startups and small businesses representing
deep technology ventures. Here, deep technologies refer to technologies
based on discoveries in fundamental science and engineering. The NSF
SBIR/STTR programs are designed to provide non-dilutive funding
(financing that does not involve equity, debt, or other elements of the
business ownership structure) at the earliest stages of technology
research and development.
The NSF SBIR/STTR programs are Congressionally mandated. By
investing federal research and development funds into startups and
small businesses, NSF hopes to stimulate the creation of novel
products, services, and solutions in the private sector, strengthen the
role of small business in meeting federal research and development
needs, increase the commercial application of federally supported
research results, build a strong national economy, and increase and
develop the U.S. workforce, especially by fostering and encouraging
participation of socially and economically disadvantaged and women-
owned small businesses.
Both the NSF SBIR and NSF STTR programs have two phases: Phase I
and Phase II. Phase I is a 6-12 month experimental or theoretical
investigation that allows the awardees to determine the scientific,
technical, and commercial merit of the idea or concept. Phase II
further develops the proposed concept, building on the feasibility of
the project undertaken in Phase I, with a goal of working toward the
commercial launch of the new product, process, or service being
developed.
The NSF SBIR/STTR programs request the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approval of this clearance that will allow the programs to
improve the rigor of our surveys for evaluations and program
monitoring, as well as to initiate new data collections to monitor the
immediate, intermediate, and long-term outcomes of our investments by
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periodically surveying the startup businesses and their founders/co-
founders involved in the businesses. The clearance will allow the SBIR/
STTR programs to rigorously develop, test, and implement survey
instruments and methodologies.
The primary objective of this clearance is to allow the NSF SBIR/
STTR programs to collect characteristics, output, and outcome
information from the startup companies funded by the programs. This
collection will enable the evaluation of the impacts of our investments
in technology translation and innovation over time. The second, related
objective is to improve our questionnaires and/or data collection
procedures through pilot tests and other survey methods used in these
activities. Under this clearance a variety of surveys could be pre-
tested, modified, and used.
Following standard OMB requirements, NSF will submit to OMB an
individual request for each survey project we undertake under this
clearance. NSF will request OMB approval in advance and provide OMB
with a copy of the questionnaire and materials describing the project.
Data collected will be used for planning, management, evaluation,
and audit purposes. Summaries of output and outcome monitoring data are
used to respond to queries from Congress, the Small Business
Administration (SBA), the public, NSF's external merit reviewers who
serve as advisors, including Committees of Visitors (COVs), NSF's
Office of the Inspector General, and other pertinent stakeholders.
These data are needed for effective administration, program monitoring,
evaluation, outreach/marketing roadmaps, and for strategic reviews and
measuring attainment of NSF's program and strategic goals, as
identified by the President's Accountable Government Initiative, the
Government Performance and Results Act Modernization Act of 2010,
Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018, and NSF's Strategic Plan.
All questions asked in the data collection are questions that are
NOT included in the annual, final or outcomes reports, and the
intention is to ask the grantees even beyond the period of performance
on voluntary basis in order to capture impacts of the research that
occur during and beyond the life of the award.
Grantees will be invited to submit information on a periodic basis
to support the management of the NSF SBIR/STTR investment portfolio.
Once the survey tool for a specific program is tested, grantees will be
invited to submit these indicators to NSF via data collection methods
that include, but are not limited to, online surveys, interviews, focus
groups, phone interviews, etc. These indicators are both quantitative
and descriptive and may include, for example, the characteristics of
project personnel, sources of funding and support, knowledge transfer
and technology translation activities, patents, licenses, publications,
descriptions of significant advances, and other outcomes of the funded
efforts.
Use of the Information
The data collected will be used for NSF internal and external
reports, historical data, program level studies and evaluations, and
for securing future funding for the maintenance and growth of the NSF
SBIR/STTR programs. Evaluation designs could make use of metadata
associated with the award and other characteristics to identify a
comparison group to evaluate the impact of the program funding and
other interesting research questions.
Estimate of Public Burden
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Annual number
Collection title Number of respondents of responses/ Annual hour
respondent burden
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Program Monitoring Data Collections for 400 startup businesses per year. 3 600
National Science Foundation (NSF) Small
Business Innovation Research, (SBIR)/Small
Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs.
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For life-of-award monitoring, the data collection burden to
awardees will be limited to no more than 30 minutes of the respondents'
time in each instance.
Respondents
The respondents are either Principal Investigators (PIs) of the
startup businesses that the NSF SBIR/STTR Programs awarded, founders,
co-founders, and/or key personnel of the startup businesses. In the
case of Business Survey, only one response from each startup/small
business is anticipated.
Estimates of Annualized Cost to Respondents for the Hour Burdens
The overall annualized cost to the respondents is estimated to be
$26,400. The following table shows the annualized estimate of costs to
PI/Founders/Business Partners respondents, who are generally university
assistant professors. This estimated hourly rate is based on a report
from the American Association of University Professors, ``Annual Report
on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2020-21,'' Academe, March-
April 2021, Survey Report Table 1. According to this report, the
average salary of an assistant professor across all types of doctoral-
granting institutions (public, private-independent, religiously
affiliated) was $91,408. When divided by the number of standard annual
work hours (2,080), this calculates to approximately $44 per hour.
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Number of Burden hours Average Estimated
Respondent type respondents per respondent hourly rate annual cost
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PIs/Founders, Business Partners................. 400 1.5 $44 $26,400
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Total....................................... 400 .............. .............. 26,400
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Estimated Number of Responses per Report
Data collection for the collections involves all awardees in the
programs involved.
Dated: January 27, 2022.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science Foundation.
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