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education agencies (LEAs) to determine:
(1) LEA capacity to implement a
comprehensive and systemic approach
to environmental literacy education, (2)
student participation in Meaningful
Watershed Educational Experience
during the school year, (3) sustainability
practices at schools, and (4) LEA needs
for improving environmental literacy
education programming. LEAs
(generally school districts, in some cases
charter school administration) are asked
to complete the survey on the status of
their LEA on a set of key indicators for
the four areas listed above. One
individual from each LEA is asked to
complete their survey once every two
years. The results of the biennial ELIT
survey will be analyzed and reported to
the internal stakeholders of the
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement.
Participating states will receive a
summarized report of findings for the
full watershed, a summary of findings
for their state, and comparisons of
results between states. These aggregated
results will be used by the state agencies
to understand progress of their school
districts over time, and to inform
decision-making about strategies and
priorities for future work with school
districts. Additionally, NOAA will use
this information to inform priorities
within their B–WET funding
opportunities and technical assistance.
The biennial reporting will also be used
by the Chesapeake Bay Program to
understand progress of school districts
in the watershed, understand
differences between jurisdictions, and
guide strategy for providing targeted
support in each state. The instrument
has not undergone any changes since its
last PRA approval process.
Affected Public: State, Local and
Tribal Governments.
Frequency: Biennially.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: US Code: 42 U.S.C.
4321 et seq. Name of Law: National
Environmental Policy Act.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view the
Department of Commerce collections
currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be
submitted within 30 days of the
publication of this notice on the
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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
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entering either the title of the collection
or the OMB Control Number 0648–0753.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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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; Law School Clinic
Certification Program
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
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 December 21, 2022, 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: Law School Clinic Certification
Program.
OMB Control Number: 0651–0081.
Needs and Uses: Public Law 113–227
(Dec. 16, 2014) requires the United
States Patent and Trademark Office to
establish regulations and procedures for
application to, and participation in, the
USPTO Law School Clinic Certification
Program. The Program allows students
enrolled in a participating law school’s
clinic to practice patent or trademark
law before the USPTO under the direct
supervision of an approved faculty
clinic supervisor. Each clinic provides
legal services on a pro bono basis for
clients who qualify for assistance from
the law school’s clinic. By drafting,
filing, and prosecuting patent and
trademark applications, students gain
valuable experience that would
otherwise be unavailable to them while
in law school. The program also
facilitates the provision of pro bono
services to patent and trademark
applicants who lack the financial
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resources necessary for traditional legal
representation. Currently, 62 law
schools participate in the program; a
slight increase from the estimated
number of law schools listed in the 60day notice.
This information collection covers the
applications from law schools that wish
to enter the program, faculty advisors
who seek to become a faculty clinic
supervisor, and students who seek to
participate in this program. The
collection also includes the required
semiannual reports from participating
law school clinics and biennial
renewals required by the program as
well as the request to make special
under the Law School Clinic
Certification Program, which allows a
limited number of applications per
semester to be advanced out of turn
(accorded special status) for
examination if the applicant makes the
appropriate showing, to provide law
students with practical experience as
they will be more likely to receive
substantive examination of applications
within the school year that the
application is filed.
Form Number(s): (LS = Law School;
SB = Specimen Book).
• PTO–158LS (Application for
Limited Recognition in USPTO Law
School Program for Law Students to
Practice Before the USPTO).
• PTO/SB/419 (Certification and
Request to Make Special under the Law
School Program).
Type of Review: Extension and
revision of a currently approved
information collection.
Affected Public: Private sector;
individuals or households.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain benefits.
Frequency: On occasion; semiannually; biennially.
Estimated Number of Annual
Respondents: 863 respondents.
Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 925 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: The
USPTO estimates that the responses in
this information collection will take
respondents approximately between 30
minutes (0.5 hours) and 40 hours to
complete. This includes the time to
gather the necessary information, create
the document, and submit the
completed request to the USPTO.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Burden Hours: 1,241 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Non-Hourly Cost Burden: $46.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view
Department of Commerce, USPTO
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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 0651–0081.
Further information can be obtained
by:
• Email: InformationCollection@
uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0081
information request’’ in the subject line
of the message.
• Mail: Justin Isaac, Office of the
Chief Administrative Officer, United
States Patent and Trademark Office,
P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313–
1450.
Justin Isaac,
Information Collections Officer, Office of the
Chief Administrative Officer, United States
Patent and Trademark Office.
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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; Native American Tribal
Insignia Database
United States Patent and
Trademark Office, Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:
The United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO), as required
by the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, invites comments on the
extension and revision of an existing
information collection: 0651–0048
Native American Tribal Insignia
Database. The purpose of this notice is
to allow 60 days for public comment
preceding submission of the information
collection to OMB.
DATES: To ensure consideration,
comments regarding this information
collection must be received on or before
May 8, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments by
any of the following methods. Do not
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submit Confidential Business
Information or otherwise sensitive or
protected information.
• Federal Rulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov.
• Mail: Justin Isaac, Office of the
Chief Administrative Officer, United
States Patent and Trademark Office,
P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313–
1450.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information
should be directed to Catherine Cain,
Attorney Advisor, United States Patent
and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450,
Alexandria, VA 22313–1450; by
telephone at 571–272–8946; or by email
at Catherine.Cain@uspto.gov with
‘‘0651–0048 comment’’ in the subject
line. Additional information about this
information collection is also available
at https://www.reginfo.gov under
‘‘Information Collection Review.’’
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The Trademark Law Treaty
Implementation Act of 1998 1 (Pub. L.
105–330, section 302, 112 Stat. 3071)
required the USPTO to study issues
surrounding the protection of the
official insignia of federally and staterecognized Native American tribes
under trademark law. The USPTO
conducted the study and presented a
report to the House and Senate Judiciary
Committees on November 30, 1999. One
of the recommendations made in the
report was that the USPTO create and
maintain an accurate and
comprehensive database containing the
official insignia of all federally and
state-recognized Native American tribes.
In accordance with this
recommendation, the Senate Committee
on Appropriations directed the USPTO
to create this database. The USPTO
published the final procedures for
establishing and maintaining the tribal
insignia database in the Federal
Register on August 24, 2001 (66 FR
44603).2
The USPTO database of official tribal
insignias provides evidence of what a
federally or state-recognized Native
American tribe considers to be its
official insignia. Section 2(a) of the
Trademark Act, 15 U.S.C. 1052(a),
disallows the registration of marks that
falsely suggest a connection with a nonsponsoring person or institution,
including a Native American tribe. The
1 https://www.uspto.gov/trademark/lawsregulations/trademark-law-treaty-implementationact.
2 https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/
2001/08/24/01-21479/establishment-of-a-databasecontaining-the-official-insignia-of-federally-andstate-recognized.
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database thereby assists trademark
examining attorneys in their
examination of applications for
trademark registration by serving as a
reference for determining the
registrability of a mark that may falsely
suggest a connection to the official
insignia of a Native American tribe. The
database, included within Trademark
Electronic Search System (TESS),3 is
available to the public on the USPTO
website, and includes an online help
program for using the system. More
information about the program is
available on the website at https://
www.uspto.gov/trademarks/laws/nativeamerican-tribal-insignia.
Tribes are not required to request that
their official insignia be included in the
database. The entry of an official
insignia into the database does not
confer any rights to the tribe that
submitted the insignia, and entry is not
the legal equivalent of registering the
insignia as a trademark under 15 U.S.C.
1051 et seq. The inclusion of an official
tribal insignia in the database does not
create any legal presumption of validity
or priority, does not carry any of the
benefits of federal trademark
registration, and is not a determination
as to whether a particular insignia
would be allowed or refused registration
as a trademark pursuant to 15 U.S.C.
1051 et seq.
Requests from federally recognized
tribes to enter an official insignia into
the database must be submitted in
writing and include: (1) a depiction of
the insignia, including the name of the
tribe and the address for
correspondence; (2) a copy of the tribal
resolution adopting the insignia in
question as the official insignia of the
tribe; and (3) a statement, signed by an
official with authority to bind the tribe,
confirming that the insignia included
with the request is identical to the
official insignia adopted by the tribal
resolution.
Requests from state-recognized tribes
must also be in writing and include
each of the three items described above
that are submitted by federally
recognized tribes. Additionally, requests
from state-recognized tribes must
include either: (a) a document issued by
a state official that evidences the state’s
determination that the entity is a Native
American tribe; or (b) a citation to a
state statute designating the entity as a
Native American tribe.
The USPTO enters insignia that have
been properly submitted by federally or
state-recognized Native American tribes
into the database and does not
3 https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks-applicationprocess/search-trademark-database.
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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; Law School Clinic Certification Program
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 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 December 21, 2022, 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: Law School Clinic Certification Program.
OMB Control Number: 0651-0081.
Needs and Uses: Public Law 113-227 (Dec. 16, 2014) requires the
United States Patent and Trademark Office to establish regulations and
procedures for application to, and participation in, the USPTO Law
School Clinic Certification Program. The Program allows students
enrolled in a participating law school's clinic to practice patent or
trademark law before the USPTO under the direct supervision of an
approved faculty clinic supervisor. Each clinic provides legal services
on a pro bono basis for clients who qualify for assistance from the law
school's clinic. By drafting, filing, and prosecuting patent and
trademark applications, students gain valuable experience that would
otherwise be unavailable to them while in law school. The program also
facilitates the provision of pro bono services to patent and trademark
applicants who lack the financial resources necessary for traditional
legal representation. Currently, 62 law schools participate in the
program; a slight increase from the estimated number of law schools
listed in the 60-day notice.
This information collection covers the applications from law
schools that wish to enter the program, faculty advisors who seek to
become a faculty clinic supervisor, and students who seek to
participate in this program. The collection also includes the required
semiannual reports from participating law school clinics and biennial
renewals required by the program as well as the request to make special
under the Law School Clinic Certification Program, which allows a
limited number of applications per semester to be advanced out of turn
(accorded special status) for examination if the applicant makes the
appropriate showing, to provide law students with practical experience
as they will be more likely to receive substantive examination of
applications within the school year that the application is filed.
Form Number(s): (LS = Law School; SB = Specimen Book).
PTO-158LS (Application for Limited Recognition in USPTO
Law School Program for Law Students to Practice Before the USPTO).
PTO/SB/419 (Certification and Request to Make Special
under the Law School Program).
Type of Review: Extension and revision of a currently approved
information collection.
Affected Public: Private sector; individuals or households.
Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Frequency: On occasion; semi-annually; biennially.
Estimated Number of Annual Respondents: 863 respondents.
Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 925 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: The USPTO estimates that the responses
in this information collection will take respondents approximately
between 30 minutes (0.5 hours) and 40 hours to complete. This includes
the time to gather the necessary information, create the document, and
submit the completed request to the USPTO.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent Burden Hours: 1,241 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent Non-Hourly Cost Burden: $46.
This information collection request may be viewed at
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view Department of
Commerce, USPTO
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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 0651-0081.
Further information can be obtained by:
Email: [email protected]. Include ``0651-
0081 information request'' in the subject line of the message.
Mail: Justin Isaac, Office of the Chief Administrative
Officer, United States Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450,
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450.
Justin Isaac,
Information Collections Officer, Office of the Chief Administrative
Officer, United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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