Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; “International Work Sharing”
| Citation | 84 FR 1071 |
| Record Number | 2019-00610 |
| Published date | 01 February 2019 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | Patent And Trademark Office |
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for full details on the monitoring and
reporting proposed by the Navy.
Information Solicited
Interested persons may submit
information, suggestions, and comments
concerning the Navy’s request (see
ADDRESSES
). NMFS will consider all
information, suggestions, and comments
related to the request during the
development of proposed regulations
governing the incidental taking of
marine mammals by the Navy, if
appropriate.
Dated: January 29, 2019.
Donna S. Wieting,
Director, Office of Protected Resources,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2019–00632 Filed 1–31–19; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
RIN 0648–XG642
Fishing Capacity Reduction Program
for the Southeast Alaska Purse Seine
Salmon Fishery
AGENCY
: National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION
: Notice of revised referendum
voting period.
SUMMARY
: On December 3, 2018, NMFS
issued a notice to announce the voting
period for the proposed second fishing
capacity reduction program loan in the
Southeast Alaska Purse Seine Salmon
Fishery and inform persons of their
eligibility to vote. This notice informs
the public of the revised referendum
voting period due to the lapse in
appropriations. The referendum, if
approved, will result in a loan of $10.1
million and permanently retire an
additional 36 permits from the fishery.
DATES
: The referendum voting period
will now start on February 4, 2018 and
end on March 6, 2019. Any votes not
received by NMFS by 5 p.m. on March
6, 2019, will not be counted.
ADDRESSES
: Send questions about this
notice to Michael A. Sturtevant, Acting
Chief, Financial Services Division,
NMFS, Attn: SE Alaska Purse Seine
Salmon Buyback, 1315 East-West
Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910 (see
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
:
Elaine Saiz at (301) 427–8752, fax (301)
713–1306, or elaine.saiz@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
:
I. Background
The Southeast Alaska purse seine
salmon fishery is a commercial fishery
in Alaska state waters and adjacent
Federal waters. It encompasses the
commercial taking of salmon with purse
seine gear, and participation is limited
to fishermen designated by the Alaska
Commercial Fisheries Entry
Commission (CFEC). Congress
authorized a $23.5 million loan to
finance a fishing capacity reduction
program in the Southeast Alaska purse
seine salmon fishery. NMFS published
proposed program regulations on May
23, 2011 (76 FR 29707), and final
program regulations on October 6, 2011
(76 FR 61986), to implement the
reduction program. Interested persons
should review these documents for
further program details.
In 2012, NMFS conducted a
referendum to determine the remaining
fishermen’s willingness to repay a $13.1
million fishing capacity reduction loan
to remove 64 permits. After a majority
of permit holders approved the loan,
NMFS disbursed payments to the
successful bidders and began collecting
fees to repay the loan. Since only $13.1
million was expended from the total
loan amount, $10.4 million remains
available. This referendum, if approved,
will result in a loan of $10.1 million and
permanently retire an additional 36
permits from the fishery.
In June, 2018, the Southeast
Revitalization Association submitted a
capacity reduction plan to NMFS and
NMFS approved the plan in November,
2018. As of November 16, 2018, there
are 315 permits in the fishery
designated as S01A by CFEC. In
accordance with the final regulations,
NMFS published the notice on
December 3, 2018 (83 FR 62302). The
original voting period was to start
January 15, 2019 and end on February
14, 2019. Due to the lapse in
appropriations we have revised voting
period to the new dates.
II. Referendum Voting Period
The referendum voting period will
start February 4, 2019, and end on
March 6, 2019. Any votes not received
by NMFS by 5 p.m. on March 6, 2019,
will not be counted.
Dated: January 29, 2019.
Brian T. Pawlak,
CFO/Director, Office of Management and
Budget, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2019–00679 Filed 1–31–19; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request; ‘‘International Work
Sharing’’
The United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) will submit
to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for clearance the following
proposal for collection of information
under the provisions of the Paperwork
Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35).
Agency: United States Patent and
Trademark Office, Commerce.
Title: International Work Sharing.
OMB Control Number: 0651–0079.
Form Number(s):
•PTO/SB/437
•PTO/SB/CSP Survey 1
Type of Request: Regular.
Number of Respondents: 300
responses per year.
Average Hours per Response: The
USPTO estimates that it will take the
public approximately between 5
minutes (0.08 hours) and 3 hours to
complete the information in this
collection, including the time to gather
the necessary information, prepare the
forms or documents, and submit the
completed request to the USPTO.
Burden Hours: 462 hours per year.
Cost Burden: $0 per year.
Needs and Uses: The public who uses
this information collection are
applicants who file applications in the
USPTO, JPO, and KIPO. They do so in
order to participate in the International
Work Sharing Program. The Program
enables its participants to engage in the
exchange of IP documents between the
United States, Japan, and Korea to
facilitate efficient worldwide patent
examinations.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profits; not-for-profit institutions.
Frequency: On occasion.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
Obtain or Retain Benefits.
OMB Desk Officer: Nicholas A. Fraser,
email: Nicholas_A._Fraser@
omb.eop.gov.
Once submitted, the request will be
publically available in electronic format
through www.reginfo.gov. Follow the
instructions to view Department of
Commerce collections currently under
review by OMB.
Further information can be obtained
by:
•Email: InformationCollection@
uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0079 copy
request’’ in the subject line of the
message.
•Mail: Marcie Lovett, Records and
Information Governance Division
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Director, Office of the Chief
Administrative Officer, United States
Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box
1450, Alexandria, VA 22313–1450.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent on
or before March 4, 2019 to Nicholas A.
Fraser, OMB Desk Officer, via email to
Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov, or by
fax to 202–395–5167, marked to the
attention of Nicholas A. Fraser.
Marcie Lovett,
Records Management Division Director,
USPTO, Office of the Chief Administrative
Officer.
[FR Doc. 2019–00610 Filed 1–31–19; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510–16–P
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
Patents External Quality Survey
ACTION
: Proposed collection; comment
request.
SUMMARY
: The United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO), as required
by the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, invites comments on a proposed
extension of an existing information
collection.
DATES
: Written comments must be
submitted on or before April 2, 2019.
ADDRESSES
: You may submit comments
by any of the following methods:
•Email: InformationCollection@
uspto.gov. Include ‘0651–0057
comment’ in the subject line of the
message.
•Federal Rulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov.
•Mail: Marcie Lovett, Director,
Records and Information Governance
Division, 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 David Fitzpatrick,
Management Analyst, Office of Patent
Quality Assurance, United States Patent
and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450,
Alexandria, VA 22313–1450; by
telephone at 571–272–0525; or by email
to David.Fitzpatrick@USPTO.GOV, with
‘‘0651–0057 comment’’ in the subject
line. Additional information about this
collection is also available at http://
www.reginfo.gov under ‘‘Information
Collection Review.’’
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
:
I. Abstract
The USPTO developed the Patents
External Quality Survey in 2006 as part
of its quality improvement efforts. This
survey gauges customer satisfaction
with respect to examination quality. It
uses a longitudinal, rotating panel
design to assess changes in customer
perceptions, identify areas for
improvement, and pinpoint key areas
for additional examiner training.
Participants of this survey include
patent agents, attorneys, and other
individuals from large domestic
corporations (including those with 500+
employees), small and medium-size
businesses, and universities and other
non-profit research organizations. The
USPTO also plans to survey
independent inventors. The USPTO
does not survey foreign entities.
From the Patent Application and
Location Management (PALM) database,
the USPTO draws a random sample of
firms and entities that have filed more
than 6 patent applications in a 12-
month period. These firms and entities
typically represent 95% of total
domestic patent applications filed over
the same period. The Patents External
Quality Survey uses a rotating panel
design in order to measure changes in
the quality of USPTO’s work over time.
Customers participate in two
consecutive data collection periods
(waves) before rotating out of the panel.
Each wave is conducted over a two
month period. One wave occurs during
the months of January and February and
the other wave occurs during July and
August. The rotating panel design
means that for each wave, 50 percent of
the panel have participated in a prior
wave and 50 percent are being surveyed
for the first time. At the next panel
rotation, the 50 percent of customers
who have participated in two
consecutive waves will be dropped, and
the panel will be refreshed.
Respondents receive the Patents
External Quality Survey by mail and can
respond either by mail or electronically
on the USPTO website. A survey packet
containing the questionnaire, a separate
cover letter prepared by the Deputy
Commissioner for Patent Quality, a
postage-paid, pre-addressed return
envelope, and instructions for
completing the survey electronically are
mailed to all respondents. A pre-
notification letter, reminder/thank you
postcards, and telephone calls are used
to encourage a response.
This is a voluntary survey and all
responses remain confidential. The
collected data is not linked to the
respondent, and contact information
that is used for sampling purposes is
maintained in a separate file from the
quantitative data. Respondents are not
required to provide any identifying
information such as their name, address,
or Social Security Number. Instead, in
order to access and complete the online
survey, respondents must use the
username, password, and survey ID
number provided by the USPTO.
II. Method of Collection
Electronically via email; by postal
mail, facsimile, or hand delivery in
paper form.
III. Data
OMB Number: 0651–0057.
IC Instruments and Forms: No forms.
Type of Review: Extension of an
existing information collection.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; businesses or other for-
profits; and non-profit institutions.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
2,500 responses per year.
Estimated Time per Response: The
USPTO estimates that it will take the
public 10 minutes (.17 hours) to
respond to the survey, including the
time to gather the necessary information
along with completing and submitting
the survey. The time per response,
estimated annual responses, and
estimated annual hour burden
associated with each instrument in this
collection are shown in the table below.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Burden Hours: 416.67 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
(Hourly) Cost Burden: $182,501.46. The
USPTO expects that attorneys will
complete these applications. The
professional hourly rate for attorneys is
$438. The rate is established by
estimates in the 2017 Report on the
Economic Survey, published by the
Committee on Economics of Legal
Practice of the American Intellectual
Property Law Association. Using this
hourly rate, the USPTO estimates that
the total respondent cost burden for this
collection is $182,501.46 per year.
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