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Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 143 / Wednesday, July 25, 2018 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Proposed Information Collection;
Comment Request; National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration’s Bay
Watershed Education and Training
Program National Evaluation System
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Department of
Commerce, as part of its continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and
respondent burden, invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to
take this opportunity to comment on
proposed and/or continuing information
collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted on or before September 24,
2018.
SUMMARY:

Direct all written comments
to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental
Paperwork Clearance Officer,
Department of Commerce, Room 6616,
14th and Constitution Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20230 (or via the
internet at pracomments@doc.gov).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
directed to Bronwen Rice, NOAA Office
of Education, (202) 482–6797 or
Bronwen.Rice@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
ADDRESSES:

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I. Abstract
This request is for an extension of a
currently approved information
collection.
The NOAA Office of Education’s Bay
Watershed Education and Training (B–
WET) program seeks to contribute to
NOAA’s mission by supporting
education efforts to create an
environmentally literate citizenry with
the knowledge, attitudes, and skills
needed to protect watersheds and
related ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes
ecosystems. B–WET currently funds
projects in seven regions (California,
Chesapeake Bay, Great Lakes, Gulf of
Mexico, Hawaii, New England, and the
Pacific Northwest). B–WET has created
an across-region, internal evaluation
system to provide ongoing feedback on
program implementation and outcomes
to ensure maximum quality and
efficiency of the B–WET program. The
evaluation system is sustained by B–

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WET staff with occasional assistance
from an outside contractor.
B–WET awardees and the awardees’
professional development teacherparticipants are asked to voluntarily
complete online survey forms to provide
evaluation data. One individual from
each awardee organization is asked to
complete a form once per year of the
award, and the teacher participants are
asked to complete one form at the end
of their professional development
program and another form at the end of
the following school year.
II. Method of Collection
Respondents submit their information
electronically on web-based survey
forms.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–0658.
Form Number: None.
Type of Review: Regular submission
(extension of a currently approved
collection).
Affected Public: Not-for-profit
organizations; state, local or tribal
governments; individuals or
households.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
Given the funding levels of the past
three fiscal years, NOAA B–WET
estimates that approximately 115
awardees and 2,507 teachers will be
invited to respond each year.
Estimated Time per Response:
Awardee-respondents will complete an
online survey in 60 minutes and
teacher-respondents will complete two
online surveys in 30 minutes each.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 1,040.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $0 in recordkeeping/reporting
costs.
IV. Request for Comments
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed 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
(including hours and cost) 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 respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval of this information collection;

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they also will become a matter of public
record.
Dated: July 20, 2018.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request; ‘‘Rules for Patent
Maintenance Fees’’
Summary: 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.
Agency: United States Patent and
Trademark Office, Commerce.
Title: Rules for Patent Maintenance
Fees.
OMB Control Number: 0651–0016.
Form Number(s):
• PTO/SB/45
• PTO/SB/47
• PTO/SB/66
Type of Request: Regular.
Number of Respondents: 533,910
responses per year.
Average Hours per Response: The
USPTO estimates it will take
respondents from 0.006 hours (20
seconds) to 8 hours to complete the
items in this collection, depending on
the instrument(s) used.
Burden Hours: 13,878.89 hours per
year.
Cost Burden: $1,209,457,959.50.
Needs and Uses: This information
collection is necessary so that patent
owners can maintain a utility patent in
force and to ensure that the USPTO can
properly credit maintenance fee
payments. The USPTO offers forms to
assist the public with providing the
information covered by this collection,
including maintenance fee payments,
petitions to accept delayed maintenance
fee payments, and fee address changes.
The public uses the Maintenance Fee
Transmittal Form (PTO/SB/45) to
determine and pay the correct amount
due for a maintenance fee transaction.
PTO/SB/45 may be mailed or faxed to
the USPTO, but PTO/SB/45 may not be
submitted electronically via EFS-Web.
Customers may submit maintenance
fees and six-month grace period
surcharges paid before patent expiration
electronically over the internet using the
USPTO’s Office of Finance Online
Shopping Page (hereinafter, the

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