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(Registry Program) was established to
implement recommendations included
in the review of national saltwater
angling data collection programs
conducted by the National Research
Council (NRC) in 2005/2006, and the
provisions of the Magnuson-Stevens
Reauthorization Act, codified at Section
401(g) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act
(MSA), which require the Secretary of
Commerce to commence improvements
to recreational fisheries surveys,
including establishing a national
saltwater angler and for-hire vessel
registry, by January 1, 2009. A final rule
that includes regulatory measures to
implement the Registry Program (RIN
0648–AW10) was adopted and codified
in 50 CFR 600, subpart P.
The Registry Program collects
identification and contact information
from those anglers and for-hire vessels
who are involved in recreational fishing
in the United States Exclusive Economic
Zone or for anadromous fish in any
waters, unless the anglers or vessels are
exempted from the registration
requirement. Data collected includes—
for anglers: Name, address, date of birth,
telephone contact information and
region(s) of the country in which they
fish; for for-hire vessels: Owner and
operator name, address, date of birth,
telephone contact information, email
address, vessel name and registration/
documentation number and home port
or primary operating area. This
information is compiled into a national
and/or series of regional registries that
is being used to support surveys of
recreational anglers and for-hire vessels
to develop estimates of recreational
angling effort.
Persons may register online at a
NOAA-maintained website. Registration
cards, valid for one year from the date
of issuance, are mailed to registrants.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
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IV. Request for Comments
We are soliciting public comments to
permit the Department/Bureau to: (a)
Evaluate whether the proposed
information collection is necessary for
the proper functions of the Department,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the
accuracy of our estimate of the time and
cost burden for this proposed collection,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c)
Evaluate ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (d) Minimize the
reporting burden on those who are to
respond, including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. We will include or
summarize each comment in our request
to OMB to approve this ICR. Before
including your address, phone number,
email address, or other personal
identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment—including your
personal identifying information—may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you may ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.

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II. Method of Collection

OMB Control Number: 0648–0578.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Extension of current
information collection.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; business or other for-profit
organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
976.
Estimated Time per Response: 3
minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 49.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: 1,652.48.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.

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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Sea Grant Program
Application Requirements for Grants,
for Sea Grant Fellowships, Including
the Dean John A. Knauss Marine
Policy Fellowships, and for
Designation as a Sea Grant College or
Sea Grant Institution
The Department of Commerce will
submit the following information
collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for

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review and clearance in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, on or after the date of publication
of this notice. We invite the general
public and other Federal agencies to
comment on proposed, and continuing
information collections, which helps us
assess the impact of our information
collection requirements and minimize
the public’s reporting burden. Public
comments were previously requested
via the Federal Register on December
13, 2023, during a 60-day comment
period. This notice allows for an
additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
Title: Sea Grant Program Application
Requirements for Grants, for Sea Grant
Fellowships, including the Dean John A.
Knauss Marine Policy Fellowships, and
for Designation as a Sea Grant College
or Sea Grant Institution.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0362.
Form Number(s): NOAA Forms 90–1,
90–2, and 90–4.
Type of Request: Regular submission
[extension of a current information
collection].
Number of Respondents: 680.
Average Hours per Response: 30
minutes for a Sea Grant Control form; 20
minutes for a Project Record Form; 15
minutes for a Sea Grant Budget form;
and 20 hours for an application for
designation as a Sea Grant college or Sea
Grant institute.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,091.
Needs and Uses: This is a request for
extension of an existing information
collection.
The objectives of the National Sea
Grant College Program, as stated in the
Sea Grant legislation (33 U.S.C. 1121 et
seq.) are to increase the understanding,
assessments, development, utilization,
and conservation of the Nation’s ocean,
coastal, and Great Lakes resources. It
accomplishes these objectives by
conducting research, education, and
outreach programs. Grant monies are
available for funding activities that help
obtain the objectives of the Sea Grant
Program. Both single and multi-project
grants are awarded, with the latter
representing approximately 80 percent
of the total grant program. In addition to
other standard grant application
requirements, three forms are required
with the grants. The Sea Grant Control
Form (NOAA Form 90–1) is used to
identify the organizations and personnel
who would be involved in the grant and
briefly summarize the proposed
activities under the grant. The Project
Record Form (NOAA Form 90–2), which
collects summary data on projects, helps
the National Sea Grant Office (NSGO)

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evaluate the proposals during its
funding decisions. The Sea Grant
Budget Form (NOAA Form 90–4)
provides information similar to, but
more detailed than, standardized budget
forms SF–424A or SF–424C, and allows
the NSGO to determine whether or not
the breakdown cost of multi-project
grant awards is reasonable. Collectively,
the data supplied in these documents
form the basis for many of NSGO’s
responses to the Administration, the
Congress, other agencies, and to the
public about the scope of Sea Grant
activities.
The National Sea Grant College
Program Act (33 U.S.C. 1126) also
provides for the designation of a public
or private institution of higher
education, institute, laboratory, or State
or local agency as a Sea Grant college or
Sea Grant institute. Applications are
required for designation of Sea Grant
Colleges and Sea Grant Institutes,
although no forms are required. The
data the collection provides helps the
National Sea Grant Office determine the
suitability of the applicant for meeting
the standards and conditions for being
a Sea Grant College as set forth in 33
U.S.C. 1126 and 15 CFR 918.5.
Affected Public: Academic and notfor-profit institutions; individuals or
households; business or other for-profit
organizations; State, local, or Tribal
government.
Frequency: On occasion.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
Obtain or Retain Benefits.
Legal Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1121 et seq.
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
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 collection
or the OMB Control Number 0648–0362.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
[Docket No. PTO–P–2024–0009]

USPTO AI/ET Partnership: Public
Symposium on Artificial Intelligence
and Intellectual Property
Patent and Trademark Office,
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:

The United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) Artificial
Intelligence (AI)/Emerging Technologies
(ET) Partnership provides opportunities
to bring stakeholders together through a
series of engagements to share ideas,
feedback, experiences, and insights
regarding the intersection of intellectual
property (IP) and AI/ET. To further the
AI/ET Partnership, the USPTO will hold
a public symposium on IP and AI
virtually and in person at Loyola Law
School on March 27, 2024. The
symposium will facilitate the USPTO’s
efforts to implement its obligations
under the President’s Executive Order
14110, titled ‘‘Safe, Secure, and
Trustworthy Development and Use of
Artificial Intelligence.’’
DATES: The symposium will take place
on March 27, 2024, from 10 a.m. to 3
p.m. PT. Persons seeking to attend,
either virtually or in person, must
register by March 22, 2024, at the web
page provided in the ADDRESSES section
of this notice. Seating is limited for inperson attendance.
ADDRESSES: Information on registration
is available at www.uspto.gov/
initiatives/artificial-intelligence/ai-andemerging-technology-partnershipengagement-and-events/publicsymposium-ai-and-ip. The public
symposium will be held virtually and
in-person at the Fritz B. Burns Lounge
within the Burns Academic Center,
Loyola Law School, Loyola Marymount
University, 919 Albany St., Los Angeles,
CA 90015. All major entrances to the
building are accessible to people with
disabilities. Registration is required for
both virtual and in-person attendance.
Because in-person attendance is limited,
the USPTO advises anyone wishing to
attend in person to register early.
If you are an individual with a
disability and would like to request a
reasonable accommodation, please
submit your request to AIPartnership@
uspto.gov as soon as possible or at least
seven business days prior to the
symposium.
SUMMARY:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Srilakshmi Kumar, Supervisory Patent
Examiner, at 571–272–7769 or

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srilakshmi.kumar@uspto.gov. You can
also send inquiries to AIPartnership@
uspto.gov. Please direct all media
inquiries to the USPTO’s Office of the
Chief Communications Officer at 571–
272–8400.
The
USPTO AI/ET Partnership provides
opportunities to bring stakeholders
together through a series of engagements
to share ideas, feedback, experiences,
and insights regarding the intersection
of IP and AI/ET. Several of the previous
AI/ET Partnership events focused on
patent-related inventorship issues. For
example, participants in the inaugural
AI/ET Partnership meeting in June 2022
discussed patent policy issues related to
AI/ET inventions, including subject
matter eligibility, disclosure, and
inventorship. Additionally, the AI/ET
Partnership meeting held in February
2023 focused on various IP policy issues
with respect to AI-driven innovation,
including ways to address inventions
created with significant AI
contributions, and unanticipated IP
challenges from AI-driven innovation.
The AI/ET Partnership meeting on
March 27, 2024, will build on the abovementioned meetings and will feature
panel discussions by experts in the
fields of patent, trademark, and
copyright law that focus on: (1) a
comparison of copyright and patent law
approaches to the type and level of
human contribution needed to satisfy
authorship and inventorship
requirements; (2) ongoing copyright
litigation involving generative AI; and
(3) laws and policy considerations
surrounding name, image, and likeness
(NIL) issues, including the intersection
of NIL and generative AI.
This USPTO event is intended to
complement, but not duplicate, the
ongoing initiatives of the U.S. Copyright
Office to examine copyright law and
policy issues raised by AI technologies,
which are described at
www.copyright.gov/ai/.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Instructions and Information on the
Public Symposium
The public symposium will take place
virtually and in person at the Fritz B.
Burns Lounge within the Burns
Academic Center, Loyola Law School,
Loyola Marymount University, 919
Albany St., Los Angeles, CA 90015, on
March 27, 2024, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
PT. The agenda is available on the
USPTO website at www.uspto.gov/
initiatives/artificial-intelligence/ai-andemerging-technology-partnershipengagement-and-events/publicsymposium-ai-and-ip. You can register

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