SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

This information collection request contains:

(1) OMB No.: 1910-5118;

(2) Information Collection Request Title: Technology Partnerships Ombudsmen Reporting Requirements;

(3) Type of Request: Extension;

(4) Purpose: DOE's Alternative Dispute Resolution Office is one of four entities that collects reports required by the Technology Transfer Commercialization Act of 2000 from technology partnership ombuds at each DOE national laboratory. These reports are intended to demonstrate the extent to which each national laboratory has incorporated alternative dispute resolution techniques into its respective technology transfer program;

(5) Annual Estimated Number of Respondents: 17;

(6) Annual Estimated Number of Total Responses: 68;

(7) Annual Estimated Number of Burden Hours: 17;

(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $1,230.

Statutory Authority: Section 11 of the Technology Transfer Commercialization Act of 2000, Public Law 106-404, codified at 42 U.S.C. 7261c(c)(3)(C).

Signing Authority: This document of the Department of Energy was signed on April 7, 2022, by Poli A. Marmolejos, Director, Office of Hearings and Appeals, pursuant to delegated authority from the Secretary of Energy. That document with the original signature and date is maintained by DOE. For administrative purposes only, and in compliance with requirements of the Office of the Federal Register, the undersigned DOE Federal Register Liaison Officer has been authorized to sign and submit the document in electronic format for publication, as an official document of the Department of Energy. This administrative process in no way alters the legal effect of this document upon publication in the Federal Register .

87 FR 21647