Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 69 (Monday, April 12, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 17689]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-9040]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request

AGENCY: U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

ACTION: Notice of the OMB review of information collection and 
solicitation of public comment.

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SUMMARY: The NRC has recently submitted to OMB for review the following 
proposal for the collection of information under the provisions of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). The NRC hereby 
informs potential respondents that an agency may not conduct or 
sponsor, and that a person is not required to respond to, a collection 
of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
    1. Type of submission, new, revision, or extension: Extension.
    2. The title of the information collection: 10 CFR part 81, 
Standard Specifications for Granting of Patent Licenses.
    3. The form number if applicable: Not applicable.
    4. How often the collection is required:
    Application for licenses are submitted once. Other reports are 
submitted annually or as other events require.
    5. Who will be required or asked to report:
    Applicants for and holder of NRC licenses to NRC inventions.
    6. An estimate of the number of responses: 0.
    7. The estimated number of annual respondents: 0.
    8. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
complete the requirement or request: 35 hours; however, no applications 
are anticipated during the next three years.
    9. An indication of whether section 3507(d), Pub. L. 104-13 
applies:
    Not applicable.
    10. Abstract: 10 CFR part 81 establishes the standard 
specifications for the issuance of licenses to rights in inventions 
covered by patents or patent applications invested in the United 
States, as represented by or in the custody of the Commission and other 
patents in which the Commission has legal rights.
    A copy of the final supporting statement may be viewed free of 
charge at the NRC Public Document Room, 2120 L Street, NW (lower 
level), Washington, DC. OMB clearance requests are available at the NRC 
worldwide web site (http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/PUBLIC/OMB/index.html). The 
document will be available on the NRC home page site for 60 days after 
the signature date of this notice.
    Comments and questions should be directed to the OMB reviewer 
listed below by May 12, 1999. Comments received after this date will be 
considered if it is practical to do so, but assurance of consideration 
cannot be given to comments received after this date.

Erik Godwin, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (3150-0121), 
NEOB-10202, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503.
    Comments can also be submitted by telephone at (202) 395-3084.
    The NRC Clearance Officer is Brenda Jo. Shelton, 301-415-7233.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day of April 1999.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brenda Jo. Shelton,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 99-9040 Filed 4-9-99; 8:45 am]
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