In accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and 5 CFR 1320.11(c), OMB
files the following public comments on the collection of
information provisions of this proposed rule and does not approved
the collection under 5 CFR 1320.11(g). The agency must submit the
final rule to OMB prior to publication, as specified in 5 CFR
1320.11(h). OMB favors the proposal of placing detailed technical
requirements for the application in a separate appendix which would
be modified through public notice. The agency should reexamine the
burden of developing the plans required in the application to
guarantee national security since these are requirements which
would not exist absent the Federal government. The agency should
examine the time and cost burden of providing old data to the
Archives. Collection of data which is then provided exclusively to
the government, as required during periods when national security
and/or foreign policies may be compromised (960.10(b)(3)) is an
information collection and the time and cost burden of such
requirements should be acknowledged in future submissions. The
agency should recognise the additional cost imposed by requiring an
encryption standard approved by the Federal government instead of
other encryption standards. The agency needs to explain how it will
make known what information will be required to satisfy the
reporting requirements of 960.14 (960.14(a)(1)(iv), for example).
The agency should reexamine the time and cost required to fulfill
the information requirements of 960.14(a)(2) and (b)(2) and more
fully explain why such information is needed, how it will be used,
whether licensees will be held responsible for omissions due to the
fluid nature of beneficial ownership, and to what extent these
requirements are duplicative of those already required by the
Securities and Exchange Commission. The agency should also address
the question of whether the requirements that investments be
approved before carried out are incompatible with public open
tranding of the licensee's securities.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
04/30/1998
02/28/2001
08/31/1998
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The information is needed in order to
license private operators of remote sensing space systems and to
ensure their compliance with the Land Remote Sensing Policy Act of
1992, as well as with the national security and international
obligations of the United States.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.