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practitioners, researchers, policymakers,
and the public. The Survey of Earned
Doctorates (SED) is part of an integrated
survey system that meets the human
resources part of this mission.
The SED has been conducted
annually since 1958 and is jointly
sponsored by six Federal agencies in
order to avoid duplication. It is an
accurate, timely source of information
on an important national resource—
highly educated individuals. Data are
obtained via paper questionnaire or Web
survey from each person earning a
research doctorate at the time they
receive the degree. Graduate Schools
help distribute the Survey of Earned
Doctorates to their graduating doctorate
recipients. Data are collected on the
doctorate recipient’s field of specialty,
educational background, sources of
support in graduate school, debt level,
postgraduation plans for employment,
and demographic characteristics.
The survey will be collected in
conformance with the National Science
Foundation Act of 1950, as amended,
and the Privacy Act of 1974. Responses
from individuals are voluntary. NSF
will ensure that all individually
identifiable information collected will
be kept strictly confidential and will be
used for research or statistical purposes,
analyzing data, and preparing scientific
reports and articles.
Need and Use of the Information: The
Federal government, universities,
researchers, and others use the
information extensively. The National
Science Foundation, as the lead agency,
publishes statistics from the survey in
several reports, but primarily in the
annual publication series, ‘‘Science and
Engineering Doctorate Awards’’ and the
Summary Report, ‘‘Doctorate Recipients
from U.S. Universities.’’ These reports
are available on the Web. NSF uses this
information to prepare congressionally
mandated reports such as Science and
Engineering Indicators and Women,
Minorities and Persons with Disabilities
in Science and Engineering.
Description of Respondents:
Individuals.
Number of Respondents: 54,000.
Frequency of Responses: Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 29,500.
Dated: April 3, 2013.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science
Foundation.
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Notice of Intent to Establish an
Information Collection
National Science Foundation.
Notice and request for
comments.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

SUMMARY: Under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104–
13 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), and as part
of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden, the
National Science Foundation (NSF) is
inviting the general public or other
Federal agencies to comment on this
proposed information collection. The
NSF will publish periodic summaries of
the proposed projects.
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 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.
DATES: Written comments on this notice
must be received by May 9, 2013, to be
assured consideration. Comments
received after that date will be
considered to the extent practicable.
Send comments to address below.
For Additional Information or
Comments: Contact Suzanne H.
Plimpton, NSF Reports Clearance
Officer, National Science Foundation,
4201 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 295,
Arlington, Virginia 22230; telephone
(703) 292–7556; or send email to
[email protected]. Individuals who use
a telecommunications device for the
deaf (TDD) may call the Federal
Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–
800–877–8339, which is accessible 24
hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a
year (including Federal holidays).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title of Collection: Early Career
Doctorates Survey
OMB Approval Number: 3145–NEW
Expiration Date: Not applicable.
Type of Request: Intent to seek
approval for new information collection.
1. Abstract: Established within the
NSF by the America COMPETES
Reauthorization Act of 2010 § 505,
codified in the National Science
Foundation Act of 1950, as amended,
the National Center for Science and

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Engineering Statistics (NCSES) serves as
a central Federal clearinghouse for the
collection, interpretation, analysis, and
dissemination of objective data on
science, engineering, technology, and
research and development for use by
practitioners, researchers, policymakers,
and the public. The Early Career
Doctorates Survey will become part of
an integrated survey system that meets
the human resources part of this
mission.
The Early Career Doctorates Project
was established to gather in-depth
information about early career
doctorates (ECD), including postdoctoral
researchers (postdocs). Early career
doctorates are critical to the success of
the U.S. scientific enterprise and will
influence U.S. and global scientific
markets for years to come. Despite their
importance, current surveys of this
population are limited, and extant
workforce studies are insufficient for all
doctorates who contribute to the U.S.
economy. The NSF’s Survey of Earned
Doctorates and the Survey of Doctorate
Recipients are limited to individuals
who received research doctorates from
U.S. academic institutions, thereby
excluding individuals who earned
professional doctorates and those who
earned doctorates from institutions
outside the United States but are
currently employed in the United
States. The NSF’s Survey of Graduate
Students and Postdoctorates in Science
and Engineering (GSS) provides
aggregate level data for all postdocs and
nonfaculty researchers regardless of
where they earned the degree. However,
the GSS is limited to science,
engineering, and selected health (SEH)
fields in U.S. academic institutions and
their related research facilities and is
collected at the program rather than the
individual level.
Through its multi-year Postdoc Data
Project, NCSES determined the need for
and the feasibility of gathering
information about postdocs and ECD
working in the United States. Efforts to
reliably identify and gather information
about postdocs proved difficult due to
substantial variation in how institutions
characterize postdoc appointments. As a
result, NCSES expanded the target
population to include all individuals
who earned their first doctorate within
the past 10-years, defined as ECD.
Expanding the population to doctoral
degree holders ensures a larger, more
consistent and reliable target
population. Unique in scope, the key
goals of the ECD Project are:
• To broaden the scope and depth of
national statistics on the ECD
population both U.S. degreed and non-

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U.S. degreed, across employment
sectors and fields of discipline.
• To collect nationally representative
data from ECD that can be used by
funding agencies, policy makers, and
other researchers to better understand
the labor markets and work experiences
of recent doctorate recipients.
• To establish common definitions for
different types of ECD (e.g., postdocs,
junior faculty, and other nonfaculty
researchers) that can be applied across
and within employment sectors.
The current focus of the Early Career
Doctorates Project is to conduct a survey
of ECD working in three areas of
employment: U.S. academic
institutions, Federally Funded Research
and Development Centers, and the
National Institutes of Health Intramural
Research Programs. NCSES, under
generic clearance (OMB #3145–0174),
has conducted a methodological study
to test a data collection strategy that
uses institutional contacts as the
conduit for questionnaire dissemination
to ECD in the above employment
settings. This data collection strategy
will be used in the survey of ECD
(ECDS). The ECDS will be a two stage
sample survey design.
Beginning in August 2013, NSF will
collect lists of ECD from 201 institutions
nationwide, then sample and survey
8,250 ECD from these lists. Sample
members will be invited to participate
in a 30-minute web-based questionnaire.
The survey will cover: Educational
achievement, professional activities,
employer demographics, professional
and personal life balance, mentoring,
training and research opportunities, and
career paths and plans. Participation in

the survey is voluntary. All information
will be used for statistical purposes
only.
The NSF will publish statistics from
the survey in several reports, including
NCSES’ Science and Engineering
Indicators report. These reports will be
made available in print and
electronically on the NSF Web site.
Restricted-use and public use data files
will also be developed.
The survey will be collected in
conformance with the Privacy Act of
1974 and the Confidential Information
Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act
(CIPSEA). Responses from individuals
are voluntary. The NSF will ensure that
all individually identifiable information
collected will be kept strictly
confidential and will be used for
research or statistical purposes,
analyzing data, and preparing scientific
reports and articles.
2. Expected Respondents: There are
four types of respondents to the ECDS:
institutional high authority (HA), list
coordinator (LC), ECD contactor (EC),
and individual ECD. At the first stage of
sampling, the ECDS will select 201
institutions. At each institution, a high
authority (HA) will authorize the
institution’s participation in the study,
designate a list coordinator (LC) and an
ECD contactor (EC), and provide a letter
of support for the survey. The primary
responsibility of the LC is to prepare a
list of ECD employed at the institution.
The LC will provide a list of all ECD,
that is, individuals working at their
institution who earned their first
doctorate or doctorate-equivalent degree
within the past 10 years, including

postdocs, nonfaculty researchers,
tenured or tenure-track faculty
members.
In the second stage, the EC will notify
the sampled individual of their
selection and NSF will survey these
individuals. The ECDS is intended to
cover both U.S. and Non-U.S. degreed
and U.S. and Non-U.S. Citizens. The
ECDS will sample 8,250 ECD from 201
institutions. It is expected that 80% of
the sampled ECDs will participate,
yielding 6,600 ECD respondents.
3. Estimate of Burden: In the
methodological study, HAs required 1
hour on average to complete these tasks
while the LCs required an average of 6
hours to fulfill their duties. Assuming
that 100% of the institutions will
participate, we estimate the total HA
burden to be 201 hours and total burden
for LCs is 1,206 hours. Most ECs were
able to complete this task in less than
30 minutes in the methodological study.
It is expected that 5% of the sampled
institutions will choose to have NSF
contact the ECD directly without
involvement of ECs. We estimate a total
burden of 96 hours for ECs.
NCSES estimates that respondents
will take 30 minutes on average to
complete the questionnaire based on the
time to completion data from the
methodological study. Assuming 6,600
respondents, we estimate the total
burden for ECD to be 3,300 hours.
Taking into account all four
respondent types (HAs, LCs, ECs, and
ECD), we estimate the total respondent
burden to be 4,803 hours. The below
table showed the estimated burden by
stage and respondent type.

ECDS ESTIMATED BURDEN BY STAGE AND RESPONDENT TYPE
Minutes per respondent

Respondent type
Stage 1: Frame Creation
High Authority (HA) ..................................................................................................
List Coordinator (LC) ................................................................................................

Number of respondents

1 201

60
360

201
201

11,206

Subtotal .............................................................................................................
Stage 2: ECD Survey
ECD Contactor (EC) .................................................................................................
Early Career Doctorate (ECD) .................................................................................

............................

............................

1,407

30
30

201
8,250

3 3,300

Subtotal .............................................................................................................

............................

............................

3,396

Total ...........................................................................................................

............................

............................

4,803

1 Assumes

100% of the institutions will participate.
5% of the institutions will have NSF contact the ECD directly without involvement of the EC.
3 Assumes an 80% response rate.
2 Assumes

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Dated: April 3, 2013.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science
Foundation.
[FR Doc. 2013–08153 Filed 4–8–13; 8:45 am]
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Comment Request
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National Science Foundation.

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ACTION:

SUMMARY: The National Science
Foundation (NSF) has submitted the
following information collection
requirement to OMB for review and
clearance under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104–
13. This is the second notice for public
comment; the first was published in the
Federal Register at 78 FR 6141, and no
comments were received. NSF is
forwarding the proposed renewal
submission to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for clearance
simultaneously with the publication of
this second notice. The full submission
may be found at: http://
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Comments regarding (a) whether the
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of burden including
the validity of the methodology and
assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance
the quality, utility and clarity of the
information to be collected; (d) ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to
respond, including through the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology should be
addressed to: Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs of OMB, Attention:
Desk Officer for National Science
Foundation, 725—17th Street, NW.
Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503,
and to Suzanne Plimpton, Reports
Clearance Officer, National Science
Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard,
Room 295, Arlington, VA 22230, or by
email to [email protected]. Comments
regarding these information collections
are best assured of having their full
effect if received within 30 days of this
notification. Copies of the submission(s)
may be obtained by calling 703–292–
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NSF may not conduct or sponsor a
collection of information unless the
collection of information displays a
currently valid OMB control number
and the agency informs potential
persons who are to respond to the
collection of information that such
persons are not required to respond to
the collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
Under OMB regulations, the agency
may continue to conduct or sponsor the
collection of information while this
submission is pending at OMB.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments
to Suzanne Plimpton, Reports Clearance
Officer, National Science Foundation,
4201 Wilson Boulevard, Room 295,
Arlington, VA 22230, or by email to
[email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Call
or write, Suzanne Plimpton, Reports
Clearance Officer, National Science
Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard,
Room 295, Arlington, VA 22230, or by
email to [email protected]. Individuals
who use a telecommunications device
for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal
Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–
800–877–8339 between 8:00 a.m. and
8:00 p.m., Eastern time, Monday
through Friday.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title of Collection: Antarctic
emergency response plan and
environmental protection information.
OMB Approval Number: 3145–0180
Abstract: The NSF, pursuant to the
Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978 (16
U.S.C. 2401 et seq.) (‘‘ACA’’) regulates
certain non-governmental activities in
Antarctica. The ACA was amended in
1996 by the Antarctic Science, Tourism,
and Conservation Act. On September 7,
2001, NSF published a final rule in the
Federal Register (66 FR 46739)
implementing certain of these statutory
amendments. The rule requires nongovernmental Antarctic expeditions
using non-U.S. flagged vessels to ensure
that the vessel owner has an emergency
response plan. The rule also requires
persons organizing a non-governmental
expedition to provide expedition
members with information on their
environmental protection obligations
under the Antarctic Conservation Act.
Expected Respondents. Respondents
may include non-profit organizations
and small and large businesses. The
majority of respondents are anticipated
to be U.S. tour operators, currently
estimated to number twelve.
Burden on the Public. The Foundation
estimates that a one-time paperwork and
recordkeeping burden of 40 hours or
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respondent, will result from the
emergency response plan requirement
contained in the rule. Presently, all
respondents have been providing
expedition members with a copy of the
Guidance for Visitors to the Antarctic
(prepared and adopted at the Eighteenth
Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting
as Recommendation XVIII–1). Because
this Antarctic Treaty System document
satisfies the environmental protection
information requirements of the rule, no
additional burden shall result from the
environmental information
requirements in the proposed rule.
Dated: April 3, 2013.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science
Foundation.
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