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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 175 / Tuesday, September 14, 2021 / Notices
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration

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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Permits for Incidental Taking
of Endangered or Threatened Species
The Department of Commerce will
submit the following information
collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
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 May 25,
2021 (86 FR 28061) 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: Permits for Incidental Taking of
Endangered or Threatened Species.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0230.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission
(extension of a currently approved
information collection).
Number of Respondents: 37.
Average Hours per Response: 80
hours for a permit application
(including Habitat Conservation Plans);
40 minutes for transfer of an incidental
take permit; 8 hours for a permit report,
30 minutes for a Certificate of Inclusion;
and 10 hours for a watershed plan.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 408.
Needs and Uses: All of the required
information collected in the application
is used to evaluate the impacts of a
proposed activity on endangered
species; for example, to make the
determinations required by the ESA
prior to issuing an incidental take
permit, and to establish appropriate
permit conditions. The analysis
involved in making these
determinations requires detailed
information on the activity, the ESA
species and how the activity may affect
the species directly or indirectly
through alterations of the habitat.
The reports required by the incidental
take permits are used by NMFS to
monitor the taking, to assess the impacts

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to the species and its habitat, and to
monitor compliance with the terms and
conditions of the permit. This
information is necessary to ensure that
the taking is not appreciably reducing
the likelihood of the survival and
recovery of the species and for
determining whether the terms and
conditions of the permit are being
complied with, as required by sections
10(a)(2)(B) and (C) of the ESA. The
regulations at § 222.307(d)(1) state that
permits must contain ‘‘Reporting
requirements or rights of inspection for
determining whether the terms and
conditions are being complied with’’.
The requirements for reports therefore,
vary from permit to permit, depending
on the permit conditions.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; Business or other for-profit
organizations; Not-for-profit
institutions; State, Local, or Tribal
government.
Frequency: An applicant needs to
submit one final application and
reporting occurs annually, but may vary
from permit to permit, depending on the
permit conditions.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
Obtain or Retain Benefits.
Legal Authority: The Endangered
Species Act of 1973 (ESA; 16 U.S.C.
1531 et seq.).
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 0648–0230.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
United States Patent and Trademark
Office
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Third-Party Submissions and
Protests
The United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) will submit

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the following information collection
request to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and clearance
in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, on or after the
date of publication of this notice. The
USPTO invites comment on this
information collection renewal, which
helps the USPTO assess the impact of
its information collection requirements
and minimize the public’s reporting
burden. Public comments were
previously requested via the Federal
Register on April 30, 2021 during a 60day comment period. This notice allows
for an additional 30 days for public
comments.
Agency: United States Patent and
Trademark Office, Department of
Commerce.
Title: Third-Party Submissions and
Protests.
OMB Control Number: 0651–0062.
Form Number: PTO/SB/429 (ThirdParty Submission Under 37 CFR 1.290).
Type of Review: Extension and
revision of a currently approved
information collection.
Number of Respondents: 880
respondents per year.
Estimated Time per Response: The
USPTO estimates that it will take the
public approximately 10 hours to gather
the necessary information, create the
documents, and submit the completed
items to the USPTO.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Burden Hours: 8,800 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Non-Hour
Cost Burden: $80,613.
Needs and Uses: The USPTO is
required by 35 U.S.C. 131 et seq. to
examine an application for patent and,
when appropriate, issue a patent. The
provisions of 35 U.S.C. 122(c), 122(e),
131, and 151, as well as 37 CFR 1.290
and 1.291, limit the ability of a thirdparty to have information entered and
considered in, or to protest, a patent
application pending before the USPTO.
37 CFR 1.290 provides a mechanism for
third parties to submit to the USPTO,
for consideration and inclusion in the
record of a patent application, any
patents, published patent applications,
or other printed publications of
potential relevance to the examination
of the application. A preissuance
submission under 37 CFR 1.290 may be
made in any non-provisional utility,
design, and plant application, as well as
in any continuing application. A
preissuance submission under 37 CFR
1.290 must include a concise
description of the asserted relevance of
each document submitted, and must be
submitted within a certain statutorily
specified period. 37 CFR 1.291 permits
a member of the public to file a protest

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