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Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 114 / Wednesday, June 14, 2023 / Notices
Notice is hereby given that a
permit has been issued to the following
entity under the Marine Mammal
Protection Act (MMPA) and the
Endangered Species Act (ESA), as
applicable.

SUMMARY:

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
[RTID 0648–XD080]

Marine Mammals and Endangered
Species

The permits and related
documents are available for review
upon written request via email to
[email protected].

ADDRESSES:

National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; issuance of a permit.
AGENCY:

Sara
Young (Permit No. 26254) at (301) 427–
8401.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Notice
was published in the Federal Register
on the date listed below that a request
for a permit had been submitted by the
below-named applicant. To locate the
Federal Register notice that announced
our receipt of the application and a
complete description of the activities, go
to https://www.federalregister.gov and
search on the permit number provided
in Table 1 below.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

TABLE 1—ISSUED PERMITS
Permit No.

RTID

Applicant

Previous Federal
Register notice

Issuance date

26254 .................................

0648–XB798 ....................

Alaska Department of Fish & Game,
1300 College Road, Fairbanks, AK
99701 (Responsible Party: Lori
Quakenbush).

87 FR 8235, February 14,
2022.

May 16, 2023.

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In compliance with the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42
U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), a final
determination has been made that the
activities proposed are categorically
excluded from the requirement to
prepare an environmental assessment or
environmental impact statement.
As required by the ESA, as applicable,
issuance of this permit was based on a
finding that such permit: (1) was
applied for in good faith; (2) will not
operate to the disadvantage of such
endangered species; and (3) is
consistent with the purposes and
policies set forth in section 2 of the
ESA.
Authority: The requested permit has
been issued under the MMPA of 1972,
as amended (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), the
regulations governing the taking and
importing of marine mammals (50 CFR
part 216), the ESA of 1973, as amended
(16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), and the
regulations governing the taking,
importing, and exporting of endangered
and threatened species (50 CFR parts
222–226), as applicable.
Dated: June 9, 2023.
Julia M. Harrison,
Chief, Permits and Conservation Division,
Office of Protected Resources, National
Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Antarctic Marine Living
Resources Conservation and
Management Measures
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 February 13,
2023 (88 FR 9253) 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: Antarctic Marine Living
Resources Conservation and
Management Measures.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0194.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission
(extension of a current information
collection).

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Number of Respondents: 86.
Average Hours per Response: One
hour to apply for a CEMP research
permit; 1 hour to report on research; 28
hours to supply information on
potential new or exploratory fishing; 2
hours to apply for a harvesting permit;
2 minutes to transmit information by
radio; 4 hours to install a vessel
monitoring device (VMS); 2 hours for
annual VMS maintenance; 5 minutes for
installation checklist; 15 minutes to
mark a vessel; 5 minutes to mark buoys;
10 hours to mark pot gear; 2 minutes to
mark trawl nets; 15 minutes to provide
notice of transshipment within the
Convention Area; 5 minutes to request
for observer; 15 minutes to apply for a
permit to be a first receiver of Antarctic
marine living resources; 15 minutes to
apply for pre-approval of toothfish
imports; 30 minutes to complete a fresh
toothfish reporting form; 15 minutes to
complete and submit re-export catch
documents; 15 minutes to submit
import tickets.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 382.
Needs and Uses: This request is for
extension of a currently approved
information collection. The 1982
Convention on the Conservation of
Antarctic Marine Living Resources
(Convention) established the
Commission for the Conservation of
Antarctic Marine Living Resources
(CCAMLR). The United States is a
Contracting Party to the Convention.
The Antarctic Marine Living Resources
Convention Act (AMLRCA) directs and
authorizes the United States to take
actions necessary to meet its treaty
obligations as a Contracting Party to the
Convention. The regulations

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implementing AMLRCA are at 50 CFR
part 300, subpart G. The record keeping
and reporting requirements at 50 CFR
part 300 form the basis for this
collection of information. This
collection of information concerns
research in, and the harvesting and
importation of, marine living resources
from waters regulated by CCAMLR
related to ecosystem research, U.S.
harvesting permit application and/or
harvesting vessel operators and to
importers and re-exporters of Antarctic
marine living resources. The collection
is necessary in order for the United
States to meet its treaty obligations as a
contracting party to the Convention.
Affected Public: Business or other for
profit organizations; not-for-profit
institutions; individuals or households.
Frequency: Annually and on occasion.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Public Law 98–623,
Sec. 2439 Antarctic Marine Living
Resources Convention Act.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view the
Department of Commerce collections
currently under review by OMB.
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 0648–0194.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
[Docket No. PTO–C–2023–0022]

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Request for Comments on Southeast
Regional Office and Community
Outreach Office Locations
United States Patent and
Trademark Office, U.S. Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Request for comments.
AGENCY:

The United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO or Office) is
seeking information to inform the
planning and design of the USPTO

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satellite offices (regional offices) and
newly-authorized community outreach
offices (COOs). The USPTO is also
seeking information on potential
locations for a future USPTO regional
office in the southeast region of the
United States (Southeast Regional Office
or SERO) and a COO in the northern
New England (NNE) region (Northern
New England Community Outreach
Office) that the USPTO was directed to
establish under the Unleashing
American Innovators Act of 2022
(UAIA), signed into law as part of the
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023
on December 29, 2022.
DATES: To ensure consideration, written
comments must be received by 5 p.m.
ET on or before July 17, 2023, and
should be submitted in accordance with
the instructions in the ADDRESSES and
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION sections.
No public hearing will be held.
ADDRESSES: For reasons of government
efficiency, comments must be submitted
electronically by completing the form at
https://tinyurl.com/27srysh4. Complete
the required fields using the preformatted response form that will allow
you to comment on each topic of
interest or question you choose to
address. You may enter your responses
directly into the form or cut and paste
your responses from a MICROSOFT
WORD® or ADOBE® portable document
format (PDF) document into the field
provided for each question. You must
submit any attachments that provide
additional support to a question through
the electronic form. Attachments to the
form will be accepted as ADOBE® PDF
or MICROSOFT WORD® documents. To
be considered, comments must be
submitted through the electronic form.
Because comments will be made
available for public inspection,
information that the submitter does not
desire to make public, such as an
address or phone number, should not be
included in the comments.
If submission of comments through
the electronic form is not feasible due to
a lack of access to a computer and/or the
internet, please contact the USPTO
using the contact information below for
special instructions regarding how to
submit comments by mail or by hand
delivery, based on the public’s ability to
obtain access to USPTO facilities at the
time.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Shirin Bidel-Niyat, Chief of Staff, Office
of the Under Secretary of Commerce for
Intellectual Property and Director of the
USPTO, at 571–272–8600 or
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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I. Background
Enabled by the 2011 America Invents
Act (AIA), the USPTO currently has four
regional offices that are located in
Detroit, Michigan; San Jose, California
(Silicon Valley); Denver, Colorado; and
Dallas, Texas. The purposes of the
regional offices (ROs), as originally
defined in the AIA and amended by the
UAIA, are to:
• RO1: Better connect patent filers
and innovators with the Office,
including by increasing outreach
activities to individual innovators, small
businesses, veterans, low-income
populations, students, rural
populations, and any geographic group
of innovators that the Director may
determine to be underrepresented in
patent filings;
• RO2: Enhance patent examiner and
administrative patent judge retention,
including patent examiners and
administrative patent judges from
economically, geographically, and
demographically diverse backgrounds;
• RO3: Improve recruitment of patent
examiners;
• RO4: Decrease the number of patent
applications waiting for examination;
and
• RO5: Improve the quality of patent
examination.
The USPTO has been focused on
outreach and impact, and is working on
ways to better support those new to the
innovation ecosystem, bringing more
people in America into the fold. The
USPTO is also studying the role of the
regional offices in serving both the
public and the needs of our colleagues
across the agency.
The UAIA supports the USPTO’s
expanded outreach efforts by requiring
the USPTO to establish, within three
years of enactment (i.e., no later than
December 29, 2025), a Southeast
Regional Office in the geographic region
comprised of the states of Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Tennessee, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas.
The UAIA requires the Office to
consider the following when selecting
the site for the SERO:
• SERO1: Number of patent-intensive
industries that are located near the site;
• SERO2: How many researchintensive institutions, including higher
education institutions, are located near
the site;
• SERO3: Governmental and business
frameworks, at both the State and local
levels, that support intellectual
property-intensive industries that are
located near the site; and
• SERO4: The proximity of the office
to anchor institutions (such as hospitals

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