[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 202 (Thursday, October 17, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 54239]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-26677]


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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

[Notice 96-127]


Notice of Agency Report Forms Under OMB Review

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 
Chapter 35), agencies are required to submit proposed information 
collection requests to OMB for review and approval, and to publish a 
notice in the Federal Register notifying the public that the agency has 
made submission. Accordingly, this notice announces NASA's plans to 
survey NASA's Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) firm awardees 
for the purposes of obtaining information regarding the extent to which 
NASA funded SBIR technology has been commercially applied and to assess 
the industrial activity otherwise that has resulted from technology 
developed under NASA's SBIR program. This information is critical to 
the assessment of NASA's success regarding its mission objective that 
NASA programs contribute significantly to national economic growth and 
competitiveness in accordance with the Vice President's National 
Performance Review recommendations and the President's National Space 
Policy of September 19, 1996.

DATES: Written comments and recommendations on the proposal for the 
collection of information should be received on or before December 16, 
1996.

ADDRESSES: All comments should be addressed to John R. Yadvish, Code 
XC, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC 
20546-0001. All comments will become a matter of public record and will 
be summarized in NASA's request for Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) approval.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Bessie B. Berry, NASA Reports Officer, (202) 358-1368.

Reports

    Title: NASA SBIR Commercial Metrics.
    OMB Number: None Assigned.
    Type of review: New collection.
    Need and Uses: NASA SBIR Phase II awardee firms would be asked to 
voluntarily provide data once every three years regarding the extent to 
which commercial products and services and related commercial activity 
have resulted from NASA funded SBIR technology. This information is 
critical to NASA's evaluating and reporting on its success regarding 
one of its primary mission objectives that NASA programs' contributing 
significantly to the national economic growth, as well as NASA's 
success in meeting the objectives of the Vice President's National 
Performance Review recommendations for NASA and the President's 
National Space Policy.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 650 in total, of which 
approximately 200 will be sampled every year at a frequency of once 
every three for each firm.
    Responses Per Respondent: Once every three years.
    Estimated Annual Responses: 200.
    Estimated Hours Per Request: 1.
    Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 217.
    Frequency of Report: Once every three years.

    Dated: October 10, 1996.
Russell S. Rice,
Director, IRM Division.
[FR Doc. 96-26677 Filed 10-16-96; 8:45 am]
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