[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 158 (Tuesday, August 17, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51059-51060]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-18728]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce has submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for 
collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).
    Agency: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
    Title: BEES Please.
    Form Number(s): None.
    OMB Approval Number: 0693-0036.
    Type of Review: Regular submission.
    Burden Hours: 1,875.
    Number of Respondents: 30.
    Average Hours Per Response: 62.5.
    Needs and Uses: BEES Please is a voluntary program to collect data 
from product manufacturers so that the environmental performance of 
their products may be evaluated scientifically using the BEES (Building 
for Environmental and Economic Sustainability) Program. BEES uses the 
environmental life-cycle assessment approach specified in the 
International

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Standards Organization 14040 series of standards. NIST will publish in 
BEES an aggregated version of the data collected from manufacturers 
that protects data confidentiality, subject to manufacturer's review 
and approval.
    Affected Public: Business or for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: Once.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    OMB Desk Officer: Jacqueline Zeiher, (202) 395-4638.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Diana Hynek, Departmental Paperwork Clearance 
Officer, (202) 482-0266, Department of Commerce, Room 6625, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 
[email protected]).
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to David Rostker, OMB Desk Officer, Room 10202, New Executive Office 
Building, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: August 11, 2004.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information.
[FR Doc. 04-18728 Filed 8-16-04; 8:45 am]
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