[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 10 (Friday, January 14, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2607-2608]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-788]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission for Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Review; 
Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce (DOC) has submitted to 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: Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), DOC.
    Title: Expenditures Incurred by Recipients of Biomedical Research 
Awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
    Type of Request: New information collection.
    Burden: 1,176 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 105.
    Average Hours Per Response: 11.2 hours.
    Needs and Uses: The survey to obtain the distribution of 
expenditures incurred by recipients of biomedical research awards from 
the National Institutes of Health Research (NIH) will provide 
information on how the NIH award amounts are expended across several 
major categories. This information, along with wage and price data from 
other published sources, will be used to generate the Biomedical 
Research and Developmental Price Index (BRDPI). The Bureau of Economic 
Analysis (BEA) of the Department of Commerce develops this index for 
the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under reimbursable contract. 
The BRDPI is an index of prices paid for the labor, supplies, 
equipment, and other inputs required to perform the biomedical research 
the NIH supports in its intramural laboratories and through its awards 
to extramural organizations. The BRDPI is a vital tool for planning the 
NIH research budget and analyzing future NIH programs. A survey of 
award recipient entities is currently the only means for updating the 
expenditure categories that are used to prepare the BRDPI.
    The information provided by the respondents will be held 
confidential and be used for exclusively statistical purposes. This 
pledge of confidentiality is made under the Confidential Information 
Protection provisions of Title V, Subtitle A, Public Law 107-347. Title 
V is the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency 
Act of 2002 (CIPSEA). Responses will be kept confidential and will not 
be disclosed in identifiable form to anyone other than employees or 
agents of BEA without your consent. By law, each employee as well as 
each agent is subject to a jail term of up to 5 years, a fine of up to 
$250,000, or both if he or she makes public ANY identifiable 
information that you report about your business or institution.
    A survey questionnaire with a cover letter that includes a brief 
description of, and rationale for, the survey will be sent to potential 
respondents by the first week of June of each year. A report of the 
respondent's expenditures of the NIH award amounts, following the 
proposed format for expenditure categories attached to the survey's 
cover letter, will be requested to be returned no later than 60 days 
after mailing. Survey respondents will be selected on the basis of 
award levels, which determine the weight of the respondent in the 
biomedical research and development price index. Potential respondents 
will include (1) the top 100 organizations in total awards, which 
account for about 74 percent of total awards; (2) the top 40 
organizations that are not primarily in the ``Research and Development 
(R & D) contracts'' category, and which account for about 4 percent of 
total awards; and, (3) the top 10 organizations that are primarily in 
the ``R&D contracts'' category, and which account for less than one 
percent of total awards.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit institutions, and 
not-for-profit institutions.
    Frequency: Annual.
    Respondent's Obligations: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: 45 CFR Subpart C, Post-Award Requirements, 
Sec. Sec.  74.21 and 74.53; 42 U.S.C. 282; Economy Act (31 U.S.C. 1535 
and 1536); 15 U.S.C. 1525; and 15 U.S.C. 1527a.
    OMB Desk Officer: Paul Bugg, (202) 395-3093.
    You may obtain copies of the above information collection proposal 
by calling or writing Diana Hynek, Departmental Paperwork Clearance 
Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Department of 
Commerce, Room 6625, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington DC 20230, or via the Internet at [email protected], ((202) 482-
0266).
    Send comments on the proposed information collection within 30 days 
of publication of this notice to Paul Bugg, OMB Desk Officer, via the 
Internet at [email protected] or by fax (202) 395-7245.


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    Dated: January 10, 2005.
Madeleine Clayton,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 05-788 Filed 1-13-05; 8:45 am]
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