[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 187 (Thursday, September 27, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54894-54895]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-19036]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce will submit 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 Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
    Title: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of 
Education, Educational Partnership Program (EPP) and Ernest F. Hollings 
Undergraduate Scholarship Program.
    Form Number(s): None.
    OMB Approval Number: None.
    Type of Request: Regular submission.
    Burden Hours: 10,020.
    Number of Respondents: 2,885.
    Average Hours per Response: Undergraduate scholarship applications, 
8 hours; graduate sciences program applications, 10 hours; references, 
1 hour; alumni updates, 1 hour; student tracker database forms, 16 
hours.
    Needs and Uses: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 
(NOAA) Educational Partnership Program (EPP) collects, evaluates and 
assesses student data and information for the purpose of selecting 
successful candidates, generating internal NOAA reports and articles to 
demonstrate the success of its program. EPP requires applicants to its 
student scholarship programs to complete an application for NOAA 
undergraduate and graduate scholarship programs. Part of the 
application package requires references (e.g., academic professors and 
advisors) to complete a NOAA student scholar reference form in support 
of the scholarship application. NOAA EPP student scholar alumni are 
also requested to provide information for NOAA internal tracking 
purposes. In addition, the collected student data supports NOAA EPP's 
program performance measures.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households; not-for-profit 
institutions; State, Local or Tribal Government.
    Frequency: Annually or triennially.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
    OMB Desk Officer: David Rostker, (202) 395-3897.
    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

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Officer, FAX number (202) 395-7285, or [email protected].

    Dated: September 21, 2007.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. E7-19036 Filed 9-26-07; 8:45 am]
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