[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 103 (Wednesday, May 28, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30603-30604]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-11859]


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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 emergency provisions of the Paperwork Reduction 
Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35).
    Agency: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
    Title: Technology Innovation Program Application Requirements.
    Form Number(s): NIST-1022.
    OMB Approval Number: None.
    Type of Request: Emergency submission.
    Burden Hours: 11,100.
    Number of Respondents: 300.
    Average Hours Per Response: 37.
    Needs and Uses: The Technology Innovation Program (TIP) is a 
competitive cost sharing program designed to assist U.S. businesses and 
institutions of higher education or other

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organizations, such as national laboratories and nonprofit research 
institutions, to support, promote, and accelerate innovation in the 
United States through high-risk, high-reward research in areas of 
critical national need. High-risk, high-reward research is research 
that:
    a. has the potential for yielding transformational results with 
far-ranging or wide-ranging implications;
    b. addresses areas of critical national need that support, promote, 
and accelerate innovation in the United States and is within NIST's 
areas of technical competence; and is too novel or spans too diverse a 
range of disciplines to fare well in the traditional peer-review 
process.
    Affected Public: U.S. businesses and institutions of higher 
education or other organizations, such as national laboratories and 
nonprofit research institutions.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain a benefit.
    OMB Desk Officer: Jasmeet Seehra, (202) 395-3123.
    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 by June 20, 2008, to Jasmeet Seehra, OMB Desk 
Officer, FAX number (202) 395-5806 or via the Internet at [email protected].

    Dated: May 22, 2008.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. E8-11859 Filed 5-27-08; 8:45 am]
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