[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 123 (Monday, June 27, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37313-37314]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-16021]


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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).

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    Agency: Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).
    Title: Expenditures Incurred by Recipients of Biomedical Research 
Awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
    OMB Control Number: 0608-0069.
    Form Number: None.
    Type of Request: Regular submission.
    Number of Respondents: 150.
    Average Hours per Response: 8 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,200.
    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.
    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. BEA proposes to survey 
150 organizations that receive NIH biomedical research awards. This 
will include the top 100 academic organizations in awards received and 
the top 50 nonacademic organizations in awards received. Based on 
awards data for FY 2007 by type of organization (the most recent data 
available from NIH at this writing), academic organizations received 
$16.1 billion in awards, compared with $6.5 billion received by 
nonacademic organizations. The top 100 academic recipients received 
$14.0 billion, representing 86.9 percent of all awards going to 
academic organizations. The top 50 nonacademic organizations received 
$3.6 billion, representing 56.3 percent of all awards going to 
nonacademic institutions. The combined sample of 150 organizations will 
thus account for $17.7 billion in total NIH awards, representing 78.1 
percent of all awards given in FY 2007.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit institutions, and 
not-for-profit institutions.
    Frequency: Annual.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: 45 CFR subpart C, Post-Award Requirements, 
sections 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.
    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 6616, 14th Street 
and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington DC 20230, or via e-mail at 
[email protected].
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to Paul Bugg, OMB Desk Officer, Fax number (202) 395-7245, or via e-
mail at [email protected].

    Dated: June 22, 2011.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2011-16021 Filed 6-24-11; 8:45 am]
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