[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 210 (Tuesday, October 30, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 65665]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-26556]


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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: International Trade Administration.
    Title: International Client Life-cycle Multi-Purpose Forms.
    OMB Control Number: 0625-0237.
    Form Number(s): ITA-4096P.
    Type of Request: Regular submission (revision of a currently 
approved information collection).
    Burden Hours: 14,234.
    Number of Respondents: 47,318.
    Average Hours per Response: 5-30 minutes.
    Annual Cost to the Public: $8,625,000 ($345 per client for 25,000 
Events and Activities services).
    Needs and Uses: The Commercial Service (CS) offers their clients 
DOC programs, market research, and services to enable the client to 
begin importing or to expand existing importing efforts. Specific 
information is required in order to determine the client's business 
objectives and needs. This information collection is designed to elicit 
such data so that appropriate services can be proposed and conducted to 
most effectively meet the client's importing goals. The CS has made 
efforts to provide more customized services to clients thereby 
requesting approval to use a service order form for customized services 
as well as for standardized services such as the International Partner 
Search and Gold Key Service. The information collected is used 
internally and is not disseminated to the public.
    These forms will also reduce client burden through forms' 
flexibility and technology. The CS also seeks increased forms 
flexibility to ensure that CS asks and captures only the specific 
information needed for a particular service/event, thereby continuing 
to reduce client burdens as CS utilizes pre-populated information for 
clients who have previously registered with CS. As a client request 
specific CS services, a set of questions will be presented to determine 
how CS will proceed to give the client the best export outcome.
    This revision to produce a customized form for each CS client, and 
will cover all aspects of an international client's life-cycle with CS, 
involves merging with other information collections: OMB Control Nos: 
0625-0065, 0625-0130, 0625-0151, 0625-0215, 0625-0220, 0625-0228, 0625-
0143, and 0625-0238. These collections include all client intake, 
events/activities and export success forms. The set of questions used 
to generate the customized forms have been approved under the 
aforementioned information collections. Upon OMB approval, these 
information collections will be discontinued.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    OMB Desk Officer: Wendy Liberante, (202) 395-3647.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Jennifer Jessup, Departmental Paperwork Clearance 
Officer, (202) 482-0336, Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 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 Wendy Liberante, OMB Desk Officer, Fax number (202) 395-5167 or via 
the Internet at [email protected].

    Dated: October 24, 2012.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2012-26556 Filed 10-29-12; 8:45 am]
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