[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 220 (Friday, November 14, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68212-68213]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-26997]


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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 Technical Information Service.
    Title: Limited Access Death Master File Subscriber Certification 
Form.
    OMB Control Number: 0692-0013.
    Form Number(s): NTIS FM161.
    Type of Request: Reinstatement.
    Number of Respondents: 700.
    Average Hours per Response: 2 hours.
    Burden Hours: 1,400.
    Needs and Uses: The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) 
Limited Access Death Master File Subscriber Certification Form 
(Certification Form) will be used by NTIS to collect information 
related to the implementation of Section 203 of the Bipartisan Budget 
Act of 2013 (Pub. L. 113-67) (Act). On March 26, 2014, NTIS issued an 
interim final rule establishing a temporary certification program for 
persons who seek access to the Social Security Administration's Public 
Death Master File (DMF) (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2014-03-26/pdf/2014-06701.pdf). The interim final rule is codified at 15 C.F.R. 
part 1110. Section 203 of the Act prohibits disclosure of DMF 
information during the three-calendar-year period following death 
unless the person requesting the information has been certified under a 
program established by the Secretary of Commerce. The Act directs the 
Secretary of Commerce to establish a certification program for such 
access to the DMF. The Secretary of Commerce has delegated the 
authority to carry out the DMF certification program to the Director, 
NTIS. The DMF Certification Form collects only information necessary 
for NTIS to conduct the program. This collection of information is for 
information necessary to support the certification process required by 
the Act for members of the public to be given access to the Death 
Master File containing information about deceased persons during the 
three-calendar-year period after that person's death.
    The Act required implementation of the certification program ninety 
(90) days after enactment. NTIS requested emergency clearance of this 
collection of information in order to implement the certification 
program on March 26, 2014, and the information collection

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was approved on an emergency basis through September 30, 2014. NTIS 
anticipates publishing a notice of proposed rulemaking in the near 
future and as part of that proposed rulemaking will seek clearance of a 
revised information collection. However, the revised information 
collection will not be used until a final rule is published. NTIS must 
continue to use the existing DMF Certification Form until the final 
rule is published.
    Affected Public: Users who wish to obtain access to the Death 
Master File from NTIS.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Annually (resubmit the certification form 
at time of Limited Access DMF subscription renewal.
    This information collection request may be viewed at reginfo.gov. 
Follow the instructions to view Department of Commerce collections 
currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to [email protected] or fax to (202) 395-5806.

    Dated: November 10, 2014.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014-26997 Filed 11-13-14; 8:45 am]
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