[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 241 (Wednesday, December 16, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 78228-78229]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-31530]


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EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE UNITED STATES

[Public Notice 2015-6020]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request

AGENCY: Export-Import Bank of the United States.

ACTION: Submission for OMB review and comments request.

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    Form Title: EIB 15-03, Small Business Exporter Survey on US Content 
Requirement.

SUMMARY: The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank), as a 
part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent 
burden, invites the general public and other Federal Agencies to 
comment on the proposed information collection, as required by the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
    Under Ex-Im Bank's Short and Medium-Term Insurance and Medium-Term 
Guarantee programs exported goods and services must meet established 
content requirement to be eligible for Ex-Im Bank financing and ensure 
that US-jobs benefit from Ex-Im bank programs. Ex-Im Bank relied upon 
the exporter's self-certification of content was never verified. The 
small business exporter survey seeks to obtain feedback from customers 
on US content requirement. This survey will help Ex-Im Bank better 
understand small business customers' perspectives on the bank's 
existence, monitoring, ability to perform compliance on potential areas 
of concern for exporters and how Ex-Im Bank's requirement impacts their 
small business. The objective is to identify possible service 
improvements and better understand small business owners' experiences 
working with Ex-Im Bank.
    The survey can be reviewed at: http://www.valuerecoveryholding.com/pending/surveyquestionnaire.html

DATES: Comments should be received on or before February 16, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be submitted electronically on 
WWW.REGULATIONS.GOV or by mail to Nigussie Haile, Export Import Bank of 
the United States, 811 Vermont Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20571

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Titles and Form Number: EIB 15-03, Small Business Exporter Survey 
on US Content Requirement.
    OMB Number: 3048-XXXX.
    Type of Review: Regular.
    Need and Use: The information requested enables Ex-Im Bank to 
identify possible service improvements to the benefit of small business 
exporters.
    The number of respondents: 1,000.
    Estimated time per respondents: 10 minutes.
    The frequency of response: One time.
    Annual hour burden: 166.7 total hrs.

Government Expenses

    Reviewing time per response: 5 minutes.
    Responses per year: 1,000.

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    Reviewing time per year: 83.33 hours.
    Average Wages per hour: $42.50.
    Average cost per year: (time * wages) $3,541.67.
    Benefits and overhead: 20%.
    Total Government Cost: $4,250.

Bonita Jones-McNeil,
Program Analyst, Records Management Division.
[FR Doc. 2015-31530 Filed 12-15-15; 8:45 am]
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