[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 57 (Monday, March 27, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15190-15191]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-05995]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Defense Acquisition Regulations System

[Docket Number DARS-2016-0039; OMB Control Number 0704-0229]


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Defense Acquisition Regulations System has submitted to 
OMB for clearance, the following proposal for collection of information 
under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act.

DATES: Consideration will be given to all comments received by April 
26, 2017.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title, Associated Form, and OMB Number: Defense Federal Acquisition 
Regulation Supplement Part 225, Foreign Acquisition, and Related 
Clauses at 252.225; DD Form 2139; OMB Control Number 0704-0229.
    Number of Respondents: 26,669.
    Responses per Respondent: 10 (approximately).
    Annual Responses: 263,863.
    Average Burden per Response: .29 hours.
    Annual Burden Hours: 77,209 (76,944 reporting hours and 265 
recordkeeping hours).
    Reporting Frequency: On occasion.
    Needs and Uses: This information collection includes requirements 
related to foreign acquisition in DFARS Part 225, Foreign Acquisition, 
and the related clause at DFARS 252.225.
    DFARS 252.225-7000, Buy American Act--Balance of Payments Program 
Certificate, as prescribed in 225.1101(1), requires an offeror to 
identify, in its proposal, supplies that are not domestic end products, 
separately listing qualifying country and other foreign end products.
    DFARS 252.225-7003, Report of Intended Performance Outside the 
United States and Canada--Submission with Offer, and 252.225-7004, 
Report of Intended Performance Outside the United States and Canada--
Submission after Award, as prescribed in 225.7204(a) and (b) 
respectively, require offerors and contractors to submit a Report of 
Contract Performance Outside the United States for subcontracts to be 
performed outside the United States. The reporting threshold is 
$700,000 for contracts that exceed $13.5 million. The contractor may 
submit the report on DD Form 2139, Report of Contract Performance 
Outside the United States, or a computer-generated report that contains 
all information required by DD Form 2139.
    DFARS 252.225-7005, Identification of Expenditures in the United 
States, as prescribed in 225.1103(1), requires contractors incorporated 
or located in the United States to identify, on each request for 
payment under contracts for supplies to be used, or for construction or 
services to be performed, outside the United States, that part of the 
requested payment representing estimated expenditures in the United 
States.
    DFARS 252.225-7010, Commercial Derivative Military Article--
Specialty Metals Compliance Certificate, as prescribed at 225.7003-
5(b), requires the offeror to certify that it will take certain actions 
with regard to specialty metals if the offeror chooses to use the 
alternative compliance approach when providing commercial derivative 
military articles to the Government.
    DFARS 252.225-7013, Duty-Free Entry, as prescribed in 225.1101(4), 
requires the contractor to provide information on shipping documents 
and customs forms regarding products that are eligible for duty-free 
entry.
    DFARS 252.225-7018, Photovoltaic Devices--Certificate, as 
prescribed at 225.7017-4(b), requires offerors to certify that no 
photovoltaic devices with an estimated value exceeding $3,000 will be 
utilized in performance of the contract or to specify the country of 
origin.
    DFARS 252.225-7020, Trade Agreements Certificate, as prescribed in 
225.1101(5), requires an offeror to list the item number and country of 
origin of any nondesignated country end product that it intends to 
furnish under the contract. Either 252.225-7020 or 252.225-7022 is used 
in any solicitation for products subject to the World Trade 
Organization Government Procurement Agreement.
    DFARS 252.225-7021, Alternate II, Trade Agreements, as prescribed 
in 225.1101(6)(ii), in order to comply with a condition of the waiver 
authority provided by the United States Trade Representative to the 
Secretary of Defense, requires contractors from a south Caucasus/
central or south Asian state to inform the government of its 
participation in the acquisition and also advise their governments that 
they generally will not have such opportunities in the future unless 
their governments provide reciprocal procurement opportunities to U.S. 
products and services and suppliers of such products and services.
    DFARS 252.225-7023, Preference for Products or Services from 
Afghanistan, as prescribed in 225.7703-5(a), requires an offeror to 
identify, in its proposal, products or services that are not products 
or services from Iraq or Afghanistan.
    DFARS 252.225-7025, Restriction on Acquisition of Forgings, as 
prescribed in 225.7102-4, requires the contractor to retain records 
showing compliance with the requirement that end items and their 
components delivered under the contract contain forging items that are 
of domestic manufacture only. The contractor must retain the records 
for 3 years after final payment and must make the records available 
upon request of the contracting officer. The contractor may request a 
waiver of this requirement in accordance with DFARS 225.7102-3.
    DFARS 252.225-7032, Waiver of United Kingdom Levies--Evaluation of 
Offers, and 252.225-7033, Waiver of United Kingdom Levies, as 
prescribed in 225.1101(7) and (8), require an offeror to provide 
information to the contracting officer regarding any United Kingdom 
levies included in the offered price, and require the contractor to 
provide information to the contracting officer regarding any United 
Kingdom levies to be included in a subcontract that exceeds $1 million, 
before award of the subcontract.
    DFARS 252.225-7035, Buy American Act--North American Free Trade 
Agreement Implementation Act--

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Balance of Payments Program Certificate, as prescribed in 225.1101(9), 
requires an offeror to list any qualifying country, NAFTA country, or 
other foreign end product that it intends to furnish under the 
contract. The Buy American Act no longer applies to acquisitions of 
commercial information technology.
    DFARS 252.225-7046, Exports of Approved Community Members in 
Response to the Solicitation, requires a representation whether exports 
or transfers of qualifying defense articles were made in preparing the 
response to the solicitation. If yes, the offeror represents that such 
exports or transfers complied with the requirements of the provision.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit and not-for profit 
institutions.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
    OMB Desk Officer: Ms. Jasmeet Seehra.
    Written comments and recommendations on the proposed information 
collection should be sent to Ms. Seehra at the Office of Management and 
Budget, Desk Officer for DoD, Room 10236, New Executive Office 
Building, Washington, DC 20503.
    You may also submit comments, identified by docket number and 
title, by the following method:
    Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 
instructions for submitting comments.
    Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency 
name, docket number, and title for the Federal Register document. The 
general policy for comments and other public submissions from members 
of the public is to make these submissions available for public viewing 
on the internet at http://www.regulations.gov as they are received 
without change, including any personal identifiers or contact 
information provided. To confirm receipt of your comment(s), please 
check http://www.regulations.gov approximately two to three days after 
submission to verify posting (except allow 30 days for posting of 
comments submitted by mail).
    DoD Clearance Officer: Mr. Frederick C. Licari.
    Written requests for copies of the information collection proposal 
should be sent to Mr. Licari at: Information Collections Program, WHS/
ESD Office of Information Management, 4800 Mark Center Drive, 3rd 
Floor, East Tower, Suite 03F09, Alexandria, VA 22350-3100.

Jennifer L. Hawes,
Editor, Defense Acquisition Regulations System.
[FR Doc. 2017-05995 Filed 3-24-17; 8:45 am]
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