[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 145 (Monday, August 2, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 41465]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-16345]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Agency Information Collection Extension

AGENCY: Office of Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business 
Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR), Office of Science, Department of 
Energy.

ACTION: Submission for Office of Management and Budget (OMB) review; 
comment request.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (DOE) has submitted an information 
collection request to the OMB for extension under the provisions of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The information collection requests a 
three-year extension of its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) 
and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Commercialization Survey, 
OMB Control Number 1910-5166. The proposed collection will satisfy the 
program requirements of the Small Business Act, including requirements 
established in the SBIR program reauthorization legislation. DOE will 
collect the survey data via web-enabled software and provide it to the 
Small Business Administration (SBA) to maintain information about the 
DOE SBIR/STTR awards issued through the two programs. This data will be 
provided by DOE based on information collected from SBIR/STTR awardees. 
This data will be used by DOE, SBA, and Congress to assess the 
commercial impact of these two programs.

DATES: Comments regarding this collection must be received on or before 
September 1, 2021. If you anticipate that you will be submitting 
comments but find it difficult to do so within the period of time 
allowed by this notice, please advise the OMB Desk Officer of your 
intention to make a submission as soon as possible. The Desk Officer 
may be telephoned at (202) 395-4718.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of 
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular 
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Claudia Cantoni, SBIR/STTR Programs 
Manager, U.S. Department of Energy, 19901 Germantown Road, Germantown, 
MD 20874-1290. Phone: (240) 255-8590. Email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This information collection request 
contains: (1) OMB No.: 1910-5166; (2) Information Collection Request 
Title: Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business 
Technology Transfer (STTR) Commercialization Survey; (3) Type of 
Request: Renewal; (4) Purpose: The DOE needs this information to 
satisfy the program requirements of the Small Business Act, including 
requirements established in the SBIR program reauthorization 
legislation, Public Law 106-554 and Public Law 107-50. This data will 
be collected by the DOE and provided to the Small Business 
Administration (SBA) to maintain information about SBIR/STTR awards 
issued through the two programs. This data will be provided by DOE 
based on information collected from SBIR/STTR awardees. This data will 
be used by DOE, SBA, and Congress to assess the commercial impact of 
these two programs; (5) Annual Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,000; 
(6) Annual Estimated Number of Total Responses: 1,000; (7) Annual 
Estimated Number of Burden Hours: 1,000; (8) Annual Estimated Reporting 
and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $83,000.
    Statutory Authority: Section 9 of the Small Business Act, as 
amended, codified at 15 U.S.C. 638(g).

Signing Authority

    This document of the Department of Energy was signed on July 27, 
2021, by Manny Oliver, Director, Office of Small Business Innovation 
Research and Small Business Technology Transfer, pursuant to delegated 
authority from the Secretary of Energy. That document with the original 
signature and date is maintained by DOE. For administrative purposes 
only, and in compliance with requirements of the Office of the Federal 
Register, the undersigned DOE Federal Register Liaison Officer has been 
authorized to sign and submit the document in electronic format for 
publication, as an official document of the Department of Energy. This 
administrative process in no way alters the legal effect of this 
document upon publication in the Federal Register.

    Signed in Washington, DC, on July 27, 2021.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2021-16345 Filed 7-30-21; 8:45 am]
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