[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 195 (Wednesday, October 13, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56888-56889]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-22235]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield; Invitation for Applications for 
Inclusion on the Supplemental List of Arbitrators

    The Department of Commerce will submit the following information 
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite the 
general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and 
continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of 
our information collection requirements and minimize the public's 
reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the 
Federal Register on July 28, 2021 during a 60-day comment period. This 
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
    Agency: International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce.
    Title: Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield; Invitation for Applications for 
Inclusion on the Supplemental List of Arbitrators.
    OMB Control Number: 0625-0278.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Extension of a current information collection.
    Number of Respondents: 20.
    Average Hours per Response: 240 minutes.
    Burden Hours: 80 hours.
    Needs and Uses: As described in Annex I of the Swiss-U.S. Privacy 
Shield Framework, the Department of Commerce (the Department) and the 
Swiss Administration committed to implement an arbitration mechanism to 
provide Swiss individuals with the ability to invoke binding 
arbitration to determine, for residual claims, whether an organization 
has violated its obligations under the Privacy Shield. Organizations 
voluntarily self-certify to the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework 
and, upon certification, the commitments the organization has made to 
comply with the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework become legally 
enforceable under U.S. law. Organizations that self-certify to the 
Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework commit to binding arbitration of 
residual claims if a Swiss individual chooses to exercise that option. 
Under the arbitration option, a Privacy Shield Panel (consisting of one 
or three arbitrators, as agreed by the parties) has the authority to 
impose individual-specific, non-monetary equitable relief (such as 
access, correction, deletion, or return of the Swiss individual's data 
in question) necessary to remedy the violation of the Swiss-U.S. 
Privacy Shield Framework only with respect to the individual. The 
Department and the Swiss Administration will seek to maintain a list of 
up to five arbitrators chosen on the basis of independence, integrity, 
and expertise from which the parties will select the arbitrators, which 
will supplement the list of arbitrators developed under the EU-U.S. 
Privacy Shield Framework. The arbitral mechanism outlined in Annex I of 
the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield 
Framework is a critical component of the Privacy Shield frameworks. 
Publishing this notice to collect information from individuals applying 
for inclusion on the list of arbitrators is a necessary step to 
maintain the arbitral mechanism. The Department previously requested 
and obtained approval of this information collection (OMB Control No. 
0625-0278) and now seeks renewal of this information collection. 
Although the Department is not currently seeking additional 
applications, it may do so in the future as appropriate.
    Affected Public: Private individuals.
    Frequency: Recurrent, depending on the number of arbitrators 
required to retain an active list of 5 arbitrators.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
    Legal Authority: The Department's statutory authority to foster, 
promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce of the United 
States (15 U.S.C. 1512).
    This information collection request may be viewed at 
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view the Department of 
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of 
this notice on the following website 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 and

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entering either the title of the collection or the OMB Control Number 
0625-0278.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2021-22235 Filed 10-12-21; 8:45 am]
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