[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 144 (Thursday, July 28, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45297-45298]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-16202]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; 
Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and Examiner Applications

    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

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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 
April 19, 2022, during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for 
an additional 30 days for public comments.
    Agency: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 
Commerce.
    Title: Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and Examiner 
Applications.
    OMB Control Number: 0693-0006.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular submission, revision of a current 
information collection.
    Number of Respondents: 580 (30 Applications for MBNQA and 550 
Applicants for the Board of Examiners).
    Average Hours per Response: 30 minutes for MBNQA eligibility form, 
74 hours for MBNQA application, and 30 minutes for examiner 
applications.
    Burden Hours: 2,510 (MBNQA = 15 hours for eligibility form, 2,220 
hours for application, Board of Examiners = 275 hours).
    Needs and Uses: Collection needed to obtain information to conduct 
the MBNQA (Pub. L. 100-107, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality 
Improvement Act of 1987).
    Affected Public: Business, health care, education, or other for-
profit organizations; health care, education, and other nonprofit 
organizations; and individuals or households.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    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 entering either the title of the collection or the OMB 
Control Number 0693-0006.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2022-16202 Filed 7-27-22; 8:45 am]
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