[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 4 (Friday, January 5, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 751]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-00037]


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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; 
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Application Cover 
Sheet

    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 October 4, 2023 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: Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program 
Application Cover Sheet.
    OMB Control Number 0693-0072.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Extension of a current information collection.
    Number of Respondents: 138.
    Average Hours per Response: 30 minutes.
    Burden Hours: 69 hours.
    Needs and Uses: The information collected in the Cover Sheet 
provides identifying information and demographic data for use in NIST's 
annual report to the SBA on the program. The technical abstract is used 
in prevention of fraud, waste, and abuse by providing a method to 
compare similar applications to other agency SBIR programs. The 
abstract and potential commercial applications of successful applicants 
are posted on the agency website.
    Affected Public: Applicants to the NIST SBIR Program.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    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 0693-0072.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for 
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2024-00037 Filed 1-4-24; 8:45 am]
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