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received by the NCADAC Designated 

Federal Official (DFO) by 12 p.m. on 

March 31, 2011, to provide sufficient 

time for distribution to the members 

prior to the meeting. Written comments 

received after 12 p.m. on March 31, 

2011, will be distributed to the 

NCADAC, but may not be reviewed 

prior to the meeting date. Seats will be 

available to the public on a first-come, 

first-served basis. 

Proposed Nominees to the NCADAC 

Biographies of proposed nominees of 

the NCADAC are available at http:// 

globalchange.gov/what-we-do/ 

assessment/proposedFACmembers. 

Non-Federal 

Daniel Abbasi, Mission Point Capital 

Partners 

Dr. E. Virginia Armbrust, University of 

Washington 

Dr. Rosina Bierbaum, University of 

Michigan 

Maria Blair, Rockefeller Foundation 

James Buizer, Arizona State University 

Dr. Lynne Carter, Louisiana State 

University 

Dr. F. Stuart Chapin III, University of 

Alaska 

Dr. Camille Coley, Florida Atlantic 

University 

Jan Dell, P.E., CH2MHill 

Pla ́cido dos Santos, Arizona Department 

of Water Resources (ret) 

Guido Franco, California Energy 

Commission 

Mary Gade, Gade Environmental Group, 

LLC 

Dr. Aris Georgakakos, Georgia Institute 

of Technology 

Dr. David Hales, College of the Atlantic 

Dr. Mark Howden, Australian 

Commonwealth Scientific and 

Industrial Research Organisation 

Dr. Peter Kareiva, The Nature 

Conservancy 

Dr. Kenneth Kunkel, North Carolina 

State University and NOAA 

Cooperative Institute for Climate and 

Satellites 

Dr. Rattan Lal, The Ohio State 

University 

Dr. Arthur Lee, Chevron Corporation 

Dr. Jo-Ann Leong, University of Hawai’i 

Dr. Diana Liverman, University of 

Arizona and Oxford University 

Dr. Edward Maibach, George Mason 

University 

Dr. Jerry Melillo, Marine Biological 

Laboratory 

Dr. Susanne Moser, Susanne Moser 

Research & Consulting, Stanford 

University, and University of 

California-Santa Cruz 

Dr. Richard Moss, Joint Global Change 

Research Institute, Pacific Northwest 

National Laboratory and University of 

Maryland 

Dr. Philip Mote, Oregon State University 

Dr. Marie O’Neill, University of 

Michigan 

Terese Richmond, Gordon Derr, LLP 

Dr. Andrew Rosenberg, University of 

New Hampshire and Conservation 

International 

Dr. Richard Schmalensee, 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Joel Smith, Stratus Consulting 

Dr. Donald Wuebbles, University of 

Illinois 

Dr. Gary Yohe, Wesleyan University 

Federal Ex-Officio 

Dr. John Balbus, Department of Health 

and Human Services 

William Breed, U.S. Agency for 

International Development 

Dr. Gary Geernaert, Department of 

Energy 

Dr. John Hall, Department of Defense 

Alice Hill, Department of Homeland 

Security (pending charter revision) 

Dr. Len Hirsch, Smithsonian Institution 

Dr. Patricia Jacobberger-Jellison, 

National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration 

Thomas Karl, Subcommittee on Global 

Change Research and National 

Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Cathleen Kelly, White House Council on 

Environmental Quality and 

Adaptation Task Force (pending 

charter revision) 

Dr. Chester Koblinsky, National Oceanic 

and Atmospheric Administration 

Linda Lawson, Department of 

Transportation 

Dr. Robert O’Connor, National Science 

Foundation 

Dr. Jonathan Pershing, Department of 

State 

Dr. Michael Slimak, Environmental 

Protection Agency 

Dr. Alan Thornhill, Department of the 

Interior 

Dr. Margaret Walsh, U.S. Department of 

Agriculture 

Dated: February 23, 2011. 

Gary Locke, 

Secretary of Commerce. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4562 Filed 3–1–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–EA–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

United States Patent and Trademark 

Office 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO) will submit 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for clearance the following 

proposal for collection of information 

under the provisions of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). 

Agency: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO). 

Title: Native American Tribal Insignia 

Database. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Agency Approval Number: 0651– 

0048. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Burden: 5 hours annually. 

Number of Respondents: 8 responses 

per year. 

Avg. Hours Per Response: The USPTO 

estimates that a recognized Native 

American tribe will require an average 

of 30 minutes (0.5 hours) to complete a 

request to record an official insignia, 

including time to prepare the 

appropriate documents and submit the 

completed request to the USPTO. 

Needs and Uses: The Trademark Law 

Treaty Implementation Act of 1998 

(Pub. L. 105–330, § 302, 112 Stat. 3071) 

required the USPTO to study issues 

surrounding the protection of the 

official insignia of federally and staterecognized Native American tribes 

under trademark law. At the direction of 

Congress, the USPTO created a database 

containing the official insignia of 

recognized Native American tribes. 

The insignia database serves as a 

reference for examining attorneys when 

determining the registrability of a mark 

that may falsely suggest a connection to 

the official insignia of a Native 

American tribe. The entry of an official 

insignia into the database does not 

confer any rights to the tribe that 

submitted the insignia, and entry is not 

the legal equivalent of registering the 

insignia as a trademark under 15 U.S.C. 

1051 et seq. 

This information collection is used by 

the USPTO to enter an official insignia 

submitted by a federally or staterecognized Native American tribe into 

the database. There are no forms 

associated with this collection. 

Affected Public: Tribal governments. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. 

OMB Desk Officer: Nicholas A. Fraser, 

e-mail: 

Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov. 

Once submitted, the request will be 

publicly available in electronic format 

through the Information Collection 

Review page at http://www.reginfo.gov. 

Paper copies can be obtained by: 

• E-mail: 

InformationCollection@uspto.gov. 

Include ‘‘0651–0048 copy request’’ in the 

subject line of the message. 

• Mail: Susan K. Fawcett, Records 

Officer, Office of the Chief Information 


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Officer, United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, 

Alexandria, VA 22313–1450. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent on 

or before April 1, 2011 to Nicholas A. 

Fraser, OMB Desk Officer, via e-mail to 

Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov, or by 

fax to 202–395–5167, marked to the 

attention of Nicholas A. Fraser. 

Dated: February, 24, 2011. 

Susan K. Fawcett, 

Records Officer, USPTO, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4559 Filed 3–1–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–16–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Patent and Trademark Office 

Proposed Information Collection 

Requirements Under OMB Review; 

Certain Patent Petitions Requiring a 

Fee 

ACTION: Notice; comment request. 

SUMMARY: The United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO), as part of its 

continuing effort to reduce paperwork 

and respondent burden, invites the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies to take this opportunity to 

comment on the revision of a currently 

approved collection, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A)). 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted on or before May 2, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

• E-mail: 

InformationCollection@uspto.gov. 

Include ‘‘0651–0059 Patent Petitions 

Requiring a Fee under 37 CFR 1.17(f)– 

(h) comment’’ in the subject line of the 

message. 

• Mail: Susan K. Fawcett, Records 

Officer, Office of the Chief Information 

Officer, U.S. Patent and Trademark 

Office, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 

22313–1450. 

•

Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information 

should be directed to the attention of 

Raul Tamayo, Legal Advisor, Office of 

Patent Legal Administration, U.S. Patent 

and Trademark Office (USPTO), P.O. 

Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313–1450; 

by telephone 571–272–7728; or by email at raul.tamayo@uspto.gov with 

‘‘Paperwork’’ in the subject line. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO) is required 

by 35 U.S.C. 131 et seq. to examine an 

application for patent and, when 

appropriate, issue a patent. Many 

actions taken by the USPTO during its 

examination of an application for patent 

or for reissue of a patent, or during its 

reexamination of a patent, are subject to 

review by an appeal to the Board of 

Patent Appeals and Interferences. For 

other USPTO actions, review is in the 

form of administrative review obtained 

via submission of a petition to the 

USPTO. USPTO petitions practice also 

provides an opportunity for a patent 

applicant or owner to supply additional 

information that may be required in 

order for the USPTO to further process 

an application or patent. 

Currently, this collection covers 

certain petitions which, when submitted 

to the USPTO by a patent applicant or 

owner, are required to be accompanied 

by the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(f). 

The USPTO has determined that it 

would be beneficial to group other 

petitions which require a fee under 37 

CFR 1.17 together with the petitions 

currently in this collection. Specifically, 

the USPTO proposes to transfer out of 

0651–0031 and into this collection 

petitions which are required to be 

accompanied by the fee set forth in 

either 37 CFR 1.17 (g) or (h), including, 

for example, petitions for requests for 

documents in a form other than that 

provided by 37 CFR 1.19, petitions to 

make special under the accelerated 

examination program, petitions for 

express abandonment to avoid 

publication under 37 CFR 1.138(c), and 

petitions for extension of time under 37 

CFR 1.136(b). For a complete listing of 

the items covered by this collection, 

please see the table in Section III of this 

notice. 

The petitions in this collection can be 

submitted electronically through EFS– 

Web, the USPTO’s web-based electronic 

filing system, as well as on paper. The 

USPTO is taking this opportunity to 

account for the electronic submissions 

in this collection. 

Currently this collection has one 

form. There are forms associated with 

the petitions for extension of time under 

37 CFR 1.136(b) (PTO/SB/23), petitions 

to make special under the accelerated 

examination program (PTO/SB/28), 

petitions for express abandonment to 

avoid publication under 37 CFR 1.138(c) 

(PTO/SB/24A), and petitions to 

withdraw an application from issue 

after payment of the issue fee under 37 

CFR 1.313(c) (PTO/SB/140). Therefore, 

after approval, this collection will have 

five forms. Please note that there are 

some petitions to withdraw which 

cannot be submitted using PTO/SB/140. 

None of the other petitions in this 

collection has a form associated with it. 

The filing fee for petitions with no 

associated form may be remitted to the 

USPTO using PTO/SB/17p, which is 

titled ‘‘Petition Fee Under 37 CFR 

1.17(f), (g), and (h) Transmittal.’’ 

II. Method of Collection 

By mail, facsimile, or hand delivery to 

the USPTO when the applicant files the 

various petitions. These papers can also 

be filed as attachments through EFSWeb. The petitions to make special 

under the accelerated examination 

program can only be filed through EFSWeb. 

III. Data 

OMB Number: 0651–0059. 

Form Number(s): PTO/SB/17P, PTO/ 

SB/23, PTO/SB/24a, PTO/SB/28 (EFSWeb only), and PTO/SB/140. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: Business or other for 

profit; non-profit institutions. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

39,015 responses per year. Of this total, 

the USPTO expects that 35,154 

responses will be submitted through 

EFS-Web. 

Estimated Time per Response: The 

USPTO estimates that it will take 

approximately 5 minutes (0.08 hours) to 

12 hours to complete the items in this 

collection, depending on the petition. 

This includes time to gather the 

necessary information, create the 

documents, and submit the completed 

request to the USPTO. The USPTO 

calculates that, on balance, it takes the 

same amount of time to gather the 

necessary information, prepare the 

petitions and the fee transmittal form, 

and submit them to the USPTO, 

whether the applicant submits the 

petition in paper form or electronically. 

Estimated Total Annual Respondent 

Burden Hours: 41,907 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Respondent 

Cost Burden: $13,616,730. The USPTO 

expects that attorneys will complete all 

of the items in this collection, with the 

exception of the petitions for requests 

for documents in a form other than that 

provided by 37 CFR 1.19 and petitions 

for express abandonment to avoid 

publication under 37 CFR 1.138(c). The 

USPTO expects that these petitions will 

be completed by para-professionals. 

Using the professional hourly rate of 

$325 for attorneys in private firms, and 


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