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most provisions of FCRA to the 

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 

(CFPB). Pursuant to the DFA and FCRA, 

as amended, CFPB promulgated 

Regulation V, 12 CFR 1022, to 

implement those provisions of FCRA for 

which CFPB has rulemaking authority. 

Regulation V contains several 

requirements that impose information 

collection requirements on federal 

credit unions (FCUs). 

The DFA did not transfer certain 

rulemaking authority under FCRA. 

Specifically, the DFA did not transfer to 

CFPB the authority to promulgate the 

requirement to properly dispose of 

consumer information; rules on identity 

theft red flags and corresponding 

interagency guidelines on identity theft 

detection, prevention, and mitigation, 

and rules on the duties of card issuers 

regarding changes of address. These 

provisions are promulgated in NCUA’s 

Fair Credit Reporting regulation, 12 CFR 

717, which applies to federal credit 

unions. 

The collection of information 

pursuant to Parts 1022 and 717 is 

triggered by specific events and 

disclosures and must be provided to 

consumers within the time periods 

established under the regulation. 

Affected Public: Private Sector: Notfor-profit institutions; Individuals or 

Households. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

FCU: 3,232; Consumer: 143,300. 

Estimated Frequency of Response: 

Upon occurrence of triggering action. 

Estimated Burden Hours per 

Response: FCU: 5.07; Consumer: 0.08. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 272,686 (FCU: 248,827; 

Consumer: 23,859). 

Request for Comments: Comments 

submitted in response to this notice will 

be summarized and included in the 

request for Office of Management and 

Budget approval. All comments will 

become a matter of public record. The 

public is invited to submit comments 

concerning: (a) Whether the collection 

of information is necessary for the 

proper execution of the function of the 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden of the collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of the 

information on the respondents, 

including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

By Melane Conyers-Ausbrooks, 

Secretary of the Board, the National 

Credit Union Administration, on 

December 16, 2020. 

Dated: December 17, 2020. 

Dawn D. Wolfgang, 

NCUA PRA Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2020–28184 Filed 12–21–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7535–01–P 

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Comment Request; National 

Science Foundation-Managed Honor 

Awards 

AGENCY: National Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Submission for OMB Review; 

comment request. 

SUMMARY: The National Science 

Foundation (NSF) has submitted the 

following information collection 

requirement to OMB for review and 

clearance under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. This is the 

second notice for public comment; the 

first was published in the Federal 

Register, and no comments were 

received. NSF is forwarding the 

proposed submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

clearance simultaneously with the 

publication of this second notice. 

DATES: 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: 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports Clearance 

Officer, National Science Foundation, 

2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, 

VA 22314, or send email to splimpto@

nsf.gov. Individuals who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877– 

8339, which is accessible 24 hours a 

day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year 

(including federal holidays). 

Copies of the submission may be 

obtained by calling 703–292–7556. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NSF may 

not conduct or sponsor a collection of 

information unless the collection of 

information displays a currently valid 

OMB control number and the agency 

informs potential persons who are to 

respond to the collection of information 

that such persons are not required to 

respond to the collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. 

Title of Collection: Business Systems 

Review Guide. 

OMB Number: 3145–NEW. 

Type of Request: Request for approval 

to establish an information collection. 

Proposed Project: The National 

Science Foundation Act of 1950 (Pub. L. 

81–507) set forth NSF’s mission and 

purpose: 

‘‘To promote the progress of science; 

to advance the national 

health, prosperity, and welfare; to 

secure the national defense.* * *’’ 

The Act authorized and directed NSF 

to initiate and support: 

b Basic scientific research and 

research fundamental to the engineering 

process; 

b Programs to strengthen scientific 

and engineering research potential; 

b Science and engineering education 

programs at all levels and in all the 

various fields of science and 

engineering; 

b Programs that provide a source of 

information for policy formulation; and 

b Other activities to promote these 

ends. 

Among Federal agencies, NSF is a 

leader in providing the academic 

community with advanced 

instrumentation needed to conduct 

state-of-the-art research and to educate 

the next generation of scientists, 

engineers and technical workers. The 

knowledge generated by these tools 

sustains U.S. leadership in science and 

engineering (S&E) to drive the U.S. 

economy and secure the future. NSF’s 

responsibility is to ensure that the 

research and education communities 

have access to these resources, and to 

provide the support needed to utilize 

them optimally, and implement timely 

upgrades. 

The scale of advanced 

instrumentation ranges from small 

research instruments to shared 

resources or facilities that can be used 

by entire communities. The demand for 

such instrumentation is very high, and 

is growing rapidly, along with the pace 

of discovery. For major facilities and 

shared infrastructure, the need is 

particularly high. This trend is expected 

to accelerate in the future as increasing 

numbers of researchers and educators 

rely on such large facilities, 

instruments, and databases to provide 

the reach to make the next intellectual 

leaps. NSF currently provides support 

for facility construction from two 

accounts: The Major Research 

Equipment and Facility Construction 

(MREFC) account, and the Research and 

Related Activities (R&RA) account. The 


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MREFC account, established in FY 

1995, is a separate budget line item that 

provides an agency-wide mechanism, 

permitting directorates to undertake 

large facility projects that exceed 10% of 

the Directorate’s annual budget; or 

roughly $70M or greater. Smaller 

projects continue to be supported from 

the R&RA Account. Facilities are 

defined as shared-use infrastructure, 

instrumentation and equipment that are 

accessible to a broad community of 

researchers and/or educators. Facilities 

may be centralized or may consist of 

distributed installations. They may 

incorporate large-scale networking or 

computational infrastructure, multi-user 

instruments or networks of such 

instruments, or other infrastructure, 

instrumentation and equipment having 

a major impact on a broad segment of 

a scientific or engineering discipline. 

Historically, awards have been made for 

such diverse projects as accelerators, 

telescopes, research vessels and aircraft, 

and geographically distributed but 

networked sensors and instrumentation. 

The growth and diversification of 

large facility projects require that NSF 

remain attentive to the ever-changing 

issues and challenges inherent in their 

planning, construction, operation, 

management and oversight. Most 

importantly, dedicated, competent NSF 

and awardee staff are needed to manage 

and oversee these projects; giving the 

attention and oversight that good 

practice dictates and that proper 

accountability to taxpayers and 

Congress demands. To this end, there is 

also a need for consistent, documented 

requirements and procedures to be 

understood and used by NSF program 

managers and awardees for all such 

major projects. 

Use of the Information: Facilities are 

an essential part of the science and 

engineering enterprise and supporting 

them is one major responsibility of the 

National Science Foundation (NSF). 

NSF makes awards to external entities— 

primarily universities, consortia of 

universities or non-profit 

organizations—to undertake 

construction, management and 

operation of facilities. Such awards 

frequently take the form of cooperative 

agreements. NSF does not directly 

construct or operate the facilities it 

supports. However, NSF retains 

responsibility for overseeing their 

development, management and 

successful performance. Business 

Systems Reviews (BSR) of the National 

Science Foundation’s (NSF) Major 

Facilities are designed to provide 

reasonable assurance that the business 

systems (people, processes, and 

technologies) of NSF Recipients are 

effective in meeting administrative 

responsibilities and satisfying Federal 

regulatory requirements, including 

those listed in NSF’s Proposal & Award 

Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG). 

These reviews are not considered 

audits but are intended to be assistive in 

nature; aiding the Recipient in following 

good practices where appropriate and 

bringing them into compliance, if 

needed. A team of BSR Participants is 

assembled to assess the Recipient’s 

policies, procedures, and practices to 

determine whether, taken collectively, 

these administrative business systems 

used in managing the Facility meet NSF 

award expectations and comply with 

Federal regulations. 

The BSR Guide is designed for use by 

both our customer community and NSF 

staff for guidance in leading these 

reviews. The BSR Guide defines the 

overall framework and structure and 

summarizes the details outlined in the 

internal operating guidelines and 

procedures used by BSR Participants to 

execute the review process. 

Management principles and practices 

are specified for seven core functional 

areas (CFA) and are used by BSR 

Participants in performing these 

evaluations. Roles and responsibilities 

of the NSF stakeholders involved in the 

process are outlined in the BSR Guide 

as well as the expectations of the 

Recipient. 

This version of the Business Systems 

Guide aligns with the Uniform 

Guidance and the NSF Major Facilities 

Guide. 

This Guide will be updated 

periodically to reflect changes in 

requirements, policies and/or 

procedures. Award Recipients are 

expected to monitor and adopt the 

requirements and best practices 

included in the Guide. 

The submission of Award Recipient 

and Project administrative business 

process and procedural documentation 

used in support of operations of the 

Major Facilities is part of the collection 

of information. This information is used 

to help NSF fulfill this responsibility in 

supporting merit-based research and 

education projects in all the scientific 

and engineering disciplines. The 

Foundation also has a continuing 

commitment to provide oversight on 

facilities design and construction which 

must be balanced against monitoring its 

information collection so as to identify 

and address any excessive review and 

reporting burdens. 

NSF has approximately twenty-four 

(24) Major Facilities in various stages of 

design, construction, operations and 

divestment. The need for a BSR and 

review scope is based on NSF’s internal 

annual Major Facility Portfolio Risk 

Assessment and the assessment of 

various risks factors. 

Burden to the Public: The Foundation 

estimates that approximately one and 

half (1.5) Full Time Equivalents (FTEs) 

are necessary for each major facility 

project to respond to a BSR 

requirements on an annual basis; or 

2,824 hours per year. With an average of 

four (4) conducted a year, this equates 

to roughly 5 FTEs or 11,296 public 

burden hours annually. 

Dated: December 17, 2020. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

[FR Doc. 2020–28220 Filed 12–21–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7555–01–P 

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Request for Information on Potential 

Concepts and Approaches for a 

National Strategic Computing Reserve 

(NSCR) 

AGENCY: Office of Science and 

Technology Policy (OSTP), Networking 

and Information Technology Research 

and Development (NITRD) National 

Coordination Office (NCO), National 

Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Request for information. 

SUMMARY: OSTP and the National 

Science and Technology Council’s 

(NSTC) Subcommittees on the Future 

Advanced Computing Ecosystem 

(FACE) and Networking and 

Information Technology Research and 

Development (NITRD) request input 

from interested parties on the goals, 

value, and necessary approaches for 

establishing a National Strategic 

Computing Reserve (NSCR). The NSCR 

may be envisioned as a coalition of 

experts and resource providers that 

could be mobilized quickly to provide 

critical computational resources 

(including compute, software, data, and 

technical expertise) in times of urgent 

need. This Request for Information will 

help inform potential attributes of a 

NSCR. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before 11:59 

p.m. (ET) on January 16, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Comments submitted in 

response to this notice may be sent by 

any of the following methods: 

• Email: nscr-rfi@nitrd.gov. Email 

submissions should be machinereadable and not be copy-protected. 

Submissions should include ‘‘RFI 

Response: National Strategic Computing 

Reserve’’ in the subject line of the 

message. 


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