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1 83 FR 23771 (May 22, 2018). 

2 84 FR 19056 (May 3, 2019), https://

www.sustainability.gov/pdfs/eo13834_

instructions.pdf. 

includes the time to gather the 

necessary information, prepare the 

appropriate documents, and submit the 

information to the USPTO. 

Estimated Total Annual Respondent 

Burden Hours: 211,639 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Non-Hour 

Cost Burden: $39,702,140. 

Needs and Uses: The United States 

Patent and Trademark Office 

administers the Trademark Act, 15 

U.S.C. 1051 et seq., which provides for 

the Federal registration of trademarks, 

service marks, collective trademarks and 

service marks, collective membership 

marks, and certification marks. 

Individuals and businesses that use or 

intend to use such marks in commerce 

may file an application to register their 

mark with the USPTO. Such individuals 

and businesses may also submit various 

communications to the USPTO during 

the prosecution of an application. 

This information collection covers the 

various communications that may be 

submitted by the applicant, including 

providing additional information 

needed to process a request to delete a 

particular filing basis from an 

application or to divide an application 

identifying multiple goods and/or 

services into two or more separate 

applications. This information 

collection also covers requests for a 6- 

month extension of time to file a 

statement that the mark is in use in 

commerce or petitions to revive an 

application that abandoned for failure to 

submit a timely response to an office 

action or a timely statement of use or 

extension request. In some 

circumstances, an applicant may 

expressly abandon an application by 

filing a written request for withdrawal 

of the application. 

The USPTO amended its regulations 

to set, increase, or decrease certain 

trademark fees, to become effective 

January 2, 2021, including the fees in 

this information collection. 

Affected Public: Private sector; 

individuals or households. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. 

Follow the instructions to view 

Department of Commerce, USPTO 

information collections currently under 

review by OMB. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for this 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 information collection or the OMB 

Control Number 0651–0054. 

Further information can be obtained 

by: 

• Email: InformationCollection@

uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0054 

information request’’ in the subject line 

of the message. 

• Mail: Kimberly Hardy, Office of the 

Chief Administrative Officer, United 

States Patent and Trademark Office, 

P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313– 

1450. 

Kimberly Hardy, 

Information Collections Officer, Office of the 

Chief Administrative Officer, United States 

Patent and Trademark Office. 

[FR Doc. 2020–28991 Filed 12–30–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–16–P 

COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL 

QUALITY 

Guiding Principles for Sustainable 

Federal Buildings and Associated 

Instructions 

AGENCY: Council on Environmental 

Quality. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: Consistent with Executive 

Order, ‘‘Efficient Federal Operations,’’ 

and the ‘‘Implementing Instructions for 

Executive Order 13834 Efficient Federal 

Operations,’’ the Council on 

Environmental Quality (CEQ) has issued 

updated guidance to Federal agencies 

titled, ‘‘Guiding Principles for 

Sustainable Federal Buildings and 

Associated Instructions’’ (Guidance). 

DATES: CEQ issued the Guiding 

Principles for Sustainable Federal 

Buildings and Associated Instructions 

on December 23, 2020. 

ADDRESSES: The Guiding Principles for 

Sustainable Federal Buildings and 

Associated Instructions are available at 

https://www.sustainability.gov/ 

resources.html. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dee 

Siegel, Deputy Chief Sustainability 

Officer, Office of Federal Sustainability, 

at dee_s_siegel@ceq.eop.gov or (202) 

395–5750. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Consistent 

with Executive Order 13834, ‘‘Efficient 

Federal Operations,’’ 1 and the 

‘‘Implementing Instructions for 

Executive Order 13834 Efficient Federal 

Operations,’’ 2 CEQ has issued Guidance 

number CEQ–OFS–2020–1 to assist 

Federal agencies in designing, locating, 

constructing, maintaining, and 

operating Federal buildings in a 

sustainable manner that increases 

efficiency and optimizes performance, 

consistent with their missions. The 

Guidance provides new flexibilities 

regarding the use of third-party green 

building certification systems, and 

provides a consistent government-wide 

portfolio approach for Federal agencies 

to design, mitigate, and measure the 

impact of their buildings. The Guidance 

replaces and supersedes the following 

CEQ guidance documents: (1) ‘‘Guiding 

Principles for Sustainable Federal 

Buildings and Associated Instructions’’ 

(February 2016); (2) ‘‘Guidance for 

Federal Agencies on Sustainable 

Practices for Designed Landscapes’’ 

(October 2011) and addendum titled 

‘‘Supporting the Health of Honey Bees 

and Other Pollinators’’ (October 2014); 

and (3) ‘‘Implementing Instructions— 

Sustainable Locations for Federal 

Facilities’’ (September 2011). CEQ 

rescinds these prior guidance 

documents. The Guidance applies only 

to Federal agencies, operations, and 

programs. Agencies are expected to 

follow the ‘‘Guiding Principles for 

Sustainable Federal Buildings and 

Associated Instructions’’ as part of their 

compliance with E.O. 13834. 

(Authority: E.O. 13834, 83 FR 23771) 

Mary B. Neumayr, 

Chairman. 

[FR Doc. 2020–28928 Filed 12–30–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3225–F1–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Defense Acquisition Regulations 

System 

[Docket DARS–2020–0047; OMB Control 

Number 0750–0003] 

Information Collection Requirement; 

Defense Federal Acquisition 

Regulation Supplement; Requests for 

Reimbursement Under Section 3610 of 

the CARES Act 

AGENCY: Defense Acquisition 

Regulations System, Department of 

Defense (DoD). 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments regarding a proposed 

extension of an approved information 

collection requirement. 


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