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Affected Public: Business or other for 

profit organizations, and individuals or 

households. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 5. 

Estimated Time per Response: 6 

hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 30 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: $50 in recordkeeping/reporting 

costs. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

Obtain or Retain Benefits. 

Legal Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. 

IV. Request for Comments 

We are soliciting public comments to 

permit the Department/Bureau to: (a) 

Evaluate whether the proposed 

information collection is necessary for 

the proper functions of the Department, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the 

accuracy of our estimate of the time and 

cost burden for this proposed collection, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

Evaluate ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (d) Minimize the 

reporting burden on those who are to 

respond, including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. We will include or 

summarize each comment in our request 

to OMB to approve this ICR. Before 

including your address, phone number, 

email address, or other personal 

identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you may ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Chief Information Officer, Commerce 

Department. 

[FR Doc. 2021–04287 Filed 3–1–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3310–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; NOAA Customer Surveys 

AGENCY: National Oceanic & 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of Information 

Collection, request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), invites 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. The purpose of this 

notice is to allow for 60 days of public 

comment preceding submission of the 

collection to OMB. 

DATES: To ensure consideration, 

comments regarding this proposed 

information collection must be received 

on or before May 3, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments to 

Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer, 

at Adrienne.thomas@noaa.gov. Please 

reference OMB Control Number 0648– 

0342 in the subject line of your 

comments. Do not submit Confidential 

Business Information or otherwise 

sensitive or protected information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

specific questions related to collection 

activities should be directed to 

Adrienne Thomas at 

Adrienne.Thomas@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

This request is for extension of a 

currently approved generic information 

collection. 

This collection follows the guidelines 

contained in the OMB Resource Manual 

for Customer Surveys. In accordance 

with Executive Order 12862, the 

National Performance Review, and good 

management practices, National 

Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration (NOAA) offices seek 

approval to continue to gather customer 

feedback on services and/or products 

which can be used in planning for 

service/product modification and 

prioritization. Under this generic 

clearance, individual offices would use 

approved questionnaires and develop 

new questionnaires, as needed, by 

selecting subsets of the approved set of 

collection questions and tailoring those 

specific questions to be meaningful for 

their particular programs. These 

proposed questionnaires would then be 

submitted to OMB using a fast-track 

request for approval process, for which 

separate Federal Register notices are not 

required. Surveys currently typically 

include IT and website satisfaction 

surveys, Weather Service product 

surveys, and National Marine Sanctuary 

participation surveys, among others. 

This generic clearance will not be 

used to survey any bodies NOAA 

regulates unless precautions are taken to 

ensure that the respondents believe that 

they are not under any risk for not 

responding or for the contents of their 

responses, e.g., in no survey to such a 

population will the names and 

addresses of respondents be required. 

Two sets of survey questions are used 

for generation of program-level 

questionnaires. Quantitative questions 

seek to obtain numerical ratings from 

respondents on their satisfaction with 

various aspects of the product or service 

they obtained—satisfaction with the 

quality of the product, the courtesy of 

the staff, the format of and 

documentation for data received, and 

similar standard types of questions. The 

offices using such questions are able to 

determine which aspects of their 

program need improvement or have 

improved. Qualitative questions are 

more focused on who is using the 

product and service, how it is being 

used, and the medium or format in 

which the respondent would like to see 

data provided. 

II. Method of Collection 

Information will be collected via 

email or online survey. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0342. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Review: Regular submission 

[extension of a current information 

collection]. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households; Business or other for-profit 

organizations; Not-for-profit 

institutions; State, Local, or Tribal 

government; Federal government. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

24,000. 

Estimated Time per Response: 5–10 

minutes per response. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 22,500. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: $0. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 


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Legal Authority: 

IV. Request for Comments 

We are soliciting public comments to 

permit the Department/Bureau to: (a) 

Evaluate whether the proposed 

information collection is necessary for 

the proper functions of the Department, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the 

accuracy of our estimate of the time and 

cost burden for this proposed collection, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

Evaluate ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (d) Minimize the 

reporting burden on those who are to 

respond, including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. We will include or 

summarize each comment in our request 

to OMB to approve this ICR. Before 

including your address, phone number, 

email address, or other personal 

identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you may ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Chief Information Officer, Commerce 

Department. 

[FR Doc. 2021–04286 Filed 3–1–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–12–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XA900] 

New England Fishery Management 

Council; Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of a public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The New England Fishery 

Management Council is convening its 

Scientific and Statistical Committee 

(SSC) via webinar to consider actions 

affecting New England fisheries in the 

exclusive economic zone (EEZ). 

Recommendations from this group will 

be brought to the full Council for formal 

consideration and action, if appropriate. 

DATES: This webinar will be held on 

Friday, March 26, 2021 beginning at 

8:30 a.m. Webinar registration URL 

information: https://

attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/ 

7544505055762063375. Call in 

information: +1 (562) 247–8321, Access 

Code 658–624–262. 

ADDRESSES: Council address: New 

England Fishery Management Council, 

50 Water Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, 

MA 01950. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, 

New England Fishery Management 

Council; telephone: (978) 465–0492. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Agenda 

The Scientific and Statistical 

Committee will meet to review initial 

information from the Atlantic Herring 

Plan Development Team (PDT) and 

provide the PDT guidance on 

developing rebuilding plan alternatives 

for Atlantic Herring. They will receive 

a presentation on the Northeast 

Fisheries Science Center’s (NEFSC) 

State of the Ecosystem Report and 

provide the NEFSC any 

recommendations about revisions. Other 

business will be discussed as necessary. 

Although non-emergency issues not 

contained on the agenda may come 

before this Council for discussion, those 

issues may not be the subject of formal 

action during this meeting. Council 

action will be restricted to those issues 

specifically listed in this notice and any 

issues arising after publication of this 

notice that require emergency action 

under section 305(c) of the MagnusonStevens Act, provided the public has 

been notified of the Council’s intent to 

take final action to address the 

emergency. The public also should be 

aware that the meeting will be recorded. 

Consistent with 16 U.S.C. 1852, a copy 

of the recording is available upon 

request. 

Special Accommodations 

This meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to 

Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, at 

(978) 465–0492, at least 5 days prior to 

the meeting date. 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. 

Dated: February 25, 2021. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2021–04267 Filed 3–1–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Patent and Trademark Office 

[Docket No. PTO–P–2021–0012] 

Grant of Interim Extension of the Term 

of U.S. Patent No. 8,858,612; Reducer®

AGENCY: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of Interim Patent Term 

Extension. 

SUMMARY: The United States Patent and 

Trademark Office has issued an order 

granting a one-year interim extension of 

the term of U.S. Patent No. 8,858,612. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ali 

Salimi by telephone at 571–272–0909; 

by mail marked to his attention and 

addressed to the Commissioner for 

Patents, Mail Stop Hatch-Waxman PTE, 

P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313– 

1450; by fax marked to his attention at 

571–273–0909; or by email to 

ali.salimi@uspto.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

156 of Title 35, United States Code, 

generally provides that the term of a 

patent may be extended for a period of 

up to five years if the patent claims a 

product, or a method of making or using 

a product, that has been subject to 

certain defined regulatory review, and 

that the patent may be extended for 

interim periods of up to one year if the 

regulatory review is anticipated to 

extend beyond the expiration date of the 

patent. 

On February 19, 2021, Neovasc 

Medical Ltd., the patent owner of 

record, timely filed an application 

under 35 U.S.C. 156(d)(5) for a second 

interim extension of the term of U.S. 

Patent No. 8,858,612. The patent claims 

methods of using a catheter delivered 

implantable device, Reducer®. The 

application for patent term extension 

indicates that a Premarket Approval 

Application (PMA) P190035 was 

submitted to the Food and Drug 

Administration (FDA) on December 31, 

2019. 

Review of the patent term extension 

application indicates that, except for 

permission to market or use the product 

commercially, the subject patent would 

be eligible for an extension of the patent 

term under 35 U.S.C. 156, and that the 

patent should be extended for one year 


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