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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

SPACE ADMINISTRATION 

[Notice (10–145)] 

Notice of Intent To Grant Partially 

Exclusive License 

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent to Grant 

Exclusive License. 

SUMMARY: This notice is issued in 

accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(e) and 37 

CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i). NASA hereby gives 

notice of its intent to grant a partially 

exclusive license in the United States to 

practice the invention described and 

claimed in U.S. Patent No. 6,918,970 

High Strength Aluminum Alloy for High 

Temperature Applications, NASA Case 

No. MFS–31828–1, to Allied Metal 

Company having its principal place of 

business in Chicago, IL. The fields of 

use may be limited to the manufacture 

of aluminum alloy ingots. The patent 

rights in this invention have been 

assigned to the United States of America 

as represented by the Administrator of 

the National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration. The prospective 

partially exclusive license will comply 

with the terms and conditions of 35 

U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7. 

DATES: The prospective partially 

exclusive license may be granted unless, 

within fifteen (15) days from the date of 

this published notice, NASA receives 

written objections including evidence 

and argument that establish that the 

grant of the license would not be 

consistent with the requirements of 35 

U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7. 

Competing applications completed and 

received by NASA within fifteen (15) 

days of the date of this published notice 

will also be treated as objections to the 

grant of the contemplated exclusive 

license. 

Objections submitted in response to 

this notice will not be made available to 

the public for inspection and, to the 

extent permitted by law, will not be 

released under the Freedom of 

Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552. 

ADDRESSES: Objections relating to the 

prospective license may be submitted to 

Mr. James J. McGroary, Chief Patent 

Counsel/LS01, Marshall Space Flight 

Center, Huntsville, AL 35812, (256) 

544–0013. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sammy A. Nabors, Technology Transfer 

Program Office/ED10, Marshall Space 

Flight Center, Huntsville, AL 35812, 

(256) 544–5226. Information about other 

NASA inventions available for licensing 

can be found online at http:// 

technology.nasa.gov. 

Dated: November 4, 2010. 

Richard W. Sherman, 

Deputy General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2010–28279 Filed 11–8–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7510–13–P 

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Comment Request; Generic 

Survey Clearance for the Directorate of 

Education and Human Resources 

(EHR) 

AGENCY: National Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The National Science 

Foundation (NSF) is announcing plans 

to request renewed clearance of this 

collection. In accordance with the 

requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

we are providing opportunity for public 

comment on this action. After obtaining 

and considering public comment, NSF 

will prepare the submission requesting 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) clearance of this collection for no 

longer than 3 years. 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the Agency, 

including whether the information shall 

have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of 

the Agency’s estimate of the burden of 

the proposed collection of information; 

(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, 

and clarity of the information on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology; 

and (d) ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

received by January 10, 2011 to be 

assured of consideration. Comments 

received after that date will be 

considered to the extent practicable. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments 

regarding the information collection and 

requests for copies of the proposed 

information collection request should be 

addressed to Suzanne Plimpton, Reports 

Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm. 

295, Arlington, VA 22030, or by e-mail 

to splimpto@nsf.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Suzanne Plimpton on (703) 292–7556 or 

send e-mail 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 

between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern time, 

Monday through Friday. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title of Collection: EHR Generic 

Clearance. 

OMB Approval Number: 3145–0136. 

Expiration Date of Approval: March 

31, 2011. 

Abstract: The National Science 

Foundation (NSF) requests renewal of 

program accountability and 

communication data collections (e.g., 

surveys, face-to-face and telephone 

interviews, observations, and focus 

groups) that describe and track the 

impact of NSF funding that focuses on 

the Nation’s science, technology, 

engineering, and mathematics (STEM) 

education and STEM workforce. NSF 

funds grants, contracts, and cooperative 

agreements to colleges, universities, and 

other eligible institutions, and provides 

graduate research fellowships to 

individuals in all parts of the United 

States and internationally. 

The Directorate for Education and 

Human Resources (EHR), a unit within 

NSF, promotes rigor and vitality within 

the Nation’s STEM education enterprise 

to further the development of the 21st 

century’s STEM workforce and public 

scientific literacy. EHR does this 

through diverse projects and programs 

that support research, extension, 

outreach, and hands-on activities that 

service STEM learning and research at 

all institutional (e.g., pre-school through 

postdoctoral) levels in formal and 

informal settings; and individuals of all 

ages (birth and beyond). EHR also 

focuses on broadening participation in 

STEM learning and careers among 

United States citizens, permanent 

residents, and nationals, particularly 

those individuals traditionally 

underemployed in the STEM research 

workforce, including but not limited to 

women, persons with disabilities, and 

racial and ethnic minorities. 

At the request of OMB an EHR 

Generic Clearance was established in 

1995 to integrate management, 

monitoring, and evaluation information 

pertaining to the NSF’s Education and 

Training (ET) portfolio in response to 

the Government Performance and 

Results Acts (GPRA) of 1993. Under this 

generic survey clearance (OMB 3145– 

0136), data from the NSF administrative 

databases are incorporated with findings 

gathered through initiative-, 

divisional-, and program-specific data 

collections. The scope of the EHR 

Generic Clearance primarily covers 


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descriptive information gathered from 

education and training projects that are 

funded by NSF. Most programs subject 

to EHR Generic data collection are 

funded by the EHR Directorate, but 

some are funded in whole or in part by 

disciplinary directorates or multidisciplinary or cross-cutting programs. 

Since 2001 in accordance with OMB’s 

Terms of Clearance (TOC), NSF 

primarily uses the data from the EHR 

Generic Clearance for program planning, 

management, and audit purposes to 

respond to queries from the Congress, 

the public, NSF’s external merit 

reviewers who serve as advisors, 

including Committees of Visitors 

(COVs), and the NSF’s Office of the 

Inspector General. 

OMB has limited the collection to 

three categories of descriptive data: (1) 

Staff and project participants (data that 

are also necessary to determine 

individual-level treatment and control 

groups for future third-party study); (2) 

project implementation characteristics 

(also necessary for future use to identify 

well-matched comparison groups); and 

(3) project outputs (necessary to 

measure baseline for pre- and postNSF-funding-level impacts). 

Use of the Information: This 

information is required for effective 

administration, communication, 

program and project monitoring and 

evaluation, and for measuring 

attainment of NSF’s program, project, 

and strategic goals, and as identified by 

the President’s Accountability in 

Government Initiative; GPRA, and the 

NSF’s Strategic Plan. The Foundation’s 

FY 2006–2011 Strategic Plan describes 

four strategic outcome goals of 

Discovery, Learning, Research 

Infrastructure, and Stewardship. NSF’s 

complete strategic plan may be found at: 

http://www.nsf.gov/publications/ 

pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf0648. 

Since the EHR Generic Clearance 

research is primarily used for 

accountability purposes, including 

responding from queries from COVs and 

other scientific experts, a census rather 

than sampling design typically is 

necessary. At the individual project 

level funding can be adjusted based on 

individual project’s responses to some 

of the surveys. Some data collected 

under the EHR Clearance serve as 

baseline data for separate research and 

evaluation studies. 

In order to conduct program- or 

portfolio-level evaluations, however, 

both experimental and quasiexperimental evaluation research 

studies on STEM education 

interventions require researchers to 

identify individual-level and 

organization- or project-level control 

and treatment groups or comparison 

groups. NSF-funded contract or grantee 

researchers and evaluators in part may 

identify control, comparison, or 

treatment groups for NSF’s ET portfolio 

using some of the descriptive data 

gathered through OMB 3145–0136 to 

conduct well-designed, rigorous 

research and portfolio evaluation 

studies. 

In accordance with the 2001, 2005, 

and 2008 OMB TOCs, NSF requests 

separate stand-alone clearance (and 

separately announces for comment in 

the Federal Register) any program or 

portfolio research or evaluation. Two 

examples of third-party evaluations that 

used EHR OMB 3145–0136 data to 

inform study design are: OMB No. 

3145–0187 (Expiring 8/2011) Evaluation 

of the NSF’s Graduate STEM Fellows in 

K–12 Education (GK–12) Program and 

OMB No. 3145–0182 (Expiring 3/2011) 

Evaluation of the NSF’s Integrative 

Graduate Education and Research 

Traineeship (IGERT) Program: Followup Study of IGERT Graduates, both 

conducted by Abt Associates. 

Respondents: Individuals or 

households, not-for-profit institutions, 

business or other for profit, and Federal, 

State, local or Tribal government. 

Number of Respondents: 8,494. 

Burden of the Public: The total 

estimate for this collection is 65,868 

annual burden hours. This figure is 

based on the previous 3 years of 

collecting information under this 

clearance and anticipated collections. 

The average annual reporting burden is 

between 1.5 and 72 hours per 

‘‘respondent,’’ depending on whether a 

respondent is a direct participant who is 

self-reporting or representing a project 

and reporting on behalf of many project 

participants. 

Dated: November 3, 2010. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

[FR Doc. 2010–28210 Filed 11–8–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7555–01–P 

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Notice of permit applications received 

Under the Antarctic Conservation Act 

of 1978 (Pub. L. 95–541) 

AGENCY: National Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Notice of permit applications 

received under the Antarctic 

Conservation Act of 1978, Public Law 

95–541. 

SUMMARY: The National Science 

Foundation (NSF) is required to publish 

notice of permit applications received to 

conduct activities regulated under the 

Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. 

NSF has published regulations under 

the Antarctic Conservation Act at Title 

45 Part 670 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations. This is the required notice 

of permit applications received. 

DATES: Interested parties are invited to 

submit written data, comments, or 

views with respect to this permit 

application by December 9, 2010. This 

application may be inspected by 

interested parties at the Permit Office, 

address below. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

addressed to Permit Office, Room 755, 

Office of Polar Programs, National 

Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson 

Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nadene G. Kennedy at the above 

address or (703) 292–7405. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

National Science Foundation, as 

directed by the Antarctic Conservation 

Act of 1978 (Pub. L. 95–541), as 

amended by the Antarctic Science, 

Tourism and Conservation Act of 1996, 

has developed regulations for the 

establishment of a permit system for 

various activities in Antarctica and 

designation of certain animals and 

certain geographic areas as requiring 

special protection. The regulations 

establish such a permit system to 

designate Antarctic Specially Protected 

Areas. 

The applications received are as 

follows: 

Permit Application No. 2011–006 

1. Applicant: Diane Marie McKnight, 

INSTAAR, 1560 30th Street, 

Boulder, CO 80309. 

Activity for Which Permit Is Requested 

Enter into Antarctic Specially 

Protected Area. The applicant plans to 

enter the Canada Glacier, Lake Fryxell 

(ASPA #131) to continue operation of a 

previously installed, continuously 

recording stream gauge station, perform 

maintenance, conduct stream flow 

measurements and collect water quality 

samples near the stream gauge site. The 

applicant will also collect water quality 

samples of the melt-water of the Canada 

Glacier and along the length of the 

stream to study in-stream 

biogeochemical processes. Samples of 

the microbial mats and mosses will also 

be collected for study. LIDAR and other 

survey and monitoring techniques may 

be used to detect changes in the stream 

bed and algal mat distribution over 

time. 


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