Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 240 / Wednesday, December 15, 2010 / Notices 78225 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Minority Business Development 

Agency 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request; Survey of MinorityOwned Business Participation, 

Opportunities and Barriers to Global 

Commerce 

AGENCY: Minority Business 

Development Agency, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, 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 

proposed and/or continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted on or before February 14, 

2011. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Diana Hynek, Departmental 

Paperwork Clearance Officer, 

Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 

14th and Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20230 (or via the 

Internet at dHynek@doc.gov). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument and instructions should be 

directed to Ivonne Cunarro, Research 

and Knowledge Management Unit, 202– 

482–2157, icunarro@mbda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The Minority Business Development 

Agency’s (MBDA) Research and 

Knowledge Management unit will be 

conducting a survey of minority-owned 

businesses to gather data on their 

participation in global commerce. The 

survey will provide valuable 

information on the markets minority 

businesses are exporting goods to, job 

creation as a result of export activity, 

exporting minority business industries, 

and barriers and opportunities to 

exporting. Findings from this survey 

support President’s Obama National 

Export Initiative, Executive Order 

13534, which calls for doubling exports 

in five years and identifying and 

reducing barriers to exports. The survey 

also supports the MBDA’s mission of 

furthering the growth and expansion of 

minority-owned businesses as 

exemplified in Executive Order 11625 

and 15 CFR part 1400. The findings 

from the survey will also be published 

in a report and released during MBDA’s 

Minority Enterprise Development Week 

Conference in September, 2011. 

II. Method of Collection 

The data will be collected 

electronically through the use of a webbased survey instrument. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0640–0027. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Review: Regular submission. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

1,000. 

Estimated Time per Response: 45 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 750 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: $0. 

IV. Request for Comments 

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 will have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden 

(including hours and cost) of the 

proposed collection of information; (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 information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of this information collection; 

they also will become a matter of public 

record. 

Dated: December 9, 2010. 

Gwellnar Banks, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–21–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request; Building for 

Environmental and Economic 

Sustainability (BEES) Please 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology (NIST), Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, 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 

proposed and/or continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted on or before February 14, 

2011. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Diana Hynek, Departmental 

Paperwork Clearance Officer, 

Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 

14th and Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20230 (or via the 

Internet at dHynek@doc.gov). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument and instructions should be 

directed to Barbara C. Lippiatt, (301) 

975–6133 or at blippiatt@nist.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

Over the last 16 years, the Engineering 

Laboratory of the National Institute of 

Standards and Technology (NIST) has 

developed and automated an approach 

for measuring the life-cycle 

environmental and economic 

performance of building products. 

Known as BEES (Building for 

Environmental and Economic 

Sustainability), the tool reduces 

complex, science-based technical 

content (e.g., over 500 material and 

energy flows from raw material 

extraction through product disposal) to 

decision-enabling results and delivers 

them in a visually intuitive graphical 

format. BEES Please is a voluntary 

program to collect data from product 

manufacturers so that the environmental 

performance of their products may be 

evaluated scientifically using BEES. 

BEES measures environmental 

performance using the environmental 

life-cycle assessment approach specified 

in the International Organization for 

Standardization 14040 series of 

standards. All stages in the life of a 

product are analyzed: Raw material 

acquisition, manufacture, 

transportation, installation, use, and 

recycling and waste management. 

Economic performance is measured 

using the American Society for Testing 

and Materials standard lifecycle cost 

method, which covers the costs of initial 

investment, replacement, operation, 

maintenance and repair, and disposal. 

NIST will publish in BEES Online 

(http://ws680.nist.gov/bees) an 

aggregated version of the data collected 


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