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including suggestions for reducing this 

burden to the General Services 

Administration, FAR Secretariat (VIR), 

1800 F Street, NW, Room 4035, 

Washington, DC 20405. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ernest Woodson, Contract Policy 

Division, GSA (202) 501–3775. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. Purpose 

Rights in Data is a regulation which 

concerns the rights of the Government, 

and organizations with which the 

Government contracts, to information 

developed under such contracts. The 

delineation of such rights is necessary 

in order to protect the contractor’s rights 

to not disclose proprietary data and to 

insure that data developed with public 

funds is available to the public. 

The information collection burdens 

and recordkeeping requirements 

included in this regulation fall into the 

following four categories: 

(a) A provision which is to be 

included in solicitations where the 

proposer would identify any proprietary 

data he would use during contract 

performance in order that the 

contracting officer might ascertain if 

such proprietary data should be 

delivered. 

(b) Contract provisions which, in 

unusual circumstances, would be 

included in a contract and require a 

contractor to deliver proprietary data to 

the Government for use in evaluation of 

work results, or is software to be used 

in a Government computer. These 

situations would arise only when the 

very nature of the contractor’s work is 

comprised of limited rights data or 

restricted computer software and if the 

Government would need to see that data 

in order to determine the extent of the 

work. 

(c) A technical data certification for 

major systems, which requires the 

contractor to certify that the data 

delivered under the contract is 

complete, accurate and compliant with 

the requirements of the contract. As this 

provision is for major systems only, and 

few civilian agencies have such major 

systems, only about 30 contracts will 

involve this certification. 

(d) The Additional Data Requirements 

clause, which is to be included in all 

contracts for experimental, 

developmental, research, or 

demonstration work (other than basic or 

applied research to be performed solely 

by a university or college where the 

contract amount will be $500,000 or 

less). The clause requires that the 

contractor keep all data first produced 

in the performance of the contract for a 

period of three years from the final 

acceptance of all items delivered under 

the contract. Much of this data will be 

in the form of the deliverables provided 

to the Government under the contract 

(final report, drawings, specifications, 

etc.). Some data, however, will be in the 

form of computations, preliminary data, 

records of experiments, etc., and these 

will be the data that will be required to 

be kept over and above the deliverables. 

The purpose of such recordkeeping 

requirements is to insure that the 

Government can fully evaluate the 

research in order to ascertain future 

activities and to insure that the research 

was completed and fully reported, as 

well as to give the public an opportunity 

to assess the research results and secure 

any additional information. All data 

covered by this clause is unlimited 

rights data paid for by the Government. 

Paragraph (d) of the Rights in Data–

General clause outlines a procedure 

whereby a contracting officer can 

challenge restrictive markings on data 

delivered. Under civilian agency 

contracts, limited rights data or 

restricted computer software is rarely, if 

ever, delivered to the Government. 

Therefore, there will rarely be any 

challenges. Thus, there is no burden on 

the public. 

B. Annual Reporting Burden 

Respondents: 1,100. 

Responses Per Respondent: 1. 

Annual Responses: 1,100. 

Hours Per Response: .95. 

Total Burden Hours:1,040. 

C. Annual Recordkeeping Burden 

The annual recordkeeping burden is 

estimated as follows: 

Recordkeepers: 9,000. 

Hours Per Recordkeeper: 2. 

Total Recordkeeping Burden Hours: 

18,000 . 

Obtaining Copies of Proposals: 

Requesters may obtain a copy of the 

information collection documents from 

the General Services Administration, 

FAR Secretariat (VIR), Room 4035, 1800 

F Street, NW, Washington, DC 20405, 

telephone (202) 501–4755. Please cite 

OMB Control No. 9000–0090, Rights in 

Data and Copyrights, in all 

correspondence. 

Dated: March 2, 2007. 

Ralph DeStefano, 

Director, Contract Policy Division. 

[FR Doc. 07–1064 Filed 3–6–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6820–EP–S 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Missile Defense Advisory Committee 

(MDAC) 

AGENCY: Department of Defense, Missile 

Defense Agency (MDA) 

ACTION: Notice of closed meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Missile Defense Advisory 

Committee will meet in closed session 

on March 21–22, 2007, in Washington, 

DC. 

The mission of the Missile Defense 

Advisory Committee is to provide the 

Department of Defense advice on all 

matters relating to missile defense, 

including system development, 

technology, program maturity and 

readiness of configurations of the 

Ballistic Missile Defense System 

(BMDS) to enter the acquisition process. 

At this meeting, the Committee will 

receive classified briefings by 

intelligence officials concerning 

estimated future developments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: COL 

David R. Wolf, Designated Federal 

Official (DFO) at david.wolf@mda.mil, 

phone/voice mail (703) 695–6438, or 

mail at 7100 Defense Pentagon, 

Washington, DC 20301–7100. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with Section 10(d) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, Pub. 

L. 92–463, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 

II), it has been determined that this 

Missile Defense Advisory Committee 

meeting concerns matters listed in 5 

U.S.C. 552b(c)(1) and that, accordingly, 

the meeting will be closed to the public. 

Dated: March 1, 2007. 

L.M. Bynum, 

OSD Federal Register Liaison Office, 

Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 07–1055 Filed 3–6–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Meeting of the Uniform Formulary 

Beneficiary Advisory Panel 

AGENCY: Assistant Secretary of Defense 

(Health Affairs), Department of Defense. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

meeting of the Uniform Formulary 

Beneficiary Advisory Panel. The panel 

will review and comment on 

recommendations made to the Director, 

TRICARE Management Activity, by the 

Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee 

regarding the Uniform Formulary. The 


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