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document will be a matter of public 

record. Relevant comments will 

generally be available during and after 

the comment period closes on NIST’s 

website at https://www.nist.gov/ 

standardsgov/voluntary-productstandards-program. NIST will not 

accept comments accompanied by a 

request that part or all of the material be 

treated confidentially because of its 

business proprietary nature or for any 

other reason. Therefore, do not submit 

confidential business information or 

otherwise sensitive, protected, or 

personal information, such as account 

numbers, Social Security numbers, or 

names of other individuals. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nathalie Rioux, Standards Coordination 

Office, National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, telephone: (240) 751– 

6225; email: nrioux@nist.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Proposed 

Voluntary Product Standard PS 1–22 

Structural Plywood establishes 

requirements, for those who choose to 

adhere to the standard, for the principal 

types and grades of structural plywood. 

This standard covers the wood species, 

veneer grading, adhesive bonds, panel 

construction and workmanship, 

dimensions and tolerances, marking, 

moisture content, and packing of 

plywood intended for construction and 

industrial uses. 

The proposed revision of the 

standard, PS 1–22, Structural Plywood, 

has been developed and is being 

processed in accordance with 

Department of Commerce provisions in 

Part 10, Title 15, of the Code of Federal 

Regulations, Procedures for the 

Development of Voluntary Product 

Standards, as amended (published June 

20, 1986). The Standing Committee for 

PS 1–22 is responsible for maintaining, 

revising, and interpreting the standard 

and is comprised of producers, 

distributors, users, and others with an 

interest in the standard. 

After reviewing the standard, the 

Committee determined that updates 

were needed to reflect current industry 

practices. The Committee held meetings 

to review the standard and make needed 

changes. 

The full Committee of 18 members 

voted on the revision, and it was 

approved by 94% of the Committee 

Members. The Committee submitted a 

report to NIST with the voting results 

and the draft revised standard. NIST has 

determined that the revised standard 

should be issued for public comment. 

Proposed Voluntary Product Standard 

PS 1–22 Structural Plywood includes 

the following revisions: 

1. Updated definitions to address 

Critical Section, Sound Knot, and Tight 

knot. 

2. For species classified by testing 

Section 5.2.4 clarified that species listed 

in Table 1 but grown in a different 

geographic region shall be qualified for 

use by performance testing. 

3. Clarified the requirements under 

Section 5.7.1 Exposure 1 and 5.7.2 

Exterior. 

4. Added calculations for planar shear 

strength Section 6.2.4 and shearthrough-the-thickness strength Section 

6.2.5. 

5. Added Categories 5/16 and 11/16 to 

Table 10, Table D1, and Table D2. 

6. Updated Section 7 Marking and 

Certification. This includes adding a 

Section on Accredited Certification 

Agency; revised Qualified Inspection 

and Testing Agency Section and added 

Section on Accredited Inspection 

Agency and Section on Accredited 

Testing Laboratory; added a Subsection 

on Subcontracting. 

7. Added Section 8 on Quality 

Assurance Requirements which 

included adding the following 

subsections Manufacturing Quality 

Program, Inspection and Test Program, 

Sampling and Corrective Action. 

The Standing Committee for PS 1–22 

and NIST will revise the standard 

accordingly. 

Alicia Chambers, 

NIST Executive Secretariat. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

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Technology 

[Docket Number: 230710–0163] 

Request for Information Regarding File 

Specification for Findable, Accessible, 

Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) 

Containerized Computational Software 

(FAIR–CCS) 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public meetings; 

request for information. 

SUMMARY: The National Institute of 

Standards and Technology (NIST) is 

evaluating and improving the 

specification for achieving 

interoperability of containerized 

computational software. Adherence to a 

specification for Findable, Accessible, 

Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) 

Containerized Computational Software 

(FAIR–CCS) enables better reuse of 

containerized tools in complex data 

analyses by chaining tools into 

computational workflows. NIST 

requests information from the 

community on approaches to achieving 

interoperability of containerized 

software, designing a container manifest 

file that meets the community needs, 

and lowering the barrier for constructing 

such a manifest file. Responses to this 

RFI will also inform a possible revision 

of the current approach to achieving 

FAIR–CCS via a manifest file, the 

entries in the current manifest file 

specification of FAIR–CCS, and the 

current tools that aim at automating 

adherence to the FAIR–CCS manifest 

specification. NIST will host a 

workshop on FAIR–CCS at the times 

and location indicated below and will 

discuss the responses to this RFI at the 

workshop. 

DATES: 

For Comments: Comments in 

response to this RFI must be received by 

5:00 p.m. Eastern time on December 7, 

2023. Written comments in response to 

the RFI should be submitted according 

to the instructions in the ADDRESSES and 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION sections 

below. Submissions received after that 

date may not be considered. 

For Public Meetings/Webcast: A 

virtual meeting will be held on 

December 5–7, 2023 from 11 a.m. to 3 

p.m. Eastern Time. Requests to 

participate must be received via the 

virtual meeting website no later than 

December 1, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: 

For Comments: Responses can be 

submitted by either of the following 

methods: 

• Electronic submission: Submit 

electronic public comments via the 

Federal e-Rulemaking Portal. 

1. Go to www.regulations.gov and 

enter [NIST–2023–0003] in the search 

field, 

2. Click the ‘‘Comment Now!’’ icon, 

complete the required fields, and 

3. Enter or attach your comments. 

• Email: Comments in electronic form 

may also be sent to wipp-team@nist.gov. 

Include ‘‘RFI Response: FAIR–CCS’’ in 

the subject line of the message. 

Instructions: Attachments will be 

accepted in plain text, Microsoft Word, 

or Adobe PDF formats. Comments 

containing references, studies, research, 

and other empirical data that are not 

widely published should include copies 

or electronic links of the referenced 

materials. 

All comments responding to this 

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generally be available on the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal at https://

www.Regulations.gov and, after the 

comment period closes, on NIST’s 

website at https://www.nist.gov/newsevents/events/2023/12/2ndinternational-workshop-faircontainerized-computational-software. 

NIST will not accept comments 

accompanied by a request that part or 

all of the material be treated 

confidentially because of its business 

proprietary nature or for any other 

reason. Therefore, do not submit 

confidential business information or 

otherwise sensitive, protected, or 

personal information, such as account 

numbers, Social Security numbers, or 

names of other individuals 

For Public Meetings/Webcast: A 

December 5–7, 2023 public meeting will 

be held virtually by NIST. Details about 

attending the meeting and accessing the 

video webcast are available at https://

www.nist.gov/news-events/events/2023/ 

12/2nd-international-workshop-faircontainerized-computational-software. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Peter Bajcsy, Project Lead, Software and 

Systems Division, Information 

Technology Laboratory, National 

Institute of Standards and Technology, 

100 Bureau Drive MS 2201, 

Gaithersburg, MD 20899, 301–975–2958, 

or by email to peter.bajcsy@nist.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

A virtual software container consists 

of a package of software code with all 

of the required elements to run 

regardless of the environment. For 

example, containers for a containerized 

application include all of the 

application’s system libraries and 

configuration files and can run on any 

host operating system. This process, 

known as containerization, ensures that 

applications are portable, scalable, and 

distributed more efficiently. 

The usage of software containers has 

been around for decades but has gained 

more popularity within the last ten 

years. With this increasing popularity of 

software containers as standardized 

units for deployment, research 

communities have adopted the practice 

of containerizing diverse software 

components such as algorithms, tools, 

or modules to run on institutional or 

commercially available computer 

cluster, cloud, or high-performance 

computing (HPC) resources, because 

running software containers on these 

platforms provides more opportunity for 

scalability with minimum resource 

usage. For example, in biomedical 

microscopy imaging, stakeholders cope 

with very large datasets as the 

advancements in microscope designs 

and automated acquisition generate 

terabyte-size image collections in a 

relative short time span. 

Stakeholders also strive to reuse 

containerized tools and reproduce 

complex workflow analyses through 

container-based workflows to improve 

researchers reproducibility of research 

processes to increase efficiency, 

reliability, and collaboration. 

Accordingly, there is an opportunity in 

biomedical microscopy imaging to 

improve the reuse and reproducibility of 

analyses via specifications of 

interoperable containerized algorithms 

(i.e., computational tools or software 

plugins) in order to create these 

container-based workflows (i.e., chained 

containerized algorithms). 

Given the complex analyses in 

working with software containers, 

heterogeneous file formats and storage 

mechanisms, a variety of scientific 

workflow engines, distributed 

computational and storage 

environments, and application 

programming interfaces to metadata 

registries and ontologies, the 

stakeholders are expected to be from 

academia, industry, and government. 

Public Meetings 

A public meeting will be held on 

December 5–7, 2023 as indicated in the 

DATES and ADDRESSES section. Requests 

to participate must be received via the 

meeting website at https://

www.nist.gov/news-events/events/2023/ 

12/2nd-international-workshop-faircontainerized-computational-software 

by December 1, 2023. 

Request for Information 

Respondents are encouraged—but are 

not required—to respond to each topic 

area and to present their responses after 

each topic area. The following topic 

areas cover the major areas about which 

NIST seeks comment. Respondents may 

organize their submissions in response 

to this RFI in any manner. Responses 

may include estimates, which should be 

identified as such. 

All relevant responses that comply 

with the requirements listed in the 

DATES and ADDRESSES sections of this 

RFI will be considered. 

NIST is requesting information related 

to the following topics: 

(1) Approaches to chain containerized 

computational software. 

(2) Important characteristics of sets of 

containerized computational software 

for reuse. 

(3) Methods to facilitate the 

characterization of containerized 

computational software. 

(4) Best practices for containerization 

of computational algorithms and for the 

interfaces between containerized 

algorithms accessing datasets in 

heterogeneous storage environments. 

(5) Best practices for finding 

containerized software tools and 

container-based workflows in online 

registries using application 

programming interfaces (APIs). 

(6) Best practices for executing 

container-based workflows using 

workflow engines and job schedulers for 

computational resource management in 

distributed computational 

environments. 

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 272(b) & (c); 15 

U.S.C. 278g–3. 

Alicia Chambers, 

NIST Executive Secretariat. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

Information Collection Activities; 

Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; iEdison System 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit the following information 

collection request to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and clearance in accordance 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995, on or after the date of publication 

of this notice. We invite 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. Public 

comments were previously requested 

via the Federal Register on May 4, 2023 

date during a 60-day comment period. 

This notice allows for an additional 30 

days for public comments. 

Agency: National Institute of 

Standards and Technology (NIST), 

Commerce. 

Title: iEdison System. 

OMB Control Number 0693–0090. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Regular, Revision of 

an Existing Collection. 

Number of Respondents: 3,063. 

Average Hours per Response: 

Invention Records: 1.25 

(approximately 5 times per year). 

Patent Records: .75 hours 

(approximately 5 times per year). 

Utilization Records: 25 minutes 

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