Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 37 / Monday, February 26, 2007 / Notices 8355 

SUMMARY: The Science Advisory Board 

(SAB) was established by a Decision 

Memorandum dated September 25, 

1997, and is the only Federal Advisory 

Committee with responsibility to advise 

the Under Secretary of Commerce for 

Oceans and Atmosphere on strategies 

for research, education, and application 

of science to operations and information 

services. SAB activities and advice 

provide necessary input to ensure that 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration (NOAA) science 

programs are of the highest quality and 

provide optimal support to resource 

management. 

Times and Dates: The meeting will be 

held Tuesday March 6, 2007, from 10:30 

a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Wednesday March 

7, 2007, from 7:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. These 

times and the agenda topics described 

below are subject to change. Please refer 

to the Web page http:// 

www.sab.noaa.gov/Meetings/ 

meetings.html for the most up-to-date 

meeting agenda. 

Place: The meeting will be held both 

days tentatively at the Hilton 

Washington DC/Silver Spring, 8727 

Colesville Road, Silver Spring, 

Maryland 20910, pending approval of a 

purchase order. Please check the SAB 

Web site http://www.sab.noaa.gov for 

confirmation of the venue. 

Status: The meeting will be open to 

public participation with a 30-minute 

public comment period on March 6 

(check Web site to confirm time). The 

SAB expects that public statements 

presented at its meetings will not be 

repetitive of previously submitted 

verbal or written statements. In general, 

each individual or group making a 

verbal presentation will be limited to a 

total time of five (5) minutes. Written 

comments (at least 35 copies) should be 

received in the SAB Executive Director’s 

Office by March 2, 2007, to provide 

sufficient time for SAB review. Written 

comments received by the SAB 

Executive Director after March 2, 2007, 

will be distributed to the SAB, but may 

not be reviewed prior to the meeting 

date. Seats will be available on a firstcome, first-served basis. 

Matters to be Considered: The 

meeting will include the following 

topics: (1) NOAA’s Regional 

Collaboration Initiative; (2) NOAA’s 

Role in Research on Ocean 

Acidification; (3) Monitoring the 

Performance of Research in NOAA; (4) 

update on the NOAA Response to the 

Reports of the Hurricane Intensity 

Research Working Group (HIRWG); (5) 

update on the NOAA Response to the 

Report of the External Ecosystem Task 

Team (EETT); (6) Report on the Review 

of the Cooperative Institute for Climate 

Applications and Research (CICAR); and 

(7) Report on the Review of the 

Cooperative Institute for Oceanographic 

Satellite Studies (CIOSS). There will 

also be a joint meeting of the SAB and 

the NOAA Research Council. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Cynthia Decker, Executive Director, 

Science Advisory Board, NOAA, Rm. 

11230, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver 

Spring, Maryland 20910 (Phone: 301–

734–1156, Fax: 301–713–1459, E-mail: 

Cynthia.Decker@noaa.gov); or visit the 

NOAA SAB Web site at http:// 

www.sab.noaa.gov. 

Dated: February 21, 2007. 

Mark E. Brown, 

Chief Financial Officer and Chief 

Administrative Officer, Office of Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Research, National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration. 

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PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO) will submit 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for clearance the following 

proposal for collection of information 

under the provisions of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). 

Agency: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO). 

Title: Initial Patent Applications. 

Form Number(s): PTO/SB/01–01A, 

PTO/SB/02A–02B, PTO/SB/02LR, PTO/ 

SB/03–03A, PTO/SB/04–07, PTO/SB/ 

13PCT, PTO/SB/14, PTO/SB/16–19, 

PTO/SB/29–29A, PTO/SB/101–110, 

EFS-Web Original New Utility, Design, 

and Provisional Application Forms. 

Agency Approval Number: 0651–

0032. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Burden: 10,677,624 hours annually. 

Number of Respondents: 543,591 

responses per year. 

Avg. Hours Per Response: The USPTO 

estimates that it takes between 24 

minutes to 30 hours to gather the 

information, prepare, and submit the 

various paper and electronic 

applications in this collection, 

depending on the situation and the 

amount of information that needs to be 

submitted. Since EFS-Web is still 

relatively new, the USPTO does not yet 

have a good indication of how much 

time is saved by filing applications or 

documents electronically via EFS-Web. 

Accordingly, the USPTO has estimated 

the same time to complete the 

electronically-filed applications as it 

does to complete those submitted in 

paper form. As experience with EFSWeb grows, the USPTO will reevaluate 

the time required for electronically-filed 

versus paper-filed applications and 

documents. The USPTO estimates that it 

takes between 30 minutes to 1 hour to 

gather the information, prepare, and 

submit the petitions in this collection. 

Needs and Uses: This collection of 

information is required by 35 U.S.C. 131 

and 37 CFR 1.16 through 1.84. An 

applicant must provide sufficient 

information to allow the USPTO to 

properly examine the application or 

petition to determine whether it meets 

the requirements outlined in the patent 

statutes and regulations. The various fee 

and application transmittal forms, the 

declarations, the cover sheets, and the 

petitions permit applicants to supply all 

of the information necessary to process 

the application and enables the USPTO 

to ensure that all of the information has 

been provided in order to process the 

application. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households; business or other for-profit; 

not-for-profit institutions, farms, the 

Federal Government, and State, Local, 

or Tribal Governments. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. 

OMB Desk Officer: David Rostker, 

(202) 395–3897. 

Copies of the above information 

collection proposal can be obtained by 

any of the following methods: 

• E-mail: Susan.Fawcett@uspto.gov. 

Include ‘‘0651–0032 copy request’’ in 

the subject line of the message. 

• Fax: 571–273–0112, marked to the 

attention of Susan Brown. 

• Mail: Susan K. Brown, Records 

Officer, Office of the Chief Information 

Officer, Architecture, Engineering and 

Technical Services, Data Architecture 

and Services Division, U.S. Patent and 

Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, 

Alexandria, VA 22313–1450. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent on 

or before March 28, 2007 to David 

Rostker, OMB Desk Officer, Room 

10202, New Executive Office Building, 

725 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 

20503. 

Dated: February 20, 2007. 

Susan K. Brown, 

Records Officer, USPTO, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer, Architecture, 

Engineering and Technical Services, Data 

Architecture and Services Division. 

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