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The SIPP represents a source of 

information for a wide variety of topics 

and allows information for separate 

topics to be integrated to form a single 

and unified database so that the 

interaction between tax, transfer, and 

other government and private policies 

can be examined. Government domestic 

policy formulators depend heavily upon 

the SIPP information concerning the 

distribution of income received directly 

as money or indirectly as in-kind 

benefits and the effect of tax and 

transfer programs on this distribution. 

They also need improved and expanded 

data on the income and general 

economic and financial situation of the 

U.S. population. The SIPP has provided 

these kinds of data on a continuing basis 

since 1983, permitting levels of 

economic well-being and changes in 

these levels to be measured over time. 

The survey is molded around a 

central ‘‘core’’ of labor force and income 

questions that remain fixed throughout 

the life of a panel. The core is 

supplemented with questions designed 

to answer specific needs, such as 

estimating eligibility for government 

programs, examining pension and 

health care coverage, and analyzing 

individual net worth. These 

supplemental questions are included 

with the core and are referred to as 

‘‘topical modules.’’ 

The topical module planned for the 

2008 Panel Wave 13 is Professional 

Certificates and Certifications. This 

topical module has not been previously 

conducted in the SIPP. Wave 13 

interviews will be conducted from 

September 1, 2012 through December 

31, 2012. 

No topical modules were used in 

Wave 12 and none are planned in 

Waves 14 through 16 of the 2008 Panel. 

We plan to continue fielding the core 

and reinterview instruments through 

December 2013, which is the last 

rotation of Wave 16. Consequently, we 

did not submit an OMB package for 

Wave 12 and do not anticipate future 

OMB submissions for the 2008 Panel 

after Wave 13. 

The SIPP is designed as a continuing 

series of national panels of interviewed 

households that are introduced every 

few years with each panel having 

durations of approximately 3 to 6 years. 

The 2008 Panel is scheduled for 

approximately 6 years and four months 

and includes sixteen waves which 

began September 1, 2008. All household 

members 15 years old or over are 

interviewed using regular proxyrespondent rules. They are interviewed 

a total of thirteen times (thirteen waves), 

at 4-month intervals, making the SIPP a 

longitudinal survey. Sample people (all 

household members present at the time 

of the first interview) who move within 

the country and reasonably close to a 

SIPP primary sampling unit (PSU) will 

be followed and interviewed at their 

new address. Individuals 15 years old or 

over who enter the household after 

Wave 1 will be interviewed; however, if 

these people move, they are not 

followed unless they happen to move 

along with a Wave 1 sample individual. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households. 

Frequency: Every 4 months. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., 

Section 182. 

OMB Desk Officer: Brian HarrisKojetin, (202) 395–7314. 

Copies of the above information 

collection proposal can be obtained by 

calling or writing Jennifer Jessup, 

Departmental Paperwork Clearance 

Officer, (202) 482–0336, Department of 

Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and 

Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 

jjessup@doc.gov). 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to Brian Harris-Kojetin, OMB 

Desk Officer either by fax (202–395– 

7245) or email (bharrisk@omb.eop.gov). 

Dated: February 28, 2012. 

Glenna Mickelson, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2012–5109 Filed 3–1–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–07–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket No. 120127071–2071–01] 

Commerce Business Apps Challenge 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary (OS), 

Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: A key mission of both the 

Department of Commerce (DOC) is to 

help U.S. businesses grow and create 

jobs. Recently, the White House 

launched the BusinessUSA Initiative 

(www.Business.USA.gov) to help further 

these goals. This notice announces the 

Commerce Business Apps Challenge 

(http://docbusinessapps.challenge.gov) 

which DOC is launching to encourage 

members of the public to develop, using 

at least one DOC data set, an application 

(Web, mobile, PC, etc.) that assists 

businesses and/or improves the service 

delivery of Business.USA.gov to the 

business community. Specifically, we’re 

looking for innovative ways to use DOC 

and other federal data and program 

information to help businesses: 

• Learn about and evaluate 

opportunities, both here in the U.S. and 

internationally; 

• Access useful government services, 

data, and market information; 

• Fund business activities; 

• Support education and training, 

and 

• Facilitate or accelerate the pursuit 

of operating and growing their business. 

This notice announces the BizApps 

Challenge and explains its terms and 

conditions, and prizes. 

DATES: Contestants must register for the 

contest on this Web site by creating an 

account between February 22nd and 

April 30th, 2012. The judging period 

will run from May 1, 2012, 12 a.m. EDT 

to May 21, 2012, 11:59 p.m. EDT. DOC 

will announce contest winners on May 

31, 2012, or soon thereafter. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gordon Keller, by phone at 202–482– 

2490, or via email at GKeller@doc.gov, 

or Mike Kruger, by phone at 202–482– 

2556, or via email at MKruger@doc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: To 

facilitate the public’s awareness of the 

various types of DOC data available to 

businesses online and to enhance the 

usability and service delivery of the 

newly launched BusinessUSA Initiative 

(www.Business.USA.gov), DOC 

announces a contest, open to the public, 

to develop an application using at least 

one DOC data set, to assist businesses 

and/or improves the service delivery of 

Business.USA.gov to the business 

community. 

You pick the technology* * * 

• The web 

• A personal computer 

• A mobile handheld device, or 

• Any platform broadly accessible to 

the open Internet 

* * *we provide the data (or at least 

some of it). 

DOC offers a wealth of economic, 

demographic, environmental, weather, 

international trade, scientific research 

and program data and in this challenge, 

we require that you use at least one of 

our datasets in your application. This 

data can be layered and/or combined 

with any other federal, state, local or 

publicly available information or 

datasets that you wish. Below are listed 

some repositories for DOC and other 

federal data: 

• Commerce Data 

Æ U.S. Census Bureau—Population, 

household, housing, demographics. 

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indicators, foreign trade, employment 

statistics, maps, geographic data and 

more. 

D http://www.census.gov/ 

D http://www.census.gov/main/www/ 

access.html 

Æ International Trade Administration 

(ITA)—International market research, 

export assistance services, market access 

assistance, trade agreements 

D http://www.trade.gov 

D http://www.export.gov 

Æ U.S. Patent and Trademark Office 

(USPTO)—www.uspto.gov 

Æ National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration (NOAA)— 

D Climate Data—http:// 

www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html 

D Weather Data—http:// 

www.nws.noaa.gov/ 

Æ National Technical Information 

Service (NTIS)—Database of research 

sponsored by the U.S. and select foreign 

governments. 

D http://www.ntis.gov/products/

ntisdb.aspx 

Æ Economic Development 

Administration—http://www.eda.gov 

Æ Bureau of Economic Analysis 

(BEA)—http://www.bea.gov/itable/ 

index.cfm 

Æ Bureau of Industry and Security 

(BIS)—http://www.bis.doc.gov/ 

Æ Economic and Statistics 

Administration (ESA)—http:// 

www.esa.doc.gov 

Æ National Telecommunications and 

Information Administration (NTIA)— 

www.ntia.doc.gov 

Æ All DOC’s data sets on Data.Gov: 

(http://www.data.gov/list/agency/1/0/

catalog/raw/page/1/count/50) 

• www.Data.gov—repository for data 

and geodata from across the federal 

government, searchable by agency, data 

type, keyword, among others. Many, but 

not all Commerce data sets reside here. 

• http://www.data.gov/business—A 

business specific section of Data.gov 

(above), this Web site features businessrelated datasets and applications from 

across the federal government. 

Also: 

• List of Open Data Sites Around the 

World: http://www.data.gov/

opendatasites 

• Amazon Listing of Public Data Sets: 

http://aws.amazon.com/datasets 

• Washington DC: http:// 

data.octo.dc.gov 

• New York: http://nyc.gov/data 

• San Francisco: http://datasf.org/ 

• U.K.: http://data.gov.uk/ 

These represent only a partial list of 

data repositories, and contestants are 

encouraged to use others as needed. 

What’s in it for you? 

The applications that best satisfy the 

competition criteria will receive cash 

prizes up to $5,000 for the first prize 

winner. We encourage contestants to 

combine DOC data with other publicly 

accessible data feeds from around the 

Web, and to be creative in exploring 

approaches for realizing the goals. 

How To Enter 

Contestants must register for the 

contest on this Web site by creating an 

account between February 6 and April 

30, 2012. Registrants will receive an 

email to verify their account and may 

then enter their submissions via the 

‘‘Post a Submission’’ tab (Submissions). 

1. Submissions may be any kind of 

software tool, be it for the Web, a 

personal computer, a mobile handheld 

device, console, or any platform broadly 

accessible to the open Internet. 

2. A Submission may be disqualified 

if it does not function as expressed in 

the description or if it does not comply 

with the contest entry criteria (e.g., use 

of at least one DOC dataset). 

3. All Submissions must be available 

for public use and evaluation by April 

30, 2012 in order to be considered for 

judging purposes. 

4. Once a Submission is made, the 

Contestant cannot make any changes or 

alterations to the Submission until the 

judging is complete. The approximate 

date by which the judging will be 

complete is May 21, 2012. 

For all Submissions, the Contestant 

agrees that DOC will have the ability to 

release the code as open source at its 

discretion (see Rules for more details). 

Important Dates 

Submission Period 

Start: February 6, 2012 12 a.m. EDT. 

End: April 30, 2012 11:59 p.m. EDT. 

Judging Period 

Start: May 1, 2012 12 a.m. EDT. End: 

May 21, 2011 11:59 p.m. EDT. 

Winners announced: May 31, 2011 12 

a.m. EDT, or soon thereafter. 

Judges 

An exclusive panel of high-profile 

judges will evaluate and vote on the 

entries. The panel includes: 

• John Bryson, Secretary of Commerce 

• Steven Van Roekel, Federal CIO 

• Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating 

Officer, Facebook 

• Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, 

Google 

• Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of 

O’Reilly Media 

• Vivek Kundra, Executive Vice 

President of Emerging Markets, 

Salesforce.com 

Judging Criteria 

1. Use of DOC Data (20%) 

Does the application use a novel 

combination of relevant data sets, 

including at least one dataset from one 

of Commerce’s bureaus? 

• Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) 

• Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) 

• U.S. Census Bureau 

• Economic Development 

Administration (EDA) 

• Economic and Statistics 

Administration (ESA) 

• International Trade Administration 

(ITA) 

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration (NOAA) 

• National Telecommunications 

Administration (NTIA) 

• National Institute of Standards and 

Technology (NIST) 

• National Technical Information 

Service (NTIS) 

• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office 

(USPTO) 

Note: All submissions must cite data 

sources and note calculations, derivation and 

mash-ups from the source(s). 

2. Usability and Interface Design (20%) 

Is the application implemented in a 

functional and elegant fashion? 

3. Relevance to Stated Objective (40%) 

Does the application meet the mission 

defined for this challenge? 

4. Creativity 

Is the application and concept 

creative and interesting? (20%) 

Prizes 

First Place—$5,000 (1 prize) 

Second Place—$3,000 (1 prize) 

Third Place—$2,000 (1 prize) 

Official Rules 

Official Rules 

1. Eligibility: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (DOC)—DOC BizApps Challenge 

is open only to: (1) Citizens or permanent 

residents of the United States who are at least 

thirteen (13) years old at the time of entry (or 

teams of eligible individuals); and (2) private 

entities, such as corporations or other 

organizations, that are incorporated in and 

maintain a primary place of business in the 

United States. Individuals submitting on 

behalf of corporations, nonprofits, or groups 

of individuals (such as an academic class or 

other team) must meet the eligibility 

requirements for individual participants. An 

individual may join more than one team, 

corporation, or nonprofit organization. DOC 

employees and members of their immediate 

family (spouses, children, siblings, parents), 

and persons living in the same household as 

such persons, whether or not related, are not 

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2. Competition Subject to Applicable Law: 

The Competition is subject to all applicable 

federal laws and regulations. Participation 

constitutes each Participant’s full and 

unconditional agreement to these Official 

Rules and administrative decisions, which 

are final and binding in all matters related to 

the Competition. Eligibility for a prize award 

is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements 

set forth herein. This notice is not an 

obligation of funds; the final award of prizes 

is contingent upon the availability of 

appropriations. 

3. Competition Submission Period: 

Developers must submit their original 

application between February 6, 2012 and 

April 30, 2012. Submissions will be 

published on Challenge.gov as they are 

received throughout the competition 

submission period. 

4. Teams: Challenge submissions can be 

from an individual or a team. Prize money 

will be awarded to the project leader for 

distribution to the rest of the team. 

5. Required Datasets: Submissions must 

use at least one DOC dataset, such as those 

available at http://www.data.gov. In addition, 

you can combine data and resources from 

this or any other public sources online. We 

anticipate winning entries to draw from the 

DOC data sources, but to combine them with 

one another, as well as any of an interesting 

array of publicly available resources, 

geospatial and/or location data, etc. 

6. Intellectual Property Rights: All 

submissions to the DOC BizApps Challenge 

remain the intellectual property of the 

individuals or organizations that developed 

them. By registering, consenting to the terms 

of the challenge, and entering a Submission, 

however, the Participant agrees that DOC 

reserves an irrevocable, nonexclusive, 

royalty-free license to use, copy, distribute to 

the public, create derivative works from, and 

publicly display and perform a Submission 

for a period of one year starting on the date 

of the announcement of contest winners. 

7. Copyright: Participant represents and 

warrants that he or she is the sole author and 

copyright owner of the Submission, and that 

the Submission is an original work of the 

Participant, or if the Submission is a work 

based on an existing application, that the 

Participant has acquired sufficient rights to 

use and to authorize others, including DOC, 

to use the Submission, as specified in the 

‘‘Intellectual Property Rights’’ section of the 

Rules; and that the Submission does not 

infringe upon any copyright or upon any 

other third party rights of which the 

Participant is aware, and that the Submission 

is free of malware. 

8. Submission Topic/Theme: All 

Submissions should meet the intent and 

spirit of the challenge, as previously defined 

in the challenge summary. 

9. Judges: The Submissions will be judged 

by the judges identified in the challenge 

details or by another qualified panel selected 

by DOC at its sole discretion. The panel will 

judge the Submissions on the judging criteria 

identified in the challenge summary in order 

to select winners in each category. Judges 

have the right to withdraw without advance 

notice in the event of circumstances beyond 

their control. Judges may not (A) have 

personal or substantial (over $500) financial 

interests in, or be an employee, officer, 

director, or agent of any entity that is a 

registered participant in a competition; or (B) 

have a familial or financial relationship with 

an individual who is a registered participant. 

10. Decisions: The decisions of the judges 

will be announced on or about May 31st, 

2012 on Challenge.gov. 

11. Publicity: Except where prohibited, 

participation in the Competition constitutes 

each winner’s consent to DOC’s and its 

agents’ use of each winner’s name, likeness, 

photograph, voice, opinions, and/or 

hometown and state information for 

promotional purposes through any form of 

media, worldwide, without further 

permission, payment or consideration. 

12. Liability and Insurance: Any and all 

information provided by or obtained from the 

Federal Government is without any warranty 

or representation whatsoever, including but 

not limited to its suitability for any particular 

purpose. Upon registration, all participants 

agree to assume and, thereby, have assumed 

any and all risks of injury or loss in 

connection with or in any way arising from 

participation in this competition, 

development of any application or the use of 

any application by the participants or any 

third-party. Upon registration all participants 

agree to and, thereby, do waive and release 

any and all claims or causes of action against 

the Federal Government and its officers, 

employees and agents for any and all injury 

and damage of any nature whatsoever 

(whether existing or thereafter arising, 

whether direct, indirect, or consequential 

and whether foreseeable or not), arising from 

their participation in the contest, whether the 

claim or cause of action arises under contract 

or tort. Upon registration, all participants 

agree to and, thereby, shall indemnify and 

hold harmless the Federal Government and 

its officers, employees and agents for any and 

all injury and damage of any nature 

whatsoever (whether existing or thereafter 

arising, whether direct, indirect, or 

consequential and whether foreseeable or 

not), including but not limited to any damage 

that may result from a virus, malware, etc., 

to Government computer systems or data, or 

to the systems or data of end-users of the 

software and/or application(s) which results, 

in whole or in part, from the fault, 

negligence, or wrongful act or omission of the 

participants or participants’ officers, 

employees or agents. 

Based on the subject matter of the 

Competition, the type of work that it possibly 

will require, and the likelihood of any claims 

for death, bodily injury, or property damage, 

or loss potentially resulting from challenge 

participation, Participant is not required to 

obtain liability insurance or demonstrate 

fiscal responsibility in order to participate in 

this Competition. 

13. Standard Disclaimer: The following 

disclaimer is mandatory for applications 

deployed on non-DOC information systems. 

This standard disclaimer shall be 

incorporated into the software in such a way 

that individuals must read and accept its 

conditions before initial use (Note: The 

standard disclaimer must appear in all 

capital letters): 

THE MATERIAL EMBODIED IN THIS 

SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED TO YOU ‘‘AS-IS’’ 

AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY 

KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR OTHERWISE, 

INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY 

WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR A 

PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT 

SHALL THE UNITED STATES 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE OR THE 

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT BE 

LIABLE TO YOU OR ANYONE ELSE FOR 

ANY DIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, 

INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 

DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, OR ANY 

DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING 

WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOSS OF PROFIT, 

LOSS OF USE, SAVINGS OR REVENUE, OR 

THE CLAIMS OF THIRD PARTIES, 

WHETHER OR NOT DOC OR THE U.S. 

GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN ADVISED OF 

THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH LOSS, 

HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY 

THEORY OF LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF 

OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE 

POSSESSION, USE, OR PERFORMANCE OF 

THIS SOFTWARE. 

14. Records Retention and FOIA: All 

materials submitted to DOC as part of a 

Submission become DOC records and cannot 

be returned. Any confidential commercial 

information contained in a Submission 

should be designated at the time of 

submission. Submitters will be notified of 

any Freedom of Information Act requests for 

their Submissions in accordance with 29 CFR 

70.26. 

15. 508 Compliance: Participants should 

keep in mind that the Department of 

Commerce considers universal accessibility 

to information a priority for all individuals, 

including individuals with disabilities. In 

this regard, the Department is strongly 

committed to meeting its compliance 

obligations under Section 508 of the 

Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, to 

ensure the accessibility of its programs and 

activities to individuals with disabilities. 

This obligation includes acquiring accessible 

electronic and information technology. When 

evaluating Submissions for this contest, the 

extent to which a Submission complies with 

the requirements for accessible technology 

required by Section 508 will be considered. 

Dated: February 22, 2012. 

Simon Szykman, 

Official, CIO, Office of the Secretary, U.S. 

Department of Commerce. 

[FR Doc. 2012–5051 Filed 3–1–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket No. 120131080–2080–01] 

Public Availability of Department of 

Commerce FY2011 Service Contract 

Inventory 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, 

Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of Public Availability of 

FY 2011 Service Contract Inventories. 


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