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mathematics (STEM) discoveries and 

innovations by catalyzing the STEM 

enterprise for inclusive change, 

resulting in a STEM workforce that 

reflects the diverse population of the 

Nation. The INCLUDES Initiative aligns 

with NSF’s commitment to equity, 

inclusion, and broadening participation 

in the STEM fields and NSF’s strategic 

objectives communicated in the NSF 

Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years (FY) 

2022–2026 (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/ 

2022/nsf22068/nsf22068.pdf). 

The INCLUDES initiative is supported 

by NSF’s Eddie Bernice Johnson 

INCLUDES Coordination Hub 

(INCLUDES Coordination Hub; 

www.includesnetwork.org), an NSFsupported project that provides focused 

capacity building supports around data 

and information gathering; learning, 

community building and engagement; 

and storytelling, and communications to 

NSF’s Eddie Bernice Johnson 

INCLUDES National Network 

(INCLUDES National Network). 

NSF is requesting OMB approval for 

the INCLUDES Coordination Hub to 

collect information from members of the 

INCLUDES National Network. 

Why you are collecting it: The 

INCLUDES Coordination Hub seeks to 

collect data from INCLUDES National 

Network members to: (1) shape 

INCLUDES Coordination Hub’s 

activities (e.g., to identify support needs 

in the coming year; to inform Shared 

Measures and Network communication, 

engagement, learning, and community 

building, and expansion goals); (2) 

assess the development and progress of 

the INCLUDES National Network; and 

(3) inform the INCLUDES Coordination 

Hub’s assessment of progress toward its 

theory of change. 

What information is being collected: 

The collected information will include 

information on how and why 

respondents engage with the Network, 

each respondent’s perspectives on 

desired outcomes and ways in which 

the INCLUDES National Network is 

informing and supporting their efforts to 

change systems to broaden participation 

in STEM, in addition to full name, 

affiliated organizations, email addresses, 

and home states. Personally identifiable 

information (PII) is collected primarily 

to categorize responses based on 

respondents’ roles in the INCLUDES 

National Network. PII will be accessed 

only by the INCLUDES Coordination 

Hub. Any public data reporting will be 

in aggregate form, and any personal 

identifiers will be removed. 

Respondents: All members of the 

INCLUDES National Network will be 

invited to respond to the survey. The 

INCLUDES National Network is 

comprised of individuals who are 

interested in or working directly to 

broaden participation in STEM. Some of 

these individuals are INCLUDES 

grantees; others have received NSF 

awards outside of INCLUDES or pursue 

broadening participation in STEM with 

support from other sources, including 

grants from federal, state, philanthropic, 

or business entities. Some are 

representatives of these various types of 

funders or businesses, such as program 

officers at NSF, other federal agencies, 

and private foundations, as well as 

interested individuals unaffiliated with 

particular grant programs. 

Estimated number of respondents: 

840 (representing a 21% response rate). 

Use of the Information: The 

information collected is primarily for 

the use of the INCLUDES Coordination 

Hub to track the health, development, 

expansion, and diversification of the 

Network, understand the utility of the 

INCLUDES Coordination Hub in 

supporting Network members’ success, 

and for informing design decisions the 

INCLUDES Coordination Hub will make 

regarding future programming and 

support provided to National Network 

members. 

Estimate burden on the public: 

Estimated at 280 hours, per year, for the 

duration of the Coordination Hub’s 

cooperative agreement with NSF. It is 

beneficial for NSF and the Coordination 

Hub to have access to this information 

annually to track progress toward the 

INCLUDES Initiative’s goals of 

supporting constituencies in identifying 

shared goals and objectives and 

understanding National Network 

members’ impact. 

Average Time per Reporting: The 

online survey is comprised primarily of 

closed-ended questions and is designed 

to be completed by respondents in 

under 20 minutes. 

Frequency: Once per year for the 

duration of the INCLUDES Coordination 

Hub’s cooperative agreement with NSF. 

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 shall have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the Agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information; (c) ways to 

enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 

of the information on respondents, 

including through the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology; 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. 

Please submit one copy of your 

comments by only one method. All 

submissions received must include the 

agency name and collection name 

identified above for this information 

collection. Commenters are strongly 

encouraged to transmit their comments 

electronically via email. Comments, 

including any personal information 

provided become a matter of public 

record. They will be summarized and/ 

or included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget approval of the 

information collection request. 

Dated: December 18, 2023. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

[FR Doc. 2023–28156 Filed 12–20–23; 8:45 am] 

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Comment Request; National 

Science Foundation Research 

Traineeship Program Monitoring 

System 

AGENCY: National Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The National Science 

Foundation (NSF) is announcing plans 

to renew this collection. In accordance 

with the requirements of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, we are providing 

the opportunity for public comment on 

this action. After obtaining and 

considering public comment, NSF will 

prepare the submission requesting 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) clearance of this collection for no 

longer than 3 years. 

DATES: Written comments on this notice 

must be received by February 20, 2024 

to be assured consideration. Comments 

received after that date will be 

considered to the extent practicable. 

Send comments to address below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports Clearance 

Officer, National Science Foundation, 

2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Suite E7465, 

Alexandria, Virginia 22314; telephone 

(703) 292–7556; or send email to 

splimpto@nsf.gov. Individuals who use 

a telecommunications device for the 

deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1– 

800–877–8339, which is accessible 24 

hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a 

year (including Federal holidays). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 


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Title of Collection: National Science 

Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) 

Monitoring System. 

OMB Number: 3145–0263. 

Expiration Date of Approval: 

November 30, 2024. 

Type of Request: Intent to seek 

approval to renew an information 

collection. 

Proposed Project: The National 

Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) Division 

of Graduate Education (DGE) in the 

Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) 

administers the NSF Research 

Traineeship (NRT) program. The NRT 

program is designed to encourage the 

development and implementation of 

bold, new, and potentially 

transformative models for STEM 

graduate education training. The NRT 

program seeks to ensure that graduate 

students in research-based master’s and 

doctoral degree programs develop the 

skills, knowledge, and competencies 

needed to pursue a range of STEM 

careers. NRT is dedicated to effective 

training of STEM graduate students in 

high-priority interdisciplinary or 

convergent research areas through the 

use of a comprehensive traineeship 

model that is innovative, evidencebased, and aligned with changing 

workforce and research needs. 

Previously, NRT awardees provided 

NSF with information on their activities 

through periodic research performance 

progress reports. The NRT monitoring 

system (also referred to as the NRT 

reporting system) has replaced these 

reports with a tailored program 

monitoring system that uses internetbased information and communication 

technologies to collect, review, and 

validate specific data on NRT awards. 

EDU is committed to ensuring the 

efficiency and effectiveness with which 

respondents provide and NSF staff can 

access and analyze data on funded 

projects within the NRT programs. 

The NRT monitoring system includes 

subsets of questions aimed at the 

different project participants (i.e., 

Principal Investigators (PIs), and 

trainees), and allows for data analysis 

and data report generation by 

authorized NSF staff. The collection 

generally includes three categories of 

descriptive data: (1) Staff and project 

participants (data that are necessary to 

determine individual-level treatment 

and control groups for future third-party 

study or for internal evaluation); (2) 

project implementation characteristics 

(also necessary for future use to identify 

well-matched comparison groups); and 

(3) project outputs (necessary to 

measure baseline for pre- and postNSF-funding-level impacts). NRT 

awardees will be required to report data 

on an annual basis for the life of their 

award. 

Use of the Information: NSF will 

primarily use the data from this 

collection for program planning, 

management, and audit purposes to 

respond to queries from the Congress, 

the public, NSF’s external merit 

reviewers, who serve as advisors, 

including Committees of Visitors 

(COVs), the NSF’s Office of the 

Inspector General, and as a basis for 

either internal or third-party evaluations 

of individual programs. This 

information is required for effective 

administration, communication, 

program and project monitoring and 

evaluation, and for measuring 

attainment of NSF’s program, project, 

and strategic goals, and as identified by 

the President’s Accountability in 

Government Initiative; GPRA, and the 

NSF’s Strategic Plan. The Foundation’s 

FY 2022–2026 Strategic Plan may be 

found at: https://www.nsf.gov/ 

publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_

key=nsf22068. 

Since this collection will primarily be 

used for accountability and evaluation 

purposes, including responding to 

queries from COVs and other scientific 

experts, a census, rather than sampling 

design, typically is necessary. At the 

individual project level, funding can be 

adjusted based on individual project’s 

responses to some of the surveys. Some 

data collected under this collection will 

serve as baseline data for separate 

research and evaluation studies. 

NSF-funded contract or grantee 

researchers and internal or external 

evaluators in part may identify control, 

comparison, or treatment groups for 

NSF’s education and training portfolio 

using some of the descriptive data 

gathered through this collection to 

conduct well-designed, rigorous 

research and portfolio evaluation 

studies. 

Burden on the Public: Estimated at 82 

hours per award for 120 awards for a 

total of 9,840 hours (per year). 

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 shall have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the Agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information; (c) ways to 

enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 

of the information on respondents, 

including through the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology; and (d) ways to 

minimize the burden of the collection of 

information on those who are to 

respond, including through the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Dated: December 15, 2023. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2023–0149] 

Information Collection: Criteria and 

Procedures for Emergency Access to 

Non-Federal and Regional Low-Level 

Waste Disposal Facilities 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Renewal of existing information 

collection; request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) invites public 

comment on the renewal of Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval for an existing collection of 

information. The information collection 

is entitled, ‘‘Criteria and Procedures for 

Emergency Access to Non-Federal and 

Regional Low-Level Waste Disposal 

Facilities.’’ 

DATES: Submit comments by February 

20, 2024. Comments received after this 

date will be considered if it is practical 

to do so, but the Commission is able to 

ensure consideration only for comments 

received on or before this date. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods; 

however, the NRC encourages electronic 

comment submission through the 

Federal rulemaking website: 

• Federal rulemaking website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2023–0149. Address 

questions about Docket IDs in 

Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 

telephone: 301–415–0624; email: 

Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical 

questions, contact the individual listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document. 

• Mail comments to: David C. 

Cullison, Office of the Chief Information 

Officer, Mail Stop: T–6 A10M, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001. 

For additional direction on obtaining 

information and submitting comments, 

see ‘‘Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments’’ in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. 


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