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Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Review: Regular Submission. 

Revision of a currently approved 

collection. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

9,665. 

Estimated Time per Response: Focus 

groups: 1 hour; Questionnaire: 20 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 3,286. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: $0. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: NOAA’s 

Programmatic Authority—Integrated 

Coastal and Ocean Observation System 

Act (33 U.S.C. 3601 et seq.); BOEM’s 

Programmatic Authority—Outer 

Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 

1346). 

IV. Request for Comments 

We are soliciting public comments to 

permit the Department/Bureau to: (a) 

Evaluate whether the proposed 

information collection is necessary for 

the proper functions of the Department, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the 

accuracy of our estimate of the time and 

cost burden for this proposed collection, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

Evaluate ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (d) Minimize the 

reporting burden on those who are to 

respond, including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. We will include or 

summarize each comment in our request 

to OMB to approve this ICR. Before 

including your address, phone number, 

email address, or other personal 

identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you may ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, 

Commerce Department. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Telecommunications and 

Information Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request; Public 

Wireless Supply Chain Innovation 

Fund Grant Program Forms 

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 October 4, 

2023 during a 60-day comment period. 

This notice allows for an additional 30 

days for public comments. 

Agency: National 

Telecommunications and Information 

Administration (NTIA), Commerce. 

Title: Public Wireless Supply Chain 

Innovation Fund Grant Program Forms. 

OMB Control Number: 0660–0053. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Revision of a current 

information collection. 

Number of Respondents: 18 hours for 

Baseline and Performance Progress 

Reports; 100 hours for Budget 

Submission Form. 

Average Hours Per Response: 33.22. 

Burden Hours: 1,856 hours. 

Needs and Uses: With this 

information collection, NTIA will be 

able to monitor the grant recipients’ 

spending habits and activities. In the 

absence of collecting this information, 

NTIA would fail to evaluate the grant 

recipients’ progress toward the grant 

program priority areas and program 

goals. Moreover, without these reports, 

the grants could be the subject of waste, 

fraud, and abuse of Federal funds. 

Therefore, it is necessary for NTIA to 

collect information using the 

Performance Progress Report (PPR) form 

and Baseline Report. 

For the budget submission form, 

NTIA intends to use the information 

collected (1) to evaluate whether an 

applicant is eligible for a grant; (2) to 

evaluate applications by peer/expert 

reviewers against objective criteria; and 

(3) to collect corroborative information, 

as applicable, from applicants deemed 

highly qualified. NTIA also intends to 

use information collected from the 

application as baseline information after 

award of the grant to evaluate the 

grantee’s progress toward completion of 

the objectives for which the grant was 

made. 

Affected Public: Grant award 

recipients consisting of for-profit 

companies, non-profit companies, 

institutions of higher education, 

industry groups, and consortia 

including two or more such entities. 

Frequency: One-time (Baseline and 

Budget Submission Forms) and biannual (Performance Progress Report). 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

Legal Authority: Section 9202(a)(1) of 

the William M. (Mac) Thornberry 

National Defense Authorization Act for 

Fiscal Year 2021, Pub. L. 116–283, 134 

Stat. 3388 (Jan. 1, 2021). 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. 

Follow the instructions to view the 

Department of Commerce collections 

currently under review by OMB. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be 

submitted within 30 days of the 

publication of this notice on the 

following website www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain. Find this 

particular information collection by 

selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day 

Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or 

by using the search function and 

entering either the title of the collection 

or the OMB Control Number 0660–0053. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Under Secretary of Economic Affairs, 

Commerce Department. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Telecommunications and 

Information Administration 

Commerce Spectrum Management 

Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: National Telecommunications 

and Information Administration, U.S. 

Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Call for applications to serve on 

a Federal advisory committee. 

SUMMARY: The National 

Telecommunications and Information 

Administration (NTIA) is seeking 

applications to serve on the Department 

of Commerce Spectrum Management 

Advisory Committee (‘‘CSMAC’’ or 

‘‘committee’’) for a two-year term. The 

CSMAC provides advice to the Assistant 


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Secretary for Communications and 

Information and NTIA Administrator on 

spectrum policy matters. 

DATES: Applications must be 

postmarked or electronically 

transmitted on or before January 31, 

2024. 

ADDRESSES: Persons may submit 

applications, with the information 

specified below, to Antonio Richardson, 

Designated Federal Officer, by email to 

arichardson@ntia.gov, or by U.S. mail or 

commercial delivery service to Office of 

Spectrum Management, National 

Telecommunications and Information 

Administration, 1401 Constitution 

Avenue NW, Room 4600, Washington, 

DC 20230. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Antonio Richardson at (202) 482–4156 

or arichardson@ntia.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Commerce Spectrum Management 

Advisory Committee is chartered by the 

Department of Commerce under the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA), 5 U.S.C. app. 2, and pursuant 

to section 105(b) of the National 

Telecommunications and Information 

Administration Organization Act, as 

amended, 47 U.S.C. 904(b). The 

committee will continue as provided in 

Executive Order 14109, effective 

September 29, 2023. The Department of 

Commerce re-chartered the CSMAC on 

November 21, 2023, for a two-year 

period. The CSMAC advises the 

Assistant Secretary of Commerce for 

Communications and Information on a 

broad range of issues regarding 

spectrum policy. In particular, the 

current charter calls for the committee 

to provide advice and recommendations 

on needed reforms to domestic 

spectrum policies and management to: 

(1) license radio frequencies in a way 

that maximizes their public benefit; (2) 

keep wireless networks as open to 

innovation as possible; and (3) make 

wireless services available to all 

Americans. The CSMAC functions 

solely as an advisory body in 

compliance with the FACA. Additional 

information about the CSMAC and its 

activities may be found at https://

www.ntia.gov/category/csmac. 

Under the terms of the committee’s 

charter, it will have no fewer than five 

(5) members and no more than thirty 

(30) members, who serve in the capacity 

of Special Government Employee (SGE). 

As SGEs, members must comply with 

certain Federal conflict-of-interest 

statutes and ethics regulations, 

including some financial disclosure 

requirements. Members will not receive 

compensation or reimbursement for 

travel or for per diem expenses. No 

member may be a registered Federal 

lobbyist, pursuant to the Lobbying 

Disclosure Act of 1995 (codified at 2 

U.S.C. 1601 et seq.). See Office of 

Management and Budget, ‘‘Revised 

Guidance on Appointment of Lobbyists 

to Federal Advisory Committees, 

Boards, and Commissions’’, 79 FR 

47482 (Aug. 13, 2014). No member may 

be an agent of a foreign principal 

required to register pursuant to the 

Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, 

as amended (codified at 22 U.S.C. 611 

et seq.). 

The Secretary of Commerce appoints 

members of the committee, who serve at 

the Secretary’s pleasure and discretion 

for up to a two-year term and may be 

reappointed for additional terms. NTIA 

currently seeks applicants for a new 

two-year term that will commence 

approximately in June 2024 and 

continue for two years from that date, 

subject to the anticipated timely 

renewal of the committee’s charter or its 

termination by proper authority. 

The committee’s membership will be 

fairly balanced in terms of the points of 

view represented by members and the 

functions to be performed. Accordingly, 

its membership will reflect a crosssection of interests in spectrum 

management and policy, including nonFederal spectrum users; State, regional, 

and local sectors; technology developers 

and manufacturers; academia; civil 

society; and service providers with 

customers in both domestic and 

international markets. A description of 

factors to be considered in determining 

each applicant’s expertise is contained 

in the committee’s Membership Balance 

Plan, available at https://www.ntia.gov/ 

sites/default/files/2023-12/csmacmembership_balance_plan.pdf. 

NTIA seeks applicants with strong 

technical and engineering knowledge 

and experience, familiarity with 

commercial or private wireless 

technologies and associated businesses, 

or expertise with specific applications 

of wireless technologies. The Secretary 

may consider factors including, but not 

limited to, educational background, past 

work or academic accomplishments, 

and the industry sector in which a 

member is currently or previously 

employed. All appointments are made 

without discrimination on the basis of 

age, ethnicity, gender, sexual 

orientation, disability, cultural, 

religious, or socioeconomic status. A 

diverse membership of the Committee 

assures expertise reflecting the breadth 

of the Committee’s responsibilities and, 

where possible, the Secretary will also 

consider the ethnic, racial, and gender 

diversity and various abilities of the 

United States population. 

Each application must include the 

applicant’s full name, address, 

telephone number, and email address, 

along with a summary of the applicant’s 

qualifications that identifies, with 

specificity, how his or her education, 

training, experience, expertise, or other 

factors would support the CSMAC’s 

work and how his or her participation 

would help achieve the balance factors 

described above. Each application must 

also include a detailed resume or 

curriculum vitae. 

Stephanie Weiner, 

Chief Counsel, National Telecommunications 

and Information Administration. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Telecommunications and 

Information Administration 2024 NTIA 

Spectrum Policy Symposium 

AGENCY: National Telecommunications 

and Information Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The National 

Telecommunications and Information 

Administration (NTIA), U.S. 

Department of Commerce, will host a 

public symposium on February 1, 2024, 

focusing on implementation of the 

National Spectrum Strategy, which the 

Executive Office of the President 

released on November 13, 2023. 

DATES: The symposium will be held on 

February 1, 2024, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 

p.m., Eastern Standard Time (EST). 

ADDRESSES: The symposium will take 

place at the National Press Club, located 

at 529 14th St. NW, Washington, DC 

20045. The event also will be webcast 

through the NTIA website at https://

www.ntia.gov/page/ntia-spectrumpolicy-symposium. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

Alden, Telecommunications Specialist, 

Office of Spectrum Management, NTIA, 

at (202) 482–8046 or 

spectrumsymposium@ntia.gov. Please 

direct media inquiries to NTIA’s Office 

of Public Affairs, (202) 482–7002; email: 

press@ntia.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NTIA 

serves as the president’s principal 

advisor on telecommunications policies 

and manages the use of the radiofrequency spectrum by federal agencies. 

See 47 U.S.C. 902(b)(2). NTIA is hosting 

a symposium to focus on implementing 

the National Spectrum Strategy released 

by the Executive Office of the President 

on November 13, 2023. The Strategy 


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