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marketing and export services, 

improved access to capital, and industry 

integration. Long-term outcomes 

include increased revenue and 

employment. Over the previous years, 

evaluation results have helped to track 

the program performance outcomes and 

provide suggestions for program 

improvements to better facilitate 

innovation and small business growth. 

Furthermore, the evaluation survey data 

helped the SBA to better focus cluster 

activities on local contexts, particularly 

for rural and agricultural small 

businesses. This data will not be used 

to evaluate the effectiveness of an 

individual cluster. 

The data collection effort involves 

three types of RIC Initiative 

stakeholders: small businesses, partner 

organizations, and cluster 

administrators. Small businesses 

participating in the cluster will be sent 

an online survey to provide data about 

their cluster participation experiences, 

satisfaction with the program and its 

components, the performance of their 

firms with respect to a variety of 

outcomes, and the role of cluster 

participation in the achievement of 

these outcomes. Similarly, partner 

organizations will be asked to complete 

an online survey to provide data about 

their experiences with the RIC Initiative. 

The questions include reasons for the 

RIC participation, collaboration with 

and support for small businesses, and 

the role of cluster participation on key 

organizational outcomes associated with 

the RIC Initiative participation. Small 

businesses and partner organizations 

will also be interviewed once a year to 

obtain information on barriers, 

facilitators, and other local influences 

on cluster and ecosystem engagement, 

best practices to facilitate innovation, 

and suggestions for potential cluster 

improvements (among other topics). The 

cluster administrators will be asked to 

provide participant rosters, which 

provide the framework for the surveys 

that the small businesses and partner 

organizations are sent. The 

administrator survey requests 

information about the services they 

provided to these two groups of 

stakeholders, and their operations in 

general. Cluster administrators will also 

be interviewed once a year to obtain 

information about how their operations 

have evolved, the adjustments they 

made, best practices, issues 

encountered, and the lessons learned. 

Small Business Web Survey. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 180. 

Frequency of Response: Once per year. 

Estimated Average Minutes per 

Respondent: 114.7. Estimated Total 

Annual Hour Burden: 344. Small 

Business Interview. Estimated Total 

Number of Respondents: 12. Frequency 

of Response: Once per year. Estimated 

Average Minutes per Response: 43. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 

8.6. Partner Organization Web Survey. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 150. 

Frequency of Response: Once per year. 

Estimated Average Minutes per 

Respondent: 71. Estimated Annual Hour 

Burden: 177.5. Partner organization 

Interview. Estimated Total Number of 

Respondents: 12. Frequency of 

Response: Once per year. Estimated 

Average Minutes per Response: 37. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 

7.4. Cluster Administrator Interview. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 20. 

Frequency of Response: Once per year. 

Estimated Average Minutes per 

Response: 87. Estimated Annual Hour 

Burden: 29. Cluster Administrator Web 

Survey. Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 20. Frequency of 

Response: Once per year. Estimated 

Average Minutes per Response: 35.3. 

Estimated Annual Hour Burden: 11.8 

(including the time needed for 

administrators to prepare their rosters). 

Administrative data request. Estimated 

Number of Respondents: 20. Frequency 

of Response: Once per year. Estimated 

Average Minutes per Response: 30. 

Estimated Annual Hour Burden: 10. 

Solicitation of Public Comments: The 

SBA requests comments on (a) whether 

the collection of information is 

necessary for the agency to properly 

perform its functions; (b) whether the 

burden estimates are accurate; (c) 

whether there are ways to minimize the 

burden, including through the use of 

automated techniques or other forms of 

information technology; and (d) whether 

there are ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information 

collected. Comments submitted in 

response to this notice will be 

summarized and/or included in the 

request for OMB approval of this 

information collection; they also will 

become a matter of public record. 

Summary of Information Collection 

PRA Number: 3245–0392. 

(1) Title: Evaluation of the Regional 

Innovation Cluster (RIC) Initiative. 

Description of Respondents: Smal 

businesses concerns and partner 

organizations involved in Regional 

Innovation Clusters and cluster 

administrators. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Total Estimated Annual Responses: 

350. 

Total Estimated Annual Hour Burden: 

531.5. 

Curtis B. Rich, 

Agency Clearance Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice: 12323] 

Notice of Determinations; Culturally 

Significant Objects Being Imported for 

Exhibition—Determinations: ‘‘Korean 

Couture: Generations of Revolution’’ 

Exhibition 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the 

following determinations: I hereby 

determine that certain objects being 

imported from abroad pursuant to 

agreements with their foreign owners or 

custodians for temporary display in the 

exhibition ‘‘Korean Couture: 

Generations of Revolution’’ at the 

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 

Ohio, and at possible additional 

exhibitions or venues yet to be 

determined, are of cultural significance, 

and, further, that their temporary 

exhibition or display within the United 

States as aforementioned is in the 

national interest. I have ordered that 

Public Notice of these determinations be 

published in the Federal Register. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Reed Liriano, Program Coordinator, 

Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. 

Department of State (telephone: 202– 

632–6471; email: section2459@

state.gov). The mailing address is U.S. 

Department of State, L/PD, 2200 C 

Street, NW (SA–5), Suite 5H03, 

Washington, DC 20522–0505. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

foregoing determinations were made 

pursuant to the authority vested in me 

by the Act of October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 

985; 22 U.S.C. 2459), Executive Order 

12047 of March 27, 1978, the Foreign 

Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 

1998 (112 Stat. 2681, et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 

6501 note, et seq.), Delegation of 

Authority No. 234 of October 1, 1999, 

Delegation of Authority No. 236–3 of 

August 28, 2000, and Delegation of 

Authority No. 523 of December 22, 

2021. 

Nicole L. Elkon, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Professional 

and Cultural Exchanges, Bureau of 

Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department 

of State. 

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