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[We] will treat the request to exclude 

vessels using federally-maintained dredged 

port entrance channels from the speed 

restrictions as a petition for rulemaking 

under the Administrative Procedure Act, 

though this is not required nor is it NMFS’ 

normal practice. We plan to issue a Notice in 

the Federal Register announcing receipt of 

the petition, along with a concise statement 

of the request and seek comment on the 

request. If NMFS decides to proceed with the 

suggested rulemaking, we will notify the 

petitioner within 120 days, publish a notice 

in the Federal Register of our decision to 

engage in rulemaking in a prompt manner, 

and thereafter proceed in accordance with 

the requirements for rulemaking. If NMFS 

decides not to proceed with the petitioned 

rulemaking, we will notify the petitioner, 

provide a brief statement of the grounds for 

the decision, and publish in the Federal 

Register a notice of our decision not to 

proceed with the petitioned action. 

Therefore, NMFS is issuing this notice 

to solicit comments and information on 

all issues related to the petition to 

exclude federally-maintained dredged 

entrance channels and pilot boarding 

areas (and the immediately adjacent 

waters) for ports from New York to 

Jacksonville from vessel speed 

restrictions to protect North Atlantic 

right whales. 

Please include scientific or 

commercial data, studies, or research to 

support your comments and position, 

including scientific data or research that 

supports any pertinent industry or 

professional standards, or specific 

examples in support of your comments, 

to aid NMFS in evaluating the request 

for rulemaking and in determining what 

action, if any, is appropriate. We will 

consider all comments and 

recommendations in determining 

whether to engage in the suggested 

rulemaking and thereafter will proceed 

as described above. 

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 551 et seq. 

Dated: January 24, 2014. 

Donna S. Wieting, 

Director, Office of Protected Resources, 

National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2014–01734 Filed 1–29–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

United States 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, 

02, 02A, 02B, 02CN, 02DE, 02ES, 02FR, 

02IT, 02JP, 02KR, 02LR, 02NL, 02RU, 

02SE, 03, 03A, 04, 06, 07, 14 EFS-Web, 

16, 16 EFS-Web, 17, 29, 29A, and 101– 

110. This collection also includes the 

following AIA forms: PTO/AIA01 

through AIA04, AIA08 through AIA11, 

AIA14 and 15, AIA18 and 19, and 

AIA01CN and 01DE, 01ES, 01FR, 01IT, 

01JP, 01KR, 01NL, 01RU, 01SE, 02CN, 

02DE, 02ES, 02FR, 02IT, 02JP, 02KR, 

02NL, 02RU, and 02SE. 

Agency Approval Number: 0651– 

0032. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Burden: 15,076,442 hours annually. 

Number of Respondents: 597,047 

responses per year. The USPTO 

estimates that approximately 157,950 of 

these responses will be from small 

entities (this estimate reflects a 25% 

small entity response rate for all items 

in the collection except for designrelated items in the collection, for 

which a 50% small entity response rate 

is estimated). The USPTO estimates that 

577,624 responses will be filed 

electronically. 

Avg. Hours per Response: The USPTO 

estimates that it will take the public 

approximately 30 minutes (0.50 hours) 

to 40 hours to complete the 

applications, petitions, and additional 

papers in this collection, depending on 

the complexity of the request. This 

includes the time to gather the 

necessary information, prepare the 

application, petition, or other papers, 

and submit the completed request to the 

USPTO. The USPTO assumes that, on 

balance it takes the same amount of time 

to gather the necessary information, 

prepare the application, petition, or 

other papers, and submit the completed 

request to the USPTO, whether the 

applicant submits it in paper form or 

electronically. 

Needs and Uses: This collection of 

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

and 37 CFR 1.16 through 1.84 and 

1.495(b). Each patent applicant must 

provide sufficient information to allow 

the USPTO to properly examine the 

application, petition, or paper to 

determine whether the application, 

petition, or paper meets the criteria set 

forth in the patent statutes and 

regulations. The various fee and 

application transmittal forms, the 

declarations, the cover sheets, the 

petitions, and the papers filed under 37 

CFR 1.41, 1.48, and 1.53(c)(2) 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; businesses or other forprofits; non-profit institutions; and the 

Federal Government. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. 

OMB Desk Officer: Nicholas A. Fraser, 

email: Nicholas_A._Fraser@

omb.eop.gov. 

Once submitted, the request will be 

publicly available in electronic format 

through the Information Collection 

Review page at www.reginfo.gov. 

Paper copies can be obtained by: 

• Email: InformationCollection@

uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0032 copy 

request’’ in the subject line of the 

message. 

• Mail: Susan K. Fawcett, Records 

Officer, Office of the Chief Information 

Officer, United States 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 3, 2014 to Nicholas A. 

Fraser, OMB Desk Officer, via email to 

Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov, or by 

fax to 202–395–5167, marked to the 

attention of Nicholas A. Fraser. 

Dated: January 24, 2014. 

Susan K. Fawcett, 

Records Officer, USPTO, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–16–P 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Technology Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of Meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Commodity Futures 

Trading Commission (CFTC or 

Commission) announces that the public 

meeting for the CFTC’s Technology 

Advisory Committee (TAC) initially 

scheduled on January 21, 2014, was 

postponed due to the inclement weather 

that closed the Federal Government. 

The TAC meeting has been rescheduled 

for February 10, 2014, from 10:00 a.m. 

to 5:00 p.m. at the CFTC’s Washington, 

DC headquarters. The TAC meeting will 

focus on swap data reporting; the 

Commission’s concept release on 

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automated trading environments; and 

swap execution facilities. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

February 10, 2014, from 10:00 a.m. to 

5:00 p.m. Members of the public who 

wish to submit written statements in 

connection with the meeting should 

submit them by February 3, 2014. The 

Commission is announcing the meeting 

with less than 15 calendar days public 

notice because the meeting is being 

rescheduled due to the inclement 

weather that closed the Federal 

Government. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place 

in the Conference Center at the CFTC’s 

headquarters, Three Lafayette Centre, 

1155 21st Street NW., Washington, DC 

20581. Written statements should be 

submitted by electronic mail to: 

secretary@cftc.gov. Statements may also 

be submitted by mail to: Commodity 

Futures Trading Commission, Three 

Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st Street NW., 

Washington, DC 20581, attention: Office 

of the Secretary. Please use the title 

‘‘Technology Advisory Committee’’ in 

any written statement you submit. Any 

statements submitted in connection 

with the committee meeting will be 

made available to the public. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Amir Zaidi, TAC Designated Federal 

Officer, Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission, Three Lafayette Centre, 

1155 21st Street NW., Washington, DC 

20581, (202) 418–6770. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The CFTC 

is rescheduling the public meeting of 

the CFTC TAC that had been announced 

for January 21, 2014 (see 79 FR 646, Jan. 

6, 2014). That meeting was postponed 

due to the inclement weather that 

closed the Federal Government. The 

CFTC TAC will now hold a public 

meeting on Monday, February 10, 2014, 

from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the 

CFTC’s Washington, DC, headquarters. 

The TAC meeting will focus on 

significant issues facing the futures and 

swaps industries as the Commission 

continues to implement rules under the 

Dodd-Frank Act. These issues include: 

(1) Swap data reporting; (2) the 

Commission’s concept release on 

automated trading environments; and 

(3) various issues surrounding the 

operation of swap execution facilities. 

The meeting will be open to the 

public with seating on a first-come, firstserved basis. Persons requiring special 

accommodations to attend the meeting 

because of a disability should notify the 

contact person listed above. 

Members of the public may also listen 

to the meeting by telephone by calling 

a toll-free telephone line to connect to 

a live, listen-only audio feed. Call-in 

participants should be prepared to 

provide their first name, last name, and 

affiliation. The call-in information is as 

follows: 

Domestic Toll Free: 1–866–844–9416. 

International Toll and Toll Free: Will 

be posted on the CFTC’s Web site, 

http://www.cftc.gov, on the page for the 

meeting, under Related Documents. 

Conference ID: 3976745. 

Pass Code/Pin Code: 7493290. 

After the meeting, a transcript of the 

meeting will be published through a 

link on the CFTC’s Web site, http://

www.cftc.gov. All written submissions 

provided to the CFTC in any form will 

also be published on the CFTC’s Web 

site. 

Authority: (5 U.S.C. Appendix, Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, Sec. 10(a)(2)) 

Dated: January 24, 2014. 

Christopher J. Kirkpatrick, 

Deputy Secretary of the Commission. 

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BILLING CODE 6351–01–P 

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

TIME AND DATE: Wednesday, February 5, 

2014, 9 a.m.–11 a.m. 

PLACE: Hearing Room 420, Bethesda 

Towers, 4330 East-West Highway, 

Bethesda, Maryland. 

STATUS: Commission Meeting—Open to 

the Public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Briefing 

Matter: Infant Stroller Final Rule (Sec. 

104). 

A live webcast of the Meeting can be 

viewed at www.cpsc.gov/live. 

For a recorded message containing the 

latest agenda information, call (301) 

504–7948. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Todd A. Stevenson, Office of the 

Secretary, U.S. Consumer Product 

Safety Commission, 4330 East-West 

Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814, (301) 

504–7923. 

Dated: January 28, 2014. 

Todd A. Stevenson, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2014–02024 Filed 1–28–14; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6355–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket ID: DoD–2012–OS–0061] 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Office of the Under Secretary of 

Defense (Personnel and Readiness), 

Office of the Assistant Secretary of 

Defense (Reserve Affairs), DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with Section 

3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the 

Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel 

and Readiness (Reserve Affairs)) 

announces a proposed public 

information collection and seeks public 

comment on the provisions thereof. 

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 information collection; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the information collection on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

DATES: Consideration will be given to all 

comments received by March 31, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number and title, 

by any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Federal Docket Management 

System Office, 4800 Mark Center Drive, 

East Tower, Suite 02G09, Alexandria, 

VA 22350–3100. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name, docket 

number and title for this Federal 

Register document. The general policy 

for comments and other submissions 

from members of the public is to make 

these submissions available for public 

viewing on the Internet at http://

www.regulations.gov as they are 

received without change, including any 

personal identifiers or contact 

information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request more information on this 

proposed information collection or to 

obtain a copy of the proposal and 

associated collection instruments, 

please write to the Attn: Ms. Jennifer 

Atkin, 4825 Mark Center Drive, 

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