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Vol. 89, No. 234 

Thursday, December 5, 2024 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Economic Development Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Regional Economic 

Development Data Collection 

Instrument 

AGENCY: Economic Development 

Administration, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection, 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), invites 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. The purpose of this 

notice is to allow for 60 days of public 

comment preceding submission of the 

collection to OMB. 

DATES: To ensure consideration, 

comments regarding this proposed 

information collection must be received 

on or before February 3, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments via 

email to Hallie Davis, Program Manager 

and Analyst, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, at HDavis1@doc.gov or 

PRAcomments@doc.gov. Do not submit 

Confidential Business Information or 

otherwise sensitive or protected 

information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

specific questions related to collection 

activities should be directed to Hallie 

Davis, Program Manager and Analyst, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. 

Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230 at HDavis1@doc.gov or (202) 

579–0218. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The Economic Development 

Administration (EDA) leads the Federal 

economic development agenda by 

promoting innovation and 

competitiveness and preparing 

American regions for growth and 

success in the worldwide economy. 

Guided by the basic principle that 

sustainable economic development 

should be driven locally, EDA works 

directly with communities and regions 

to help them build the capacity for 

economic development based on local 

business conditions and needs. Section 

28 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology 

Innovation Act of 1980 (Regional 

Technology and Innovation Hub 

Program (15 U.S.C. 3722a) is the legal 

authority under which EDA awards 

financial assistance and designee status 

under the Fiscal Year (FY) 23 Regional 

Technology and Innovation Hub 

Program (‘‘Tech Hubs’’). Under Tech 

Hubs, EDA seeks to strengthen U.S. 

economic and national security through 

place-based investments in regions with 

the assets, resources, capacity, and 

potential to become globally 

competitive, within approximately ten 

years, in the technologies and industries 

of the future—and for those industries, 

companies, and the good jobs they 

create to start, grow, and remain in the 

U.S. in order to support the growth and 

modernization of U.S. manufacturing, 

improve commercialization of the 

domestic production of innovative 

research, and strengthen U.S. economic 

and national security. Tech Hubs is a 

two-phase program: in Phase 1, EDA 

funded Strategy Development grants 

and designated 31 regions as Tech Hubs. 

In Phase 2, designated Tech Hubs are 

eligible to compete for funding for 

implementation projects. Further 

information on Tech Hubs can be found 

at www.eda.gov. 

The purpose of this notice is to seek 

comments from the public and other 

Federal agencies on a request for a 

revised information collection for 

designated Tech Hubs to help ensure 

that Tech Hub investments are 

evidence-based, data-driven, and 

accountable to participants and the 

public. 

Lead consortium members of the 31 

designated Tech Hubs will submit 

identified program metrics and 

qualitative information to help assess 

specific program objectives. A semiannual questionnaire will be sent to 

each of the Tech Hubs consortium leads 

which will gather the relevant data and 

stories for each of the 31 Tech Hubs 

designee consortia, resulting in 

consortia regional impact evaluation, 

resources, and tools for regional 

economic development decisionmakers. The 31 designated Tech Hubs 

will provide information on the 

following objectives: 

(1) Accelerating technology 

innovation, commercialization, 

demonstration, and deployment, which 

may include information on the number 

of patents filed, licensing agreements, 

approximate levels of research and 

development expenditures, adoption of 

new technologies, and acceleration of 

current technologies. 

(2) Enabling infrastructure and 

advancing manufacturing, which may 

include information on specific facility 

information. 

(3) Integrating an agile workforce 

system, which may include information 

on skills needed by employers, available 

training, hard-to-fill vacancies, policies 

and strategies for worker retention, and 

strategies for engagement with 

underserved workers. 

(4) Increasing business and 

entrepreneurial capacity, which may 

include assessing employer 

competitiveness, relationships with 

federal, state, and local entities, current 

partnerships, and information about 

sources of capital to start and grow 

businesses and to adopt innovative 

approaches and technologies. 

(5) Strengthening national security, 

which may include information on 

procurement processes, critical inputs, 

sourcing, supply chains, and strategic 

implications of technologies and their 

use cases. 

Tech Hubs designees must submit this 

data one time to provide a baseline 

status of the Tech Hub and to help 

assess the results of designee status as 

well as potential future federal 

investments. 

EDA is particularly interested in 

public comment on how the proposed 

data collection will support the 

assessment of job quality, including in 

ways that rely on pairing this 


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information administrative data for 

analysis and other ways to minimize 

burden, or if alternative information 

should be considered. 

II. Method of Collection 

Data will be collected electronically. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0610–0113. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Review: Revision and 

Extension. 

Affected Public: Tech Hubs designees, 

which may include a(n): Institution of 

higher education, including Historically 

Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal 

Colleges or Universities, and MinorityServing Institutions; State, territorial, 

local or Tribal governments or other 

political subdivisions of a State, 

including State and local agencies, or a 

consortium thereof; Industry groups or 

firms in relevant technology, 

innovation, or manufacturing sectors; 

Economic development organizations or 

similar entities that are focused 

primarily on improving science, 

technology, innovation, 

entrepreneurship, or access to capital; 

Labor organizations or workforce 

training organizations, which may 

include State and local workforce 

development boards; Economic 

development entities with relevant 

expertise, including a district 

organization; Organizations that 

contribute to increasing the 

participation of underserved 

populations in science, technology, 

innovation, and entrepreneurship; 

Venture development organizations; 

Organizations that promote local 

economic stability, high wage domestic 

jobs, and broad-based economic 

opportunities, such as employee 

ownership membership associations 

and State or local employee ownerships 

and cooperative development centers, 

financial institutions and investment 

funds, including community 

development financial institutions and 

minority depository institutions; 

Elementary schools and secondary 

schools, including area career and 

technical education schools; National 

laboratories; Federal laboratories; 

Manufacturing extension centers; 

Manufacturing U.S.A. Institutes; 

Transportation planning organizations; 

A cooperative extension services; 

Organizations that represent the 

perspectives of underserved 

communities in economic development 

initiatives; and Institutions receiving an 

award under the National Science 

Foundation’s (NSF) Regional Innovation 

Engines Program. 

Preliminary Estimated Number of 

Respondents: Consortium Lead 

Members/Tech Hubs Designee 

Consortia: 31 respondents, responding 

semi-annually for 10 years. 

Estimated Time per Response: 

Consortium Lead Members/Tech Hubs 

Designee Consortia: 3 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 1,860 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: $115,394 (cost assumes 

application of U.S. Bureau of Labor 

Statistics second quarter 2022 mean 

hourly employer costs for employee 

compensation for professional and 

related occupations of $62.04). 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory 

for Consortium Lead Members. 

Legal Authority: Stevenson Wydler 

Technology Innovation Act of 1980, 

Section 28 (15 U.S.C. 3722a). 

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, 

Departmental PRA Clearance Officer, Office 

of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, 

Commerce Department. 

[FR Doc. 2024–28463 Filed 12–4–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[S–173–2024] 

Approval of Subzone Status; Canoo 

Inc., Pryor, Oklahoma 

On October 1, 2024, the Executive 

Secretary of the Foreign-Trade Zones 

(FTZ) Board docketed an application 

submitted by the Rural Enterprises of 

Oklahoma, Inc., grantee of FTZ 227, 

requesting subzone status subject to the 

existing activation limit of FTZ 227, on 

behalf of Canoo Inc., in Pryor, 

Oklahoma. 

The application was processed in 

accordance with the FTZ Act and 

Regulations, including notice in the 

Federal Register inviting public 

comment (89 FR 80856, October 4, 

2024). The FTZ staff examiner reviewed 

the application and determined that it 

meets the criteria for approval. 

Pursuant to the authority delegated to 

the FTZ Board Executive Secretary (15 

CFR 400.36(f)), the application to 

establish Subzone 227B was approved 

on December 2, 2024, subject to the FTZ 

Act and the Board’s regulations, 

including section 400.13, and further 

subject to FTZ 227’s 2,000-acre 

activation limit. 

Dated: December 2, 2024. 

Elizabeth Whiteman, 

Executive Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–28472 Filed 12–4–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[S–211–2024] 

Foreign-Trade Zone 40; Application for 

Expansion of Subzone 40I; Swagelok 

Company; Solon, Ohio 

An application has been submitted to 

the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board by 

the Cleveland Cuyahoga County Port 

Authority, grantee of FTZ 40, requesting 

an expansion of Subzone 40I on behalf 

of Swagelok Company. The application 

was submitted pursuant to the 

provisions of the Foreign-Trade Zones 

Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), 

and the regulations of the FTZ Board (15 

CFR part 400). It was formally docketed 

on December 2, 2024. 

The applicant is requesting authority 

to expand the subzone to include a new 

site located at 28000 F.A. Lennon Drive, 

Solon, Ohio (Site 14–15.7 acres). No 

authorization for additional production 

activity has been requested at this time. 


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