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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 17 (Tuesday, January 28, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8284-8285]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01822]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; 
Analysis of Exoskeleton-Use for Enhancing Human Performance Data 
Collection

    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 September 24, 2024 during a 60-day comment period. 
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
    Agency: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 
Commerce.
    Title: Analysis of Exoskeleton-Use for Enhancing Human Performance 
Data Collection.
    OMB Control Number: 0693-0083.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular, extension of current information 
collection.
    Number of Respondents: 240.
    Average Hours per Response: 10 minutes.
    Burden Hours: 40 hours.
    Needs and Uses: NIST's Engineering Laboratory is developing methods 
to evaluate performance of exoskeletons in two key areas (1) The fit 
and motion of the exoskeleton device with respect to

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the users' body and (2) The impact that using an exoskeleton has on the 
performance of users executing tasks that are representative of 
activities in industrial settings. The results of these experiments 
will inform future test method development at NIST, other 
organizations, and under the purview of the new American Society for 
Testing Materials (ASTM) Committee F48 on Exoskeletons and Exosuits.
    Affected Public: Households and individuals.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    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 0693-0083.

Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Compliance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for 
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2025-01822 Filed 1-27-25; 8:45 am]
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