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Authority: The authority for this action is 

the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as 

amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). 

Dated: June 24, 2021. 

Samuel D. Rauch III, 

Deputy Assistant Administrator for 

Regulatory Programs, National Marine 

Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2021–13841 Filed 6–28–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Patent and Trademark Office 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Recording Assignments 

The United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO) 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. The 

USPTO invites comment on this 

information collection renewal, which 

helps the USPTO assess the impact of 

its information collection requirements 

and minimize the public’s reporting 

burden. Public comments were 

previously requested via the Federal 

Register on April 16, 2021 during a 60- 

day comment period. This notice allows 

for an additional 30 days for public 

comments. 

Agency: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, Department of 

Commerce. 

Title: Recording Assignments. 

OMB Control Number: 0651–0027. 

Form Numbers: 

• PTO–1594 (Trademark Assignment 

Recordation Cover Sheet) 

• PTO–1595 (Patent Assignment 

Recordation Cover Sheet) 

Type of Review: Extension and 

revision of a currently approved 

information collection. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

649,880 respondents per year. 

Estimated Number of Responses: 

649,880 responses per year. 

Estimated Time per Response: The 

USPTO estimates that it will take the 

public approximately 30 minutes (.5 

hours) to gather the necessary 

information, create the document, and 

submit the completed item to the 

USPTO. 

Estimated Total Annual Respondent 

Burden Hours: 324,941 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Non-Hour 

Cost Burden: $3,968,075. 

Needs and Uses: This collection of 

information is required by 35 U.S.C. 261 

and 262 for patents and 15 U.S.C. 1057 

and 1060 for trademarks. These statutes 

authorize the United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO) to record 

patent and trademark assignment 

documents, including transfers of 

properties (i.e., patents and trademarks), 

liens, licenses, assignments of interest, 

security interests, mergers, and 

explanations of transactions or other 

documents that record the transfer of 

ownership of a particular patent or 

trademark property from one party to 

another. Assignments are recorded for 

applications, patents, and trademark 

registrations. 

The USPTO administers these statutes 

through 37 CFR 2.146, 2.171, and 37 

CFR 3. These regulations permit the 

public, corporations, other federal 

agencies, and Government-owned or 

Government-controlled corporations to 

submit patent and trademark 

assignment documents and other 

documents related to title transfers to 

the USPTO to be recorded. In 

accordance with 37 CFR 3.54, the 

recording of an assignment document by 

the USPTO is an administrative action 

and not a determination of the validity 

of the document or of the effect that the 

document has on the title to an 

application, patent, or trademark. 

In order to record an assignment 

document, the respondent must submit 

an appropriate cover sheet along with 

copies of the assignment document to be 

recorded. Once the assignment 

documents are recorded, they are 

available for public inspection. The 

public uses these records to conduct 

ownership and chain-of-title searches. 

The public may view these records 

either at the USPTO Public Search 

Facility or at the National Archives and 

Records Administration, depending on 

the date they were recorded. The public 

may also search patent and trademark 

assignment information online through 

the USPTO website. The only 

exceptions are those documents that are 

sealed under secrecy orders according to 

37 CFR 3.58 or related to unpublished 

patent applications maintained in 

confidence under 35 U.S.C. 122 and 37 

CFR 1.14. 

This information collection covers 

assignments submitted by paper and 

online through the use of the Electronic 

Patent Assignment System (EPAS) and 

the Electronic Trademark Assignment 

System (ETAS). The electronic systems 

allow customers to complete the 

required cover sheet information online 

using web-based forms and then attach 

the electronic assignment documents to 

be submitted for recordation. The 

electronic systems are available through 

the USPTO website at https://

epas.uspto.gov/ and https://

etas.uspto.gov/. 

Affected Public: Private sector; 

individuals or households. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. 

Follow the instructions to view 

Department of Commerce, USPTO 

information collections currently under 

review by OMB. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for this 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 information collection or the OMB 

Control Number 0651–0027. 

Further information can be obtained 

by: 

• Email: InformationCollection@

uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0027 

information request’’ in the subject line 

of the message. 

• Mail: Kimberly Hardy, Office of the 

Chief Administrative Officer, United 

States Patent and Trademark Office, 

P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313– 

1450. 

Kimberly Hardy, 

Information Collections Officer, Office of the 

Chief Administrative Officer, United States 

Patent and Trademark Office. 

[FR Doc. 2021–13809 Filed 6–28–21; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board, Nevada 

AGENCY: Office of Environmental 

Management, Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of open in-person/virtual 

hybrid meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces an inperson/virtual hybrid meeting of the 

Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), 

Nevada. The Federal Advisory 

Committee Act requires that public 

notice of this meeting be announced in 

the Federal Register. 

DATES: Wednesday, July 21, 2021; 4:00 

p.m.–7:35 p.m. PT. 

The opportunity for oral public 

comment for those attending in-person 


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