[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 180 (Tuesday, September 21, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 52445]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-20427]


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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; 
National Institute for Standards and Technology NIST Center for Neutron 
Research (NCNR) Information Management System (IMS) and Summer School 
Application

    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 June 14, 2021 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: National Institute for Standards and Technology NIST Center 
for Neutron Research (NCNR) Information Management System (IMS) and 
Summer School Application.
    OMB Control Number 0693-0081.
    Form Number(s):
    Type of Request: Regular, revision of a current information 
collection.
    Number of Respondents: 2,000.
    Average Hours per Response: 1 hour.
    Burden Hours: 2,000.
    Needs and Uses: Registration of NCNR users; Collection of 
scientific experiment proposals; Regularly scheduled peer review of 
said proposals; Merit-based award of available experimental resources; 
Experiment date scheduling for selected projects (instrument 
scheduling); Collection and management of data required by the NCNR 
site access protocol; Managing the Health Physics training of arriving 
scientists; Coordination of administrative data; Collection of data in 
support of related activities such as NCNR Summer School for facility 
users; Management of the research results such as collected data, and 
subsequent publications; Numerous reporting functions used to evaluate 
and manage the NCNR activities.
    Affected Public: Scientific personnel using NCNR facility.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain benefits.
    Legal Authority: 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 0693-0081.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2021-20427 Filed 9-20-21; 8:45 am]
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