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an additional 30 days for public 

comments. 

Agency: National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration, 

Commerce. 

Title: Implementation of Vessel Speed 

Restrictions To Reduce the Threat of 

Ship Collisions With North Atlantic 

Right Whales. 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0580. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Regular submission 

[revision of a currently approved 

collection]. 

Number of Respondents: 3,624. 

Average Hours per Response: One 

hour for electronic surveys, 2.5 hours 

for focus groups, 5 minutes for logbook 

entries. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 674. 

Needs and Uses: This request is for a 

revision to a currently approved 

information collection. On October 10, 

2008, NMFS published a final rule 

(0648–AS36) implementing seasonal 

speed restrictions along the east coast of 

the U.S. to reduce the incidence and 

severity of vessel collisions with North 

Atlantic right whales (73 FR 60173). The 

final rule contained a mandatory 

collection-of-information requirement 

subject to the Paperwork Reduction act 

(PRA), which collects information about 

safety deviations from the rule in 

alignment with 50 CFR 224.105(c). The 

restrictions are in effect seasonally in 

discrete areas along the U.S. eastern 

seaboard. NMFS provided a safety 

exception to the restrictions due to poor 

weather or sea conditions. Ships’ 

captains are required to make an entry 

into the vessel’s Official Logbook when 

an exception is necessary. 

This revision to the current 

information collection includes a 

voluntary survey effort of vessel 

operators to evaluate their ability and 

willingness to: (1) Comply with North 

Atlantic right whale mandatory speed 

restrictions, and (2) cooperate with 

voluntary speed reduction efforts to 

protect North Atlantic right whales, 

which are promoted through NMFS 

outreach efforts. We will collect 

information from two types of vessels 

(pleasure yachts and large ocean going 

vessel) in two different areas of the 

North Atlantic right whales’ range using 

voluntary online surveys and small 

focus groups. The surveys will collect 

information about vessel operators time 

spent on the water, experience and 

knowledge about large whales, 

knowledge of North Atlantic vessel 

strike reduction efforts, opinions about 

these whales and conservation efforts, 

and their preferred means of receiving 

information. Results from this 

information collection will be used to 

develop effective outreach to these 

vessel communities, with the long-term 

goal of improving the communities’ 

compliance with mandatory measures 

and cooperation with voluntary 

measures that support North Atlantic 

right whale vessel strike reduction 

conservation efforts. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households; Business or other for-profit 

organizations. 

Frequency: One time for electronic 

surveys and focus groups, logbook 

entries on occasion as necessary. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: US Code: 16 U.S.C. 

1531–1543 Name of Law: Endangered 

Species Act. 

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 0648–0580. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Chief Information Officer, Commerce 

Department. 

[FR Doc. 2021–20423 Filed 9–20–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

United States Patent and Trademark 

Office 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Rules for Patent Maintenance 

Fees 

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 (PRA) 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 burden. 

Public comments were previously 

requested via the Federal Register on 

April 30, 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: Rules for Patent Maintenance 

Fees. 

OMB Control Number: 0651–0016. 

Form Numbers: 

• PTO/SB/66 (Petition to Accept 

Unintentionally Delayed Payment of 

Maintenance Fee in an Expired Patent) 

• PTO/SB/47 (Fee Address Indication 

Form) 

• PTO/AIA/47 (Fee Address 

Indication Form) 

Type of Review: Extension and 

revision of a currently approved 

information collection. 

Number of Respondents: 44,542 

respondents per year. 

Estimated Time per Response: The 

USPTO estimates that it will take the 

public 0.08 hours (5 minutes) to 8 hours 

to complete the items in this 

information collection, depending on 

the instruments used, to gather the 

necessary information, create the 

document, and submit the completed 

item to the USPTO. 

Estimated Total Annual Respondent 

Burden Hours: 6,864 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Non-Hour 

Cost Burden: $3,098,564. 

Needs and Uses: 

If a patent has expired due to 

nonpayment of a maintenance fee, the 

patentee may petition the Director to 

accept a delayed payment of the 

maintenance fee under 37 CFR 1.378. 

The Director may accept the payment of 

a maintenance fee after the expiration of 

the patent if the petitioner shows to the 

satisfaction of the Director that the delay 

in payment was unintentional. Petitions 

to accept unintentionally delayed 

payment must also be accompanied by 

the required maintenance fee and the 

petition fee as set forth in 37 CFR 

1.17(m). If the Director accepts the 

maintenance fee payment upon petition, 

then the patent is reinstated. If the 

USPTO denies a petition to accept 

delayed payment of a maintenance fee 

in an expired patent, the patentee may 

petition the Director to reconsider that 

decision under 37 CFR 1.378(d). The 

rules of practice (37 CFR 1.33(d) and 

1.363) permit applicants, patentees, 

assignees, or their representatives of 

record to specify a ‘‘fee address’’ for 

correspondence related to maintenance 

fees that is separate from the 

correspondence address associated with 

a patent or application. A fee address 

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with a USPTO customer number. 

Customer numbers may be requested by 

using the Request for Customer Number 

Form (PTO/SB/125), which is covered 

under OMB control number 0651–0035. 

Maintaining a correct and updated 

address is necessary so that fee-related 

correspondence from the USPTO will be 

properly received by the applicant, 

patentee, assignee, or authorized 

representative. If a separate fee address 

is not specified for a patent or 

application, the USPTO will direct feerelated correspondence to the 

correspondence address of record. 

The maintenance fees and transmittal 

forms that were previously a part of this 

information collection, and mentioned 

in the 60-day notice, have now been 

removed. These items are considered 

exempt from the PRA under 5 CFR 

1320.3(h)(10). 

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 0651–0016. 

Further information can be obtained 

by: 

• Email: InformationCollection@

uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0016 

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. 2021–20340 Filed 9–20–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–16–P 

BUREAU OF CONSUMER FINANCIAL 

PROTECTION 

[Docket No. CFPB–2021–0016] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Comment Request 

AGENCY: Bureau of Consumer Financial 

Protection. 

ACTION: Notice and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), the Bureau of Consumer 

Financial Protection (Bureau) is 

requesting to renew the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval for an existing information 

collection, titled, ‘‘Report of Terms of 

Credit Card Plans (Form FR 2572) and 

Consumer and College Credit Card 

Agreements.’’ 

DATES: Written comments are 

encouraged and must be received on or 

before October 21, 2021 to be assured of 

consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to 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. In general, all 

comments received will become public 

records, including any personal 

information provided. Sensitive 

personal information, such as account 

numbers or Social Security numbers, 

should not be included. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Documentation prepared in support of 

this information collection request is 

available at www.reginfo.gov (this link 

becomes active on the day following 

publication of this notice). Select 

‘‘Information Collection Review,’’ under 

‘‘Currently under Review,’’ use the 

dropdown menu ‘‘Select Agency’’ and 

select ‘‘Consumer Financial Protection 

Bureau’’ (recent submissions to OMB 

will be at the top of the list). The same 

documentation is also available at 

http://www.regulations.gov. Requests for 

additional information should be 

directed to Anthony May, Paperwork 

Reduction Act Officer, at (202) 841– 

0544, or email: CFPB_PRA@cfpb.gov. If 

you require this document in an 

alternative electronic format, please 

contact CFPB_Accessibility@cfpb.gov. 

Please do not submit comments to these 

email boxes. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title of Collection: Report of Terms of 

Credit Card Plans (Form FR 2572) and 

Consumer and College Credit Card 

Agreements. 

OMB Control Number: 3170–0001. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved information 

collection. 

Affected Public: Businesses and other 

for-profit institutions. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

615. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 501. 

Abstract: The proposed revision to 

OMB Control Number 3170–0001 will 

incorporate requirements currently 

contained in OMB Control Number 

3170–0052. The Bureau has and will 

continue to use both information 

collections to gather different types of 

credit card data. Each information 

collection requires different forms of 

credit card data from credit card issuers 

as required by the Truth in Lending Act 

(TILA) (15 U.S.C. 1601, et seq.) and 

implementing regulations: 

• Form FR 2572 collects data on 

credit card pricing and availability from 

a sample of at least 150 financial 

institutions that offer credit cards. The 

data enables the Bureau to present 

information to the public on terms of 

credit card plans; 

• Sections 204 and 305 of the Credit 

Card Accountability Responsibility and 

Disclosure Act of 2009 (CARD Act), 

amending TILA, and 12 CFR 1026.57(d) 

and 226.58 require card issuers to 

submit to the Bureau: 

Æ Agreements between the issuer and 

a consumer under a credit card account 

for an open-end consumer credit plan; 

and 

Æ any college credit card agreements 

to which the issuer is a party and 

certain additional information regarding 

those agreements. 

The data collections enable the 

Bureau to provide Congress and the 

public with a centralized and searchable 

repository for consumer and college 

credit card agreements and information 

regarding the arrangements between 

financial institutions and institutions of 

higher education. 

Request for Comments: Comments are 

invited on: (a) Whether the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

Bureau, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(b) The accuracy of the Bureau’s 

estimate of the burden of the collection 

of information, including the validity of 

the methods and the assumptions used; 

(c) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) Ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 


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