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of Service and shall file proof of service 

on the Electronic Document Information 

System (EDIS). 

The Commission vote for this 

determination took place on April 18, 

2022. 

The authority for the Commission’s 

determination is contained in section 

337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended (19 U.S.C. 1337), and in part 

210 of the Commission’s Rules of 

Practice and Procedure (19 CFR part 

210). 

By order of the Commission. 

Issued: April 18, 2022. 

Lisa Barton, 

Secretary to the Commission. 

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

The National Science Board’s ad hoc 

Committee on Elections hereby gives 

notice of the scheduling of a 

teleconference for the transaction of 

National Science Board business, 

pursuant to the National Science 

Foundation Act and the Government in 

the Sunshine Act. 

TIME AND DATE: April 26, 2022, from 

4:00–4:30 p.m. EDT. 

PLACE: This meeting will be held by 

teleconference through the National 

Science Foundation. 

STATUS: Closed. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Committee 

Chair’s opening remarks; discussion of 

additional information proposed for the 

Board book associated with the Chair 

and Vice Chair elections related to 

Board members who are eligible for 

reappointment. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Point of contact for this meeting is: 

Andrea Rambow, arambow@nsf.gov, 

703–292–7000. You may find meeting 

updates at https://www.nsf.gov/nsb/ 

meetings/index.jsp#up. 

Chris Blair, 

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Board Office. 

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Advisory Committee for Social, 

Behavioral & Economic Sciences; 

Notice of Meeting 

In accordance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463, as amended), the National Science 

Foundation (NSF) announces the 

following meeting: 

Name and Committee Code: Advisory 

Committee (AC) for Social, Behavioral & 

Economic Sciences (#1171). 

Date and Time: May 20, 2022, 11:00 

a.m.–5:00 p.m. (ET). 

Place: NSF, 2415 Eisenhower Avenue, 

Alexandria, VA 22314 (Virtual). 

Advance Registration is Required: 

SBE Spring 2022 Advisory Committee 

Meeting Registration Link. 

Type of Meeting: Open. 

Contact Person for More Information: 

John Garneski, Office of the Assistant 

Director, Directorate for Social, 

Behavioral and Economic Science; 

National Science Foundation, 2415 

Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA 

22314; Telephone: (703) 292–8700. 

Purpose of Meeting: To provide 

advice, recommendations and counsel 

on major goals and policies pertaining 

to Social, Behavioral and Economic 

Sciences (SBES) programs and 

activities. 

Agenda Items 

• Welcome, Introductions, Approval of 

Previous Advisory Committee (AC) 

Meeting Summary, Preview of Agenda 

• Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and 

Economic Sciences (SBES) Update 

• National Center for Science and 

Engineering Statistics (NCSES) 

Organizational Realignment and 

Updates 

• New AC Member Presentation 

• Meeting with NSF Leadership 

• SBE future year planning and 

visioning 

• Committee on Equal Opportunities in 

Science and Engineering (CEOSE) 

Update 

• Advisory Committee for 

Environmental Research and 

Education (AC–ERE) Update 

Dated: April 19, 2022. 

Crystal Robinson, 

Committee Management Officer. 

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Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Comment Request 

AGENCY: National Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request. 

SUMMARY: The National Science 

Foundation (NSF) has submitted the 

following information collection 

requirement to OMB for review and 

clearance under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. This is the 

second notice for public comment; the 

first was published in the Federal 

Register and no comments were 

received. NSF is forwarding the 

proposed renewal submission to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for clearance simultaneously 

with the publication of this second 

notice. 

DATES: 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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports Clearance 

Officer, National Science Foundation, 

2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, 

VA 22314, or send email to splimpto@

nsf.gov. Individuals who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877– 

8339, which is accessible 24 hours a 

day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year 

(including federal holidays). Comments 

regarding this information collection are 

best assured of having their full effect if 

received within 30 days of this 

notification. Copies of the submission(s) 

may be obtained by calling 703–292– 

7556. 

NSF may not conduct or sponsor a 

collection of information unless the 

collection of information displays a 

currently valid OMB control number, 

and the agency informs potential 

persons who are to respond to the 

collection of information that such 

persons are not required to respond to 

the collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title of Collection: Program 

Monitoring Data Collections for 

National Science Foundation (NSF) 

Small Business Innovation Research 

(SBIR)/Small Business Technology 

Transfer (STTR) Programs. 

OMB Number: 3145–NEW. 

Expiration Date of Approval: Not 

applicable. 

Type of Request: Intent to seek 

approval to establish an information 

collection for post-award output and 

outcome monitoring system. 

Abstract: The NSF SBIR/STTR 

programs focus on transforming 

scientific discovery into products and 

services with commercial potential and/ 

or societal benefit. Unlike fundamental 


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or basic research activities that focus on 

scientific and engineering discovery 

itself, the NSF SBIR/STTR programs 

support the creation of opportunities to 

move fundamental science and 

engineering out of the lab and into the 

market at scale, through startups and 

small businesses representing deep 

technology ventures. Here, deep 

technologies refer to technologies based 

on discoveries in fundamental science 

and engineering. The NSF SBIR/STTR 

programs are designed to provide nondilutive funding (financing that does not 

involve equity, debt, or other elements 

of the business ownership structure) at 

the earliest stages of technology research 

and development. 

The NSF SBIR/STTR programs are 

Congressionally mandated. By investing 

federal research and development funds 

into startups and small businesses, NSF 

hopes to stimulate the creation of novel 

products, services, and solutions in the 

private sector, strengthen the role of 

small business in meeting federal 

research and development needs, 

increase the commercial application of 

federally supported research results, 

build a strong national economy, and 

increase and develop the US workforce, 

especially by fostering and encouraging 

participation of socially and 

economically disadvantaged and 

women-owned small businesses. 

Both the NSF SBIR and NSF STTR 

programs have two phases: Phase I and 

Phase II. Phase I is a 6–12 month 

experimental or theoretical investigation 

that allows the awardees to determine 

the scientific, technical, and commercial 

merit of the idea or concept. Phase II 

further develops the proposed concept, 

building on the feasibility of the project 

undertaken in Phase I, with a goal of 

working toward the commercial launch 

of the new product, process, or service 

being developed. 

The NSF SBIR/STTR programs 

request the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) approval of this clearance 

that will allow the programs to improve 

the rigor of our surveys for evaluations 

and program monitoring, as well as to 

initiate new data collections to monitor 

the immediate, intermediate, and longterm outcomes of our investments by 

periodically surveying the startup 

businesses and their founders/cofounders involved in the businesses. 

The clearance will allow the SBIR/STTR 

programs to rigorously develop, test, 

and implement survey instruments and 

methodologies. 

The primary objective of this 

clearance is to allow the NSF SBIR/ 

STTR programs to collect 

characteristics, output, and outcome 

information from the startup companies 

funded by the programs. This collection 

will enable the evaluation of the 

impacts of our investments in 

technology translation and innovation 

over time. The second, related objective 

is to improve our questionnaires and/or 

data collection procedures through pilot 

tests and other survey methods used in 

these activities. Under this clearance a 

variety of surveys could be pre-tested, 

modified, and used. 

Following standard OMB 

requirements, NSF will submit to OMB 

an individual request for each survey 

project we undertake under this 

clearance. NSF will request OMB 

approval in advance and provide OMB 

with a copy of the questionnaire and 

materials describing the project. 

Data collected will be used for 

planning, management, evaluation, and 

audit purposes. Summaries of output 

and outcome monitoring data are used 

to respond to queries from Congress, the 

Small Business Administration (SBA), 

the public, NSF’s external merit 

reviewers who serve as advisors, 

including Committees of Visitors 

(COVs), NSF’s Office of the Inspector 

General, and other pertinent 

stakeholders. These data are needed for 

effective administration, program 

monitoring, evaluation, outreach/ 

marketing roadmaps, and for strategic 

reviews and measuring attainment of 

NSF’s program and strategic goals, as 

identified by the President’s 

Accountable Government Initiative, the 

Government Performance and Results 

Act Modernization Act of 2010, 

Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 

2018, and NSF’s Strategic Plan. 

All questions asked in the data 

collection are questions that are NOT 

included in the annual, final or 

outcomes reports, and the intention is to 

ask the grantees even beyond the period 

of performance on voluntary basis in 

order to capture impacts of the research 

that occur during and beyond the life of 

the award. 

Grantees will be invited to submit 

information on a periodic basis to 

support the management of the NSF 

SBIR/STTR investment portfolio. Once 

the survey tool for a specific program is 

tested, grantees will be invited to submit 

these indicators to NSF via data 

collection methods that include, but are 

not limited to, online surveys, 

interviews, focus groups, phone 

interviews, etc. These indicators are 

both quantitative and descriptive and 

may include, for example, the 

characteristics of project personnel, 

sources of funding and support, 

knowledge transfer and technology 

translation activities, patents, licenses, 

publications, descriptions of significant 

advances, and other outcomes of the 

funded efforts. 

Use of the Information: The data 

collected will be used for NSF internal 

and external reports, historical data, 

program level studies and evaluations, 

and for securing future funding for the 

maintenance and growth of the NSF 

SBIR/STTR programs. Evaluation 

designs could make use of metadata 

associated with the award and other 

characteristics to identify a comparison 

group to evaluate the impact of the 

program funding and other interesting 

research questions. 

ESTIMATE OF PUBLIC BURDEN

Collection title Number of respondents 

Annual number 

of responses/ 

respondent 

Annual hour 

burden 

NSF SBIR/STTR Program Monitoring .......................................... 400 startups per year ................................. 1 100 

1,200 Founders (up to 3 entries per startup).1 200 

Total ....................................................................................... ..................................................................... .......................... 300 

For life-of-award monitoring, the data 

collection burden to awardees will be 

limited to no more than 30 minutes of 

the respondents’ time in each instance. 

Respondents: The respondents are 

either Principal Investigators (PIs) of the 

startup businesses that the NSF SBIR/ 

STTR Programs awarded, founders, cofounders, and/or key personnel of the 

startup businesses. In the case of 

Business Survey, only one response 


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from each startup/small business is 

anticipated. 

Estimates of Annualized Cost to 

Respondents for the Hour Burdens: The 

overall annualized cost to the 

respondents is estimated to be $26,400. 

The following table shows the 

annualized estimate of costs to PI/ 

Founders/Business Partners 

respondents, who are generally 

university assistant professors. This 

estimated hourly rate is based on a 

report from the American Association of 

University Professors, ‘‘Annual Report 

on the Economic Status of the 

Profession, 2020–21,’’ Academe, 

March–April 2021, Survey Report Table 

1. According to this report, the average 

salary of an assistant professor across all 

types of doctoral-granting institutions 

(public, private-independent, religiously 

affiliated) was $91,408. When divided 

by the number of standard annual work 

hours (2,080), this calculates to 

approximately $44 per hour. 

Respondent type Total burden 

hours 

Average 

hourly rate 

Estimated 

annual cost 

PIs, Founders, Business Partners ............................................................................................... 300 $44 $13,200 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Report: Data collection for the 

collections involves all awardees in the 

programs involved. 

Dated: April 18, 2022. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

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Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Comment Request 

AGENCY: National Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Submission for OMB review; 

comment request. 

SUMMARY: The National Science 

Foundation (NSF) has submitted the 

following information collection 

requirement to OMB for review and 

clearance under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. This is the 

second notice for public comment; the 

first was published in the Federal 

Register and no comments were 

received. NSF is forwarding the 

proposed renewal submission to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for clearance simultaneously 

with the publication of this second 

notice. 

DATES: 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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports Clearance 

Officer, National Science Foundation, 

2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, 

VA 22314, or send email to splimpto@

nsf.gov. Individuals who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877– 

8339, which is accessible 24 hours a 

day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year 

(including federal holidays). Comments 

regarding this information collection are 

best assured of having their full effect if 

received within 30 days of this 

notification. Copies of the submission(s) 

may be obtained by calling 703–292– 

7556. 

NSF may not conduct or sponsor a 

collection of information unless the 

collection of information displays a 

currently valid OMB control number, 

and the agency informs potential 

persons who are to respond to the 

collection of information that such 

persons are not required to respond to 

the collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title of Collection: Program 

Monitoring Data Collections for the 

National Science Foundation (NSF) 

Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Program. 

OMB Number: 3145–NEW. 

Type of Request: Intent to seek 

approval to establish an information 

collection for post-award output and 

outcome monitoring system. 

Abstract: The National Science 

Foundation (NSF) Innovation Corps (ICorps) Program was started in 2011 to 

develop and nurture a national 

innovation ecosystem built upon 

fundamental research that guides the 

output of scientific and engineering 

discoveries closer to the development of 

technologies, products, and services that 

benefit society. 

The goal of the I-Corps Program is to 

use experiential education to help 

entrepreneurial researchers reduce the 

time necessary to translate promising 

ideas from the laboratory bench to 

widespread implementation. In addition 

to accelerating technology translation, 

the NSF I-Corps program also seeks to 

reduce the risk associated with 

technology development conducted 

without insight into industry 

requirements and challenges. 

The NSF I-Corps Program is designed 

to support the commercialization of 

‘‘deep technologies,’’ those revolving 

around fundamental discoveries in 

science and engineering. The program 

addresses the skill and knowledge gaps 

associated with the transformation of 

basic research into deep technology 

ventures. The program enables 

entrepreneurial researchers in deep 

technologies to receive support in the 

form of entrepreneurial education, 

industry mentoring, and funding to 

accelerate the translation of knowledge 

derived from fundamental research into 

emerging products and services that 

may attract subsequent third-party 

funding. I-Corps training and 

infrastructure together represent an 

important investment for NSF and the 

Nation, as directed by the American 

Innovation and Competitiveness Act 

(AICA), Public Law 114–329, Section 

601. 

These selected researchers form teams 

and participate in the I-Corps Teams 

Program Curriculum. An I-Corps team 

includes the Entrepreneurial Lead (EL), 

Technical Lead (TL) or the Principal 

Investigator (PI), and the Industrial 

Mentor (IM). During the training 

program, the team is expected to spend 

significant time conducting active 

customer discovery, including 

interviewing potential customers and 

potential partners. The outcomes of ICorps Teams projects will be threefold: 

(1) A decision on a clear path forward 

based on an assessment of the business 

model, (2) substantial first-hand 

evidence for or against product-market 

fit, with the identification of customer 

segments and corresponding value 

propositions, and (3) a narrative of a 

compelling technology demonstration 

for potential partners. 

The NSF I-Corps program requests the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) approval of this clearance that 

will allow the programs to improve the 

rigor of our surveys for evaluations and 


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