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36 Id. See also Carla Hayden, Libr. of Congr., 

Responses to Questions for the Record, Subcomm. 

on Intell. Prop. of the S. Comm. on the Judiciary 

at 17 (Jan. 7, 2020), https://

www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/ 

Hayden%20Responses%20to%20QFRs.pdf (noting 

that digital deposits options must ‘‘appropriately 

balance security with ease of use’’). 

37Library of Congress Library Services, 

Comments Submitted in Response to Notification of 

Inquiry on Registration Modernization, at 1–2 (Jan. 

15, 2019). 

38Library of Congress, Digital Collections Strategy 

Fiscal Years 2022–2026, at 3 (2021), https://

www.loc.gov/acq/devpol/Digital%20

Collections%20Strategy%20Overview_final.pdf. 

39 Id. at 4. 

40 Id. at 4–5. 

for over two decades and has expressed 

a commitment to continuing to 

strengthen its digital collections. The 

Library has stressed that new electronic 

deposit options for copyright owners 

must take into account ‘‘the Library’s 

collection needs, technological 

capabilities, and security and access 

issues.’’ 36 The Library’s Library 

Collections and Services Group (part of 

which was formerly known as Library 

Services) has expressed support for 

permitting digital deposits for all 

copyright applications in the long run. 

Noting that the Library depends on the 

items acquired via copyright deposit to 

help build its collection, it further 

explained that ‘‘[w]hile the submission 

of e-copies as opposed to print copies 

for purposes of registration would pose 

some difficulties in terms of service to 

Congress and other user groups, having 

access to e-copies of the content will be 

beneficial in the long term.’’ 37

The Library’s Digital Collections 

Strategy: Fiscal Years 2022–2026 

focuses on ‘‘further mainstreaming and 

routinizing digital collecting and digital 

collections management across the wide 

range of areas, formats, and subjects the 

Library of Congress collects.’’ 38

Pursuant to this Strategy, the Library 

has committed to continuing to work 

closely with the Office to explore 

possible regulatory updates to the 

deposit requirements, including 

‘‘planning electronic deposit workflows 

related to the acquisition of electronic 

deposits for mandatory deposit and 

registration deposit’’ for works that 

could include ‘‘books, serials, motion 

pictures, sound recordings, music 

compositions, maps, photographs, 

prints, drawings, design and 

architectural materials, technical 

designs, technical reports, and web 

content.’’ 39 The Strategy also notes that 

the Library plans to transition to ‘‘epreferred,’’ in which digital formats are 

preferred over traditional physical 

formats, across its major acquisitions 

streams, including deposits from the 

Copyright Office.40

II. Subjects of Inquiry 

To guide the Office’s consideration of 

these issues and its consultation with 

the Library, the Office invites written 

comments on the subjects below. A 

party choosing to respond to this notice 

of inquiry need not address every 

subject, but the Office requests that 

responding parties clearly identify and 

separately address each subject for 

which a response is submitted. The 

Office also requests that commenters 

explain their interest in the study and, 

with respect to each answer, the basis 

for their knowledge. Citations to 

published data and other external 

documents that support commenters’ 

viewpoints are particularly helpful to 

the Office’s review of written comments. 

1. One way to address concerns raised 

regarding the best edition requirement 

would be to limit the categories of 

deposits to it applies. To what 

categor(y/ies) of deposits do you think 

the best edition requirement should 

apply and why? What would be the 

impact on Library collections? What 

would be the impact on claimants’ 

ability to register their copyrights? 

2. If registration and mandatory 

deposit requirements were no longer 

linked, how would this affect the 

deposit burden on copyright owners? 

How would it affect the Library’s 

collections? How would it affect 

claimants’ ability to register their 

copyrights? 

3. Should the Office expand the 

options for submitting electronic 

deposits for the purpose of examining 

registration applications and selection 

by the Library for its collections while 

retaining the requirement to submit best 

edition copies upon demand by the 

Library pursuant to section 407? Why or 

why not? 

4. Would copyright owners prefer to 

deposit electronic deposit copies for 

registration purposes instead of copies 

that meet the best edition standards? 

Why or why not? Would copyright 

owners like the option to provide 

electronic copies or best edition 

physical copies? Why or why not? How 

would the submission of electronic 

copies for registration affect the 

Library’s collections and operations? 

What effect would the use of electronic 

copies have on the public record, and 

on a researcher’s ability to use the work? 

5. Would the option to deposit 

electronic deposit copies create security 

concerns that the Copyright Office’s and 

the Library’s protocols do not currently 

address? What are the security concerns 

most important to applicants if 

electronic deposit copies are permitted 

and how could the Library address 

them? 

6. The Copyright Act requires that a 

‘‘best edition’’ of a work must be the 

edition published in the U.S. Can this 

definition be interpreted to include 

digital file formats that were not 

themselves distributed to the public but 

contain the same copyrightable material 

as the edition distributed to the public? 

7. Please identify any pertinent issues 

regarding digital deposit and the best 

edition requirement not referenced 

above that the Office should consider in 

conducting its study. 

Dated: May 31, 2022. 

Suzanne V. Wilson, 

General Counsel and Associate Register of 

Copyrights. 

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BILLING CODE 1410–30–P 

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND 

BUDGET 

Proposing To Extend the Information 

Collection 0348–0065 

AGENCY: Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget, Executive 

Office of the President. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) is proposing to extend the 

information collection 0348–0065 it 

uses for members of the public who 

request a meeting with OIRA on rules 

under review at the time pursuant to 

Executive Order 12866. The information 

collected is subject to the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA) and this notice 

announces and requests comment on 

OIRA’s proposal for such a collection. 

DATES: Provide comments by July 5, 

2022. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments by the 

following method: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments 

for docket OMB–2022–0006. Comments 

submitted electronically, including 

attachments to https://

www.regulations.gov, will be posted to 

the docket unchanged. 

Instructions: Please submit comments 

only and cite Information Collection 

0348–0065 in all correspondence related 

to this collection. To confirm receipt of 

your comment(s), please check 

regulations.gov, approximately two to 

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verify posting (except allow 30 days for 

posting of comments submitted by 

mail). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Oira_submission@omb.eop.gov, Lisa 

Jones, 202–395–5897. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Information on Meetings with 

Outside Parties Pursuant to Executive 

Order 12866. 

Abstract: Executive Order 12866, 

‘‘Regulatory Planning and Review,’’ 

issued by President Clinton on 

September 30, 1993, establishes and 

governs the process under which OIRA 

reviews agency draft proposed and final 

regulatory actions. The Executive Order 

also establishes a disclosure process 

regarding the OIRA Administrator’s (or 

his/her designee’s) meetings with 

outside parties during formal review of 

a regulatory action if such meetings 

occur. In such instances, OIRA would 

disclose the subject, date, and 

participants of the meeting on the 

Reginfo.gov website, as well as any 

materials provided to OIRA at such 

meetings. 

These meetings occur at the initiative 

and request of outside parties who 

request a meeting to present views about 

a regulatory action under OIRA review. 

These requestors may invite other 

outside parties to attend. OIRA invites 

representatives from the agency or 

agencies that would issue the regulatory 

action. If such meetings occur, OIRA 

does not take minutes during the 

meeting but would, however, post on 

RegInfo.gov any written materials 

provided by outside parties during these 

meetings, including the initial meeting 

request. 

To help ensure transparency 

associated with meetings pursuant to 

Executive Order 12866, OIRA would 

collect—and then post publicly—the 

following information from outside 

parties that request a meeting with 

OIRA to present their views on a 

regulatory action currently under 

review: 

1. Names of all attendees from the 

outside party or parties who will be 

present at the meeting. Each attendee’s 

organization or affiliation. If an attendee 

is representing another organization, the 

name of the organization the attendee is 

representing. 

2. The name of the regulatory action 

under review on which the party would 

like to present its views. 

3. Electronic copies of all of briefing 

materials that will be used during the 

presentation. 

4. An acknowledgment by the 

requesting party that all information 

submitted to OIRA pursuant to this 

collection and meeting request will be 

made publicly available at Reginfo.gov. 

OIRA welcomes any and all public 

comments on the proposed collection of 

information, such as the accuracy of 

OIRA’s burden estimate, the practical 

utility of collecting this information, 

and whether there are additional pieces 

of information that could be collected 

from meeting requestors to further the 

disclosure provisions of Executive 

Order 12866. 

Current actions: Proposal for 

extending an existing information 

collection requirement. 

Type of review: Extension. 

Affected public: Individuals and 

Households, Businesses and 

Organizations, State, Local or Tribal 

Governments. 

Expected average annual number of 

respondents: 300. 

Average annual number of responses 

per respondent: 2. 

Total number of responses annually: 

600. 

Burden per response: 15 minutes. 

Total average annual burden: 150 

hours. 

Request for comments: OMB 

anticipates that comments submitted in 

response to this notice will be 

summarized and/or included in the 

request for OMB approval. Comments 

are invited on: (a) Whether the 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

collection of information; (c) ways to 

enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 

of the information to be collected; (d) 

ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology; 

and (e) estimates of capital or start-up 

costs and costs of operation, 

maintenance, and purchase of services 

to provide information. Burden means 

the total time, effort, or financial 

resources expended by persons to 

generate, maintain, retain, disclose or 

provide information to or for a Federal 

agency. This includes the time needed 

to review instructions; to develop, 

acquire, install, and utilize technology 

and systems for the purpose of 

collecting, validating, and verifying 

information, processing and 

maintaining information, and disclosing 

and providing information; to train 

personnel and to be able to respond to 

a collection of information; to search 

data sources; to complete and review 

the collection of information; and to 

transmit or otherwise disclose the 

information. 

Please note that all public comments 

received are subject to the Freedom of 

Information Act and will be posted in 

their entirety, including any personal 

and/or business confidential 

information provided. Do not include 

any information you would not like to 

be made publicly available. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to, a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. 

Dominic J. Mancini, 

Deputy Administrator, Office of Information 

and Regulatory Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2022–11927 Filed 6–2–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3110–01–P 

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

SPACE ADMINISTRATION 

[Notice: (22–041)] 

Centennial Challenges Break the Ice 

Lunar Challenge Phase 2 Registration 

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration (NASA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Phase 2 of the Break the Ice 

Lunar Challenge is open, and teams that 

wish to compete may now register. 

NASA seeks to stimulate research and 

technology solutions to support future 

missions and inspire new national 

aerospace capabilities through public 

prize competitions called Centennial 

Challenges. The Break the Ice Lunar 

Challenge is one such competition. 

Centennial Challenges are managed at 

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in 

Huntsville, Alabama and are part of the 

Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing 

program within NASA’s Space 

Technology Mission Directorate at the 

agency’s Headquarters in Washington. 

Phase 2 of the Break the Ice Lunar 

Challenge is a prize competition with a 

total prize purse of $3,000,000 USD, 

(three million United States dollars) to 

be awarded to competitor teams that 

build and successfully demonstrate 

prototypes of novel excavation and 

transportation technologies that can 

operate in Lunar environmental 

conditions. 

DATES: Phase 2 registration opens June 

2, 2022, and will remain open until 

September 30, 2022, (11:59 p.m. 

Eastern). No further requests for 

registration will be accepted after this 

date. Other important dates, including 

deadlines for key deliverables from the 


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