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2010. This notice also outlines 

suggested discussion topics for the 

meetings and is intended to notify the 

general public of their opportunity to 

participate in the teleconference and/or 

web conference meetings. 

DATES: The dates and times for the 

teleconference and/or web conference 

meetings will be announced via e-mail 

to parties registered as described below 

in FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public wishing to register 

for the calls and obtain the call-in 

number, access code, Web link and 

other information for any of the public 

teleconferences and or web conferences 

may contact James F. Carey, Financial 

and Loan Analyst, Multifamily Housing 

Guaranteed Loan Division, Rural 

Development, United States Department 

of Agriculture, telephone: (202) 401– 

2307, fax: (202) 205–5066, or e-mail: 

james.carey@wdc.USDA.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

objectives of this series of 

teleconferences are as follows: 

• Enhance the effectiveness of the 

Section 538 Guaranteed Rural Rental 

Housing Program. 

• Establish a two way 

communications forum to update 

industry participants and Rural Housing 

staff. 

• Enhance RHS’ awareness of the 

market and other forces that impact the 

Section 538 Multifamily Guaranteed 

Loan program. 

Topics to be discussed could include 

but will not be limited to the following: 

• Updates on the USDA Section 538 

Guaranteed Rural Rental Housing 

Program FY 2009–2010 activities. 

• Perspectives on the current state of 

debt financing and its impact on the 

Section 538 program. 

• Enhancing the use of Section 538 

financing with the transfer and/or 

preservation of Section 515 

developments. 

• The impact of Low Income Housing 

Tax Credit program changes on Section 

538 financings. 

Dated: January 14, 2010. 

Tammye Trevin ̃ o, 

Administrator, Rural Housing Service. 

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COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS 

Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting 

of the Illinois Advisory Committee 

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to 

the provisions of the rules and 

regulations of the U.S. Commission on 

Civil Rights (Commission), and the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA), that a planning meeting of the 

Health Disparities Subcommittee of the 

Illinois Advisory Committee to the 

Commission will convene at 8 a.m. and 

adjourn at 10 a.m. on February 22, 2010, 

at 55 W. Monroe St., Chicago, IL 60603. 

The purpose of the meeting is to plan 

for the Committee’s report on Health 

Disparities in Chicago. The meeting will 

consist of approximately five local 

health disparities experts discussing 

issues regarding the project. 

Members of the public are entitled to 

submit written comments; the 

comments must be received in the 

regional office by March 22, 2010. The 

address is 55 W. Monroe St., Suite 410, 

Chicago, IL 60603. Persons wishing to email their comments, or to present their 

comments verbally at the meeting, or 

who desire additional information 

should contact David Mussatt, Director, 

312–353–8311, TDD/TTY 312–353– 

8324, or by e-mail: dmussatt@usccr.gov. 

Hearing-impaired persons who will 

attend the meeting and require the 

services of a sign language interpreter 

should contact the Regional Office at 

least ten (10) working days before the 

scheduled date of the meeting. 

Records generated from this meeting 

may be inspected and reproduced at the 

Midwestern Regional Office, as they 

become available, both before and after 

the meeting. Persons interested in the 

work of this advisory committee are 

advised to go to the Commission’s Web 

site, http://www.usccr.gov, or to contact 

the Midwestern Regional Office at the 

above e-mail or street address. 

The meeting will be conducted 

pursuant to the provisions of the rules 

and regulations of the Commission and 

FACA. 

Dated in Washington, DC, January 19, 

2010. 

Peter Minarik, 

Acting Chief, Regional Programs 

Coordination Unit. 

[FR Doc. 2010–1345 Filed 1–22–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Patent and Trademark Office 

Legal Processes 

ACTION: Proposed collection; comment 

request. 

SUMMARY: The United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO), as part of its 

continuing effort to reduce paperwork 

and respondent burden, invites the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies to take this opportunity to 

comment on the continuing information 

collection, as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104– 

13 (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted on or before March 26, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

• E-mail: Susan.Fawcett@uspto.gov. 

Include ‘‘0651–0046 comment’’ in the 

subject line of the message. 

• Fax: 571–273–0112, marked to the 

attention of Susan K. Fawcett. 

• Mail: Susan K. Fawcett, Records 

Officer, Office of the Chief Information 

Officer, United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, 

Alexandria, VA 22313–1450. 

• Federal Rulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information 

should be directed to Shirley Hassan, 

Office of General Law, United States 

Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 

15667, Arlington, VA 22215; by 

telephone at 571–272–3000; or by e-mail 

to Shirley.Hassan@uspto.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The purpose of this collection is to 

cover information requirements related 

to civil actions and claims involving 

current and former employees of the 

United States Patent and Trademark 

Office (USPTO). The rules for these 

legal processes may be found under 37 

CFR Part 104, which outlines 

procedures for service of process, 

demands for employee testimony and 

production of documents in legal 

proceedings, reports of unauthorized 

testimony, employee indemnification, 

and filing claims against the USPTO 

under the Federal Tort Claims Act (28 

U.S.C. 2672) and the corresponding 

Department of Justice regulations (28 

CFR Part 14). The public may also 

petition the USPTO Office of General 

Counsel under 37 CFR 104.3 to waive or 

suspend these rules in extraordinary 

cases. 

The procedures under 37 CFR Part 

104 ensure that service of process 

intended for current and former 

employees of the USPTO is handled 

properly. The USPTO will only accept 

service of process for an employee 

acting in an official capacity. This 

collection is necessary so that 

respondents or their representatives can 

serve a summons or complaint on the 

USPTO, demand employee testimony 

and documents related to a legal 

proceeding, or file a claim under the 

Federal Tort Claims Act. Respondents 


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may also petition the USPTO to waive 

or suspend these rules for legal 

processes. This collection is also 

necessary so that current and former 

USPTO employees may properly 

forward service and demands to the 

Office of General Counsel, report 

unauthorized testimony, and request 

indemnification. The USPTO covers 

current employees as respondents under 

this information collection even though 

their responses do not require approval 

under the Paperwork Reduction Act. In 

those instances where both current and 

former employees may respond to the 

USPTO, the agency estimates that the 

number of respondents will be small. 

There are no forms provided by the 

USPTO for this collection. For filing 

claims under the Federal Tort Claims 

Act, the public may use Standard Form 

95 ‘‘Claim for Damage, Injury, or Death,’’ 

which is provided by the Department of 

Justice and approved by the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) under 

OMB Control Number 1105–0008. 

II. Method of Collection 

By mail or hand delivery to the 

USPTO. 

III. Data 

OMB Number: 0651–0046. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households; businesses or other forprofits; not-for-profit institutions; and 

the Federal Government. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

291 responses per year. 

Estimated Time per Response: The 

USPTO estimates that it will take the 

public from 5 minutes (0.08 hours) to 1 

hour to gather the necessary 

information, prepare the appropriate 

documents, and submit the information 

required for this collection. 

Estimated Total Annual Respondent 

Burden Hours: 52 hours per year. 

Estimated Total Annual Respondent 

Cost Burden: $16,652 per year. The 

USPTO expects that the information in 

this collection will be prepared by 

attorneys and former employees, except 

for the requests for employee 

indemnification, which generally come 

from professional and supervisory staff. 

Since many of the former employees 

affected by this collection are attorneys, 

the attorney rate will be used for former 

employees as well. Using the 

professional rate of $325 per hour for 

attorneys in private firms, the USPTO 

estimates that the respondent cost 

burden for attorneys and former 

employees submitting the information 

in this collection will be $16,575 per 

year. Using the estimate of $77 per hour 

for professional and supervisory staff, 

the USPTO expects that the respondent 

cost burden for submitting requests for 

employee indemnification will be $77 

per year. Therefore, the respondent cost 

burden for this collection will be 

$16,652 per year. 

Item Estimated time for response Estimated annual 

responses 

Estimated annual 

burden hours 

Petition to Waive Rules ..................................................................... 30 minutes ................................... 5 3 

Service of Process ............................................................................ 5 minutes ..................................... 243 19 

Forwarding Service ............................................................................ 10 minutes ................................... 7 1 

Employee Testimony and Production of Documents in Legal Proceedings.1 hour .......................................... 22 22 

Forwarding Demands ........................................................................ 10 minutes ................................... 7 1 

Report of Unauthorized Testimony ................................................... 30 minutes ................................... 1 1 

Report of Possible Indemnification Cases ........................................ 30 minutes ................................... 3 2 

Employee Indemnification ................................................................. 30 minutes ................................... 1 1 

Tort Claims ........................................................................................ 1 hour .......................................... 2 2 

Totals .......................................................................................... ...................................................... 291 52 

Estimated Total Annual Non-hour 

Respondent Cost Burden: $3,122 per 

year. There are no capital start-up, 

maintenance, or recordkeeping costs 

associated with this information 

collection. However, this collection 

does have annual (non-hour) costs in 

the form of filing fees and postage costs. 

This collection has filing fees 

associated with the petition to waive or 

suspend the legal process rules under 37 

CFR 104.3. The filing fee for this 

petition is $130, and the USPTO 

estimates that approximately 5 petitions 

will be filed per year for a total filing 

cost of $650. There are no other filing 

fees associated with this information 

collection. 

Customers may incur postage costs 

when submitting the information in this 

collection to the USPTO by mail. The 

USPTO estimates that the average firstclass postage for a mailed submission, 

other than a Service of Process, will be 

88 cents and that up to 48 of these 

submissions will be mailed to the 

USPTO per year, for a postage cost of 

$42. The USPTO estimates that the 

average postage for a Service of Process 

will be $10.00 and that up to 243 of 

these submissions will be mailed to the 

USPTO per year, for a postage cost of 

$2,430. The total estimated postage cost 

for this collection is approximately 

$2,472 per year. 

The total non-hour respondent cost 

burden for this collection in the form of 

filing fees and postage costs is 

approximately $3,122 per year. 

IV. Request for Comments 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed 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 

(including hours and cost) of the 

proposed collection of information; (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, e.g., the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of this information collection; 

they also will become a matter of public 

record. 

Dated: January 14, 2010. 

Susan K. Fawcett, 

Records Officer, USPTO, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2010–1276 Filed 1–22–10; 8:45 am] 

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