52816 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 177 / Thursday, September 11, 2008 / Notices 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35). 

Agency: National Institute of 

Standards and Technology (NIST). 

Title: NIST Manufacturing Extension 

Partnership (MEP) Client Impact 

Survey. 

OMB Control Number: 0693–0021. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Regular submission. 

Burden Hours: 1,067. 

Number of Respondents: 8,000. 

Average Hours per Response: 8 

minutes. 

Needs and Uses: The National 

Institute of Standards and Technology 

(NIST) sponsors the Manufacturing 

Extension Partnership (MEP), a national 

network of fifty-nine locally-based 

manufacturing extension centers. The 

centers work with small manufacturers 

to help improve their productivity, 

profitability, and enhance their overall 

economic competitiveness. Each center 

is a partnership involving federal, state, 

local, and client resources. The MEP 

Centers provide hard-to-find technical 

assistance and latest business practices 

within reach of the nation’s more than 

330,000 small and mid-sized 

manufacturers. 

NIST MEP surveys all clients 

provided substantive services and 

collects data on sales, investment, cost 

savings, and jobs impacts as well as a 

limited set of qualitative questions. 

NIST MEP surveys center clients for two 

primary purposes: 

• To collect aggregate information on 

program performance indicators to 

report to various stakeholders on 

program performance. The survey 

provides information about the 

quantifiable impacts that clients 

attribute to the services provided by 

MEP centers. NIST MEP also conducts 

other episodic studies to evaluate the 

system’s impact that corroborate and 

complement the survey results. 

• To provide center-specific program 

performance and impact information for 

center use. Centers use this information 

to communicate results to their own 

stakeholders, at both the state and 

federal level. The Centers’ management 

and NIST MEP use these results to 

evaluate center performance and 

effectiveness. The MEP Center review 

criteria and process place a strong 

emphasis on a center’s ability to 

demonstrate impacts based on the 

survey results. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

OMB Desk Officer: Jasmeet Seehra, 

(202) 395–3123. 

Copies of the above information 

collection proposal can be obtained by 

calling or writing Diana Hynek, 

Departmental Paperwork Clearance 

Officer, (202) 482–0266, Department of 

Commerce, Room 6625, 14th and 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 

dHynek@doc.gov). 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to Jasmeet Seehra, OMB Desk 

Officer, FAX number (202) 395–5806 or 

via the Internet at 

Jasmeet_K._Seehra@omb.eop.gov. 

Dated: September 5, 2008. 

Gwellnar Banks, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. E8–21032 Filed 9–10–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for clearance the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35). 

Agency: Bureau of Industry and 

Security (BIS). 

Title: Prior Notification of Exports 

Under License Exception AGR. 

OMB Control Number: 0694–0123. 

Form Number(s): BIS–748P. 

Type of Request: Regular submission. 

Burden Hours: 161. 

Number of Respondents: 167. 

Average Hours per Response: 58 

minutes. 

Needs and Uses: Section 906 of the 

Trade Sanctions Reform and Export 

Enhancement Act (TSRA) requires that 

exports of agricultural commodities, 

medicine or medical devices to Cuba or 

to the government of a country that has 

been determined by the Secretary of 

State to have repeatedly provide support 

for acts of international terrorism, or to 

any other entity in such a country, are 

made pursuant to one-year licenses 

issued by the U.S. Government. The 

TSRA further provides that the 

requirements of one-year licenses shall 

not be more restrictive than license 

exceptions administered by the 

Department of Commerce, except that 

procedures shall be in place to deny 

licenses for these exports to any 

country, or entity within a country, 

promoting international terrorism. 

To meet the requirements of TSRA, 

BIS has imposed a prior notification 

procedure under License Exception 

AGR, and exports and certain reexports 

of agricultural commodities will be 

authorized under License Exception 

AGR. 

Affected Public: Business and other 

for-profit organizations. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

retain or obtain benefits. 

OMB Desk Officer: David Rostker, 

(202) 395–3897. 

Copies of the above information 

collection proposal can be obtained by 

calling or writing Diana Hynek, 

Departmental Paperwork Clearance 

Officer, (202) 482–0266, Department of 

Commerce, Room 6625, 14th and 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 

dHynek@doc.gov). 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to David Rostker, OMB Desk 

Officer, FAX number (202) 395–7285 or 

via the Internet at 

David_Rostker@omb.eop.gov. 

Dated: September 5, 2008. 

Gwellnar Banks, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. E8–21033 Filed 9–10–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–33–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[Docket 48–2008] 

Foreign-Trade Zone 176—Rockford, IL 

Application for Subzone Cellusuede 

Products, Inc. (Flock Fiber) Rockford, 

IL 

An application has been submitted to 

the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the 

Board) by the Greater Rockford Airport 

Authority, grantee of FTZ 176, 

requesting special-purpose subzone 

status for the manufacture of flock fiber 

at the facility of Cellusuede Products, 

Inc. (Cellusuede), located in Rockford, 

Illinois. The application was submitted 

pursuant to the provisions of the 

Foreign-Trade Zones Act, as amended 

(19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), and the regulations 

of the Board (15 CFR part 400). It was 

formally filed on September 3, 2008. 

The Cellusuede facility (55 

employees, 9 acres, 7–9 million pounds 

of flock per year) is located at the 

intersection of North Madison Street 

and Prairie Street, in Rockford, Illinois. 

The facility is used to manufacture and 

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