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rate for the article or the U.S. NTR/MFN 

duty rate in effect on the day before the 

Agreement entered into force. 

The Statement of Administrative 

Action accompanying the Act provides 

that the Committee for the 

Implementation of Textile Agreements 

(CITA) will issue procedures for 

requesting such safeguard measures, for 

making its determinations under section 

322(a) of the Act, and for providing 

relief under section 322(b) of the Act. 

In Proclamation No. 8332 (73 FR 

80289, December 31, 2008), the 

President delegated to CITA his 

authority under Subtitle B of Title III of 

the Act with respect to textile and 

apparel safeguard measures. 

CITA must collect information in 

order to determine whether a domestic 

textile or apparel industry is being 

adversely impacted by imports of these 

products from Peru, thereby allowing 

CITA to take corrective action to protect 

the viability of the domestic textile or 

apparel industry, subject to section 

322(b) of the Act. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households; business or other for-profit 

organizations. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

OMB Desk Officer: Wendy Liberante, 

(202) 395–3647. 

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 6616, 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 Wendy Liberante, OMB Desk 

Officer, Fax number (202) 395–5167 or 

via the Internet at 

Wendy_L._Liberante@omb.eop.gov. 

Dated: October 6, 2010. 

Gwellnar Banks, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

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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: U.S. Census Bureau. 

Title: Generic Clearance for Data User 

Evaluation Surveys. 

Form Number(s): Various. 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0760. 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Burden Hours: 30,000. 

Number of Respondents: 360,000. 

Average Hours per Response: Varies 

by survey. 

Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census 

Bureau plans to extend for an additional 

three years its generic clearance to 

conduct customer/product-based 

research. This extension will allow us to 

continue to use customer satisfaction 

surveys, personal interviews, or focus 

group research to effectively improve 

and make more customer-oriented 

programs, products, and services. 

Extended clearance for data 

collections would continue to cover 

customer/program-based research for 

any Census Bureau program area that 

needs to measure customer needs, uses, 

and preferences for statistical 

information and services. The customer 

base includes, but is not limited to 

previous, existing, and potential 

businesses and organizations, alternate 

Census Bureau data disseminators like 

State Data Centers, Business and 

Industry Data Centers, Census 

Information Centers, Federal or Census 

Depository Libraries, educational 

institutions, and not-for-profit or other 

organizations. 

Information collected from customer 

research helps the Census Bureau to 

measure its customer base—their use, 

satisfaction, and preferences for existing 

and future programs, products and 

services. 

Proposals for specific collections 

under this generic clearance are 

submitted to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for review a 

minimum of two weeks prior to their 

planned start date. A year-end report is 

submitted annually to OMB 

summarizing activity under the 

clearance for the preceding year. 

Affected Public: Various. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: Data Executive Order 

12862. 

OMB Desk Officer: Brian HarrisKojetin, (202) 395–7314. 

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 6616, 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 Brian Harris-Kojetin, OMB 

Desk Officer either by fax (202–395– 

7245) or e-mail (bharrisk@omb.eop.gov). 

Dated: October 7, 2010. 

Glenna Mickelson, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Patent and Trademark Office 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO) 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: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO). 

Title: United States Patent Applicant 

Survey. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Agency Approval Number: 0651– 

0052. 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Burden: 140 hours annually. 

Number of Respondents: 400 

responses per year, with an estimated 

267 responses filed electronically. 

Avg. Hours per Response: The USPTO 

estimates that it will take the public 30 

minutes (0.50 hours) to complete the 

surveys, with the exception of the 

surveys for the independent inventors, 

which are estimated to take 15 minutes 

(0.25 hours) to complete. This includes 

the time to gather the necessary 

information, respond to the surveys, and 

submit them to the USPTO. The USPTO 

estimates that it will take the same 

amount of time to respond to the 

surveys, whether they are completed 

online or mailed to the USPTO. 

Needs and Uses: The USPTO 

developed the United States Patent 

Applicant Survey as part of a continuing 

effort to better predict the future growth 

of patent application filings by 

understanding applicant intentions. The 

main purpose of this survey is to 

determine the number of application 

filings that the USPTO can expect to 

receive over the next three years from 

patent-generating entities, ranging from 

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large domestic corporations to 

independent inventors. The USPTO also 

uses this survey in response to the 

Senate Appropriations Report 106–404 

(September 8, 2000), which directed the 

USPTO to ‘‘develop a workload forecast 

with advice from a representative 

sample of industry and the inventor 

community. There are two versions of 

the survey: one for large domestic 

corporations and small and mediumsized businesses and one for 

universities, non-profit research 

organizations, and independent 

inventors. The large domestic 

corporations, small and medium-sized 

businesses, universities, non-profit 

research organizations, and independent 

inventors responding to these surveys 

will provide the USPTO with the 

number of application filings that they 

plan to submit, in addition to providing 

general feedback concerning industry 

trends and the survey itself. The USPTO 

will use this feedback to anticipate 

demand and estimate future revenue 

flow more reliably; to identify input and 

output triggers and allocate resources to 

meet and understand customer needs; 

and to reassess output and capacity 

goals and realign organization quality 

control measures with applicant by 

division. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profits and not-for-profit 

institutions. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

OMB Desk Officer: Nicholas A. Fraser, 

e-mail: 

Nicholas_A_Fraser@omb.eop.gov. 

Once submitted, the request will be 

publicly available in electronic format 

through the Information Collection 

Review page at http://www.reginfo.gov. 

Paper copies can be obtained by: 

• E-mail: 

InformationCollection@uspto.gov. 

Include ‘‘0651–0052 copy request’’ 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. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent on 

or before November 12, 2010 to 

Nicholas A. Fraser, OMB Desk Officer, 

via e-mail to 

Nicholas_A_Fraser@omb.eop.gov or by 

fax to 202–395–5167, marked to the 

attention of Nicholas A. Fraser. 

Dated: October 6, 2010. 

Susan K. Fawcett, 

Records Officer, USPTO, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request; Socio-Economic 

Assessment of Snapper Grouper 

Fisheries in the U.S. Caribbean 

AGENCY: National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, 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 

proposed and/or continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted on or before December 13, 

2010. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Diana Hynek, Departmental 

Paperwork Clearance Officer, 

Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 

14th and Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20230 (or via the 

Internet at dHynek@doc.gov). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument and instructions should be 

directed to Dr. Juan J. Agar, (305) 361– 

4218 or Juan.Agar@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

This request is for a new information 

collection. 

The National Marine Fisheries Service 

(NMFS) proposes to collect 

demographic, cultural, economic, and 

social information about the snappergrouper fisheries in the U.S. Caribbean. 

The proposed survey also intends to 

inquire about industry’s perceptions, 

attitudes and beliefs regarding the 

potential use of catch shares to manage 

these fisheries. The data gathered will 

be used to describe the current socioeconomic condition of the fishery and 

offer insight into fishermen’s concerns 

about a potential catch share program, 

which could be used to better tailor a 

potential program. In addition, the 

information collected will be used to 

strengthen and improve fishery 

management decision-making, satisfy 

legal mandates under Executive Order 

12866, the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act 

(U.S.C. 1801 et seq.), the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act, the Endangered Species 

Act, and the National Environmental 

Policy Act, and other pertinent statutes. 

II. Method of Collection 

The socio-economic information 

sought will be collected via in-person, 

telephone and mail surveys. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: None. 

Form Number: None. 

Type of Review: Regular submission 

(new information collection). 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

1,200. 

Estimated Time per Response: 1 hr. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 1,200. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: $0. 

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, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of this information collection; 

they also will become a matter of public 

record. 

Dated: October 6, 2010. 

Gwellnar Banks, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

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