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1Average burden hours for institutions 

responding to burden item. 

funded research and development 

centers—FFRDCs). These institutions 

account for over 95 percent of the 

Nation’s academic R&D funds. NSF will 

also conduct a pretest of a revised and 

expanded version of the survey for 

planned implementation in FY 2010 

with a subset of 40 universities or 

colleges. 

The survey has provided continuity of 

statistics on R&D expenditures by 

source of funds and by science & 

engineering (S&E) field, with separate 

data requested on current fund 

expenditures for research equipment by 

S&E field. Further breakdowns are 

collected on passed through funds to 

subrecipients and received as a 

subrecipient, and on R&D expenditures 

by field of science and engineering from 

specific Federal Government agency 

sources. Information on R&D for nonS&E fields is also requested. Data are 

published in NSF’s annual publication 

series Academic R&D Expenditures and 

are available electronically on the World 

Wide Web. 

The survey is a fully automated Web 

data collection effort and is handled 

primarily by the administrators in 

university budget and accounting 

offices. To minimize burden, 

institutions are provided with an 

abundance of guidance and help menus 

on the Web, in addition to printing and 

responding via paper copy if necessary. 

Each record is pre-loaded with the 

institution’s 2 previous years’ data and 

a complete program for editing and 

trend checking. Response to this 

voluntary survey in FY 2007 was 96.9 

percent. 

Burden estimates are as follows: 1

Year Total number 

of institutions 

Doctorategranting 

burden hours 

Master’sgranting 

burden 

hours 

Bachelor’s 

degree 

burden 

hours 

FFRDC’s 

burden 

hours 

FY 1999 ................................................................................................. 480 20.8 13.0 7.5 9.4 

FY 2000 ................................................................................................. 700 21.0 12.0 10.5 9.2 

FY 2001 ................................................................................................. 625 30.2 11.9 9.0 12.1 

FY 2002 ................................................................................................. 625 28.7 14.9 12.2 4.5 

Dated: May 19, 2009. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Notice of Intent To Seek Approval To 

Establish an Information Collection 

AGENCY: National Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

for opportunity for public comment on 

proposed data collection projects, the 

National Science Foundation (NSF) will 

publish periodic summaries of proposed 

projects. 

DATES: Written comments on this notice 

must be received by July 21, 2009 to be 

assured of consideration. Comments 

received after that date will be 

considered to the extent practicable. 

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OR

COMMENTS: Contact Suzanne Plimpton, 

Acting Reports Clearance Officer, 

National Science Foundation, 4201 

Wilson Boulevard, Suite 295, Arlington, 

Virginia 22230; telephone 703–292– 

7556; or send e-mail to 

splimpto@nsf.gov. Individuals who use 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 

between 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Eastern Time, 

Monday through Friday. You also may 

obtain a copy of the data collection 

instrument and instructions from 

Suzanne Plimpton. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title of Collection: National 

Evaluation of the Alliances for Graduate 

Education and the Professoriate Faculty 

and Student Surveys. 

OMB Approval Number: 3145–NEW. 

Expiration Date of Approval: Not 

applicable. 

Type of Request: Intent to seek 

approval to establish an information 

collection for three years. 

Proposed Project: The Division of 

Human Resource Development (HER/ 

HRD) of the National Science 

Foundation has requested impact 

information on the Alliances for 

Graduate Education and the 

Professoriate (AGEP) Program. Funded 

by NSF, the AGEP Program has funded 

28 alliances of colleges and universities 

to promote the participation of 

underrepresented minority groups in 

PhD programs in the fields of science, 

technology, engineering, and 

mathematics (STEM). The ultimate goal 

of the program is to increase the number 

of underrepresented minorities in these 

fields who enter the professoriate. NSF 

now seeks follow-up information on 

program participants—that is, students 

and faculty—to determine what impact 

the program has had on graduate 

students’ decisions to enroll in and 

graduate from STEM doctoral programs 

and enter the professoriate. NSF 

proposes a one-time on-line survey of 

STEM graduate students currently 

enrolled in STEM doctoral programs 

and faculty members at universities 

taking part in AGEP. 

Estimate of Burden: The Foundation 

estimates that, on average, 30 minutes 

per respondent will be required to 

complete the surveys, for a total of 8,250 

hours for all respondents. Respondents 

from the 104 institutions that received 

NSF AGEP support will be asked to 

complete this survey once. 

Respondents: STEM faculty at AGEP 

institutions and STEM graduate 

students at AGEP institutions. 

Estimate Total Number of Responses: 

16,500. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 8,250 hours. 

Dated: May 19, 2009. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

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