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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 180 / Tuesday, September 21, 2021 / Notices
an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Commerce.
Title: Implementation of Vessel Speed Restrictions To Reduce the Threat of Ship Collisions With North Atlantic Right Whales.
OMB Control Number: 06480580.
Form Numbers: None.
Type of Request: Regular submission revision of a currently approved collection.
Number of Respondents: 3,624.
Average Hours per Response: One hour for electronic surveys, 2.5 hours for focus groups, 5 minutes for logbook entries.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 674.
Needs and Uses: This request is for a revision to a currently approved information collection. On October 10, 2008, NMFS published a final rule 0648AS36 implementing seasonal speed restrictions along the east coast of the U.S. to reduce the incidence and severity of vessel collisions with North Atlantic right whales 73 FR 60173. The final rule contained a mandatory collection-of-information requirement subject to the Paperwork Reduction act PRA, which collects information about safety deviations from the rule in alignment with 50 CFR 224.105c. The restrictions are in effect seasonally in discrete areas along the U.S. eastern seaboard. NMFS provided a safety exception to the restrictions due to poor weather or sea conditions. Ships captains are required to make an entry into the vessels Official Logbook when an exception is necessary.
This revision to the current information collection includes a voluntary survey effort of vessel operators to evaluate their ability and willingness to: 1 Comply with North Atlantic right whale mandatory speed restrictions, and 2 cooperate with voluntary speed reduction efforts to protect North Atlantic right whales, which are promoted through NMFS
outreach efforts. We will collect information from two types of vessels pleasure yachts and large ocean going vessel in two different areas of the North Atlantic right whales range using voluntary online surveys and small focus groups. The surveys will collect information about vessel operators time spent on the water, experience and knowledge about large whales, knowledge of North Atlantic vessel strike reduction efforts, opinions about these whales and conservation efforts, and their preferred means of receiving information. Results from this information collection will be used to
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develop effective outreach to these vessel communities, with the long-term goal of improving the communities compliance with mandatory measures and cooperation with voluntary measures that support North Atlantic right whale vessel strike reduction conservation efforts.
Affected Public: Individuals or households; Business or other for-profit organizations.
Frequency: One time for electronic surveys and focus groups, logbook entries on occasion as necessary.
Respondents Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: US Code: 16 U.S.C.
15311543 Name of Law: Endangered Species Act.
This information collection request may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view the Department of Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of this notice on the following website www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information collection by selecting Currently under 30-day ReviewOpen for Public Comments or by using the search function and entering either the title of the collection or the OMB Control Number 06480580.
Sheleen Dumas, Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Commerce Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
United States Patent and Trademark Office Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Rules for Patent Maintenance Fees The United States Patent and Trademark Office USPTO will submit the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget OMB for review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act PRA of 1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice.
The USPTO invites comment on this information collection renewal, which helps the USPTO assess the impact of its information collection requirements and minimize the publics burden.

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Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on April 30, 2021 during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce.
Title: Rules for Patent Maintenance Fees.
OMB Control Number: 06510016.
Form Numbers:
PTO/SB/66 Petition to Accept Unintentionally Delayed Payment of Maintenance Fee in an Expired Patent PTO/SB/47 Fee Address Indication Form PTO/AIA/47 Fee Address Indication Form Type of Review: Extension and revision of a currently approved information collection.
Number of Respondents: 44,542
respondents per year.
Estimated Time per Response: The USPTO estimates that it will take the public 0.08 hours 5 minutes to 8 hours to complete the items in this information collection, depending on the instruments used, to gather the necessary information, create the document, and submit the completed item to the USPTO.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent Burden Hours: 6,864 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Non-Hour Cost Burden: $3,098,564.
Needs and Uses:
If a patent has expired due to nonpayment of a maintenance fee, the patentee may petition the Director to accept a delayed payment of the maintenance fee under 37 CFR 1.378.
The Director may accept the payment of a maintenance fee after the expiration of the patent if the petitioner shows to the satisfaction of the Director that the delay in payment was unintentional. Petitions to accept unintentionally delayed payment must also be accompanied by the required maintenance fee and the petition fee as set forth in 37 CFR
1.17m. If the Director accepts the maintenance fee payment upon petition, then the patent is reinstated. If the USPTO denies a petition to accept delayed payment of a maintenance fee in an expired patent, the patentee may petition the Director to reconsider that decision under 37 CFR 1.378d. The rules of practice 37 CFR 1.33d and 1.363 permit applicants, patentees, assignees, or their representatives of record to specify a fee address for correspondence related to maintenance fees that is separate from the correspondence address associated with a patent or application. A fee address must be an address that is associated
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