Notice2023-11725
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Review; Comment Request; Expenditures Incurred by Recipients of Biomedical Research and Development Awards From the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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Published
June 2, 2023
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentEconomic Analysis Bureau
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 106 (Friday, June 2, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36274-36275]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-11725]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) Review; Comment Request; Expenditures
Incurred by Recipients of Biomedical Research and Development Awards
From the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
The Department of Commerce 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 of
1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite the
general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed and
continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of
our information collection requirements and minimize the public's
reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the
Federal Register on March 21, 2023 during a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), Commerce.
Title: Expenditures Incurred by Recipients of Biomedical Research
and Development Awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
OMB Control Number: 0608-0069.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission, extension of a current
information collection.
Number of Respondents: 150.
Average Hours per Response: 16 hours is the average but may vary
among respondents because of differences in institution structure,
size, and complexity.
Burden Hours: 2,400 hours.
Needs and Uses: The survey obtains the distribution of expenditures
incurred by recipients of biomedical research awards from the NIH and
will provide information on how the NIH award amounts are expended
across several major categories. This information, along with wage and
price data from other published sources, will be used to generate the
Biomedical Research and Development Price Index (BRDPI). The BRDPI is
an index of prices paid for the labor, supplies, equipment, and other
inputs required to perform the biomedical research the NIH supports in
its intramural laboratories and through its awards to extramural
organizations. The BRDPI is a vital tool for planning the NIH research
budget and analyzing future NIH programs. A survey of award recipients
is currently the only means for updating the expenditure category
weights that are used to prepare the BRDPI. BEA develops the index for
NIH under a reimbursable interagency agreement.
A survey questionnaire with a cover letter that includes a brief
description of, and rationale for, the survey will be sent to potential
respondents by August 2023, 2024, and 2025. A report of the
respondent's expenditures of the NIH award amounts following the
proposed format for expenditure categories attached to the survey's
cover letter, will be requested to be returned no later than December 8
of each survey year, which in most years will be approximately 120 days
after mailing. Survey respondents will be selected based on award
levels, which determine the weight of the respondent in the BRDPI. BEA
proposes to survey 150 organizations that receive NIH biomedical
research awards. This will include the top 100 organizations in total
awards received; 40 additional organizations that are not primarily in
the ``Research and Development (R&D) contracts'' category; and 10
additional organizations that are primarily in the ``R&D contracts''
category. Based on awards data for Fiscal Year 2022 by type of
organization, the top 100 organizations received $25.2 billion in
awards (approximately 76 percent of total awards); the remaining
awards-receiving organizations received $8.1 billion.
Affected Public: Universities or other organizations that are NIH
award recipients.
Frequency: Annual.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
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Legal Authority: 45 CFR 75.302, 75.308, 75.361, and 75.364; 15
U.S.C. 1525; 42 U.S.C. 282.
This information collection request may be viewed at
<a href="http://www.reginfo.gov">www.reginfo.gov</a>. 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 <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>.
Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently
under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search
function and entering either the title of the collection or the OMB
Control Number 0608-0069.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2023-11725 Filed 6-1-23; 8:45 am]
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