Notice2024-14794
Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Ecosystem Questionnaire for States and Territories To Inform CHIPS R&D Facility Site Selection Process
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Published
July 5, 2024
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Commerce DepartmentNational Institute of Standards and Technology
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 129 (Friday, July 5, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 55586]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-14794]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request;
Ecosystem Questionnaire for States and Territories To Inform CHIPS R&D
Facility Site Selection Process
The Department of Commerce will submit the following information
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for
emergency review and approval 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.
Agency: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Title: Ecosystem Questionnaire for States and Territories to Inform
CHIPS R&D Facility Site Selection Process.
OMB Control Number 0693-XXXX.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Emergency submission, New Information Collection
Request.
Number of Respondents: 56.
Average Hours per Response: 10 hours.
Burden Hours: 560 hours.
Needs and Uses: CHIPS R&D is seeking to collect information needed
for implementation of the CHIPS Act of 2022 (Division A of Pub. L. 117-
167) (the Act). The Act tasks the Secretary of Commerce with carrying
out sections 9904 and 9906 of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (15 U.S.C. 4652, 4654,
and 4656). This statute aims to catalyze long-term growth in the
domestic semiconductor industry in support of U.S. economic resilience
and national security. This information collection is needed in
conjunction with a multi-phase site selection process that will be used
to identify a flagship research and development prototyping and
packaging facility that is anticipated to become the lynchpin of both
the National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC) and the National
Advanced Packaging Manufacturing Program (NAPMP), the two largest
research and development programs established by Congress through the
CHIPS Act of 2022. The information is important for the Department of
Commerce and Natcast--the purpose-built nonprofit entity which serves
as the operator of the NSTC, and which is anticipated to serve as the
operator of this flagship facility--in order to establish at the outset
of the site selection process which states and/or territories have
existing semiconductor ecosystems that could support this facility.
Both the NSTC and NAPMP have a need to expeditiously identify
facilities in order to accomplish their statutory missions. The NSTC is
required to ``to conduct advanced semiconductor manufacturing, design
and packaging research, and prototyping that strengthens the entire
domestic ecosystem.'' 15 U.S.C. 4656(c)(2)(A). The NSTC is expected to
``significantly reduce the time and cost of moving from design idea to
commercialization through access to shared facilities, digital assets
and technical expertise for advancing design, prototyping,
manufacturing, packaging, and scaling of semiconductors and
semiconductor-related products'' (<a href="https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/2023/04/26/NSTC-Vision-Strategy-Fact-Sheet.pdf">https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/2023/04/26/NSTC-Vision-Strategy-Fact-Sheet.pdf</a>). The NAPMP is
expected to ``include an Advanced Packaging Piloting Facility (APPF)
where successful development efforts will be transitioned and validated
for scaled transition to U.S. manufacturing. This is a key facility for
technology transfer to high-volume manufacturing'' (<a href="https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/2023/11/19/NAPMP-Vision-Paper-20231120.pdf">https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/2023/11/19/NAPMP-Vision-Paper-20231120.pdf</a>, pg. 3).
The information collection will take the form of an Ecosystem
Questionnaire for States and Territories to Inform CHIPS R&D Facility
Site Selection Process. The Questionnaire will pose identical questions
to Economic Development Organizations (EDOs) in all 56 states and
territories. This collection is subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act
as the RFI would pose identical questions to all 56 states and
territories. See 5 CFR 1320.3(c)(4) and (k)). The Ecosystem
Questionnaire will request information regarding the extent to which a
state or territory can demonstrate: the presence of entities from the
semiconductor value chain; a semiconductor workforce and current
workforce development programs; semiconductor-related advanced
education and research programs; significant state, local, and private
investment in the semiconductor ecosystem; and state incentives for
semiconductor research and development. The Ecosystem Questionnaire is
also structured to be as minimally burdensome as possible, both because
responses are predominantly requested in the form of multiple-choice
answers, and because the information the Questionnaire solicits should
be easily available to EDOs. This will be a one-time collection of
information to all 56 states and territories. Only states or
territories that submit responses to the Ecosystem Questionnaire will
be considered for selection of this facility.
Affected Public: State and local governments.
Frequency: Once.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority
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 by 11:59 p.m. EST on July 12, 2024 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
the title of the collection.
Peter Robbins,
Attorney-Advisor, Office of the General Counsel for Legislation and
Regulation, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2024-14794 Filed 7-3-24; 8:45 am]
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