Notice2025-13321
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Regional Economic Development Data Collection Instrument
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July 16, 2025
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Commerce DepartmentEconomic Development Administration
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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 December 12, 2024 during a 60-day comment period (89 FR 96636). This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 134 (Wednesday, July 16, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31954-31955]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-13321]
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Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 134 / Wednesday, July 16, 2025 /
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Economic Development Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Regional Economic Development Data Collection
Instrument
AGENCY: Economic Development Administration, Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of information collection, request for comment.
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SUMMARY: 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 December 12, 2024
during a 60-day comment period (89 FR 96636). This notice allows for an
additional 30 days for public comments.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit written comments
email to Hallie Davis, Program Manager and Analyst, U.S. Department of
Commerce, at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#96ded2f7e0ffe5a7d6f2f9f5b8f1f9e0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c48c80a5b2adb7f584a0aba7eaa3abb2">[email protected]</span></a> or <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#98c8cad9fbf7f5f5fdf6ecebd8fcf7fbb6fff7ee"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f6a6a4b795999b9b93988285b6929995d8919980">[email protected]</span></a>. Do not submit
Confidential Business Information or otherwise sensitive or protected
information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or
specific questions related to collection activities should be directed
to Hallie Davis, Economic Development Administration, 1401 Constitution
Ave NW, Washington DC 20230, by phone 202.579.0218 or at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d581b0b6bd9da0b7a695b0b1b4fbb2baa3"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0d59686e6545786f7e4d68696c236a627b">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The Economic Development Administration (EDA) leads the Federal
economic development agenda by promoting innovation and competitiveness
and preparing American regions for growth and success in the worldwide
economy. Guided by the basic principle that sustainable economic
development should be driven locally, EDA works directly with
communities and regions to help them build the capacity for economic
development based on local business conditions and needs. Section 28 of
the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (Regional
Technology and Innovation Hub Program (15 U.S.C. 3722a) is the legal
authority under which EDA awards financial assistance and designee
status under the Fiscal Year (FY) 23 Regional Technology and Innovation
Hub Program (``Tech Hubs''). Under Tech Hubs, EDA seeks to strengthen
U.S. economic and national security through place-based investments in
regions with the assets, resources, capacity, and potential to become
globally competitive, within approximately ten years, in the
technologies and industries of the future--and for those industries,
companies, and the good jobs they create to start, grow, and remain in
the U.S. in order to support the growth and modernization of U.S.
manufacturing, improve commercialization of the domestic production of
innovative research, and strengthen U.S. economic and national
security. Tech Hubs is a two-phase program: in Phase 1, EDA funded
Strategy Development grants and designated 31 regions as Tech Hubs. In
Phase 2, designated Tech Hubs are eligible to compete for funding for
implementation projects. Further information on Tech Hubs can be found
at <a href="http://www.eda.gov">www.eda.gov</a>.
The purpose of this notice is to seek comments from the public and
other Federal agencies on a request for a new information collection
for designated Tech Hubs to help ensure that Tech Hub investments are
evidence-based, data driven, and accountable to participants and the
public.
Lead consortium members of the 31 designated Tech Hubs will submit
identified program metrics and qualitative information to help assess
specific program objectives. A one-time questionnaire will be sent to
each of the Tech Hubs consortium leads, which will gather the relevant
data and stories for each of the 31 Tech Hubs designee consortia,
resulting in consortia regional impact evaluation, resources, and tools
for regional economic development decision-makers. The 31 designated
Tech Hubs will provide information on the following objectives:
(1) Accelerating technology innovation, commercialization,
demonstration, and deployment, which may include information on the
number of patents filed, licensing agreements, approximate levels of
research and development expenditures, adoption of new technologies,
and acceleration of current technologies.
(2) Enabling infrastructure and advancing manufacturing, which may
include information on specific facility information.
(3) Integrating an agile workforce system, which may include
information on skills needed by employers, available training, hard-to-
fill vacancies, policies and strategies for worker retention, and
strategies for engagement with underserved workers.
(4) Increasing business and entrepreneurial capacity, which may
include assessing employer competitiveness, relationships with federal,
state, and local entities, current partnerships, and information about
sources of capital to start and grow businesses and to adopt innovative
approaches and technologies.
(5) Strengthening national security, which may include information
on procurement processes, critical inputs, sourcing, supply chains, and
strategic implications of technologies and their use cases.
Tech Hubs designees must submit this data one time to provide a
baseline status of the Tech Hub and to help assess the results of
designee status as well as potential future federal investments.
EDA is particularly interested in public comment on how the
proposed data collection will support the assessment of job quality,
including in ways that rely on pairing this information administrative
data for analysis and other ways to minimize burden, or if alternative
information should be considered.
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II. Method of Collection
Data will be collected electronically.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0610-0113.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Revision with extension.
Affected Public: Tech Hubs designees, which may include a(n):
Institution of higher education; State, territorial, local or Tribal
governments or other political subdivisions of a State, including State
and local agencies, or a consortium thereof; Industry groups or firms
in relevant technology, innovation, or manufacturing sectors; Economic
development organizations or similar entities that are focused
primarily on improving science, technology, innovation,
entrepreneurship, or access to capital; Labor organizations or
workforce training organizations, which may include State and local
workforce development boards; Economic development entities with
relevant expertise, including a district organization; Organizations
that contribute to increasing the participation of underserved
populations in science, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship;
Venture development organizations; Organizations that promote local
economic stability, high wage domestic jobs, and broad-based economic
opportunities, such as employee ownership membership associations and
State or local employee ownerships and cooperative development centers,
financial institutions and investment funds, including community
development financial institutions and minority depository
institutions; Elementary schools and secondary schools, including area
career and technical education schools; National laboratories; Federal
laboratories; Manufacturing extension centers; Manufacturing U.S.A.
Institutes; Transportation planning organizations; A cooperative
extension services; Organizations that represent the perspectives of
underserved communities in economic development initiatives; and
Institutions receiving an award under the National Science Foundation's
(NSF) Regional Innovation Engines Program.
Preliminary Estimated Number of Respondents: Consortium Lead
Members/Tech Hubs Designee Consortia: 31 respondents, responding once.
Estimated Time Per Response: Consortium Lead Members/Tech Hubs
Designee Consortia: 3 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 186 hours.
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Number of Total
Type of respondent (one time) Number of Hours per responses per estimated time
respondents response year (hours)
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Lead Consortium Members/Tech Hubs Designee 31 3 2 186
Consortia......................................
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Total........................................... 31 3 2 186
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Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: $115,394 (cost assumes
application of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics second quarter 2022 mean
hourly employer costs for employee compensation for professional and
related occupations of $62.04).
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory for Consortium Lead Members.
Legal Authority: Stevenson Wydler Technology Innovation Act of
1980, Section 28 (15 U.S.C. 3722a).
IV. Request for Comments
This information collection request may be viewed at <a href="http://reginfo.gov">reginfo.gov</a>.
Follow the instructions to view 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.''
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Compliance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2025-13321 Filed 7-15-25; 8:45 am]
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