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OMB Control No: 0693-0094	ICR Reference No: 202304-0693-001
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 202303-0693-002
Agency/Subagency: DOC/NIST	Agency Tracking No: ER
Title: CHIPS Full-Application Information Collection
Type of Information Collection: No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Emergency	Approval Requested By: 03/20/2023
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 06/01/2023
	Date Received in OIRA: 05/18/2023
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	09/30/2023	09/30/2023	09/30/2023
Responses	140	0	140
Time Burden (Hours)	17,500	0	17,500
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Abstract: A potential applicant must submit a full application to be officially considered for a CHIPS Incentive Award. The full application will contain extensive, detailed information on the proposed project(s) to enable evaluation of its merits. Because the full application is resource-intensive, the applicant should strongly consider any pre-application feedback when deciding whether to prepare and submit a full application. The Department will engage with the applicant, to seek further information or clarifications, provide feedback, including on the scope of the proposed project(s) and the amount of CHIPS Incentives request, and, ultimately, to negotiate the preliminary terms of a potential award. In connection with moving into comprehensive due diligence, the Department will prepare and offer the applicant a non-binding Preliminary Memorandum of Terms and invite the applicant to the due diligence phase. If a potential applicant has submitted a pre-application, it should not submit a full application until after it receives written feedback on the pre-application. CHIPS Incentive Program will initially prioritize incentives for the fabrication of leading-edge semiconductors. Leading Edge applicants may access the application upon release and may submit a Full-Application no earlier than 31 Mar 2023 or 21 days after submitting a Statement of Interest whichever is later. All other applicants may access the application upon release but will not be able to submit a Full-Application until 26 June 2023 or 21 days after submitting a Statement of Interest whichever is later.

Emergency Justfication: The CHIPS Program must fund a variety of projects to achieve its economic resilience and national security objectives. Projects will vary in technology, scale, cost, location, risk, and other factors. Over the last six months the Department has been work diligently to under the determine the best way to incentivize manufacturing through a series of requests for information. Input from these activities has helped design a program that will provide financial assistance awards to incentivize investment in facilities and equipment in the United States for semiconductor fabrication, assembly, testing, advanced packaging, and research and development, thereby increasing U.S. economic and national security by supporting a sustainable, competitive domestic semiconductor industry. Because both Congress and the Administration have identified the current low U.S. production of semiconductor chips as a matter of national security and defense, the Secretary of Commerce is implementing this program on an expedited timeline to meet the identified U.S. economic and national security needs. The Department is requesting emergency approval of the CHIPS Full Application by March 20, 2023. The CHIPS Full Application is required to be officially considered for a CHIPS Incentive Award. The full application will contain extensive, detailed information on the proposed project(s) to enable evaluation of its merits. Because the full application is resource-intensive, the applicant should strongly consider any pre-application feedback when deciding whether to prepare and submit a full application. The Department will engage with the applicant, to seek further information or clarifications, provide feedback, including on the scope of the proposed project(s) and the amount of CHIPS Incentives request, and, ultimately, to negotiate the preliminary terms of a potential award. In connection with moving into comprehensive due diligence, the Department will prepare and offer the applicant a non-binding Preliminary Memorandum of Terms and invite the applicant to the due diligence phase. CHIPS Incentive Program will initially prioritize incentives for the fabrication of leading-edge semiconductors. Leading Edge applicants may access the application upon release and may submit a Full-Application no earlier than 31 Mar 2023 or 21 days after submitting a Statement of Interest whichever is later. All other applicants may access the application upon release but will not be able to submit a Full-Application until 26 June 2023 or 21 days after submitting a Statement of Interest whichever is later. A Federal Register notice was published on March 3, 2023 for a public comment period which will end on March 17th. Commerce understands OMB clearance would be for 6 months only and would publish a 60 day notice very quickly after OMB approves the emergency collection.

Authorizing Statute(s): None

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: None

Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
	Not associated with rulemaking

Federal Register Notices & Comments
30-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	88 FR 13436	03/03/2023
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? No

Number of Information Collection (IC) in this ICR: 1

IC Title	Form No.	Form Name
CHIPS Full-Application Information Collection

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved
Annual Number of Responses	140	140
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	17,500	17,500
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Increase Due to:

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement:

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $873,032

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? No

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. Yes

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? No

Agency Contact: Elizabeth Reinhart 301 975-8707 elizabeth.reinhart@nist.gov

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