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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 43 / Thursday, March 5, 2015 / Notices
Form Number: None.
Type of Review: Regular submission
(request for a new information
collection).
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations; individuals or
households.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
1,050.
Estimated Time per Response: 2 hours
per for hire operation, 20 minutes per
on-site interview of passengers, 20
minutes per importance-satisfaction/
knowledge, attitudes and perceptions
mail back, and 20 minutes for the
expenditure mail back.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 733.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $0 in recordkeeping/reporting
costs.
IV. Request for Comments
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden
(including hours and cost) of the
proposed collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval of this information collection;
they also will become a matter of public
record.
Dated: March 2, 2015.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2015–05019 Filed 3–4–15; 8:45 am]
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Proposed Information Collection;
Comment Request; Economic Value of
the Reduction in the Risk of Whale
Strikes in the Channel Islands National
Marine Sanctuary
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

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The Department of
Commerce, as part of its continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and
respondent burden, invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to
take this opportunity to comment on
proposed and/or continuing information
collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted on or before May 4, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments
to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental
Paperwork Clearance Officer,
Department of Commerce, Room 6616,
14th and Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230 (or via the
Internet at [email protected]).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
directed to Dr. Vernon R. (Bob)
Leeworthy, (301) 713–7261 or
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

I. Abstract
This request is for a new information
collection.
NOAA is sponsoring a class project at
the Bren School of Management &
Science at the University of California,
Santa Barbara to estimate the market
and non-market economic values
associated with the reduction in risk of
whale strikes by different scenarios of
changes in traffic lanes and/or vessel
speeds for major commercial vessels
operating in the region of southern
California where the Channel Islands
National Marine Sanctuary is located.
NOAA will conduct surveys of the for
hire operations that take people out for
non-consumptive recreation to watch
whales or other wildlife to obtain total
use by type of activity (e.g., whale
watching, and other wildlife
observation) and the spatial use by type
of activity. Information will also be
obtained on costs-and-earnings of the
operations and demographic
information on owner/captains and
crews. Surveys will also be conducted
of the passengers aboard the for hire
operation boats to obtain their market
and non-market economic use values for
the reduction in the risk of whale
strikes. Additional information will be
obtained on importance-satisfaction
ratings of key natural resource
attributes, facilities and services along
with demographic profiles of
passengers.
II. Method of Collection
For the for hire operations, a team of
students will go to the operations offices

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and collect the information. For the
passengers, surveys will be conducted at
the docks after the completion of their
whale watching trip. Self-addressed,
postage paid mail back questionnaires
will be used for importance-satisfaction
ratings and whale watching trip
expenditures.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–xxxx.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission
(request for a new information
collection).
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations; individuals or
households.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 25
for-hire operations and 500 individuals.
Estimated Time per Response: 2 hours
per for-hire operation; 20 minutes each
per on-site interview of passengers,
importance-satisfaction mail-back and
expenditure mail-back.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 367: For-hire operations, 50
hours; on-site survey of passengers, 167
hours; importance-satisfaction mailback, 83 hours; expenditure mail-back,
67 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $0 in recordkeeping/reporting
costs.
IV. Request for Comments
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden
(including hours and cost) of the
proposed collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval of this information collection;
they also will become a matter of public
record.
Dated: February 27, 2015.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2015–05003 Filed 3–4–15; 8:45 am]
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