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Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 73 / Monday, April 16, 2018 / Notices
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration

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Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will
submit to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for clearance the
following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35).
Agency: National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Title: NOAA Customer Surveys.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0342.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular (extension of
a currently approved information
collection).
Number of Respondents: 21,667.
Average Hours per Response: Five to
ten minutes.
Burden Hours: 6,276.
Needs and Uses: This request is for
extension of a currently approved
generic information collection.
This collection follows the guidelines
contained in the OMB Resource Manual
for Customer Surveys. In accordance
with Executive Order 12862, the
National Performance Review, and good
management practices, NOAA offices
seek approval to continue to gather
customer feedback on services and/or
products, which can be used in
planning for service/product
modification and prioritization. Under
this generic clearance, individual offices
would use approved questionnaires and
develop new questionnaires, as needed,
by selecting subsets of the approved set
of collection questions and tailoring
those specific questions to be
meaningful for their particular
programs. These proposed
questionnaires would then be submitted
to OMB using a fast-track request for
approval process, for which separate
Federal Register notices are not
required. Surveys currently being
conducted include website satisfaction
surveys, Weather Service product
surveys and National Marine Sanctuary
participation surveys.
The generic clearance will not be used
to survey any bodies NOAA regulates
unless precautions are taken to ensure
that the respondents believe that they
are not under any risk for not
responding or for the contents of their
responses; e.g., in no survey to such a
population will the names and
addresses of respondents be required.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; not-for-profit institutions;

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state, local or tribal government;
business or other for-profit
organizations.
Frequency: One time.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
This information collection request
may be viewed at reginfo.gov. 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 sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to OIRA_Submission@
omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395–5806.
Dated: April 11, 2018.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Proposed Information Collection;
Comment Request; Reporting of Sea
Turtle Incidental Take in Virginia
Chesapeake Bay Pound Net
Operations
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

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 June 15, 2018.
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 Carrie Upite, Greater
Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office,
National Marine Fisheries Service, 55
Great Republic Drive, Gloucester, MA
01930; (978) 282–8475; or carrie.upite@
noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

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I. Abstract
This request is for extension of a
current information collection.
This action would continue the
reporting measure requiring all Virginia
Chesapeake Bay pound net fishermen to
report interactions with endangered and
threatened sea turtles, found both live
and dead, in their pound net operations.
When a live or dead sea turtle is
discovered during a pound net trip, the
Virginia pound net fisherman is
required to report the incidental take to
National Marine Fisheries Service
(NMFS) and, if necessary, the
appropriate rehabilitation and stranding
network. This information will be used
to monitor the level of incidental take in
the state-managed Virginia pound net
fishery and ensure that the seasonal
pound net leader restrictions (50 CFR
223.206(d)(10)) are adequately
protecting listed sea turtles. Based on
the number of sea turtle takes
anticipated in the Virginia pound net
fishery and the available number of
Virginia pound net fishermen and
pound nets, the number of responses
anticipated on an annual basis is 988.
This is an increase from the previous
information collection (n=483) as we
used the maximum number of possible
licensed pound net sites per Virginia
fishery regulations (n=161) on which to
base our information collection
estimate, rather than the number of
documented sites from NMFS
monitoring efforts (n=80), as the latter is
outdated and may be an underestimate.
II. Method of Collection
Reports may be made either by
telephone or fax.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–0470.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission
(extension of a current information
collection).
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
35.
Estimated Time per Response: 10
minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 165.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $227 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

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