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TABLE 3—CALCULATED AREAS ENSONIFIED WITHIN LEVEL B HARASSMENT ISOPLETHS DURING PILE INSTALLATION AND
REMOVAL

Type of pile

Level B
harassment
zone (km 2),
cetaceans and
pinnipeds

Activity

Vibratory (120 dB)
30-inch steel .............................................................................
24-, 20-, 18-, and 16-inch steel ................................................
14-, 12.75-inch steel, and 14-inch timber .................................

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45.3
7.3

Drilling (120 dB)
30-, 24-, 20-, and 18-inch steel ................................................

Install ........................................................................................

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Impact (160 dB)
30-inch
24-inch
20-inch
18-inch
14-inch

steel .............................................................................
steel .............................................................................
steel .............................................................................
steel .............................................................................
timber ...........................................................................

Request for Public Comments

Dated: March 14, 2018.
Donna S. Wieting,
Director, Office of Protected Resources,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
COMMISSION
Agricultural Advisory Committee
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
AGENCY:

The Commodity Futures
Trading Commission (CFTC) announces
that on Thursday, April 5, 2018, from
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., the Agricultural
Advisory Committee (AAC) will hold a
public meeting in Overland Park,
Kansas. At this meeting, the AAC will
discuss items related to price discovery
and risk management in agricultural
markets.

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SUMMARY:

The meeting will be held on
Thursday, April 5, 2018, from 9:00 a.m.
to 12:00 p.m. Members of the public
who wish to submit written statements
in connection with the meeting should
submit them by April 12, 2018.

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The meeting will take place
at the Sheraton Overland Park
Convention Center at 6100 College
Boulevard, Overland Park, Kansas
66211. You may submit public
comments, identified by ‘‘Agricultural
Advisory Committee,’’ by any of the
following methods:
• CFTC website: https://
comments.cftc.gov. Follow the
instructions to Submit Comments
through the website.
• Mail: Send comments to
Christopher Kirkpatrick, Secretary of the
Commission, Commodity Futures
Trading Commission, Three Lafayette
Center, 1155 21st Street, NW,
Washington, DC 20581.
• Hand Delivery/Courier: Same as
Mail, above.
Any statements submitted in
connection with the committee meeting
will be made available to the public,
including publication on the CFTC
website, http://www.cftc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Charlie Thornton, AAC Designated
Federal Officer, Commodity Futures
Trading Commission, Three Lafayette
Centre, 1155 21st Street NW,
Washington, DC 20581; (202) 418–5500.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
meeting will be open to the public with
seating on a first-come, first-served
basis. Members of the public may also
listen to the meeting by webinar. The
meeting agenda may change to
accommodate other AAC priorities. For
agenda updates and instructions to
access the meeting as a webinar
(forthcoming), please visit the AAC
committee site at: http://www.cftc.gov/
ADDRESSES:

We request comment on our analyses,
the draft authorization, and any other
aspect of this Notice of Proposed IHA
for the proposed [action]. Please include
with your comments any supporting
data or literature citations to help
inform our final decision on the request
for MMPA authorization.

DATES:

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About/CFTCCommittees/Agricultural
Advisory/aac_meetings.
After the meeting, a transcript of the
meeting will be published through a
link on the CFTC’s website, http://
www.cftc.gov. All written submissions
provided to the CFTC in any form will
also be published on the CFTC’s
website.
The public meeting is physically
accessible to people with disabilities.
Persons requiring special
accommodations to attend the meeting
such as sign language interpretation or
other ancillary aids because of a
disability are asked to notify the contact
person above at least ten (10) days in
advance of the meeting.
Dated: March 15, 2018.
Christopher J. Kirkpatrick,
Secretary of the Commission.

(Authority: 5 U.S.C. app. 2 § 10(a)(2)).
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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY
COMMISSION
[Docket No. CPSC–2018–0005]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Survey on Smoke
and Carbon Monoxide Alarms
Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Consumer Product Safety
Commission (CPSC or Commission) is
announcing an opportunity for public

SUMMARY:

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comment on a new proposed collection
of information by the agency. Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), federal agencies are required to
publish notice in the Federal Register
for each proposed collection of
information and to allow 60 days for
public comment in response to the
notice. This notice solicits comments on
a survey that will estimate the use of
smoke and carbon monoxide (CO)
alarms in United States households.
DATES: Submit written or electronic
comments on the collection of
information by May 21, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CPSC–2018–
0005, by any of the following methods:
Electronic Submissions: Submit
electronic comments to the Federal
eRulemaking Portal at: http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
The Commission does not accept
comments submitted by electronic mail
(email), except through
www.regulations.gov. The Commission
encourages you to submit electronic
comments by using the Federal
eRulemaking Portal, as described above.
Written Submissions: Submit written
submissions in the following way: Mail/
hand delivery/courier to: Office of the
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety
Commission, Room 820, 4330 East West
Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814;
telephone (301) 504–7923.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the agency name and
docket number for this notice. All
comments received may be posted
without change, including any personal
identifiers, contact information, or other
personal information provided, to:
http://www.regulations.gov. Do not
submit confidential business
information, trade secret information, or
other sensitive or protected information
that you do not want to be available to
the public. If furnished at all, such
information should be submitted in
writing.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, go to: http://
www.regulations.gov, and insert the
docket number, CPSC–2018–0005, into
the ‘‘Search’’ box, and follow the
prompts. A copy of the draft survey is
available at: http://www.regulations.gov
under Docket No. CPSC–2018–0005,
Supporting and Related Material.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Charu Krishnan, Consumer Product
Safety Commission, 4330 East West
Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814; (301)
504–7221, or by email to: CKrishnan@
cpsc.gov.

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Under the
PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), federal
agencies must obtain approval from the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for each collection of
information they conduct or sponsor.
‘‘Collection of information’’ is defined
in 44 U.S.C. 3502(3) and 5 CFR
1320.3(c) and includes agency surveys.
Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA (44
U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)) requires federal
agencies to provide a 60-day notice in
the Federal Register concerning each
proposed collection of information
before submitting the collection to OMB
for approval. Accordingly, CPSC is
publishing notice of the proposed
collection of information set forth in
this document.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

A. Smoke and Carbon Monoxide (CO)
Alarms Survey
The Commission is authorized under
section 5(a) of the Consumer Product
Safety Act (CPSA), 15 U.S.C. 2054(a), to
conduct studies and investigations
relating to the causes and prevention of
deaths, accidents, injuries, illnesses,
other health impairments, and economic
losses associated with consumer
products. Section 5(b) of the CPSA, 15
U.S.C. 2054(b), further provides that the
Commission may conduct research,
studies, and investigations on the safety
of consumer products or test consumer
products and develop product safety
test methods and testing devices.
In 1992, the CPSC sponsored a
national in-home survey to collect
information on the number of
residential smoke alarms in actual use
in homes and to evaluate the operability
of the sampled alarms. The results were
published in the 1994 report, Consumer
Product Safety Commission Smoke
Detector Operability Survey Report on
Findings.1 Although the survey results
were instrumental for many years in
developing state and local codes and
standards related to smoke alarms,
subsequent changes in technology,
installation codes, and state/local
ordinances in the past 25 years have
rendered the information outdated and
less effective. Stakeholders’ groups for
fire loss prevention have identified a
need for an updated national survey to
increase the installation and
maintenance of smoke alarms in the
United States. In addition, installations
of CO alarms have increased since 1992.
Accordingly, CPSC seeks to update its
data information collection related to
1 Charles L. Smith, Smoke Detector Operability
Survey—Report on Findings, (Bethesda, MD: CPSC,
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smoke and CO alarm use through a new
survey.
CPSC has entered into a contract with
Eureka Facts to conduct a national inhome survey that will estimate the use
and functionality of smoke and CO
alarms in households, as well as user
hazard perceptions regarding such
alarms. The information collected from
this survey will provide CPSC updated
national estimates regarding the use of
smoke alarms and CO alarms in
households based on direct observation
of alarm installations. The survey also
will help CPSC identify the groups that
do not have operable smoke alarms and/
or CO alarms and the reasons they do
not have such alarms. With this
information, CPSC will be able to target
better its messaging to improve
consumer use and awareness regarding
the operability of these alarms. In
addition, the survey results will help to
inform CPSC’s recommendations to
voluntary standards groups and state/
local jurisdictions regarding their codes,
standards, and/or regulations on smoke
and CO alarms.
The survey seeks to collect
information from 1,185 households
within the United States, with an initial
group of 50 households that will be
processed and analyzed to identify any
issues regarding the survey instrument
and data collection procedures. The
survey will use a mixed-mode,
multistage approach to data collection.
The data will be collected through two
modes: Face-to-face, in-home
interviews, and telephone surveys. The
survey instrument will be programmed
on Vovici software and will be
administered via in-home interviews
using a Computer-Assisted Personal
Interview (CAPI) format, or by
telephone, using a Computer-Assisted
Telephone Interview (CATI) format.
Smoke alarms are more prevalent in
homes than CO alarms are. Accordingly,
during the screening process, if
respondents indicate that they have a
smoke alarm that may be tested directly,
the respondents will be scheduled for
an in-home interview for the full survey.
However, if the smoke alarm cannot be
tested directly because the household
does not have a smoke alarm installed,
or the smoke alarms are connected to a
central alarm system that will notify the
police or fire department, the
respondent is not eligible for the inhome survey. Instead of the in-home
survey, these households would be
given a subset of survey questions about
safety attitudes and demographics that
would be collected over the telephone.
For participants eligible for in-home
interviews, a two-member survey team
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related to installed smoke and CO
alarms. The survey team will then test
residents’ smoke and CO alarms. If any
of the alarms do not work, the survey
team will offer to replace them free of
charge.
B. Burden Hours
The survey interview will take
between 20 to 60 minutes, depending on
whether the survey is administered via
the telephone (about 20 minutes) or by
an in-home interview (60 minutes). We
estimate the number of respondents to
be 1,185. We estimate the total annual
burden hours for respondents to be
1,422 hours based on the total time
required to respond to the invitation,
screener, and the actual survey. The
monetized hourly cost is $35.64, as
defined by the average total hourly cost
to employers for employee
compensation for employees across all
occupations as of September 2017,
reported by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics. Accordingly, we estimate the
total annual cost burden to all
respondents to be $50,680. (1,422 hours
× $35.64 = $50,680.). The total cost to
the federal government for the contract
to design and conduct the survey is
$721,773.
C. Request for Comments

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The CPSC invites comments on these
topics:
• Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of CPSC’s functions,
including whether the information will
have practical utility;
• The accuracy of CPSC’s estimate of
the burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
• Ways to enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information to be
collected; and
• Ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents, including through the use
of automated collection techniques,
when appropriate, and other forms of
information technology.
Alberta E. Mills,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Department of the Navy
Board of Advisors to the Presidents of
the Naval Postgraduate School and the
Naval War College; Notice of Federal
Advisory Committee Meeting
Board of Advisors to the
Presidents of the Naval Postgraduate
School and the Naval War College,
Department of the Navy, Department of
Defense.
ACTION: Notice of Federal Advisory
Committee meeting.
AGENCY:

The Department of Defense
(DoD) is publishing this notice to
announce that the following Federal
Advisory Committee meeting of the
Board of Advisors to the Presidents of
the Naval Postgraduate School and the
Naval War College, Board of Advisors
(BOA) to The President of the Naval
Postgraduate School (NPS)
Subcommittee will take place.
DATES: Day 1—Open to the public,
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 from 8:00
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Day 2—Open to the
public, Thursday, April 26, 2018 from
7:30 a.m. to 4:40 p.m. Pacific Time
Zone.
SUMMARY:

The meeting will be held at
the Naval Postgraduate School,
Executive Briefing Center, Herrmann
Hall, 1 University Circle, Monterey, CA.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jacquelyn (Jaye) Panza, 831–656–2514
(Voice), 831–656–2789 (Facsimile),
[email protected] (Email). Mailing
address is Naval Postgraduate School, 1
University Circle, Monterey, CA 93943–
5001. Website: https://my.nps.edu/web/
board-of-advisors/home. The most upto-date changes to the meeting agenda
can be found on the website.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
meeting is being held under the
provisions of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (FACA) of 1972 (5
U.S.C., Appendix, as amended), the
Government in the Sunshine Act of
1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b, as amended), and
41 CFR 102–3.140 and 102–3.150.
Purpose of the Meeting: The purpose
of the Board is to advise and assist the
President, NPS, in educational and
support areas, providing independent
advice and recommendations on items
such as, but not limited to,
organizational management, curricula,
methods of instruction, facilities, and
other matters of interest.
Agenda: The agenda for Wednesday is
as follows: 8:00 a.m.–8:30 a.m.:
Welcome/Administrative Business, 8:30
a.m.–8:45 a.m.: Annual Ethics Update,
ADDRESSES:

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8:45 a.m.–9:45 a.m.: President’s Update,
10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m. :Provost’s Update,
11:00 a.m.–11:45 a.m.: Meet with
Faculty/Deans, 12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m.:
Meet with Students, 1:15 p.m.–2:30
p.m.: Campus Tour Classroom/Labs,
2:45 p.m.–3:45 p.m.: Board Discussion,
3:45 p.m.–4:30 p.m.: NPS Foundation
Update. The agenda for Thursday is as
follows: 7:30 a.m.–8:30 a.m.: Meet with
faculty, 8:45 a.m.–9:45 a.m.:
Professional Education Program
Discussion, 10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.:
Facilities Update, 11:15 a.m.–12:00
p.m.: Board Discussion, 12:00 p.m.–1:30
p.m.: Personal Time, 1:30 p.m.–4:30
p.m.: Board Discussion, 4:30 p.m.
Meeting Adjourned.
Meeting Accessibility: The meeting is
accessible to persons with disabilities.
Written Statements: For access,
information, or to send written
statements for consideration at the
committee meeting contact Ms. Jaye
Panza, Designated Federal Officer,
Naval Postgraduate School, 1 University
Circle, Monterey, CA 93943–5001 or by
fax 831–656–2337 by April 20, 2018.
Dated: March 13, 2018.
E.K. Baldini,
Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate
General’s Coms, U.S. Navy, Federal Register
Liaison Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
National Coal Council
Department of Energy.
Notice of open meetings.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

This notice announces a
meeting of the National Coal Council
(NCC). The Federal Advisory Committee
Act requires that public notice of these
meetings be announced in the Federal
Register.
DATES: Wednesday, April 12, 2018, 8:30
a.m.–12:15 p.m.
ADDRESSES: Wink Hotel, 1143 New
Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington,
DC 20037
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Joseph Giove, U.S. Department of
Energy, E–136/Germantown Building,
1000 Independence Avenue SW,
Washington, DC 20585–0001;
Telephone: 301–903–4130.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Purpose of the Council: The National
Coal Council provides advice and
recommendations to the Secretary of
Energy on general policy matters
relating to coal and the coal industry.
SUMMARY:

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