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the Survey furthers the NWS Weather
Ready Nation (WRN) Roadmap (2013)
Sections 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.8, and
3.1.4.
This information would be collected
at the Cooperative Institute for
Mesoscale Meteorological Studies
(CIMMS) and the University of
Oklahoma’s Center for Risk and Crisis
Management (CRCM), who has
developed data collection instruments
that would allow for more routine and
longitudinal data collection, as the data
will be collected on an annual basis.
Furthermore, this team has developed
interactive ‘‘dashboards’’, or tools, to
visualize the aggregated data.
Respondents include adults (age 18+)
who reside in the United States,
recruited by survey companies that
maintain large panels of people who
sign up to complete internet surveys,
such as Qualtrics and Survey Sampling
International. Respondents will be
asked questions about the ways they
have received, interpreted, and
responded to NWS information,
forecasts, and warnings for severe,
tropical, and winter weather hazards.
Questions about preparedness for
specific hazards such as heat waves,
tornadoes, and drought may also be
included. This data collection serves
many purposes, including gaining a
better understanding of how key factors
within a given population, or
organization, vary over time, location,
and across different groups; the ability
to detect gradual trends or abrupt
changes in those factors over time or in
response to particular events; and the
potential to explore possible
correlations and causal relationships
with other observed variables of
interest. These data will be used by the
OSTI in NWS to develop a baseline and
performance metrics to improve the
information and services it provides and
to help members of the weather
enterprise answer basic questions about
the people in the communities they
serve, which is a necessary step towards
customizing and improving risk
communication, education, and
decision support to meet the
characteristics of the community,
including those in vulnerable
populations. The information collected
will help identify differences and best
practices between communities and
assist NWS in developing new
education and risk communication
strategies. The survey data and its
associated dashboard will serve as
interactive tools to allow NWS
forecasters, partners, and policymakers
to access and explore data for training
and performance evaluation purposes.

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The second proposed collection is
sponsored through NOAA’s FY2021
Weather Program Office’s Social Science
Program, and addresses the Social,
Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
(SBES) component of meeting NOAA’s
Research and Development (R&D)
Vision Areas (2020–2026) to integrate
SBES into products, tools, and services
that improve weather and air quality
forecasting and societal outcomes.
This proposal aims to create an online
survey system for collecting data on the
publics’ perception and response to four
different hazards: Tornados,
thunderstorm winds over 70 miles per
hour (mph), flash floods, and winter
weather. The online surveys will be the
building blocks for a multi-year, crosssectional database on human perception
and response. The survey system will
enable individual National Weather
Service Weather Forecast Offices
(WFOs) to disseminate Quick Response
Surveys (QRS) soon after a hazardous
event occurs to collect perishable data
on the publics’ perceptions and
response. Select WFOs will distribute
the QRSs using web links on NWS
social media and core partners’ social
media or email lists. Surveys will ask
the public questions on timing, location,
weather information sources,
motivations and influences for taking
protective action to gain insights into
how NWS warning communications
interact with these factors to result in
protective action behaviors.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Frequency: Once.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: 15 U.S.C. Ch. 111,
Weather Research and Forecasting
Information.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view the
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 www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain. Find this
particular information collection by
selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day
Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or
by using the search function and
entering the title of the collection.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Alaska Cost Recovery and
Fee Programs
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 October 29,
2021, during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
Title: Alaska Cost Recovery and Fee
Programs.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0711.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission
(Revision and extension of a current
information collection).
Number of Respondents: 1,722.
Average Hours per Response: Fee
payments: 1 minute; volume and value
reports (electronic submission): 1
minute; IFQ Registered Buyer Ex-vessel
Volume and Value Report (nonelectronic submission): 2 hours; fee
calculation forms: 30 minutes;
administrative appeals: 4 hours.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 82
hours.
Needs and Uses: The National Marine
Fisheries Service, Alaska Regional
Office (NMFS AKR), is requesting
renewal and revision of a currently
approved information collection that
contains requirements for the NMFS
AKR cost recovery fee programs and the
observer coverage fee program.
Three revisions are requested for this
collection. A slight revision is requested
to change the title of the collection from
‘‘Alaska Quota Cost Recovery Programs’’
to ‘‘Alaska Cost Recovery and Fee
Programs.’’ Revisions are necessary to
two forms because NMFS AKR has
finished transitioning to online fee
payments and these forms are no longer

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used to submit payments by mail. The
IFQ Permit Holder Fee Submission
Form and the Registered Crab Receiver
Fee Submission Form have been revised
and renamed the IFQ Permit Holder Fee
Calculation Form and the Registered
Crab Receiver Fee Calculation Form,
respectively.
This information collection is
necessary under the Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act), which
authorizes observer deployment fees
and cost recovery fees. Section 304(d) of
the Magnuson-Stevens Act authorizes
and requires the collection of cost
recovery fees for limited access privilege
programs and community development
quota programs. Section 313 of the
Magnuson-Stevens Act authorizes a
system of fees to support a fisheries
research plan and deploy observers in
the North Pacific fisheries. The fee
documentation forms and volume and
value reports that are included in this
collection are necessary to track, verify,
and enforce the fee collection systems.
This information collection is
required in Federal regulations at 50
CFR parts 679 and 680. Information on
the observer coverage fee and cost
recovery fee programs is provided on
the NMFS Alaska Region website at
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/alaska/
commercial-fishing/cost-recoveryprograms-fee-collection-and-feepayment-alaska.
Cost recovery fees may not exceed 3
percent of the ex-vessel value of the
fishery, and must recover the
incremental (program) costs associated
with management, data collection, and
enforcement of these programs that are
directly incurred by government
agencies tasked with overseeing these
fisheries. NMFS recovers program costs
of seven cost recovery programs in this
information collection: Pacific Halibut
and Sablefish Individual Fishing Quota
(IFQ) Program; Bering Sea and Aleutian
Islands Crab Rationalization Program;
Central Gulf of Alaska Rockfish
Program; Western Alaska Community
Development Quota Program; American
Fisheries Act Program; Aleutian Islands
Pollock Program; and Amendment 80
Program. The party responsible for
paying the cost recovery fee varies by
program.
The observer coverage fee funds
deployment of observers and electronic
monitoring in the partial coverage
category of the North Pacific Observer
Program (Observer Program). Unlike the
cost recovery fees, this is a straight fee
and does not recover incremental costs
associated with the program. NMFS
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landed in the partial coverage category
under the Observer Program. The
information collected by observers
provides scientific information for
minimizing bycatch and managing the
groundfish and halibut fisheries in the
Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands and
Gulf of Alaska.
Catcher vessel owners split the
observer coverage fee with the registered
buyers or owners of shoreside or
stationary floating processors. While the
owners of catcher vessels and
processors in the partial coverage
category are each responsible for paying
their portion of the fee, the owners of
shoreside or stationary floating
processors and registered buyers are
responsible for collecting the fees from
catcher vessels, and remitting the full
fee to NMFS. Owners of catcher/
processors in the partial coverage
category are responsible for remitting
the full fee to NMFS.
Processors that receive and purchase
landings of IFQ halibut or sablefish,
rockfish, groundfish, and crab subject to
observer and/or cost recovery fees must
annually submit an ex-vessel volume
and value report that provides
information on the pounds purchased
and value paid. NMFS uses this
information to establish the total exvessel value of the fishery, calculate
standard prices, and establish annual
fee percentages in each fishery.
IFQ permit holders and registered
crab receivers that do not agree with
their NMFS assessed fee liability
summary and who are paying a revised
fee, use the fee calculation forms to
calculate and submit documentation
supporting their revised fee.
Any person who receives an initial
administrative determination for
incomplete payment of a cost recovery
fee or observer coverage fee may appeal
under the appeals procedures set out at
15 CFR part 906.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations; Individuals or
households.
Frequency: Annually; as needed.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory,
Required to Obtain or Retain Benefits.
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view the
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 www.reginfo.gov/

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public/do/PRAMain. Find this
particular information collection by
selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day
Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or
by using the search function and
entering either the title of the collection
or the OMB Control Number 0648–0711.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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Administration
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Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to
Specified Activities; Taking Marine
Mammals Incidental to Marine Site
Characterization Surveys Off of
Delaware
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; proposed incidental
harassment authorization; request for
comments on proposed authorization
and possible renewal.
AGENCY:

NMFS has received a request
from Orsted Wind Power North
America, LLC, (Orsted) on behalf of
Garden State Offshore Energy, LLC
(Garden State) and Skipjack Offshore
Energy, LLC (Skipjack) for authorization
to take marine mammals incidental to
site characterization surveys off the
coast of Delaware. Pursuant to the
Marine Mammal Protection Act
(MMPA), NMFS is requesting comments
on its proposal to issue an incidental
harassment authorization (IHA) to
incidentally take marine mammals
during the specified activities. NMFS is
also requesting comments on a possible
one-time, one-year renewal that could
be issued under certain circumstances
and if all requirements are met, as
described in Request for Public
Comments at the end of this notice.
NMFS will consider public comments
prior to making any final decision on
the issuance of the requested MMPA
authorization and agency responses will
be summarized in the final notice of our
decision.
DATES: Comments and information must
be received no later than April 20, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be
addressed to Jolie Harrison, Chief,
Permits and Conservation Division,
SUMMARY:

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