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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
[RTID 0648–XC072]

Marine Mammals; File No. 26314
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; receipt of application.
AGENCY:

Notice is hereby given that
the St. George Traditional Council, P.O.
Box 940, St. George Island, AK 99591
(Responsible Party: Mark Merculief) has
applied in due form for a permit to
conduct research on northern fur seals
(Callorhinus ursinus), Steller sea lions
(Eumetopias jubatus), and harbor seals
(Phoca vitulina).
DATES: Written, telefaxed, or email
comments must be received on or before
July 18, 2022.
ADDRESSES: The application and related
documents are available for review by
selecting ‘‘Records Open for Public
Comment’’ from the ‘‘Features’’ box on
the Applications and Permits for
Protected Species (APPS) home page,
https://apps.nmfs.noaa.gov, and then
selecting File No. 26314 from the list of
available applications. These documents
are also available upon written request
via email to NMFS.Pr1Comments@
noaa.gov.
Written comments on this application
should be submitted via email to
[email protected]. Please
include File No. 26314 in the subject
line of the email comment.
Those individuals requesting a public
hearing should submit a written request
via email to NMFS.Pr1Comments@
noaa.gov. The request should set forth
the specific reasons why a hearing on
this application would be appropriate.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sara
Young or Shasta McClenahan, Ph.D.,
(301) 427–8401.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
subject permit is requested under the
authority of the Marine Mammal
Protection Act of 1972, as amended
(MMPA; 16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), the
regulations governing the taking and
importing of marine mammals (50 CFR
part 216); the Endangered Species Act of
1973, as amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531
et seq.), the regulations governing the
taking, importing, and exporting of
endangered and threatened species (50
CFR parts 222–226); and the Fur Seal
Act of 1966, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1151
et seq.).
The applicant proposes to conduct
research on pinnipeds to fulfill the co-

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management agreement between the St.
George Traditional Council and NMFS
for northern fur seals and Steller sea
lions on St. George Island, Alaska. Take
activities involve ground survey, aerial
survey by an unmanned aircraft system,
vessel survey, observation, and
photography. Animals may also be
harassed during disentanglement of
northern fur seals covered under the
applicant’s Marine Mammal Stranding
Agreement. In addition, samples may be
collected, imported, or exported from
subsistence harvests or beach-cast
pinnipeds, or opportunistically
encountered unidentified cetacean and
pinniped carcasses. Take numbers
include up to 2,600 northern fur seals,
350 Steller sea lions, 260 harbor seals,
and up to 100 each unidentified
cetacean and pinniped carcasses. The
permit would be valid for five years.
In compliance with the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42
U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), an initial
determination has been made that the
activity proposed is categorically
excluded from the requirement to
prepare an environmental assessment or
environmental impact statement.
Concurrent with the publication of
this notice in the Federal Register,
NMFS is forwarding copies of the
application to the Marine Mammal
Commission and its Committee of
Scientific Advisors.
Dated: June 14, 2022.
Amy Sloan,
Acting Chief, Permits and Conservation
Division, Office of Protected Resources,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
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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; Developing, Testing, and
Evaluating Methods for Transitioning
the Brief Vulnerability Overview Tool
(BVOT) to NWS Weather Forecasting
Office Operations
National Oceanic &
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of information collection,
request for comment.
AGENCY:

The Department of
Commerce, in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995

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(PRA), invites 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. The purpose of this
notice is to allow for 60 days of public
comment preceding submission of the
collection to OMB.
DATES: To ensure consideration,
comments regarding this proposed
information collection must be received
on or before August 16, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments to
Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer,
at [email protected]. Please
reference OMB Control Number 0648–
XXXX in the subject line of your
comments. Do not submit Confidential
Business Information or otherwise
sensitive or protected information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
specific questions related to collection
activities should be directed to Nicole
Kurkowski, R2O Team Lead, DOC/
NOAA/NWS/OSTI, 1325 East-West
Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910,
301–427–9104, nicole.kurkowski@
noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
This is a request for a new collection
of information. The data collection is
sponsored by DOC/NOAA/National
Weather Service (NWS)/Office of
Science and Technology Integration
(OSTI). Currently, NOAA lacks data and
data collection instruments that can
capture local, knowledge-based,
weather-hazard vulnerability
information from NWS Weather
Forecasting Office (WFO) meteorologists
and their County Warning Area (CWA)based core partners (especially, their
county-based emergency managers
(EMs). The CWA boundaries are the
counties/zones for which each WFO is
responsible for issuing forecasts and
warnings. Without this vulnerability
information, WFO-level meteorologists’
situational awareness of the greatest
concerns of and risks to local
communities often suffer. In addition,
during situations where a WFO must
rely on a back-up office due to a WFO
being affected by severe weather
conditions (e.g., having to shelter, losing
power due to the impacts of a hurricane,
tornado outbreak, etc.), back-up WFOs
rarely have the situational awareness of
the critical areas of concern to local core
partners and, thus, are less able to
communicate mission critical messaging
to those core partners. Without this type

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of local vulnerability information,
NOAA, and the NWS specifically, is
limited in its ability to meet its mission
of saving lives and property as outlined
in the Weather Research and
Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017
(especially Pub. L. 115–25 Sec.
405.d.1.A, 405.d.1.B, Sec 406.c.2.B).
This effort aims to advance the Tornado
Warning Improvement and Extension
Program (TWIEP)’s goal to ‘‘reduce the
loss of life and economic losses from
tornadoes through the development and
extension of accurate, effective, and
timely tornado forecasts, predictions,
and warnings, including the prediction
of tornadoes beyond one hour in
advance (Pub. L. 115–25)’’. This work
addresses NOAA’s 5-year Research and
Development Vision Areas (2020–2026)
Section 1.4 (FACETs). This effort also
advances the NWS Strategic Plan (2019–
2022) ‘‘Transformative Impact-Based
Decision Support Services (IDSS) and
Research to Operations and Operations
to Research (R2O/O2R). The Brief
Vulnerability Overview Tool (BVOT)
would contribute to 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. In addition, because the BVOT is
‘‘hazard agnostic’’—it is used to collect
vulnerabilities based on different
weather hazards and can be organized to
display those vulnerabilities only
related to those specific hazards that are
relevant to an NWS WFO at any given
moment—it can be seen to help advance
a number of hazard-specific
congressional laws including (but, not
limited to) those related to tsunamis
(Pub. L. 109–424 Sec. 5.b.4, 5.c.2, 5.c.3,
Sec. 6; Pub. L. 115–25 Sec. 505.c.5.B
and Sec. 505.d.1) and the recently
introduced TORNADO Act (S.3817 Sec.
3.b.6.C).
This study will assess the feasibility
of NWS WFOs working with their local
core partners to collect local known
vulnerability points associated with
specific types of weather hazards in
order to populate a simple (but agile)
GIS shapefile that can be used to
provide WFO-level meteorologists with
situational awareness of the
vulnerabilities of greatest concern in
their CWAs. This vulnerability
awareness tool—the Brief Vulnerability
Overview Tool (BVOT)—has been
designed by researchers at the
University of Oklahoma’s Center for
Applied Social Research (CASR) and
Center for the Analysis and Prediction
of Storms (CAPS), and it would permit
NWS WFOs to work closely with their
core partners to collect initial
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require little training and little effort
through the use of widely available,
simple online data collection methods.
Research participants will include
adult (age 18+) NWS WFO
meteorologists and their core partners
(primarily the county emergency
managers (EMs)) from four WFOs
around the country. Participants will be
asked to participate in a number of
background interviews. In addition,
they will be asked to complete an online
(Qualtrics) survey assessing the
attachment, trust, and knowledge of
WFO meteorologists and their core
partners. This survey will be conducted
pre-/post-study in order to identify
changes over time. Participants will also
be asked to contribute to and learn how
to maintain and use a Brief
Vulnerability Overview Tool (BVOT)—a
GIS shapefile-based way of collecting
and displaying local, known
vulnerability points within the existing
operational environment of NWS WFOs.
The creation of a BVOT provides a
number of benefits over and above
current efforts within the NWS. These
include (1) improved situational
awareness for NWS WFO
meteorologists; (2) improved spatial
awareness of vulnerabilities of greatest
concerns to core partners can prompt
and fine-tune messaging and Decision
Support Services (DSS) provided to
these core partners; (3) improved spatial
situational awareness for backup offices
if an NWS WFO loses its capacity to
operate; (4) improved training and
orientation for meteorologists who are
new to an NWS WFO; (5) providing a
structured requirement for maintaining
an evolving, ‘‘living’’ database of
vulnerabilities that can be shared and
equally accessed across the WFO and
the NWS; and (6) providing
opportunities to improve the trust,
communication, and rapport between an
NWS WFO and its core partners through
the collaborative construction and
periodic updating of the BVOT.
II. Method of Collection
Recruitment & Training: Having
worked extensively with NWS WFOs
and their partner Emergency Managers
and core partners in both the Central
and Southern regions, the Principle
Investors are familiar with what will be
necessary to receive permission to
conduct the research efficiently and in
a manner that respects and minimizes
the necessary effort that will be
requested from EMs and core partners
(i.e., the non-federal/federallycontracted participants in this study).
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partners (generally, this is limited to
county EMs, but could include a few
municipal or, if relevant, tribal EM
partners) to (1) describe the project to
them, (2) seek informed consent from
them to participate in the study, (3)
request that all consented study
participants complete the online, pre-/
post-NWS-Core Partner Trust survey
and background interviews, (4) provide
training/orientation modules to all
study participants on how to select and
map vulnerability data for the BVOT,
and (5) develop a timeline for
completing the gathering of
vulnerability data.
Data Gathering Methods
Background interviews will be
conducted virtually using a video
conferencing platform (either Zoom or
Google Meet). These will be audiorecorded only and will focus on
professional background and
perceptions of critical decision-making
practices related to hazardous weather
information and understandings of local
vulnerabilities. We expect to only
conduct background interviews with a
sample of the EMs who are participating
in the study.
Trust and Relationship surveys will
be administered through an online,
Qualtrics survey platform and will be
administered at the start of the study
and at the end of the study to assess the
impact of NWS meteorologists and EMs
working together on vulnerability
mapping.
An Online Focus Group will be
conducted after the BVOT has been
built to get feedback about how both
NWS meteorologists and EMs perceive
the process of building the BVOT, how
it could and should be used in the
future, and what has been helpful about
the BVOT.
Vulnerability Mapping itself will
involve using Google Earth Pro or
ArcGIS Online to map local, known,
discrete, weather hazard-related
vulnerabilities in one’s area of
responsibility (for the EMs, this is
usually at the county level). EM
participants are encouraged to limit
their time doing this mapping to no
more than about 60 minutes in order to
ensure that they only focus on those
vulnerabilities of greatest concern.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–XXXX.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular (New
information collection).
Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal
Government (Emergency Managers).
Estimated Number of Respondents:
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Estimated Time per Response: Online
Focus Group and Vulnerability
Mapping: 1 hour each; Background
Interview: 1.5 hours; Trust Surveys: 15
minutes each.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 425.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: None.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: 15 U.S.C. Ch. 111,
Weather Research and Forecasting
Information.
IV. Request for Comments
We are soliciting public comments to
permit the Department/Bureau to: (a)
Evaluate whether the proposed
information collection is necessary for
the proper functions of the Department,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the
accuracy of our estimate of the time and
cost burden for this proposed collection,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c)
Evaluate ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (d) Minimize the
reporting burden on those who are to
respond, including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. We will include or
summarize each comment in our request
to OMB to approve this ICR. Before
including your address, phone number,
email address, or other personal
identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment—including your
personal identifying information—may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you may ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM
PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR
SEVERELY DISABLED
Quarterly Public Meeting
Committee for Purchase From
People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
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The Committee is announcing
a virtual public meeting to be held July
21, 2022.
DATES: Register no later than: July 19,
2022.
ADDRESSES: 1401 S Clark Street, Suite
715, Arlington, Virginia 22202.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information or to submit
comments contact: Angela Phifer,
telephone: (703) 798–5873 or email
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice is published pursuant to 41
U.S.C. 8503(a)(2) and 41 CFR 51–2.3. Its
purpose is to provide interested persons
an opportunity to register to attend a
public meeting.
Summary: This notice provides
information to access and participate in
the July 21, 2022, regular quarterly
public meeting of the Committee for
Purchase From People Who Are Blind
or Severely Disabled, operating as the
U.S. AbilityOne Commission
(Commission), via Zoom webinar. The
Commission oversees the AbilityOne
Program, which provides employment
opportunities through Federal contracts
for people who are blind or have
significant disabilities in the
manufacture and delivery of products
and services to the Federal Government.
The Javits-Wagner-O’Day Act (41 U.S.C.
Chapter 85) authorizes the contracts and
established 15 Presidential appointees,
including private citizens conversant
with the employment interests and
concerns of people who are blind or
significantly disabled. Presidential
appointees also include representatives
of Federal agencies. The public
meetings include updates from the
Commission and staff.
Date and Time: July 21, 2022, from
1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., ET.
Place: This meeting will occur via
Zoom webinar.
Commission Statement: The
Commission invites public comments or
suggestions regarding the types of
technical assistance that may be
provided to AbilityOne-participating
nonprofit agencies during future
compliance inspections or regulatory
assistance visits. The technical
assistance is intended to enhance
overall compliance and oversight, and/
or to support contract performance
quality, and/or to enhance the quality of
employment in the AbilityOne Program.
Registration: Attendees not requesting
speaking time must register not later
than 11:59 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, July
19, 2022. Attendees requesting speaking
time should register not later than 11:59
p.m. EDT on July 8, 2022, and use the
comment fields in the registration form
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to specify the intended speaking
topic/s. The registration link will be
posted on the Commission’s home page,
www.abilityone.gov, not later than
Tuesday, June 21, 2022. During
registration, you may choose to submit
comments, or you may request speaking
time at the meeting. The Commission
may invite some attendees who submit
advance comments to speak to their
comments during the meeting.
Comments submitted via the registration
link will be reviewed with the
Commission members prior to the
meeting. Comments posted in the chat
box during the meeting will be shared
with the Commission members after the
meeting.
Personal Information: Do not include
any information that you do not want
publicly disclosed.
For Further Information Contact:
Angela Phifer, (703) 798–5873.
The Commission is not subject to the
requirements of 5 U.S.C. 552(b);
however, the Commission published
this notice to encourage the broadest
possible participation in its July 21,
2022, public meeting.
Michael R. Jurkowski,
Acting Director, Business Operations.
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Procurement List; Proposed Additions
and Deletions
Committee for Purchase From
People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled.
ACTION: Proposed additions to and
deletions from the Procurement List.
AGENCY:

The Committee is proposing
to add product(s) and service(s) to the
Procurement List that will be furnished
by nonprofit agencies employing
persons who are blind or have other
severe disabilities and deletes service(s)
previously furnished by such agencies.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before: July 17, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase
From People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled, 1401 S Clark Street, Suite 715,
Arlington, Virginia 22202–4149.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information or to submit
comments contact: Michael R.
Jurkowski, Telephone: (703) 785–6404,
or email [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice is published pursuant to 41
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