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II. Method of Collection
Respondents have a choice of either
electronic or paper forms. Methods of
submittal include email of electronic
forms, and mail and facsimile
transmission of paper forms.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–0613.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission
(extension of a currently approved
collection).
Affected Public: Not-for-profit
institutions; State, Local, or Tribal
government; Federal government;
business or other for-profit
organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
58.
Estimated Time per Response: Written
notification describing research,
monitoring or habitat restoration
activities, 40 hours; development of
fisheries management and evaluation
plans or state 4(d) research programs, 40
hours; reports, 5 hours; development of
a tribal fishery management plan, 20
hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 1,760.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $200.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
Obtain or Retain Benefits.
Legal Authority: Endangered Species
Act.

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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
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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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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; Improving
Knowledge About NWS Forecaster
Core Partner Needs for Reducing
Vulnerability to Compound Threats in
Landfalling Tropical Cyclones Amid
COVID–19
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
(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 September 19, 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,
SUMMARY:

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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).
Compound hazards, like tornadoes and
flash floods (called TORFFs), are a
significant issue for risk communication
and are common in landfalling tropical
cyclones. Currently, NOAA lacks data
and data collection instruments that
articulate and explain how emergency
managers and broadcast meteorologists
receive, interpret, and respond to NWS
prediction information about these
compound hazards before and during
landfalling tropical cyclones, like
Hurricane Ida. Furthermore, NOAA
lacks adequate knowledge about how
these risks are best communicated
during COVID–19, when it is important
for those who are most vulnerable to
adjudicate their risks of exposure to
both severe weather and COVID–19.
Such knowledge about compound
weather hazards would be particularly
useful for NWS forecasters who
communicate risk information to their
colleagues in emergency management
and broadcast meteorology (hereafter
‘‘partners’’), especially when
information about sheltering practices,
evacuation, and vulnerability can be
complicated by exposure to public
health threats and bilingual needs.
Without this type of information
about how partners grapple with the
communication of compound hazards
amid the pandemic, NOAA, and
specifically the NWS, cannot determine
if it has met its mission of saving lives
and property, propose societal impact
performance metrics, nor demonstrate if
progress or improvements have been
made, as outlined in the Weather
Research and Forecasting Innovation
Act of 2017. This effort aims to advance
the goal to collaborate across sectors on
‘‘research necessary to enhance the
integration of social science knowledge
into weather forecast and warning
processes, including to improve the
communication of threat information
necessary to enable improved severe
weather planning and decision making
on the part of individuals and
communities (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
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Based Decision Support Services (IDSS)
and Research to Operations and
Operations to Research (R2O/O2R)’’
with specific attention to Goal 1,
sections 1.1, 1.2, 1.5, 1.13 and Goal 3,
sections 3.6 and 3.8. Furthermore, data
collected with NWS partners furthers
the NWS Weather Ready Nation (WRN)
Roadmap (2013) Sections 1.1.10, and
1.2.2.
Two types of data—interviews and
surveys—will be collected by
researchers at Texas Tech University’s
Risk and Equity in Disasters (RED) Lab
and at Texas A&M. They have begun to
develop data collection instruments that
will allow them to gather risk
information from both English and
Spanish speaking partners. These
instruments are being created in
collaboration with experts in emergency
management and broadcast meteorology
through the Board on Emergency
Management and the Board on
Professional Development within the
American Meteorological Society. This
helps assure the appropriateness of
questions relative to different decision
spaces, job roles, and communication
processes.
This data collection serves many
purposes, including building knowledge
of how partners attend to, make sense
of, and communicate compound
hazards, as well as challenges they face
in identifying vulnerable populations to
severe weather in the context of COVID–
19. This data may be used by the NWS
training centers in Norman, OK, and
Kansas City, MO, to inform their
practices for Impact-Based Decision
Support Services (IDSS) and to improve
the information and services it provides
to members of the Weather Enterprise.
Specifically, data collected will help
NWS develop new forecaster training
modules, situational awareness
strategies, and best practices for IDSS
with partners. This research-tooperations application of knowledge is
a necessary step in improving risk
communication among expert groups,
which, in turn, benefits vulnerable
populations who ultimately must act
quickly and safely to adjudicate which
risks pose the greatest threat to them as
the threats evolve.

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II. Method of Collection
The primary methods of data
collection for this study will be virtual
or in-person semi-structured interviews
(COVID–19 restriction dependent) with
partners for a case study of TORFFs in
the first year of the grant (2021–2022, or
Phase 1) followed by a national online
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(2022–2023, or Phase 2). For Phase 1,
semi-structured interviews will be
conducted with partners in local areas
impacted by a recent hurricane with
embedded TORFF hazards, such as
Hurricane Ida and its remnants.
Questions will focus on risk assessment,
risk communication, and vulnerability
within the context of a pandemic.
Convenience sampling will be used
based on those areas that experienced
TORFF warnings, as verified by sources
like the Iowa Environmental Mesonet,
and internet searches of news stories
about TORFF impacts. For Phase 2, a
national online survey will be designed
and fielded after interview data have
been analyzed. Results from Phase 1
will be used to guide survey design,
including sampling strategy and
sampling frame. Survey questions will
reflect findings and elicit information
about compound hazard risk
communication and vulnerability for
the same population. The survey will be
designed with assistance from a
consulting service (e.g., Qualtrics) and
suggestions from collaborators from
public safety. Interview guides and
survey questions will be translated into
and conducted in Spanish, where
appropriate.
Respondents will include adults (age
18+) who reside in the United States,
recruited through emails and phone
calls to partners in areas impacted by
TORFFs embedded in landfalling
tropical cyclones. Contact information
for respondents is publicly available
and will be obtained both by internet
searches and, when needed, with the
assistance of local NWS Weather
Forecast Office staff to identify
appropriate participants in emergency
management and broadcast media
markets. For interviews, emails and
phone calls will be used to recruit
participants and coordinate interviews
via Zoom or other video platform;
interviews may also be conducted in
person, depending on local COVID
restrictions. Survey respondents will
likewise be contacted through email and
directed to an online survey. NWS staff
may assist in facilitating email
introductions to their partners for
interview requests and to help distribute
survey links to ensure sufficient
response rates. Our collaborators with
the American Meteorological Society
and the National Weather Association
will also help us identify outreach
approaches to recruit participants (e.g.,
social media and message boards) and
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III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–XXXX.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular (New
information collection).
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations; State, Local, or
Tribal government; Federal government.
Estimated Number of Respondents for
interviews for Interviews: 30.
Estimated Time Per Response: 1 hour
per respondent.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours for Interviews: 30.
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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