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avoidance protocols on our website,
https://www.npfmc.org/current-or-nextcouncil-meeting/.
Public Comment
Public comment letters will be
accepted and should be submitted
electronically through the links at
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encourages written public comment for
this meeting, to avoid any potential for
technical difficulties to compromise oral
testimony. The written comment period
is open from December 20, 2024, and
closes at 12 p.m. Alaska Time on Friday,
January 31, 2025.
Although other non-emergency issues
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arising after publication of this notice
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final action to address the emergency.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: January 10, 2025.
Rey Israel Marquez,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, 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; Licensing of Private RemoteSensing Space Systems
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

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comment preceding submission of the
collection to OMB.
DATES: To ensure consideration,
comments regarding this proposed
information collection must be received
on or before March 17, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments to
Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer,
at [email protected]. Please
reference OMB Control Number 0648–
0174 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 Dr.
Sarah Brothers, Director, Commercial
Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs,
1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Room
31027, Washington, DC 20230; (771)
216–4112; [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
This is a request for revision and
extension to an approved information
collection.
The Department of Commerce (DOC),
through the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Office of Space Commerce (OSC)
Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory
Affairs (CRSRA), has the authority to
regulate private space-based remote
sensing under the Land Remote Sensing
Policy Act of 1992, 51 U.S.C. 60101 et
seq. (the Act) and regulations at 15 CFR
part 960. The regulations facilitate the
development of the U.S. private remote
sensing industry and thus promote the
collection and widespread availability
of remote sensing data while preserving
essential U.S. national security interests
and observing international obligations.
The proposed revisions in this notice
are primarily tied to the development of
a new, online platform to manage
license actions called the Commerce
Licensing and Compliance System for
Space (CLCSS). CLCSS is intended to
streamline the process for
communications with CRSRA regarding
applications, notices, modification
requests, and annual compliance
certifications. CRSRA is committed to
improving the user experience and
providing a simplified license
application and management process for
all licensees. The forms discussed below
and their integration with CLCSS will
streamline, clarify, and expedite
paperwork submissions required to
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Applications are made in response to
the requirements in the Act, as
amended. At present, CRSRA sends the
applicant an Application Guide, which
repeats the application questions and
criteria listed in Appendix A to 15 CFR
part 960 with an additional explanatory
text. In the future, the CLCSS system
will incorporate these questions and
response criteria in a fillable, online
form format. The application
information received is used to
determine if the applicant meets the
legal criteria for issuance of a license to
operate a private remote sensing space
system, i.e., the proposed system will be
operated in accordance with the Act,
U.S. national security concerns and
international obligations. Application
information includes information about
the applicant (such as corporate
information), the launch dates of any
components going to space, and
technical specifications of all
components of the remote sensing
system. CRSRA has observed that
relying on both the Appendix and the
Application Guide creates confusion
and has led to the submission of
incomplete applications. CRSRA
anticipates the fillable format, which
combines both the Application Guide
and criteria in Appendix A, will help
any new applicant accurately provide
the necessary information. If a licensee
wishes to modify its license, either to
reflect changes in its business practices
or technical changes to its system, or to
request different license conditions, it
may submit such a request to CRSRA
and explain why the change is sought.
CRSRA needs this information to be
able to keep licenses accurate and to
respond to the regulated community’s
needs. CRSRA is incorporating a new
form called the License Modification
Form with a standard set of questions
licensees can provide for the
modification request to be processed.
Licensees will identify the relevant
license provisions, the requested
changes to those provisions, and the
date upon which the requested change
will take effect. CRSRA anticipates this
will expedite how quickly the requests
are processed and remove a moderate
amount of paperwork by clarifying what
to include with a modification request.
Licensees are required to notify
CRSRA when a spacecraft launches or
deploys; upon disposal of an on-orbit
component of the licensed system; upon
detection of an anomaly; and upon the
licensee’s financial insolvency or
dissolution. The existing information
collection already allows for the
collection of this information through
the Licensee Notification Form (LNF).

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The approved LNF can already ease the
burden on licensees when reporting this
already-required information. This
information is critical to fulfilling one of
the United States’ key international
obligations, which is to authorize and
continually supervise U.S. nationals’
activities in space. CRSRA, therefore,
must be notified when spacecraft are
deployed and disposed of so that
CRSRA can supervise the space
activities of U.S. nationals. Similarly,
anomalies may indicate loss of control
of a spacecraft, so CRSRA must monitor
any anomalies to meaningfully
supervise the activities of U.S. nationals
in space. Finally, the financial
insolvency or dissolution of a licensee
may indicate that a change in control of
the spacecraft will follow, because an
insolvent licensee may go through a
bankruptcy process that might put the
licensed system’s ownership in
question. It is critical that CRSRA be
able to intervene as early as possible in
this process so that a sensitive system
does not pass into the ownership of an
entity who might jeopardize national
security or international obligations.
The LNF ensures that only required
information is submitted, thereby
reducing unnecessary paperwork and/or
follow-up correspondence. The LNF
will be integrated into CLCSS to clarify
content, make the LNF more accessible,
and further reduce the paperwork
burden.
Pursuant to the regulations, CRSRA
requires licensees to submit an annual
compliance certification. In the
certification, licensees verify that all
facts in the license remain true. Facts
that must be verified in this certification
include the technical specifications of
the system and other foundational facts
that CRSRA relies upon in reviewing
license applications. This information is
critical to ensuring that only those
entities who are legally fit to obtain a
license do so. In order to integrate this
process with CLCSS, CRSRA will turn
the standard verification requirement
into a form. There will be no substantive
change in what information needs to be
provided by licensees.
CRSRA will renew the optional Initial
Contact Form (ICF) that includes contact
information and general remote sensing
system information with a few changes
for clarity that include rephrasing a few
questions and removing one or two. The
ICF may be submitted electronically
through the NOAA website prior to the
submission of a full application and will
also be integrated into CLCSS. The ICF
information received is used to
determine if the applicant is required to
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remote sensing space system, i.e., the
proposed system falls under the
authority defined in the Act and the
regulations. If NOAA determines after
reviewing the ICF that an application is
not required, the potential applicant
will save 40–50 hours of paperwork by
not submitting the application.
Finally, CRSRA is renewing the
optional Data Availability Notification
(DAN) which includes contact
information and general data
availability information. The DAN may
be submitted electronically through the
NOAA website during the application
process, while an applicant holds a
license, or by any interested party. The
DAN will be integrated with CLCSS as
well. The DAN information received is
used to help determine the availability
of unenhanced data from a foreign or
domestic remote sensing system, which
may then be compared to unenhanced
data produced by an applicant’s system
for the purpose of adjusting the
conditions and/or restrictions in a
license. The DAN form ensures that
only required information is submitted,
thereby reducing unnecessary
paperwork and/or follow-up
correspondence.
II. Method of Collection
Information is collected electronically
through the NOAA website and through
the coming online platform Commerce
Licensing and Compliance System for
Space (CLCSS).
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–0174.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular (revision and
extension of a current information
collection).
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
100.
Estimated Time per Response: 25
hours for the submission of a license
application (one time for the entire
license); 1 hour for the submission of a
license amendment; 30 minutes each for
a notification of disposal of on-orbit
component, notification of detection of
anomaly, and notification of financial
insolvency or dissolution using the
Licensee Notification Form; 30 minutes
each for notification of launch or
deployment of spacecraft; 3 hours for
the annual compliance certification; and
20 minutes for the Initial Contact Form;
and 10 minutes for the Data Availability
Notification.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 100 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
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Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
The ICF and DAN are voluntary.
Legal Authority: Land Remote Sensing
Policy Act of 1992, 51 U.S.C. 60101 et
seq; and 15 CFR part 960—Licensing of
Private Remote Sensing Space Systems.
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,
Departmental PRA Clearance Officer, Office
of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
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South Atlantic Fishery Management
Council; Public Meetings
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of a public meeting.
AGENCY:

The South Atlantic Fishery
Management Council (Council) will

SUMMARY:

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