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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
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 January 15,
2025 during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration,
Commerce.
Title: Licensing of Private RemoteSensing Space Systems.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0174.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular (extension
and revision of a current information
collection).
Number of Respondents: 100.
Average Hours per Response:
Application: 25 hours; License
Modification Request: 1 hour;
Notification of Launch or Deployment of
Spacecraft, Notification of Disposal of
On-Orbit Component, Notification of
Detection of Anomaly, Notification of
Financial Insolvency or Dissolution: 30
minutes each; Annual Compliance
Certification: 3 hours; Initial Contact
Form: 12 minutes; and Data Availability
Notification: 10 minutes.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,194.
Needs and Uses: 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
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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
support regulation of the private spacebased remote sensing industry.
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
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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).
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, through its implementing
regulations, requires notice 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. The approved LNF was not
utilized by licensees. To provide more
useful forms and effectively integrate to
CLCSS, the LNF will be broken into the
three types of notifications that
licensees are required to provide.
Financial insolvency or dissolution
notification are still required under the
regulation, but CRSRA has not received
such notifications and therefore will not
utilize a form for these notifications.
CRSRA will accept these notifications
by email or the generic contact feature
on CLCSS. This will ensure CRSRA only
required information is submitted,
thereby reducing unnecessary
paperwork and/or follow-up
correspondence.
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

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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
submit a full application for the
issuance of a license to operate a private
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.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations.
Frequency: Once per year.
Respondent’s Obligation: 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..
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
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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 either the title of the collection
or the OMB Control Number 0648–0174.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Compliance Officer, Office
of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
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Fisheries of the Gulf of America and
South Atlantic; Southeast Data,
Assessment, and Review (SEDAR);
Public Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of SEDAR 94 Data
Workshop for Florida Hogfish.
AGENCY:

The SEDAR 94 assessment
process of Florida hogfish will consist of
a Data Workshop, and a series of
assessment webinars, and a Review
Workshop. See SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.
DATES: The SEDAR 94 Data Workshop
will be held from 1 p.m. on July 28,
2025, until 1 p.m. on August 1, 2025.
The established times may be adjusted
as necessary to accommodate the timely
completion of discussion relevant to the
assessment process. Such adjustments
may result in the meeting being
extended from or completed prior to the
time established by this notice.
ADDRESSES:
Meeting address: The SEDAR 94 Data
Workshop will be held at the Hilton St.
Petersburg Bayfront, 333 1st Street
South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701.
SEDAR address: 4055 Faber Place
Drive, Suite 201, North Charleston, SC
29405.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julie
A. Neer, SEDAR Coordinator; (843) 571–
4366. Email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Gulf,
South Atlantic, and Caribbean Fishery
Management Councils, in conjunction
with the National Marine Fisheries
Service and the Atlantic and Gulf States
Marine Fisheries Commissions have
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implemented the Southeast Data,
Assessment and Review (SEDAR)
process, a multi-step method for
determining the status of fish stocks in
the Southeast Region. SEDAR is a multistep process including: (1) Data/
Assessment Workshop, and (2) a series
of webinars. The product of the Data
and Assessment Workshops is a report
which compiles and evaluates potential
datasets and recommends which
datasets are appropriate for assessment
analyses, and describes the fisheries,
evaluates the status of the stock,
estimates biological benchmarks,
projects future population conditions,
and recommends research and
monitoring needs. Participants for
SEDAR Workshops are appointed by the
Gulf, South Atlantic, and Caribbean
Fishery Management Councils and
National Marine Fisheries Service
Southeast Regional Office, HMS
Management Division, and Southeast
Fisheries Science Center. Participants
include data collectors and database
managers; stock assessment scientists,
biologists, and researchers; constituency
representatives including fishermen,
environmentalists, and NGO’s;
International experts; and staff of
Councils, Commissions, and state and
federal agencies.
The items of discussion in the Data
Workshop are as follows:
An assessment data set and associated
documentation will be developed
during the workshop. Participants will
evaluate proposed data and select
appropriate sources for providing
information on topics such as life
history characteristics, catch statistics,
discard estimates, length and age
composition, and fishery dependent and
fishery independent measures of stock
abundance.
Although non-emergency issues not
contained in this agenda may come
before this group for discussion, those
issues may not be the subject of formal
action during this meeting. Action will
be restricted to those issues specifically
identified in this notice and any issues
arising after publication of this notice
that require emergency action under
section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act, provided the public has been
notified of the intent to take final action
to address the emergency.
Special Accommodations
These meetings are physically
accessible to people with disabilities.
Requests for sign language
interpretation or other auxiliary aids
should be directed to the Council office
(see ADDRESSES) at least 5 business days
prior to each workshop.

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