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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
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Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will
submit to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for clearance the
following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35).
Agency: National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Title: Fishery Observer Retention
Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0648–xxxx.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular (request for
a new information collection).
Number of Respondents: 785.
Average Hours per Response: 20
minutes.
Burden Hours: 262.
Needs and Uses: This request is for a
new information collection.
NOAA Fisheries utilizes observers to
collect information on catch, bycatch,
fishing efforts, biological characteristics,
interactions with protected species, and
socioeconomic information from United
States (U.S.) commercial fishing and
processing vessels. More information on
the observer population is needed to
support the Agency’s conservation and
management goals, to strengthen and
improve fishery management decisionmaking, and to satisfy legal mandates
under the Reauthorization of the
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation
and Management Act (MSA), the
Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA), the
Endangered Species Act, and the
National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA), Executive Order 12866 (EO
12866), and other pertinent statutes.
The National Observer Program (NOP)
is conducting a survey of fishery
observers in order to investigate
incentives and disincentives for
remaining an observer and to identify
their subsequent career choices. The
data will be used by the NOP and
regional observer programs to improve
observer recruitment and retention
rates. The survey results will be used by
regional program managers to evaluate
current observer provider contract
requirements to increase observer
retention. With a greater understanding
of these data observer retention may
increase as a result of improved
recruitment for observers. Improved
retention of qualified and experienced
observers is expected to reduce training
efforts and costs, and improve data
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quality. Observers are often the only
independent data collection source for
federal agency and scientists to collect
at-sea data and are crucial in fishery
management.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Frequency: One time.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
This information collection request
may be viewed at reginfo.gov. Follow
the instructions to view Department of
Commerce collections currently under
review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to OIRA_Submission@
omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395–5806.
Dated: June 29, 2016.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will
submit to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for clearance the
following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35).
Agency: National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Title: NOAA Coastal Ocean Program
Grants Proposal Application Package.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0384.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular (revision
and extension of a currently approved
information collection).
Number of Respondents: 300.
Average Hours per Response: 30
minutes each for a project summary, key
contacts and current and pending
federal support; 5 hours for a semiannual report; 5 hours for an annual
report and 10 hours for a final report.
Burden Hours: 1,050.
Needs and Uses: This request is for a
revision and extension of a currently
approved information collection. The
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration’s Coastal Ocean Program
(COP) provides direct financial
assistance through grants and
cooperative agreements for research
supporting the management of coastal
ecosystems. The statutory authority for
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COP is Public Law 102–567 Section 201
(Coastal Ocean Program). In addition to
standard government application
requirements, applicants for financial
assistance are required to submit a
project summary form, current and
pending form and a key contacts form.
Recipients are required to file annual
progress reports and a project final
report using COP formats. All of these
requirements are needed for better
evaluation of proposals and monitoring
of awards.
This revision is the addition of the
NOAA RESTORE Act Science Program.
This program provides direct financial
assistance through grants and
cooperative agreements for research,
observation, and monitoring to support,
to the maximum extent practicable, the
long-term sustainability of the
ecosystem, fish stocks, fish habitat, and
the recreational, commercial, and
charter-fishing industry in the Gulf of
Mexico. NOAA was authorized to
establish and administer the Program, in
consultation with the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, by the Resources and
Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist
Opportunities, and Revived Economies
(RESTORE) of the Gulf States Act of
2012 (Pub. L. 112–141, Section 1604).
Identified in the RESTORE Act as the
Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration
Science, Observation, Monitoring, and
Technology Program, the Program is
commonly known as the NOAA
RESTORE Act Science Program. The
NOAA RESTORE Act Science Program
will use the standard government
application forms for financial
assistance as well as the COP project
summary form, current and pending
form and a key contacts form.
Recipients are required to file semiannual progress reports and a project
final report using a revised COP format.
These additional forms are necessary for
consistency. The main purpose of this
information collection is to enable the
NOAA RESTORE Act Science Program
to provide summaries of each proposed
project, the key applicant contact
information and their current and
pending Federal funding. The
information gathered will enable the
NOAA RESTORE Act Science Program
to properly and quickly evaluate
proposals in a collaborative
environment with its partner agencies.
Affected Public: Non-profit
institutions; State, local, or tribal
government; business or other for-profit
organizations.
Frequency: Annually, semi-annually
and on occasion.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain benefits.
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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 129 / Wednesday, July 6, 2016 / Notices
This information collection request
may be viewed at reginfo.gov. Follow
the instructions to view Department of
Commerce collections currently under
review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to OIRA_Submission@
omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395–5806.
Dated: June 29, 2016.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016–15869 Filed 7–5–16; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
RIN 0648–XE201
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Notice of
Intent To Prepare an Environmental
Impact Statement and Conduct
Restoration Planning To Provide and
Enhance Recreational Use in Alabama,
and To Conduct Scoping
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of Intent to prepare a
restoration plan (RP) and environmental
impact statement (EIS), and to conduct
scoping.
AGENCY:
The Federal and state natural
resource trustees for the Alabama
Trustee Implementation Group for the
Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill
(Alabama TIG) intend to prepare an EIS
under the National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA) to evaluate the
environmental consequences of a range
of restoration projects that the Alabama
TIG will propose in an RP developed
pursuant to the Oil Pollution Act (OPA)
to compensate the public for lost
recreational use opportunities in
Alabama caused by the DWH oil spill in
the Gulf of Mexico. Restoration
planning to compensate the public for
lost recreational opportunities in
Alabama is expected to be phased. This
initial restoration planning activity will
occur during the 2016 planning year.
This restoration planning activity is
occurring, in part, in accordance with
the February 16, 2016, decision in Gulf
Restoration Network v. Jewell, Case
1:15–cv–00191–CB–C (S.D. Ala.), in
which the court enjoined the use of
$58.5 million in DWH early restoration
funds pending additional analysis under
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NEPA and OPA. This restoration
planning activity fulfills the Federal and
state natural resources trustees’
responsibilities under this court order
while looking more broadly at the
potential to provide restoration for lost
recreational use within Alabama.
Accordingly, this initial recreational use
restoration planning activity may
develop restoration projects to
compensate for the full remaining
allocated amount of Alabama’s
recreational use injury caused by the
DWH oil spill (approximately $83.5
million), or for some portion thereof.
This restoration planning activity is
proceeding in accordance with the
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Final
Programmatic Damage Assessment and
Restoration Plan (PDARP) and Final
Programmatic Environmental Impact
Statement (PEIS). Information on the
Restoration Type: Provide and Enhance
Recreational Opportunities, as well as
the OPA criteria against which project
ideas are being evaluated, can be found
in the PDARP/PEIS (https://
www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov/
2016/04/trustees-settle-with-bp-fornatural-resource-injuries-to-the-gulf-ofmexico/) and in the Overview of the
PDARP/PEIS (https://
www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov/
2016/04/trustees-settle-with-bp-fornatural-resource-injuries-to-the-gulf-ofmexico/).
The Alabama TIG would like to hear
your project ideas for addressing lost
recreational use in Alabama and
encourages you to submit restoration
project ideas in response to this notice
(see ADDRESSES for instructions). If you
have submitted project ideas in the past,
we will consider those projects along
with additional ideas submitted at this
time.
The Trustees also seek public
involvement in the scoping process and
development of the recreational use RP/
EIS. This notice explains the scoping
process the Alabama TIG will use to
gather input from the public. In addition
to restoration project ideas, the Alabama
TIG invites public comments regarding
the scope, content, and any significant
issues it should consider in the RP/EIS.
Comments may be submitted at any
time during the 30-day public scoping
period via mail or the internet.
DATES: Public scoping comments and
project ideas must be received by
August 5, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Submitting Project Ideas:
You may submit project ideas for
addressing lost recreational use in
Alabama at the following addresses:
Trustee Council Web site: https://
www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov/
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restoration/give-us-your-ideas/suggesta-restoration-project/
Alabama Coastal Restoration Web site:
https://
www.alabamacoastalrestoration.org/
ProjectSubmit.aspx
Submitting Scoping Comments: You
may submit scoping comments on the
EIS by any of the following methods:
• Via the Web: https://
www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov.
• U.S. Mail: NOAA Gulf of Mexico
Disaster Response Center; attn: Alabama
Recreational Use Restoration Plan; 7344
Zeigler Blvd.; Mobile, AL 36608.
All written scoping comments must
be received by the close of the scoping
period to be considered.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
• NOAA—Dan Van Nostrand,
dan.van-nostrand@noaa.gov.
• AL—Amy Hunter, amy.hunter@
dcnr.alabama.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Introduction
On April 20, 2010, the mobile
offshore drilling unit Deepwater
Horizon, which was being used to drill
a well for BP Exploration and
Production Inc. (BP), in the Macondo
prospect (Mississippi Canyon 252–
MC252), exploded, caught fire and
subsequently sank in the Gulf of
Mexico, resulting in an unprecedented
volume of oil and other discharges from
the rig and from the wellhead on the
seabed. The DWH oil spill is the largest
oil spill in U.S. history, discharging
millions of barrels of oil over a period
of 87 days. In addition, well over one
million gallons of dispersants were
applied to the waters of the spill area in
an attempt to disperse the spilled oil.
An undetermined amount of natural gas
was also released to the environment as
a result of the spill.
The Deepwater Horizon state and
Federal natural resource trustees (DWH
Trustees) conducted the natural
resource damage assessment (NRDA) for
the DWH oil spill under the Oil
Pollution Act 1990 (OPA; 33 U.S.C.
2701 et seq.). Pursuant to OPA, Federal
and state agencies act as trustees on
behalf of the public to assess natural
resource injuries and losses and to
determine the actions required to
compensate the public for those injuries
and losses. OPA further instructs the
designated trustees to develop and
implement a plan for the restoration,
rehabilitation, replacement, or
acquisition of the equivalent of the
injured natural resources under their
trusteeship, including the loss of use
and services from those resources from
the time of injury until the time of
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[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35).
Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Title: NOAA Coastal Ocean Program Grants Proposal Application
Package.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0384.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular (revision and extension of a currently
approved information collection).
Number of Respondents: 300.
Average Hours per Response: 30 minutes each for a project summary,
key contacts and current and pending federal support; 5 hours for a
semi-annual report; 5 hours for an annual report and 10 hours for a
final report.
Burden Hours: 1,050.
Needs and Uses: This request is for a revision and extension of a
currently approved information collection. The National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration's Coastal Ocean Program (COP) provides
direct financial assistance through grants and cooperative agreements
for research supporting the management of coastal ecosystems. The
statutory authority for COP is Public Law 102-567 Section 201 (Coastal
Ocean Program). In addition to standard government application
requirements, applicants for financial assistance are required to
submit a project summary form, current and pending form and a key
contacts form. Recipients are required to file annual progress reports
and a project final report using COP formats. All of these requirements
are needed for better evaluation of proposals and monitoring of awards.
This revision is the addition of the NOAA RESTORE Act Science
Program. This program provides direct financial assistance through
grants and cooperative agreements for research, observation, and
monitoring to support, to the maximum extent practicable, the long-term
sustainability of the ecosystem, fish stocks, fish habitat, and the
recreational, commercial, and charter-fishing industry in the Gulf of
Mexico. NOAA was authorized to establish and administer the Program, in
consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, by the Resources
and Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities, and Revived
Economies (RESTORE) of the Gulf States Act of 2012 (Pub. L. 112-141,
Section 1604). Identified in the RESTORE Act as the Gulf Coast
Ecosystem Restoration Science, Observation, Monitoring, and Technology
Program, the Program is commonly known as the NOAA RESTORE Act Science
Program. The NOAA RESTORE Act Science Program will use the standard
government application forms for financial assistance as well as the
COP project summary form, current and pending form and a key contacts
form. Recipients are required to file semi-annual progress reports and
a project final report using a revised COP format. These additional
forms are necessary for consistency. The main purpose of this
information collection is to enable the NOAA RESTORE Act Science
Program to provide summaries of each proposed project, the key
applicant contact information and their current and pending Federal
funding. The information gathered will enable the NOAA RESTORE Act
Science Program to properly and quickly evaluate proposals in a
collaborative environment with its partner agencies.
Affected Public: Non-profit institutions; State, local, or tribal
government; business or other for-profit organizations.
Frequency: Annually, semi-annually and on occasion.
Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
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This information collection request may be viewed at reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view Department of Commerce collections
currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice
to OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395-5806.
Dated: June 29, 2016.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016-15869 Filed 7-5-16; 8:45 am]
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