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Estimated Time per Response: Share
Transfer Receipt form, Cost Recovery
Fee Submission form, 1 minute; Share
Transfer form, IFQ Close Account form,
Cost Recovery Fee Submission form,
Landing Transaction Correction Request
form, Landing Location Submission
form, Transfer Allocation form, Cost
Recovery Fee payment through pay.gov,
3 minutes; Notification of Landing form,
5 minutes; Landing Transaction Report
form, 6 minutes; IFQ Online Account
Application form, 15 minutes;
Wreckfish Quota Share Transfer form,
18 minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 2,322.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $150 in recordkeeping/reporting
costs.
IV. Request for Comments
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden
(including hours and cost) of the
proposed collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval of this information collection;
they also will become a matter of public
record.
Dated: August 25, 2017.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
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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).
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Title: Greater Atlantic Observers
Providers’ Requirements.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0546.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular (extension of
a currently approved information
collection).
Number of Respondents: 515.
Average Hours per Response:
Application for approval of observer
service provider and applicant response
to denial of application for approval of
observer service provider, 10 hours
each; observer service provider request
for observer training, 30 minutes;
observer deployment report and
observer availability reports, 10 minutes
each; safety refusal report, 30 minutes;
submission of raw observer data and
biological samples, 5 minutes each;
observer debriefing, 2 hours; rebuttal of
pending removal from list of approved
observer service providers, 8 hours;
vessel request to observer service
provider for procurement of a certified
observer, 25 minutes; vessel request for
waiver of observer coverage requirement
and observer contact list updates, 5
minutes each; observer availability
updates, 1 minute; service provider
material submissions and service
provider contracts, 30 minutes each.
Burden Hours: 5,250.
Needs and Uses: This request is for
extension of a currently approved
information collection.
Under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act, the
Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) has
the responsibility for the conservation
and management of marine fishery
resources. Much of this responsibility
has been delegated to the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA)/National
Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS).
Under this stewardship role, the
Secretary was given certain regulatory
authorities to ensure the most beneficial
uses of these resources. One of the
regulatory steps taken to carry out the
conservation and management
objectives is to collect data from users
of the resource.
Regulations at 50 CFR 648.11(g)
require observer service providers to
comply with specific requirements in
order to operate as an approved
provider in the Atlantic sea scallop
(scallop) fishery. Observer service
providers must comply with the
following requirements: Submit
applications for approval as an observer
service provider; formally request
observer training by the Northeast
Fisheries Observer Program (NEFOP);
submit observer deployment reports and
biological samples; give notification of
whether a vessel must carry an observer
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within 24 hours of the vessel owner’s
notification of a prospective trip;
maintain an updated contact list of all
observers that includes the observer
identification number; observer’s name
mailing address, email address, phone
numbers, homeports or fisheries/trip
types assigned, and whether or not the
observer is ‘‘in service.’’ The regulations
also require observer service providers
submit any outreach materials, such as
informational pamphlets, payment
notification, and descriptions of
observer duties as well as all contracts
between the service provider and
entities requiring observer services for
review to NMFS/NEFOP. Observer
service providers also have the option to
respond to application denials, and
submit a rebuttal in response to a
pending removal from the list of
approved observer providers. These
requirements allow NMFS/NEFOP to
effectively administer the scallop
observer program.
Affected Public: Business and other
for-profit organizations.
Frequency: Daily and on occasion.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
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: August 25, 2017.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA)
Notice of Availability of a Draft
Programmatic Environmental;
Assessment for the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric, Administration
National Data Buoy Center
National Weather Service
(NWS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Department of Commerce (DOC).
ACTION: Request for public comments.
AGENCY:
The Draft PEA is available for
public review and comment for 30 days
after posting. It can be accessed at
https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/pea/ndbc_
draft_pea.pdf.
DATES:
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If you wish to comment on
the Draft PEA, please send comments
via email to Joe Swaykos, NDBC Chief
Scientist, at joe.swaykos@noaa.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joe
Swaykos, National Data Buoy Center,
Bldg 3205, Stennis Space Center, MS
39529; phone (228) 688–4766; fax
(228)688–1364; email joe.swaykos@
noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) National Data
Buoy Center (NDBC), a part of the
National Weather Service (NWS),
designs, develops, operates, and
maintains a network of moored buoys
and coastal stations throughout the
world’s oceans, seas, and lakes for the
purpose of civil earth marine
observations. NDBC has prepared a
Programmatic Environmental
Assessment (PEA) to analyze the
continued operational activities of its
network of moored buoys and coastal
stations.
NDBC provides high quality ocean
and coastal observations for public
safety use in direct support of short
range and extended range NWS
forecasts, warnings, and watches. NDBC
provides essential real-time
oceanographic and meteorological
observation data to stakeholders in key
U.S. Economic Sectors, such as, Trade
and Retail (i.e., maritime transportation)
and Commercial sectors (i.e., energy,
fishing, and agriculture). This valuable
data provides users with up to the
minute decision-making observations
needed for safe commercial and marine
recreation activities.
NDBC operates a network composed
of four formal NOAA Observing
Systems of Record: (1) Coastal Weather
Buoys (CWB); (2) the land-based
Coastal-Marine Automated Network (C–
MAN); (3) Tropical Atmosphere Ocean
Array (TAO) and (4) Deep-ocean
Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis
(DART). Currently, NDBC’s network
consists of 200 buoys and 46 C–MAN
stations that transmit observations and
data (i.e., wind speed and direction,
barometric pressure, air temperature;
sea surface temperatures, wave height
and period, water currents, and
conductivity) via satellite that are
processed and quality-controlled, and
then disseminated for public release in
near real-time.
In-situ real-time oceanographic and
meteorological observations are critical
to a wide variety of users such as
federal, state, academic, and private
industry stakeholders. These
observations add value to a diverse
spectrum of civil use applications
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including severe and routine weather
forecasting; improved coastal ocean
circulation models; commercial and
recreational marine transportation and
fishing; and environmental monitoring
and research. The societal benefits of
ocean observations are interconnected at
local, regional, national, and
international scales. The National Plan
for Civil Earth Observations and the
National Strategy for Sustained Network
of Coastal Moorings identify the Societal
Benefit Areas (SBAs) supported by
NDBC ocean observations. These SBAs
include scientific research, economic
activities, and environmental and social
domains. Many involve critical
government functions, such as the
protection of life and property (NSTC
2014). The nine SBAs that are
applicable to NDBC are: Climate;
Coastal and Marine Hazards and
Disasters; Ocean and Coastal Energy and
Mineral Resources; Human Health;
Ocean and Coastal Resources and
Ecosystems; Marine Transportation;
Water Resources; Coastal and Marine
Weather; and Reference Measurements.
Ocean observations are an
indispensable component to measure
and monitor our progress towards
addressing societal challenges. Among
the diverse sources of ocean
observations, data buoys provide unique
and invaluable information to support
critical government functions, such as
the protection of life and property.
NDBC data are accessed on a daily basis,
by millions of national and international
stakeholders and assimilated into a
myriad products and services.
Dated: August 22, 2017.
David Holst,
Acting Chief Financial Officer/CAO, Office
of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.
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Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to
Specified Activities; Taking Marine
Mammals Incidental to the Central Bay
Operations and Maintenance Facility
Project
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
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Notice; Issuance of an Incidental
Harassment Authorization.
ACTION:
In accordance with the
regulations implementing the Marine
Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) as
amended, notification is hereby given
that NMFS has issued an incidental
harassment authorization (IHA) to the
San Francisco Water Emergency
Transportation Authority (WETA) to
incidentally harass, by Level A and
Level B harassment, marine mammals
during in-water construction activities
associated with the Central Bay
Operations and Maintenance Facility
Project in Alameda, CA.
DATES: This Authorization is valid from
August 1, 2017 through July 31, 2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Laura McCue, Office of Protected
Resources, NMFS, (301) 427–8401.
Electronic copies of the applications
and supporting documents, as well as a
list of the references cited in this
document, may be obtained online at:
www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/permits/
incidental/construction.htm. In case of
problems accessing these documents,
please call the contact listed above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
Background
Sections 101(a)(5)(A) and (D) of the
MMPA (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.) direct
the Secretary of Commerce (as delegated
to NMFS) to allow, upon request, the
incidental, but not intentional, taking of
small numbers of marine mammals by
U.S. citizens who engage in a specified
activity (other than commercial fishing)
within a specified geographical region if
certain findings are made and either
regulations are issued or, if the taking is
limited to harassment, a notice of a
proposed authorization is provided to
the public for review.
An authorization for incidental
takings shall be granted if NMFS finds
that the taking will have a negligible
impact on the species or stock(s), will
not have an unmitigable adverse impact
on the availability of the species or
stock(s) for subsistence uses (where
relevant), and if the permissible
methods of taking and requirements
pertaining to the mitigation, monitoring
and reporting of such takings are set
forth.
NMFS has defined ‘‘negligible
impact’’ in 50 CFR 216.103 as an impact
resulting from the specified activity that
cannot be reasonably expected to, and is
not reasonably likely to, adversely affect
the species or stock through effects on
annual rates of recruitment or survival.
The MMPA states that the term ‘‘take’’
means to harass, hunt, capture, kill or
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Notice of Availability of a Draft Programmatic Environmental;
Assessment for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric, Administration
National Data Buoy Center
AGENCY: National Weather Service (NWS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Department of Commerce (DOC).
ACTION: Request for public comments.
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DATES: The Draft PEA is available for public review and comment for 30
days after posting. It can be accessed at https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/pea/ndbc_draft_pea.pdf.
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ADDRESSES: If you wish to comment on the Draft PEA, please send
comments via email to Joe Swaykos, NDBC Chief Scientist, at
joe.swaykos@noaa.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joe Swaykos, National Data Buoy
Center, Bldg 3205, Stennis Space Center, MS 39529; phone (228) 688-
4766; fax (228)688-1364; email joe.swaykos@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) National Data Buoy Center (NDBC), a part of the
National Weather Service (NWS), designs, develops, operates, and
maintains a network of moored buoys and coastal stations throughout the
world's oceans, seas, and lakes for the purpose of civil earth marine
observations. NDBC has prepared a Programmatic Environmental Assessment
(PEA) to analyze the continued operational activities of its network of
moored buoys and coastal stations.
NDBC provides high quality ocean and coastal observations for
public safety use in direct support of short range and extended range
NWS forecasts, warnings, and watches. NDBC provides essential real-time
oceanographic and meteorological observation data to stakeholders in
key U.S. Economic Sectors, such as, Trade and Retail (i.e., maritime
transportation) and Commercial sectors (i.e., energy, fishing, and
agriculture). This valuable data provides users with up to the minute
decision-making observations needed for safe commercial and marine
recreation activities.
NDBC operates a network composed of four formal NOAA Observing
Systems of Record: (1) Coastal Weather Buoys (CWB); (2) the land-based
Coastal-Marine Automated Network (C-MAN); (3) Tropical Atmosphere Ocean
Array (TAO) and (4) Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis
(DART). Currently, NDBC's network consists of 200 buoys and 46 C-MAN
stations that transmit observations and data (i.e., wind speed and
direction, barometric pressure, air temperature; sea surface
temperatures, wave height and period, water currents, and conductivity)
via satellite that are processed and quality-controlled, and then
disseminated for public release in near real-time.
In-situ real-time oceanographic and meteorological observations are
critical to a wide variety of users such as federal, state, academic,
and private industry stakeholders. These observations add value to a
diverse spectrum of civil use applications including severe and routine
weather forecasting; improved coastal ocean circulation models;
commercial and recreational marine transportation and fishing; and
environmental monitoring and research. The societal benefits of ocean
observations are interconnected at local, regional, national, and
international scales. The National Plan for Civil Earth Observations
and the National Strategy for Sustained Network of Coastal Moorings
identify the Societal Benefit Areas (SBAs) supported by NDBC ocean
observations. These SBAs include scientific research, economic
activities, and environmental and social domains. Many involve critical
government functions, such as the protection of life and property (NSTC
2014). The nine SBAs that are applicable to NDBC are: Climate; Coastal
and Marine Hazards and Disasters; Ocean and Coastal Energy and Mineral
Resources; Human Health; Ocean and Coastal Resources and Ecosystems;
Marine Transportation; Water Resources; Coastal and Marine Weather; and
Reference Measurements.
Ocean observations are an indispensable component to measure and
monitor our progress towards addressing societal challenges. Among the
diverse sources of ocean observations, data buoys provide unique and
invaluable information to support critical government functions, such
as the protection of life and property. NDBC data are accessed on a
daily basis, by millions of national and international stakeholders and
assimilated into a myriad products and services.
Dated: August 22, 2017.
David Holst,
Acting Chief Financial Officer/CAO, Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric
Research, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
[FR Doc. 2017-18415 Filed 8-29-17; 8:45 am]
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