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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; a Coastal Management Needs
Assessment and Market Analysis for
Financing Resilience
National Oceanic and
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
SUMMARY:
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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 29, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments to
Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer,
at Adrienne.Thomas@noaa.gov. 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 Kim
Penn, NOAA Office for Coastal
Management, 1305 East-West Hwy.
Silver Spring, MD 20910, (240) 533–
0727, and kim.penn@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
This request is for a new information
collection.
NOAA’s Office for Coastal
Management (OCM) and its regional,
state, federal, and non-profit partners
have worked closely with coastal
managers across the country to increase
the resilience of our coastal
communities, economies, and
ecosystems. Per the Coastal Zone
Management Act of 1972 (CZMA), OCM
provides financial and technical
assistance to states and territories,
including that which helps its
customers (coastal managers) develop
hazard mitigation and climate
adaptation plans that include strategies
for short-term responses to immediate
threats (e.g., flooding, hurricanes) as
well as long-term responses to gradual
changes (e.g., sea level rise, drought).
Services are provided through outreach,
training, funding, resource, and tool
development.
Solutions to these resilience
challenges are often complex and crosssectoral. Therefore, coastal decisionmakers regularly point to the need for
more substantial, coordinated, sustained
and creative funding opportunities to
support these efforts. The results of an
initial review of more than 200
resources that NOAA conducted in
support of this effort, and informal
conversations with NOAA customers
and other stakeholders indicate that
there is no comprehensive inventory or
guide to understanding and selecting
appropriate funding options or
financing strategies. These findings have
been further confirmed in subsequent
informal discussions with coastal
resilience and finance practitioners at
national venues such as the National
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Adaptation Forum in April 2019 and
Social Coast Forum in February 2020.
NOAA’s coastal management partners
have requested support on this topic.
The financing world is one that is
constantly evolving new products and
retiring others. The range of funding and
financing options, from grants and lowinterest loans to more innovative
private-public partnerships and
emerging bonds, presents an everchanging and complex array of choices.
In initial internal communications and
informal discussions conducted
between June 2018 and February 2020,
NOAA customers indicated that these
opportunities and mechanisms are not
well understood, and are generally
inaccessible to coastal managers,
particularly in small to mid-sized
communities, rural areas, and tribal
communities.
In many coastal communities,
investment in mitigation and resilience
measures remains either limited or
reactive in response to a catastrophic
event. While there are no data on the
number of adaptations plans that have
been implemented, lack of funding is a
frequently cited barrier to
implementation. At the same time, it
has been estimated that investing in
mitigation can save communities $6 for
every $1 spent through mitigation grants
from agencies including the Federal
Emergency Management Agency,
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, and Economic
Development Administration (according
to the National Institute of Building
Sciences’ October 2018 report, Natural
Hazard Mitigation Saves: Utilities and
Transportation Infrastructure).
Understanding the suite of funding and
financing options available at the time
resilience planning is undertaken, and
then incorporating financial strategies
into the planning process and
recommendations, will help ensure that
these plans are implemented. Section
310 of the Coastal Zone Management
Act allows for technical assistance and
management-oriented research to
develop and implement state coastal
management program amendments.
NOAA is in the process of developing
a needs assessment to define the types
of funding, financing mechanisms, and
associated resources that its state and
local coastal manager customers need
for coastal resilience activities and a
market analysis of existing funding and
financing programs and mechanisms.
Simultaneously, NOAA is identifying
existing resources and partnership
opportunities for state and local coastal
managers and NOAA’s non-profit,
academic, and other customers.
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This request is for a set of related
interviews to facilitate this research.
NOAA will perform interviews with
state and local coastal managers, as well
as representatives from non-profit
organizations, academia, the federal
government, and the finance industry.
The interviews will collect relevant
information from interviewees on their
experiences with coastal resilience
funding and financing mechanisms,
challenges and opportunities related to
funding and financing coastal resilience,
and technical support needs and
opportunities that NOAA can address.
The information provided by
interviewees will be synthesized into
the needs assessment, which will
address needs and information gaps
partitioned by region, financial scale,
time scale, and scope/sector. The
information provided by interviewees
will also be used to help inform an
inventory of existing entities providing
resources for resilience funding, as well
as a summary of existing and emerging
funding sources and financial tools and
mechanisms for coastal resilience.
Finally, the interviews will inform
recommendations on NOAA’s potential
niche in addressing the identified needs
and gaps.
The resulting research (and any
subsequent resources or tools developed
by NOAA to address identified gaps)
will provide much needed information
to NOAA’s customers on funding and
financing coastal resilience efforts,
including available resources and
mechanisms, best practices and
strategies, real world success stories,
and opportunities for technical and
financial partnerships with private and
public entities.
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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II. Method of Collection
Information will be collected during
structured telephone interviews.
COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
COMMISSION
III. Data
Agency Information Collection
Activities Under OMB Review
OMB Control Number: 0648–xxxx.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations; Not-for-profit
institutions; State, Local, or Tribal
government; Federal government.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
36.
Estimated Time per Response: 1.25
hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 45.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $0.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Coastal Zone
Management Act of 1972 (CZMA).
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Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), this notice announces that the
Information Collection Request (ICR)
abstracted below has been forwarded to
the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs (OIRA), of the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), for
review and comment. The ICR describes
the nature of the information collection
and its expected costs and burden.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before March 1, 2021.
SUMMARY:
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Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be
submitted within 30 days of this
notice’s publication to OIRA, at https://
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Please find this particular information
collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under
30-day Review—Open for Public
Comments’’ or by using the website’s
search function. Comments can be
entered electronically by clicking on the
‘‘comment’’ button next to the
information collection on the ‘‘OIRA
Information Collections Under Review’’
page, or the ‘‘View ICR—Agency
Submission’’ page. A copy of the
supporting statement for the collection
of information discussed herein may be
obtained by visiting https://
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
In addition to the submission of
comments to https://Reginfo.gov as
indicated above, a copy of all comments
submitted to OIRA may also be
submitted to the Commodity Futures
Trading Commission (the
‘‘Commission’’ or ‘‘CFTC’’) by clicking
on the ‘‘Submit Comment’’ box next to
the descriptive entry for OMB Control
No. 3038–0015, at https://
comments.cftc.gov/FederalRegister/
PublicInfo.aspx.
Or by either of the following methods:
• Mail: Christopher Kirkpatrick,
Secretary of the Commission,
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission, Three Lafayette Centre,
1155 21st Street NW, Washington, DC
20581.
• Hand Delivery/Courier: Same as
Mail above.
All comments must be submitted in
English, or if not, accompanied by an
English translation. Comments
submitted to the Commission should
include only information that you wish
to make available publicly. If you wish
the Commission to consider information
that you believe is exempt from
disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act, a petition for
confidential treatment of the exempt
information may be submitted according
to the procedures established in § 145.9
of the Commission’s regulations.1 The
Commission reserves the right, but shall
have no obligation, to review, prescreen,
filter, redact, refuse or remove any or all
of your submission from https://
www.cftc.gov that it may deem to be
inappropriate for publication, such as
obscene language. All submissions that
have been redacted or removed that
contain comments on the merits of the
ICR will be retained in the public
comment file and will be considered as
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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; a Coastal Management Needs Assessment and Market Analysis for
Financing Resilience
AGENCY: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of information collection, request for comment.
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SUMMARY: 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 March 29, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit written comments to
Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer, at [email protected]. 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 Kim Penn, NOAA Office for Coastal Management, 1305 East-West Hwy.
Silver Spring, MD 20910, (240) 533-0727, and [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
This request is for a new information collection.
NOAA's Office for Coastal Management (OCM) and its regional, state,
federal, and non-profit partners have worked closely with coastal
managers across the country to increase the resilience of our coastal
communities, economies, and ecosystems. Per the Coastal Zone Management
Act of 1972 (CZMA), OCM provides financial and technical assistance to
states and territories, including that which helps its customers
(coastal managers) develop hazard mitigation and climate adaptation
plans that include strategies for short-term responses to immediate
threats (e.g., flooding, hurricanes) as well as long-term responses to
gradual changes (e.g., sea level rise, drought). Services are provided
through outreach, training, funding, resource, and tool development.
Solutions to these resilience challenges are often complex and
cross-sectoral. Therefore, coastal decision-makers regularly point to
the need for more substantial, coordinated, sustained and creative
funding opportunities to support these efforts. The results of an
initial review of more than 200 resources that NOAA conducted in
support of this effort, and informal conversations with NOAA customers
and other stakeholders indicate that there is no comprehensive
inventory or guide to understanding and selecting appropriate funding
options or financing strategies. These findings have been further
confirmed in subsequent informal discussions with coastal resilience
and finance practitioners at national venues such as the National
Adaptation Forum in April 2019 and Social Coast Forum in February 2020.
NOAA's coastal management partners have requested support on this
topic.
The financing world is one that is constantly evolving new products
and retiring others. The range of funding and financing options, from
grants and low-interest loans to more innovative private-public
partnerships and emerging bonds, presents an ever-changing and complex
array of choices. In initial internal communications and informal
discussions conducted between June 2018 and February 2020, NOAA
customers indicated that these opportunities and mechanisms are not
well understood, and are generally inaccessible to coastal managers,
particularly in small to mid-sized communities, rural areas, and tribal
communities.
In many coastal communities, investment in mitigation and
resilience measures remains either limited or reactive in response to a
catastrophic event. While there are no data on the number of
adaptations plans that have been implemented, lack of funding is a
frequently cited barrier to implementation. At the same time, it has
been estimated that investing in mitigation can save communities $6 for
every $1 spent through mitigation grants from agencies including the
Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Housing and Urban
Development, and Economic Development Administration (according to the
National Institute of Building Sciences' October 2018 report, Natural
Hazard Mitigation Saves: Utilities and Transportation Infrastructure).
Understanding the suite of funding and financing options available at
the time resilience planning is undertaken, and then incorporating
financial strategies into the planning process and recommendations,
will help ensure that these plans are implemented. Section 310 of the
Coastal Zone Management Act allows for technical assistance and
management-oriented research to develop and implement state coastal
management program amendments.
NOAA is in the process of developing a needs assessment to define
the types of funding, financing mechanisms, and associated resources
that its state and local coastal manager customers need for coastal
resilience activities and a market analysis of existing funding and
financing programs and mechanisms. Simultaneously, NOAA is identifying
existing resources and partnership opportunities for state and local
coastal managers and NOAA's non-profit, academic, and other customers.
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This request is for a set of related interviews to facilitate this
research. NOAA will perform interviews with state and local coastal
managers, as well as representatives from non-profit organizations,
academia, the federal government, and the finance industry. The
interviews will collect relevant information from interviewees on their
experiences with coastal resilience funding and financing mechanisms,
challenges and opportunities related to funding and financing coastal
resilience, and technical support needs and opportunities that NOAA can
address.
The information provided by interviewees will be synthesized into
the needs assessment, which will address needs and information gaps
partitioned by region, financial scale, time scale, and scope/sector.
The information provided by interviewees will also be used to help
inform an inventory of existing entities providing resources for
resilience funding, as well as a summary of existing and emerging
funding sources and financial tools and mechanisms for coastal
resilience. Finally, the interviews will inform recommendations on
NOAA's potential niche in addressing the identified needs and gaps.
The resulting research (and any subsequent resources or tools
developed by NOAA to address identified gaps) will provide much needed
information to NOAA's customers on funding and financing coastal
resilience efforts, including available resources and mechanisms, best
practices and strategies, real world success stories, and opportunities
for technical and financial partnerships with private and public
entities.
II. Method of Collection
Information will be collected during structured telephone
interviews.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648-xxxx.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations; Not-
for-profit institutions; State, Local, or Tribal government; Federal
government.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 36.
Estimated Time per Response: 1.25 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 45.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: $0.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (CZMA).
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.
[FR Doc. 2021-01856 Filed 1-27-21; 8:45 am]
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