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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; NOAA Geospatial Metadata
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 29,
2021 (86 FR 7541) during a 60-day
comment period. This notice allows for
an additional 30 days for public
comments.
Agency: National Oceanic &
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
Title: NOAA Geospatial Metadata
tools.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0024.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission,
revision and extension of a current
information collection.
Number of Respondents: 1,430.
Average Hours per Response: 1.75.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,590.
Needs and Uses: This request is for
revision and extension of a currently
approved information collection. The
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) collects,
generates, retains, and redistributes
geospatial metadata in a wide array of
data formats covering diverse aspects of
earth, biological, and space sciences. To
fully understand and reuse these data
over the course of many years, NOAA
provides several metadata
documentation tools for various
communities of users to enable them to
easily create complete, standards-based
descriptive information about geospatial
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data. The following tools, in use or
planned for use by NOAA Program
offices, are authorized to collect
geospatial metadata consistent with
Executive Order 12906, NOAA
Administrative Order 212–15, and the
2013 Office of Science and Technology
Policy Memorandum ‘Public Access to
Research Results’. Geospatial metadata
collected by the listed tools are
‘voluntary’ but the ability for data
documented by relevant geospatial
metadata is significantly degraded if
metadata are incomplete, inaccurate or
otherwise less than the information
collection tool supports.
National Environmental Satellite,
Data and Information Service (NESDIS):
Send2NCEI web application (currently
approved as OMB Control Number:
0648–0024).
National Environmental Satellite,
Data and Information Service: Advanced
Tracking and Resource tool for Archive
Collections (ATRAC) web application.
National Environmental Satellite,
Data and Information Service:
Collection Metadata Editing Tool
(CoMET) web application.
National Marine Fisheries Service
(NMFS): InPort metadata authoring tool.
Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric
Research (OAR): Science Data
Information System (SDIS) metadata
and data submission tool.
Collecting geospatial metadata is
necessary to fully understand, use, and
reuse geospatial data since the metadata
provides contextual information about
data formats, bounding areas, use and
access limitations (if any). Geospatial
metadata from this information
collection also supports multiple search
and discovery catalog services, such as
data.gov, NASA Global Change Master
Directory (GCMD), and many others.
Information will be collected from
data producers (primarily university,
private industry, and governmentfunded scientific researchers) in
multiple fields of geosciences, biological
and atmospheric sciences, and socioeconomic sciences. Geospatial metadata
typically includes descriptive
information about specific observed,
calculated, or modelled data (e.g., title,
abstract, purpose statement, descriptive
discovery keywords), characteristics of
the described data (e.g., date and spatial
range of data collection activities, data
processing steps, collected/measured
variables and units of measure for those
variables) and administrative
information (e.g., who collected or
created data and metadata, how to cite
data when used in scientific analyses).
Information collected by the listed tools
is used to inform the appropriate use of
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data described by related geospatial
metadata.
The existing OMB control number is
expanded to include other information
collection instruments that collect
similar kinds of geospatial metadata but
that have different community-based
practices or standards that provide for
more or less details in the metadata
requested. Additionally, the title of the
collection is being changed from
National Centers for Environmental
Information (NCEI) Send2NCEI Web
Application to NOAA Geospatial
Metadata to reflect the information
being collected.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations; Not-for-profit
institutions; State, Local, or Tribal
government; Federal government.
Frequency: As needed for geospatial
data documentation purposes.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Executive Order
12906 and the 2013 Office of Science
and Technology Policy Memorandum
‘Public Access to Research Results’.
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
information collection should be
submitted within 30 days of the
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 0648–0024.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
[FR Doc. 2021–09674 Filed 5–6–21; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510–12–P
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
The Department of Commerce will
submit the following information
collection request to the Office of
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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 28,
2021 (86 FR 7365) during a 60-day
comment period. This notice allows for
an additional 30 days for public
comments.
Agency: National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
Title: A Coastal Management Needs
Assessment and Market Analysis for
Financing Resilience.
OMB Control Number: 0648–XXXX.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission
[new information collection].
Number of Respondents: 36
Average Hours per Response: 1.5
hours.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 54.
Needs and Uses: NOAA’s Office of
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
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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 lowinterest loans to more innovative
private-public partnerships and
emerging bonds, presents an everchanging and complex array of choices.
In initial internal communications
conducted between June and September
2018, 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 adaptation 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 m 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
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local coastal managers and NOAA’s
non-profit, academic, and other
customers.
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.
Affected Public: State and local
government, federal government, nonprofit organizations, academic
institutions, business or other for-profit
enterprises.
Frequency: Once.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: None.
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
information collection should be
submitted within 30 days of the
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
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Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or
by using the search function and
entering the title of the collection.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
[FR Doc. 2021–09676 Filed 5–6–21; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Solicitation for Applications for
Advisory Councils Established
Pursuant to the National Marine
Sanctuaries Act and the Northwestern
Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef
Ecosystem Reserve Executive Order
Office of National Marine
Sanctuaries (ONMS), National Ocean
Service (NOS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Department of Commerce (DOC).
ACTION: Notice of solicitation.
AGENCY:
Notice is hereby given that
ONMS will solicit applications to fill
non-governmental seats on its 15
established national marine sanctuary
advisory councils and the Northwestern
Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem
Reserve Advisory Council (advisory
councils), under the National Marine
Sanctuaries Act and the Northwestern
Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem
Reserve Executive Order, respectively.
Note, the list of 16 established advisory
councils in the Contact Information for
Each Site section includes the advisory
council established for the Proposed
Lake Ontario National Marine
Sanctuary. Vacant seats, including
positions (i.e., primary and alternate),
for each of the advisory councils will be
advertised differently at each site in
accordance with the information
provided in this notice. This notice
contains web page links and contact
information for each site, as well as
additional resources on advisory
council vacancies and the application
process.
DATES: Please visit the individual site
web pages, or reach out to a site as
identified in this notice’s
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section,
regarding the timing and advertisement
of vacant seats, including positions (i.e.,
primary or alternate), for each of the
advisory councils. Applications will
only be accepted in response to current,
open vacancies and in accordance with
the deadlines and instructions included
on each site’s website.
SUMMARY:
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Vacancies and applications
are specific to each site’s advisory
council. As such, questions about a
specific council or vacancy, including
questions about advisory council
applications, should be directed to a
site. Contact information for each site is
listed in the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information on a particular
advisory council or available seats,
please contact the site as identified in
this notice’s SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section. For general
inquiries related to this notice or ONMS
advisory councils established pursuant
to the National Marine Sanctuaries Act
or Executive Order 13178, contact Katie
Denman, Office of National Marine
Sanctuaries Policy and Planning
Division (katie.denman@noaa.gov; 240–
533–0702).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section
315 of the National Marine Sanctuaries
Act (NMSA) (16 U.S.C. 1445A) allows
the Secretary of Commerce to establish
advisory councils to advise and make
recommendations regarding the
designation and management of national
marine sanctuaries. Executive Order
13178 similarly established a Coral Reef
Ecosystem Reserve Council pursuant to
the NMSA for the Northwestern
Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem
Reserve. In this Supplementary
Information section, NOAA provides
details regarding the Office of National
Marine Sanctuaries, the role of advisory
councils, and contact information for
each site.
ADDRESSES:
Office of National Marine Sanctuaries
(ONMS)
ONMS serves as the trustee for a
network of underwater parks
encompassing more than 620,000 square
miles of marine and Great Lakes waters
from Washington State to the Florida
Keys, and from Lake Huron to American
Samoa. The network includes a system
of 14 national marine sanctuaries and
Papaha¯naumokua¯kea and Rose Atoll
marine national monuments. National
marine sanctuaries protect our nation’s
most vital coastal and marine natural
and cultural resources, and through
active research, management, and
public engagement, sustain healthy
environments that are the foundation for
thriving communities and stable
economies.
One of the many ways ONMS ensures
public participation in the designation
and management of national marine
sanctuaries is through the formation of
advisory councils. Advisory councils
are community-based advisory groups
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established to provide advice and
recommendations to ONMS on issues
including management, science, service,
and stewardship; and to serve as
liaisons between their constituents in
the community and the site. Pursuant to
Section 315(a) of the National Marine
Sanctuaries Act, 16 U.S.C. 1445A(a),
advisory councils are exempt from the
requirements of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act. Additional information
on ONMS and its advisory councils can
be found at https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov.
Advisory Council Membership
Under Section 315 of the NMSA,
advisory council members may be
appointed from among: (1) Persons
employed by federal or state agencies
with expertise in management of natural
resources; (2) members of relevant
regional fishery management councils;
and (3) representatives of local user
groups, conservation and other public
interest organizations, scientific
organizations, educational
organizations, or others interested in the
protection and multiple use
management of sanctuary resources. For
the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve Advisory
Council, Section 5(f) of Executive Order
13178 (as amended by Executive Order
13196) specifically identifies member
and representative categories.
The charter for each advisory council
defines the number and type of seats
and positions on the council; however,
as a general matter, available seats could
include: Conservation, education,
research, fishing, whale watching,
diving and other recreational activities,
boating and shipping, tourism, harbors
and ports, maritime business,
agriculture, maritime heritage, and
citizen-at-large.
For each of the advisory councils,
applicants are chosen based upon their
particular expertise and experience in
relation to the seat for which they are
applying; community and professional
affiliations; views regarding the
protection and management of marine
or Great Lakes resources; and possibly
the length of residence in the area
affected by the site. Applicants chosen
as members or alternates should expect
to serve two- or three-year terms,
pursuant to the charter of the specific
national marine sanctuary advisory
council or Northwestern Hawaiian
Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve
Advisory Council. More information on
advisory council membership and
processes, and materials related to the
purpose, policies, and operational
requirements for advisory councils can
be found in the charter for a particular
advisory council (https://
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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
The Department of Commerce will submit the following information
collection request to the Office of
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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 28, 2021 (86 FR 7365) during a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
Title: A Coastal Management Needs Assessment and Market Analysis
for Financing Resilience.
OMB Control Number: 0648-XXXX.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission [new information collection].
Number of Respondents: 36
Average Hours per Response: 1.5 hours.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 54.
Needs and Uses: NOAA's Office of 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 conducted between
June and September 2018, 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 adaptation
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 m 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.
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.
Affected Public: State and local government, federal government,
non-profit organizations, academic institutions, business or other for-
profit enterprises.
Frequency: Once.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: None.
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 information
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the 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
[[Page 24593]]
Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function and
entering the title of the collection.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2021-09676 Filed 5-6-21; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-JS-P
