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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Economic Analysis of
Shoreline Treatment Options for
Coastal New Hampshire
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 April 26,
2021 (86 FR 22034) during a 60-day
comment period. This notice allows for
an additional 30 days for public
comments.
Agency: National Oceanic &
Atmospheric Administration,
Commerce.
Title: Economic Analysis of Shoreline
Treatment Options for Coastal New
Hampshire.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0788.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission
[revision of a current information
collection].
Number of Respondents: 2,701.
Average Hours per Response:
Pretest—17 minutes; Full survey—20
minutes; Non-response survey—5
minutes.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 824.
Needs and Uses: This is a request for
a revision to information collection
0648–0788, sponsored by the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) National Center
for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS).
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This collection will benefit the NOAA,
Office of Coastal Management (OCM),
and decision-makers on the state and
local level in New Hampshire. NOAA
will collect economic data pursuant to
the Coastal Zone Management Act
(CZMA) and Digital Coastal Act.
The New Hampshire Coastal Risk and
Hazards Commission (CRHC) was
established by the State Legislature
through RSA 483–E on July 2, 2013. The
purpose of the Commission, as stated in
the law, is to ‘‘recommend legislation,
rules and other actions to prepare for
projected sea-level rise and other coastal
watershed hazards such as storms,
increased river flooding and storm water
runoff, and the risks such hazards pose
to municipalities and the state assets in
New Hampshire.’’ Further, in carrying
out this charge, the Commission is
specifically directed to ‘‘review National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration and other scientific
agency projections of coastal storm
inundation and flood risk to determine
the appropriate information, data, and
property risks’’ to incorporate into its
recommendations.
In 2016, the CRCH recommended the
development of a ‘‘comprehensive,
integrated New Hampshire Coastal
Shoreline Management Plan (CSMP)
that presents general priorities for
coastal shoreline management, as well
as site-specific and place-based
strategies including, where appropriate,
protection, adaptation, and
abandonment.’’ Following a New
Hampshire Shoreline Management
workshop organized by GBNERR in
2014 and consistent with CRHC
Recommendation BL6, NHCP has
prioritized living shoreline assessment
and implementation in its five-year
strategy to enhance coastal management
(309 Strategy, 2015) and set a longer
term goal to develop a Tidal Shoreline
Management Plan (TSMP) for New
Hampshire.
The National Ocean Service (NOS)
proposes to collect economic data to
document perceived effects of weather
and climate events and adaptation
strategies, to assess probable public
benefits that would be derived from
shoreline treatment options within
coastal New Hampshire, and to establish
a baseline for future monitoring of
NOAA’s success in meeting its
mandates and obligations.
Respondents will be randomly
sampled from households (1) within
New Hampshire, (2) within block
groups in Maine adjacent to the
Piscataqua River, and (3) within block
groups in Massachusetts adjacent to the
Hampton-Seabrook Estuary. Questions
will explore such issues as participation
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in recreational activities, familiarity
with weather and climate effects and
adaptation methods, sense of place, and
opinions on shoreline treatment
options. No PII will be collected. The
final collection will support the
development of a CSMP for New
Hampshire as well as provide
information to help inform local coastal
zone management and planning.
Upon analysis of the pre-test data and
guidance from experts in survey
methodology, the following changes
were made to enhance understanding,
response rate, and to minimize
respondent burden:
• Question 4: ‘‘suffered damage’’ has
been replaced with ‘‘been damaged’’ to
avoid potential bias an increase data
quality.
• Questions 7a/8a: ‘‘coastal flooding’’
has been replaced with ‘‘flooding’’ to
not exclude riverine flooding.
• Questions 7a/8a, 7b/8b: ‘‘flooding
damage’’ and ‘‘shoreline erosion
damage’’ were replaced with ‘‘damage
from flooding’’ and ‘‘damage from
shoreline erosion’’ to improve
understanding.
• Questions 14h and 14i were
removed based on pre-test results to
reduce burden without decreasing data
quality.
• Questions 16–21 originally asked
respondents to indicate their preference
to six unique policy options, but now
respondents are asked to compare three
sets of unique policy options. Pre-test
results suggested that respondents
would prefer to compare policies rather
than rate them individually, and
comparing three sets of policy options
should reduce burden while increasing
data quality.
• Question 22b: This question is now
asked after each policy comparison
instead of once to improve data quality.
• Question 22f: ‘‘a public vote or
referendum’’ was replaced with ‘‘being
considered by the New Hampshire
legislature’’ to convey the same
information, but using region-specific
terminology, which should increase
data quality.
• Question 22: An additional
statement was added to capture
potentially invalid responses due to
‘‘scenario rejection,’’ which should
increase data quality.
• Question 23: The question and
response option phrasings have been
updated to reflect the modified choice
experiment.
• Question 30: The year has been
updated from 2019 to 2020 when asking
about the previous year’s household
income.
• A question has been added to ask
how long the respondent has been a
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resident of their current state.
Respondents who have recently moved
within their state may have different
opinions than those who have recently
moved from out-of-state, so this
additional question should increase data
quality.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Frequency: Once.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: 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 0648–0788.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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(March 19, 2021); NTIA, Notice of
Change to Schedule for Open
Meetings—NTIA Broadband Grant
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related to these programs, with more
than 2,800 participants. Participants
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understanding the rules associated with
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use webinars as a means of informing
potential applicants.
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The presentation and recording of
each webinar will be posted on the
BroadbandUSA website at https://
broadbandusa.ntia.doc.gov/ and NTIA’s
YouTube channel at: https://
www.youtube.com/ntiagov within 7
days following the live webinar.
The public is invited to participate in
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Dated: June 30, 2021.
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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; Economic Analysis of Shoreline Treatment Options for Coastal
New Hampshire
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 April 26, 2021 (86 FR 22034) during a 60-day
comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public
comments.
Agency: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Commerce.
Title: Economic Analysis of Shoreline Treatment Options for Coastal
New Hampshire.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0788.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission [revision of a current
information collection].
Number of Respondents: 2,701.
Average Hours per Response: Pretest--17 minutes; Full survey--20
minutes; Non-response survey--5 minutes.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 824.
Needs and Uses: This is a request for a revision to information
collection 0648-0788, sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) National Center for Coastal Ocean Science
(NCCOS). This collection will benefit the NOAA, Office of Coastal
Management (OCM), and decision-makers on the state and local level in
New Hampshire. NOAA will collect economic data pursuant to the Coastal
Zone Management Act (CZMA) and Digital Coastal Act.
The New Hampshire Coastal Risk and Hazards Commission (CRHC) was
established by the State Legislature through RSA 483-E on July 2, 2013.
The purpose of the Commission, as stated in the law, is to ``recommend
legislation, rules and other actions to prepare for projected sea-level
rise and other coastal watershed hazards such as storms, increased
river flooding and storm water runoff, and the risks such hazards pose
to municipalities and the state assets in New Hampshire.'' Further, in
carrying out this charge, the Commission is specifically directed to
``review National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other
scientific agency projections of coastal storm inundation and flood
risk to determine the appropriate information, data, and property
risks'' to incorporate into its recommendations.
In 2016, the CRCH recommended the development of a ``comprehensive,
integrated New Hampshire Coastal Shoreline Management Plan (CSMP) that
presents general priorities for coastal shoreline management, as well
as site-specific and place-based strategies including, where
appropriate, protection, adaptation, and abandonment.'' Following a New
Hampshire Shoreline Management workshop organized by GBNERR in 2014 and
consistent with CRHC Recommendation BL6, NHCP has prioritized living
shoreline assessment and implementation in its five-year strategy to
enhance coastal management (309 Strategy, 2015) and set a longer term
goal to develop a Tidal Shoreline Management Plan (TSMP) for New
Hampshire.
The National Ocean Service (NOS) proposes to collect economic data
to document perceived effects of weather and climate events and
adaptation strategies, to assess probable public benefits that would be
derived from shoreline treatment options within coastal New Hampshire,
and to establish a baseline for future monitoring of NOAA's success in
meeting its mandates and obligations.
Respondents will be randomly sampled from households (1) within New
Hampshire, (2) within block groups in Maine adjacent to the Piscataqua
River, and (3) within block groups in Massachusetts adjacent to the
Hampton-Seabrook Estuary. Questions will explore such issues as
participation in recreational activities, familiarity with weather and
climate effects and adaptation methods, sense of place, and opinions on
shoreline treatment options. No PII will be collected. The final
collection will support the development of a CSMP for New Hampshire as
well as provide information to help inform local coastal zone
management and planning.
Upon analysis of the pre-test data and guidance from experts in
survey methodology, the following changes were made to enhance
understanding, response rate, and to minimize respondent burden:
Question 4: ``suffered damage'' has been replaced with
``been damaged'' to avoid potential bias an increase data quality.
Questions 7a/8a: ``coastal flooding'' has been replaced
with ``flooding'' to not exclude riverine flooding.
Questions 7a/8a, 7b/8b: ``flooding damage'' and
``shoreline erosion damage'' were replaced with ``damage from
flooding'' and ``damage from shoreline erosion'' to improve
understanding.
Questions 14h and 14i were removed based on pre-test
results to reduce burden without decreasing data quality.
Questions 16-21 originally asked respondents to indicate
their preference to six unique policy options, but now respondents are
asked to compare three sets of unique policy options. Pre-test results
suggested that respondents would prefer to compare policies rather than
rate them individually, and comparing three sets of policy options
should reduce burden while increasing data quality.
Question 22b: This question is now asked after each policy
comparison instead of once to improve data quality.
Question 22f: ``a public vote or referendum'' was replaced
with ``being considered by the New Hampshire legislature'' to convey
the same information, but using region-specific terminology, which
should increase data quality.
Question 22: An additional statement was added to capture
potentially invalid responses due to ``scenario rejection,'' which
should increase data quality.
Question 23: The question and response option phrasings
have been updated to reflect the modified choice experiment.
Question 30: The year has been updated from 2019 to 2020
when asking about the previous year's household income.
A question has been added to ask how long the respondent
has been a
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resident of their current state. Respondents who have recently moved
within their state may have different opinions than those who have
recently moved from out-of-state, so this additional question should
increase data quality.
Affected Public: Individuals or households.
Frequency: Once.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: 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 0648-0788.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2021-14354 Filed 7-2-21; 8:45 am]
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