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Notice is hereby given of a
meeting of the Sanctuary System
Business Advisory Council (council).
The meeting is open to the public, and
an opportunity for oral and written
comments will be provided.
DATES: The meeting will be held
Wednesday, April 6, 2022, from 3 p.m.
to 3:30 p.m. ET, and an opportunity for
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seq.
John Armor,
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Sanctuaries, National Ocean Service,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.
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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; Weather and Society Survey
and Using Quick Response Surveys To
Build a Public Perception and
Response Database
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 9/22/2021
during a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days
for public comments.
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Agency: National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration,
Commerce.
Title: Weather and Society Survey and
Using Quick Response Surveys to Build
a Public Perception and Response
Database.
OMB Control Number: 0648–XXXX.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular (New
information collection).
Number of Respondents: 37,650.
Average Hours per Response:
Longitudinal surveys: .20 minutes; QRS:
10 minutes.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 7,140.
Needs and Uses: In alignment with
the Weather Forecasting and Innovation
Act of 2017 (Pub. L. 115–25), two data
collections are proposed under this
request. There are no other collections
for which these can be merged.
The first proposed information
collection request is sponsored by DOC/
NOAA/National Weather Service
(NWS)/Office of Science and
Technology Integration (OSTI).
Currently, NOAA lacks data and data
collection instruments that articulate
and explicate how individuals receive,
interpret, and respond to NOAA
information, forecasts, and warnings for
severe, winter, and tropical weather
hazards. Furthermore, NOAA lacks this
type of data longitudinally (i.e.,
collected over time). Without this type
of longitudinal data, NOAA, and the
NWS specifically, cannot determine if it
has met its mission of saving lives and
property, propose societal impact
performance metrics, nor demonstrate if
progress or improvements have been
made, as outlined in the Weather
Research and Forecasting Innovation
Act of 2017. This effort aims to advance
the Tornado Warning Improvement and
Extension Program (TWIEP)’s goal to
‘‘reduce the loss of life and economic
losses from tornadoes through the
development and extension of accurate,
effective, and timely tornado forecasts,
predictions, and warnings, including
the prediction of tornadoes beyond one
hour in advance (Pub. L. 115–25)’’. This
work addresses NOAA’s 5-year Research
and Development Vision Areas (2020–
2026) Section 1.4 (FACETs). The
Weather and Society Survey also
advances the findings of the National
Academy of Science 2012 report,
‘‘Assessment of the NWS Modernization
Program’’, in reference to NWS’ ‘‘chain
of events associated with a tornado
warning’’ (p52). This effort also
advances the NWS Strategic Plan (2019–
2022) ‘‘Transformative Impact-Based
Decision Support Services (IDSS) and
Research to Operations and Operations
to Research (R2O/O2R). Furthermore,
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the Survey furthers the NWS Weather
Ready Nation (WRN) Roadmap (2013)
Sections 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.8, and
3.1.4.
This information would be collected
at the Cooperative Institute for
Mesoscale Meteorological Studies
(CIMMS) and the University of
Oklahoma’s Center for Risk and Crisis
Management (CRCM), who has
developed data collection instruments
that would allow for more routine and
longitudinal data collection, as the data
will be collected on an annual basis.
Furthermore, this team has developed
interactive ‘‘dashboards’’, or tools, to
visualize the aggregated data.
Respondents include adults (age 18+)
who reside in the United States,
recruited by survey companies that
maintain large panels of people who
sign up to complete internet surveys,
such as Qualtrics and Survey Sampling
International. Respondents will be
asked questions about the ways they
have received, interpreted, and
responded to NWS information,
forecasts, and warnings for severe,
tropical, and winter weather hazards.
Questions about preparedness for
specific hazards such as heat waves,
tornadoes, and drought may also be
included. This data collection serves
many purposes, including gaining a
better understanding of how key factors
within a given population, or
organization, vary over time, location,
and across different groups; the ability
to detect gradual trends or abrupt
changes in those factors over time or in
response to particular events; and the
potential to explore possible
correlations and causal relationships
with other observed variables of
interest. These data will be used by the
OSTI in NWS to develop a baseline and
performance metrics to improve the
information and services it provides and
to help members of the weather
enterprise answer basic questions about
the people in the communities they
serve, which is a necessary step towards
customizing and improving risk
communication, education, and
decision support to meet the
characteristics of the community,
including those in vulnerable
populations. The information collected
will help identify differences and best
practices between communities and
assist NWS in developing new
education and risk communication
strategies. The survey data and its
associated dashboard will serve as
interactive tools to allow NWS
forecasters, partners, and policymakers
to access and explore data for training
and performance evaluation purposes.
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The second proposed collection is
sponsored through NOAA’s FY2021
Weather Program Office’s Social Science
Program, and addresses the Social,
Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
(SBES) component of meeting NOAA’s
Research and Development (R&D)
Vision Areas (2020–2026) to integrate
SBES into products, tools, and services
that improve weather and air quality
forecasting and societal outcomes.
This proposal aims to create an online
survey system for collecting data on the
publics’ perception and response to four
different hazards: Tornados,
thunderstorm winds over 70 miles per
hour (mph), flash floods, and winter
weather. The online surveys will be the
building blocks for a multi-year, crosssectional database on human perception
and response. The survey system will
enable individual National Weather
Service Weather Forecast Offices
(WFOs) to disseminate Quick Response
Surveys (QRS) soon after a hazardous
event occurs to collect perishable data
on the publics’ perceptions and
response. Select WFOs will distribute
the QRSs using web links on NWS
social media and core partners’ social
media or email lists. Surveys will ask
the public questions on timing, location,
weather information sources,
motivations and influences for taking
protective action to gain insights into
how NWS warning communications
interact with these factors to result in
protective action behaviors.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Frequency: Once.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: 15 U.S.C. Ch. 111,
Weather Research and Forecasting
Information.
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 the title of the collection.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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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; Alaska Cost Recovery and
Fee Programs
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 October 29,
2021, 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: Alaska Cost Recovery and Fee
Programs.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0711.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission
(Revision and extension of a current
information collection).
Number of Respondents: 1,722.
Average Hours per Response: Fee
payments: 1 minute; volume and value
reports (electronic submission): 1
minute; IFQ Registered Buyer Ex-vessel
Volume and Value Report (nonelectronic submission): 2 hours; fee
calculation forms: 30 minutes;
administrative appeals: 4 hours.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 82
hours.
Needs and Uses: The National Marine
Fisheries Service, Alaska Regional
Office (NMFS AKR), is requesting
renewal and revision of a currently
approved information collection that
contains requirements for the NMFS
AKR cost recovery fee programs and the
observer coverage fee program.
Three revisions are requested for this
collection. A slight revision is requested
to change the title of the collection from
‘‘Alaska Quota Cost Recovery Programs’’
to ‘‘Alaska Cost Recovery and Fee
Programs.’’ Revisions are necessary to
two forms because NMFS AKR has
finished transitioning to online fee
payments and these forms are no longer
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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; Weather and Society Survey and Using Quick Response Surveys To
Build a Public Perception and Response Database
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 9/22/2021 during a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Commerce.
Title: Weather and Society Survey and Using Quick Response Surveys
to Build a Public Perception and Response Database.
OMB Control Number: 0648-XXXX.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular (New information collection).
Number of Respondents: 37,650.
Average Hours per Response: Longitudinal surveys: .20 minutes; QRS:
10 minutes.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 7,140.
Needs and Uses: In alignment with the Weather Forecasting and
Innovation Act of 2017 (Pub. L. 115-25), two data collections are
proposed under this request. There are no other collections for which
these can be merged.
The first proposed information collection request is sponsored by
DOC/NOAA/National Weather Service (NWS)/Office of Science and
Technology Integration (OSTI). Currently, NOAA lacks data and data
collection instruments that articulate and explicate how individuals
receive, interpret, and respond to NOAA information, forecasts, and
warnings for severe, winter, and tropical weather hazards. Furthermore,
NOAA lacks this type of data longitudinally (i.e., collected over
time). Without this type of longitudinal data, NOAA, and the NWS
specifically, cannot determine if it has met its mission of saving
lives and property, propose societal impact performance metrics, nor
demonstrate if progress or improvements have been made, as outlined in
the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017. This
effort aims to advance the Tornado Warning Improvement and Extension
Program (TWIEP)'s goal to ``reduce the loss of life and economic losses
from tornadoes through the development and extension of accurate,
effective, and timely tornado forecasts, predictions, and warnings,
including the prediction of tornadoes beyond one hour in advance (Pub.
L. 115-25)''. This work addresses NOAA's 5-year Research and
Development Vision Areas (2020-2026) Section 1.4 (FACETs). The Weather
and Society Survey also advances the findings of the National Academy
of Science 2012 report, ``Assessment of the NWS Modernization
Program'', in reference to NWS' ``chain of events associated with a
tornado warning'' (p52). This effort also advances the NWS Strategic
Plan (2019-2022) ``Transformative Impact-Based Decision Support
Services (IDSS) and Research to Operations and Operations to Research
(R2O/O2R). Furthermore,
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the Survey furthers the NWS Weather Ready Nation (WRN) Roadmap (2013)
Sections 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.8, and 3.1.4.
This information would be collected at the Cooperative Institute
for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS) and the University of
Oklahoma's Center for Risk and Crisis Management (CRCM), who has
developed data collection instruments that would allow for more routine
and longitudinal data collection, as the data will be collected on an
annual basis. Furthermore, this team has developed interactive
``dashboards'', or tools, to visualize the aggregated data.
Respondents include adults (age 18+) who reside in the United
States, recruited by survey companies that maintain large panels of
people who sign up to complete internet surveys, such as Qualtrics and
Survey Sampling International. Respondents will be asked questions
about the ways they have received, interpreted, and responded to NWS
information, forecasts, and warnings for severe, tropical, and winter
weather hazards. Questions about preparedness for specific hazards such
as heat waves, tornadoes, and drought may also be included. This data
collection serves many purposes, including gaining a better
understanding of how key factors within a given population, or
organization, vary over time, location, and across different groups;
the ability to detect gradual trends or abrupt changes in those factors
over time or in response to particular events; and the potential to
explore possible correlations and causal relationships with other
observed variables of interest. These data will be used by the OSTI in
NWS to develop a baseline and performance metrics to improve the
information and services it provides and to help members of the weather
enterprise answer basic questions about the people in the communities
they serve, which is a necessary step towards customizing and improving
risk communication, education, and decision support to meet the
characteristics of the community, including those in vulnerable
populations. The information collected will help identify differences
and best practices between communities and assist NWS in developing new
education and risk communication strategies. The survey data and its
associated dashboard will serve as interactive tools to allow NWS
forecasters, partners, and policymakers to access and explore data for
training and performance evaluation purposes.
The second proposed collection is sponsored through NOAA's FY2021
Weather Program Office's Social Science Program, and addresses the
Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBES) component of meeting
NOAA's Research and Development (R&D) Vision Areas (2020-2026) to
integrate SBES into products, tools, and services that improve weather
and air quality forecasting and societal outcomes.
This proposal aims to create an online survey system for collecting
data on the publics' perception and response to four different hazards:
Tornados, thunderstorm winds over 70 miles per hour (mph), flash
floods, and winter weather. The online surveys will be the building
blocks for a multi-year, cross-sectional database on human perception
and response. The survey system will enable individual National Weather
Service Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs) to disseminate Quick Response
Surveys (QRS) soon after a hazardous event occurs to collect perishable
data on the publics' perceptions and response. Select WFOs will
distribute the QRSs using web links on NWS social media and core
partners' social media or email lists. Surveys will ask the public
questions on timing, location, weather information sources, motivations
and influences for taking protective action to gain insights into how
NWS warning communications interact with these factors to result in
protective action behaviors.
Affected Public: Individuals or households.
Frequency: Once.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: 15 U.S.C. Ch. 111, Weather Research and
Forecasting Information.
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 the title of the collection.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, Commerce Department.
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