Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NWS Fire Weather Social and Behavioral Sciences Research, 46073 [2024-11660]

Agencies

• DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 103 (Tuesday, May 28, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 46073]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-11660]


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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; NWS Fire Weather Social and Behavioral Sciences Research

    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 Feb. 15, 2024 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: NWS Fire Weather Social and Behavioral Sciences Research.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-XXXX.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular (New information collection).
    Number of Respondents: 2,140.
    Average Hours Per Response: Survey: 15 minutes; Focus Groups: 2 
hours.
    Total Annual Burden Hours: 605 hours.
    Needs and Uses: This is a request for a new collection of 
information.
    The data collection is sponsored by DOC/NOAA/National Weather 
Service (NWS)/Analyze, Forecast, and Support Office (AFS), National 
Fire Weather Program. Under the Disaster Relief Supplemental 
Appropriations Act of 2022, Congress charged NOAA/NWS to improve (a) 
Hurricane intensity and track forecasting, including through deployment 
of unmanned ocean observing platforms and enhanced data assimilation; 
(B) precipitation and flood prediction, forecasting, and mitigation 
capabilities; and (C) wildfire research, prediction, detection, 
forecasting, monitoring, data management, and communication and 
engagement. Based on this directive, the NWS is conducting this project 
to improve decision support services for fire weather products and 
services. By using social science methods and risk communication 
expertise, the NWS seeks to identify how probabilistic weather 
information can most effectively influence fire-related decision-making 
to protect lives and property and enhance the economy. This data 
collection will include an on-line survey and virtual focus groups. The 
survey sample will be a non-representative panel that will draw 
primarily from the Western, Southern Plains, and Southeastern portions 
of the United States. The focus groups will be conducted with Public 
Information Officers and Fire Weather Practitioners at the national, 
regional, state, and local levels based on contacts known to the NWS. 
The insights and findings derived from this data collection will be 
used to develop Impact Decision Support Services' products and 
messages.
    This is a new data collection and currently there are no changes to 
the collection.
    Affected Public: Individuals, State, Local, or Tribal government.
    Frequency: One-time collection.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of 
2022.
    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 Under Secretary for 
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2024-11660 Filed 5-24-24; 8:45 am]
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