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regardless of whether the top edges contain
adhesive or other material for sealing closed.
Subject paper shopping bags have a width of
at least 4.5 inches and depth of at least 2.5
inches.
Paper shopping bags typically are made of
kraft paper but can be made from any type
of cellulose fiber, paperboard, or pressboard
with a basis weight less than 300 grams per
square meter (GSM).
A non-exhaustive illustrative list of the
types of handles on shopping bags covered
by the scope include handles made from any
materials such as twisted paper, flat paper,
yarn, ribbon, rope, string, or plastic, as well
as die-cut handles (whether the punchout is
fully removed or partially attached as a flap).
Excluded from the scope are:
• Paper sacks or bags that are of a 1⁄6 or 1⁄7
barrel size (i.e., 11.5–12.5 inches in width,
6.5–7.5 inches in depth, and 13.5–17.5
inches in height) with flat paper handles or
die-cut handles;
• Paper sacks or bags with die-cut handles,
a grams per square meter paper weight of less
than 86 GSM, and a height of less than 11.5
inches; and
• Paper sacks or bags (i) with non-paper
handles made wholly of woven ribbon or
other similar woven fabric 14 and (ii) that are
finished with folded tops or for which tied
knots or t-bar aglets (made of wood, metal,
or plastic) are used to secure the handles to
the bags.
The above-referenced dimensions are
provided for paper bags in the opened
position. The height of the bag is the distance
from the bottom fold edge to the top edge
(i.e., excluding the height of handles that
extend above the top edge). The depth of the
bag is the distance from the front of the bag
edge to the back of the bag edge (typically
measured at the bottom of the bag). The
width of the bag is measured from the left to
the right edges of the front and back panels
(upon which the handles typically are
located).
This merchandise is currently classifiable
under Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the
United States (HTSUS) subheadings
4819.30.0040 and 4819.40.0040. The HTSUS
subheadings are provided for convenience
and customs purposes only; the written
description of the scope is dispositive.
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braided or twisted materials, such as rope or cord,
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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
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 February 27,
2024 (89 FR 14447) during a 60-day
comment period. No comments were
received. 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: 0648–0796.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission
[extension of an approved information
collection].
Number of Respondents: 36.
Average Hours per Response: 1.5
hours.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 54.
Needs and Uses: This is a request for
extension to an approved collection of
information under the Paperwork
Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.,
and implementing regulations at 5 CFR.
part 1320. This previously-approved
information collection assists NOAA in
the development of funding and
financing coastal resilience learning
products and tools in support of the
Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972
(CZMA), 16 U.S.C. 1451 et seq. NOAA’s
Office for Coastal Management (OCM)
and its regional, State, Federal, and nonprofit partners have worked closely with
coastal managers across the country to
increase the resilience of our coastal
communities, economies and
ecosystems. Under the CZMA, OCM
provides financial and technical
assistance to states and territories,
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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
Adaptation Forum and Social Coast
Forum, as well as through the original
needs assessment using this information
collection instrument. NOAA’s coastal
management partners continue to
request 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. The initial information
gathered via this collection supported
this.
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
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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 uses the information collected
to develop needs assessments defining
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. Information collected to date
has helped inform the development of
new NOAA funding and financing
products and services and future
collection efforts will help NOAA better
understand the impacts these products
and services have had on coastal
managers’ barriers.
This request for extension to an
approved collection of information 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
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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: On Occasion.
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
Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or
by using the search function and
entering either the title of the collection
or the OMB Control Number 0648–0796.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Public Meeting of the National Sea
Grant Advisory Board
Office of Oceanic and
Atmospheric Research (OAR), National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), Department of
Commerce (DOC).
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:
This notice sets forth the
schedule and proposed agenda of a
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forthcoming meeting of the National Sea
Grant Advisory Board (Board), a Federal
advisory committee. Board members
will discuss and provide advice on the
National Sea Grant College Program (Sea
Grant) in the areas of program
evaluation, strategic planning,
education and extension, science and
technology programs, and other matters
as described in the agenda found on the
Sea Grant website. For more information
on this Federal Advisory Committee
please visit the Federal Advisory
Committee database: https://www.faca
database.gov/FACA/FACAPublicPage.
DATES: The announced meeting is
scheduled for Sunday August 18, 2024
from 8:30 a.m.–5:15 p.m. (EST).
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the Marriott Savannah Riverfront in
Savannah, Georgia. For more
information about the public meeting
see below in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
any questions concerning the meeting,
please contact Ms. Donna Brown,
National Sea Grant College Program.
Email: oar.sg-feedback@noaa.gov.
Phone Number: 301–734–1088.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Status: The meeting will be open to
public participation with a public
comment period on Sunday, August 18
at 8:30 a.m. The Board expects that
public statements presented at its
meetings will not be repetitive of
previously submitted verbal or written
statements. In general, each individual
or group making a verbal presentation
will be limited to a total time of three
(3) minutes. Written comments should
be received by Ms. Donna Brown by
Monday, August 12, 2024 to provide
sufficient time for Board review. Written
comments received after the deadline
will be distributed to the Board, but may
not be reviewed prior to the meeting
date.
Special Accommodations: The Board
meeting is physically accessible to
people with disabilities. Requests for
sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aids should be directed to Ms.
Donna Brown by Monday, August 12,
2024.
The Board, which consists of a
balanced representation from academia,
industry, State government and citizens
groups, was established in 1976 by
section 209 of the Sea Grant
Improvement Act (Pub. L. 94–461, 33
U.S.C. 1128). The Board advises the
Secretary of Commerce and the Director
of the National Sea Grant College
Program with respect to operations
under the Act, and such other matters
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[Notices]
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[FR Doc No: 2024-15785]
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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 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 February 27, 2024 (89 FR 14447) during a 60-day
comment period. No comments were received. 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: 0648-0796.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission [extension of an approved
information collection].
Number of Respondents: 36.
Average Hours per Response: 1.5 hours.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 54.
Needs and Uses: This is a request for extension to an approved
collection of information under the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq., and implementing regulations at 5 CFR. part 1320. This
previously-approved information collection assists NOAA in the
development of funding and financing coastal resilience learning
products and tools in support of the Coastal Zone Management Act of
1972 (CZMA), 16 U.S.C. 1451 et seq. 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. Under the 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 and Social Coast Forum, as well as through the
original needs assessment using this information collection instrument.
NOAA's coastal management partners continue to request 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. The initial information gathered via this collection
supported this.
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
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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 uses the information collected to develop needs assessments
defining 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. Information collected to date has helped inform the
development of new NOAA funding and financing products and services and
future collection efforts will help NOAA better understand the impacts
these products and services have had on coastal managers' barriers.
This request for extension to an approved collection of information
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: On Occasion.
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 Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search
function and entering either the title of the collection or the OMB
Control Number 0648-0796.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2024-15785 Filed 7-17-24; 8:45 am]
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