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Download as PDF 80544 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 192 / Thursday, October 3, 2024 / Notices certain members to participate at specific stock assessment workshops dependent on their ability to participate, discuss, and offer scientific input and advice regarding the species being assessed. NMFS is not obligated to fulfill any requests (e.g., requests for an assessment of a certain species) that may be made by the SEDAR Pool or its individual members. Members of the SEDAR Pool who are invited to attend stock assessment workshops will not be compensated for their services, but may be reimbursed for their travel-related expenses to attend such workshops. B. Nomination Procedures for Appointments to the SEDAR Pool ddrumheller on DSK120RN23PROD with NOTICES1 C. Meeting Schedule Individual members of the SEDAR Pool meet to participate in stock assessments at the discretion of the Office of Sustainable Fisheries, NMFS. Stock assessment timing, frequency, and relevant species will vary depending on the needs determined by NMFS and SEDAR staff. NMFS is currently assessing the status of the hammerhead shark species in the hammerhead shark management group (scalloped and Carolina hammerhead, smooth hammerhead, and great hammerhead). SEDAR released the final research assessment in February 2024 and NMFS expects to complete the operational assessment, which will provide the final stock assessment results and management advice, in late 2024. Beginning in 2025, following the completion of the hammerhead stock assessments, NMFS plans to assess the sandbar shark stock. Once the sandbar shark assessment is complete, NMFS plans to assess the bull shark stock starting at some point in 2026. All meetings are open for observation by the public. 17:59 Oct 02, 2024 Jkt 265001 [FR Doc. 2024–22661 Filed 10–2–24; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–22–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; NOAA Geospatial Metadata National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce. ACTION: Notice of information collection, request for comment. AGENCY: Member tenure is 5 years. Nominations are sought for terms beginning early in 2025 and expiring in 2030. Nomination packages should include: 1. The name, address, phone number, and email of the applicant or nominee; 2. A description of the applicant’s or nominee’s interest in Atlantic shark stock assessments or the Atlantic shark fishery; 3. A statement of the applicant’s or nominee’s background and/or qualifications; and 4. A written commitment that the applicant or nominee shall participate actively and in good faith in the tasks of the SEDAR Pool, as requested. VerDate Sep<11>2014 Dated: September 26, 2024. Karen H. Abrams, Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. The Department of Commerce, in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), invites 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. The purpose of this notice is to allow for 60 days of public comment preceding submission of the collection to OMB. DATES: To ensure consideration, comments regarding this proposed information collection must be received on or before December 2, 2024. ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit written comments to Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer, at NOAA.PRA@noaa.gov. Please reference OMB Control Number 0648– 0024 in the subject line of your comments. Do not submit Confidential Business Information or otherwise sensitive or protected information. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or specific questions related to collection activities should be directed to James Primrose, IT Specialist, NOAA/National Centers for Environmental Information, 325 Broadway, Boulder CO 80305, 720– 248–8122, James.Primrose@noaa.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: SUMMARY: I. Abstract This request is for renewal 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 PO 00000 Frm 00093 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 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 data. The following tools, in 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. The collections approved under this control number include: (1) National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service: Send2NCEI web application; (2) National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service: Advanced Tracking and Resource tool for Archive Collections (ATRAC) web application; (3) National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service: Collection Metadata Editing Tool (CoMET) web application; (4) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS): InPort metadata authoring tool; and (5) 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, geospatial metadata because 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 modeled 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 E:\FR\FM\03OCN1.SGM 03OCN1 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 192 / Thursday, October 3, 2024 / Notices 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 data described by related geospatial metadata. II. Method of Collection All of the listed information collection instruments use a series of guided web page (html) forms to collect specific elements of geospatial metadata (e.g., start/end date of data observations, descriptive discovery keywords, file format types and file-naming conventions). III. Data ddrumheller on DSK120RN23PROD with NOTICES1 OMB Control Number: 0648–0024. Form Number(s): None. Type of Review: Regular. [Renewal and extension of a current information collection]. Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations; Not-for-profit institutions; State, Local, or Tribal government; Federal government; Research universities. Estimated Number of Respondents: 665 respondents per year (Send2NCEI— 300 respondents; ATRAC—100 respondents; CoMET—50 respondents; InPort—15 respondents; SDIS—200 respondents). Estimated Time per Response: Send2NCEI—.75 hours; ATRAC—4 hours; CoMET—3 hours; InPort—1 hour; SDIS—1 hour. Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 990 hours. Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: $0 in recordkeeping/reporting costs. Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. NMFS and OAR internal policies related to availability of future funding options may apply to users of InPort and SDIS tools, respectively. Legal Authority: Executive Order 12906, NOAA Administrative Order 212–15, 2013 Office of Science and Technology Policy Memorandum ‘Public Access to Research Results’, NOAA Response to OSTP Memorandum ‘Public Access to Research Results’ IV. Request for Comments We are soliciting public comments to permit the Department/Bureau to: (a) Evaluate whether the proposed information collection is necessary for the proper functions of the Department, including whether the information will have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:32 Oct 02, 2024 Jkt 265001 accuracy of our estimate of the time and cost burden for this proposed collection, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (c) Evaluate ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) Minimize the reporting burden on those who are to respond, including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology. Comments that you submit in response to this notice are a matter of public record. We will include or summarize each comment in our request to OMB to approve this ICR. Before including your address, phone number, email address, or other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment—including your personal identifying information—may be made publicly available at any time. While you may ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so. Sheleen Dumas, Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, Commerce Department. [FR Doc. 2024–22873 Filed 10–2–24; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–12–P DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Department of the Air Force Air Force Institute of Technology Subcommittee of the Air University Board of Visitors Meeting Department of the Air Force, Department of Defense. ACTION: Meeting notice. AGENCY: The Department of Defense (DoD) is publishing this notice to announce the following Federal Advisory Committee meeting of the Air University Board of Visitor’s (AU BoV) AFIT Subcommittee. DATES: Tuesday, October 8, 2024, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Wednesday, October 9, 2024, from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. (Eastern Time). ADDRESSES: Air Force Institute of Technology Director’s Conference Room, Building 646, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH 45324. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Shawn P. O’Mailia, Designated Federal Officer, Air University Headquarters, 55 LeMay Plaza South, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama 36112–6335, telephone SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00094 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 80545 (334) 953–4547, email shawn.omailia.3@au.af.mil. This meeting is held under the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) of 1972 (5 U.S.C., appendix, as amended), the Government in the Sunshine Act of 1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b, as amended), and 41 CFR 102–3.50(d). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Purpose of the Meeting: For the AFIT Subcommittee of the Air University Board of Visitors (BOV) to review the education, outreach, and research policies and activities of the Air Force Institute of Technology. The agenda will include: Chancellor’s update, Strategic Plan update, Campus Master Plan update, Research Highlights, Student Research Poster Session, Motion Capture Lab demo, School of Strategic Force Studies Nuclear Program Discussion, Student Life-cycle Management System update, DEI update, Reoptimizing Great Power Competition, and Artificial Intelligence discussion. Meeting Accessibility: Open to the public. Any member of the public wishing to attend this meeting should contact the Designated Federal Officer at least ten calendar days prior to the meeting for information on base entry procedures. Written Statements: Any member of the public wishing to provide input to the Air University Board of Visitors in accordance with 41 CFR 102–3.140(c) and section 10(a)(3) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act should submit a written statement to the Designated Federal Officer. Statements submitted in response to the agenda mentioned in this notice must be received by the Designated Federal Officer at least ten calendar days prior to the meeting that is the subject of this notice. Written statements received after this date may not be provided to or considered by the AFIT Subcommittee of the Air University Board of Visitors until its next meeting. The Designated Federal Officer will review all timely submissions with the Air University Board of Visitors’ Board Chairperson and ensure they are provided to members of the Board before the meeting that is the subject of this notice. Tommy W. Lee, Acting Air Force Federal Register Liaison Officer. 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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

AGENCY: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of information collection, request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce, in accordance with the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), invites 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. The 
purpose of this notice is to allow for 60 days of public comment 
preceding submission of the collection to OMB.

DATES: To ensure consideration, comments regarding this proposed 
information collection must be received on or before December 2, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit written comments to 
Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer, at [email protected]. Please 
reference OMB Control Number 0648-0024 in the subject line of your 
comments. Do not submit Confidential Business Information or otherwise 
sensitive or protected information.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or 
specific questions related to collection activities should be directed 
to James Primrose, IT Specialist, NOAA/National Centers for 
Environmental Information, 325 Broadway, Boulder CO 80305, 720-248-
8122, [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

    This request is for renewal 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 data. The following tools, in 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. The collections approved under this control 
number include: (1) National Environmental Satellite, Data and 
Information Service: Send2NCEI web application; (2) National 
Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service: Advanced 
Tracking and Resource tool for Archive Collections (ATRAC) web 
application; (3) National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information 
Service: Collection Metadata Editing Tool (CoMET) web application; (4) 
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS): InPort metadata authoring 
tool; and (5) 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, geospatial metadata because 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 government-funded scientific 
researchers) in multiple fields of geosciences, biological and 
atmospheric sciences, and socio-economic sciences. Geospatial metadata 
typically includes descriptive information about specific observed, 
calculated, or modeled 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

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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 data 
described by related geospatial metadata.

II. Method of Collection

    All of the listed information collection instruments use a series 
of guided web page (html) forms to collect specific elements of 
geospatial metadata (e.g., start/end date of data observations, 
descriptive discovery keywords, file format types and file-naming 
conventions).

III. Data

    OMB Control Number: 0648-0024.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Review: Regular. [Renewal and extension of a current 
information collection].
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations; Not-
for-profit institutions; State, Local, or Tribal government; Federal 
government; Research universities.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 665 respondents per year 
(Send2NCEI--300 respondents; ATRAC--100 respondents; CoMET--50 
respondents; InPort--15 respondents;
    SDIS--200 respondents).
    Estimated Time per Response: Send2NCEI--.75 hours; ATRAC--4 hours; 
CoMET--3 hours; InPort--1 hour; SDIS--1 hour.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 990 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: $0 in recordkeeping/
reporting costs.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary. NMFS and OAR internal policies 
related to availability of future funding options may apply to users of 
InPort and SDIS tools, respectively.
    Legal Authority: Executive Order 12906, NOAA Administrative Order 
212-15, 2013 Office of Science and Technology Policy Memorandum `Public 
Access to Research Results', NOAA Response to OSTP Memorandum `Public 
Access to Research Results'

IV. Request for Comments

    We are soliciting public comments to permit the Department/Bureau 
to: (a) Evaluate whether the proposed information collection is 
necessary for the proper functions of the Department, including whether 
the information will have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the accuracy 
of our estimate of the time and cost burden for this proposed 
collection, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions 
used; (c) Evaluate ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of 
the information to be collected; and (d) Minimize the reporting burden 
on those who are to respond, including the use of automated collection 
techniques or other forms of information technology.
    Comments that you submit in response to this notice are a matter of 
public record. We will include or summarize each comment in our request 
to OMB to approve this ICR. Before including your address, phone 
number, email address, or other personal identifying information in 
your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment--including 
your personal identifying information--may be made publicly available 
at any time. While you may ask us in your comment to withhold your 
personal identifying information from public review, we cannot 
guarantee that we will be able to do so.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for 
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2024-22873 Filed 10-2-24; 8:45 am]
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