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Number of Respondents: 34. 

Average Hours per Response: 

Performance reports, 27 hours; 

assessment and strategy documents, 240 

hours; Section 306A questionnaire and 

documentation, 15 hours; amendments 

and routine program changes, 16 hours; 

CNP documentation, 320 hours; CZMA 

Performance Management System, 24 

hours. 

Burden Hours: 6,280. 

Needs and Uses: This request is for 

revision and extension of a currently 

approved information. 

In 1972, in response to intense 

pressure on United States (U.S.) coastal 

resources, and because of the 

importance of U.S. coastal areas, the 

U.S. Congress passed the Coastal Zone 

Management Act of 1972 (CZMA), 16 

U.S.C. 1451 et seq. The CZMA 

authorized a federal program to 

encourage coastal states and territories 

to develop comprehensive coastal 

management programs. The CZMA has 

been reauthorized on several occasions, 

most recently with the enactment of the 

Coastal Zone Protection Act of 1996. 

(CZMA as amended). The program is 

administered by the Secretary of 

Commerce, who in turn has delegated 

this responsibility to the National 

Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration’s (NOAA) National 

Ocean Services (NOS). 

The coastal zone management grants 

provide funds to states and territories to: 

Implement federally-approved coastal 

management programs; complete 

information for the Coastal Zone 

Management Program (CZMP) 

Performance Management System; 

develop multi-year program assessments 

and strategies to enhance their programs 

within priority areas under Section 309 

of the CZMA; submit documentation as 

described in the CZMA Section 306A on 

the approved coastal zone management 

programs; submit requests to update 

their federally-approved programs 

through amendments or program 

changes; and develop and submit state 

coastal nonpoint pollution control 

programs (CNP) as required under 

Section 6217 of the Coastal Zone Act 

Reauthorization Amendments. 

Revisions 

1. The CZMA Section 306A guidance 

and project questionnaire have been 

updated to reduce confusion. The 306A 

Guidance and project questionnaire 

currently in use were developed in 1999 

and need to be updated to ensure 

consistency with NOAA/NOS 

environmental compliance policies or 

grants requirements, and CZMA 

national strategic priorities, such as 

community resilience. The revised 306A 

guidance and questionnaire will provide 

clarification on the collection of project 

information and resolve confusion over 

grants management timelines. The 

current guidance and proposed 

revisions can be found at https://

coast.noaa.gov/czm/guidance/. Based 

on recent experience, the time estimate 

for completing the questionnaire and 

collecting the necessary documentation 

is being increased from 5 hours to 15 

hours per project. 

An electronic system is being 

developed to improve the routine 

program change submission process and 

will replace the current paper-only 

submission process. The new site will 

provide the following functionalities: 

Make active program change documents 

electronically available to the public, 

states and federal agencies; Provide 

electronic notices to state agencies, 

federal agencies and the public of state 

program change submissions, OCM 

decision deadlines and OCM decisions; 

Automatically notify federal agencies, 

states and members of the public who 

request such notifications via email; 

Allow federal agencies and the public to 

submit comments to OCM on individual 

state program change submissions; 

Allow ability of OCM staff to upload 

text-searchable PDF documents that are 

part of program changes. These uploads 

need to be allowable on a daily basis, 

and need to be uploaded into a publicly 

available database. The database should 

have the ability to contain information 

for each program change (as in what is 

currently included in the Microsoft 

Access database) and to hold associated 

program change documents; Allow the 

ability to provide electronic notices to 

state agencies, federal agencies and the 

public by adding the notices to the 

online database and also automatically 

sending them to a particular list of 

contacts; and Provide an area on the 

website/database interface for interested 

parties to request to be added to the 

automatic notification contact list. The 

system is currently being designed and 

will undergo beta testing later this year. 

Respondents will have the ability to 

make their submissions using the new 

system or by paper until the system is 

fully operational and accurate, which is 

expected to be within one year. 

Affected Public: State, local or tribal 

governments. 

Frequency: Annually, semi-annually 

and on occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at reginfo.gov. Follow 

the instructions to view Department of 

Commerce collections currently under 

review by OMB. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to OIRA_Submission@

omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395–5806. 

Dated: December 21, 2018. 

Sarah Brabson, 

NOAA PRA Clearance Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–08–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XG704 

New England Fishery Management 

Council; Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The New England Fishery 

Management Council (Council) is 

scheduling a public meeting of its 

Scallop Advisory Panel to consider 

actions affecting New England fisheries 

in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ). 

Recommendations from this group will 

be brought to the full Council for formal 

consideration and action, if appropriate. 

DATES: This meeting will be held on 

Thursday, January 17, 2019 at 9 a.m. 

ADDRESSES: 

Meeting address: The meeting will be 

held at the Hilton Garden Inn, 100 

Boardman Street, Boston, MA 02128; 

phone: (617) 567–6789. 

Council address: New England 

Fishery Management Council, 50 Water 

Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, 

New England Fishery Management 

Council; telephone: (978) 465–0492. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Agenda 

The Scallop Advisory Panel will 

receive an update on the 

implementation timeline for Framework 

Adjustment 30. They will also review 

the 2019 scallop workload based on 

priorities approved by the Council at its 

December meeting in Newport, RI, and 

discuss potential timelines for 

completing each task. The panel will 

review a draft scoping document for an 

action to address NGOM Scallop 

Management and LAGC IFQ trip limit. 

They also plan to discuss the potential 

harvest of small scallops in the NLS–S 


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deep as part of 2020 scallop 

specifications. Additionally, they will 

discuss potential elements of an action 

to mitigate impacts on yellowtail 

flounder. The panel will also discuss 

potential approaches to evaluate the 

scallop rotational management program. 

Other business may be discussed as 

necessary. 

Although non-emergency issues not 

contained in this agenda may come 

before this group for discussion, those 

issues may not be the subject of formal 

action during these meetings. Action 

will be restricted to those issues 

specifically listed in this notice and any 

issues arising after publication of this 

notice that require emergency action 

under section 305(c) of the MagnusonStevens Act, provided the public has 

been notified of the Council’s intent to 

take final action to address the 

emergency. 

Special Accommodations 

This meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to 

Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, at 

(978) 465–0492, at least 5 days prior to 

the meeting date. Consistent with 16 

U.S.C. 1852, a copy of the recording is 

available upon request. 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. 

Dated: December 21, 2018. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

41st Meeting of the U.S. Coral Reef 

Task Force; Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Coral Reef Conservation 

Program, Office for Coastal 

Management, National Ocean Service, 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting, notice 

of public comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce’s National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 

and the U.S. Department of Interior will 

hold a public meeting of the 41st U.S. 

Coral Reef Task Force (USCRTF). 

DATES: The public meeting will be held 

Thursday, February 21, from 8:00 a.m. 

to 5:00 p.m. with an opportunity to 

provide public comments. Written 

comments must be received on or before 

January 30, 2019. For specific the date, 

time, and location of the public meeting, 

see SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

to the USCRTF by any of the following 

methods: 

Public Meeting and Oral Comments: 

A public meeting will be held in 

Washington DC. For the specific 

location, see SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION. 

Written Comments: Please direct 

written comments to Jennifer Koss, 

NOAA, USCRTF Steering Committee 

Point of Contact, NOAA Coral Reef 

Conservation Program, 1305 East-West 

Highway, N/OCM, Silver Spring, MD 

20910 or via email to Jennifer.Koss@

noaa.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jennifer Koss, NOAA USCRTF Steering 

Committee Point of Contact, NOAA 

Coral Reef Conservation Program, 1305 

East-West Highway, N/OCM, Silver 

Spring, MD 20910 at (301) 533–0777 or 

Liza Johnson, USCRTF Executive 

Secretary, U.S. Department of Interior, 

MS–3530–MIB, 1849 C Street NW, 

Washington, DC 20240 at (202) 208– 

5004 or visit the USCRTF website at 

http://www.coralreef.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

meeting provides a forum for 

coordinated planning and action among 

federal agencies, state and territorial 

governments, and nongovernmental 

partners. Registration is requested for all 

events associated with the meeting. This 

meeting has time allotted for public 

comment. All public comments must be 

submitted in written format. A written 

summary of the meeting will be posted 

on the USCRTF website within two 

months of occurrence. For information 

about the meeting, registering and 

submitting public comments, go to 

http://www.coralreef.gov. Commenters 

may address the meeting, the role of the 

USCRTF, or general coral reef 

conservation issues. Before including 

your address, phone number, email 

address, or other personally identifiable 

information in your comments, you 

should be aware that your entire 

comment, including personally 

identifiable information, may be made 

publicly available at any time. While 

you can ask us in your comment to 

withhold your personally identifiable 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. Established by Presidential 

Executive Order 13089 in 1998, the 

USCRTF mission is to lead, coordinate 

and strengthen U.S. government actions 

to better preserve and protect coral reef 

ecosystems. Co-chaired by the 

Departments of Commerce and Interior, 

USCRTF members include leaders of 12 

federal agencies, seven U.S. states and 

territories and three freely associated 

states. 

You may participate and submit oral 

comments at the public meeting. The 

public meeting occurs annually in 

Washington DC, and is scheduled as 

follows: 

Date: Thursday, February 21, 2019. 

Time: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST. 

Location: U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1201 Constitution 

Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460, Room 

1151. 

Written comments must be received 

on or before January 30, 2019. 

Dated: December 19, 2018. 

Nicole R. LeBoeuf, 

Acting Assistant Administrator for Ocean 

Services and Coastal Zone Management, 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for clearance the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35). 

Agency: National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 

Title: Economic Value of the 

Reduction in the Risk of Whale Strikes 

in the Channel Islands National Marine 

Sanctuary. 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0729. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Regular (extension of 

a currently approved information 

collection). 

Number of Respondents: 500. 

Average Hours per Response: 20 

minutes per on-site interview of 

passengers, 20 minutes per importancesatisfaction mail back and 20 minutes 

for the expenditure mail back. 

Burden Hours: 367. 

Needs and Uses: This request is for 

extension of a currently approved 

information collection. 

NOAA is sponsoring a class project at 

the Bren School of Management & 

Science at the University of California, 

Santa Barbara to estimate the market 


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