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ADDRESSES: All hearings will be hosted 

through GoToWebinar. You must use 

GoToWebinar to speak during the 

hearings. A listen-only call in option is 

also available. Participants will not be 

able to speak through the listen-only 

phone connection. To access any of the 

webinar hearings, please follow the 

registration prompts at https://

attendee.gotowebinar.com/rt/12183483

56340238349. To attend the webinar in 

listen only mode without the ability to 

speak, you may dial 1–877–309–2074 

and enter access code 128–060–916. 

A public hearing document with more 

information on this action is available 

at: https://www.mafmc.org/actions/ 

sfsbsb-allocation-amendment. Copies of 

the document are also available by 

request from Dr. Chris Moore, Executive 

Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council, 800 N State 

Street, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901; 

telephone: (302) 674–2331. 

Public comments: Written comments 

may be sent by any of the following 

methods: 

• Email to: kdancy@mafmc.org 

(subject: ‘‘Summer Flounder, Scup, Sea 

Bass Allocation Amendment’’). 

• Via webform at: https://

www.mafmc.org/comments/sfsbsballocation-amendment. 

• Mail to: Chris Moore, Ph.D., 

Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic 

Fishery Management Council, 800 North 

State Street, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901. 

Mark the outside of the envelope 

‘‘Summer Flounder, Scup, Sea Bass 

Allocation Amendment.’’ 

• Fax to: 302.674.5399 (subject: 

‘‘Summer Flounder, Scup, Sea Bass 

Allocation Amendment’’). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christopher M. Moore, Ph.D., Executive 

Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council, telephone: (302) 

526–5255. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Council and the Commission are 

developing a joint action to consider 

adjusting the allocations of catch or 

landings between the commercial and 

recreational fisheries for summer 

flounder, scup, and black sea bass. The 

commercial and recreational allocations 

for all three species are currently based 

on historical proportions of landings 

(for summer flounder and black sea 

bass) or catch (for scup) from each 

sector. The current allocations were set 

in the mid-1990s and have not been 

revised since that time. Recent changes 

in how recreational catch is estimated 

have resulted in a discrepancy between 

the current levels of estimated 

recreational harvest and the allocations 

of summer flounder, scup, and black sea 

bass to the recreational sector. This 

action will consider whether 

modifications to the allocations are 

needed in light of these and other 

changes in the fisheries. This action will 

also consider the option to transfer a 

portion of the allowable landings each 

year between the commercial and 

recreational sectors, in either direction, 

based on the needs of each sector, and 

consider whether future additional 

modifications to the commercial/ 

recreational allocations and/or transfer 

provisions can be considered through a 

future FMP addendum/framework 

action, as opposed to an amendment. 

Additional information on this action is 

available at: https://www.mafmc.org/ 

actions/sfsbsb-allocation-amendment. 

The dates and times of the five 

webinar hearings are listed below. You 

are encouraged to participate in the 

hearing for your state or region; 

however, all hearings are open to all 

individuals. 

1. Massachusetts and Rhode Island: 

Wednesday, February 17, 2021; 6–8 

p.m. EST. 

2. New Jersey: Thursday, February 18, 

2021; 6–8 p.m. EST. 

3. Delaware and Maryland: 

Wednesday, February 24, 2021; 6–8 

p.m. EST. 

4. Virginia and North Carolina: 

Monday, March 1, 2021; 6–8 p.m. EST. 

5. Connecticut and New York: 

Tuesday, March 2, 2021; 6–8 p.m. EST. 

Special Accommodations 

These hearings are physically 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Requests for sign language 

interpretation or other auxiliary aids 

should be directed to Kathy Collins at 

the Mid-Atlantic Council Office, (302) 

526–5253, at least 5 days prior to the 

hearing date. 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 101 et seq. 

Dated: January 25, 2021. 

Rey Israel Marquez, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2021–01944 Filed 1–28–21; 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 

AGENCY: National Oceanic & 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection, 

request for comment. 

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 March 30, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments to 

Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer, 

at Adrienne.thomas@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 Donald 

Collins, Oceanographer, NOAA/ 

National Centers for Environmental 

Information, 1315 East West Hwy., 

Silver Spring, MD 20910, 301–713– 

4853, Donald.Collins@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

This request is for revision 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 


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easily create complete, standards-based 

descriptive information about geospatial 

data. The following tools, in use or 

planned for 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. 

• National Environmental Satellite, 

Data and Information Service: 

Send2NCEI web application (currently 

approved as OMB Control Number: 

0648–0024). 

• National Environmental Satellite, 

Data and Information Service: 

Advanced Tracking and Resource tool 

for Archive Collections (ATRAC) web 

application (new). 

• National Environmental Satellite, 

Data and Information Service: 

Collection Metadata Editing Tool 

(CoMET) web application (new). 

• National Marine Fisheries Service 

(NMFS): InPort metadata authoring tool 

(new). 

• Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Research (OAR): Science Data 

Information System (SDIS) metadata 

and data submission tool (new). 

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 modelled 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 

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. 

The existing OMB control number is 

being revised to include additional 

information collection instruments that 

collect similar kinds of geospatial 

metadata as Send2NCEI, but that have 

different community-based practices or 

standards that provide for more or less 

details in the metadata requested. 

Additionally, the title of this collection 

of information is being revised from 

National Centers for Environmental 

Information (NCEI) Send2NCEI Web 

Application to NOAA Geospatial 

Metadata to more accurately reflect the 

revised collection of information. 

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. [Revision 

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/year, 

ATRAC—100 respondents/year, 

CoMET—50 respondents/year, 

InPort—15 respondents/year, 

SDIS—200 respondents/year. 

Estimated Time per Response: 1.95 

hours, 

Send2NCEI—.75 hours/response, 

ATRAC—4 hours/response, 

CoMET—3 hours/response, 

InPort—1 hour/response, 

SDIS—1 hour/response. 

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 Chief Information Officer, Commerce 

Department. 

[FR Doc. 2021–01956 Filed 1–28–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–12–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; 3D Nation Elevation Data 

Requirements and Benefits Study 

AGENCY: National Oceanic & 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection, 

request for comment. 


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