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The Council will receive updates from 

the following supporting agencies: 

South Atlantic Fishery Management 

Council; Louisiana Law Enforcement 

Efforts; NOAA Office of Law 

Enforcement (OLE); Gulf States Marine 

Fisheries Commission; U.S. Coast 

Guard; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; 

and Department of State. 

The Council will receive a Litigation 

Update and discuss any Other Business 

items. 

—Meeting Adjourns 

The meeting will be a hybrid meeting; 

both in-person and virtual participation 

available. You may register for the 

webinar to listen-in only by visiting 

www.gulfcouncil.org and click on the 

Council meeting on the calendar. 

The timing and order in which agenda 

items are addressed may change as 

required to effectively address the issue, 

and the latest version along with other 

meeting materials will be posted on the 

website as they become available. 

Although other non-emergency issues 

not contained in this agenda may come 

before this group for discussion, in 

accordance with the Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act), those 

issues may not be the subject of formal 

action during these meeting. Actions 

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 that the public 

has been notified of the Council’s intent 

to take final action to address the 

emergency. 

Special Accommodations 

These meetings are physically 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Requests for sign language 

interpretation or other auxiliary aid or 

accommodations should be directed to 

Kathy Pereira, (813) 348–1630, at least 

15 days prior to the meeting date. 

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

Dated: January 5, 2023. 

Rey Israel Marquez, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND 

COMMUNITY SERVICE 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request; Generic 

Clearance for the Collection of 

Qualitative Feedback on Agency 

Service Delivery 

AGENCY: Corporation for National and 

Community Service. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Corporation for National and 

Community Service (operating as 

AmeriCorps) is proposing to renew an 

information collection. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the individual and office 

listed in the ADDRESSES section by 

March 13, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by the title of the information 

collection activity, by any of the 

following methods: 

(1) Electronically through 

www.regulations.gov (preferred method) 

(2) By mail sent to: AmeriCorps, 

Attention Amy Borgstrom, 250 E Street 

SW, Washington, DC 20525. 

(3) By hand delivery or by courier to 

the AmeriCorps mailroom at the mail 

address given in paragraph (2) above, 

between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Eastern Time, 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice may be made available to the 

public through regulations.gov. For this 

reason, please do not include in your 

comments information of a confidential 

nature, such as sensitive personal 

information or proprietary information. 

If you send an email comment, your 

email address will be automatically 

captured and included as part of the 

comment that is placed in the public 

docket and made available on the 

internet. Please note that responses to 

this public comment request containing 

any routine notice about the 

confidentiality of the communication 

will be treated as public comment that 

may be made available to the public, 

notwithstanding the inclusion of the 

routine notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Amy Borgstrom, (202) 422–2781, or by 

email at aborgstrom@cns.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title of Collection: Generic Clearance 

for the Collection of Qualitative 

Feedback on Agency Service Delivery. 

OMB Control Number: 3045–0137. 

Type of Review: Renewal. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Individuals and Households. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 10,000. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 16,667. 

Abstract: The proposed information 

collection activity provides a means to 

elicit qualitative customer and 

stakeholder feedback in an efficient, 

timely manner, in accordance with the 

Administration’s commitment to 

improving service delivery. By 

qualitative feedback, we mean 

information that provides useful 

insights on perceptions and opinions 

but is not statistical surveys that yield 

quantitative results that can be 

generalized to the population of study. 

This feedback will provide insights into 

customer or stakeholder perceptions, 

experiences, and expectations, provide 

an early warning of issues with service, 

or focus attention on areas where 

communication, training, or changes in 

operations might improve delivery of 

products or services. These collections 

will allow for ongoing, collaborative, 

and actionable communications 

between the Agency and its customers 

and stakeholders. It will also allow 

feedback to contribute directly to the 

improvement of program management. 

The solicitation of feedback will target 

areas such as: timeliness, 

appropriateness, accuracy of 

information, courtesy, efficiency of 

service delivery, and resolution of 

issues with service delivery. Responses 

will be assessed to plan and inform 

efforts to improve or maintain the 

quality of service offered to the public. 

If this information is not collected, vital 

feedback from customers and 

stakeholders on the Agency’s services 

will be unavailable. 

AmeriCorps will only submit a 

collection for approval under this 

generic clearance if it meets the 

following conditions: 

• The collections are voluntary; 

• The collections are low-burden for 

respondents (based on considerations of 

total burden hours, total number of 

respondents, or burden-hours per 

respondent) and are low-cost for both 

the respondents and the Federal 

Government; 

• The collections are noncontroversial and do not raise issues of 

concern to other Federal agencies; 

• Any collection is targeted to the 

solicitation of opinions from 

respondents who have experience with 

the program or may have experience 

with the program in the near future; 

• Personally identifiable information 

(PII) is collected only to the extent 

necessary and is not retained; 


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• Information gathered will be used 

only internally for general service 

improvement and program management 

purposes and is not intended for release 

outside of the agency; 

• Information gathered will not be 

used for the purpose of substantially 

informing influential policy decisions; 

and 

• Information gathered will yield 

qualitative information; the collections 

will not be designed or expected to 

yield statistically reliable results or used 

as though the results are generalizable to 

the population of study. 

Feedback collected under this generic 

clearance provides useful information, 

but it does not yield data that can be 

generalized to the overall population. 

This type of generic clearance for 

qualitative information will not be used 

for quantitative information collections 

that are designed to yield reliably 

actionable results, such as monitoring 

trends over time or documenting 

program performance. Such data uses 

require more rigorous designs that 

address: the target population to which 

generalizations will be made, the 

sampling frame, the sample design 

(including stratification and clustering), 

the precision requirements or power 

calculations that justify the proposed 

sample size, the expected response rate, 

methods for assessing potential nonresponse bias, the protocols for data 

collection, and any testing procedures 

that were or will be undertaken prior to 

fielding the study. Depending on the 

degree of influence the results are likely 

to have, such collections may still be 

eligible for submission for other generic 

mechanisms that are designed to yield 

quantitative results. 

As a general matter, information 

collections will not result in any new 

system of records containing privacy 

information and will not ask questions 

of a sensitive nature, such as sexual 

behavior and attitudes, religious beliefs, 

and other matters that are commonly 

considered private. 

The information collection will be 

used in the same manner as the current 

information collection. 

AmeriCorps also seeks to continue 

using the currently approved 

information collection until the revised 

information collection is approved by 

OMB. The currently approved 

information collection is due to expire 

on February 28, 2023. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval. Comments are invited on: (a) 

Whether the collection of information is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

collection of information; (c) ways to 

enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 

of the information to be collected; (d) 

ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology; 

and (e) estimates of capital or start-up 

costs and costs of operation, 

maintenance, and purchase of services 

to provide information. Burden means 

the total time, effort, or financial 

resources expended by persons to 

generate, maintain, retain, disclose, or 

provide information to or for a Federal 

agency. This includes the time needed 

to review instructions; to develop, 

acquire, install, and utilize technology 

and systems for the purpose of 

collecting, validating and verifying 

information, processing and 

maintaining information, and disclosing 

and providing information; to train 

personnel and to be able to respond to 

a collection of information, to search 

data sources, to complete and review 

the collection of information; and to 

transmit or otherwise disclose the 

information. All written comments will 

be available for public inspection on 

regulations.gov. 

Amy Borgstrom, 

Associate Director of Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2023–00281 Filed 1–9–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6050–28–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Notice of Availability of Uniform 

National Discharge Standards (UNDS) 

for Vessels of the Armed Forces— 

Phase III Batch Two 

AGENCY: Office of the Under Secretary of 

Defense for Acquisition and 

Sustainment, Department of Defense 

(DoD). 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: DoD has developed internal 

regulations on the design, construction, 

installation, and use of marine pollution 

control devices (MCPDs) to meet 

performance standards for 11 discharges 

incidental to the normal operation of a 

vessel of the Armed Forces into the 

navigable waters of the United States, 

the territorial seas, and the contiguous 

zone, and is making them publicly 

available. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mike Pletke; Chief of Naval Operations 

(N45), 2000 Navy Pentagon (Rm 2D253), 

Washington DC 20350–2000; (703) 695– 

5184; michael.r.pletke.civ@us.navy.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

312 of the Clean Water Act (CWA), as 

amended by Section 325 of the National 

Defense Authorization Act of 1996, 

requires the Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) and DoD to develop 

Uniform National Discharge Standards 

(UNDS) to control certain discharges 

incidental to the normal operation of a 

vessel of the Armed Forces. The EPA 

and DoD have already issued required 

joint rules (64 FR 25126 (May 10, 1999) 

and 85 FR 43465 (July 17, 2020), 40 CFR 

part 1700). This notice announces that 

DoD is also issuing a DoD-only internal 

regulation as part of this requirement. 

Although issued by DoD alone, the 

regulation will apply (by agreement 

with the Department of Homeland 

Security) not only to DoD but also to the 

U.S. Coast Guard (at all times, including 

when it is a Service in the Department 

of Homeland Security). 

Section 312(n)(4) of the CWA requires 

DoD, in consultation with EPA and the 

Secretary of the Department in which 

the U.S. Coast Guard is operating, to 

promulgate regulations governing the 

design, construction, installation, and 

use of MPCDs necessary to meet the 

discharge performance standards 

established in the EPA-DoD joint rules. 

The DoD internal regulations are issued 

under the authority of the Secretary in 

DoD Manual 4715.06, Volume 4, 

‘‘Regulations on Vessels Owned or 

Operated by the Department of Defense: 

Discharges Incidental to Normal 

Operations,’’ which can be found at: 

https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/ 

Documents/DD/issuances/dodm/ 

471506_vol4.PDF. There is no notice 

and comment requirement for the DoD 

internal regulations because they are 

internal to the Department and to the 

Coast Guard and otherwise exempt by 5 

U.S.C. 553 (a)(1) and (2). Furthermore, 

EPA and DoD provided for notice and 

comment during the promulgation of 

the joint EPA-DoD regulations, as 

required by the CWA. 

Because EPA and DoD determined 

that the joint EPA-DoD regulations, once 

finalized, would have federalism 

implications, they had several rounds of 

consultations with state and local 

governments during the promulgation of 

the joint EPA-DoD regulations, as 

described in the final rule at 85 FR 

43465, July 17, 2020. 


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