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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 

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. 

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. 

Dated: September 26, 2024. 

Karen H. Abrams, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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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. 

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 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: 

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 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 


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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 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 

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. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Air Force 

Air Force Institute of Technology 

Subcommittee of the Air University 

Board of Visitors Meeting 

AGENCY: Department of the Air Force, 

Department of Defense. 

ACTION: Meeting notice. 

SUMMARY: 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 

(334) 953–4547, email 

shawn.omailia.3@au.af.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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). 

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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