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the Survey furthers the NWS Weather 

Ready Nation (WRN) Roadmap (2013) 

Sections 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.8, and 

3.1.4. 

This information would be collected 

at the Cooperative Institute for 

Mesoscale Meteorological Studies 

(CIMMS) and the University of 

Oklahoma’s Center for Risk and Crisis 

Management (CRCM), who has 

developed data collection instruments 

that would allow for more routine and 

longitudinal data collection, as the data 

will be collected on an annual basis. 

Furthermore, this team has developed 

interactive ‘‘dashboards’’, or tools, to 

visualize the aggregated data. 

Respondents include adults (age 18+) 

who reside in the United States, 

recruited by survey companies that 

maintain large panels of people who 

sign up to complete internet surveys, 

such as Qualtrics and Survey Sampling 

International. Respondents will be 

asked questions about the ways they 

have received, interpreted, and 

responded to NWS information, 

forecasts, and warnings for severe, 

tropical, and winter weather hazards. 

Questions about preparedness for 

specific hazards such as heat waves, 

tornadoes, and drought may also be 

included. This data collection serves 

many purposes, including gaining a 

better understanding of how key factors 

within a given population, or 

organization, vary over time, location, 

and across different groups; the ability 

to detect gradual trends or abrupt 

changes in those factors over time or in 

response to particular events; and the 

potential to explore possible 

correlations and causal relationships 

with other observed variables of 

interest. These data will be used by the 

OSTI in NWS to develop a baseline and 

performance metrics to improve the 

information and services it provides and 

to help members of the weather 

enterprise answer basic questions about 

the people in the communities they 

serve, which is a necessary step towards 

customizing and improving risk 

communication, education, and 

decision support to meet the 

characteristics of the community, 

including those in vulnerable 

populations. The information collected 

will help identify differences and best 

practices between communities and 

assist NWS in developing new 

education and risk communication 

strategies. The survey data and its 

associated dashboard will serve as 

interactive tools to allow NWS 

forecasters, partners, and policymakers 

to access and explore data for training 

and performance evaluation purposes. 

The second proposed collection is 

sponsored through NOAA’s FY2021 

Weather Program Office’s Social Science 

Program, and addresses the Social, 

Behavioral, and Economic Sciences 

(SBES) component of meeting NOAA’s 

Research and Development (R&D) 

Vision Areas (2020–2026) to integrate 

SBES into products, tools, and services 

that improve weather and air quality 

forecasting and societal outcomes. 

This proposal aims to create an online 

survey system for collecting data on the 

publics’ perception and response to four 

different hazards: Tornados, 

thunderstorm winds over 70 miles per 

hour (mph), flash floods, and winter 

weather. The online surveys will be the 

building blocks for a multi-year, crosssectional database on human perception 

and response. The survey system will 

enable individual National Weather 

Service Weather Forecast Offices 

(WFOs) to disseminate Quick Response 

Surveys (QRS) soon after a hazardous 

event occurs to collect perishable data 

on the publics’ perceptions and 

response. Select WFOs will distribute 

the QRSs using web links on NWS 

social media and core partners’ social 

media or email lists. Surveys will ask 

the public questions on timing, location, 

weather information sources, 

motivations and influences for taking 

protective action to gain insights into 

how NWS warning communications 

interact with these factors to result in 

protective action behaviors. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households. 

Frequency: Once. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: 15 U.S.C. Ch. 111, 

Weather Research and Forecasting 

Information. 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. 

Follow the instructions to view the 

Department of Commerce collections 

currently under review by OMB. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be 

submitted within 30 days of the 

publication of this notice on the 

following website www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain. Find this 

particular information collection by 

selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day 

Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or 

by using the search function and 

entering the title of the collection. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Chief Information Officer, Commerce 

Department. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–KE–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; Alaska Cost Recovery and 

Fee Programs 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit the following information 

collection request to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and clearance in accordance 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995, on or after the date of publication 

of this notice. We invite 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. Public 

comments were previously requested 

via the Federal Register on October 29, 

2021, during a 60-day comment period. 

This notice allows for an additional 30 

days for public comments. 

Agency: National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

Title: Alaska Cost Recovery and Fee 

Programs. 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0711. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Regular submission 

(Revision and extension of a current 

information collection). 

Number of Respondents: 1,722. 

Average Hours per Response: Fee 

payments: 1 minute; volume and value 

reports (electronic submission): 1 

minute; IFQ Registered Buyer Ex-vessel 

Volume and Value Report (nonelectronic submission): 2 hours; fee 

calculation forms: 30 minutes; 

administrative appeals: 4 hours. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 82 

hours. 

Needs and Uses: The National Marine 

Fisheries Service, Alaska Regional 

Office (NMFS AKR), is requesting 

renewal and revision of a currently 

approved information collection that 

contains requirements for the NMFS 

AKR cost recovery fee programs and the 

observer coverage fee program. 

Three revisions are requested for this 

collection. A slight revision is requested 

to change the title of the collection from 

‘‘Alaska Quota Cost Recovery Programs’’ 

to ‘‘Alaska Cost Recovery and Fee 

Programs.’’ Revisions are necessary to 

two forms because NMFS AKR has 

finished transitioning to online fee 

payments and these forms are no longer 


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used to submit payments by mail. The 

IFQ Permit Holder Fee Submission 

Form and the Registered Crab Receiver 

Fee Submission Form have been revised 

and renamed the IFQ Permit Holder Fee 

Calculation Form and the Registered 

Crab Receiver Fee Calculation Form, 

respectively. 

This information collection is 

necessary under the Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act), which 

authorizes observer deployment fees 

and cost recovery fees. Section 304(d) of 

the Magnuson-Stevens Act authorizes 

and requires the collection of cost 

recovery fees for limited access privilege 

programs and community development 

quota programs. Section 313 of the 

Magnuson-Stevens Act authorizes a 

system of fees to support a fisheries 

research plan and deploy observers in 

the North Pacific fisheries. The fee 

documentation forms and volume and 

value reports that are included in this 

collection are necessary to track, verify, 

and enforce the fee collection systems. 

This information collection is 

required in Federal regulations at 50 

CFR parts 679 and 680. Information on 

the observer coverage fee and cost 

recovery fee programs is provided on 

the NMFS Alaska Region website at 

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/alaska/ 

commercial-fishing/cost-recoveryprograms-fee-collection-and-feepayment-alaska. 

Cost recovery fees may not exceed 3 

percent of the ex-vessel value of the 

fishery, and must recover the 

incremental (program) costs associated 

with management, data collection, and 

enforcement of these programs that are 

directly incurred by government 

agencies tasked with overseeing these 

fisheries. NMFS recovers program costs 

of seven cost recovery programs in this 

information collection: Pacific Halibut 

and Sablefish Individual Fishing Quota 

(IFQ) Program; Bering Sea and Aleutian 

Islands Crab Rationalization Program; 

Central Gulf of Alaska Rockfish 

Program; Western Alaska Community 

Development Quota Program; American 

Fisheries Act Program; Aleutian Islands 

Pollock Program; and Amendment 80 

Program. The party responsible for 

paying the cost recovery fee varies by 

program. 

The observer coverage fee funds 

deployment of observers and electronic 

monitoring in the partial coverage 

category of the North Pacific Observer 

Program (Observer Program). Unlike the 

cost recovery fees, this is a straight fee 

and does not recover incremental costs 

associated with the program. NMFS 

assesses a fee of 1.65 percent of the exvessel value of groundfish and halibut 

landed in the partial coverage category 

under the Observer Program. The 

information collected by observers 

provides scientific information for 

minimizing bycatch and managing the 

groundfish and halibut fisheries in the 

Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands and 

Gulf of Alaska. 

Catcher vessel owners split the 

observer coverage fee with the registered 

buyers or owners of shoreside or 

stationary floating processors. While the 

owners of catcher vessels and 

processors in the partial coverage 

category are each responsible for paying 

their portion of the fee, the owners of 

shoreside or stationary floating 

processors and registered buyers are 

responsible for collecting the fees from 

catcher vessels, and remitting the full 

fee to NMFS. Owners of catcher/ 

processors in the partial coverage 

category are responsible for remitting 

the full fee to NMFS. 

Processors that receive and purchase 

landings of IFQ halibut or sablefish, 

rockfish, groundfish, and crab subject to 

observer and/or cost recovery fees must 

annually submit an ex-vessel volume 

and value report that provides 

information on the pounds purchased 

and value paid. NMFS uses this 

information to establish the total exvessel value of the fishery, calculate 

standard prices, and establish annual 

fee percentages in each fishery. 

IFQ permit holders and registered 

crab receivers that do not agree with 

their NMFS assessed fee liability 

summary and who are paying a revised 

fee, use the fee calculation forms to 

calculate and submit documentation 

supporting their revised fee. 

Any person who receives an initial 

administrative determination for 

incomplete payment of a cost recovery 

fee or observer coverage fee may appeal 

under the appeals procedures set out at 

15 CFR part 906. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations; Individuals or 

households. 

Frequency: Annually; as needed. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory, 

Required to Obtain or Retain Benefits. 

Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act. 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. 

Follow the instructions to view the 

Department of Commerce collections 

currently under review by OMB. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be 

submitted within 30 days of the 

publication of this notice on the 

following website www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain. Find this 

particular information collection by 

selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day 

Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or 

by using the search function and 

entering either the title of the collection 

or the OMB Control Number 0648–0711. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Chief Information Officer, Commerce 

Department. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XB845] 

Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to 

Specified Activities; Taking Marine 

Mammals Incidental to Marine Site 

Characterization Surveys Off of 

Delaware 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; proposed incidental 

harassment authorization; request for 

comments on proposed authorization 

and possible renewal. 

SUMMARY: NMFS has received a request 

from Orsted Wind Power North 

America, LLC, (Orsted) on behalf of 

Garden State Offshore Energy, LLC 

(Garden State) and Skipjack Offshore 

Energy, LLC (Skipjack) for authorization 

to take marine mammals incidental to 

site characterization surveys off the 

coast of Delaware. Pursuant to the 

Marine Mammal Protection Act 

(MMPA), NMFS is requesting comments 

on its proposal to issue an incidental 

harassment authorization (IHA) to 

incidentally take marine mammals 

during the specified activities. NMFS is 

also requesting comments on a possible 

one-time, one-year renewal that could 

be issued under certain circumstances 

and if all requirements are met, as 

described in Request for Public 

Comments at the end of this notice. 

NMFS will consider public comments 

prior to making any final decision on 

the issuance of the requested MMPA 

authorization and agency responses will 

be summarized in the final notice of our 

decision. 

DATES: Comments and information must 

be received no later than April 20, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

addressed to Jolie Harrison, Chief, 

Permits and Conservation Division, 


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