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avoidance protocols on our website, 

https://www.npfmc.org/current-or-nextcouncil-meeting/. 

Public Comment 

Public comment letters will be 

accepted and should be submitted 

electronically through the links at 

https://www.npfmc.org/current-or-nextcouncil-meeting/. The Council strongly 

encourages written public comment for 

this meeting, to avoid any potential for 

technical difficulties to compromise oral 

testimony. The written comment period 

is open from December 20, 2024, and 

closes at 12 p.m. Alaska Time on Friday, 

January 31, 2025. 

Although other non-emergency issues 

not on the agenda may come before this 

group for discussion, those issues may 

not be the subject of formal action 

during these meetings. 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 Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act, provided the public has been 

notified of the Council’s intent to take 

final action to address the emergency. 

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

Dated: January 10, 2025. 

Rey Israel Marquez, 

Acting Deputy 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; Licensing of Private RemoteSensing Space Systems 

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 17, 2025. 

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– 

0174 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 Dr. 

Sarah Brothers, Director, Commercial 

Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs, 

1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Room 

31027, Washington, DC 20230; (771) 

216–4112; sarah.brothers@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

This is a request for revision and 

extension to an approved information 

collection. 

The Department of Commerce (DOC), 

through the National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 

Office of Space Commerce (OSC) 

Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory 

Affairs (CRSRA), has the authority to 

regulate private space-based remote 

sensing under the Land Remote Sensing 

Policy Act of 1992, 51 U.S.C. 60101 et 

seq. (the Act) and regulations at 15 CFR 

part 960. The regulations facilitate the 

development of the U.S. private remote 

sensing industry and thus promote the 

collection and widespread availability 

of remote sensing data while preserving 

essential U.S. national security interests 

and observing international obligations. 

The proposed revisions in this notice 

are primarily tied to the development of 

a new, online platform to manage 

license actions called the Commerce 

Licensing and Compliance System for 

Space (CLCSS). CLCSS is intended to 

streamline the process for 

communications with CRSRA regarding 

applications, notices, modification 

requests, and annual compliance 

certifications. CRSRA is committed to 

improving the user experience and 

providing a simplified license 

application and management process for 

all licensees. The forms discussed below 

and their integration with CLCSS will 

streamline, clarify, and expedite 

paperwork submissions required to 

support regulation of the private spacebased remote sensing industry. 

Applications are made in response to 

the requirements in the Act, as 

amended. At present, CRSRA sends the 

applicant an Application Guide, which 

repeats the application questions and 

criteria listed in Appendix A to 15 CFR 

part 960 with an additional explanatory 

text. In the future, the CLCSS system 

will incorporate these questions and 

response criteria in a fillable, online 

form format. The application 

information received is used to 

determine if the applicant meets the 

legal criteria for issuance of a license to 

operate a private remote sensing space 

system, i.e., the proposed system will be 

operated in accordance with the Act, 

U.S. national security concerns and 

international obligations. Application 

information includes information about 

the applicant (such as corporate 

information), the launch dates of any 

components going to space, and 

technical specifications of all 

components of the remote sensing 

system. CRSRA has observed that 

relying on both the Appendix and the 

Application Guide creates confusion 

and has led to the submission of 

incomplete applications. CRSRA 

anticipates the fillable format, which 

combines both the Application Guide 

and criteria in Appendix A, will help 

any new applicant accurately provide 

the necessary information. If a licensee 

wishes to modify its license, either to 

reflect changes in its business practices 

or technical changes to its system, or to 

request different license conditions, it 

may submit such a request to CRSRA 

and explain why the change is sought. 

CRSRA needs this information to be 

able to keep licenses accurate and to 

respond to the regulated community’s 

needs. CRSRA is incorporating a new 

form called the License Modification 

Form with a standard set of questions 

licensees can provide for the 

modification request to be processed. 

Licensees will identify the relevant 

license provisions, the requested 

changes to those provisions, and the 

date upon which the requested change 

will take effect. CRSRA anticipates this 

will expedite how quickly the requests 

are processed and remove a moderate 

amount of paperwork by clarifying what 

to include with a modification request. 

Licensees are required to notify 

CRSRA when a spacecraft launches or 

deploys; upon disposal of an on-orbit 

component of the licensed system; upon 

detection of an anomaly; and upon the 

licensee’s financial insolvency or 

dissolution. The existing information 

collection already allows for the 

collection of this information through 

the Licensee Notification Form (LNF). 


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The approved LNF can already ease the 

burden on licensees when reporting this 

already-required information. This 

information is critical to fulfilling one of 

the United States’ key international 

obligations, which is to authorize and 

continually supervise U.S. nationals’ 

activities in space. CRSRA, therefore, 

must be notified when spacecraft are 

deployed and disposed of so that 

CRSRA can supervise the space 

activities of U.S. nationals. Similarly, 

anomalies may indicate loss of control 

of a spacecraft, so CRSRA must monitor 

any anomalies to meaningfully 

supervise the activities of U.S. nationals 

in space. Finally, the financial 

insolvency or dissolution of a licensee 

may indicate that a change in control of 

the spacecraft will follow, because an 

insolvent licensee may go through a 

bankruptcy process that might put the 

licensed system’s ownership in 

question. It is critical that CRSRA be 

able to intervene as early as possible in 

this process so that a sensitive system 

does not pass into the ownership of an 

entity who might jeopardize national 

security or international obligations. 

The LNF ensures that only required 

information is submitted, thereby 

reducing unnecessary paperwork and/or 

follow-up correspondence. The LNF 

will be integrated into CLCSS to clarify 

content, make the LNF more accessible, 

and further reduce the paperwork 

burden. 

Pursuant to the regulations, CRSRA 

requires licensees to submit an annual 

compliance certification. In the 

certification, licensees verify that all 

facts in the license remain true. Facts 

that must be verified in this certification 

include the technical specifications of 

the system and other foundational facts 

that CRSRA relies upon in reviewing 

license applications. This information is 

critical to ensuring that only those 

entities who are legally fit to obtain a 

license do so. In order to integrate this 

process with CLCSS, CRSRA will turn 

the standard verification requirement 

into a form. There will be no substantive 

change in what information needs to be 

provided by licensees. 

CRSRA will renew the optional Initial 

Contact Form (ICF) that includes contact 

information and general remote sensing 

system information with a few changes 

for clarity that include rephrasing a few 

questions and removing one or two. The 

ICF may be submitted electronically 

through the NOAA website prior to the 

submission of a full application and will 

also be integrated into CLCSS. The ICF 

information received is used to 

determine if the applicant is required to 

submit a full application for the 

issuance of a license to operate a private 

remote sensing space system, i.e., the 

proposed system falls under the 

authority defined in the Act and the 

regulations. If NOAA determines after 

reviewing the ICF that an application is 

not required, the potential applicant 

will save 40–50 hours of paperwork by 

not submitting the application. 

Finally, CRSRA is renewing the 

optional Data Availability Notification 

(DAN) which includes contact 

information and general data 

availability information. The DAN may 

be submitted electronically through the 

NOAA website during the application 

process, while an applicant holds a 

license, or by any interested party. The 

DAN will be integrated with CLCSS as 

well. The DAN information received is 

used to help determine the availability 

of unenhanced data from a foreign or 

domestic remote sensing system, which 

may then be compared to unenhanced 

data produced by an applicant’s system 

for the purpose of adjusting the 

conditions and/or restrictions in a 

license. The DAN form ensures that 

only required information is submitted, 

thereby reducing unnecessary 

paperwork and/or follow-up 

correspondence. 

II. Method of Collection 

Information is collected electronically 

through the NOAA website and through 

the coming online platform Commerce 

Licensing and Compliance System for 

Space (CLCSS). 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0174. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Review: Regular (revision and 

extension of a current information 

collection). 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

100. 

Estimated Time per Response: 25 

hours for the submission of a license 

application (one time for the entire 

license); 1 hour for the submission of a 

license amendment; 30 minutes each for 

a notification of disposal of on-orbit 

component, notification of detection of 

anomaly, and notification of financial 

insolvency or dissolution using the 

Licensee Notification Form; 30 minutes 

each for notification of launch or 

deployment of spacecraft; 3 hours for 

the annual compliance certification; and 

20 minutes for the Initial Contact Form; 

and 10 minutes for the Data Availability 

Notification. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 100 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: $0. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

The ICF and DAN are voluntary. 

Legal Authority: Land Remote Sensing 

Policy Act of 1992, 51 U.S.C. 60101 et 

seq; and 15 CFR part 960—Licensing of 

Private Remote Sensing Space Systems. 

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, 

Departmental PRA Clearance Officer, Office 

of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, 

Commerce Department. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XE572] 

South Atlantic Fishery Management 

Council; Public Meetings 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of a public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The South Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council (Council) will 


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