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or other forms of information

technology.

Comments submitted in response to

this notice will be summarized and/or

included in the request for OMB

approval of this information collection;

they also will become a matter of public

record.

Dated: Dated: June 8, 2001

Gwellnar Banks,

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief

Information Officer.

[FR Doc. 01–15062 Filed 6–13–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–HR–S

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

[I.D. 061101E ]

Recovery and Implantation of Archival

Tags

AGENCY: National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

ACTION: Proposed information

collection; comment request.

SUMMARY: The Department of

Commerce, as part of its continuing

effort to reduce paperwork and

respondent burden, invites the general

public and other Federal agencies to

take this opportunity to comment on

proposed and/or continuing information

collections, as required by the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Pub.

L. 104-13 (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)).

DATES: Written comments must be

submitted on or before August 13, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments

to Madeleine Clayton, Departmental

Paperwork Clearance Officer,

Department of Commerce, Room 6086,

14th and Constitution Avenue NW,

Washington DC 20230 (or via Internet at

MClayton@doc.gov).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or

copies of the information collection

instrument (s) and instructions should

be directed to Christopher Rogers, F/

SF1, Room 13563, 1315 East-West

Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910–

3282 (phone 301–713–2347, ext. 109).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

The National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

authorizes programs to implant archival

tags in, or affix archival tags to, selected

Atlantic Highly Migratory Species

(tunas, sharks, swordfish, and billfish).

Archival tags are miniature data loggers

that acquire information about the

movements and behavior of the fish.

Persons catching tagged fish are

exempted from other normally

applicable regulations, such as

immediate release of the fish, but must

notify NOAA, return the archival tag or

make it available to NOAA personnel,

and provide information about the

location and method of capture. The

information obtained is used by NOAA

in the formation of international and

domestic fisheries policy and

regulations.

Persons who affix or implant archival

tags must obtain prior authorization

from NOAA and submit subsequent

reports about the tagging of fish. NOAA

needs the information to evaluate the

effectiveness of archival tag programs, to

assess the likely impact of regulatory

allowances for tag recovery, and to

ensure that the research does not

produce undue mortality.

II. Method of Collection

Catch notifications are provided to a

toll-free telephone number. Tags and

associated information are mailed in (a

reward is given for tag recoveries).

Notifications and reports of archival

tagging efforts are provided in written

form, meeting requirements set forth in

regulations.

III. Data

OMB Number: 0648–0338.

Form Number: None.

Type of Review: Regular submission.

Affected Public: Individuals or

households, business or other for-profit

organizations, and not-for-profit

institutions.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

20.

Estimated Time Per Response: 30

minutes for reporting on an archival tag

recovery, 30 minutes for notification of

planned archival tagging activity, and

one hour for reports of archival tagging

activity.

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours: 15.

Estimated Total Annual Cost to

Public: $0.

IV. Request for Comments

Comments are invited on: (a) whether

the proposed 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

(including hours and cost) of the

proposed collection of information; (c)

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and (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.

Comments submitted in response to

this notice will be summarized and/or

included in the request for OMB

approval of this information collection;

they also will become a matter of public

record.

Dated: June 8, 2001.

Gwellnar Banks,

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief

Information Officer.

[FR Doc. 01–15063 Filed 6–13–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–22–S

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

[I.D. 061101D ]

Pacific Billfish Angler Survey

AGENCY: National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

ACTION: Proposed information

collection; comment request.

SUMMARY: The Department of

Commerce, as part of its continuing

effort to reduce paperwork and

respondent burden, invites the general

public and other Federal agencies to

take this opportunity to comment on

proposed and/or continuing information

collections, as required by the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Pub.

L. 104-13 (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)).

DATES: Written comments must be

submitted on or before August 13, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments

to Madeleine Clayton, Departmental

Paperwork Clearance Officer,

Department of Commerce, Room 6086,

14th and Constitution Avenue NW,

Washington DC 20230 (or via Internet at

MClayton@doc.gov).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or

copies of the information collection

instrument (s) and instructions should

be directed to David Holts, Southwest

Fisheries Science Center, 8604 La Jolla

Shores Drive, P.O. Box 271, La Jolla, CA

92038–0271 (phone 858–546–7186).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

The National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administrations’s

Southwest Fishery Science Center

operates a billfish resource and

assessment program. As part of this

program, billfish anglers in the Pacific

and Indian Oceans are asked to respond

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to a voluntary annual post card survey

to list the number of days spent fishing

for billfish, where they fished, and what

they caught. This information is used to

help determine changes in areas of local

abundance of Pacific billfish and is

useful in the management of billfish

resources.

II. Method of Collection

A paper form the size of a postcard is

used.

III. Data

OMB Number: 0648–0020.

Form Number: NOAA Form 88–10.

Type of Review: Regular submission.

Affected Public: Individuals or

households.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

1,500.

Estimated Time Per Response: 5

minutes.

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours: 125.

Estimated Total Annual Cost to

Public: $0.

IV. Request for Comments

Comments are invited on: (a) whether

the proposed 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

(including hours and cost) of the

proposed collection of information; (c)

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and (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.

Comments submitted in response to

this notice will be summarized and/or

included in the request for OMB

approval of this information collection;

they also will become a matter of public

record.

Dated: June 8, 2001.

Gwellnar Banks,

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief

Information Officer.

[FR Doc. 01–15064 Filed 6–13–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–22–S

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

Intent To Distribute Digital Electronic

Navigational Charts on the Internet

AGENCY: Office of Coast Survey,

National Ocean Service, National

Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration (NOAA), DOC.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: NOAA’s National Ocean

Service (NOS) is announcing its

intention to distribute digital Electronic

Navigational Charts (ENC) of U.S.

waters on the Internet.

This notice announces that NOS

intends to distribute digital ENC’s of

U.S. waters via the Internet beginning

on or about July 16, 2001. NOS plans to

post its ENC’s and associated updates

on the World Wide Web with the data

accessible to all users.

The purpose of distributing ENC’s in

this manner is to promote maximum

availability of these valuable data,

which have primary application in

navigation and in a broad range of

Geographic Information System (GIS)

activities. For users interested in

navigational applications, the data will

be posted at NOAA’s Office of Coast

Survey Web Site,

www.chartmaker.nos.noaa.gov.

Initially digital ENC’s will be

provided as prototype products. At the

outset, the data will not be supported by

regular updates. Therefore, these ENC’s

should jot be used for navigation.

Rather, during this initial period, the

intent is for users to familiarize

themselves with downloading

procedures and for NOS to evaluate the

products and to determine the level of

support necessary to maintain the

distribution service. Once NOS

develops and implements an update

process and assuming that no problems

are identified during the initial phase

and that such problems are resolved,

NOS intends to make the ENC’s

available for use in navigation. The NOS

ENC products are designed in

compliance with the International

Hydrographic Organization’s S–57 ENC

Product Specification.

Initially, ENC’s will be available for

the nation’s 40 major ports. However,

NOS plans to expand coverage as

resources become available. The ENC

data posted on the Web will not be

encrypted, but may have some type of

authentication built in, such as a digital

watermark, so that end users can verify

that data issued by NOS has not been

corrupted.

NOS does not intend to limit access

to or restrict use of ENC’s available on

the Internet. However, NOS does plan to

develop specific procedures for users

who wish to incorporate these ENC’s in

products designed to satisfy chart

carriage requirements mandated by the

International Safety Of Life At Sea

Convention (SOLAS) and the U.S. Code

of Federal Regulations. This means that

users planning to provide value added

navigation products must establish a

certifiable process by which NOS ENC

data are incorporated in the products

without compromise to the data quality

or data lineage.

NOS intends to issue guidelines

governing the certification process for

derived navigational products. Among

the guidelines under consideration are:

(1) The operation of a quality assurance

system that is in essential compliance

with a recognized quality standard, such

as ISO 9000 series or equivalent and (2)

the certification by a United States Coast

Guard-approved quality standards

organization that results in products

being consistently manufactured to the

same specification.

Once NOS makes its ENC’s available

on the Web, it anticipates that industry

will develop services in support of

derived products. For example, a

portfolio management service or an ENC

distributor may provide NOS ENC’s ‘‘asis’’ and ‘‘push’’ the appropriate updates

to a segment of users who choose not to

download the data directly. Likewise, a

system manufacturer may bundle or resell the ENC’s by converting the data to

a proprietary ‘‘System ENC’’ (SENC)

before distributing it to customers. In

the latter case, the SENC product and

supporting updates must be based on a

certifiable process by which there is no

compromise to NOS-provided data.

Further, since ENC’s will be provided in

the open, non-proprietary S–57 format,

NOS anticipates that most users will be

well versed in the format and its feature

attribution. With this in mind, it is

expected that S–57 technical support

will be provided by expertise available

in the private sector.

The coastal management community,

a major NOAA constituency, will also

benefit from this distribution policy in

that ENC data will be widely available

for use as base map information in a

variety of GIS applications. Coastal

managers, emergency planners, and

others will have easy access to ENC

data. To assist these users, NOAA will

investigate means to convert the data to

a format that is more suitable for GIS

applications and to post it in a manner

similar to the navigational data.

However, the level of specialized

technical support by NOS is expected to

be limited.

NOS intends to conduct several

workshops in order to familiarize the

public with the distribution policy, to

entertain comments from interested

parties on its implementation, to

consider complaints with the

distribution of prototype products and

to answer questions pertaining to the

use of ENC’s for production of derived