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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XC072] 

Marine Mammals; File No. 26314 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; receipt of application. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the St. George Traditional Council, P.O. 

Box 940, St. George Island, AK 99591 

(Responsible Party: Mark Merculief) has 

applied in due form for a permit to 

conduct research on northern fur seals 

(Callorhinus ursinus), Steller sea lions 

(Eumetopias jubatus), and harbor seals 

(Phoca vitulina). 

DATES: Written, telefaxed, or email 

comments must be received on or before 

July 18, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: The application and related 

documents are available for review by 

selecting ‘‘Records Open for Public 

Comment’’ from the ‘‘Features’’ box on 

the Applications and Permits for 

Protected Species (APPS) home page, 

https://apps.nmfs.noaa.gov, and then 

selecting File No. 26314 from the list of 

available applications. These documents 

are also available upon written request 

via email to NMFS.Pr1Comments@

noaa.gov. 

Written comments on this application 

should be submitted via email to 

NMFS.Pr1Comments@noaa.gov. Please 

include File No. 26314 in the subject 

line of the email comment. 

Those individuals requesting a public 

hearing should submit a written request 

via email to NMFS.Pr1Comments@

noaa.gov. The request should set forth 

the specific reasons why a hearing on 

this application would be appropriate. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sara 

Young or Shasta McClenahan, Ph.D., 

(301) 427–8401. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

subject permit is requested under the 

authority of the Marine Mammal 

Protection Act of 1972, as amended 

(MMPA; 16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), the 

regulations governing the taking and 

importing of marine mammals (50 CFR 

part 216); the Endangered Species Act of 

1973, as amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 

et seq.), the regulations governing the 

taking, importing, and exporting of 

endangered and threatened species (50 

CFR parts 222–226); and the Fur Seal 

Act of 1966, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1151 

et seq.). 

The applicant proposes to conduct 

research on pinnipeds to fulfill the comanagement agreement between the St. 

George Traditional Council and NMFS 

for northern fur seals and Steller sea 

lions on St. George Island, Alaska. Take 

activities involve ground survey, aerial 

survey by an unmanned aircraft system, 

vessel survey, observation, and 

photography. Animals may also be 

harassed during disentanglement of 

northern fur seals covered under the 

applicant’s Marine Mammal Stranding 

Agreement. In addition, samples may be 

collected, imported, or exported from 

subsistence harvests or beach-cast 

pinnipeds, or opportunistically 

encountered unidentified cetacean and 

pinniped carcasses. Take numbers 

include up to 2,600 northern fur seals, 

350 Steller sea lions, 260 harbor seals, 

and up to 100 each unidentified 

cetacean and pinniped carcasses. The 

permit would be valid for five years. 

In compliance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 

U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), an initial 

determination has been made that the 

activity proposed is categorically 

excluded from the requirement to 

prepare an environmental assessment or 

environmental impact statement. 

Concurrent with the publication of 

this notice in the Federal Register, 

NMFS is forwarding copies of the 

application to the Marine Mammal 

Commission and its Committee of 

Scientific Advisors. 

Dated: June 14, 2022. 

Amy Sloan, 

Acting Chief, Permits and Conservation 

Division, Office of Protected Resources, 

National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–22–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; Developing, Testing, and 

Evaluating Methods for Transitioning 

the Brief Vulnerability Overview Tool 

(BVOT) to NWS Weather Forecasting 

Office Operations 

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 August 16, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments to 

Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer, 

at Adrienne.thomas@noaa.gov. Please 

reference OMB Control Number 0648– 

XXXX 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 Nicole 

Kurkowski, R2O Team Lead, DOC/ 

NOAA/NWS/OSTI, 1325 East-West 

Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910, 

301–427–9104, nicole.kurkowski@

noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

This is a request for a new collection 

of information. The data collection is 

sponsored by DOC/NOAA/National 

Weather Service (NWS)/Office of 

Science and Technology Integration 

(OSTI). Currently, NOAA lacks data and 

data collection instruments that can 

capture local, knowledge-based, 

weather-hazard vulnerability 

information from NWS Weather 

Forecasting Office (WFO) meteorologists 

and their County Warning Area (CWA)- 

based core partners (especially, their 

county-based emergency managers 

(EMs). The CWA boundaries are the 

counties/zones for which each WFO is 

responsible for issuing forecasts and 

warnings. Without this vulnerability 

information, WFO-level meteorologists’ 

situational awareness of the greatest 

concerns of and risks to local 

communities often suffer. In addition, 

during situations where a WFO must 

rely on a back-up office due to a WFO 

being affected by severe weather 

conditions (e.g., having to shelter, losing 

power due to the impacts of a hurricane, 

tornado outbreak, etc.), back-up WFOs 

rarely have the situational awareness of 

the critical areas of concern to local core 

partners and, thus, are less able to 

communicate mission critical messaging 

to those core partners. Without this type 


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of local vulnerability information, 

NOAA, and the NWS specifically, is 

limited in its ability to meet its mission 

of saving lives and property as outlined 

in the Weather Research and 

Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017 

(especially Pub. L. 115–25 Sec. 

405.d.1.A, 405.d.1.B, Sec 406.c.2.B). 

This effort aims to advance the Tornado 

Warning Improvement and Extension 

Program (TWIEP)’s goal to ‘‘reduce the 

loss of life and economic losses from 

tornadoes through the development and 

extension of accurate, effective, and 

timely tornado forecasts, predictions, 

and warnings, including the prediction 

of tornadoes beyond one hour in 

advance (Pub. L. 115–25)’’. This work 

addresses NOAA’s 5-year Research and 

Development Vision Areas (2020–2026) 

Section 1.4 (FACETs). This effort also 

advances the NWS Strategic Plan (2019– 

2022) ‘‘Transformative Impact-Based 

Decision Support Services (IDSS) and 

Research to Operations and Operations 

to Research (R2O/O2R). The Brief 

Vulnerability Overview Tool (BVOT) 

would contribute to 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. In addition, because the BVOT is 

‘‘hazard agnostic’’—it is used to collect 

vulnerabilities based on different 

weather hazards and can be organized to 

display those vulnerabilities only 

related to those specific hazards that are 

relevant to an NWS WFO at any given 

moment—it can be seen to help advance 

a number of hazard-specific 

congressional laws including (but, not 

limited to) those related to tsunamis 

(Pub. L. 109–424 Sec. 5.b.4, 5.c.2, 5.c.3, 

Sec. 6; Pub. L. 115–25 Sec. 505.c.5.B 

and Sec. 505.d.1) and the recently 

introduced TORNADO Act (S.3817 Sec. 

3.b.6.C). 

This study will assess the feasibility 

of NWS WFOs working with their local 

core partners to collect local known 

vulnerability points associated with 

specific types of weather hazards in 

order to populate a simple (but agile) 

GIS shapefile that can be used to 

provide WFO-level meteorologists with 

situational awareness of the 

vulnerabilities of greatest concern in 

their CWAs. This vulnerability 

awareness tool—the Brief Vulnerability 

Overview Tool (BVOT)—has been 

designed by researchers at the 

University of Oklahoma’s Center for 

Applied Social Research (CASR) and 

Center for the Analysis and Prediction 

of Storms (CAPS), and it would permit 

NWS WFOs to work closely with their 

core partners to collect initial 

vulnerability points and to update those 

points in a efficient manner that would 

require little training and little effort 

through the use of widely available, 

simple online data collection methods. 

Research participants will include 

adult (age 18+) NWS WFO 

meteorologists and their core partners 

(primarily the county emergency 

managers (EMs)) from four WFOs 

around the country. Participants will be 

asked to participate in a number of 

background interviews. In addition, 

they will be asked to complete an online 

(Qualtrics) survey assessing the 

attachment, trust, and knowledge of 

WFO meteorologists and their core 

partners. This survey will be conducted 

pre-/post-study in order to identify 

changes over time. Participants will also 

be asked to contribute to and learn how 

to maintain and use a Brief 

Vulnerability Overview Tool (BVOT)—a 

GIS shapefile-based way of collecting 

and displaying local, known 

vulnerability points within the existing 

operational environment of NWS WFOs. 

The creation of a BVOT provides a 

number of benefits over and above 

current efforts within the NWS. These 

include (1) improved situational 

awareness for NWS WFO 

meteorologists; (2) improved spatial 

awareness of vulnerabilities of greatest 

concerns to core partners can prompt 

and fine-tune messaging and Decision 

Support Services (DSS) provided to 

these core partners; (3) improved spatial 

situational awareness for backup offices 

if an NWS WFO loses its capacity to 

operate; (4) improved training and 

orientation for meteorologists who are 

new to an NWS WFO; (5) providing a 

structured requirement for maintaining 

an evolving, ‘‘living’’ database of 

vulnerabilities that can be shared and 

equally accessed across the WFO and 

the NWS; and (6) providing 

opportunities to improve the trust, 

communication, and rapport between an 

NWS WFO and its core partners through 

the collaborative construction and 

periodic updating of the BVOT. 

II. Method of Collection 

Recruitment & Training: Having 

worked extensively with NWS WFOs 

and their partner Emergency Managers 

and core partners in both the Central 

and Southern regions, the Principle 

Investors are familiar with what will be 

necessary to receive permission to 

conduct the research efficiently and in 

a manner that respects and minimizes 

the necessary effort that will be 

requested from EMs and core partners 

(i.e., the non-federal/federallycontracted participants in this study). 

After recruitment of NWS WFO 

meteorologists into the study, we will 

contact their partner EMs and core 

partners (generally, this is limited to 

county EMs, but could include a few 

municipal or, if relevant, tribal EM 

partners) to (1) describe the project to 

them, (2) seek informed consent from 

them to participate in the study, (3) 

request that all consented study 

participants complete the online, pre-/ 

post-NWS-Core Partner Trust survey 

and background interviews, (4) provide 

training/orientation modules to all 

study participants on how to select and 

map vulnerability data for the BVOT, 

and (5) develop a timeline for 

completing the gathering of 

vulnerability data. 

Data Gathering Methods 

Background interviews will be 

conducted virtually using a video 

conferencing platform (either Zoom or 

Google Meet). These will be audiorecorded only and will focus on 

professional background and 

perceptions of critical decision-making 

practices related to hazardous weather 

information and understandings of local 

vulnerabilities. We expect to only 

conduct background interviews with a 

sample of the EMs who are participating 

in the study. 

Trust and Relationship surveys will 

be administered through an online, 

Qualtrics survey platform and will be 

administered at the start of the study 

and at the end of the study to assess the 

impact of NWS meteorologists and EMs 

working together on vulnerability 

mapping. 

An Online Focus Group will be 

conducted after the BVOT has been 

built to get feedback about how both 

NWS meteorologists and EMs perceive 

the process of building the BVOT, how 

it could and should be used in the 

future, and what has been helpful about 

the BVOT. 

Vulnerability Mapping itself will 

involve using Google Earth Pro or 

ArcGIS Online to map local, known, 

discrete, weather hazard-related 

vulnerabilities in one’s area of 

responsibility (for the EMs, this is 

usually at the county level). EM 

participants are encouraged to limit 

their time doing this mapping to no 

more than about 60 minutes in order to 

ensure that they only focus on those 

vulnerabilities of greatest concern. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0648–XXXX. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Review: Regular (New 

information collection). 

Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal 

Government (Emergency Managers). 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

∼140. 


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Estimated Time per Response: Online 

Focus Group and Vulnerability 

Mapping: 1 hour each; Background 

Interview: 1.5 hours; Trust Surveys: 15 

minutes each. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 425. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: None. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

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

Weather Research and Forecasting 

Information. 

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 Chief Information Officer, Commerce 

Department. 

[FR Doc. 2022–13112 Filed 6–16–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–KE–P 

COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM 

PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR 

SEVERELY DISABLED 

Quarterly Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Committee for Purchase From 

People Who Are Blind or Severely 

Disabled. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Committee is announcing 

a virtual public meeting to be held July 

21, 2022. 

DATES: Register no later than: July 19, 

2022. 

ADDRESSES: 1401 S Clark Street, Suite 

715, Arlington, Virginia 22202. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information or to submit 

comments contact: Angela Phifer, 

telephone: (703) 798–5873 or email 

CMTEFedReg@AbilityOne.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published pursuant to 41 

U.S.C. 8503(a)(2) and 41 CFR 51–2.3. Its 

purpose is to provide interested persons 

an opportunity to register to attend a 

public meeting. 

Summary: This notice provides 

information to access and participate in 

the July 21, 2022, regular quarterly 

public meeting of the Committee for 

Purchase From People Who Are Blind 

or Severely Disabled, operating as the 

U.S. AbilityOne Commission 

(Commission), via Zoom webinar. The 

Commission oversees the AbilityOne 

Program, which provides employment 

opportunities through Federal contracts 

for people who are blind or have 

significant disabilities in the 

manufacture and delivery of products 

and services to the Federal Government. 

The Javits-Wagner-O’Day Act (41 U.S.C. 

Chapter 85) authorizes the contracts and 

established 15 Presidential appointees, 

including private citizens conversant 

with the employment interests and 

concerns of people who are blind or 

significantly disabled. Presidential 

appointees also include representatives 

of Federal agencies. The public 

meetings include updates from the 

Commission and staff. 

Date and Time: July 21, 2022, from 

1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., ET. 

Place: This meeting will occur via 

Zoom webinar. 

Commission Statement: The 

Commission invites public comments or 

suggestions regarding the types of 

technical assistance that may be 

provided to AbilityOne-participating 

nonprofit agencies during future 

compliance inspections or regulatory 

assistance visits. The technical 

assistance is intended to enhance 

overall compliance and oversight, and/ 

or to support contract performance 

quality, and/or to enhance the quality of 

employment in the AbilityOne Program. 

Registration: Attendees not requesting 

speaking time must register not later 

than 11:59 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 

19, 2022. Attendees requesting speaking 

time should register not later than 11:59 

p.m. EDT on July 8, 2022, and use the 

comment fields in the registration form 

to specify the intended speaking 

topic/s. The registration link will be 

posted on the Commission’s home page, 

www.abilityone.gov, not later than 

Tuesday, June 21, 2022. During 

registration, you may choose to submit 

comments, or you may request speaking 

time at the meeting. The Commission 

may invite some attendees who submit 

advance comments to speak to their 

comments during the meeting. 

Comments submitted via the registration 

link will be reviewed with the 

Commission members prior to the 

meeting. Comments posted in the chat 

box during the meeting will be shared 

with the Commission members after the 

meeting. 

Personal Information: Do not include 

any information that you do not want 

publicly disclosed. 

For Further Information Contact: 

Angela Phifer, (703) 798–5873. 

The Commission is not subject to the 

requirements of 5 U.S.C. 552(b); 

however, the Commission published 

this notice to encourage the broadest 

possible participation in its July 21, 

2022, public meeting. 

Michael R. Jurkowski, 

Acting Director, Business Operations. 

[FR Doc. 2022–13085 Filed 6–16–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6353–01–P 

COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM 

PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR 

SEVERELY DISABLED 

Procurement List; Proposed Additions 

and Deletions 

AGENCY: Committee for Purchase From 

People Who Are Blind or Severely 

Disabled. 

ACTION: Proposed additions to and 

deletions from the Procurement List. 

SUMMARY: The Committee is proposing 

to add product(s) and service(s) to the 

Procurement List that will be furnished 

by nonprofit agencies employing 

persons who are blind or have other 

severe disabilities and deletes service(s) 

previously furnished by such agencies. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before: July 17, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase 

From People Who Are Blind or Severely 

Disabled, 1401 S Clark Street, Suite 715, 

Arlington, Virginia 22202–4149. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information or to submit 

comments contact: Michael R. 

Jurkowski, Telephone: (703) 785–6404, 

or email CMTEFedReg@AbilityOne.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published pursuant to 41 


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