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II. Method of Collection 

Respondents have a choice of either 

electronic or paper forms. Methods of 

submittal include email of electronic 

forms, and mail and facsimile 

transmission of paper forms. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0613. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Review: Regular submission 

(extension of a currently approved 

collection). 

Affected Public: Not-for-profit 

institutions; State, Local, or Tribal 

government; Federal government; 

business or other for-profit 

organizations. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

58. 

Estimated Time per Response: Written 

notification describing research, 

monitoring or habitat restoration 

activities, 40 hours; development of 

fisheries management and evaluation 

plans or state 4(d) research programs, 40 

hours; reports, 5 hours; development of 

a tribal fishery management plan, 20 

hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 1,760. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: $200. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

Obtain or Retain Benefits. 

Legal Authority: Endangered Species 

Act. 

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. 

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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; Improving 

Knowledge About NWS Forecaster 

Core Partner Needs for Reducing 

Vulnerability to Compound Threats in 

Landfalling Tropical Cyclones Amid 

COVID–19 

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 September 19, 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). 

Compound hazards, like tornadoes and 

flash floods (called TORFFs), are a 

significant issue for risk communication 

and are common in landfalling tropical 

cyclones. Currently, NOAA lacks data 

and data collection instruments that 

articulate and explain how emergency 

managers and broadcast meteorologists 

receive, interpret, and respond to NWS 

prediction information about these 

compound hazards before and during 

landfalling tropical cyclones, like 

Hurricane Ida. Furthermore, NOAA 

lacks adequate knowledge about how 

these risks are best communicated 

during COVID–19, when it is important 

for those who are most vulnerable to 

adjudicate their risks of exposure to 

both severe weather and COVID–19. 

Such knowledge about compound 

weather hazards would be particularly 

useful for NWS forecasters who 

communicate risk information to their 

colleagues in emergency management 

and broadcast meteorology (hereafter 

‘‘partners’’), especially when 

information about sheltering practices, 

evacuation, and vulnerability can be 

complicated by exposure to public 

health threats and bilingual needs. 

Without this type of information 

about how partners grapple with the 

communication of compound hazards 

amid the pandemic, NOAA, and 

specifically the NWS, cannot determine 

if it has met its mission of saving lives 

and property, propose societal impact 

performance metrics, nor demonstrate if 

progress or improvements have been 

made, as outlined in the Weather 

Research and Forecasting Innovation 

Act of 2017. This effort aims to advance 

the goal to collaborate across sectors on 

‘‘research necessary to enhance the 

integration of social science knowledge 

into weather forecast and warning 

processes, including to improve the 

communication of threat information 

necessary to enable improved severe 

weather planning and decision making 

on the part of individuals and 

communities (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 

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Based Decision Support Services (IDSS) 

and Research to Operations and 

Operations to Research (R2O/O2R)’’ 

with specific attention to Goal 1, 

sections 1.1, 1.2, 1.5, 1.13 and Goal 3, 

sections 3.6 and 3.8. Furthermore, data 

collected with NWS partners furthers 

the NWS Weather Ready Nation (WRN) 

Roadmap (2013) Sections 1.1.10, and 

1.2.2. 

Two types of data—interviews and 

surveys—will be collected by 

researchers at Texas Tech University’s 

Risk and Equity in Disasters (RED) Lab 

and at Texas A&M. They have begun to 

develop data collection instruments that 

will allow them to gather risk 

information from both English and 

Spanish speaking partners. These 

instruments are being created in 

collaboration with experts in emergency 

management and broadcast meteorology 

through the Board on Emergency 

Management and the Board on 

Professional Development within the 

American Meteorological Society. This 

helps assure the appropriateness of 

questions relative to different decision 

spaces, job roles, and communication 

processes. 

This data collection serves many 

purposes, including building knowledge 

of how partners attend to, make sense 

of, and communicate compound 

hazards, as well as challenges they face 

in identifying vulnerable populations to 

severe weather in the context of COVID– 

19. This data may be used by the NWS 

training centers in Norman, OK, and 

Kansas City, MO, to inform their 

practices for Impact-Based Decision 

Support Services (IDSS) and to improve 

the information and services it provides 

to members of the Weather Enterprise. 

Specifically, data collected will help 

NWS develop new forecaster training 

modules, situational awareness 

strategies, and best practices for IDSS 

with partners. This research-tooperations application of knowledge is 

a necessary step in improving risk 

communication among expert groups, 

which, in turn, benefits vulnerable 

populations who ultimately must act 

quickly and safely to adjudicate which 

risks pose the greatest threat to them as 

the threats evolve. 

II. Method of Collection 

The primary methods of data 

collection for this study will be virtual 

or in-person semi-structured interviews 

(COVID–19 restriction dependent) with 

partners for a case study of TORFFs in 

the first year of the grant (2021–2022, or 

Phase 1) followed by a national online 

survey of partners in the second year 

(2022–2023, or Phase 2). For Phase 1, 

semi-structured interviews will be 

conducted with partners in local areas 

impacted by a recent hurricane with 

embedded TORFF hazards, such as 

Hurricane Ida and its remnants. 

Questions will focus on risk assessment, 

risk communication, and vulnerability 

within the context of a pandemic. 

Convenience sampling will be used 

based on those areas that experienced 

TORFF warnings, as verified by sources 

like the Iowa Environmental Mesonet, 

and internet searches of news stories 

about TORFF impacts. For Phase 2, a 

national online survey will be designed 

and fielded after interview data have 

been analyzed. Results from Phase 1 

will be used to guide survey design, 

including sampling strategy and 

sampling frame. Survey questions will 

reflect findings and elicit information 

about compound hazard risk 

communication and vulnerability for 

the same population. The survey will be 

designed with assistance from a 

consulting service (e.g., Qualtrics) and 

suggestions from collaborators from 

public safety. Interview guides and 

survey questions will be translated into 

and conducted in Spanish, where 

appropriate. 

Respondents will include adults (age 

18+) who reside in the United States, 

recruited through emails and phone 

calls to partners in areas impacted by 

TORFFs embedded in landfalling 

tropical cyclones. Contact information 

for respondents is publicly available 

and will be obtained both by internet 

searches and, when needed, with the 

assistance of local NWS Weather 

Forecast Office staff to identify 

appropriate participants in emergency 

management and broadcast media 

markets. For interviews, emails and 

phone calls will be used to recruit 

participants and coordinate interviews 

via Zoom or other video platform; 

interviews may also be conducted in 

person, depending on local COVID 

restrictions. Survey respondents will 

likewise be contacted through email and 

directed to an online survey. NWS staff 

may assist in facilitating email 

introductions to their partners for 

interview requests and to help distribute 

survey links to ensure sufficient 

response rates. Our collaborators with 

the American Meteorological Society 

and the National Weather Association 

will also help us identify outreach 

approaches to recruit participants (e.g., 

social media and message boards) and 

ensure sufficient response rates. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0648–XXXX. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Review: Regular (New 

information collection). 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations; State, Local, or 

Tribal government; Federal government. 

Estimated Number of Respondents for 

interviews for Interviews: 30. 

Estimated Time Per Response: 1 hour 

per respondent. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours for Interviews: 30. 

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. 

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