[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 242 (Wednesday, December 17, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 75230-75231]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-29468]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

 Maritime Administration

[Docket No. DOT-MARAD-2014-0156]


Request for Comments on a New Information Collection

AGENCY: Maritime Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Information 
Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below is being forwarded to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comments. A 
Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting 
comments on the following information collection was published on 
September 23, 2014 (79 FR 56849).

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before January 16, 2015.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nuns Jain, Program Excellence & 
Quality Assurance Group (MAR-600.6), Maritime Administration, U.S. 
Department of Transportation, 7737 Hampton Boulevard, Building 19, 
Suite 300, Norfolk, VA 23505, (757) 322-5801 or Email: 
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#cfa1baa1bce1a5aea6a18faba0bbe1a8a0b9"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3d5348534e13575c54537d595249135a524b">[email protected]</span></a>.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title: Quarterly Readiness Reporting of Strategic Seaport 
Facilities.
    OMB Control Number: 2133--NEW.
    Type of Request: New Information Collection.
    Abstract: Pursuant to the Defense Production Act of 1950, as 
amended (Pub. L. 111-67), EO 13603, E.O. 12656 and 46 CFR part 340, 
MARAD works with the DoD to ensure national defense preparedness. 
Accordingly, MARAD issues a pre-emergency Port Planning Order (PPO) to 
each Department of Defense (DoD) designated strategic commercial 
seaport in order to provide the DoD port facilities in support of 
military deployments during national emergencies. The proposed 
collection of quarterly information is necessary to validate each 
port's ability to provide the PPO delineated facilities to the DoD 
within the PPO delineated time frame. In a February 2, 2014 report 
entitled STRATEGIC SEAPORTS: Opportunities Exist to Improve Interagency 
Coordination, Readiness Reporting, and Port Preparedness, the 
Government Accounting Office (GAO) recommended that MARAD collect DoD 
required readiness data from the strategic commercial ports. This 
information will be used by MARAD to assist DoD in establishing overall 
contingency plans necessary to meet national emergency preparedness 
requirements.
    Affected Public: Strategic Commercial Seaports with MARAD Port 
Planning Orders.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 16.
    Estimated Number of Responses: 64.
    Annual Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 64.
    Frequency of Collection: Quarterly.

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ADDRESSES: Send comments regarding the burden estimate, including 
suggestions for reducing the burden, to the Office of Management and 
Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for the Office of the Secretary of 
Transportation, 725 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 20503.
    Comments are invited on: Whether the proposed collection of 
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of 
the Department, including whether the information will have practical 
utility; the accuracy of the Department's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed information collection; ways to enhance the quality, utility 
and clarity of the information to be collected; and ways to minimize 
the burden of the collection of information on respondents, including 
the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of 
information technology.

    Authority:  The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. 
Chapter 35, as amended; and 49 CFR 1:93.

    Dated: December 11, 2014.
Julie P. Agarwal,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. 2014-29468 Filed 12-16-14; 8:45 am]
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