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PANAMA CANAL COMMISSION

 

Agency Information Collection Request submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget for clearance.

AGENCY: Panama Canal Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction 
of 1980 (Pub. L. 96-511), as amended, the Panama Canal Commission 
hereby gives notice that it has submitted to the Office of Management 
and Budget for clearance a SF-83 (Request for OMB Review) for a 
currently approved collection of information contained in Subchapter C 
(Shipping and Navigation) of Chapter I, Title 35, Code of Federal 
Regulations (CFR).

ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent to Edward H. Clarke, Desk Officer for 
Panama Canal Commission, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 
Room 3228, New Executive Office Building, Office of Management and 
Budget, Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For a complete copy of the collection 
of information or related information, contact Barbara Fuller, Office 
of the Secretary, Panama Canal Commission, telephone 202-634-6441.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

    Title: Subchapter C (Shipping and Navigation) of Chapter I, 35 CFR.
    Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Businesses or other for profit.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 14,700.
    Estimated Hours Per Response: 2 hours.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 29,400.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Needs and Uses: On December 24, 1981, OMB approved an information 
collection proposal submitted by the Panama Canal Commission in 
conjunction with a revision of its navigation regulations (35 CFR 
Chapter I, Subchapter C), and assigned it the control number 3207-0001. 
The forms required by those regulations (which make up the collection 
of information) are used to collect, from vessels arriving in the 
Panama Canal waters, information required for assuring that the vessels 
are in compliance with Panama Canal Commission shipping and navigation 
regulations. The information collected will be used for economic 
analyses, traffic forecasting, identification, billing, safety and 
sanitation purposes. It is estimated that the burden (which varies 
widely, depending upon the nature of each vessel's operations) for 
cargo vessels ranges from five minutes to four hours per response. The 
burden will be lessened for those vessels having the capability of 
producing computer-generated cargo declarations. For passenger vessels, 
the range would be from approximately two hours to thirteen hours. The 
utilization of computer-generated crew and passenger lists should 
reduce by eight to ten hours the time required of a vessel like the 
QUEEN ELIZABETH 2, (the smallest ``passenger'' vessels carry about 13 
passengers and the largest, the QUEEN ELIZABETH 2, is capable of 
accommodating about 1,879). It would be very difficult to provide a 
meaningful estimate of the total burden for each vessel since some 
transit frequently, while others may transit only once or infrequently.

    Dated: August 30, 1994.
James E. Ferrara,
Director, Office of Executive Administration and Transition 
Coordination, Senior Official for Information Resources Management.
[FR Doc. 94-22406 Filed 9-9-94; 8:45 am]
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