[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 72 (Thursday, April 13, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 19877]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-9121]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

[I.D. 040700L2]


Submission For OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce has submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for 
collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).
    Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
    Title: Socioeconomic Monitoring Program for the Florida Keys 
National Marine Sanctuary.
    Form Number(s): None.
    OMB Approval Number: None.
    Type of Request: New collection.
    Burden Hours: 725.
    Number of Respondents: 788.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 20 minutes to 10 hours depending on 
requirement.
    Needs and Uses: The Management Plan for the Florida Keys National 
Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS) established 18 Sanctuary Preservation Areas 
(SPAs) and one Ecological Reserve (ER) that are ``no take'' zones. In 
creating these special zones, socioeconomic impact analyses, as well as 
other analyses, were done as required under the National Environmental 
Policy Act (NEPA). However, many of the benefits and costs identified 
in these analyses are speculative in nature and therefore an 
uncertainty about benefits and costs. In response to public concerns 
about the socioeconomic impacts of many of the FKNMS management plan 
and especially the ``no take'' zones, a socioeconomic element was 
included in the ecological monitoring program. The information 
collected will help monitor the financial performance of the commercial 
fishing operations that were displaced from the ``no take'' zones to 
test the hypotheses that there are short term losses and/or long term 
gains to commercial fishermen and monitor the use, perceptions of users 
as to quality of the SPAs and ERs, and changes in market and economic 
values associated with SPA and ER uses to test that user conflicts were 
resolved and/or that there would be both short term and long term gains 
to non-consumptive users and net gains to the local economy.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households and businesses or other 
for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    OMB Desk Officer: David Rostker, (202) 395-3897.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Linda Engelmeier, DOC Forms Clearance Officer, 
(202) 482-3272, Department of Commerce, Room 5027, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 
[email protected]).
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to David Rostker, OMB Desk Officer, Room 10202, New Executive Office 
Building, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: April 4, 2000.
Linda Engelmeier,
Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer.
[FR Doc. 00-9121 Filed 4-12-00; 8:45 am]
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