[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 16 (Friday, January 24, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4291-4292]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-01149]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will submit 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: Licensing of Private Remote-Sensing Space Systems.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0174.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular (Revision of a current approved
information collection.)
Number of Respondents: 51.
Average Hours per Response: 40 hours for the submission of a
license application; 10 hours for the submission of a data protection
plan; 5 hours for the submission of a plan describing how the licensee
will comply with data collection restrictions; 3 hours for the
submission of an operations plan for restricting collection or
dissemination of imagery of Israeli territory; 0.5 hours for the
submission of a public summary for a licensed system; 1 hour for
notification of completion of pre-ship review; 3 hours for the
submission of a license amendment; 2 hours for the submission of a
foreign agreement notification; 1 hour for the submission of spacecraft
operational information submitted when a spacecraft becomes
operational; 2 hours for notification of planned purges of information
to the National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive; 3 hours for
the submission of an operational quarterly report; 4 hours for an
annual compliance audit; and 1 hour for notification of the demise of a
system or a decision to discontinue system operations.
Burden Hours: 1,438.
Needs and Uses: The information is being collected as a necessary
step to regulate the private space-based remote sensing industry, which
involves issuing licenses to applicants and ensuring their compliance
with license terms. The Department of Commerce (DOC), through the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has the
authority to regulate private space-based remote sensing under the Land
Remote Sensing Policy Act of 1992, 51 U.S.C. 60101 et seq. (the Act)
and regulations at 15 CFR part 960. The regulations facilitate the
development of the U.S. private remote sensing industry and thus
promote the collection and widespread availability of remote sensing
data, while preserving essential U.S. national security interests and
observing international obligations.
Applications are made in response to the requirements in the Act,
as amended, and no collection forms are used. The application
information received is used to determine if the applicant meets the
legal criteria for issuance of a license to operate a private remote
sensing space system i.e., the proposed system will be operated in
accordance with the Act, U.S. national
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security concerns and international obligations. Application
information includes: Corporate information; launch segment
information; space segment information; ground segment information;
plans and/or pricing policy for providing access to or distributing the
unenhanced data generated by the system; and the plan for post-mission
disposition of any Remote Sensing satellites.
Once an applicant holds a license, he/she is subject to amendment
filings and notification requirements concerning an executive summary
of the licensed system, foreign agreements, deviation in orbits,
planned disposition of the spacecraft, data protection plans,
preliminary design reviews, critical design reviews, certification of
launch contract and pre-ship review of the satellite; and notification
of system demise or decision to discontinue operations. The licensee is
required to provide NOAA an executive summary that can be provided to
the public within 30 days of obtaining a NOAA license.
Monitoring and compliance information is used to ascertain that the
licensee's activities meet the requirements of the Act, applicable
regulations, and license conditions. The following information
collections serve as part of the monitoring and compliance function:
Annual compliance audits; data collection restriction plans; operation
plans for restricting collection and dissemination of imaging Israeli
territory; data flow diagrams; satellite sub-system diagrams and
imaging system specification sheets; operational declarations;
quarterly reports; purge notifications; and annual operational audits.
NOAA notes the differences between this revision and the previous
extension of this collection of information. First, although it appears
that there are new collections of information (specifically, the Data
Protection Plan, the Data Collection Restrictions Compliance Plan, the
Plan for Restricted Operations Over Israel, and the Public Summary),
each of these requirements were discussed in the 2017 Federal Register
Notice and the Supporting Statement. These requirements are not new;
they appear to have been inadvertently omitted from the list of
information collections in the 2017 extension. This revision corrects
that error.
Second, several information collections have been removed. The Data
Flow Diagram has been removed as it is now part of the Data Protection
Plan. The Satellite Subsystems Drawings, Submission of Preliminary
Design Review, Submission of Critical Design Review, and Notification
of Binding Launch Service Contract are no longer required because after
NOAA's review of certain material information over the last 20 years,
NOAA determined that these documents are no longer relevant to the
license determination process. The Notification of Any Operational
Deviation is now part of the Quarterly Audit. Finally, the Annual
Operational Audit is now part of the Annual Compliance Audit.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations
(primary); non-profit organizations (secondary).
Frequency: Quarterly, annually and on occasion.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
This information collection request may be viewed at reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view Department of Commerce collections
currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice
to [email protected] or fax to (202) 395-5806.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2020-01149 Filed 1-23-20; 8:45 am]
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