[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 95 (Friday, May 15, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29405-29406]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-10464]


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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; Comment 
Request; Nautical Discrepancy Reporting System

    The Department of Commerce will submit the following information 
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite 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. Public comments were previously requested via the 
Federal Register on January 15, 2020, during a 60-day comment period. 
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
    Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
    Title: Nautical Discrepancy Reporting System.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0007.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular submission (revision and extension of an 
existing collection).
    Number of Respondents: 905.
    Average Hours per Response: ASSIST entry: 10 min; Citizen Science 
Chart Update: 30 minutes.
    Total Annual Burden Hours: 680.
    Needs and Uses: NOAA's Office of Coast Survey is the nation's 
nautical chart maker, maintaining and updating over a thousand charts 
covering the 3.5 million square nautical miles of coastal waters in the 
U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone and the Great Lakes. The marine 
transportation system relies on charting accuracy and precision to keep 
navigation safe and coastal communities protected from environmental 
disasters at sea.
    Coast Survey also writes and publishes the United States Coast 
Pilot[supreg], a series of nine nautical books that supplement nautical 
charts with essential marine information that cannot be shown 
graphically on the charts and are not readily available elsewhere. 
Subjects include, but are not limited to, channel descriptions, 
anchorages, bridge and cable clearances, tides and tidal currents, 
prominent features, pilotage, towage, weather, ice conditions, wharf 
descriptions, dangers, routes, traffic separation schemes, small craft 
facilities and Federal Regulations applicable to navigation.
    The marine environment and shorelines are constantly changing. NOAA 
makes every effort to update information portrayed in charts and 
described in the Coast Pilot. Sources of information include, but are 
not limited to: Pilot associations, shipping companies, towboat 
operators, state marine authorities, city marine authorities, local 
port authorities, marine operators, hydrographic research vessels, 
naval vessels, Coast Guard cutters, merchant vessels, fishing vessels, 
pleasure boats, U.S. Power Squadron Units, U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary 
Units, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
    The purpose of NOAA's Nautical Discrepancy Reporting System is to 
offer a formal, standardized instrument for recommending changes, 
corrections, and updates to nautical charts and the Coast Pilot, and to 
monitor and document the accepted changes. Coast Survey solicits 
information through the stakeholder engagement and feedback tool ASSIST 
(https://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/customer-service/assist/).
    Coast Survey is proposing to add a Citizen Science component to the 
collection, which would allow boating groups or individuals to submit 
reports to update the charts. Adding the Citizen Science component to 
the collection method will benefit Coast Survey by allowing the public 
to ``adopt'' a product or part of a product and provide annual data 
updates that directly affect that product or products. Data obtained 
through these systems is used to update U.S. nautical charts and the 
United States Coast Pilot.
    Affected Public: Business or other for profit; individuals or 
households; not for- profit institutions; federal government; state, 
local or tribal government.
    Frequency: Annual and periodic.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: None.
    This information collection request may be viewed at 
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view the Department of 
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.

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    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of 
this notice on the following website www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 
Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently 
under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search 
function and entering either the title of the collection or the OMB 
Control Number 0648-0007.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2020-10464 Filed 5-14-20; 8:45 am]
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