[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 107 (Monday, June 7, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30286-30287]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-11886]


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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; Data Collections To Support Comprehensive Economic and Socio-
Economic Evaluations of the Fisheries in Regions of the United States 
Affected by Catastrophic Events

    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 March 2, 2021(86 FR 12174) during a 60-day comment 
period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public 
comments.
    Agency: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 
Commerce.
    Title: Data Collections to Support Comprehensive Economic and 
Socio- Economic Evaluations of the Fisheries in Regions of the United 
States Affected by Catastrophic Events.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0767.
    Form Number(s): None.

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    Type of Request: Regular submission [revision of a currently 
approved collection].
    Number of Respondents: 7,184.
    Average Hours per Response: Regional surveys of fishing operations: 
30 minutes; Regional surveys of other fishing related businesses: 30 
minutes; National surveys of fishing operations: 20 minutes; National 
surveys of other fishing related businesses: 20 minutes.
    Total Annual Burden Hours: 3,200.
    Needs and Uses: The revised information collection will allow NMFS 
to continue to collect information about the impacts of and recovery 
from regional and national catastrophic events and the factors that 
facilitated or impeded recovery. The impacts include insured and 
uninsured damages/losses and changes in revenue, operating costs and 
employment due to those events NMFS will collect this information from 
the owners or operators of commercial and for hire fishing vessels and 
from the owners or managers of other fishing related businesses. NMFS 
needs this information to conduct the economic and socio-economic 
evaluations of catastrophic regional fishery disasters mandated by SEC. 
315(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act 
(MSA). Those and/or subsequent evaluations based on this information 
will be used by: (1) The Secretary of Commerce in determining if a 
fisheries disaster should be declared; (2) the Department of Commerce 
and NOAA in their deliberations regarding the disbursement of the 
fishery disaster relief assistance proved by Congress; (3) NMFS to 
inform agency leadership, state agencies, Congress, and constituents 
about the long-term effects of catastrophic events and the factors that 
facilitated or impeded recovery; and (4) NMFS to improve its ability to 
conduct the analyses required by the MSA and other applicable law, 
which will allow for better-informed, science-based fishery management 
decisions making.
    The proposed revisions would expand the coverage of the currently 
approved information collection in two ways. First, they would expand 
the types of catastrophic events from ``hurricanes and other climate 
related natural disasters'' to events including hurricanes, tsunamis, 
floods, freshwater intrusions, severe harmful algal blooms (e.g., red 
tides), extreme temperatures, oil spills, and pandemics. Second, they 
would extend the geographic scope from the ``Eastern, Gulf Coast and 
Caribbean Territories of the United States'' to all regions and 
territories of the United States. These proposed expansions are 
reflected in the request to change the title from ``Assessment of the 
Social and Economic Impact of Hurricanes and Other Climate Related 
Natural Disasters on Commercial and Recreational Fishing Industries in 
the Eastern, Gulf Coast and Caribbean Territories of the United 
States'' to ``Data Collections to Support Comprehensive Economic and 
Socio-Economic Evaluations of the Fisheries in Regions of the United 
States Affected by Catastrophic Events.'' NMFS will improve the survey 
instruments and collection methods based on lessons learned from 
conducting and assessing the previous information collections. The 
frequency of reporting will be from one to two times a year for each 
catastrophic event.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households and business or other 
for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: The frequency of reporting will be as needed from one to 
four times a year for each catastrophic event.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and 
Management Act SEC. 315(c).
    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.
    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 0648-0767.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2021-11886 Filed 6-4-21; 8:45 am]
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