[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 86 (Wednesday, May 4, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 26345]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-09578]



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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; 
Notification of Request for an Emergency Clearance; National Marine 
Fisheries Service, Office of Law Enforcement Cooperative Enforcement 
Program Partner Survey of Need (FY2022 Consolidated Appropriations Act 
Report)

    The Department of Commerce will submit the following information 
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
review and clearance utilizing emergency review procedures in 
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, on or after the 
date of publication of this notice. This Notice proposes the emergency/
expedited clearance to collect information regarding cooperative 
enforcement agreements with partner state and territorial law 
enforcement agencies as required by the recently issued the 
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022. NOAA requests emergency 
processing and OMB authorization to collect the information after 
publication of this Notice for a period of six (6) months.
    Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 
Commerce.
    Title: National Marine Fisheries Service, Office of Law Enforcement 
Cooperative Enforcement Program Partner Survey of Need.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-XXXX.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Emergency submission, New Information Collection 
Request.
    Number of Respondents: 29.
    Average Hours per Response: 2 hours.
    Burden Hours: 58.
    Needs and Uses: NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) 
Office of Law Enforcement (OLE) is sponsoring this congressionally 
mandated information collection. The information is collected under the 
authority of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022 (117th 
Congress (221-2022)).
    The purpose of the collection is to acquire, analyze, and report on 
detailed information about the OLE's Cooperative Enforcement Program 
(CEP) partner agencies' needs, as directed by Congress. The information 
will be collected from OLE's twenty-nine (29) Cooperative Enforcement 
Program partner agencies and will ask questions related to shortages of 
trained personnel, maintaining maritime domain awareness, formal 
operational agreements with other Federal law enforcement agencies, and 
access to advanced technological enforcement tools, as directed by 
Congress. The partner agencies are located in twenty-eight (28) states 
and territories: Alaska, Alabama, American Samoa, California, 
Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Guam (two agencies), Hawaii, 
Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Northern Mariana 
Islands, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, 
Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Virgin 
Islands, Washington.
    The information will be used to supply Congress with a detailed 
report describing the needs expressed by the Office of Law 
Enforcement's Cooperative Enforcement Program partner agencies. This is 
a unique one-time only collection of information from Office of Law 
Enforcement's Cooperative Enforcement Program partner agencies as 
directed by Congress.
    As provided under 5 CFR 1320.13, NOAA is requesting emergency 
processing for cooperative enforcement program data. NOAA cannot 
reasonably comply with normal clearance procedures since the use of 
normal clearance procedures is reasonably likely to cause a 
congressionally mandated deadline to be missed. As required by the 
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, NOAA is expected to submit a 
report to Congress no less than 180 days after enactment of the Act. 
Therefore, NOAA is requesting OMB approval as soon as possible (i.e., 5 
business days after publication of this Notice) for this collection of 
information.
    Affected Public: State and territorial government natural resource 
law enforcement agencies who are members of Office of Law Enforcement's 
Cooperative Enforcement Program.
    Frequency: Once.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501-3520.
    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.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2022-09578 Filed 5-3-22; 8:45 am]
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