[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 137 (Tuesday, July 19, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43010-43011]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-15343]


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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 and Data 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 March 23, 2022 (87 FR 16462) during a 60-day 
comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public 
comments.
    Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Commerce.
    Title: Nautical Discrepancy and Data Reporting System.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0007.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular submission [Revision and extension of a 
currently approved information collection].
    Number of Respondents: 1,575.
    Average Hours per Response: 10-15 minutes, depending on the report.
    Total Annual Burden Hours: 791.5
    Needs and Uses: This request is for a revision and extension of a 
currently approved information collection.
    NOAA's Office of Coast Survey (Coast Survey) is the nation's 
nautical chartmaker, 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] (Coast Pilot), a series of ten 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

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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 (USACE).
    The purpose of NOAA's Nautical Discrepancy and Data Reporting 
System is to offer formal, standardized instruments 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 Aimed Stakeholder Interaction and 
Survey Tool (ASSIST) (https://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/customer-service/assist/).
    This collection also includes a Citizen Science component, which 
allows boating groups or individuals to submit reports to update the 
charts. The Citizen Science component to the collection benefits 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 Citizen Science reports may 
be used to update certain U.S. nautical charts and the Coast Pilot.
    The Nautical Data Branch (NDB) receives numerous potential 
construction notifications in the form of USACE-issued Public Notices, 
Permit Applications, and Permits, which could include a proposal or 
authorization to dredge and/or construct, remove, or abandon 
structures. NDB vets these Public Notices, Permit Applications, or 
Permits for the potential of a charting action and registers them into 
a database. To facilitate the ability of NDB to learn the status of 
USACE-permitted projects and to obtain as-built and/or survey data 
associated with the completion of these projects, Coast Survey is 
proposing to add three Project Status Report Forms to the collection. 
The solicitation forms, titled Permit/Public Notice Status Report, 
Artificial Reef/Mariculture Status Report, and Submerged Pipeline 
Status Report Form, provide a standardized method for reporting project 
statuses to the Nautical Data Branch and provide special instructions 
regarding the submission of digital as-builts and/or survey data. Upon 
receipt of the forms, NDB may register the forms, along with the USACE 
Permit and any as-built data, into the Marine Chart Division's (MCD) 
internal database in support of potential updates to the applicable 
NOAA nautical chart(s).
    These forms provide an effective way for permittees to notify MCD 
of the status of their permitted projects and help MCD garner pertinent 
data necessary for chart application. This mode of data delivery 
facilitates the ability of NDB to capture complete, more efficient, 
registration-ready source packages that require less frequent 
correspondence with the permittee prior to source registration. This 
process is instrumental in accelerating the availability of important, 
and/or possibly critical, nautical data to the cartographic production 
branches for charting action.
    The title of this collection is also being updated from Nautical 
Discrepancy Reporting System to Nautical Discrepancy and Data Reporting 
System.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit; state, local, and 
tribal government; universities; individuals or households; not for-
profit institutions, professional and other mariners, etc.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    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.
    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. 2022-15343 Filed 7-18-22; 8:45 am]
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