[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 4 (Friday, January 6, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1054-1055]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-00024]


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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; The Ocean Enterprise: A Study of U.S. Business Activity in 
Ocean Measurement, Observation and Forecasting

    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 September 23, 2022 (87 FR 58071) 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: The Ocean Enterprise: A study of U.S. business activity in 
ocean measurement, observation and forecasting.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0712.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular submission; Extension of a current 
information collection.
    Number of Respondents: 315.
    Average Hours per Response: 0.5 hour.
    Total Annual Burden Hours: 157.5 hours.
    Needs and Uses: This is a request for extension of an existing 
information collection.
    NOAA's National Ocean Service's U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing 
System (IOOS) Office is requesting approval to continue a web-based 
survey of employers who provide either services or infrastructure to 
IOOS or organizations that add value to the IOOS data and other outputs 
by tailoring them for specific end uses. The purpose of the survey and 
overall project is to gather data to articulate the collective and 
derived value of the IOOS enterprise and to create a profile of 
businesses and organizations who are involved with providing services 
or utilizing the data

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for other specific end uses. This survey was conducted in FY2015 and 
FY2020, and is intended to be repeated on a regular basis in order to 
track the growth of the U.S. Ocean Enterprise. The survey is a critical 
data collection piece of the project and is necessary in order to 
collect demographic, financial, and functional information for each 
organization with regard to their involvement with IOOS. The final 
deliverable of this project is an analytic report detailing the 
findings of the web survey and the analysis of the employer database. 
The results will demonstrate the size and economic impact of IOOS data 
to the United States marine ocean sector.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations and 
Not-for-profit institutions.
    Frequency: Every 5 years.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Section 12304 of the Integrated Coastal and Ocean 
Observation System Act, part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act 
of 2009 (Pub. L. 111-11), and reauthorized under the Coordinated Ocean 
Observations and Research Act of 2020 (Pub. L. 116-271).
    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 0648-0712.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2023-00024 Filed 1-5-23; 8:45 am]
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