Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Nautical Discrepancy Reporting System
| Published date | 15 May 2020 |
| Citation | 85 FR 29405 |
| Record Number | 2020-10464 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration |
Federal Register, Volume 85 Issue 95 (Friday, May 15, 2020)
[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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