Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals

Federal Register: April 23, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 77)

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44

U.S.C. Chapter 35).

Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Department of Commerce.

Title: Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation, Planning,

Protection, or Restoration.

OMB Control Number: 0648-0459.

Form Number(s): None.

Type of Request: Regular submission.

Burden Hours: 1,405.

Number of Respondents: 69.

Average Hours per Response: State plans, 120 hours; plan revisions, 35 hours; project proposals, 15 hours; final applications, 3 hours and 30 minutes; and reporting, 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Needs and Uses: The FY 2002 Commerce, Justice, State Appropriations

Act directed the Secretary of Commerce to establish a Coastal and

Estuarine Land Conservation Program (CELCP) to protect important areas that have significant conservation, recreation, ecological, historical, or aesthetic values, or that are threatened by conversion, and to issue guidelines for this program delineating the criteria for grant awards

(16 U.S.C. 1456d). The guidelines establish procedures for eligible applicants, who choose to participate in the program, to use when developing state conservation plans, proposing or soliciting projects under this program, applying for funds and carrying out projects under this program in a manner that is consistent with the purposes of the program. NOAA also has, or is given, authority under the Coastal Zone

Management Act, annual appropriations or other authorities, to issue funds to coastal states and localities for planning, conservation, acquisition, protection, restoration, or construction projects. This information collection will enable NOAA to implement the CELCP, under its current or future authorization, and facilitate the review of similar projects under different, but related authorities.

Affected Public: Individuals or households; State, Local or Tribal

Government.

Frequency: Semi-annually and one time.

Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain benefits.

OMB Desk Officer: David Rostker, (202) 395-3897.

Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained by calling or writing Diana Hynek, Departmental Paperwork Clearance

Officer, (202) 482-0266, Department of Commerce, Room 7845, 14th and

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at dHynek@doc.gov).

Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice to David Rostker, OMB Desk Officer, FAX number (202) 395-7285, or

David_Rostker@omb.eop.gov.

Dated: April 17, 2009.

Gwellnar Banks,

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.

FR Doc. E9-9273 Filed 4-22-09; 8:45 am

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