Notice2022-15343
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
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Published
July 19, 2022
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Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 137 (Tuesday, July 19, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43010-43011]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[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) (<a href="https://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/customer-service/assist/">https://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/customer-service/assist/</a>).
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
<a href="http://www.reginfo.gov">www.reginfo.gov</a>. 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 <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>.
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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