Notice2022-21518
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Improving Knowledge About NWS Forecaster Core Partner Needs for Reducing Vulnerability to Compound Threats in Landfalling Tropical Cyclones Amid Covid-19
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October 4, 2022
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 191 (Tuesday, October 4, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60128-60129]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-21518]
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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; Improving Knowledge About NWS Forecaster Core Partner Needs
for Reducing Vulnerability to Compound Threats in Landfalling Tropical
Cyclones Amid Covid-19
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 July 19, 2022 (87 FR 43005) 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: Improving Knowledge About NWS Forecaster Core Partner Needs
for Reducing Vulnerability to Compound Threats in Landfalling Tropical
Cyclones Amid Covid-19.
OMB Control Number: 0648-XXXX.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission (new information collection).
Number of Respondents: 35.
Average Hours per Response: 1 hour.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 35 hours.
Needs and Uses: The data collection is sponsored by DOC/NOAA/
National Weather Service (NWS)/Office of Science and Technology
Integration (OSTI). Compound hazards, like tornadoes and flash floods
(called TORFFs), are a significant issue for risk communication and are
common in landfalling tropical cyclones. Currently, NOAA lacks data and
data collection instruments that articulate and explain how emergency
managers and broadcast meteorologists receive, interpret, and respond
to NWS prediction information about these compound hazards before and
during landfalling tropical cyclones, like Hurricane Ida. Furthermore,
NOAA lacks adequate knowledge about how these risks are best
communicated during pandemics such as COVID-19, when it is important
for those who are most vulnerable to adjudicate their risks of exposure
to both severe weather and COVID-19. Such knowledge about compound
weather hazards would be particularly useful for NWS forecasters who
communicate risk information to their colleagues in emergency
management and broadcast meteorology (hereafter ``partners''),
especially when information about sheltering practices, evacuation, and
vulnerability can be complicated by exposure to public health threats
and bilingual needs.
Semi-structured interviews will be conducted with partners in local
areas impacted by recent hurricanes with embedded TORFF hazards, such
as Hurricane Ida and its remnants. Semi-structured interview data will
be collected on a one-off basis and will be conducted either virtually
or in-person (COVID-19 restriction dependent). Specific questions in
the interview guide determine how partners attend to, prioritize, and
communicate information related to compound wind and water threats
before and during landfalling tropical cyclones or hurricanes.
The interviews will be conducted by researchers at Texas Tech
University's Risk and Equity in Disasters (RED) Lab and at Texas A&M.
They have begun to develop data collection instruments that will allow
them to gather risk information. These instruments are being created in
collaboration with experts in emergency management and broadcast
meteorology through the Board on Emergency Management and the Board on
Professional Development within the American Meteorological Society.
This helps assure the appropriateness of questions relative to
different decision spaces, job roles, and communication processes.
This data collection serves many purposes, including building
knowledge of how partners attend to, make sense of, and communicate
compound hazards, as well as challenges they face in identifying
vulnerable populations to severe weather in the context of COVID-19.
These data will be reported in aggregate when possible and findings
will be used by the NWS training centers in Norman, OK, and Kansas
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City, MO, to inform their practices for Impact-Based Decision Support
Services (IDSS) and to improve the information and services it provides
to members of the Weather Enterprise. Importantly, data collected will
help assist NWS in developing new forecaster training modules,
situational awareness information, and best practices for Impact-Based
Decision Support with partners. This is a necessary step in improving
risk communication among expert groups, which, in turn, benefits
vulnerable populations who ultimately must act quickly and safely to
adjudicate which risks pose the greatest threat to them as the threats
evolve. Data collected from both populations will also be used for the
practical utility of the government through semi-annual reports to NOAA
to evaluate proposed metrics of success for completing the grant
relative to progress to data. Conference presentations about findings
will be made to the American Meteorological Society, National Weather
Association, and related emergency manager conferences; webinars of
best practices and situational awareness opportunities to partner or
NWS offices; and insights about the challenges of communicating and
preparing the public for compound hazards reported to peer reviewed
publications in professional journals.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations; State,
Local, or Tribal government; Federal government.
Frequency: One time.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: 15 U.S.C. chapter 111, Weather Research and
Forecasting Information.
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 the title of the collection.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2022-21518 Filed 10-3-22; 8:45 am]
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