Notice2023-06709
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Evaluations of Coastal Zone Management Act Programs: State Coastal Management Programs and National Estuarine Research Reserves
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Published
March 31, 2023
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 62 (Friday, March 31, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19268-19269]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-06709]
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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; Evaluations of Coastal Zone Management Act Programs: State
Coastal Management Programs and National Estuarine Research Reserves
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 12, 2023 (88 FR 2071), during a 60-day
comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public
comments.
Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Commerce
Department.
Title: Evaluations of Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA) Programs:
State Coastal Management Programs and National Estuarine Research
Reserves.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0661.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission (revision and extension of a
current information collection).
Number of Respondents: 288.
Average Hours per Response: 72 hours per CZMA program manager's
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evaluation; 15 minutes per partner/stakeholder response.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 933.
Needs and Uses: This request is for revision and extension of a
currently approved information collection. A few questions will be
rewritten to improve the usefulness of information collected. A new
question is proposed for inclusion that will collect information from
Coastal Zone Management Act programs about efforts in racial equity and
engagement with underserved communities.
The Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1451
et seq.) requires that state coastal management programs and national
estuarine research reserves developed in accordance with the CZMA and
approved by the Secretary of Commerce be evaluated periodically. This
request is to collect information to accomplish those evaluations.
NOAA's Office for Coastal Management conducts periodic evaluations of
the 34 coastal management programs and 30 research reserves and
produces written findings for each evaluation. The Office for Coastal
Management has access to documents submitted in cooperative agreement
applications, performance reports, and certain documentation required
by the CZMA and implementing regulations. However, additional
information from each coastal management program and research reserve,
as well as information from the program and reserve partners and
stakeholders with whom each works, is necessary to evaluate against
statutory and regulatory requirements. Different information collection
subsets are necessary for (1) coastal management programs, (2) their
partners and stakeholders, (3) research reserves, and (4) their
partners and stakeholders.
As part of this submission, a few questions will be modified to
clarify the information that should be provided as part of the
information requests and questionnaires sent to the coastal program and
reserve managers. One new question about efforts in diversity,
inclusion, equity, and accessibility will be included for coastal
program and reserve managers. A few questions will be revised to
clarify and improve the usefulness of responses for the partners and
stakeholders' survey.
Given the addition of a designated research reserve since the last
renewal of this information collection and the anticipated designation
of additional reserves in the coming years, and an increase in Office
for Coastal Management staff capacity to conduct evaluations, the
number of CZMA programs to be evaluated, on average, in the next three
years will increase from 11 to 12 programs per year. This increase in
the number of programs to be evaluated will also increase the number of
partner and stakeholder respondents to this information collection.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations; not-
for-profit institutions; state, local, or tribal government; Federal
government.
Frequency: CZMA programs will complete once every five to six
years. Program partners and stakeholders are invited to complete one
survey for program(s) that they work with on the same schedule as that
program(s) (once every five to six years).
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory for CZMA programs; voluntary for
program partners and stakeholders.
Legal Authority: Section 312 of the Coastal Zone Management Act, as
amended (16 U.S.C. 1458).
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 0648-0661.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2023-06709 Filed 3-30-23; 8:45 am]
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