Notice2023-09738
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; User Needs Survey by the Space Weather Advisory Group
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May 8, 2023
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Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 88 (Monday, May 8, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29638-29639]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-09738]
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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; User Needs Survey by the Space Weather Advisory Group
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 August 16, 2022 (87 FR 50291) 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: User Needs Survey by the Space Weather Advisory Group.
OMB Control Number: 0648-XXXX.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission (New information collection).
Number of Respondents: 491.
Average Hours per Response:
<bullet> Aviation: 1 hour.
<bullet> Emergency Management: 8 hours.
<bullet> Global Navigation Satellite System: 15 minutes (Survey)
and 1 hour (Interview).
<bullet> Human Space Flight: 1 hour.
<bullet> Power Grid: 1 hour.
<bullet> Research Sector: 1 hour.
<bullet> Space Situational Awareness: 1 hour.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 459.
Needs and Uses: The data collection is sponsored by DOC/NOAA/NWS/
Space Weather Advisory Group (SWAG). The SWAG is required under 51
U.S.C. 60601(d)(3) to undertake a comprehensive survey of space weather
product users to identify the ``research,
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observations, forecasting, prediction, and modeling advances required
to improve space weather products.'' Specifically, the SWAG will (i)
assess the adequacy of current Federal Government goals for lead time,
accuracy, coverage, timeliness, data rate, and data quality for space
weather observations and forecasting; (ii) identify options and methods
to, in consultation with the academic community and the commercial
space weather sector, improve upon the advancement of the goals
described in clause (i); (iii) identify opportunities for collection of
new data to address the needs of the space weather user community; (iv)
identify methods to increase coordination of space weather research to
operations and operations to research; (v) identify opportunities for
new technologies, research, and instrumentation to aid in research,
understanding, monitoring, modeling, prediction, forecasting, and
warning of space weather; and (vi) identify methods and technologies to
improve preparedness for potential space weather phenomena.
This collection identified seven sectors (Aviation, Emergency
Management, Global Navigation Satellite System, Human Space Flight,
Power Grid, Research, and Space Situational Awareness/Space Traffic
Management) that will be consulted as part of this effort. Information
will be collected on a one-off basis from each of the sectors.
Respondents in each sector include the general public, defined as
adults ages 18+. Members of the SWAG will oversee recruitment of the
respondents. Respondents will be asked questions about their current
use of space weather observations, information, and forecasts,
technological systems, components or elements affected by space
weather, current and future risk and resilience activities, future
space weather requirements, and unused or new types of measurements or
observations that would enhance space weather risk mitigation. This
data collection serves many purposes, including gaining a better
understanding of the needs of users of space weather products. The SWAG
will use the data to identify the space weather research, observations,
forecasting, prediction, and modeling advances required to improve
space weather products. Specifically, the information will be used to
advise the National Science and Technology Council's Space Weather
Operations, Research, and Mitigation (SWORM) Subcommittee on improving
the ability of the United States to prepare for, mitigate, respond to,
and recover from space weather storms.
Affected Public: Individuals or households; Business or other for-
profit organizations; Not-for-profit institutions; State, Local, or
Tribal government; Federal government.
Frequency: Once.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: 51 U.S.C. 60601, Space weather.
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 Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2023-09738 Filed 5-5-23; 8:45 am]
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