Notice2024-05602
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Understanding the Human Response to Water Hazards: A Social Network Analysis
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March 15, 2024
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 52 (Friday, March 15, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18904-18905]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-05602]
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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; Understanding the Human Response to Water Hazards: A Social
Network Analysis
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 November 24, 2023, 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: Understanding the Human Response to Water Hazards: A Social
Network Analysis.
OMB Control Number: 0648-XXXX.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission (New information collection).
Number of Respondents: 790.
Average Hours per Response: Semi-structured interviews: 1 hour;
Survey: 15 minutes.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 227.50 Hours.
Needs and Uses: This is a request for a new collection of
information. The Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Program
(SBES) in the Office of Science and Technology Integration for the
National Weather Service (NWS) is sponsoring this data collection
effort.
Under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the NWS SBES Program was
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provided funding to better understand the human responses to water
hazard services and products. This project seeks to understand and
mitigate flooding outcomes for riverine communities, especially those
that rank high on the Centers for Disease Control's (CDC's) Social
Vulnerability Index (SVI), by conducting a Social Network Analysis
(SNA) to study how stakeholders within two selected communities:
Roanoke, Virginia; and Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Based on
interviews with local government leaders and faith/community-based
organizations (FCBOs) along with a survey of residents, the resulting
SNA will map how messages are created and distributed, how they are
accessed and understood, and how the information affects the decisions
of emergency and water resource managers, first responders, community
partners, and the general public as they prepare for, respond to, and
recover from flooding events. While the NWS possesses some anecdotal
knowledge of the dissemination and use of flood forecasts, a more
complete accounting and formal analysis of the individuals and groups
within these networks are needed. Ideally, the findings from the SNA in
relation to the water hazard products and services will not only
improve the NWS's understanding of who the stakeholders are, but also
how they use the information provided and what they believe are the
benefits for their constituents.
The primary driver for this project comes from the direction of
NOAA leadership to develop a social behavioral infrastructure with data
that supports the NWS in providing equitable service delivery for all
of its products and services. Based on H.R.3684 Infrastructure
Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), Provision 3: funding shall be used for
coastal and inland flood and inundation mapping and forecasting, next-
generation water modeling activities such as modernized precipitation
frequency and probable maximum studies, and transformative foundational
social science research that build infrastructure and supports
equitable service delivery to all communities. This project also aligns
with Goal 3 of the NWS Strategic Plan to transform our Agency to meet
current and future needs of society by (3.6) delivering actionable
inland and coastal water resource and inundation information across all
time scales to address the growing risk of flooding, drought, and low
water flow as well as immediate and long range water management and
planning; and by (3.8) understanding and applying the best social,
behavioral, and economic sciences to clearly communicate information
with communities in multiple languages and deliver equitable service
for those historically underserved and socially vulnerable to attain
the desired response to high impact events.
Semi-structured interviews will be utilized to collect information
from state and local government leaders, as well as FCBO leaders. A
survey will be provided to residents of both communities, along with an
in-person intercept survey provided to residents of Greenbrier County
based on interviews with the FCBO leaders.
The SNA maps derived from the data collected will be utilized by
the following NWS offices:
<bullet> Community Engagement Program to support outreach and
engagement activities with specific groups and the organizations that
serve these populations.
<bullet> The Decision Support Integration Branch of the Analyze,
Forecast, and Support Office to help them identify and recruit
organizations, businesses, and individuals who may be well poised to
become Weather-Ready Ambassadors.
The raw data collected will be used by:
<bullet> The Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBES)
Program in the Office of Science and Technology Integration in
developing an Agent Based Model (ABM) that can demonstrate, describe,
and potentially anticipate evacuation and mobility behaviors within a
prescribed system for inland flooding events. If possible, the
application of an ABM will support the development of mitigation
efforts that stakeholders can test to understand how the actions of
specific agents within a system could possibly alter outcomes of
flooding events for a community.
Affected Public: Local government, Not-for profit, and individuals
or households.
Frequency: Once.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: H.R.3684 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
(IIJA), Provision 3: funding shall be used for coastal and inland flood
and inundation mapping and forecasting, next-generation water modeling
activities such as modernized precipitation frequency and probable
maximum studies, and transformative foundational social science
research that build infrastructure and supports equitable service
delivery to all communities.
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. 2024-05602 Filed 3-14-24; 8:45 am]
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