Notice2024-24702
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; National Marine Sanctuary Permits
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Published
October 24, 2024
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 206 (Thursday, October 24, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 84871-84872]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-24702]
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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; National Marine Sanctuary Permits
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 May 14, 2024 during a 60-day comment period and no
comments were received. This notice allows for an additional 30 days
for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
Title: National Marine Sanctuary Permits.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0141.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission, revision and extension of a
current information collection.
Number of Respondents: 567.
Average Hours per Response: General permits and authorizations, 1
hour and 30 minutes; special use permits, 8 hours; archaeological
research permits, 13 hours; baitfish permits, 25 minutes; permit
amendments and certifications, 30 minutes; voluntary registrations, 15
minutes; appeals, 24 hours; Tortugas access permits, 5 minutes.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,307.75.
Needs and Uses: This request is for revision and extension of a
currently approved information collection by the Office of National
Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS). ONMS manages national marine sanctuaries
pursuant to the purposes and policies of the National Marine
Sanctuaries Act (NMSA, 16 U.S.C. 1431 et seq.). National marine
sanctuary regulations at 15 CFR part 922 list specific activities that
are prohibited in national marine sanctuaries. These regulations also
state that otherwise prohibited activities may be conducted if a permit
is issued by ONMS. For most types of permits, persons desiring a permit
must submit an application (note that requests for baitfish permits and
Tortugas Ecological Reserve North Access permits require contacting
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and do not require a completed
ONMS permit application), and anyone obtaining a permit is generally
required to submit one or more reports on the activity allowed under
the permit. The recordkeeping and reporting requirements at 15 CFR part
922 form the basis for this collection of information.
This information is required by ONMS to protect and manage
sanctuary resources. The permit application collects information about
the proposed activities, the methods proposed to be used, the potential
effects to sanctuary resources, and information on the regulatory
review criteria at 15 CFR part 922. ONMS uses this information to
evaluate whether the proposed activities are consistent with the goals
and objectives of the sanctuary and the purposes and policies of the
NMSA.
Changes to this information collection include revisions to the
permit application and instructions to collect information about small
businesses to better assess the types of entities engaged in permitting
activities. The estimated number of permits issued per year also
changed from 424 to 567 to reflect the additional estimated permit
numbers if the various proposed national marine sanctuary designations
are finalized. In particular, this is based on adding an estimated
fifteen additional permits and about 59 certifications for the recently
designated Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary (89 FR 83554,
Oct. 16, 2024), an estimated five additional permits for the proposed
designation of the National Marine Sanctuary for the Pacific Remote
Islands (88 FR 23624; April 18, 2023), an estimated five additional
permits for the recently designated Lake Ontario National Marine
Sanctuary (89 FR 48272, June 6, 2024), an estimated five additional
permits for proposed Lake Erie Quadrangle National Marine Sanctuary (88
FR 32198, May 19, 2023), an estimated nine permits for the proposed
sanctuary in the Hudson Canyon area (87 FR 38387, June 8, 2022), and
increasing the numbers of amendments and Tortugas access permits to
reflect more recent average permit numbers. The number of baitfish
permits was diminished by 35 permits and Florida Keys National Marine
Sanctuary has proposed phasing out the bait fishing permits over the
next three years (87 FR 42800, July 18, 2022). Other revisions made to
the application and applicant
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instructions were to improve the quality of information initially
collected and to make the permit process more efficient.
Affected Public: Individuals; Business or other for-profit
organizations; Not-for-profit institutions; State, Local, or Tribal
government; Federal Government.
Frequency: On occasion.
Respondent's Obligation: Required to Obtain or Retain Benefits.
Legal Authority: National Marine Sanctuaries Act, 16 U.S.C. 1431 et
seq.
This information collection request may be viewed at <a href="https://www.reginfo.gov">https://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="https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">https://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 0648-0141.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2024-24702 Filed 10-23-24; 8:45 am]
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