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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 181 / Wednesday, September 22, 2021 / Notices OMB Control Number: 06480538.
Form Numbers: None.
Type of Request: Regular Revision and extension of a current information collection..
Number of Respondents: 736.
Average Hours per Response: 3 hours.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,208
hours.
Needs and Uses: This request is for a revision and extension of a currently approved information collection through the Environmental Compliance Questionnaire for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Federal Financial Assistance Applicants Questionnaire. This Questionnaire is used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA to collect information about proposed activities for the purpose of complying with the National Environmental Policy Act NEPA, 42 U.S.C. 43214370 and other environmental compliance requirements associated with proposed activities. NEPA requires federal agencies to complete an environmental analysis for all major federal actions, including funding non-federal activities through federal financial assistance awards where federal participation in the funded activity is expected to be significant. The Questionnaire is used in conjunction with NOAA Notices of Funding Opportunity NOFO.
The NOFO will indicate the specific questions to which an applicant must respond in one of three ways: 1 The applicable questions are inserted directly into the NOFO with reference to the OMB Approval Number 06480538
for this form; 2 the NOFO will specify which questions e.g., 1, 2 an applicant must answer, with the entire OMBapproved Questionnaire attached to the NOFO; or 3 applicants to be recommended for funding will be required to answer relevant questions from the Questionnaire. The federal program officer will determine which questions are relevant to each specific applicant. Answers must be provided before the application can be submitted for final funding approval. This Questionnaire has been revised to 1
remove repetitive questions; 2 revise specific questions to use plain language;
and 3 add 18 new questions that would be helpful to a wider range of NOAA programs.
Affected Public: Individuals or households; Business or other for-profit organizations; Not-for-profit institutions; State, Local, or Tribal government.
Frequency: Required when responding to a NOFO.
Respondents Obligation: Required to Obtain or Retain Benefits.

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Legal Authority: National Environmental Policy Act 42 U.S.C.
43214370.
This information collection request may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
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 www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information collection by selecting Currently under 30-day ReviewOpen for Public Comments or by using the search function and entering either the title of the collection or the OMB Control Number 06480538.
Sheleen Dumas, Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Commerce Department.
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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; Submission of Conservation Efforts To Make Listings Unnecessary Under the Endangered Species Act National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of Information Collection, request for comment.
AGENCY:

The Department of Commerce, in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
PRA, invites 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 publics reporting burden. The purpose of this notice is to allow for 60 days of public comment preceding submission of a request for extension of a currently approved information collection to the Office of Management and Budget OMB.
DATES: To ensure consideration, comments regarding this proposed extension of an information collection must be received on or before November 22, 2021.
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Interested persons are invited to submit written comments to Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer, at Adrienne.thomas@noaa.gov. Please reference OMB Control Number 0648
0466 in the subject line of your comments. Do not submit Confidential Business Information or otherwise sensitive or protected information.

ADDRESSES:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or specific questions related to collection activities should be directed to Lisa Manning, National Marine Fisheries Service at 3014278466 or Lisa.Manning@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract The National Marine Fisheries Service NMFS, Office of Protected Resources, is sponsoring a request for extension of a currently approved information collection.
Under the Endangered Species Act ESA, determinations whether to list species as endangered or threatened must be based on the best scientific and commercial data available, including consideration of those efforts, if any, being made by any state or foreign nation or any of their political subdivisions to protect the particular species. On March 28, 2003, NMFS and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service the Services announced a final policy on the criteria the Services will use to evaluate certain conservation efforts by states, tribes, and other non-federal entities when making listing determinations under the ESA 68 FR
15100. The conservation efforts usually involve the development of a conservation plan or agreement, procedures for monitoring the effectiveness of the plan or agreement, and an annual report.
The development of conservation plans could prevent some species from becoming so imperiled that the only recourse is to add them to the list of threatened and endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. The purpose of this policy is to encourage such plans and to give applicants guidance about how NMFSs will evaluate such plans. This policy identifies criteria for evaluating the certainty of implementation and effectiveness of a conservation effort.
NMFS developed this policy to ensure consistent and adequate evaluation of agreements and plans in making listing decisions and to help States and other entities develop agreements and plans that will be adequate to make listing species unnecessary.

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