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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 181 / Wednesday, September 22, 2021 / Notices respect to potential impacts on the human environment.
The current action is consistent with categories of activities identified in Categorical Exclusion B4 incidental harassment authorizations with no anticipated serious injury or mortality of the Companion Manual for NOAA
Administrative Order 2166A, which do not individually or cumulatively have the potential for significant impacts on the quality of the human environment and for which we have not identified any extraordinary circumstances that would preclude this categorical exclusion. Accordingly, NMFS has determined that the issuance of the IHA
qualifies to be categorically excluded from further NEPA review just as previous phases of the project did.
We have reviewed all comments submitted in response to the proposed IHA notice to conclude our NEPA
process and make a final decision on the IHA request.
Endangered Species Act ESA
Section 7a2 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 ESA: 16. U.S.C.
1531 et seq. requires that each Federal agency insure that any action it authorizes, funds, or carries out is not likely to jeopardize the continued existence of any endangered or threatened species or result in the destruction or adverse modification of designated critical habitat. To ensure ESA compliance for the issuance of IHAs, NMFS consults internally whenever we propose to authorize take for endangered or threatened species.
No incidental take of ESA-listed species is for authorization or expected to result from this activity in the Elkhorn Slough Reserve. Therefore, NMFS has determined that formal consultation under section 7 of the ESA
is not required for this action.
Authorization As a result of these determinations, NMFS has issued an IHA to CDFW for the potential harassment of small numbers of harbor seals incidental to conducting restoration activities at the Seal Bend Restoration Area in Elkhorn Slough Monterey County, CA, provided the previously mentioned mitigation, monitoring, and reporting requirements are incorporated.
Dated: September 16, 2021.
Kimberly Damon-Randall, Director, Office of Protected Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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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; Weather and Society Survey, and Using Quick Response Surveys To Build a Public Perception and Response Database National Oceanic &
Atmospheric Administration NOAA, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of information collection, revised 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 the collection to OMB.
DATES: To ensure consideration, comments regarding this proposed information collection must be received on or before November 22, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit written comments to Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer, at Adrienne.thomas@noaa.gov. Please reference OMB Control Number 0648xxxx in the subject line of your comments. Do not submit Confidential Business Information or otherwise sensitive or protected information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or specific questions related to collection activities should be directed to Nicole Kurkowski, R2O Team Lead, DOC/
NOAA/NWS/OSTI, 1325 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910, 301.427.9104, nicole.kurkowski@
noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

I. Abstract A notice of request for a new information collection was previously published in the Federal Register on August 19, 2021 86 FR 46681
regarding this collection. This revised notice incorporates an additional collection of information and this notice will allow for an additional 60 days for public comment.
In alignment with the Weather Forecasting and Innovation Act of 2017

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Pub. L. 11525, two data collections are proposed under this request. There are no other collections for which these can be merged.
The first proposed information collection request is sponsored by DOC/
NOAA/National Weather Service NWS/Office of Science and Technology Integration OSTI.
Currently, NOAA lacks data and data collection instruments that articulate and explicate how individuals receive, interpret, and respond to NOAA
information, forecasts, and warnings for severe, winter, and tropical weather hazards. Furthermore, NOAA lacks this type of data longitudinally i.e., collected over time. Without this type of longitudinal data, NOAA, and the NWS specifically, cannot determine if it has met its mission of saving lives and property, propose societal impact performance metrics, nor demonstrate if progress or improvements have been made, as outlined in the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017. This effort aims to advance the Tornado Warning Improvement and Extension Program TWIEPs goal to reduce the loss of life and economic losses from tornadoes through the development and extension of accurate, effective, and timely tornado forecasts, predictions, and warnings, including the prediction of tornadoes beyond one hour in advance Pub. L. 11525. This work addresses NOAAs 5-year Research and Development Vision Areas 2020
2026 Section 1.4 FACETs. The Weather and Society Survey also advances the findings of the National Academy of Science 2012 report, Assessment of the NWS Modernization Program, in reference to NWS chain of events associated with a tornado warning p52. This effort also advances the NWS Strategic Plan 2019
2022 Transformative Impact-Based Decision Support Services IDSS and Research to Operations and Operations to Research R2O/O2R. Furthermore, the Survey furthers the NWS Weather Ready Nation WRN Roadmap 2013
Sections 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.8, and 3.1.4.
This information would be collected at the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies CIMMS and the University of Oklahomas Center for Risk and Crisis Management CRCM, who has developed data collection instruments that would allow for more routine and longitudinal data collection, as the data will be collected on an annual basis.
Furthermore, this team has developed interactive dashboards, or tools, to visualize the aggregated data.

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