83_FR_61374 83 FR 61145 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; External Needs Assessment for NOAA Education Products and Programs

83 FR 61145 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; External Needs Assessment for NOAA Education Products and Programs

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 229 (November 28, 2018)

Page Range61145-61146
FR Document2018-25918

The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 229 (Wednesday, November 28, 2018) 
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 229 (Wednesday, November 28, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61145-61146]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-25918]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; External Needs 
Assessment for NOAA Education Products and Programs

AGENCY: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 
Commerce.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort 
to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public 
and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on 
proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

DATES: Written comments must be submitted on or before January 28, 
2019.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental 
Paperwork Clearance Officer, Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 14th 
and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230 (or via the internet 
at [email protected]).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or 
copies of the information collection instrument and instructions should 
be directed to Bruce Moravchik, National Ocean Service (NOS), 1305 
East-West Hwy., Bldg. SSMC4, Silver Springs, MD 20910-3278, (240) 533-
0874, [email protected] or Shannon Ricles, NOS, Monitor National 
Marine Sanctuary, 100 Museum Dr., Newport News, VA 23602, (757) 591-
7328, [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract

    This request is for a new voluntary information collection.
    NOAA Office of Education is sponsoring a voluntary multi-question 
survey to assess the needs of educators pertaining to future NOAA 
multimedia products and programs. In developing multimedia materials 
that convey NOAA's science, service and stewardship, the Agency must 
insure that these resources are of the highest quality and meet the 
needs of formal and informal educators across the United States. To 
achieve this goal, it will be necessary to conduct surveys identifying 
the types of educational programs and products of the highest interest 
and greatest need by formal and informal educators. By surveying 
external educators to gather this information, budget expenditures will 
be used optimally to develop appropriate products and programs most 
desired by educators to support and enhance Ocean, Earth science, and 
related STEM education subjects throughout our nation.

II. Method of Collection

    The voluntary needs assessment mechanism will be distributed via 
email with a link to a Google form to external educators subscribed to 
NOAA education programs as well as their partners email distribution 
lists. The voluntary needs assessment mechanism will also be 
distributed in person (paper and electronically) at education 
conferences, workshops, and other venues hosting educators.

III. Data

    OMB Control Number: 0648-xxxx.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Review: New information collection.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households; Business or other for-
profit organizations; Not-for-profit institutions.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,000 annually.
    Estimated Time per Response: Five minutes per survey.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 83 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: $0.00 in recordkeeping/
reporting costs.

IV. Request for Comments

    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of 
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of 
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical 
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden 
(including hours and cost) of the proposed collection of information; 
(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the 
collection of information on respondents, including through the use of 
automated collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology.
    Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized 
and/or included in the request for OMB approval of this information 
collection;

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they also will become a matter of public record.

    Dated: November 23, 2018.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2018-25918 Filed 11-27-18; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 229 / Wednesday, November 28, 2018 / Notices 61145 Observer Program, the National Marine Dated: November 23, 2018. United States. To achieve this goal, it Fisheries Service (NMFS) collects the Sarah Brabson, will be necessary to conduct surveys data necessary to conserve and manage NOAA PRA Clearance Officer. identifying the types of educational the groundfish and halibut fisheries off [FR Doc. 2018–25917 Filed 11–27–18; 8:45 am] programs and products of the highest Alaska. Observers collect biological BILLING CODE 3510–22–P interest and greatest need by formal and samples and fishery-dependent informal educators. By surveying information used to estimate total catch external educators to gather this and interactions with protected species. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE information, budget expenditures will Managers use data collected by be used optimally to develop observers to manage groundfish and National Oceanic and Atmospheric appropriate products and programs prohibited species catch within Administration most desired by educators to support established limits and to document and and enhance Ocean, Earth science, and reduce fishery interactions with Proposed Information Collection; related STEM education subjects protected resources. Scientists use Comment Request; External Needs throughout our nation. observer data to assess fish stocks, to Assessment for NOAA Education Products and Programs II. Method of Collection provide scientific information for fisheries and ecosystem research and AGENCY: National Oceanic and The voluntary needs assessment fishing fleet behavior, to assess marine Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), mechanism will be distributed via email mammal interactions with fishing gear, Commerce. with a link to a Google form to external and to assess fishing interactions with educators subscribed to NOAA ACTION: Notice. habitat. education programs as well as their All vessels and processors that SUMMARY: The Department of partners email distribution lists. The participate in federally managed or Commerce, as part of its continuing voluntary needs assessment mechanism parallel groundfish and halibut fisheries effort to reduce paperwork and will also be distributed in person (paper off Alaska are assigned to one of two respondent burden, invites the general and electronically) at education categories: (1) The full observer public and other Federal agencies to conferences, workshops, and other coverage category, where vessels and take this opportunity to comment on venues hosting educators. processors obtain observer coverage by proposed and/or continuing information III. Data contracting directly with observer collections, as required by the providers; or (2) the partial coverage Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. OMB Control Number: 0648–xxxx. category, where NMFS, in consultation Form Number(s): None. DATES: Written comments must be with the North Pacific Fishery Type of Review: New information submitted on or before January 28, 2019. Management Council determines when collection. ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments Affected Public: Individuals or and where observer coverage is needed. to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental households; Business or other for-profit Some vessels and processors may be in Paperwork Clearance Officer, organizations; Not-for-profit full coverage for part of the year and Department of Commerce, Room 6616, institutions. partial coverage at other times of the 14th and Constitution Avenue NW, Estimated Number of Respondents: year depending on the observer Washington, DC 20230 (or via the 1,000 annually. coverage requirements for specific internet at pracomments@doc.gov). Estimated Time per Response: Five fisheries. Funds for deploying observers FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: minutes per survey. on vessels in the partial coverage Requests for additional information or Estimated Total Annual Burden category are provided through a system copies of the information collection Hours: 83 hours. of fees based on the gross ex-vessel instrument and instructions should be Estimated Total Annual Cost to value of retained groundfish and directed to Bruce Moravchik, National Public: $0.00 in recordkeeping/reporting halibut. This observer fee is assessed on Ocean Service (NOS), 1305 East-West costs. all landings by vessels that are not Hwy., Bldg. SSMC4, Silver Springs, MD otherwise in full coverage. Information IV. Request for Comments 20910–3278, (240) 533–0874, collected for the observer fee is bruce.moravchik@noaa.gov or Shannon Comments are invited on: (a) Whether approved under OMB Control No. 0648– Ricles, NOS, Monitor National Marine the proposed collection of information 0711. Sanctuary, 100 Museum Dr., Newport is necessary for the proper performance Affected Public: Business or other for- News, VA 23602, (757) 591–7328, of the functions of the agency, including profit organizations; individuals or shannon.ricles@noaa.gov. whether the information shall have households. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the Frequency: On occasion, weekly and agency’s estimate of the burden annually. I. Abstract (including hours and cost) of the Respondent’s Obligation: Required to This request is for a new voluntary proposed collection of information; (c) obtain or retain benefits. information collection. ways to enhance the quality, utility, and This information collection request NOAA Office of Education is clarity of the information to be may be viewed at reginfo.gov. Follow sponsoring a voluntary multi-question collected; and (d) ways to minimize the the instructions to view Department of survey to assess the needs of educators burden of the collection of information Commerce collections currently under pertaining to future NOAA multimedia on respondents, including through the review by OMB. products and programs. In developing use of automated collection techniques Written comments and multimedia materials that convey or other forms of information recommendations for the proposed NOAA’s science, service and technology. information collection should be sent stewardship, the Agency must insure Comments submitted in response to within 30 days of publication of this that these resources are of the highest this notice will be summarized and/or notice to OIRA_Submission@ quality and meet the needs of formal included in the request for OMB omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395–5806. and informal educators across the approval of this information collection; VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:19 Nov 27, 2018 Jkt 247001 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\28NON1.SGM 28NON1

61146 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 229 / Wednesday, November 28, 2018 / Notices they also will become a matter of public SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The text of in section 3(a)(11) of the CPSA, 15 record. the Agreement and Order appears U.S.C. § 2052(a)(11). Dated: November 23, 2018. below. 7. The Trash Cans contain a defect Dated: November 23, 2018. which could create a substantial Sarah Brabson, Alberta E. Mills, product hazard or create an NOAA PRA Clearance Officer. unreasonable risk of serious injury [FR Doc. 2018–25918 Filed 11–27–18; 8:45 am] Secretary. because the black plastic protective BILLING CODE 3510–12–P UNITED STATES OF AMERICA collar in the opening on the back of the CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY Trash Can can detach from the sharp COMMISSION metal handle, posing a laceration hazard CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY In the Matter of: EKO DEVELOPMENT, to consumers. COMMISSION LTD. and EKO USA, LLC 8. Beginning in April 2014, EKO CPSC Docket No.: 19–C0002 received complaints from consumers [CPSC Docket No. 19–C0002] who received laceration injuries, SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT including some serious injuries as EKO Development, Ltd. and EKO USA, 1. In accordance with the Consumer defined in 16 C.F.R. § 1115.6(c), from LLC, Provisional Acceptance of a Product Safety Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 2051- the sharp metal handle of the Trash Settlement Agreement and Order 2089 (‘‘CPSA’’) and 16 C.F.R. § 1118.20, Cans. AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety EKO Development, Ltd. and EKO USA, 9. In August 2014, EKO approved a Commission. LLC (collectively, ‘‘EKO’’) and the design change to the Trash Cans to add ACTION: Notice. United States Consumer Product Safety a two-piece plastic handle cover to Commission (‘‘Commission’’), through address the laceration hazard. The SUMMARY: It is the policy of the its staff, hereby enter into this design change was implemented on the Commission to publish settlements Settlement Agreement (‘‘Agreement’’). Trash Cans that were produced in which it provisionally accepts under the The Agreement and the incorporated August 2014 and shipped to Costco in Consumer Product Safety Act in the attached Order resolve staff’s charges set September 2014. Federal Register in accordance with the forth below. 10. Despite having information that terms of the Consumer Product Safety reasonably supported the conclusion THE PARTIES that the Trash Cans contained a defect Commission’s regulations. Published below is a provisionally-accepted 2. The Commission is an independent or created an unreasonable risk of Settlement Agreement with EKO federal regulatory agency, established serious injury or death, EKO did not Development, Ltd. and EKO USA, LLC, pursuant to, and responsible for, the notify the Commission immediately of containing a civil penalty in the amount enforcement of the CPSA, 15 U.S.C. such defect or risk, as required by of one million dollars ($1,000,000), §§ 2051–2089. By executing the sections 15(b)(3) and (4) of the CPSA, 15 subject to the terms and conditions of Agreement, staff is acting on behalf of U.S.C. §§ 2064(b)(3) and (4). the Settlement Agreement.1 the Commission, pursuant to 16 C.F.R. 11. EKO and the CPSC jointly § 1118.20(b). The Commission issues the announced a recall of 367,000 Trash DATES: Any interested person may ask Order under the provisions of the CPSA. Cans on July 17, 2015, because the the Commission not to accept this 3. EKO Development, Ltd. (‘‘EKO Trash Cans posed a laceration risk to agreement or otherwise comment on its Development’’) is a corporation, consumers. contents by filing a written request with 12. In failing to immediately inform organized and existing under the laws of the Office of the Secretary by December the Commission about the defect or China, with its principal place of 13, 2018. unreasonable risk associated with the business in China. EKO USA, LLC ADDRESSES: Persons wishing to (‘‘EKO USA’’) is a corporation, Trash Cans, EKO knowingly violated comment on this Settlement Agreement organized and existing under the laws of section 19(a)(4) of the CPSA, 15 U.S.C. should send written comments to the state of Nevada, with its principal § 2068(a)(4), as the term ‘‘knowingly’’ is Comment 19–C0002, Office of the place of business in Stuart, Florida. defined in section 20(d) of the CPSA, 15 Secretary, Consumer Product Safety U.S.C. § 2069(d). Commission, 4330 East West Highway, STAFF CHARGES 13. Pursuant to Section 20 of the Room 820, Bethesda, Maryland 20814– 4. Between November 2013 and May CPSA, 15 U.S.C. § 2069, EKO is subject 4408. 2015, EKO manufactured approximately to civil penalties for its knowing FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 367,000 EKO Sensible Eco Living Trash violation of section 19(a)(4) of the Michele Melnick, Trial Attorney, Cans (‘‘Subject Products’’ or ‘‘Trash CPSA, 15 U.S.C. § 2068(a)(4). Division of Compliance, Office of the Cans’’). The Trash Cans are 80 liter stainless steel, metal-cylinder Trash RESPONSE OF EKO General Counsel, Consumer Product Safety Commission, 4330 East West Cans with a black plastic protective 14. EKO’s settlement of this matter Highway, Bethesda, Maryland 20814– collar in the opening on the back of the does not constitute an admission of 4408; telephone (301) 504–7592. Trash Can. staff’s charges as set forth in paragraphs 5. The Trash Cans were sold 4 through 13 above. 1 The Commission voted 3–2 to provisionally exclusively at Costco Wholesale 15. EKO Development, Ltd. is a small accept the proposed Settlement Agreement and Corporation at its warehouse stores Chinese company based in Guangzhou, Order regarding EKO Development, Ltd. and EKO throughout the United States from China. EKO was completely unaware of USA, LLC. Acting Chairman Buerkle, Commissioner Baiocco and Commissioner Feldman voted to December 2013 through May 2015. the CPSC reporting requirements. EKO provisionally accept the Settlement Agreement and 6. The Trash Cans are a ‘‘consumer relied upon its third party insurance Order. Commissioner Adler and Commissioner product,’’ ‘‘distribut[ed] in commerce,’’ administrator to handle the claims Kaye voted to take other action. Commissioner as those terms are defined or used in received from consumers and was never Adler and Commissioner Kaye submitted a joint dissenting opinion regarding the matter. The sections 3(a)(5) and (8) of the CPSA, 15 advised of the potential obligation to dissenting opinion is available on the CPSC U.S.C. § 2052(a)(5) and (8). EKO is a report under sections 15(b)(3) and (4) of website, www.cpsc.gov. ‘‘manufacturer’’ as such term is defined the CPSA, 15 U.S.C. § 2064(b)(3) and (4). VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:19 Nov 27, 2018 Jkt 247001 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\28NON1.SGM 28NON1


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CollectionFederal Register
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice.
DatesWritten comments must be submitted on or before January 28, 2019.
ContactRequests for additional information or copies of the information collection instrument and instructions should be directed to Bruce Moravchik, National Ocean Service (NOS), 1305 East-West Hwy., Bldg. SSMC4, Silver Springs, MD 20910-3278, (240) 533- 0874, [email protected] or Shannon Ricles, NOS, Monitor National Marine Sanctuary, 100 Museum Dr., Newport News, VA 23602, (757) 591- 7328, [email protected]
FR Citation83 FR 61145 
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