[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 64 (Thursday, April 3, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18664-18665]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-07425]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of 
information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 
U.S.C. Chapter 35).
    Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
    Title: Panel Member Survey to Develop Indicators of Resilient 
Coastal Tourism.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-xxxx.
    Form Number(s): NA.
    Type of Request: Regular submission (request for a new information 
collection).
    Number of Respondents: 29.
    Average Hours per Response: Webinars, 60 minutes; surveys, 30 
minutes.
    Burden Hours: 116.
    Needs and Uses: This request is for a new information collection.
    The purpose of this survey is to better understand the factors that 
shape the tourism industry's ability to adapt to or bounce back from 
external shocks such as natural disasters, climate change, and economic 
downturns (i.e,. resiliency) in order to develop a set of indicators to 
measure the resiliency of coastal tourism. To help gather this 
information, NOAA will conduct a multi-round, iterative survey process 
based on the Delphi Method, which is a structured method for eliciting 
and combining expert opinion. The method requires indirect interaction 
among experts through a moderator. Experts make individual judgments, 
and these judgments are shared anonymously with the whole group. After 
viewing other experts' judgments, each expert is then given the 
opportunity to revise his or her own judgments, and the process is 
repeated. Theoretically, the goal of the Delphi study is to reach a 
consensus after a few rounds. In reality this rarely happens; thus, at 
the end of the Delphi rounds, the experts' final judgments are 
typically combined mathematically.
    NOAA will apply the Delphi Method to a multi-round survey of panels 
of individuals with experience and insight into tourism resiliency and/
or the tourism industry in two geographic areas: (1) The Central North 
Carolina Coast, and (2) the San Francisco Bay Area (inner and outer 
coast). Data to be collected through the survey include factors that 
may prevent or facilitate tourism resiliency as well as ranking or 
rating of those factors; suggested resiliency indicators; relevance and 
usefulness of resiliency indicators; and levels of respondent certainty 
with regard to their responses.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations; not-
for-profit organizations; state, local or tribal governments.
    Frequency: One time.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    This information collection request may be viewed at reginfo.gov. 
Follow the instructions to view Department of Commerce collections 
currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this

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notice to [email protected] or faxed to (202) 395-5806.

Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014-07425 Filed 4-2-14; 8:45 am]
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