[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 12 (Tuesday, January 20, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 2681]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-00648]
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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: Protocol for Access to Tissue Specimen Samples from the
National Marine Mammal Tissue Bank.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0468.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular (extension of a currently approved
information collection).
Number of Respondents: 50.
Average Hours per Response: Tissue requests and tissue submission,
1 hour each; reporting on research, 2 hours.
Burden Hours: 160.
Needs and Uses: This request is for extension of a currently
approved information collection.
In 1989, the National Marine Mammal Tissue Bank (NMMTB) was
established by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Office of
Protected Resources (OPR) in collaboration with the National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST), Minerals Management Service (MMS),
and the US Geological Survey/Biological Resources Division (USGS/BRD).
The NMMTB provides protocols, techniques, and physical facilities for
the long-term storage of tissues from marine mammals. Scientists can
request tissues from this repository for retrospective analyses to
determine environmental trends of contaminants and other substances of
interest. The NMMTB collects, processes, and stores tissues from
specific indicator species (e.g., Atlantic bottlenose dolphins,
Atlantic white sided dolphins, pilot whales, harbor porpoises), animals
from mass strandings, animals that have been obtained incidental to
commercial fisheries, animals taken for subsistence purposes, biopsies,
and animals from unusual mortality events through two projects, the
Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program (MMHSRP) and the
Alaska Marine Mammal Tissue Archival Project (AMMTAP).
The purposes of this collection of information are: 1) to enable
NOAA to allow the scientific community the opportunity to request
tissue specimen samples from the NMMTB and, 2) to enable the Marine
Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program (MMHSRP) of NOAA to
assemble information on all specimens submitted to the Marine
Environmental Specimen Bank (Marine ESB), which includes the NMMTB.
Affected Public: Not-for-profit institutions; business or other
for-profit organizations; state, local and tribal governments;
individuals or households.
Frequency: On occasion.
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 notice
to [email protected] or fax to (202) 395-5806.
Dated: January 13, 2015.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2015-00648 Filed 1-16-15; 8:45 am]
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