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To ensure that the full range of issues
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identified, comments and suggestions
are invited from all interested parties.
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proposed action and the EIS should be
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Issued On: August 7, 2014.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
[Docket Number MARAD–2014–0127]

Information Collection for Quarterly
Readiness of Strategic Seaport
Facilities Reporting
Maritime Administration.
Notice of new information
collection.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces the Maritime
Administration’s (MARAD’s) intention
to request the approval for three years
of a an information collection related to
facilities listed in its pre-emergency
standby Port Planning Orders (PPOs).
MARAD issues PPOs to the Department
of Defense-designated Strategic
Commercial Seaports in order to
provide the Department of Defense
(DoD) port facilities in support of
military deployments during national
emergencies. To ensure port capabilities
and status, MARAD seeks to obtain
approval to collect quarterly readiness
reports from these DOD-designated
facilities.

SUMMARY:

Comments should be submitted
on or before November 24, 2014.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by DOT Docket Number
MARAD–2014–0127 by any of the
following methods:
• Web site/Federal eRulemaking
Portal: Go to http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments
on the electronic docket site.

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• Mail or Hand Delivery to: Docket
Management Facility, U.S. Department
of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., West Building, Room W12–
140, Washington, DC 20590, between 9
a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except on Federal holidays.
• Facsimile/Fax to: (202) 493–2251.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the agency name and docket
number for this rulemaking.
Note: All comments received will be
posted without change to http://
www.regulations.gov including any personal
information provided.

Docket: For access to the docket to
read comments received, go to http://
www.regulations.gov at any time or to
Room W12–401 of the Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9
a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except Federal Holidays.
Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search
the electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or signing the comment, if
submitted on behalf of an association,
business, labor union, etc.). You may
review DOT’s complete Privacy Act
Statement in the Federal Register
published on April 11, 2000 (Volume
65, Number 70; Pages 19477–78) or you
may visit http://www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Nuns Jain, (757) 322–5801, Maritime
Administration, U.S. Department of
Transportation, 7737 Hampton
Boulevard, Building 19, Suite 300,
Norfolk, VA 23505 or Email: nuns.jain@
dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title of
Information Collection: Information
Collection for Quarterly Readiness of
Strategic Seaport Facilities Reporting.
Type of Request: New information
collection.
OMB Control Number: 2133–NEW.
Form Numbers: TBD.
Expiration Date of Approval: Three
years from date of approval by the
Office of Management and Budget.
Summary of Collection of
Information: Quarterly reports will seek
information related to berthing
capability, staging and general
availability of the port by readiness
hours.
Need and Use of the Information:
This collection of information MARAD
will ensure the preparedness of
Strategic Commercial Seaports in
support of military deployments during
national emergencies.
Description of Respondents: Strategic
Commercial Seaports who have been
designated by the Commander, Military

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Surface Deployment and Distribution
Command (SDDC) and who have been
issued a PPO by MARAD.
Number of Respondents: 16.
Frequency of Response: 4.
Estimated Timer per Response: 1
hour.
Annual Responses: 64 responses.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 64
hours.
Background: Pursuant to the Defense
Production Act of 1950, as amended
(Pub. L. 111–67), EO 13603, EO 12656
and 46 CFR part 340, MARAD works
with the DoD to ensure national defense
preparedness. Accordingly, MARAD
issues Port Planning Orders (PPOs) to
Department of Defense-designated
Strategic Commercial Seaports in order
to provide the Department of Defense
(DoD) port facilities in support of
military deployments during national
emergencies. The proposed collection of
quarterly information is necessary to
validate the port’s ability to provide the
PPO delineated facilities to the DoD
within the PPO delineated time frame.
In a February 2, 2014 report entitled
STRATEGIC SEAPORTS: Opportunities
Exist to Improve Interagency
Coordination, Readiness Reporting, and
Port Preparedness, the Government
Accounting Office (GAO) recommended
that MARAD collect readiness data from
strategic commercial ports. This
information will be used by MARAD to
assist DoD in establishing overall
contingency plans necessary to meet
national emergency preparedness
requirements.
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspect of this
information collection, including: 1.
Whether this information collection is
necessary for proper performance of the
functions of the agency and will have
practical utility; 2. the continued
accuracy of the burden estimates; 3.
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and 4. ways that the burden
could be minimized without reducing
the quality of the collected information.
Authority: 49 CFR 1.93.

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Dated: September 18, 2014.
By Order of the Maritime Administrator,
Julie P. Agarwal,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
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