To comply with Public Law 106-554, this information collection is needed to enforce sewage and graywater discharges requirements from certain cruise ships operating on Alaskan waters. Respondents are owners and operators of vessels.
The change (i.e., decrease) in hour burden is strictly due to a decrease in the vessel population. The Coast Guard now uses a relatively new data base--MISLE--for estimating vessel populations and this allows us to more accurately estimate the vessels impacted by this COI. The methodology for estimating hour burden per respondent per year remains unchanged.
The change in the number of responses is due to a change in the methodology used to determine number of Sewage and Graywater Discharge Log (SGDL) responses. Previously, the Coast Guard estimated the number of annual SGDL responses as equal to the number of respondents. In this periodic renewal, we have changed the methodology to account for the estimated number of recordkeeping actions taken by each respondent for a year. Thus, instead of 1 response per respondent per year, we are estimating 150 responses per respondent per year. We believe this more accurately reflects the amount of activity needed to comply with the SGDL recordkeeping requirement. As stated above, the methodology for estimating hour burden per respondent per year remains unchanged. We have before, and continue, to estimate SGDL hour burden per action (now equal to a response).
$9,471
No
No
Uncollected
Uncollected
Uncollected
Uncollected
David DuPont 202 372-1497
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
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