[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 11 (Friday, January 16, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 2393]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-00631]
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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: Alaska Rockfish Program: Permits and Reports.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0545.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular (revision and extension of a currently
approved information collection).
Number of Respondents: 9.
Average Hours per Response: Application for Rockfish Cooperative
Fishing Quota (CQ), 2 hours; Application for Inter-Cooperative Transfer
of Rockfish CQ and Rockfish Volume & Value Report, 30 minutes; Annual
Rockfish Cooperative Report, 40 hours; Vessel Check-in/Check-out &
Termination Report and Rockfish Fee Payment, 10 minutes each.
Burden Hours: 498.
Needs and Uses: This request is for revision and extension of a
currently approved information collection.
The Rockfish Program determines the access and allocation of the
Central Gulf of Alaska (GOA) rockfish fisheries and associated halibut
prohibited species catch (PSC), also known as the rights of access to
the fishery. Cooperatives were established to receive exclusive harvest
privileges for rockfish primary and secondary species. These resource
allocations are used to assign the available resources in an economic
way. In the case of halibut, a specific amount of halibut mortality is
assigned to the cooperative, because halibut is often caught
incidentally with rockfish.
The rockfish fisheries are conducted in Federal waters near Kodiak,
Alaska, primarily by trawl vessels, and to a lesser extent by longline
vessels. The Rockfish Program allocates harvest privileges to holders
of License Limitation Program (LLP) licenses with a history of Central
GOA rockfish landings associated with those licenses.
Revision: Two forms that are no longer applicable have been
removed, and one has been added.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
Frequency: Annually and on occasion.
Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
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. 2015-00631 Filed 1-15-15; 8:45 am]
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