[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 26 (Monday, February 9, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6947-6948]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-02578]
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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
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information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35).
Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Title: Alaska Region Logbook Family of Forms.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0213.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular (revision and extension of a currently
approved information collection).
Number of Respondents: 543.
Average Hours per Response: Catcher Vessel trawl gear daily fishing
logbook (DFL), 18 minutes per active response and 5 minutes per
inactive response; Catcher vessel longline or pot gear DFL, 28 minutes
per active response and 5 minutes per inactive response; 41 minutes per
active response and 5 minutes per inactive response for Catcher/
processor Longline and Pot Gear daily cumulative production logbook
(DCPL); 23 minutes for Buying Station Report; 5 minutes for Shoreside
Processor Check-in/Check-out Report; 20 minutes for Product Transfer
Report and 14 minutes for Vessel Activity Report.
Burden Hours: 12,510.
Needs and Uses: The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and
Management Act 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. authorizes the North Pacific
Fishery Management Council (Council) to prepare and amend fishery
management plans for any fishery in waters under its jurisdiction.
National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Region (NMFS) manages: (1)
The crab fisheries in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) waters off the
coast of Alaska under the Fishery Management Plan for Bering Sea and
Aleutian Islands Crab; (2) groundfish under the Fishery Management Plan
for the Groundfish Fishery of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands
Management Area; and (3) groundfish under the Fishery Management Plan
for Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska. The International Pacific Halibut
Commission (IPHC) and NMFS manage fishing for Pacific halibut
(Hippoglossus stenolepis) through regulations established under the
authority of the Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1982. The IPHC
promulgates regulations governing the halibut fishery under the
Convention between the United States and Canada for the Preservation of
the Halibut Fishery of the Northern Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea.
Vessels required to have a Federal Fisheries Permit (FFP) are
issued free daily fishing DFLs for harvesters and DCPLs for processors
to record groundfish, Crab Rationalization Program (CR) crab,
Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) halibut, IFQ sablefish, Western Alaska
Community Development Quota Program (CDQ) halibut, and prohibited
species catch (PSC) information. Catcher vessels under 60 ft (18.3 m)
length overall are not required to maintain DFLs. Multiple self-copy
logsheets within each logbook are available for distribution to the
harvester, processor, observer program, and NOAA Fisheries Office for
Law Enforcement. The longline or pot gear logbooks have an additional
logsheet for submittal to the IPHC.
In addition to the logbooks, this collection includes the buying
station report, check-in/out for shoreside processors, product transfer
report, and U.S. vessel activity report.
Revision: Paper logbooks for catcher processors with trawl gear and
motherships have been discontinued and replaced by eLogs in OMB Control
No. 0648-0515.
Affected Public: Business and other for-profit organizations;
individuals or households.
Frequency: Daily and on occasion.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
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: February 4, 2015.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2015-02578 Filed 2-6-15; 8:45 am]
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