[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 111 (Wednesday, June 10, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32939-32940]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-14124]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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: Highly Migratory Species Dealer, Importer and Exporter
Reporting Family of Forms.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0040.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Revision and extension of a currently approved
information collection.
Number of Respondents: 9,585.
Average Hours per Response: 5 minutes each for CD, SD, and RXC
certificates; 15 minutes for CD/SD/RXC validation by government
official; 120 minutes for authorization of non-governmental CD/SD/RXC
validation; 2 minutes for daily Atlantic BFT landing reports; 3 minutes
for daily Atlantic BFT landing reports from pelagic longline and purse
seine vessels; 1 minute for Atlantic BFT tagging; 15 minutes for
biweekly Atlantic BFT dealer landing reports; 15 minutes for HMS
international trade biweekly reports; 15 minutes for weekly electronic
HMS dealer landing reports (e-dealer); 5 minutes for negative weekly
electronic HMS dealer landing reports (e-dealer); 15 minutes for
voluntary fishing vessel and catch forms.
Burden Hours: 39,961.
Needs and Uses: This request is for revision and extension of a
currently approved information collection,
Under the provisions of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation
and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.), the National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS) is responsible
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for management of the Nation's marine fisheries. NMFS must also
promulgate regulations, as necessary and appropriate, to carry out
obligations the United States (U.S.) undertakes internationally
regarding tuna management through the Atlantic Tunas Convention Act (16
U.S.C. 971 et seq.).
This collection serves as a family of forms for Atlantic highly
migratory species (HMS) dealer reporting, including purchases of HMS
from domestic fishermen, and the import, export, and/or re-export of
HMS, including federally managed tunas, sharks, and swordfish.
Transactions covered under this collection include purchases of
Atlantic HMS from domestic fishermen; and the import/export of all
bluefin tuna (BFT), frozen bigeye tuna (BET), southern bluefin tuna
(SBT) or swordfish (SWO), regardless of geographic area of origin. This
information is used to monitor the harvest of domestic fisheries, and/
or track international trade of internationally managed species.
The domestic dealer reporting covered by this collection includes
weekly electronic landing reports and negative reports (e.g., reports
of no activity) of Atlantic SWO, sharks, BET, albacore, yellowfin, and
skipjack tunas (collectively referred to as BAYS tunas), and biweekly
and daily landing reports for BFT, including tagging of individual
fish. Also, because of the recent development of an individual bluefin
quota (IBQ) management system (RIN 0648-BC09), electronic entry of BFT
landing card data is required for Atlantic BFT purchased from Longline
and Purse seine category vessels. NMFS intends to consider integrating
the data fields that have been collected on the Atlantic BFT Biweekly
Dealer Report into the electronic system. However, at this time,
dealers must submit to NMFS both electronic and faxed versions of BFT
landing cards for purse seine and pelagic longline vessels.
International trade tracking programs are required by both the
International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT)
and the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) to account for
all international trade of covered species. The U.S. is a member of
ICCAT and required by ATCA to promulgate regulations as necessary and
appropriate to implement ICCAT recommendations. These programs require
that a statistical document (SD) or catch document (CD) accompany each
export from and import to a member nation, and that a re-export
certificate (RXC) accompany each re-export. The international trade
reporting requirements covered by this collection include
implementation of CD, SD, and RXC trade tracking programs for BFT,
frozen BET, and SWO. U.S. regulations implementing ICCAT SD and CD
programs require SDs and CDs for international transactions of the
covered species from all ocean areas, so Pacific imports and exports
must also be accompanied by SDs and CDs. Since there are SD programs in
place under other international conventions (e.g., the Indian Ocean
Tuna Commission), a SD from another program may be used to satisfy the
SD requirement for imports into the United States.
Dealers who internationally trade SBT are required to participate
in a trade tracking program to ensure that imported Atlantic and
Pacific BFT will not be intentionally mislabeled as ``southern
bluefin'' to circumvent reporting requirements. This action is
authorized under ATCA, which provides for the promulgation of
regulations as may be necessary and appropriate to carry out ICCAT
recommendations. In addition to SD, CD, and RXC requirements, this
collection includes biweekly reports to complement trade tracking SDs
by summarizing SD data and collecting additional economic information.
The one-time request for email addresses has been removed.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
Frequency: Weekly and biweekly.
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: June 4, 2015.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2015-14124 Filed 6-9-15; 8:45 am]
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