[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 134 (Thursday, July 12, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32285-32286]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-14887]
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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: Regular (revision and extension of a currently
approved information collection).
Number of Respondents: 10,391.
Average Hours per Response: 15 minutes for catch document/
statistical document/re-export certificate validation by government
official; 120 minutes for authorization of non-governmental catch
document/statistical document/re-export certificate validation; 2
minutes for daily Atlantic bluefin tuna landing reports; 3 minutes for
daily Atlantic bluefin tuna landing reports from pelagic longline and
purse seine vessels; 1 minute for Atlantic bluefin tuna tagging; 15
minutes for biweekly Atlantic bluefin tuna 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; 2 minutes for
provision of HMS dealer email address.
Burden Hours: 18,552.
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 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 (ATCA, 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, frozen bigeye tuna, southern bluefin tuna or swordfish
under the HMS International Trade Program, 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 (i.e., reports
of no activity) of Atlantic swordfish, sharks, bigeye tuna, albacore,
yellowfin, and skipjack tunas (collectively referred to as BAYS tunas),
and biweekly and electronic daily landing reports for bluefin tuna,
including tagging of individual fish. Because of the recent development
of an individual bluefin quota (IBQ) management system (RIN 0648-BC09),
electronic entry of IBQ-related landing data is required for Atlantic
bluefin tuna purchased from Longline and Purse seine category vessels.
NMFS intends to consider integrating the electronic dealer reporting
for bluefin tuna and electronic reporting for the IBQ system; however,
at this time, dealers must submit limited bluefin tuna landings data to
both NMFS systems 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 IATTC and required by ATCA and the Tunas Convention Act (16
U.S.C. 951 et. seq., consecutively) to promulgate regulations as
necessary and appropriate to implement ICCAT and IATTC recommendations.
These programs require that a statistical document or catch document
accompany each export from and import to a member nation,
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and that a re-export certificate accompany each re-export. The
international trade reporting requirements covered by this collection
include implementation of catch document, statistical document, and re-
export certificate trade tracking programs for bluefin tuna, frozen
bigeye tuna, and swordfish. An electronic catch document program for
bluefin tuna (EBCD) was recommended by ICCAT and implemented by the
United States in 2016 (0648-BF17). U.S. regulations implementing ICCAT
statistical document and catch document programs require statistical
documents and catch documents for international transactions of the
covered species from all ocean areas, so Pacific imports and exports
must also be accompanied by statistical documents and catch documents.
Since there are statistical document programs in place under other
international conventions (e.g., the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission), a
statistical document or catch document from another program may be used
to satisfy the statistical document requirement for imports into the
United States. Revision: These statistical and catch documents are now
covered under OMB Control No. 0648-0732, but their validation is still
part of this information collection.
Dealers who internationally trade Southern bluefin tuna are
required to participate in a trade tracking program to ensure that
imported Atlantic and Pacific bluefin tuna 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 statistical document, catch document, and re-export
certificate requirements, this collection includes biweekly reports to
complement trade tracking statistical documents by summarizing
statistical document data and collecting additional economic
information.
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: July 8, 2018.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2018-14887 Filed 7-11-18; 8:45 am]
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