80_FR_29072 80 FR 28975 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Pacific Islands Region Coral Reef Ecosystems Logbook and Reporting

80 FR 28975 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Pacific Islands Region Coral Reef Ecosystems Logbook and Reporting

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 97 (May 20, 2015)

Page Range28975-28976
FR Document2015-12197

The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 97 (Wednesday, May 20, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 97 (Wednesday, May 20, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28975-28976]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-12197]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Pacific Islands 
Region Coral Reef Ecosystems Logbook and Reporting

AGENCY: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 
Commerce.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort 
to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public 
and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on 
proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

DATES: Written comments must be submitted on or before July 20, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental 
Paperwork Clearance Officer, Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 14th 
and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet 
at [email protected]).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or 
copies of the information collection instrument and instructions should 
be directed to Walter Ikehara, (808) 725-5175 or 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract

    This request is for extension of a current information collection.
    National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) requires any United States 
(U.S.) citizen issued a Special Coral Reef Ecosystem Fishing Permit to 
complete logbooks and submit them to NMFS (50 CFR 665). The Special 
Coral Reef Ecosystem Fishing Permit is authorized under the Fishery 
Ecosystem Plans for American Samoa Archipelago, Hawaiian Archipelago, 
Mariana Archipelago, and Pacific Remote Island Areas. The information 
in the logbooks is used to obtain fish catch/fishing effort data on 
coral reef fishes and invertebrates harvested in designated low-use 
marine protected areas and on those listed in the regulations as 
potentially-harvested coral reef taxa in waters of the U.S. exclusive 
economic zone in the western Pacific region. These data are needed to 
determine the condition of the stocks, whether the current management 
measures are having the intended effects, and to evaluate the benefits 
and costs of changes in management measures. The logbook information 
includes interactions with protected species, including sea turtles, 
monk seals, and other marine mammals, which are used to monitor and 
respond to incidental takes of endangered and threatened marine 
species.

II. Method of Collection

    Reports are submitted to NMFS in the form of paper logbook sheets 
and paper transshipment forms within 30 days of each landing of coral 
reef harvest. No electronic forms or web-based reporting is currently 
available. Notifications are submitted via telephone.

III. Data

    OMB Number: 0648-0462.
    Form Number: None.
    Type of Review: Regular submission (extension of a currently 
approved information collection).
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations; 
individuals or households.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 5.
    Estimated Time per Response: Pre-trip and pre-landing 
notifications, 3 minutes; logbook reports, 30 minutes; transshipment 
reports, 15 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 382.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: $0 (application fees have 
not been set).

IV. Request for Comments

    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of 
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of 
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical 
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden 
(including hours and cost) of the proposed collection of information; 
(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the 
collection of information on respondents, including through the use of 
automated collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology.
    Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized 
and/or

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included in the request for OMB approval of this information 
collection; they also will become a matter of public record.

    Dated: May 15, 2015.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2015-12197 Filed 5-19-15; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-22-P

Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 97 / Wednesday, May 20, 2015 / Notices 28975 socioeconomic data from commercial included in the request for OMB coral reef fishes and invertebrates fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico and approval of this information collection; harvested in designated low-use marine South Atlantic shrimp fisheries who they also will become a matter of public protected areas and on those listed in hold one or more permits for harvesting record. the regulations as potentially-harvested shrimp from federal waters (U.S. Dated: May 15, 2015. coral reef taxa in waters of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone). Information Sarah Brabson, exclusive economic zone in the western about revenues, variable and fixed costs, Pacific region. These data are needed to NOAA PRA Clearance Officer. capital investment and other determine the condition of the stocks, [FR Doc. 2015–12202 Filed 5–19–15; 8:45 am] socioeconomic information is collected whether the current management from a random sample of permit BILLING CODE 3510–22–P measures are having the intended holders. Additionally, we will pilot a effects, and to evaluate the benefits and short demographic/socioeconomic costs of changes in management DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE survey of shrimp vessel crews. Next to measures. The logbook information nothing is known about the 4–5 National Oceanic and Atmospheric includes interactions with protected thousand individuals crewing federally Administration species, including sea turtles, monk permitted shrimp vessels. These data seals, and other marine mammals, are needed to conduct socioeconomic Proposed Information Collection; which are used to monitor and respond analyses in support of management of Comment Request; Pacific Islands to incidental takes of endangered and the shrimp fishery and to satisfy legal Region Coral Reef Ecosystems threatened marine species. requirements. The data will be used to Logbook and Reporting II. Method of Collection assess how fishermen will be impacted by and respond to federal regulation AGENCY: National Oceanic and Reports are submitted to NMFS in the likely to be considered by fishery Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), form of paper logbook sheets and paper managers. Commerce. transshipment forms within 30 days of ACTION: Notice. each landing of coral reef harvest. No II. Method of Collection electronic forms or web-based reporting The information will be collected on SUMMARY: The Department of is currently available. Notifications are paper using a mail survey. Commerce, as part of its continuing submitted via telephone. effort to reduce paperwork and III. Data respondent burden, invites the general III. Data OMB Control Number: 0648–0591. public and other Federal agencies to OMB Number: 0648–0462. Form Number(s): None. take this opportunity to comment on Form Number: None. Type of Review: Regular submission proposed and/or continuing information Type of Review: Regular submission (revision and extension of a currently collections, as required by the (extension of a currently approved approved collection). Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. information collection). Affected Public: Business or other for- DATES: Written comments must be Affected Public: Business or other for- profit organizations; individuals or submitted on or before July 20, 2015. profit organizations; individuals or households. ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments households. Estimated Number of Respondents: Estimated Number of Respondents: 5. to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental 650 (permit holders) and 1,200 (crew). Estimated Time per Response: Pre-trip Paperwork Clearance Officer, Estimated Time per Response: 45 and pre-landing notifications, 3 Department of Commerce, Room 6616, minutes (permit holders) and 15 minutes; logbook reports, 30 minutes; 14th and Constitution Avenue NW., minutes (crew). transshipment reports, 15 minutes. Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Estimated Total Annual Burden Estimated Total Annual Burden Internet at JJessup@doc.gov). Hours: 788. Hours: 382. Estimated Total Annual Cost to FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: $0 in recordkeeping/reporting Requests for additional information or Public: $0 (application fees have not costs. copies of the information collection been set). instrument and instructions should be IV. Request for Comments directed to Walter Ikehara, (808) 725– IV. Request for Comments Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 5175 or Walter.Ikehara@noaa.gov. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of information SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including I. Abstract of the functions of the agency, including whether the information shall have This request is for extension of a whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the current information collection. practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the burden National Marine Fisheries Service agency’s estimate of the burden (including hours and cost) of the (NMFS) requires any United States (including hours and cost) of the proposed collection of information; (c) (U.S.) citizen issued a Special Coral Reef proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and Ecosystem Fishing Permit to complete ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be logbooks and submit them to NMFS (50 clarity of the information to be mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES collected; and (d) ways to minimize the CFR 665). The Special Coral Reef collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information Ecosystem Fishing Permit is authorized burden of the collection of information on respondents, including through the under the Fishery Ecosystem Plans for on respondents, including through the use of automated collection techniques American Samoa Archipelago, Hawaiian use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information Archipelago, Mariana Archipelago, and or other forms of information technology. Pacific Remote Island Areas. The technology. Comments submitted in response to information in the logbooks is used to Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized and/or obtain fish catch/fishing effort data on this notice will be summarized and/or VerDate Sep<11>2014 23:50 May 19, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00047 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\20MYN1.SGM 20MYN1

28976 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 97 / Wednesday, May 20, 2015 / Notices included in the request for OMB catch, and document and reduce fishery Industry Request for Assistance in approval of this information collection; interactions with protected resources. Improving Observer Data Quality Issues; they also will become a matter of public Scientists use observer-collected data 60 hr for Observer provider permit record. for stock assessments and marine application; 30 minutes for Observer Dated: May 15, 2015. ecosystem research. provider invoice copies; 15 minutes All sectors of the groundfish fishery, each for Update to provider information, Sarah Brabson, including vessels less than 60 feet Observer declaration and deployment NOAA PRA Clearance Officer. length overall and the commercial system (ODDs), Observer fee calculation [FR Doc. 2015–12197 Filed 5–19–15; 8:45 am] halibut sector, are now included in the and submittal and Notification of one- BILLING CODE 3510–22–P Observer Program. The National Marine time election of observer coverage; 4 Fisheries Service (NMFS) has the hours for Observer appeal; 1 hr for flexibility to decide when and where to Request for electronic monitoring as DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE deploy observers based on a exemption for observer coverage. scientifically defensible deployment Estimated Total Annual Burden National Oceanic and Atmospheric plan reviewed annually by the North Hours: 4,130. Administration Estimated Total Annual Cost to Pacific Fishery Management Council. Proposed Information Collection; The Observer Program places all vessels Public: $3,256. Comment Request; Alaska Observer and processors in the groundfish and IV. Request for Comments Program halibut fisheries off Alaska into one of two observer coverage categories: A full Comments are invited on: (a) Whether AGENCY: National Oceanic and coverage category and a partial coverage the proposed collection of information Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), category. is necessary for the proper performance Commerce. of the functions of the agency, including II. Method of Collection whether the information shall have ACTION: Notice. This request is for extension of a practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the SUMMARY: The Department of currently approved information agency’s estimate of the burden Commerce, as part of its continuing collection. (including hours and cost) of the effort to reduce paperwork and Electronically submitted landing proposed collection of information; (c) respondent burden, invites the general information submitted by managers of ways to enhance the quality, utility, and public and other Federal agencies to shoreside processors and stationary clarity of the information to be take this opportunity to comment on floating processors (SFPs) is used to collected; and (d) ways to minimize the proposed and/or continuing information assess the observer fee liability for each burden of the collection of information collections, as required by the landing. Managers of shoreside on respondents, including through the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. processors and SFPs access reports use of automated collection techniques DATES: Written comments must be generated by NMFS’ Web-based or other forms of information submitted on or before July 20, 2015. application for a receipt of the observer technology. fee liability associated with each Comments submitted in response to ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments landing. NMFS makes electronic this notice will be summarized and/or to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental monitoring available as an alternative included in the request for OMB Paperwork Clearance Officer, tool for fulfilling observer coverage approval of this information collection; Department of Commerce, Room 6616, requirements. The electronic monitoring they also will become a matter of public 14th and Constitution Avenue NW., option does not change the funding record. Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at JJessup@doc.gov). mechanism or fee amount, but does Dated: May 14, 2015. provide an alternative to carrying a Sarah Brabson, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: human observer. NOAA PRA Clearance Officer. Requests for additional information or copies of the information collection III. Data [FR Doc. 2015–12155 Filed 5–19–15; 8:45 am] instrument and instructions should be OMB Control Number: 0648–0318. BILLING CODE 3510–22–P directed to Patsy Bearden, (907) 586– Form Number(s): None. 7008 or patsy.bearden@noaa.gov. Type of Review: Regular (extension of SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: a current information collection). DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Affected Public: Business or other for- National Oceanic and Atmospheric I. Abstract profit organizations. Administration The North Pacific Groundfish and Estimated Number of Respondents: Halibut Observer Program (Observer 959. RIN 0648–XD946 Program) plays a critical role in the Estimated Time per Response: 8 hr to conservation and management of Bering review and 1 hr to submit candidate Permits; Foreign Fishing Sea, Aleutian Islands, and Gulf of college transcripts and statements, AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Alaska groundfish and halibut fisheries. Observer provider; 1 hr for Observer Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Five observer contracting companies training registration; 7 minutes for Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), provide observer services (see http:// Observer briefing registration; 7 minutes Commerce. mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES www.afsc.noaa.gov/FMA/observer_ for Projected observer assignment; 5 ACTION: Notice of application for permit; providers.htm). Observers collect minutes for Physical examination request for comments. biological samples and fishery- verification; 7 minutes for Observer dependent information on total catch deployment/logistics report; 30 minutes SUMMARY: NMFS publishes for public and interactions with protected species. for Observer debriefing registration; 12 review and comment information Managers use data collected by minutes for Certificates of insurance; 30 regarding a permit application for observers to monitor quotas, manage minutes for Observer provider contracts; transshipment of Atlantic herring by groundfish and prohibited species 1 hr for Other reports; 30 minutes for Canadian vessels, submitted under VerDate Sep<11>2014 23:50 May 19, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00048 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\20MYN1.SGM 20MYN1


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CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice.
DatesWritten comments must be submitted on or before July 20, 2015.
ContactRequests for additional information or copies of the information collection instrument and instructions should be directed to Walter Ikehara, (808) 725-5175 or [email protected]
FR Citation80 FR 28975 
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