80 FR 32939 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 111 (June 10, 2015)

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 111 (Wednesday, June 10, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32939-32940]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[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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