80_FR_48063 80 FR 47910 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Surfclam/Ocean Quahog Individual Transferable Quota Administration.

80 FR 47910 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Surfclam/Ocean Quahog Individual Transferable Quota Administration.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 153 (August 10, 2015)

Page Range47910-47911
FR Document2015-19567

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 153 (Monday, August 10, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 153 (Monday, August 10, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47910-47911]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-19567]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Surfclam/Ocean 
Quahog Individual Transferable Quota Administration.

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 October 9, 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 Douglas Potts, (978) 281-9341 or [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract

    This request is for an extension of a currently approved collection 
associated with the Atlantic surfclam and ocean quahog fisheries. 
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Greater Atlantic Region 
manages these fisheries in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the 
Northeastern United States through the Atlantic Surfclam and Ocean 
Quahog Fishery Management Plan (FMP). The Mid-Atlantic Fishery 
Management Council prepared the FMP pursuant to the Magnuson-Stevens 
Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act). The 
regulations implementing the FMP are specified at 50 CFR part 648 
subpart E.

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    The recordkeeping and reporting requirements at Sec. Sec.  648.74, 
648.75, and 648.76 form the basis for this collection of information. 
We request information from surfclam and ocean quahog individual 
transferable quota (ITQ) permit holders to issue ITQ permits and to 
process and track requests from permit holders to transfer quota share 
or cage tags. We also request information from surfclam and ocean 
quahog ITQ permit holders to track and properly account for surfclam 
and ocean quahog harvest shucked at sea. Because there is not a 
standard conversion factor for estimating unshucked product from 
shucked product, NMFS requires vessels that shuck product at sea to 
carry on board the vessel a NMFS-approved observer to certify the 
amount of these clams harvested. This information, upon receipt, 
results in an efficient and accurate database for management and 
monitoring of fisheries of the Northeastern U.S. EEZ.
    Georges Bank has been closed to the harvest of surfclams and ocean 
quahogs since 1990 due to red tide blooms that cause paralytic 
shellfish poisoning (PSP). In 2013, a portion of Georges Bank was 
reopened with certain restrictions. We request information from 
surfclam and ocean quahog ITQ permit holders who fish in the reopened 
portion of the Georges Bank Closed Area to ensure compliance with the 
Protocol for Onboard Screening and Dockside Testing in Molluscan 
Shellfish. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the commercial 
fishing industry, and NMFS developed the PSP protocol to test and 
verify that clams harvested from Georges Bank continue to be safe for 
human consumption. The National Shellfish Sanitation Program adopted 
the PSP protocol at the October 2011 Interstate Shellfish Sanitation 
Conference.

II. Method of Collection

    Forms are online at www.nmfs.noaa.gov/gpea_forms/forms.htm as 
``fillable'' pdf documents, which can then be downloaded, printed, and 
faxed or mailed to NMFS. ITQ transfer forms may also be submitted 
electronically. Information for the PSP protocol is submitted through 
paper forms, as well as through electronic methods, including email, 
telephone, and shipboard electronic equipment such as VHF radio, email, 
or a vessel monitoring system.

III. Data

    OMB Control Number: 0648-0240.
    Form Number: None.
    Type of Review: Regular submission (extension of a current 
information collection).
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 189.
    Estimated Time per Response: ITQ permit application form, review of 
a pre-filled ITQ ownership form for renewing entities, ITQ transfer 
form, 5 minutes each; 1 hour to complete the ITQ ownership form for new 
applicants; and 30 minutes for the application to shuck surfclams and 
ocean quahogs at sea. The requirements under the PSP protocol are based 
on the number of vessels that land surfclams or ocean quahogs and the 
number of trips taken into the area, with a total estimated annual 
burden of 2,400 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,538.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: $111,764 in recordkeeping/
reporting costs.

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

Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2015-19567 Filed 8-7-15; 8:45 am]
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47910 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 153 / Monday, August 10, 2015 / Notices Dated: August 4, 2015. the draft and final agendas posted on Dated: July 31, 2015. Supriya Kumar, the HSRP Web site listed above and Rear Admiral Gerd F. Glang, Acting Director, Subsidies Enforcement written comments are welcome in Director, Office of Coast Survey, National Office, Enforcement and Compliance. advance. Each individual or group Ocean Service, National Oceanic and [FR Doc. 2015–19614 Filed 8–7–15; 8:45 am] making verbal comments will be limited Atmospheric Administration BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P to a total time of five (5) minutes. [FR Doc. 2015–19552 Filed 8–7–15; 8:45 am] Comments will be recorded. Advance BILLING CODE 3510–22P written comments should be submitted DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE to Lynne.Mersfelder@noaa.gov by September 4, 2015. Public seating will DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration be available on a first-come, first-served National Oceanic and Atmospheric basis. This meeting is accessible to Administration Hydrographic Services Review Panel people with disabilities. Requests for Meeting sign language interpretation or other Proposed Information Collection; auxiliary aids should be directed to Comment Request; Surfclam/Ocean AGENCY: National Ocean Service, Lynne.Mersfelder@noaa.gov by Quahog Individual Transferable Quota National Oceanic and Atmospheric September 4, 2015. The HSRP meeting Administration. Administration (NOAA), Department of Commerce will provide Web conferencing service AGENCY: National Oceanic and ACTION: Notice of open meeting. and teleconference capability for access Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to listen and observe the meeting Commerce. SUMMARY: The Hydrographic Services presentations. Members of the public Review Panel (HSRP) is a Federal ACTION: Notice. who wish to participate virtually must Advisory Committee established to register at least a day in advance by SUMMARY: The Department of advise the Under Secretary of September 15, 2015. The meeting times, Commerce, as part of its continuing Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, topics, and speakers are subject to effort to reduce paperwork and the NOAA Administrator, on matters change. For updated information and to respondent burden, invites the general related to the responsibilities and register for the Web conferencing public and other Federal agencies to authorities set forth in section 303 of the service, please refer to http://nautical take this opportunity to comment on Hydrographic Services Improvement charts.noaa.gov/ocs/hsrp/hsrp.htm. proposed and/or continuing information Act of 1998, as amended, and such other MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: National collections, as required by the appropriate matters that the Under and Federal partners and stakeholders Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. Secretary refers to the Panel for review and advice. will present to the HSRP on issues DATES: Written comments must be DATE AND TIME: The public meeting will relevant to NOAA’s navigation services. submitted on or before October 9, 2015. be held from September 16–18, 2015, Navigation services includes the data, ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments September 16, 10:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.; products, and services provided by the to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental September 17, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.; NOAA programs and activities which Paperwork Clearance Officer, and September 18, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 undertake geodetic observations, gravity Department of Commerce, Room 6616, p.m. All meetings times are EDT. modeling, shoreline mapping, 14th and Constitution Avenue NW., LOCATION: Silver Spring, MD, with the bathymetric mapping, hydrographic Washington, DC 20230 (or via the meeting location to be posted online at surveying, nautical charting, tide and Internet at JJessup@doc.gov). the Web site below. Please refer to the water level observations, current FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: following Web site for updates on the observations, and marine modeling. Requests for additional information or location, agenda, presentations, This suite of geospatial data, products copies of the information collection speaker’s biographies, and Web and services support safe and efficient instrument and instructions should be conferencing service sign up: http:// navigation, resilient coasts and directed to Douglas Potts, (978) 281– www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/ocs/hsrp/ communities, and the nationwide 9341 or Douglas.Potts@noaa.gov. meetings.htm and http:// positioning information infrastructure to SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/ocs/hsrp/ build America for the future. meetings_washingtondc.htm. I. Abstract The Panel will hear from Federal FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Visit This request is for an extension of a agencies and non-Federal associations the NOAA HSRP Web site at http:// about their mission or business uses for currently approved collection associated www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/ocs/hsrp/ NOAA’s navigation services; what value with the Atlantic surfclam and ocean hsrp.htm, or contact Lynne Mersfelder- quahog fisheries. National Marine these services bring; and what Lewis, HSRP Program Manager, Fisheries Service (NMFS) Greater improvements could be made to National Ocean Service (NOS), Office of Atlantic Region manages these fisheries NOAA’s navigation services. Other Coast Survey, NOAA (N/NSD), 1315 in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) East West Highway, Silver Spring, business will include reports by the of the Northeastern United States Maryland 20910; Telephone: 301–713– HSRP working groups on their progress through the Atlantic Surfclam and 2702 ext. 199; Email: lynne.mersfelder@ or results in response to NOAA’s tasking Ocean Quahog Fishery Management on coastal intelligence and resilience, tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES noaa.gov. Plan (FMP). The Mid-Atlantic Fishery and emerging Arctic priorities. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Management Council prepared the FMP meeting will be open to the public and The Panel will consider input from pursuant to the Magnuson-Stevens public comment periods (on-site) will these discussions to develop Fishery Conservation and Management be scheduled at various times recommendations for the NOAA Under Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act). The throughout the meeting. 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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 153 / Monday, August 10, 2015 / Notices 47911 The recordkeeping and reporting Type of Review: Regular submission DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE requirements at §§ 648.74, 648.75, and (extension of a current information 648.76 form the basis for this collection collection). National Telecommunications and of information. We request information Information Administration Affected Public: Business or other for- from surfclam and ocean quahog profit organizations. individual transferable quota (ITQ) Internet Assigned Numbers Authority permit holders to issue ITQ permits and Estimated Number of Respondents: Stewardship Transition Consolidated to process and track requests from 189. Proposal and Internet Corporation for permit holders to transfer quota share or Assigned Names and Numbers Estimated Time per Response: ITQ cage tags. We also request information Accountability Enhancements; permit application form, review of a Request for Comments from surfclam and ocean quahog ITQ pre-filled ITQ ownership form for permit holders to track and properly renewing entities, ITQ transfer form, 5 AGENCY: National Telecommunications account for surfclam and ocean quahog minutes each; 1 hour to complete the and Information Administration (NTIA), harvest shucked at sea. Because there is ITQ ownership form for new applicants; U.S. Department of Commerce. not a standard conversion factor for and 30 minutes for the application to ACTION: Notice of public comment. estimating unshucked product from shuck surfclams and ocean quahogs at shucked product, NMFS requires SUMMARY: This notice announces the sea. The requirements under the PSP dates of a comment period during which vessels that shuck product at sea to protocol are based on the number of the public is invited to provide input on carry on board the vessel a NMFS- vessels that land surfclams or ocean two interrelated multistakeholder approved observer to certify the amount of these clams harvested. This quahogs and the number of trips taken community proposals. Together, the information, upon receipt, results in an into the area, with a total estimated proposals set forth a plan for efficient and accurate database for annual burden of 2,400 hours. transitioning NTIA’s stewardship role management and monitoring of fisheries Estimated Total Annual Burden over the Internet Assigned Numbers of the Northeastern U.S. EEZ. Hours: 2,538. Authority (IANA) functions. The purpose of this notice is to encourage Georges Bank has been closed to the Estimated Total Annual Cost to interested parties to comment on the harvest of surfclams and ocean quahogs Public: $111,764 in recordkeeping/ two connected proposals—the IANA since 1990 due to red tide blooms that reporting costs. Stewardship Transition Plan and the cause paralytic shellfish poisoning Enhancements to Internet Corporation (PSP). In 2013, a portion of Georges IV. Request for Comments for Assigned Names and Numbers Bank was reopened with certain Comments are invited on: (a) Whether (ICANN) Accountability Related to the restrictions. We request information the proposed collection of information IANA Stewardship Transition. NTIA from surfclam and ocean quahog ITQ will utilize the input provided in is necessary for the proper performance permit holders who fish in the reopened making its determination of whether the of the functions of the agency, including portion of the Georges Bank Closed Area proposals have received broad whether the information shall have to ensure compliance with the Protocol community support and whether the for Onboard Screening and Dockside practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the burden plan satisfies the criteria required to Testing in Molluscan Shellfish. The U.S. transition its stewardship role. Food and Drug Administration, the (including hours and cost) of the proposed collection of information; (c) DATES: Comments on the IANA commercial fishing industry, and NMFS ways to enhance the quality, utility, and Stewardship Transition Plan are due on developed the PSP protocol to test and clarity of the information to be or before September 8, 2015; comments verify that clams harvested from collected; and (d) ways to minimize the on the Enhancements to ICANN Georges Bank continue to be safe for burden of the collection of information Accountability are due on or before human consumption. The National on respondents, including through the September 12, 2015. Shellfish Sanitation Program adopted the PSP protocol at the October 2011 use of automated collection techniques ADDRESSES: Written comments on the Interstate Shellfish Sanitation or other forms of information IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal Conference. technology. should be submitted at https:// www.ianacg.org/calls-for-input/ II. Method of Collection Comments submitted in response to combined-proposal-public-comment- this notice will be summarized and/or period/. Written comments on the Forms are online at included in the request for Office of proposed Enhancements to ICANN’s www.nmfs.noaa.gov/gpea_forms/ Management and Budget approval of Accountability should be submitted at forms.htm as ‘‘fillable’’ pdf documents, this information collection; they also https://www.icann.org/public- which can then be downloaded, printed, will become a matter of public record. comments/ccwg-accountability-2015-08- and faxed or mailed to NMFS. ITQ 03-en. transfer forms may also be submitted Sarah Brabson, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: electronically. Information for the PSP NOAA PRA Clearance Officer. Ashley Heineman, National protocol is submitted through paper [FR Doc. 2015–19567 Filed 8–7–15; 8:45 am] Telecommunications and Information forms, as well as through electronic BILLING CODE 3510–22–P Administration, U.S. Department of methods, including email, telephone, Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue and shipboard electronic equipment tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES NW., Room 4701, Washington, DC such as VHF radio, email, or a vessel 20230; telephone (202) 482–0298; email monitoring system. aheineman@ntia.doc.gov. Please direct III. Data media inquiries to NTIA’s Office of Public Affairs, (202) 482–7002; email OMB Control Number: 0648–0240. press@ntia.doc.gov. Form Number: None. 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CollectionFederal Register
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
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ActionNotice.
DatesWritten comments must be submitted on or before October 9, 2015.
ContactRequests for additional information or copies of the information collection instrument and instructions should be directed to Douglas Potts, (978) 281-9341 or [email protected]
FR Citation80 FR 47910 
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