80_FR_54728 80 FR 54553 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Southeast Region Permit Family of Forms

80 FR 54553 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Southeast Region Permit Family of Forms

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 175 (September 10, 2015)

Page Range54553-54554
FR Document2015-22720

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 (PRA) of 1995.

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 175 (Thursday, September 10, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 175 (Thursday, September 10, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54553-54554]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-22720]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Southeast 
Region Permit Family of Forms

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 (PRA) of 1995.

DATES: Written comments must be submitted on or before November 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 Adam Bailey, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), 
Southeast Regional Office (SERO), 263 13th Avenue S., St. Petersburg, 
FL 33701, (727) 824-5305, or [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

    This request is for a revision to the existing reporting 
requirements that are currently approved under OMB Control No. 0648-
0205, Southeast Region Permit Family of Forms, in association with the 
upcoming final rule, Regulation Identifier Number (RIN) 0648-BB02, 
Amendment 9 to the 2006 Consolidated Atlantic Highly Migratory Species 
(HMS) Fishery Management Plan (FMP) (Amendment 9), developed under the 
authority of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management 
Act, 16 U.S.C. 1801.
    The final rule, RIN 0648-BB02, would implement a number of Atlantic 
shark and smoothhound shark management measures and would establish an 
effective date for previously-adopted smoothhound shark management 
measures finalized in Amendment 3 to the 2006 Consolidated Atlantic HMS 
FMP (Amendment 3) and the 2011 Final Rule to Modify the Retention of 
Incidentally-Caught Highly Migratory Species in Atlantic Trawl 
Fisheries. Among these previously-adopted smoothhound shark management 
measures is a commercial smoothhound shark permit requirement. The 
commercial smoothhound shark permitting requirement contained in this 
rule would become effective at a date specified after approval of this 
revision request.
    In April 2011, NMFS submitted a PRA change request to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) to add the commercial smoothhound shark 
permit to the existing HMS permit PRA package (OMB Control No. 0648-
0327). OMB subsequently approved the change request to add the Federal 
commercial smoothhound shark permit to the HMS permit PRA package in 
May 2011. In July 2015, the commercial smoothhound shark permit was 
removed from the HMS permit PRA package (OMB Control No. 0648-0327) 
with the intention of transferring it to the Southeast Region Permit 
Family of Forms. This revision seeks to add this permit to OMB Control 
No. 0648-0205, because the SERO Permits Office will administer the 
smoothhound shark permit. The revision also addresses a new permit fee 
of $25 ($10 if issued in conjunction with another SERO-administered 
permit) related to SERO's administration of the permit and a more 
accurate estimate of the number of respondents, reducing the estimated 
number of respondents from 4,000, to 500 based on recent landings data.
    Specifically for the smoothhound shark commercial permit, NMFS 
estimates 500 respondents to apply. If a respondent already holds a 
SERO-administered permit, applying for a smoothhound shark permit would 
only require checking an additional box on the permits application 
form, which would take approximately 10 seconds. If the respondent does 
not hold a SERO-administered permit, a new application must be filled 
out, which would take approximately 30 minutes. Thus, the total annual 
burden estimate is between 1.4 hours and 250 hours. It is likely that 
many respondents already hold a permit issued through the SERO Permits 
Office due to participation in other SERO fisheries (including other 
shark fisheries), thus, they would simply need to check a box on their 
existing form. However, at this time, NMFS does not have an estimate of 
the number of respondents who would apply for this permit and that 
already hold a permit administered through the SERO Permits Office, and 
therefore, for the purpose of this revision request, NMFS assumes the 
high estimate of 250 burden hours annually for the commercial 
smoothhound shark permit.
    There is a $25 fee for a stand-alone commercial smoothhound shark 
permit or a $10 fee if issued in conjunction with another SERO-
administered permit. Thus, the total annual cost to the public for the 
permit is between $12,500 if none of the 500 respondents hold another 
SERO-administered permit and $5,000 if all the respondents hold another 
SERO-administered permit. For the purpose of this revision request, 
NMFS assumes the high estimate of $12,500 in total annual costs for the 
commercial smoothhound shark permit.
    The commercial smoothhound shark permit would add a maximum of 500 
respondents, 250 burden hours, and $12,500 total annual costs to this 
information collection.

II. Method of Collection

    Respondents have a choice of either electronic or paper forms. 
Methods of submittal include email of electronic forms, and mail and 
facsimile transmission of paper forms.

III. Data

    OMB Control Number: 0648-0205.
    Form Number(s): None.

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    Type of Review: Regular submission (revision of current information 
collection).
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 13,909.
    Estimated Time per Response: 30 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 6,086 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: $457,378 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 OMB approval of this information 
collection; they also will become a matter of public record.

    Dated: September 3, 2015.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2015-22720 Filed 9-9-15; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 175 / Thursday, September 10, 2015 / Notices 54553 2014–15 and the 2013–14 monitoring FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: of $25 ($10 if issued in conjunction with report. Based on that review, we have Requests for additional information or another SERO-administered permit) determined that the proposed action is copies of the information collection related to SERO’s administration of the very similar to that considered in the instrument and instructions should be permit and a more accurate estimate of previous IHA. In addition, no significant directed to Adam Bailey, National the number of respondents, reducing the new circumstances or information Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), estimated number of respondents from relevant to environmental concerns Southeast Regional Office (SERO), 263 4,000, to 500 based on recent landings have been identified. Thus, we have 13th Avenue S., St. Petersburg, FL data. determined that the preparation of a 33701, (727) 824–5305, or adam.bailey@ Specifically for the smoothhound new or supplemental NEPA document noaa.gov. shark commercial permit, NMFS is not necessary, and, after review of SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: estimates 500 respondents to apply. If a public comments, reaffirm our 2013 respondent already holds a SERO- I. Abstract administered permit, applying for a FONSI. The 2013 NEPA documents are available for review at This request is for a revision to the smoothhound shark permit would only www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/permits/ existing reporting requirements that are require checking an additional box on incidental/construction.htm. currently approved under OMB Control the permits application form, which No. 0648–0205, Southeast Region would take approximately 10 seconds. If Authorization Permit Family of Forms, in association the respondent does not hold a SERO- As a result of these determinations, with the upcoming final rule, administered permit, a new application we have issued an IHA to the Navy for Regulation Identifier Number (RIN) must be filled out, which would take conducting the described pier 0648–BB02, Amendment 9 to the 2006 approximately 30 minutes. Thus, the maintenance activities in Sinclair Inlet, Consolidated Atlantic Highly Migratory total annual burden estimate is between from September 1, 2015 through March Species (HMS) Fishery Management 1.4 hours and 250 hours. It is likely that 1, 2016, provided the previously Plan (FMP) (Amendment 9), developed many respondents already hold a permit described mitigation, monitoring, and under the authority of the Magnuson- issued through the SERO Permits Office reporting requirements are incorporated. Stevens Fishery Conservation and due to participation in other SERO Management Act, 16 U.S.C. 1801. fisheries (including other shark Dated: September 2, 2015. The final rule, RIN 0648–BB02, would fisheries), thus, they would simply need Donna S. Wieting, implement a number of Atlantic shark to check a box on their existing form. Director, Office of Protected Resources, and smoothhound shark management However, at this time, NMFS does not National Marine Fisheries Service. measures and would establish an have an estimate of the number of [FR Doc. 2015–22799 Filed 9–9–15; 8:45 am] effective date for previously-adopted respondents who would apply for this BILLING CODE 3510–22–P smoothhound shark management permit and that already hold a permit measures finalized in Amendment 3 to administered through the SERO Permits the 2006 Consolidated Atlantic HMS Office, and therefore, for the purpose of DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE FMP (Amendment 3) and the 2011 Final this revision request, NMFS assumes the Rule to Modify the Retention of high estimate of 250 burden hours National Oceanic and Atmospheric Incidentally-Caught Highly Migratory Administration annually for the commercial Species in Atlantic Trawl Fisheries. smoothhound shark permit. Proposed Information Collection; Among these previously-adopted There is a $25 fee for a stand-alone Comment Request; Southeast Region smoothhound shark management commercial smoothhound shark permit Permit Family of Forms measures is a commercial smoothhound or a $10 fee if issued in conjunction shark permit requirement. The with another SERO-administered AGENCY: National Oceanic and commercial smoothhound shark permit. Thus, the total annual cost to Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), permitting requirement contained in the public for the permit is between Commerce. this rule would become effective at a $12,500 if none of the 500 respondents ACTION: Notice. date specified after approval of this hold another SERO-administered permit revision request. and $5,000 if all the respondents hold SUMMARY: The Department of In April 2011, NMFS submitted a PRA another SERO-administered permit. For Commerce, as part of its continuing change request to the Office of the purpose of this revision request, effort to reduce paperwork and Management and Budget (OMB) to add NMFS assumes the high estimate of respondent burden, invites the general the commercial smoothhound shark $12,500 in total annual costs for the public and other Federal agencies to permit to the existing HMS permit PRA commercial smoothhound shark permit. take this opportunity to comment on package (OMB Control No. 0648–0327). The commercial smoothhound shark proposed and/or continuing information OMB subsequently approved the change permit would add a maximum of 500 collections, as required by the request to add the Federal commercial respondents, 250 burden hours, and Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of smoothhound shark permit to the HMS $12,500 total annual costs to this 1995. permit PRA package in May 2011. In information collection. July 2015, the commercial smoothhound DATES:Written comments must be shark permit was removed from the II. Method of Collection submitted on or before November 9, HMS permit PRA package (OMB Control 2015. Respondents have a choice of either mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES No. 0648–0327) with the intention of electronic or paper forms. Methods of ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments transferring it to the Southeast Region submittal include email of electronic to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental Permit Family of Forms. This revision forms, and mail and facsimile Paperwork Clearance Officer, seeks to add this permit to OMB Control transmission of paper forms. Department of Commerce, Room 6616, No. 0648–0205, because the SERO 14th and Constitution Avenue NW., Permits Office will administer the III. Data Washington, DC 20230 (or via the smoothhound shark permit. The OMB Control Number: 0648–0205. Internet at JJessup@doc.gov). revision also addresses a new permit fee Form Number(s): None. VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:28 Sep 09, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00043 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\10SEN1.SGM 10SEN1

54554 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 175 / Thursday, September 10, 2015 / Notices Type of Review: Regular submission Number of Respondents: 1,602. fish to Southwest Alaska processors. (revision of current information Average Hours per Response: 45 Key informant interviews will be collection). minutes. conducted to gather additional Affected Public: Business or other for- Burden Hours: 600. information from 30 seafood processors, profit organizations. Needs and Uses: This request is for a including catcher-processor and floating Estimated Number of Respondents: new information collection. processor vessels, and 20 local 13,909. Regional or community economic businesses that supply inputs to Estimated Time per Response: 30 analysis of proposed fishery regional fish harvesters and seafood minutes. management policies is required by the processors. The interviews will be used Estimated Total Annual Burden Magnuson-Stevens Fishery to determine relative expenditures for Hours: 6,086 hours. Conservation and Management Act, inputs made in nine geographical Estimated Total Annual Cost to National Environmental Policy Act, and areas—(1) each of the six BCAs within Public: $457,378 in recordkeeping/ Executive Order 12866, among others. the Southwest region, (2) non- reporting costs. To satisfy these mandates and inform Southwest Alaska region, (3) West IV. Request for Comments policymakers and the public of the Coast, and (4) the rest of US and likely regional economic impacts elsewhere. Personal interviews with Comments are invited on: (a) Whether associated with fishery management the proposed collection of information input suppliers will gather additional policies, appropriate economic models information on (i) the level of supplier is necessary for the proper performance and the data to implement them are of the functions of the agency, including sales to regional seafood industry needed. Much of the data required for whether the information shall have businesses, and (ii) the portion of regional economic analysis of practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the business expenditures for labor and Southwest Alaska fisheries are either agency’s estimate of the burden non-labor inputs that were made in each unavailable or unreliable. Accurate (including hours and cost) of the of the above nine geographical areas. fishery-level data on employment, labor proposed collection of information; (c) Affected Public: Business or other for- income, and expenditures in the ways to enhance the quality, utility, and profit organizations. Southwest Alaska fishery and related clarity of the information to be Frequency: One time. industries are not generally available collected; and (d) ways to minimize the Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. but are needed to estimate the role of burden of the collection of information fisheries and effects of fishery policies This information collection request on respondents, including through the on local, regional and national may be viewed at reginfo.gov. Follow use of automated collection techniques economies. The Southwest region for the instructions to view Department of or other forms of information this survey includes six boroughs and Commerce collections currently under technology. census areas (BCAs)—Aleutians East review by OMB. Comments submitted in response to Borough, Aleutians West Census Area, Written comments and this notice will be summarized and/or Bristol Bay Borough, Dillingham Census recommendations for the proposed included in the request for OMB Area, Lake and Peninsula Borough, and information collection should be sent approval of this information collection; Kodiak Island Borough. within 30 days of publication of this they also will become a matter of public In 2007–2008, a similar data notice to OIRA_Submission@ record. collection project was administered for omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395–5806. Dated: September 3, 2015. the Southwest Alaska region by Dated: September 3, 2015. Sarah Brabson, obtaining 2006 annual data. However, Sarah Brabson, NOAA PRA Clearance Officer. that data is now outdated and NOAA PRA Clearance Officer. [FR Doc. 2015–22720 Filed 9–9–15; 8:45 am] incomplete. In the proposed survey, [FR Doc. 2015–22708 Filed 9–9–15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 2013 or 2014 annual data for important BILLING CODE 3510–22–P regional economic variables will be collected from fish harvesting and DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE seafood processing businesses operating DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE in the region (2012 data on these National Oceanic and Atmospheric variables will be collected if more recent National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration vessel landings and processed products Administration data are not available at the time the Submission for OMB Review; RIN 0648–XD001 data collection begins). The data will be Comment Request used to develop Southwest regional and Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to The Department of Commerce will BCA-level models that will provide Specified Activities; Confined Blasting submit to the Office of Management and more reliable impact estimates and Activities by the U.S. Army Corps of Budget (OMB) for clearance the significantly improve policymakers’ Engineers During the Port of Miami following proposal for collection of ability to assess effects on fishery- Construction Project in Miami, Florida information under the provisions of the dependent communities in Southwest Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Alaska. A departure from the prior AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Chapter 35). survey effort is that more information Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Agency: National Oceanic and will be collected this time on the source Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). locations of business expenditures by Commerce. Title: Regional Economic Data catcher vessels and seafood processors. ACTION: Notice, withdrawal of an Collection Program for Southwest The survey will be conducted one time Incidental Harassment Authorization Alaska. only. (IHA) application. OMB Control Number: 0648–xxxx. A mail survey will be used to collect Form Number(s): None. data on employment, labor income, and SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that Type of Request: Regular (request for expenditures from owners of 2,731 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers a new information collection). catcher vessels whose boats delivered (ACOE) has withdrawn its application VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:28 Sep 09, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00044 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\10SEN1.SGM 10SEN1


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CollectionFederal Register
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice.
DatesWritten comments must be submitted on or before November 9, 2015.
ContactRequests for additional information or copies of the information collection instrument and instructions should be directed to Adam Bailey, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Southeast Regional Office (SERO), 263 13th Avenue S., St. Petersburg, FL 33701, (727) 824-5305, or [email protected]
FR Citation80 FR 54553 
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