82_FR_22071 82 FR 21981 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

82 FR 21981 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 90 (May 11, 2017)

Page Range21981-21981
FR Document2017-09569

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 90 (Thursday, May 11, 2017) 
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 90 (Thursday, May 11, 2017)]
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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: Alaska Region Crab Permits.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0514.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular (extension of a currently approved 
information collection).
    Number of Respondents: 575.
    Average Hours per Response: Annual application for Crab IFQ permit, 
application for Crab IPQ permit, application to become an eligible crab 
community organization (ECCO), 150 minutes each; application for an 
Annual Crab Harvesting Cooperative IFQ Permit, 15 hours; Right of first 
refusal (ROFR) contracts and waivers, 1 hour each; annual application 
for Crab Converted CPO QS and CPO IFQ and application for Registered 
Crab Receiver (RCR) Permit, BSAI Crab Rationalization Program Quota 
Share Beneficiary Designation Form, 30 minutes; application for Crab 
IFQ Hired Master Permit, 1 hour; application for Federal crab vessel 
permit (FCVP) 21 minutes each; application for eligibility to receive 
crab QS/IFQ or PQS/IPQ by transfer, application for transfer of crab 
IFQ, application for transfer of crab QS/IFQ to or from an ECCO, 
Application to transfer crab QS or PQS, application for Annual 
Exemption from Western Aleutian Islands Golden King Crab West Region 
Delivery Requirements, Community Impact Report or IPQ Holder Report 
(North or South Response Report), 2 hours each; ECCO Annual report and 
appeal of denial to NMFS decisions, 4 hours each; application for 
transfer of IFQ between crab harvesting cooperatives, electronic, 5 
minutes, non-electronic, 2 hours; application to Transfer Crab IPQ, 
electronic, 1 hour; non-electronic, 2 hours; CDQ notification of 
community representative, 5 hours; application for exemption from CR 
Crab North or South Region Delivery Requirements and North or South 
Region Delivery Exemption Report, 20 hours each.
    Burden Hours: 3,007.
    Needs and Uses: This request is for extension of a currently 
approved information collection.
    The king and Tanner crab fisheries in the exclusive economic zone 
of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, Alaska, are managed under the 
Fishery Management Plan for Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands King and 
Tanner Crabs (FMP). The North Pacific Fishery Management Council 
prepared the FMP under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and 
Management Act as amended in 2006. The National Marine Fisheries 
Service (NMFS) manages the crab fisheries in the waters off the coast 
of Alaska under the FMP. Regulations implementing the FMP and all 
amendments to the Crab Rationalization Program (CR Program) appear at 
50 CFR part 680. Program details are found at: http://www.alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/regs/680/default.htm.
    The CR Program balances the interests of several groups who depend 
on the crab fisheries. The CR Program addresses conservation and 
management issues associated with the previous derby fishery, reduces 
bycatch and associated discard mortality, and increases the safety of 
crab fishermen by ending the race for fish. Share allocations to 
harvesters and processors, together with incentives to participate in 
fishery cooperatives, increases efficiencies, provides economic 
stability, and facilitates compensated reduction of excess capacities 
in the harvesting and processing sectors. Community interests are 
protected by Western Alaska Community Development Quota allocations and 
regional landing and processing requirements, as well as by several 
community protection measures.
    NMFS established the CR Program as a catch share program for nine 
crab fisheries in the BSAI, and assigned quota share (QS) to persons 
and processor quota share (PQS) to processors based on their historic 
participation in one or more of these nine crab fisheries during a 
specific period. The CR Program components include QS allocation, PQS 
allocation, individual fishing quota (IFQ) issuance, and individual 
processing quota (IPQ) issuance, quota transfers, use caps, crab 
harvesting cooperatives, protections for Gulf of Alaska groundfish 
fisheries, arbitration system, monitoring, economic data collection, 
and cost recovery fee collection.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations; 
individuals or households.
    Frequency: Annually and on occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
    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: May 8, 2017.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-09569 Filed 5-10-17; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 90 / Thursday, May 11, 2017 / Notices 21981 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Needs and Uses: This request is for This information collection request extension of a currently approved may be viewed at reginfo.gov. Follow National Oceanic and Atmospheric information collection. the instructions to view Department of Administration The king and Tanner crab fisheries in Commerce collections currently under the exclusive economic zone of the review by OMB. Submission for OMB Review; Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, Alaska, Written comments and Comment Request are managed under the Fishery recommendations for the proposed Management Plan for Bering Sea and information collection should be sent The Department of Commerce will Aleutian Islands King and Tanner Crabs submit to the Office of Management and within 30 days of publication of this (FMP). The North Pacific Fishery notice to OIRA_Submission@ Budget (OMB) for clearance the Management Council prepared the FMP following proposal for collection of omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395–5806. under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery information under the provisions of the Dated: May 8, 2017. Conservation and Management Act as Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. amended in 2006. The National Marine Sarah Brabson, Chapter 35). Fisheries Service (NMFS) manages the NOAA PRA Clearance Officer. Agency: National Oceanic and crab fisheries in the waters off the coast [FR Doc. 2017–09569 Filed 5–10–17; 8:45 am] Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). of Alaska under the FMP. Regulations BILLING CODE 3510–22–P Title: Alaska Region Crab Permits. implementing the FMP and all OMB Control Number: 0648–0514. amendments to the Crab Rationalization Form Number(s): None. Program (CR Program) appear at 50 CFR DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Type of Request: Regular (extension of part 680. Program details are found at: http://www.alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/ National Oceanic and Atmospheric a currently approved information Administration collection). regs/680/default.htm. Number of Respondents: 575. The CR Program balances the interests Proposed Information Collection; of several groups who depend on the Average Hours per Response: Annual Comment Request; Day 8 to 10 crab fisheries. The CR Program application for Crab IFQ permit, Forecast Focus Groups, Interviews addresses conservation and application for Crab IPQ permit, and Survey management issues associated with the application to become an eligible crab previous derby fishery, reduces bycatch AGENCY: National Oceanic and community organization (ECCO), 150 and associated discard mortality, and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), minutes each; application for an Annual increases the safety of crab fishermen by Commerce. Crab Harvesting Cooperative IFQ ending the race for fish. Share Permit, 15 hours; Right of first refusal ACTION: Notice. allocations to harvesters and processors, (ROFR) contracts and waivers, 1 hour together with incentives to participate SUMMARY: The Department of each; annual application for Crab in fishery cooperatives, increases Commerce, as part of its continuing Converted CPO QS and CPO IFQ and efficiencies, provides economic effort to reduce paperwork and application for Registered Crab Receiver stability, and facilitates compensated respondent burden, invites the general (RCR) Permit, BSAI Crab Rationalization reduction of excess capacities in the public and other Federal agencies to Program Quota Share Beneficiary harvesting and processing sectors. take this opportunity to comment on Designation Form, 30 minutes; Community interests are protected by proposed and/or continuing information application for Crab IFQ Hired Master Western Alaska Community collections, as required by the Permit, 1 hour; application for Federal Development Quota allocations and Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. crab vessel permit (FCVP) 21 minutes regional landing and processing each; application for eligibility to DATES: Written comments must be requirements, as well as by several submitted on or before July 10, 2017. receive crab QS/IFQ or PQS/IPQ by community protection measures. transfer, application for transfer of crab ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments NMFS established the CR Program as IFQ, application for transfer of crab QS/ to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental a catch share program for nine crab IFQ to or from an ECCO, Application to Paperwork Clearance Officer, fisheries in the BSAI, and assigned transfer crab QS or PQS, application for Department of Commerce, Room 6616, quota share (QS) to persons and Annual Exemption from Western 14th and Constitution Avenue NW., processor quota share (PQS) to Aleutian Islands Golden King Crab West Washington, DC 20230 (or via the processors based on their historic Region Delivery Requirements, Internet at pracomments@doc.gov). participation in one or more of these Community Impact Report or IPQ nine crab fisheries during a specific FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Holder Report (North or South Response period. The CR Program components Requests for additional information or Report), 2 hours each; ECCO Annual include QS allocation, PQS allocation, copies of the information collection report and appeal of denial to NMFS individual fishing quota (IFQ) issuance, instrument and instructions should be decisions, 4 hours each; application for and individual processing quota (IPQ) directed to Kate Quigley, (843) 327– transfer of IFQ between crab harvesting issuance, quota transfers, use caps, crab 1114 or kate.quigley@ecs-federal.com. cooperatives, electronic, 5 minutes, non- harvesting cooperatives, protections for SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: electronic, 2 hours; application to Gulf of Alaska groundfish fisheries, Transfer Crab IPQ, electronic, 1 hour; I. Abstract asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES arbitration system, monitoring, non-electronic, 2 hours; CDQ economic data collection, and cost This request is for a new collection of notification of community recovery fee collection. information. representative, 5 hours; application for Affected Public: Business or other for- The objective of the web-based focus exemption from CR Crab North or South profit organizations; individuals or groups, phone interviews, and online Region Delivery Requirements and households. survey is to collect information on the North or South Region Delivery Frequency: Annually and on occasion. current use of NOAA’s National Exemption Report, 20 hours each. Respondent’s Obligation: Required to Weather Service (NWS) Weather Burden Hours: 3,007. obtain or retain benefits. Prediction Center (WPC) products, VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:52 May 10, 2017 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\11MYN1.SGM 11MYN1


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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
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FR Citation82 FR 21981 
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