82_FR_41380 82 FR 41213 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Southeast Region IFQ Programs

82 FR 41213 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Southeast Region IFQ Programs

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 167 (August 30, 2017)

Page Range41213-41214
FR Document2017-18372

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 82 Issue 167 (Wednesday, August 30, 2017) 
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 167 (Wednesday, August 30, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41213-41214]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-18372]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Southeast 
Region IFQ Programs

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 30, 
2017.

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, 263 13th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 
33701, (727) 824-5303, or [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

    This request is for an extension and revision of a currently 
approved information collection under the Office of Management and 
Budget's (OMB) Control Number 0648-0551, Southeast Region IFQ 
(individual fishing quota) Programs. The NMFS Southeast Regional Office 
manages three commercial IFQ and individual transferable quota (ITQ) 
programs in the Southeast Region under the authority of the Magnuson-
Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act), 
16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. The IFQ programs for red snapper, and grouper 
and tilefish occur in Federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and the ITQ 
program for wreckfish occurs in Federal waters of the South Atlantic.
    This collection of information tracks the transfer and use of IFQ 
and ITQ shares, and IFQ allocation and landings necessary to operate, 
administer, and review management of the IFQ and ITQ programs. 
Regulations for the IFQ and ITQ programs are located at 50 CFR part 
622.
    The NMFS Southeast Regional Office also proposes to revise parts of 
the information collection approved under OMB Control Number 0648-0551 
to account for updates to burden time and cost estimates, as well as 
administrative updates to online and paper forms. NMFS intends the 
revisions would make instructions and data collection requirements 
clearer and easier to understand, resulting in more accurate and 
efficient information available for use by fishery managers.

II. Method of Collection

    Information for the Gulf red snapper, and grouper and tilefish IFQ 
programs is collected electronically via a web-based system, through 
satellite-linked vessel monitoring systems, through a 24-hour call 
line, and with paper form submission for landing corrections, closing 
an account, and account applications, as well as landing transactions 
under catastrophic circumstances.
    The share transfer process in the wreckfish ITQ program requires 
the signatures of witnesses on paper forms. The ITQ program remains 
paper based until the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council and 
NMFS consider whether to implement an electronic system.

III. Data

    OMB Control Number: 0648-0551.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Review: Regular submission (extension and revision of a 
currently approved information collection).
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,059.

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    Estimated Time per Response: Share Transfer Receipt form, Cost 
Recovery Fee Submission form, 1 minute; Share Transfer form, IFQ Close 
Account form, Cost Recovery Fee Submission form, Landing Transaction 
Correction Request form, Landing Location Submission form, Transfer 
Allocation form, Cost Recovery Fee payment through pay.gov, 3 minutes; 
Notification of Landing form, 5 minutes; Landing Transaction Report 
form, 6 minutes; IFQ Online Account Application form, 15 minutes; 
Wreckfish Quota Share Transfer form, 18 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,322.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: $150 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: August 25, 2017.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-18372 Filed 8-29-17; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 167 / Wednesday, August 30, 2017 / Notices 41213 work products. Do you believe that the may be provided anonymously, but Control Number 0648–0551, Southeast OSAC should develop ‘‘best practices’’ those respondents who do share contact Region IFQ (individual fishing quota) and other materials that are not formal information are requested to include Programs. The NMFS Southeast ‘‘standards’’? brief background information regarding Regional Office manages three (D) Structure: What are your views as the respondent’s subject-matter commercial IFQ and individual to whether the current the OSAC experience and expertise. Responses transferable quota (ITQ) programs in the structure works efficiently? Do you submitted through www.regulations.gov Southeast Region under the authority of believe that another structure should be will not include the email address of the the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery utilized? Please provide your opinion respondent unless the respondent Conservation and Management Act about whether there are any issues in chooses to include that information as (Magnuson-Stevens Act), 16 U.S.C. 1801 the current work product development part of the response. et seq. The IFQ programs for red process that should be addressed Authority: 15 U.S.C. 272(b)(10). snapper, and grouper and tilefish occur structurally. In your view, does the in Federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico, reliance on standards development Kevin Kimball, and the ITQ program for wreckfish organizations function as intended NIST Chief of Staff. occurs in Federal waters of the South (please include the reasons for your [FR Doc. 2017–18355 Filed 8–29–17; 8:45 am] Atlantic. opinion)? BILLING CODE 3510–13–P This collection of information tracks (E) Participation: What are your views the transfer and use of IFQ and ITQ as to the community the OSAC should shares, and IFQ allocation and landings serve? In your opinion, what DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE necessary to operate, administer, and stakeholders must be a part of the OSAC review management of the IFQ and ITQ (e.g., practitioners, researchers, forensic National Oceanic and Atmospheric programs. Regulations for the IFQ and science societies, accreditation bodies, Administration ITQ programs are located at 50 CFR part scientific societies, human factors 622. experts, metrologists, standards Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Southeast Region The NMFS Southeast Regional Office development organizations, legal also proposes to revise parts of the practitioners)? If you think that any of IFQ Programs information collection approved under these entities should be excluded, AGENCY: National Oceanic and OMB Control Number 0648–0551 to please explain why and identify other Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), account for updates to burden time and venues for the views of the excluded Commerce. cost estimates, as well as administrative entities to be incorporated into forensic ACTION: Notice. updates to online and paper forms. practice, if appropriate. In your view, NMFS intends the revisions would should some stakeholders serve more SUMMARY: The Department of make instructions and data collection limited roles and, if so, how and why? Commerce, as part of its continuing requirements clearer and easier to (F) Funding: What is your opinion as effort to reduce paperwork and understand, resulting in more accurate to the funding model that the OSAC respondent burden, invites the general and efficient information available for should employ—Entirely funded by the public and other Federal agencies to use by fishery managers. Federal government, by non-Federal take this opportunity to comment on funds, or a combination of funding proposed and/or continuing information II. Method of Collection sources? (Please include your thoughts collections, as required by the Information for the Gulf red snapper, on the role of funding sources such as Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. and grouper and tilefish IFQ programs membership fees, certification fees, and DATES: Written comments must be is collected electronically via a web- meeting registration fees.) What are your submitted on or before October 30, based system, through satellite-linked views about the implications of funding 2017. vessel monitoring systems, through a models for the other traits, particularly 24-hour call line, and with paper form ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments oversight and independence? submission for landing corrections, Response to this request for to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental Paperwork Clearance Officer, closing an account, and account information (RFI) is voluntary, and applications, as well as landing comments are not limited to the specific Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and Constitution Avenue NW., transactions under catastrophic questions posed. Respondents need not circumstances. reply to all questions; however, it is Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at pracomments@doc.gov). The share transfer process in the requested that they clearly indicate the wreckfish ITQ program requires the letter of each question to which they are FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: signatures of witnesses on paper forms. responding. All responses to this RFI Requests for additional information or The ITQ program remains paper based must be submitted electronically copies of the information collection until the South Atlantic Fishery through www.regulations.gov. instrument and instructions should be Management Council and NMFS All responses received will be posted directed to Adam Bailey, National consider whether to implement an on www.regulations.gov without making Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) electronic system. any changes to the responses or Southeast Regional Office, 263 13th redacting any information, including Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, III. Data any personally identifiable information (727) 824–5303, or adam.bailey@ OMB Control Number: 0648–0551. provided. It is the responsibility of the noaa.gov. Form Number(s): None. mstockstill on DSK30JT082PROD with NOTICES respondent to safeguard personally SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Type of Review: Regular submission identifiable information. You are not (extension and revision of a currently required to submit personally I. Abstract approved information collection). identifying information in order to This request is for an extension and Affected Public: Business or other for- respond and it is recommended that revision of a currently approved profit organizations. respondents’ personally identifiable information collection under the Office Estimated Number of Respondents: information not be included. Responses of Management and Budget’s (OMB) 1,059. VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:40 Aug 29, 2017 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\30AUN1.SGM 30AUN1

41214 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 167 / Wednesday, August 30, 2017 / Notices Estimated Time per Response: Share Title: Greater Atlantic Observers within 24 hours of the vessel owner’s Transfer Receipt form, Cost Recovery Providers’ Requirements. notification of a prospective trip; Fee Submission form, 1 minute; Share OMB Control Number: 0648–0546. maintain an updated contact list of all Transfer form, IFQ Close Account form, Form Number(s): None. observers that includes the observer Cost Recovery Fee Submission form, Type of Request: Regular (extension of identification number; observer’s name Landing Transaction Correction Request a currently approved information mailing address, email address, phone form, Landing Location Submission collection). numbers, homeports or fisheries/trip form, Transfer Allocation form, Cost Number of Respondents: 515. types assigned, and whether or not the Recovery Fee payment through pay.gov, Average Hours per Response: observer is ‘‘in service.’’ The regulations 3 minutes; Notification of Landing form, Application for approval of observer also require observer service providers service provider and applicant response submit any outreach materials, such as 5 minutes; Landing Transaction Report to denial of application for approval of form, 6 minutes; IFQ Online Account informational pamphlets, payment observer service provider, 10 hours Application form, 15 minutes; notification, and descriptions of each; observer service provider request Wreckfish Quota Share Transfer form, observer duties as well as all contracts for observer training, 30 minutes; 18 minutes. between the service provider and Estimated Total Annual Burden observer deployment report and entities requiring observer services for Hours: 2,322. observer availability reports, 10 minutes review to NMFS/NEFOP. Observer Estimated Total Annual Cost to each; safety refusal report, 30 minutes; service providers also have the option to Public: $150 in recordkeeping/reporting submission of raw observer data and respond to application denials, and costs. biological samples, 5 minutes each; submit a rebuttal in response to a observer debriefing, 2 hours; rebuttal of IV. Request for Comments pending removal from the list of pending removal from list of approved approved observer providers. These Comments are invited on: (a) Whether observer service providers, 8 hours; requirements allow NMFS/NEFOP to the proposed collection of information vessel request to observer service effectively administer the scallop is necessary for the proper performance provider for procurement of a certified observer program. of the functions of the agency, including observer, 25 minutes; vessel request for Affected Public: Business and other whether the information shall have waiver of observer coverage requirement for-profit organizations. practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the and observer contact list updates, 5 Frequency: Daily and on occasion. agency’s estimate of the burden minutes each; observer availability Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. (including hours and cost) of the updates, 1 minute; service provider This information collection request proposed collection of information; (c) material submissions and service may be viewed at reginfo.gov. Follow ways to enhance the quality, utility, and provider contracts, 30 minutes each. the instructions to view Department of clarity of the information to be Burden Hours: 5,250. Commerce collections currently under collected; and (d) ways to minimize the Needs and Uses: This request is for review by OMB. burden of the collection of information extension of a currently approved Written comments and on respondents, including through the information collection. recommendations for the proposed use of automated collection techniques Under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery information collection should be sent or other forms of information Conservation and Management Act, the within 30 days of publication of this technology. Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) has notice to OIRA_Submission@ Comments submitted in response to the responsibility for the conservation omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395–5806. this notice will be summarized and/or and management of marine fishery resources. Much of this responsibility Dated: August 25, 2017. included in the request for OMB Sarah Brabson, approval of this information collection; has been delegated to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric NOAA PRA Clearance Officer. they also will become a matter of public record. Administration (NOAA)/National [FR Doc. 2017–18371 Filed 8–29–17; 8:45 am] Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). BILLING CODE 3510–22–P Dated: August 25, 2017. Under this stewardship role, the Sarah Brabson, Secretary was given certain regulatory NOAA PRA Clearance Officer. authorities to ensure the most beneficial DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE [FR Doc. 2017–18372 Filed 8–29–17; 8:45 am] uses of these resources. One of the BILLING CODE 3510–22–P regulatory steps taken to carry out the National Oceanic and Atmospheric conservation and management Administration (NOAA) objectives is to collect data from users Notice of Availability of a Draft DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE of the resource. Programmatic Environmental; Regulations at 50 CFR 648.11(g) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Assessment for the National Oceanic require observer service providers to Administration and Atmospheric, Administration comply with specific requirements in National Data Buoy Center order to operate as an approved Submission for OMB Review; provider in the Atlantic sea scallop AGENCY: National Weather Service Comment Request (scallop) fishery. Observer service (NWS), National Oceanic and The Department of Commerce will providers must comply with the Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), submit to the Office of Management and following requirements: Submit Department of Commerce (DOC). mstockstill on DSK30JT082PROD with NOTICES Budget (OMB) for clearance the applications for approval as an observer ACTION: Request for public comments. following proposal for collection of service provider; formally request information under the provisions of the observer training by the Northeast DATES: The Draft PEA is available for Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Fisheries Observer Program (NEFOP); public review and comment for 30 days Chapter 35). submit observer deployment reports and after posting. It can be accessed at Agency: National Oceanic and biological samples; give notification of http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/pea/ndbc_ Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). whether a vessel must carry an observer draft_pea.pdf. 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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice.
DatesWritten comments must be submitted on or before October 30, 2017.
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, 263 13th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, (727) 824-5303, or [email protected]
FR Citation82 FR 41213 
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