82_FR_43926 82 FR 43746 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Individual Fishing Quotas for Pacific Halibut and Sablefish in the Alaska Fisheries

82 FR 43746 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Individual Fishing Quotas for Pacific Halibut and Sablefish in the Alaska Fisheries

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 180 (September 19, 2017)

Page Range43746-43747
FR Document2017-19888

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 180 (Tuesday, September 19, 2017) 
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 180 (Tuesday, September 19, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43746-43747]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-19888]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Individual 
Fishing Quotas for Pacific Halibut and Sablefish in the Alaska 
Fisheries

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 November 20, 
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 pracomments@doc.gov).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or 
copies of the information collection instrument and instructions should 
be directed to Stephanie Warpinski, (907) 586-7228.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract

    This request is for revision and extension of a currently approved 
information collection.
    The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) established the 
Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) Program to improve the long-term 
productivity of the sablefish and Pacific halibut fisheries by further 
promoting the conservation and management objectives of the Magnuson-
Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, 16 U.S.C. 1801 et 
seq., (with respect to sablefish) and the Northern Pacific Halibut Act 
of 1982 (with respect to Pacific halibut) while retaining the character 
and distribution of the fishing fleets as much as possible. The IFQ 
Program includes several provisions, such as ownership caps and vessel 
use caps that protect small harvesters and processors, part-time 
participants, and entry-level participants that otherwise could be 
adversely affected by excessive consolidation.
    The IFQ Program also includes other restrictions to prevent the 
halibut and sablefish fisheries from domination by large boats or by 
any particular vessel class. NMFS designed the requirements to maintain 
a predominantly owner-operated fishery, which was a key characteristic 
of the halibut and sablefish fisheries prior to the implementation of 
the IFQ Program. The IFQ Program provides each fisherman an IFQ that 
can be used any time during the open season to allow each fisherman to 
set his/her own pace and fishing effort.
    Under the IFQ Program, quota share (QS) represents a harvesting 
privilege for a person. Annually, NMFS issues IFQ to QS holders to 
harvest specified poundage. The specific amount of IFQ held by a person 
is determined by the number of QS units held, the total number of QS 
units issued in a specific regulatory area, and the total pounds of 
sablefish or halibut allocated for the IFQ fisheries in a particular 
year. Fishermen may harvest the IFQ over the entire fishing season, 
which extends approximately from March through November 15.
    The IFQ Manual Landing Report form will be removed from this 
information collection. This form is approved under OMB Control Number 
0648-0515 (Alaska Interagency Electronic Reporting System (IERS)) and 
will remain in that collection.

II. Method of Collection

    ``Fillable'' forms and applications are available from the NMFS 
Alaska Region Web site at https://alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/fisheries-applications, except for those forms completed by NOAA Office of Law 
Enforcement officers via the telephone. These forms and applications 
may be completed on the computer by the participant, downloaded, 
printed, and faxed to NMFS.

III. Data

    OMB Control Number: 0648-0272.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Review: Regular submission (revision and extension of a 
current information collection).
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations; 
Individuals or households; Not-for-profit institutions.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,639.
    Estimated Time per Response: Application for Eligibility to receive 
QS/IFQ (TEC), QS holder form (Identification of Ownership Interest), 
Application for Transfer of QS/IFQ (includes sweep-up); Application for 
Military Transfer, and Application for

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Emergency Medical Transfer, 2 hours each; Application for IFQ/CDQ Hired 
Master Permit, Application for Registered Buyer permit, QS/IFQ 
Designated Beneficiary Form, and Application for replacement of 
certificates, permits, or licenses, 30 minutes each; Registered Buyer 
landing report, and Transshipment Authorization, 12 minutes each; Prior 
Notice of Landing (PNOL), and IFQ Departure Report, 15 minutes each; 
IFQ Administrative Waiver, and Dockside Sales Receipt, 6 minutes each.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 3,930 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: $5,127 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 14, 2017.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-19888 Filed 9-18-17; 8:45 am]
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43746 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 180 / Tuesday, September 19, 2017 / Notices experimental trap will have the DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE The IFQ Program also includes other participating fisherman’s identification restrictions to prevent the halibut and attached); and National Oceanic and Atmospheric sablefish fisheries from domination by 4. Possession restrictions in Administration large boats or by any particular vessel §§ 697.20(a), 697.20(d), and 697.20(g) to class. NMFS designed the requirements allow for temporary possession of Proposed Information Collection; to maintain a predominantly owner- juvenile, v-notched, and egg-bearing Comment Request; Individual Fishing operated fishery, which was a key lobsters for onboard biological Quotas for Pacific Halibut and characteristic of the halibut and sampling. Sablefish in the Alaska Fisheries sablefish fisheries prior to the If the EFP is approved, this research AGENCY: National Oceanic and implementation of the IFQ Program. The would take place during the regular Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), IFQ Program provides each fisherman fishing activity of the participating 18 Commerce. an IFQ that can be used any time during federally permitted commercial fishing the open season to allow each fisherman ACTION: Notice. vessels: 6 ‘‘inshore’’ vessels in lobster to set his/her own pace and fishing management area 2 and 12 ‘‘offshore’’ SUMMARY: The Department of effort. vessels in lobster management areas 3, Commerce, as part of its continuing Under the IFQ Program, quota share 4, and 5. Each participating vessel effort to reduce paperwork and (QS) represents a harvesting privilege would have up to three modified traps respondent burden, invites the general for a person. Annually, NMFS issues attached to a standard, Atlantic Large public and other Federal agencies to IFQ to QS holders to harvest specified Whale-compliant trap trawl. No more take this opportunity to comment on poundage. The specific amount of IFQ than 54 total modified traps would be in proposed and/or continuing information held by a person is determined by the the water at any time. Modifications to collections, as required by the number of QS units held, the total conventional lobster traps used in this Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. number of QS units issued in a specific study include a closed escape vents, regulatory area, and the total pounds of DATES: Written comments must be single parlors, and smaller mesh sizes sablefish or halibut allocated for the IFQ submitted on or before November 20, and entrance heads, all to allow for the fisheries in a particular year. Fishermen 2017. capture of juvenile lobsters and Jonah may harvest the IFQ over the entire crabs. Sampling would occur during ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments fishing season, which extends regular fishing activity on each vessel to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental approximately from March through weekly in area 2, and every 10 days in Paperwork Clearance Officer, November 15. the other areas. Department of Commerce, Room 6616, The IFQ Manual Landing Report form During sampling, all lobsters and 14th and Constitution Avenue NW., will be removed from this information Jonah crabs will be counted, sexed, and Washington, DC 20230 (or via the collection. This form is approved under measured. Other biological information Internet at pracomments@doc.gov). OMB Control Number 0648–0515 will be recorded on both lobster and FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: (Alaska Interagency Electronic Jonah crab catch, including shell Requests for additional information or Reporting System (IERS)) and will hardness and presence of eggs. The copies of the information collection remain in that collection. possession exemptions are required to instrument and instructions should be II. Method of Collection temporarily hold catch onboard for directed to Stephanie Warpinski, (907) 586–7228. ‘‘Fillable’’ forms and applications are biological sampling before animals are available from the NMFS Alaska Region promptly returned to the sea. No catch SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Web site at https:// of any species from experimental traps I. Abstract alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/fisheries- will be landed for sale. All data applications, except for those forms collected will be made available to state This request is for revision and completed by NOAA Office of Law and Federal management agencies to extension of a currently approved Enforcement officers via the telephone. improve and enhance the available data information collection. These forms and applications may be for these two crustacean species. The National Marine Fisheries Service completed on the computer by the If approved, the applicant may (NMFS) established the Individual participant, downloaded, printed, and request minor modifications and Fishing Quota (IFQ) Program to improve faxed to NMFS. extensions to the EFP throughout the the long-term productivity of the study period. EFP modifications and sablefish and Pacific halibut fisheries by III. Data extensions may be granted without further promoting the conservation and OMB Control Number: 0648–0272. further notice if they are deemed management objectives of the Form Number(s): None. essential to facilitate completion of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Type of Review: Regular submission proposed research and have minimal Conservation and Management Act, 16 (revision and extension of a current impacts that do not change the scope or U.S.C. 1801 et seq., (with respect to information collection). impact of the initially approved EFP sablefish) and the Northern Pacific Affected Public: Business or other for- request. Any fishing activity conducted Halibut Act of 1982 (with respect to profit organizations; Individuals or outside the scope of the exempted Pacific halibut) while retaining the households; Not-for-profit institutions. asabaliauskas on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with NOTICES fishing activity would be prohibited. character and distribution of the fishing Estimated Number of Respondents: Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. fleets as much as possible. The IFQ 1,639. Program includes several provisions, Estimated Time per Response: Dated: September 14, 2017. such as ownership caps and vessel use Application for Eligibility to receive QS/ Emily H. Menashes, caps that protect small harvesters and IFQ (TEC), QS holder form Acting Director, Office of Sustainable processors, part-time participants, and (Identification of Ownership Interest), Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. entry-level participants that otherwise Application for Transfer of QS/IFQ [FR Doc. 2017–19925 Filed 9–18–17; 8:45 am] could be adversely affected by excessive (includes sweep-up); Application for BILLING CODE 3510–22–P consolidation. Military Transfer, and Application for VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:12 Sep 18, 2017 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\19SEN1.SGM 19SEN1

Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 180 / Tuesday, September 19, 2017 / Notices 43747 Emergency Medical Transfer, 2 hours FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: preceding 12-month period. See Section each; Application for IFQ/CDQ Hired Maria D’Andrea-Yothers, International 112(b)(3)(B)(ii)(II) of TDA 2000, as Master Permit, Application for Trade Specialist, Office of Textiles and amended by Section 6002(a)(3) of Registered Buyer permit, QS/IFQ Apparel, U.S. Department of Commerce, TRHCA 2006. The Annex to Presidential Designated Beneficiary Form, and (202) 482–1550. Proclamation 7350 of October 2, 2000 Application for replacement of SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: directed CITA to publish the aggregate certificates, permits, or licenses, 30 Authority: Title I, Section 112(b)(3) of quantity of imports allowed during each minutes each; Registered Buyer landing the Trade and Development Act of 2000 12-month period in the Federal report, and Transshipment (TDA 2000), Public Law (Pub. L.) 106– Register. Authorization, 12 minutes each; Prior 200, as amended by Division B, Title For the one-year period, beginning on Notice of Landing (PNOL), and IFQ XXI, section 3108 of the Trade Act of October 1, 2017, and extending through Departure Report, 15 minutes each; IFQ 2002, Pub. L. 107–210; Section 7(b)(2) of September 30, 2018, the aggregate Administrative Waiver, and Dockside the AGOA Acceleration Act of 2004, quantity of imports eligible for Sales Receipt, 6 minutes each. Pub. L. 108–274; Division D, Title VI, preferential treatment under these Estimated Total Annual Burden section 6002 of the Tax Relief and provisions is 2,022,822,376 square Hours: 3,930 hours. Health Care Act of 2006 (TRHCA 2006), meters equivalent. Of this amount, Estimated Total Annual Cost to Pub. L. 109–432, and section 1 of The 1,011,411,188 square meters equivalent Public: $5,127 in recordkeeping/ African Growth and Opportunity is available to apparel articles imported reporting costs. Amendments (Pub. L. 112–163), August under the special rule for lesser- 10, 2012; Presidential Proclamation developed countries. Apparel articles IV. Request for Comments 7350 of October 2, 2000 (65 FR 59321); entered in excess of these quantities will Comments are invited on: (a) Whether Presidential Proclamation 7626 of be subject to otherwise applicable the proposed collection of information November 13, 2002 (67 FR 69459); and tariffs. is necessary for the proper performance Title I, Section 103(b)(2) and (3) of the These quantities are calculated using of the functions of the agency, including Trade Preferences Extension Act of the aggregate square meter equivalents whether the information shall have 2015, Pub. L. 114–27, June 29, 2015. of all apparel articles imported into the practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the Title I of TDA 2000 provides for duty- United States, derived from the set of agency’s estimate of the burden and quota-free treatment for certain Harmonized System lines listed in the (including hours and cost) of the textile and apparel articles imported Annex to the World Trade Organization proposed collection of information; (c) from designated beneficiary sub- Agreement on Textiles and Clothing ways to enhance the quality, utility, and Saharan African countries. (ATC), and the conversion factors for clarity of the information to be Section 112(b)(3) of TDA 2000 units of measure into square meter collected; and (d) ways to minimize the provides duty- and quota-free treatment equivalents used by the United States in burden of the collection of information for apparel articles wholly assembled in implementing the ATC. on respondents, including through the one or more beneficiary sub-Saharan Terry Labat, use of automated collection techniques African countries from fabric wholly or other forms of information Acting Chairman, Committee for the formed in one or more beneficiary sub- Implementation of Textile Agreements. technology. Saharan African countries from yarn [FR Doc. 2017–19841 Filed 9–18–17; 8:45 am] Comments submitted in response to originating in the United States or one this notice will be summarized and/or BILLING CODE 3510–DR–P or more beneficiary sub-Saharan African included in the request for OMB countries. approval of this information collection; This preferential treatment is also they also will become a matter of public COUNCIL OF THE INSPECTORS available for apparel articles assembled record. GENERAL ON INTEGRITY AND in one or more lesser-developed EFFICIENCY Dated: September 14, 2017. beneficiary sub-Saharan African Sarah Brabson, countries, regardless of the country of Senior Executive Service Performance NOAA PRA Clearance Officer. origin of the fabric used to make such Review Board Membership [FR Doc. 2017–19888 Filed 9–18–17; 8:45 am] articles, subject to quantitative limitation. Public Law 114–27 extended AGENCY: Council of the Inspectors BILLING CODE 3510–22–P this special rule for lesser-developed General on Integrity and Efficiency. countries through September 30, 2025. ACTION: Notice. The AGOA Acceleration Act of 2004 COMMITTEE FOR THE SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the provides that the quantitative limitation IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE names and titles of the current for the twelve-month period beginning AGREEMENTS membership of the Council of the October 1, 2017 will be an amount not to exceed 7 percent of the aggregate Inspectors General on Integrity and Limitations of Duty- and Quota-Free Efficiency (CIGIE) Performance Review Imports of Apparel Articles Assembled square meter equivalents of all apparel articles imported into the United States Board as of October 1, 2017. in Beneficiary Sub-Saharan African in the preceding 12-month period for DATES: Applicable: October 1, 2017. Countries From Regional and Third- asabaliauskas on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with NOTICES Country Fabric which data are available. See Section FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 112(b)(3)(A)(ii)(I) of TDA 2000, as Individual Offices of Inspectors General AGENCY: Committee for the amended by Section 7(b)(2)(B) of the at the telephone numbers listed below. Implementation of Textile Agreements AGOA Acceleration Act of 2004. Of this SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: (CITA). overall amount, apparel imported under ACTION: Publishing the new 12-month the special rule for lesser-developed I. Background cap on duty- and quota-free benefits. countries is limited to an amount not to The Inspector General Act of 1978, as exceed 3.5 percent of all apparel articles amended, created the Offices of DATES: Applicable October 1, 2017. imported into the United States in the Inspectors General as independent and VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:12 Sep 18, 2017 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\19SEN1.SGM 19SEN1


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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 November 20, 2017.
ContactRequests for additional information or copies of the information collection instrument and instructions should be directed to Stephanie Warpinski, (907) 586-7228.
FR Citation82 FR 43746 
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