82 FR 44994 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 186 (September 27, 2017)

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 186 (Wednesday, September 27, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44994-44995]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-20712]


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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

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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 Interagency Electronic Reporting System (IERS).
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0515.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular (extension of a currently approved 
information collection).
    Number of Respondents: 206.
    Average Hours per Response: 35 minutes for a tLandings landing 
report; 30 minutes for catcher/processor eLandings landing report; 18 
minutes for active response and 5 minutes for inactive response for 
pilot catcher vessel trawl electronic logbook (eLog); 15 minutes for 
active response and 5 minutes for inactive response for catcher vessel 
eLog, catcher/processor eLog and mothership eLog; 15 minutes for 
eLandings registration; 10 minutes for eLandings/seaLandings landing 
report; and 20 minutes for at-sea response; and 10 minutes for 
shoreside and stationary floating processor response for eLandings/
seaLandings production report.
    Burden Hours: 22,850.
    Needs and Uses: This request is for an extension of a current 
information collection.
    eLandings, seaLandings, and tLandings are data entry components of 
the Alaska Interagency Electronic Reporting System (IERS), which is a 
collaborative program run by the National Marine Fisheries Service 
(NMFS) Alaska Regional Office, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game 
(ADF&G), and the International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC). 
eLandings, seaLandings, and tLandings provide the Alaska fishing 
industry with a consolidated electronic means of reporting production 
and landings of commercial fish and shellfish to multiple management 
agencies with a single reporting system. NMFS collects groundfish 
harvest and production data for fishery management plan species in the 
Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). ADF&G collects harvest data for 
groundfish species taken in State of Alaska waters and has 
responsibility for some fisheries in the EEZ, such as lingcod and black 
rockfish. ADF&G and NMFS cooperatively manage the Crab Rationalization 
Program fisheries in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management 
Area. NMFS and IPHC cooperatively manage Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) 
for Pacific halibut and sablefish in both State waters and in the EEZ.
    eLandings is a web-based application used by vessels and processors 
to report groundfish, crab, Pacific halibut, and sablefish production 
and landings data. Processors with limited internet access, such as the 
at-sea fleet, use eLandings client desktop software named seaLandings, 
provided by NMFS, and submit the required reports as email attachments 
or via direct transmit over the Internet. Once data are entered and 
submitted, the User must print daily through eLandings each landing 
report, production report, logbook report, and if an IFQ delivery, each 
IFQ receipt. The parties to the information must acknowledge the 
accuracy of the printed reports by signing them and entering the date 
signed. In addition, the User must make the printed copies available 
upon request of NMFS observers and authorized officers.
    tLandings is a software application for tender vessels that records 
landings data on a USB flash drive and creates a printable fish ticket. 
The fish ticket is printed on board the tender vessel and signed by the 
delivering catcher vessel operator. When the tender vessel delivers to 
the shoreside processor, the shoreside processor uploads the landing 
information on the USB flash drive into eLandings.
    Some of the benefits of IERS include improved data quality, 
automated processing of data, improved process for correcting or 
updating information, availability of more timely data for fishery 
managers, and reduction of duplicative reporting of similar information 
to multiple agencies.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations; 
individuals or households.
    Frequency: Daily and on occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    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: September 22, 2017.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-20712 Filed 9-26-17; 8:45 am]
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