82 FR 60379 - Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; North Pacific Halibut and Sablefish Individual Fishing Quota Cost Recovery Programs
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 243 (December 20, 2017)
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Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 243 (December 20, 2017)
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[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 243 (Wednesday, December 20, 2017)] [Notices] [Pages 60379-60382] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-27336] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration RIN 0648-XF877 Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; North Pacific Halibut and Sablefish Individual Fishing Quota Cost Recovery Programs AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce. ACTION: Notice of standard prices and fee percentage. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: NMFS publishes the individual fishing quota (IFQ) standard prices and fee percentage for cost recovery for the IFQ Program for the halibut and sablefish fisheries of the North Pacific (IFQ Program). The fee percentage for 2017 is 2.2 percent. This action is intended to provide holders of halibut and sablefish IFQ permits with the 2017 standard prices and fee percentage to calculate the required payment for IFQ cost recovery fees due by January 31, 2018. DATES: Valid on December 20, 2017. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carl Greene, Fee Coordinator, 907-586- 7105. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background NMFS Alaska Region administers the IFQ Program in the North Pacific. The IFQ Program is a limited access system authorized by the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson- Stevens Act) and the Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1982. Fishing under the IFQ Program began in March 1995. Regulations implementing the IFQ Program are set forth at 50 CFR part 679. In 1996, the Magnuson-Stevens Act was amended to, among other purposes, require the Secretary of Commerce to ``collect a fee to recover the actual costs directly related to the management and enforcement of any . . . individual quota program.'' This requirement was further amended in 2006 to include collection of the actual costs of data collection, and to replace the reference to ``individual quota program'' with a more general reference to ``limited access privilege program'' at section 304(d)(2)(A). Section 304(d)(2) of the Magnuson- Stevens Act also specifies an upper limit on these fees, when the fees must be collected, and where the fees must be deposited. On March 20, 2000, NMFS published regulations in Sec. 679.45 implementing cost recovery for the IFQ Program (65 FR 14919). Under the regulations, an IFQ permit holder must pay a cost recovery fee for every pound of IFQ halibut and IFQ sablefish that is landed on his or her IFQ permit(s). The IFQ permit holder is responsible for self- collecting the fee for all IFQ halibut and IFQ sablefish landings on his or her permit(s). The IFQ permit holder is also responsible for submitting IFQ fee payment(s) to NMFS on or before the due date of January 31 of the year following the year in which the IFQ landings were made. The total dollar amount of the fee due is determined by multiplying the NMFS published fee percentage by the ex-vessel value of all IFQ landings made on the permit(s) during the IFQ fishing year. As required by Sec. 679.45(d)(1) and (d)(3)(i), NMFS publishes this notice of the fee percentage for the halibut and sablefish IFQ fisheries in the Federal Register during or before the last quarter of each year. Standard Prices The fee is based on the sum of all payments made to fishermen for the sale of the fish during the year. This includes any retro-payments (e.g., bonuses, delayed partial payments, post-season payments) made to the IFQ permit holder for previously landed IFQ halibut or sablefish. For purposes of calculating IFQ cost recovery fees, NMFS distinguishes between two types of ex-vessel value: Actual and standard. Actual ex-vessel value is the amount of all compensation, monetary or non-monetary, that an IFQ permit holder received as payment for his or her IFQ fish sold. Standard ex-vessel value is the default value used to calculate the fee. IFQ permit holders have the option of using actual ex-vessel value if they can satisfactorily document it; otherwise, the standard ex-vessel value is used. Section 679.45(b)(3)(iii) requires the Regional Administrator to publish IFQ standard prices during the last quarter of each calendar year. These standard prices are used, along with estimates of IFQ halibut and IFQ sablefish landings, to calculate standard ex-vessel values. The standard prices are described in U.S. dollars per IFQ equivalent pound for IFQ halibut and IFQ sablefish landings made during the year. According to Sec. 679.2, IFQ equivalent pound(s) means the weight amount, recorded in pounds, and calculated as round weight for sablefish and headed and gutted weight for halibut, for an IFQ landing. The weight of halibut in pounds landed as guided angler fish is converted to IFQ equivalent pound(s) as [[Page 60380]] specified in Sec. 300.65(c) of this title. NMFS calculates the standard prices to closely reflect the variations in the actual ex- vessel values of IFQ halibut and IFQ sablefish landings by month and port or port-group. The standard prices for IFQ halibut and IFQ sablefish are listed in the tables that follow the next section. Data from ports are combined as necessary to protect confidentiality. Fee Percentage NMFS calculates the fee percentage each year according to the factors and methods described at Sec. 679.45(d)(2). NMFS determines the fee percentage that applies to landings made in the previous year by dividing the total costs directly related to the management, data collection, and enforcement of the IFQ Program (management costs) during the previous year by the total standard ex-vessel value of IFQ halibut and IFQ sablefish landings made during the previous year (fishery value). NMFS captures the actual management costs associated with certain management, data collection, and enforcement functions through an established accounting system that allows staff to track labor, travel, contracts, rent, and procurement. NMFS calculates the fishery value as described under the section, Standard Prices. Using the fee percentage formula described above, the estimated percentage of management costs to fishery value for the 2017 calendar year is 2.2 percent of the standard ex-vessel value, which is below the 3.0 maximum fee percentage allowed under section 304(d)(2)(B) of the Magnuson-Stevens Act. An IFQ permit holder is to use the fee percentage of 2.2 percent to calculate his or her fee for IFQ equivalent pound(s) landed during the 2017 halibut and sablefish IFQ fishing season. An IFQ permit holder is responsible for submitting the 2017 IFQ fee payment to NMFS on or before January 31, 2018. Payment must be made in accordance with the payment methods set forth in Sec. 679.45(a)(4). NMFS no longer accepts credit card information by phone or in-person for fee payments. NMFS has determined that the practice of accepting credit card information by phone or in-person no longer meets agency standards for protection of personal financial information (81 FR 23645, April 22, 2016). The 2017 fee percentage of 2.2 percent is lower than the 2016 fee percentage of 3.1 percent, which was capped at 3.0 percent (81 FR 89900, December 13, 2016). The change can be attributed to an estimated 9.8 percent increase in the value of the IFQ Program fisheries from 2016 to 2017, along with a corresponding 21.2% drop in management costs over the same period. Table 1--Registered Buyer Standard Ex-Vessel Prices by Landing Location for the 2017 IFQ Season \1\ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Halibut Sablefish Landing location Period ending standard ex- standard ex- vessel price vessel price ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Homer...................................... March 31........................... .............. .............. April 30........................... 6.49 4.38 May 31............................. 6.58 4.51 June 30............................ 6.52 .............. July 31............................ 6.60 4.52 August 31.......................... 6.40 .............. September 30....................... 5.91 5.00 October 31......................... 5.91 5.00 November 30........................ 5.91 5.00 Ketchikan.................................. March 31........................... .............. .............. April 30........................... 6.71 .............. May 31............................. 6.57 4.93 June 30............................ 6.59 .............. July 31............................ 6.53 .............. August 31.......................... 6.49 .............. September 30....................... 6.63 .............. October 31......................... 6.63 .............. November 30........................ 6.63 .............. Kodiak..................................... March 31........................... 6.53 .............. April 30........................... 6.44 4.59 May 31............................. 6.51 4.53 June 30............................ 6.41 4.75 July 31............................ 6.30 5.10 August 31.......................... 6.14 4.94 September 30....................... 5.88 5.13 October 31......................... 5.88 5.13 November 30........................ 5.88 5.13 Petersburg................................. March 31........................... .............. .............. April 30........................... 6.64 .............. May 31............................. .............. .............. June 30............................ 6.53 .............. July 31............................ .............. .............. August 31.......................... 6.69 .............. September 30....................... .............. .............. October 31......................... .............. .............. November 30........................ .............. .............. Seward..................................... March 31........................... 6.75 .............. April 30........................... 6.48 .............. May 31............................. .............. .............. June 30............................ .............. .............. July 31............................ .............. .............. August 31.......................... .............. .............. [[Page 60381]] September 30....................... .............. .............. October 31......................... .............. .............. November 30........................ .............. .............. Sitka.............................. .............. .............. March 31........................... 6.57 .............. April 30........................... .............. .............. May 31............................. 6.55 5.21 June 30............................ .............. .............. July 31............................ .............. .............. August 31.......................... .............. .............. September 30....................... .............. .............. October 31......................... .............. .............. November 30........................ .............. .............. Port Group Bering Sea \2\.................. March 31........................... .............. .............. April 30........................... 5.71 3.93 May 31............................. 6.04 4.03 June 30............................ 6.15 4.69 July 31............................ 5.96 4.86 August 31.......................... 5.73 4.70 September 30....................... 5.94 4.58 October 31......................... 5.94 4.58 November 30........................ 5.94 4.58 Port Group Central Gulf \3\................ March 31........................... 6.66 4.69 April 30........................... 6.45 4.62 May 31............................. 6.49 4.61 June 30............................ 6.46 4.67 July 31............................ 6.46 4.87 August 31.......................... 6.33 4.79 September 30....................... 5.96 4.93 October 31......................... 5.96 4.93 November 30........................ 5.96 4.93 Port Group Southeast \4\................... March 31........................... 6.77 4.80 April 30........................... 6.57 4.77 May 31............................. 6.52 5.07 June 30............................ 6.54 5.18 July 31............................ 6.58 5.15 August 31.......................... 6.64 5.36 September 30....................... 6.46 5.30 October 31......................... 6.46 5.30 November 30........................ 6.46 5.30 All-Alaska \5\............................. March 31........................... 6.72 4.70 April 30........................... 6.48 4.65 May 31............................. 6.47 4.71 June 30............................ 6.44 4.84 July 31............................ 6.34 4.94 August 31.......................... 6.24 4.88 September 30....................... 6.08 5.01 October 31......................... 6.08 5.01 November 30........................ 6.08 5.01 All \6\.................................... March 31........................... 6.72 4.70 April 30........................... 6.48 4.65 May 31............................. 6.47 4.71 June 30............................ 6.44 4.84 July 31............................ 6.34 4.94 August 31.......................... 6.24 4.88 September 30....................... 6.08 5.01 October 31......................... 6.08 5.01 November 30........................ 6.08 5.01 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ Note: In many instances prices have not been reported to comply with confidentiality guidelines that prevent price reports when there are fewer than three processors operating in a location during a month. \2\ Landing locations Within Port Group--Bering Sea: Adak, Akutan, Akutan Bay, Atka, Bristol Bay, Chefornak, Dillingham, Captains Bay, Dutch Harbor, Egegik, Ikatan Bay, Hooper Bay, King Cove, King Salmon, Kipnuk, Mekoryuk, Naknek, Nome, Quinhagak, Savoonga, St. George, St. Lawrence, St. Paul, Togiak, Toksook Bay, Tununak, Beaver Inlet, Ugadaga Bay, Unalaska. \3\ Landing Locations Within Port Group--Central Gulf of Alaska: Anchor Point, Anchorage, Alitak, Chignik, Cordova, Eagle River, False Pass, West Anchor Cove, Girdwood, Chinitna Bay, Halibut Cove, Homer, Kasilof, Kenai, Kenai River, Alitak, Kodiak, Port Bailey, Nikiski, Ninilchik, Old Harbor, Palmer, Sand Point, Seldovia, Resurrection Bay, Seward, Valdez, Whittier. \4\ Landing Locations Within Port Group--Southeast Alaska: Angoon, Baranof Warm Springs, Craig, Edna Bay, Elfin Cove, Excursion Inlet, Gustavus, Haines, Hollis, Hoonah, Hyder, Auke Bay, Douglas, Tee Harbor, Juneau, Kake, Ketchikan, Klawock, Metlakatla, Pelican, Petersburg, Portage Bay, Port Alexander, Port Graham, Port Protection, Point Baker, Sitka, Skagway, Tenakee Springs, Thorne Bay, Wrangell, Yakutat. [[Page 60382]] \5\ Landing Locations Within Port Group--All: For Alaska: All landing locations included in 2, 3, and 4. For California: Eureka, Fort Bragg, Other California. For Oregon: Astoria, Aurora, Lincoln City, Newport, Warrenton, Other Oregon. For Washington: Anacortes, Bellevue, Bellingham, Nagai Island, Edmonds, Everett, Granite Falls, Ilwaco, La Conner, Port Angeles, Port Orchard, Port Townsend, Rainier, Fox Island, Mercer Island, Seattle, Standwood, Other Washington. For Canada: Port Hardy, Port Edward, Prince Rupert, Vancouver, Haines Junction, Other Canada. Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. Dated: December 14, 2017. Alan D. Risenhoover, Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. [FR Doc. 2017-27336 Filed 12-19-17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-22-P
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included a thorough evaluation of the DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE cost recovery for the IFQ Program (65
potential range of environmental effects FR 14919). Under the regulations, an
that could result from the various National Oceanic and Atmospheric IFQ permit holder must pay a cost
restoration approaches and techniques Administration recovery fee for every pound of IFQ
analyzed in the PDARP; (2) the analysis RIN 0648–XF877
halibut and IFQ sablefish that is landed
of the environmental consequences of on his or her IFQ permit(s). The IFQ
those approaches and techniques in the Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic permit holder is responsible for self-
PDARP remains valid; (3) the effects of Zone Off Alaska; North Pacific Halibut collecting the fee for all IFQ halibut and
the restoration approaches and and Sablefish Individual Fishing Quota IFQ sablefish landings on his or her
Cost Recovery Programs permit(s). The IFQ permit holder is also
techniques, including the project
responsible for submitting IFQ fee
selected for further planning and AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries payment(s) to NMFS on or before the
environmental review, evaluated in this Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and due date of January 31 of the year
SRP/EA are within the range of impacts Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), following the year in which the IFQ
evaluated in the PDARP; and (4) any Commerce. landings were made. The total dollar
new information regarding the ACTION: Notice of standard prices and amount of the fee due is determined by
environmental consequences of the fee percentage. multiplying the NMFS published fee
restoration approaches and techniques, percentage by the ex-vessel value of all
including the projects selected for SUMMARY: NMFS publishes the IFQ landings made on the permit(s)
further planning and environmental individual fishing quota (IFQ) standard during the IFQ fishing year. As required
review, evaluated within this SRP/EA prices and fee percentage for cost by § 679.45(d)(1) and (d)(3)(i), NMFS
are within the range of and consistent recovery for the IFQ Program for the publishes this notice of the fee
with the environmental impacts halibut and sablefish fisheries of the percentage for the halibut and sablefish
identified and analyzed within the North Pacific (IFQ Program). The fee IFQ fisheries in the Federal Register
PDARP. percentage for 2017 is 2.2 percent. This during or before the last quarter of each
action is intended to provide holders of year.
Next Steps halibut and sablefish IFQ permits with
Standard Prices
the 2017 standard prices and fee
The public is encouraged to review The fee is based on the sum of all
percentage to calculate the required
and comment on the Draft SRP/EA. A payment for IFQ cost recovery fees due payments made to fishermen for the sale
public meeting has been scheduled to by January 31, 2018. of the fish during the year. This
also help facilitate the public review includes any retro-payments (e.g.,
DATES: Valid on December 20, 2017.
and comment process. After the public bonuses, delayed partial payments,
comment period ends, the Louisiana FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carl
post-season payments) made to the IFQ
TIG will consider the comments Greene, Fee Coordinator, 907–586–7105. permit holder for previously landed IFQ
received before issuing a Final SRP/EA. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: halibut or sablefish.
A summary of comments received and Background For purposes of calculating IFQ cost
the Louisiana TIG’s responses and any recovery fees, NMFS distinguishes
revisions to the document, as NMFS Alaska Region administers the between two types of ex-vessel value:
IFQ Program in the North Pacific. The Actual and standard. Actual ex-vessel
appropriate, will be included in the
IFQ Program is a limited access system value is the amount of all compensation,
final document.
authorized by the Magnuson-Stevens monetary or non-monetary, that an IFQ
Administrative Record Fishery Conservation and Management permit holder received as payment for
Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act) and the his or her IFQ fish sold. Standard ex-
The documents comprising the Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1982. vessel value is the default value used to
Administrative Record for the Draft Fishing under the IFQ Program began in calculate the fee. IFQ permit holders
SRP/EA can be viewed electronically at March 1995. Regulations implementing have the option of using actual ex-vessel
http://www.doi.gov/deepwaterhorizon/ the IFQ Program are set forth at 50 CFR value if they can satisfactorily document
adminrecord. part 679. it; otherwise, the standard ex-vessel
In 1996, the Magnuson-Stevens Act value is used.
Authority was amended to, among other purposes, Section 679.45(b)(3)(iii) requires the
The authority for this action is OPA require the Secretary of Commerce to Regional Administrator to publish IFQ
(33 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.), the OPA NRDA ‘‘collect a fee to recover the actual costs standard prices during the last quarter
regulations at 15 CFR part 990, and directly related to the management and of each calendar year. These standard
NEPA (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.). enforcement of any . . . individual prices are used, along with estimates of
quota program.’’ This requirement was IFQ halibut and IFQ sablefish landings,
Dated: December 14, 2017. further amended in 2006 to include to calculate standard ex-vessel values.
Carrie Selberg, collection of the actual costs of data The standard prices are described in
Deputy Director, Office of Habitat collection, and to replace the reference U.S. dollars per IFQ equivalent pound
Conservation, National Marine Fisheries to ‘‘individual quota program’’ with a for IFQ halibut and IFQ sablefish
Service. more general reference to ‘‘limited landings made during the year.
access privilege program’’ at section According to § 679.2, IFQ equivalent
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BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 304(d)(2)(A). Section 304(d)(2) of the pound(s) means the weight amount,
Magnuson-Stevens Act also specifies an recorded in pounds, and calculated as
upper limit on these fees, when the fees round weight for sablefish and headed
must be collected, and where the fees and gutted weight for halibut, for an IFQ
must be deposited. landing. The weight of halibut in
On March 20, 2000, NMFS published pounds landed as guided angler fish is
regulations in § 679.45 implementing converted to IFQ equivalent pound(s) as
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5 Landing Locations Within Port Group—All: For Alaska: All landing locations included in 2, 3, and 4. For California: Eureka, Fort Bragg, Other
California. For Oregon: Astoria, Aurora, Lincoln City, Newport, Warrenton, Other Oregon. For Washington: Anacortes, Bellevue, Bellingham,
Nagai Island, Edmonds, Everett, Granite Falls, Ilwaco, La Conner, Port Angeles, Port Orchard, Port Townsend, Rainier, Fox Island, Mercer Is-
land, Seattle, Standwood, Other Washington. For Canada: Port Hardy, Port Edward, Prince Rupert, Vancouver, Haines Junction, Other Canada.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. and forecasting on the continuum of DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Dated: December 14, 2017. time and space scales. GFDL also
[Docket ID ED–2017–OCO–0139]
Alan D. Risenhoover, collaborates with visiting scientists and
Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, students from academic and non-profit Request for Information on Obtaining
National Marine Fisheries Service. institutions with whom NOAA has Input From Rural Schools and Local
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Administration current GFDL facilities are 5005 of the Every Student Succeeds Act
approximately 68,675 square feet. (ESSA), the Secretary seeks information
Environmental Assessment (EA) for Current space can house up to 215 staff, from the public regarding actions the
the Proposed New Space Lease for the including full-time employees, visiting Department of Education (Department)
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics scientists and students, and contract can take to improve how it considers the
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