83_FR_38277 83 FR 38127 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Southeast Region Aquaculture Program

83 FR 38127 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Southeast Region Aquaculture Program

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 150 (August 3, 2018)

Page Range38127-38128
FR Document2018-16657

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 83 Issue 150 (Friday, August 3, 2018) 
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 150 (Friday, August 3, 2018)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-16657]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Southeast 
Region Aquaculture Program

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), 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 2, 2018.

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 Jessica Beck-Stimpert, NMFS Southeast Regional Office, 
263 13th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, phone: 727-824-5305, 
or email: [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 0648-0703, Southeast Region Aquaculture 
Program. NMFS manages aquaculture operations in Federal waters of the 
Gulf of Mexico (Gulf) under the Fishery Management Plan for Regulating 
Offshore Marine Aquaculture in the Gulf of Mexico (Aquaculture FMP). 
The final rule for the Aquaculture FMP published in the Federal 
Register on January 13, 2016 (81 FR 1762; RIN 0648-AS65).
    This collection of information tracks the administrative functions 
associated with the aquaculture program (e.g., registration and account 
setup, landing transactions, and most reporting requirements).
    The NMFS Southeast Regional Office also proposes to revise parts of 
the information collection approved under OMB Control Number 0648-0703 
to account for updates to burden time and cost estimates, inclusion of 
new forms to fulfill rule requirements and 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 Southeast Region Aquaculture Program is 
collected online via the aquaculture website (http://sero.nmfs.noaa.gov/sustainable_fisheries/gulf_fisheries/aquaculture/); 
therefore, a participant must have access to a computer and internet 
access, and must set up an appropriate online aquaculture account to 
participate. Assistance with online functions will be available from 
customer service Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., 
eastern time. If some online reporting functions are not available at 
the time of initial implementation of the aquaculture program, 
participants may comply by submitting the required information via 
email to the NMFS Southeast Region using the appropriate forms that are 
available on the website. Once online functions are available to the 
public, participants must comply by using the online system unless 
alternative methods are specified.
    Operators of aquaculture facilities would be required to submit all 
information requirements to NMFS, with the exception of the bill of 
lading information, which will accompany each shipment of cultured 
product. Currently, all submissions would be via the online website, 
unless otherwise noted. Additionally, dealers who purchase aquaculture 
product from facilities would be required to submit information on 
those purchases.

III. Data

    OMB Control Number: 0648-0703.
    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: 40 (20 operators, 20 dealers).
    Estimated Time per Response:
     Federal Permit Application for Offshore Aquaculture in the 
Gulf of Mexico, 3 hours.
     Notification to Delay Permit Issuance, Annual Report for 
Gulf Aquaculture Permittees, Certification for Broodstock and 
Juveniles, Marine Mammal Authorization Form,

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Notification to Transport Cultured Juveniles to Offshore Systems, 10 
minutes.
     Baseline Environmental Survey, 320 hours.
     Request to Harvest Broodstock, Broodstock Post-Harvest 
Report, Notification Entanglement or Interaction, Notification of Major 
Escapement Event, Notification of Reportable Pathogen Episode, Harvest 
and Landing Notification, 30 minutes.
     Bill of Lading, 5 minutes.
     Emergency Disaster Plan, 4 hours.
     Fin Clip Samples, 10 hours.
     Request to Transfer Gulf Aquaculture Permit, 3 hours.
     Assurance bond, Contract with an Aquatic Animal Health 
Expert, 16 hours.
     Broodstock Marking, Pinger/Location Devise, Marking 
Restricted Access Zone, Genetic Testing, 8 hours.
     Dealer Permit Application, Dealer Report for Landing and 
Sale, 30 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,753.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: $87,660 in recordkeeping or 
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: July 31, 2018.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2018-16657 Filed 8-2-18; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 150 / Friday, August 3, 2018 / Notices 38127 (with the exception of harassment DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE OMB Control Number 0648–0703 to distances, as described above), and there account for updates to burden time and is no new information suggesting that National Oceanic and Atmospheric cost estimates, inclusion of new forms our analysis or findings should change. Administration to fulfill rule requirements and Based on the information contained administrative updates to online and Proposed Information Collection; paper forms. NMFS intends the here and in the referenced documents, Comment Request; Southeast Region revisions would make instructions and NMFS has determined the following: (1) Aquaculture Program data collection requirements clearer and The required mitigation measures will easier to understand, resulting in more effect the least practicable impact on AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and accurate and efficient information marine mammal species or stocks and available for use by fishery managers. Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), their habitat; (2) the authorized takes Commerce. II. Method of Collection will have a negligible impact on the ACTION: Notice. affected marine mammal species or Information for the Southeast Region stocks; (3) the authorized takes SUMMARY: The Department of Aquaculture Program is collected online represent small numbers of marine Commerce, as part of its continuing via the aquaculture website (http:// mammals relative to the affected stock effort to reduce paperwork and sero.nmfs.noaa.gov/sustainable_ abundances; and (4) the Navy’s respondent burden, invites the general fisheries/gulf_fisheries/aquaculture/); activities will not have an unmitigable public and other Federal agencies to therefore, a participant must have access adverse impact on taking for subsistence take this opportunity to comment on to a computer and internet access, and purposes as no relevant subsistence uses proposed and/or continuing information must set up an appropriate online of marine mammals are implicated by collections, as required by the aquaculture account to participate. this action. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. Assistance with online functions will be DATES: Written comments must be available from customer service Monday Endangered Species Act submitted on or before October 2, 2018. through Friday between 8 a.m. and 4:30 ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments p.m., eastern time. If some online Section 7(a)(2) of the Endangered reporting functions are not available at Species Act of 1973 (ESA) (16 U.S.C. to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental Paperwork Clearance Officer, the time of initial implementation of the 1531 et seq.) requires that each Federal aquaculture program, participants may agency insure that any action it Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and Constitution Avenue NW, comply by submitting the required authorizes, funds, or carries out is not information via email to the NMFS likely to jeopardize the continued Washington, DC 20230 (or via the internet at pracomments@doc.gov). Southeast Region using the appropriate existence of any endangered or forms that are available on the website. threatened species or result in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Once online functions are available to destruction or adverse modification of Requests for additional information or the public, participants must comply by designated critical habitat. To ensure copies of the information collection using the online system unless ESA compliance for the issuance of instrument and instructions should be alternative methods are specified. directed to Jessica Beck-Stimpert, NMFS Operators of aquaculture facilities IHAs, NMFS consults internally Southeast Regional Office, 263 13th would be required to submit all whenever we propose to authorize take Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, information requirements to NMFS, for endangered or threatened species. phone: 727–824–5305, or email: with the exception of the bill of lading No incidental take of ESA-listed jess.beck@noaa.gov. information, which will accompany species is authorized or expected to SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: each shipment of cultured product. result from this activity. Therefore, Currently, all submissions would be via NMFS has determined that formal I. Abstract the online website, unless otherwise consultation under section 7 of the ESA This request is for an extension and noted. Additionally, dealers who is not required for this action. revision of a currently approved purchase aquaculture product from information collection under the Office facilities would be required to submit Authorization of Management and Budget’s (OMB) information on those purchases. As a result of these determinations, Control Number 0648–0703, Southeast Region Aquaculture Program. NMFS III. Data NMFS has issued an IHA to the Navy for manages aquaculture operations in OMB Control Number: 0648–0703. the harassment of small numbers of Federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico Form Number(s): None. bottlenose dolphins incidental to (Gulf) under the Fishery Management Type of Review: Regular submission construction activities related to the Plan for Regulating Offshore Marine (extension and revision of a currently Bravo Wharf Recapitalization Project, Aquaculture in the Gulf of Mexico approved information collection). Naval Base Mayport, Florida, provided (Aquaculture FMP). The final rule for Affected Public: Business or other for- the previously mentioned mitigation, the Aquaculture FMP published in the profit organizations. monitoring, and reporting requirements Federal Register on January 13, 2016 Estimated Number of Respondents: 40 are incorporated. (81 FR 1762; RIN 0648–AS65). (20 operators, 20 dealers). Dated: July 30, 2018. This collection of information tracks Estimated Time per Response: the administrative functions associated • Federal Permit Application for amozie on DSK3GDR082PROD with NOTICES1 Donna S. Wieting, with the aquaculture program (e.g., Offshore Aquaculture in the Gulf of Director, Office of Protected Resources, Mexico, 3 hours. registration and account setup, landing National Marine Fisheries Service. • Notification to Delay Permit transactions, and most reporting [FR Doc. 2018–16599 Filed 8–2–18; 8:45 am] Issuance, Annual Report for Gulf requirements). BILLING CODE 3510–22–P The NMFS Southeast Regional Office Aquaculture Permittees, Certification for also proposes to revise parts of the Broodstock and Juveniles, Marine information collection approved under Mammal Authorization Form, VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:26 Aug 02, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\03AUN1.SGM 03AUN1

38128 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 150 / Friday, August 3, 2018 / Notices Notification to Transport Cultured DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE agenda, to perform workload planning, Juveniles to Offshore Systems, 10 and discuss future meeting plans. minutes. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Although non-emergency issues not Administration contained in the meeting agenda may be • Baseline Environmental Survey, discussed, those issues may not be the 320 hours. RIN 0648–XG362 subject of formal action during this • Request to Harvest Broodstock, meeting. Action will be restricted to Broodstock Post-Harvest Report, Pacific Fishery Management Council; those issues specifically listed in this Notification Entanglement or Public Meeting notice and any issues arising after Interaction, Notification of Major AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries publication of this notice that require Escapement Event, Notification of Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and emergency action under Section 305(c) Reportable Pathogen Episode, Harvest Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery and Landing Notification, 30 minutes. Commerce. Conservation and Management Act, • Bill of Lading, 5 minutes. provided the public has been notified of ACTION: Notice of public meeting. the GMT’s intent to take final action to • Emergency Disaster Plan, 4 hours. address the emergency. SUMMARY: The Pacific Fishery • Fin Clip Samples, 10 hours. Management Council’s (Pacific Council) Special Accommodations • Request to Transfer Gulf Groundfish Management Team (GMT) will convene a meeting via webinar to The public listening station is Aquaculture Permit, 3 hours. discuss items on the Pacific Council’s physically accessible to people with • Assurance bond, Contract with an disabilities. Requests for sign language September 2018 meeting. The meeting is Aquatic Animal Health Expert, 16 interpretation or other auxiliary aids open to the public. hours. should be directed to Mr. Kris DATES: The webinar meeting will be • Broodstock Marking, Pinger/ held Thursday, August 23, 2018, from Kleinschmidt at (503) 820–2411 at least Location Devise, Marking Restricted 10 business days prior to the meeting 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Pacific Daylight Access Zone, Genetic Testing, 8 hours. date. Time or until business is completed. • Dealer Permit Application, Dealer ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held Dated: July 31, 2018. Report for Landing and Sale, 30 via webinar. A public listening station Tracey L. Thompson, minutes. is available at the Pacific Council office Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable (address below). To attend the webinar: Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. Estimated Total Annual Burden (1) Join the GoToWebinar by visiting [FR Doc. 2018–16681 Filed 8–2–18; 8:45 am] Hours: 2,753. this link https://www.gotomeeting.com/ BILLING CODE 3510–22–P Estimated Total Annual Cost to webinar (Click ‘‘Join a Webinar’’ in top Public: $87,660 in recordkeeping or right corner of page), (2) Enter the reporting costs. Webinar ID: 615–614–003, and (3) enter DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE IV. Request for Comments your name and email address (required). National Oceanic and Atmospheric After logging into the webinar, you must Administration Comments are invited on: (a) Whether use your telephone for the audio portion the proposed collection of information of the meeting. Dial this TOLL number RIN 0648–XG382 is necessary for the proper performance 1–562–247–8321, enter the Attendee of the functions of the agency, including phone audio access code 156–942–931, Pacific Fishery Management Council; whether the information shall have and enter your audio phone pin (shown Public Meeting practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the after joining the webinar). System AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries agency’s estimate of the burden Requirements: for PC-based attendees: Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and (including hours and cost) of the Required: Windows® 7, Vista, or XP; for Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), proposed collection of information; (c) Mac®-based attendees: Required: Mac Commerce. ways to enhance the quality, utility, and OS® X 10.5 or newer; for Mobile ACTION: Notice of public meeting clarity of the information to be attendees: Required: iPhone®, iPad®, (webinar). collected; and (d) ways to minimize the AndroidTM phone or Android tablet (see http://www.gotomeeting.com/fec/ SUMMARY: The Pacific Fishery burden of the collection of information webinar/gotowebinar_apps). You may Management Council (Pacific Council) on respondents, including through the send an email to Mr. Kris Kleinschmidt will convene a webinar meeting of its use of automated collection techniques or contact him at (503) 820–2280, or other forms of information Ad Hoc Trawl Groundfish Electronic extension 411 for technical assistance. Monitoring Policy Advisory Committee technology. Council address: Pacific Fishery (GEMPAC) which is open to the public. Comments submitted in response to Management Council, 7700 NE DATES: The webinar will be held August this notice will be summarized and/or Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland, 17, 2018, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Pacific included in the request for OMB OR 97220–1384; telephone: (503) 820– Standard Time), or until business has approval of this information collection; 2280. been completed. they also will become a matter of public FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held amozie on DSK3GDR082PROD with NOTICES1 record. Todd Phillips, Staff Officer; telephone: via webinar. A public listening station Dated: July 31, 2018. (503) 820–2426. is available at the Pacific Council office Sarah Brabson, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The (address below). To attend the webinar NOAA PRA Clearance Officer. primary purpose of the meeting is to from your computer, tablet or [FR Doc. 2018–16657 Filed 8–2–18; 8:45 am] discuss ecosystem, groundfish, and smartphone, use this link: https:// administrative agenda items on the global.gotomeeting.com/join/837382429 BILLING CODE 3510–22–P September 2018 Pacific Council meeting and follow the prompts. (1) You must VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:26 Aug 02, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\03AUN1.SGM 03AUN1


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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 October 2, 2018.
ContactRequests for additional information or copies of the information collection instrument and instructions should be directed to Jessica Beck-Stimpert, NMFS Southeast Regional Office, 263 13th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, phone: 727-824-5305, or email: [email protected]
FR Citation83 FR 38127 
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