Notice2022-04849
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Economic Surveys of Specific U.S. Commercial Fisheries
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March 8, 2022
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Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 45 (Tuesday, March 8, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12937-12939]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-04849]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Economic Surveys of Specific U.S. Commercial Fisheries
The Department of Commerce will submit the following information
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite the
general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and
continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of
our information collection requirements and minimize the public's
reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the
Federal Register on September 28, 2021 during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
Title: Economic Surveys of Specific US Commercial Fisheries.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0773.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission [revision of a currently
approved collection].
Number of Respondents: 1,655.
Average Hours per Response:
NWFSC: West Coast Limited Entry Groundfish Fixed Gear Fisheries
Economic Data Collection: 3 hours.
NWFSC: West Coast Open Access Groundfish, Non-tribal Salmon, Crab,
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and Shrimp Fisheries Economic Data Collection: 3 hours.
PIFSC: American Samoa Longline Fishery Economic Data Collection: 1
hour.
PIFSC: Hawaii Pelagic Longline Fishery Economic Data Collection: 1
hour.
PIFSC: Hawaii Small Boat Fishery Economic Data Collection: 45
minutes.
PIFSC: American Samoa Small Boat Fishery Economic Data Collection:
45 minutes.
PIFSC: American Samoa, Guam, and The Commonwealth of The Northern
Mariana Islands Small Boat-Based Fisheries Economic Data Collection (an
add-on to a creel survey): 10 minutes.
PIFSC: Mariana Archipelago Small Boat Fleet Economic Data
Collection: 45 minutes.
SEFSC: USVI F Small-Scale Commercial Fisheries Economic Data
Collection: 15 minutes.
SEFSC: Puerto Rico Small-Scale Commercial Fisheries Economic Data
Collection: 1 hour.
SEFSC: Gulf of Mexico Inshore Shrimp Fishery Economic Data
Collection: 28 minutes.
SEFSC: U.S. South Atlantic Region Golden Crab Fishery Economic Data
Collection: 30 minutes.
SWFSC: West Coast Coastal Pelagic Fishery Economic Data Collection:
3 hours.
SWFSC: West Coast Swordfish Fishery Economic Data Collection: 30
minutes.
SWFSC: West Coast North Pacific Albacore Fishery Economic Data
Collection: 1 hour.
NEFSC: Northeast Commercial Fishing Business Economic Data
Collection: 1 hour.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,757.
Needs and Uses: This request is for a revision and extension of a
currently approved collection.
The Office of Science and Technology is sponsoring the collection.
Economic surveys will be conducted in selected commercial fisheries for
the East Coast, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, West Coast, Hawaii, and the
U.S. Pacific Islands territories.
The requested information will include different components of
operating costs/expenditures, earnings, employment, ownership, vessel
characteristics, effort/gear descriptors, employment, and demographic
information for the various types of fishing vessels operating in the
16 U.S. commercial fisheries or groups of fisheries listed below.
1. West Coast Limited Entry Groundfish Fixed Gear Fisheries
2. West Coast Open Access Groundfish, Non-tribal Salmon, Crab, and
Shrimp Fisheries
3. American Samoa Longline Fishery
4. Hawaii Pelagic Longline Fishery
5. Hawaii Small Boat Fishery
6. American Samoa Small Boat Fishery
7. American Samoa, Guam, and The Commonwealth of The Northern Mariana
Islands Small Boat-Based Fisheries
8. Mariana Archipelago Small Boat Fleet
9. USVI F Small-Scale Commercial Fisheries
10. Puerto Rico Small-Scale Commercial Fisheries
11. Gulf of Mexico Inshore Shrimp Fishery
12. U.S. South Atlantic Region Golden Crab Fishery
13. West Coast Coastal Pelagic Fishery
14. West Coast Swordfish Fishery
15. West Coast North Pacific Albacore Fishery
16. Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Fisheries
A variety of laws, Executive Orders (EOs), and NOAA Fisheries
strategies and policies include requirements for economic data and the
analyses they support. When met adequately, those requirements allow
better-informed conservation and management decisions on the use of
living marine resources and marine habitat in federally managed
fisheries. Obtaining these data improves the ability of NOAA Fisheries
and the Regional Fishery Management Councils (Councils) to monitor,
explain and predict changes in the economic performance and impacts of
federally managed commercial fisheries. Measures of economic
performance include costs, earnings, and profitability (net revenue);
productivity and economic efficiency; capacity; economic stability; the
level and distribution of net economic benefits to society; and market
power. The economic impacts include sector, community or region-
specific, and national employment, sales, value-added, and income
impacts. Economic data are required to support more than a cursory
effort to comply with or support the following laws, EOs, and NOAA
Fisheries strategies and policies:
1. The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA)
2. The Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA)
3. The Endangered Species Act (ESA)
4. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
5. The Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA)
6. E.O. 12866 (Regulatory Planning and Review)
7. E.O. 13771 (Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs)
8. E.O. 12898 (Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in
Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations)
9. E.O. 13840 (Ocean Policy to Advance the Economic, Security, and
Environmental Interests of the United States)
10. The NOAA Fisheries Guidelines for Economic Reviews of Regulatory
Actions
11. The NOAA Fisheries Strategic Plan 2019-2022 (Strategic Plan)
12. The NOAA Fisheries Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management (EBFM) Road
Map
13. The NOAA Fisheries National Bycatch Reduction Strategy
14. NOAA's Catch Share Policy
Data collections will focus each year on a different set of the 16
commercial fisheries or groups of fisheries. This cycle of data
collection will facilitate economic data being available and updated
for all those commercial fisheries.
There will be an effort to coordinate the data collections in order
to reduce the additional burden for those who participate in multiple
fisheries. To further reduce the burden, the requested information for
a specific fishery will be limited to that which is not available from
other sources. Participation in these data collections will be
voluntary.
The proposed revisions to the information collection will: (a) Add
an information collection for Northeast and Mid-Atlantic fisheries; (b)
increase the burden hours to account for that addition information
collection: (c) make minor changes to the survey forms that primarily
provide flexibility with respect to when NMFS will conduct each of the
16 information collections; and (d) extend it for three years. Though
the information collection was recently renewed, an extension is
requested at this time as no additional changes to the collection are
anticipated before the current expiration date.
Affected Public: Individuals or households and business or other
for-profit organizations.
Frequency: Every 3 to 8 years.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and
Management Act.
This information collection request may be viewed at
<a href="http://www.reginfo.gov">www.reginfo.gov</a>. Follow the instructions to view the Department of
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
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information collection should be submitted within 30 days of the
publication of this notice on the following website <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular information collection by
selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments''
or by using the search function and entering either the title of the
collection or the OMB Control Number 0648-0773.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2022-04849 Filed 3-7-22; 8:45 am]
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