Notice2023-20277
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; American Lobster-Annual Trap Transfer Program
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Published
September 19, 2023
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 180 (Tuesday, September 19, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64414-64415]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-20277]
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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; American Lobster--Annual Trap Transfer Program
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 April 21, 2023 during a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Commerce.
Title: American Lobster--Annual Trap Transfer Program.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0673.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular (extension of a current information
collection).
Number of Respondents: 204.
Average Hours Per Response: 10 minutes.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 17.
Needs and Uses: This request is for an extension of a currently
approved information collection.
The American lobster resource and fishery are cooperatively managed
by the states and NMFS under the authority of the Atlantic Coastal
Fisheries Cooperative Management Act, according to the framework
established by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC)
in Amendment 3 of its Interstate Fishery Management Plan (ISFMP). This
collection of information is in response to several addenda to
Amendment 3 of the ISFMP that work to reduce trap fishing effort
through limited entry fishing and trap allocation limit reductions. The
Trap Transfer Program is intended to foster economic flexibility for
the lobster industry while reducing fishing effort on the American
lobster resource. The regulations implementing the FMP in the EEZ are
specified at 50 CFR part 697.
This collection of information is being conducted to help mitigate
the economic burden of scheduled trap allocation reductions in Lobster
Conservation Management Areas 2 and 3 on Federal lobster permit holders
through the Annual Lobster Trap Transfer Program, which allows all
qualified Federal lobster permit holders to buy and sell trap
allocation from Areas 2, 3, or Outer Cape Cod. NMFS collects
application forms from Lobster permit holders who wish to transfer trap
allocation from these areas during a 2-
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month period (from August 1 through September 30) each year; and the
revised allocations resulting from the transfers become effective for
each participating lobster permit at the start of the following Federal
lobster fishing year, on May 1. Both the seller and buyer of the traps
are required to sign the application form, date the document, and
clearly show that the seller has sufficient allocation to transfer and
that the buyer has sufficient room under the applicable trap cap. There
were no modifications to this collection.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
Frequency: As-needed.
Respondent's Obligation: Required to Obtain or Retain Benefits.
Legal Authority: Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management
Act (16 U.S.C. 5101 et seq.).
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 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 0648-0673.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2023-20277 Filed 9-18-23; 8:45 am]
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