Notice2023-21280
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Reporting Requirements for the Ocean Salmon Fishery Off the Coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California
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Published
September 28, 2023
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 187 (Thursday, September 28, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 66820]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-21280]
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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; Reporting Requirements for the Ocean Salmon Fishery Off the
Coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California
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 June 26, 2023 (88 FR 41388) during a 60-day comment
period, no comments were received. This notice allows for an additional
30 days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
Title: Reporting Requirements for the Ocean Salmon Fishery Off the
Coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0433.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission (extension of a current
information collection).
Number of Respondents: 40.
Average Hours per Response: 15 minutes.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 10 hours.
Needs and Uses: Ocean salmon fisheries conducted in the U.S.
exclusive economic zone, 3-200 nautical miles off the West Coast states
of Washington, Oregon, and California are managed by the Pacific
Fishery Management Council (Council) and NOAA's NMFS under the
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA).
Management measures for the ocean salmon fisheries are set annually,
consistent with the Council's Pacific Coast Salmon Fishery Management
Plan (FMP). The FMP provides a framework for managing the ocean salmon
fisheries in a sustainable manner, as required under the MSA, through
the use of conservation objectives, annual catch limits, and other
reference points and status determination criteria described in the
FMP. To meet these criteria, annual management measures, published in
the Federal Register by NMFS, specify regulatory areas, catch
restrictions, and landing restrictions based on the annual stock
abundance forecasts. These catch and landing restrictions include area-
time- and species-specific quotas for the commercial ocean salmon
fishery, and generally require catch and landings to be reported to the
appropriate state and tribal agencies to allow for timely and accurate
accounting of the season's catch (50 CFR 660.404 and 50 CFR
660.408(o)). The best available catch and effort data and projections
are presented by the state fishery managers in telephone conference
calls involving the NMFS Regional Administrator and representatives of
the Council. However, NMFS acknowledges that unsafe weather or
mechanical problems could prevent commercial fishermen from making
their landings at the times and places specified, and the MSA requires
conservation and management measures to promote the safety of human
life at sea.
The annual management measures will specify the contents and
procedure of the notifications, and the entities receiving the
notifications (e.g., U.S. Coast Guard). Absent this requirement by the
Council, the state reporting systems would not regularly collect this
specific type of in-season radio report. These provisions, and this
federal collection of information, promote safety at sea and provide
practical utility for sustainably managing the fishery, and ensure
regulatory consistency across each state by implementing the same
requirements in the territorial waters off each state. This information
collection is intended to be general in scope by leaving the specifics
of the contents and procedure of the notifications for annual
determination, thus providing flexibility in responding to salmon
management concerns in any given year.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
Frequency: Reporting under this emergency provision is infrequent.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 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 0648-0433.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2023-21280 Filed 9-27-23; 8:45 am]
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