Notice2024-07238
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Northwest Region, Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery: Trawl Rationalization Cost Recovery Program
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Published
April 5, 2024
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 67 (Friday, April 5, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23986-23987]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-07238]
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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; Northwest Region, Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery: Trawl
Rationalization Cost Recovery 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 August 22, 2023 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: Northwest Region, Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery: Trawl
Rationalization Cost Recovery Program.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0663.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission; revision of a current
information collection.
Number of Respondents: 580.
Average Hours per Response: Cost recovery fee forms: 1 hour.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 580.
Needs and Uses: This request is for a revision of a currently
approved information collection includes the collection of electronic
fish ticket numbers on the Shorebased Individual Fishing Quota
Program's payment form. The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and
Management Act (MSA) authorizes and requires that the Secretary of
Commerce maintain a cost recovery program to cover part of the
management, data collection and analysis, and enforcement costs of the
limited access privilege programs, such as the Pacific Coast Groundfish
Trawl Rationalization Program (Trawl Program). Cost recovery fees may
not exceed three percent of the ex-vessel value. The Trawl Program cost
recovery program requires fish sellers to submit fees to fish buyers
who then submit those fees to NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service
(NMFS). Fish buyers must also submit information to NMFS on the volume
and value of harvested groundfish when submitting the fees. Information
is collected from monthly and annual reports as well as non-payment
documents when necessary.
The information collected is used to track the payment of cost
recovery fees, reconcile cost recovery payments with landings data from
other sources, calculate average ex-vessel values, and, if necessary,
help in the resolution of non-payment issues. The addition of a
requirement to record electronic fish ticket numbers corresponding to
cost recovery payments will aid in this reconciliation process.
This program is authorized under the Pacific coast groundfish
fishery regulations, trawl rationalization cost recovery program at 50
CFR 660.115.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
Frequency: Monthly and annually.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: NMFS and the Pacific Fisheries Management Council
(Council) manage the groundfish fisheries in the exclusive economic
zone seaward of California, Oregon, and Washington under the Pacific
Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan (FMP). The Council prepared
the FMP under the authority of the MSA, 16
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U.S.C. 1801 et seq. Regulations governing United States fisheries and
implementing the FMP appear at 50 CFR part 660.
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 0648-0663.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2024-07238 Filed 4-4-24; 8:45 am]
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