Notice2024-08914
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; West Coast Region Groundfish Trawl Fishery Monitoring and Catch Accounting Program
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Published
April 25, 2024
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 81 (Thursday, April 25, 2024)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-08914]
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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; West Coast Region Groundfish Trawl Fishery Monitoring and
Catch Accounting 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 February 9, 2024, 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: West Coast Region Groundfish Trawl Fishery Monitoring and
Catch Accounting Program.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0619.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission (extension of a current
information collection).
Number of Respondents: 153.
Average Hours per Response: For 5 existing observer providers: 2
hours for preparation and submission of the annual observer provider
permit renewal application. For 1 new observer provider: 10 hours for
observer provider permit application preparation and submission. For 1
observer provider: 4 hours for a written response and submission of an
appeal if an observer provider permit is denied. For 45 catch monitors:
1 hour for submission of qualifications to work as a catch monitor. For
5 catch monitors: 4 hours for a written response and submission of an
appeal if a catch monitor permit is denied. For 16 vessels in the
Mothership or Catcher/Processor fleet, 30 minutes or less for
satisfying requirements for use of at-sea scales, including daily
testing reports (30 minutes), daily catch and cumulative weight reports
(10 minutes), audit trail (1 minute), calibration log (2 minutes), and
fault log (3 minutes).
Total Annual Burden Hours: 447 hours.
Needs and Uses: This request is for extension of the current
collection for the West Coast Region Groundfish Trawl Fishery
Monitoring and Catch Accounting Program. In January 2011, the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS) implemented a trawl rationalization program, a
catch share program, for the Pacific coast groundfish fishery's trawl
fleet. The program was developed through Amendment 20 to the Groundfish
Fishery Management Plan (FMP), under the authority of the Magnuson-
Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et
seq.) and consists of an individual fishing quota (IFQ) program for the
shorebased trawl fleet (including whiting and non-whiting fisheries);
and cooperative (coop) programs for the at-sea mothership (MS) and
catcher/processor (C/P) trawl fleets (whiting only). Fixed allocations
to the limited entry trawl fleet were developed through a parallel
process with Amendment 21 to the FMP. The regulations implementing the
program were effective January 1, 2011; all of the necessary tracking
systems to make the program operational became active on January 11,
2011, the date fishing began under the new program. Since that time,
the Council and NMFS have been addressing implementation issues as they
arise. To achieve individual accountability for catch and bycatch and
track total catch, the shorebased IFQ Program is subject to 100 percent
monitoring both at-sea and dockside. In addition to 100 percent
monitoring at-sea, motherships and catcher/processors are subject to
flow scale requirements that include daily testing, reporting, and an
annual inspection.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
Frequency: Reporting on occasion, daily, weekly, or annually.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and
Management Act. US Code 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. And CFR Citation 50 CFR
660.15
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 0648-0619.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2024-08914 Filed 4-24-24; 8:45 am]
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