Notice2024-16086
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Southeast Region Individual Fishing Quota Programs
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Published
July 23, 2024
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 141 (Tuesday, July 23, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59718-59719]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-16086]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Southeast Region Individual Fishing Quota Programs
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
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 for a 60-day period
via a notice published in the Federal Register on February 13, 2024.
The purpose of this notice is to allow for an additional 30-day public
comment period.
Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Commerce.
Title: Southeast Region Individual Fishing Quota Programs.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0551.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission--extension of a current
information collection.
Number of Respondents: 1,703.
Average Hours per Response:
<bullet> Dealer Landing Transaction Report, 6 minutes for
electronic form or 5 minutes for paper form used in catastrophic
conditions only;
<bullet> Transfer Shares, 3 minutes;
<bullet> Share Receipt, 2 minutes;
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<bullet> Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) Notification of Landing, 5
minutes;
<bullet> Transfer Allocation, 3 minutes;
<bullet> IFQ Online Account Application, 13 minutes;
<bullet> Landing Transaction Correction Request, 5 minutes;
<bullet> Dealer Cost Recovery Fee Submission through <a href="https://www.pay.gov">https://www.pay.gov</a>, 3 minutes;
<bullet> Wreckfish Quota Share Transfer, 20 minutes;
<bullet> IFQ Close Account, 3 minutes.
<bullet> Account Update, 2 minutes;
<bullet> Trip Ticket Update, 2 minutes;
<bullet> Gulf Reef Fish Notification of Landing, 3 minutes; and
<bullet> Commercial Reef Fish Landing Location Request, 5 minutes.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,719.
Needs and Uses: The NMFS Southeast Regional Office manages three
commercial individual fishing quota (IFQ) and individual transferable
quota (ITQ) programs in the U.S. southeast region under the authority
of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
(Magnuson-Stevens Act). The IFQ programs for red snapper, and groupers
and tilefishes occur in Federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico (Gulf),
and the ITQ program for wreckfish occurs in Federal waters of the South
Atlantic. Regulations for the IFQ and ITQ programs are located at 50
CFR part 622.
The NMFS Southeast Regional Office proposes to extend the
information collection currently approved under OMB Control Number
0648-0551. This collection of information tracks the transfer and use
of IFQ and ITQ shares, and IFQ allocation and landings by commercial
fishermen necessary for NMFS to operate, administer, and review
management of the IFQ and ITQ programs.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
Frequency: Annually, quarterly, and on occasion.
Respondent's Obligation: Varying Obligation: Mandatory, required to
obtain or retain benefits, and Voluntary based on submitted form.
Legal Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
This information collection request may be viewed at <a href="https://www.reginfo.gov">https://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 must be submitted within 30 days of the publication of this
notice on the following website <a href="https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">https://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
information collection or the OMB Control Number 0648-0551.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2024-16086 Filed 7-22-24; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-22-P
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