Notice2025-05347
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Aleutian Islands Pollock Fishery Requirements
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March 28, 2025
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Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 59 (Friday, March 28, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14123-14124]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-05347]
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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; Aleutian Islands Pollock Fishery Requirements
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 December 5, 2024, 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: Aleutian Islands Pollock Fishery Requirements.
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OMB Control Number: 0648-0513.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission (extension of a current
information collection).
Number of Respondents: 1.
Average Hours per Response: 16 hours.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 16 hours.
Needs and Uses: This is a request for renewal of an approved
information collection. The National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska
Regional Office (NMFS AKR), is the sponsor of this information
collection, which contains the requirements for the annual participant
letter for the Aleutian Islands pollock fishery. No changes were made
to this collection other than updating the hourly wage rate to use the
most current rate available and to improve consistency in the rates
used for the same respondent types in NMFS Alaska Region information
collections.
NMFS AKR manages the groundfish fisheries in the exclusive economic
zone of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area under the
Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian
Islands Management Area (FMP). The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) authorizes the
North Pacific Fishery Management Council to prepare and amend fishery
management plans for any fishery in waters under its jurisdiction.
Amendment 82 to the FMP established a framework for the management
of the Aleutian Islands subarea (AI) directed pollock fishery.
Amendment 82 implemented a provision of the Consolidated Appropriations
Act of 2004 (Pub. L. 108-199, Sec. 803) that requires the AI directed
pollock fishery be allocated to The Aleut Corporation for the purpose
of economic development in Adak, Alaska. The Aleut Corporation is
identified in Public Law 108-199 as a business incorporated pursuant to
the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.). The
Aleut Corporation's AI pollock fishery is set up so that harvesting
pollock in the AI directed pollock fishery and processing pollock taken
in the AI directed pollock fishery are authorized only for those
harvesters and processors that are selected by The Aleut Corporation
and approved by the NMFS Regional Administrator.
The purpose of this collection is for NMFS to obtain the list of
vessels and processors selected by The Aleut Corporation to harvest and
process its annual AI pollock allocation. NMFS uses this information to
manage the AI pollock fishery. Without this information, NMFS would not
know the participants selected by The Aleut Corporation and could not
determine harvest rates, which may result in allocations being
exceeded.
The Aleut Corporation is required by Federal regulations at 50 CFR
679.4(m)(2) to provide its selected harvesters and processors to NMFS
for approval. The Aleut Corporation must submit its selections to NMFS
each year at least 14 days before harvesting pollock or processing
pollock in the AI directed pollock fishery. The information submitted
by The Aleut Corporation consists of the names of the harvesting
vessels and processors it has selected, the Federal fisheries permit
numbers or Federal processor permit numbers of these participants, and
the fishing year for which approval is requested. No information is
submitted in years that the Aleut Corporation will not be harvesting or
processing pollock in the AI directed fishery.
On approval, NMFS sends The Aleut Corporation a letter that
includes a list of the approved participants. A copy of this letter
must be retained on board each participating vessel and on site each
shoreside processor at all times.
More information on the AI pollock fishery is provided on the NMFS
Alaska Region website at <a href="https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/alaska/sustainable-fisheries/aleutian-islands-pollock-fishery-alaska">https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/alaska/sustainable-fisheries/aleutian-islands-pollock-fishery-alaska</a>.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondent's Obligation: Required to Obtain or Retain Benefits.
Legal Authority: Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2004; Magnuson-
Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.
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 0648-0513.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Compliance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2025-05347 Filed 3-27-25; 8:45 am]
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