Notice2025-13779
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Greater Atlantic Region Logbook Family of Forms
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July 22, 2025
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Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 138 (Tuesday, July 22, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34438-34439]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-13779]
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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; Greater Atlantic Region Logbook Family of Forms
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 March 19th, 2025 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: Greater Atlantic Region Logbook Family of Forms.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0212.
Form Number(s): 88-30.
Type of Request: Regular submission [extension of a current
information collection].
Number of Respondents: 4,028.
Average Hours per Response: .083 (5 minutes).
Total Annual Burden Hours: 15,236 hours.
Needs and Uses: This is a request for an extension of an approved
information collection.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's)
National Marine Fisheries Service's (NMFS's) Greater Atlantic Regional
Fisheries Office (GARFO), under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act) and the Atlantic
Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management Act (Atlantic Coastal Act),
the New England Fishery Management Council (the Council), and the
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (the Commission) are
responsible for conservation and management of marine fishery resources
off the east coast. NMFS enacts complementary regulations to Council
and Commission actions.
The Magnuson-Stevens Act requires that conservation and management
measures must prevent overfishing while achieving, on a continuing
basis, the optimum yield from each fishery. These measures must be
based on the best scientific information available. The Atlantic
Coastal Act oversees coastal fishery resources that migrate, or are
widely distributed, across the jurisdictional boundaries of two or more
of the Atlantic States and Federal government.
The information collected using the logbook family of forms will be
used by several offices of NMFS, the U.S. Coast Guard, the Councils and
Commission, and state fishery agencies. The information is used to
develop, implement, and monitor fishery management strategies. Logbook
data serves as inputs for a variety of uses, including biological
analyses and stock assessments, regulatory impact analyses, quota
allocation selections and monitoring, economic profitability profiles,
trade and import tariff decisions, allocation of grant funds among
states, and analysis of ecological interactions among species. NMFS
would be unable to fulfill the majority of its scientific research and
fishery management missions without these data.
During the current review of this collection, the program office
discovered that the changes published in 2018 (50 CFR part 48) pursuant
to RIN 0648-BL61 were not captured in the current list of information
collections. NOAA is therefore requesting a revision to accurately
reflect those regulatory changes.
Regulatory changes in 2018 resulted in the elimination of the
paper-based shellfish logbook, which integrated into the electronic
vessel trip report (VTR) data collection program and the elimination of
Tilefish interactive voice response (IVR) reporting. RIN 0648-BL61
integrated the Lobster VTR into the overall VTR information collection
for all species. Additionally, the information collection ``Herring''
was renamed to ``Daily Catch Reports'' (DCR) to accurately reflect the
multiple species for which a daily catch report is required.
Affected Public: Individuals, Business or other for-profit
organizations.
Frequency: Per fishing trip.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and
Management Act and the Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative
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.
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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 0648-0212.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Compliance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2025-13779 Filed 7-21-25; 8:45 am]
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