Notice2026-01275
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Pacific Coast Groundfish Trawl Rationalization Program Permit and License Information Collection
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Published
January 23, 2026
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 15 (Friday, January 23, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2915-2916]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-01275]
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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; Pacific Coast Groundfish Trawl Rationalization Program Permit
and License Information Collection
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 7, 2025, during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
Title: Pacific Coast Groundfish Trawl Rationalization Program
Permit and License Information Collection.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0620.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission (revision and extension of a
current information collection).
Number of Respondents: 359 unique respondents.
Average Hours per Response: QS Permit/Account Application &
Renewal--10 minutes; First Receiver Site License Application Form: New
Entrants--200 minutes; Mothership Permit Renewal Form--10 minutes;
Mothership Permit Change of Vessel--35 minutes; Catcher/Processor
Cooperative Permit Application Form--110 minutes; Mothership
Cooperative Permit Application Form--230 minutes; Material Change to
COOP--150 minutes; Trawl Identification of Ownership Interest Form:
Renewal--3 minutes; Trawl Identification of Ownership Interest Form:
New Entrants--45 minutes; Vessel Account Registrations & Renewal--11
minutes; QP Transfer from QS Account to Vessel Account--5 minutes; QP
Transfer from Vessel Account to Vessel Account--5 minutes; Change of
MS/CV-Endorsement--35 minutes; QS Transfer, QS Abandonment Request, and
Shore based Scales/First Receivers Scale Reports--10 minutes; First
Receiver Site License Application Form: Re-Registration--100 minutes.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 645 hours.
Needs and Uses: This request is for a revision and extension of a
current information collection.
The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA),
16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq., authorizes Fishery Management Councils to
prepare and amend fishery management plans (FMP) for any fishery in
waters under its jurisdiction. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) manages
the groundfish fishery in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), the area
3-200 mile zone off the Washington, Oregon, and California coasts.
The Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) began developing a
trawl rationalization program, a catch share program, for the Pacific
coast groundfish limited entry trawl fishery in 2003. The program is
composed of three
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sectors, as follows: (1) the shore based individual fishing quota (IFQ)
sector, (2) the at-sea whiting mothership (MS) sector, and (3) the at-
sea whiting catcher/processor (C/P) sector. The shore based IFQ sector
consists of quota share (QS) permit owners, catcher vessels that are
registered to limited entry trawl permits, have vessel accounts, fish
for quota pounds (QP), and first receiver site license (FRSL) holders
who receive the shore based IFQ landings. The at-sea trawl fleets catch
and process Pacific whiting (whiting) with midwater trawl gear. In the
MS sector, mothership catcher vessels (MS/CVs) harvest the whiting and
deliver the catch to large MS vessels, where it is sorted and processed
at-sea. One or more MS coops may form and/or vessels may fish in a non-
cooperative fishery. Both coop and non-coop fishery vessels pool their
harvest together. In the C/P sector, C/P vessels catch and process
whiting at-sea under a single C/P coop.
This revision will include the removal of three ICs: Catch
monitoring plans/First Receivers Preparation & Submission, Catch
monitoring plans/First Receivers Inspection, & Shore based scales/First
Receivers Inspection. The removal of these ICs is necessary because
they are encompassed in the First Receiver Site License Application
Form. This action decreases the duplicate actions and burden to fill
out said forms.
Affected Public: Individuals or households; Business or other for-
profit organizations; Not-for-profit institutions.
Frequency: On occasion, annually, quarterly, or once depending on
the form.
Respondent's Obligation: Required to Obtain or Retain Benefits.
Legal Authority: Pub. L. 94-265 Sec. 303 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 0648-0620.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Compliance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2026-01275 Filed 1-22-26; 8:45 am]
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