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Notice2026-18177

Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Generic Clearance for Economic Surveys of the Commercial and Charter Harvesting Sectors of Federally Managed Fisheries: Greater Atlantic Region Commercial Fishing Business Cost Survey for 2026

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Published
September 4, 2026

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Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 171 (Friday, September 4, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Page 56865]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-18177]


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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; Generic Clearance for Economic Surveys of the Commercial and 
Charter Harvesting Sectors of Federally Managed Fisheries: Greater 
Atlantic Region Commercial Fishing Business Cost Survey for 2026

    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 6, 2021 (86 FR 213), 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: Generic Clearance for Economic Surveys of the Commercial and 
Charter Harvesting Sectors of Federally Managed Fisheries: Greater 
Atlantic Region Commercial Fishing Business Cost Survey for 2026.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0823.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular submission (request to add a new generic 
information collection under an approved generic clearance).
    Number of Respondents: 220.
    Average Hours per Response: 30 minutes per form.
    Total Annual Burden Hours: 110 hours.
    Needs and Uses: This is a request to add surveys for the Greater 
Atlantic Region Commercial Fishing Business Cost Survey for 2026 to the 
Generic Clearance for Economic Surveys of the Commercial and Charter 
Harvesting Sectors of Federally Managed Fisheries.
    The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's National Marine 
Fisheries Service (NMFS or NOAA Fisheries) has conservation and 
management responsibilities for many living marine resources and their 
habitat. NMFS collects and uses economic data to make more than a 
cursory determination of whether a variety of provisions in the 
applicable laws, Executive Orders (EOs), and NOAA or NMFS strategies 
and policies have been met by past fishery conservation and management 
actions or will be met by proposed actions. The relevant measures of 
economic performance include costs, earnings, and profitability (net 
revenue); productivity and economic efficiency; capacity; economic 
stability; the level and distribution of net economic benefits to 
society; and market power. The economic impacts include sector, 
community, or region-specific and national employment, sales, value-
added, and income impacts. The efforts to monitor, explain and predict 
changes in economic performance and impacts are ongoing and contribute 
to the value of the information contained in regulatory analyses of 
current and proposed fishery conservation and management measures, 
stock assessment and fishery evaluation (SAFE) reports, as well as 
other technical and scientific reports that address changes in economic 
performance and impacts.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households; Business or other for-
profit organizations.
    Frequency: Once.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and 
Management Act (MSA).
    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 0648-0823.

Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Compliance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for 
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2026-18177 Filed 9-3-26; 8:45 am]
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