Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Reporting Requirements for the Ocean Salmon Fishery Off the Coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California

Citation85 FR 45191
Record Number2020-16241
Published date27 July 2020
SectionNotices
CourtNational Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration
Federal Register, Volume 85 Issue 144 (Monday, July 27, 2020)
[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 144 (Monday, July 27, 2020)]
                [Notices]
                [Pages 45191-45192]
                From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
                [FR Doc No: 2020-16241]
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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; Reporting Requirements for the Ocean Salmon Fishery Off the
                Coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California
                 The Department of Commerce will submit the following information
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                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 27, 2020, during a 60-day comment period.
                This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
                 Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
                 Title: Emergency Commercial Salmon Landing Report.
                 OMB Control Number: 0648-0433.
                 Form Number(s): None.
                 Type of Request: Regular submission (extension of a current
                information collection).
                 Number of Respondents: 40.
                 Average Hours per Response: 15 minutes.
                 Total Annual Burden Hours: 10 hours.
                 Needs and Uses: Ocean salmon fisheries conducted in the U.S.
                exclusive economic zone, 3-200 nautical miles off the West Coast states
                of Washington, Oregon, and California, are managed by the Pacific
                Fishery Management Council (Council) and NOAA's National Marine
                Fisheries Service (NMFS) under the Magnuson Stevens Fishery
                Conservation and Management Act (MSA). Management measures for the
                ocean salmon fisheries are set annually, consistent with the Council's
                Pacific Coast Salmon Fishery Management Plan (FMP). The FMP provides a
                framework for managing the ocean salmon fisheries in a sustainable
                manner, as required under the MSA, through the use of conservation
                objectives, annual catch limits, and other reference points and status
                determination criteria described in the FMP. To meet these criteria,
                annual management measures, published in the Federal Register by NMFS,
                specify regulatory areas, catch restrictions, and landing restrictions
                based on the stock abundance forecasts. These catch and landing
                restrictions include area- and species-specific quotas for the
                commercial ocean salmon fishery, and generally require landings to be
                reported to the appropriate state agencies to allow for a timely and
                accurate accounting of the season's catch (50 CFR 660.404 and 50 CFR
                660.408(o)). The best available catch and effort data and projections
                are presented by the state fishery managers in telephone conference
                calls involving the NMFS West Coast Regional Administrator and
                representatives of the Council. However, NMFS acknowledges that unsafe
                weather or mechanical problems could prevent commercial fishermen from
                making their landings at the times and places specified, and the MSA
                requires conservation and management measures to promote the safety of
                human life at sea. Therefore, the annual management measures will
                include provisions to exempt commercial salmon fishermen from
                compliance with the landing requirements when they experience unsafe
                weather conditions or mechanical problems at sea, so long as the
                appropriate notifications are made by, for example, at-sea radio and
                cellular telephone, and information on catch and other required
                information is given, under this collection of information. The annual
                management measures will specify the contents and procedure of the
                notifications, and the entities receiving the notifications (e.g., U.S.
                Coast Guard). Absent this requirement by the Council, the state
                reporting systems would not regularly collect this specific type of in-
                season radio report. These provisions, and this federal collection of
                information, promote safety at sea and provide practical utility for
                sustainably managing the fishery, and ensure regulatory consistency
                across each state by implementing the same requirements in the
                territorial waters off each state This information collection is
                intended to be general in scope by leaving the specifics of the
                notifications for annual determination, thus providing flexibility in
                responding to salmon management concerns in any given year.
                 Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations
                (specifically, commercial salmon fishermen).
                 Frequency: Reporting under this emergency provision is infrequent.
                 Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory in order to deviate from landing
                requirements due to unsafe weather or mechanical problems.
                 Legal Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
                 This information collection request may be viewed at
                www.reginfo.gov. 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 www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
                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 0648-0433.
                Sheleen Dumas,
                Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information
                Officer, Commerce Department.
                [FR Doc. 2020-16241 Filed 7-24-20; 8:45 am]
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