Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; West Coast Region Groundfish Trawl Fishery Monitoring and Catch Accounting Program
| Published date | 15 April 2021 |
| Citation | 86 FR 19875 |
| Record Number | 2021-07743 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration |
19875
Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 71 / Thursday, April 15, 2021 / Notices
VIII. Recommendation
[FR Doc. 2021–07728 Filed 4–14–21; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P
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; West Coast Region
Groundfish Trawl Fishery Monitoring
and Catch Accounting Program
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
22, 2020 (85 FR 83517) during a 60-day
comment period. This notice allows for
an additional 30 days for public
comments.
Agency: National Oceanic &
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
Title: West Coast Region Groundfish
Trawl Fishery Monitoring and Catch
Accounting Program.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0619.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission
(extension of a current information
collection).
Number of Respondents: 153
Average Hours per Response: For 5
existing observer providers: 2 hours for
preparation and submission of the
annual observer provider permit
renewal application. For 1 new observer
provider: 10 hours for observer provider
permit application preparation and
submission. For 1 observer provider: 4
hours for a written response and
submission of an appeal if an observer
provider permit is denied. For 45 catch
monitors: 1 hour for submission of
qualifications to work as a catch
monitor. For 5 catch monitors: 4 hours
for a written response and submission of
an appeal if a catch monitor permit is
denied. For 16 vessels in the
Mothership or Catcher/Processor fleet,
30 minutes or less for satisfying
requirements for use of at-sea scales,
including daily testing reports (30
minutes), daily catch and cumulative
weight reports (10 minutes), audit trail
(1 minute), calibration log (2 minutes),
and fault log (3 minutes).
Total Annual Burden Hours: 447
hours.
Needs and Uses: As part of its fishery
management responsibilities, the
National Marine Fisheries Service
(NMFS) collects information to
determine the amount and type of catch
taken by fishing vessels. This collection
supports monitoring requirements
including scale test requirements for
first receivers in the Pacific Coast
groundfish fishery’s shorebased
individual fishery quota (IFQ) program;
and mothership and catcher/processors
in the at-sea whiting fisheries. The
collection also supports permits for
businesses that provide certified
observer and certified catch monitor
services. The respondents are
principally shorebased first receivers,
catch monitor and observer service
providers, mothership processors, and
catcher/processors, which are
companies/partnerships.
Affected Public: Business or other for-
profit organizations.
Frequency: Reporting on occasion,
daily, weekly, or annually.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act.
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 0648–0619.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
[FR Doc. 2021–07743 Filed 4–14–21; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510–22–P
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; West Coast Region Vessel
Monitoring System Requirement in the
Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery
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 January 11,
2021, (86 FR 1947), 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: West Coast Region Vessel
Monitoring System Requirement in the
Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0573.
Form Number(s): N/A.
Type of Request: Regular submission
(revision of a current information
collection).
Number of Respondents: 1,000.
Average Hours per Response: Four
hours to install and activate a VMS unit;
one hour to maintain a VMS unit, five
minutes to complete and fax a check-in
report or to complete an exemption
report; four minutes for a declaration
report.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,021.
Needs and Uses: This is a request for
a revision and extension of a currently
approved information collection. The
National Marine Fisheries Service
(NMFS) implemented a Vessel
Monitoring Program in 2004, consistent
with the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act
(MSA) and the Pacific Coast Groundfish
Fishery Management Plan (FMP). Under
this program described at 50 CFR 660.13
and 660.14, all commercial fishing
vessels fishing in the exclusive
economic zone off the West Coast that
take and retain groundfish in federal
waters, or transit through federal waters
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