Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
| Published date | 16 January 2020 |
| Citation | 85 FR 2721 |
| Record Number | 2020-00602 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration |
Federal Register, Volume 85 Issue 11 (Thursday, January 16, 2020)
[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 11 (Thursday, January 16, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 2721]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-00602]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act.
Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Title: Tilefish Individual Fishing Quota Program.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0590.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular (extension, without change, of a currently
approved collection).
Number of Respondents: 12.
Average Hours per Response: IFQ Allocation Permit--30 minutes; IFQ
Allocation Interest Declaration and IFQ Transfer forms--5 minutes each;
Fees and Cost Recovery--1 minute.
Burden Hours: 20.5.
Needs and Uses: NOAA Fisheries needs to administer and monitor the
Tilefish Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) Program to ensure the fishery
can achieve optimum yield while avoiding overfishing. To administer the
IFQ program, the agency issues annual IFQ Allocation permits. These
permits are needed to inform allocation holders of their annual catch
quota and for enforcement purposes to ensure vessels do not exceed an
individual quota allocation. To achieve its objectives, it is essential
that an IFQ program allow the free transfer of quota shares. In order
to process an IFQ transfer (temporary or permanent), NMFS requires that
an IFQ Allocation permit holder submit an IFQ transfer form. When the
Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council established the Tilefish IFQ
Program, it included a provision that no person, corporation, or other
entity may hold more that 49 percent of the total tilefish IFQ
allocation. In order to monitor this cap, IFQ Allocation permit holders
must disclose their ownership interest in any other holder of IFQ
allocation annually, prior to receiving their annual permit. In
addition to other provisions, the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation
and Management Act requires NOAA Fisheries to collect fees to recover
the costs directly related to the management, data collection and
analysis, and enforcement of IFQ programs.
Affected Public: Individuals or households and Business or other
for-profit.
Frequency: Annually and as requested.
Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
This information collection request may be viewed at reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view Department of Commerce collections
currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice
to [email protected] or fax to (202) 395-5806.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2020-00602 Filed 1-15-20; 8:45 am]
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