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deter marine mammals, target species,
seasons and areas fished, qualitative
data from logbooks or fisher reports,
stranding data, and the species and
distribution of marine mammals in the
area, or other factors at the discretion of
the Assistant Administrator that may
inform whether the likelihood of
incidental mortality and serious injury
of marine mammals caused by the
commercial fishing operation is more
than ‘‘remote.’’
Commercial fishing operations not
specifically identified in the current List
of Foreign Fisheries as either exempt or
export fisheries are deemed to be export
fisheries until the next List of Foreign
Fisheries is published unless the
Assistant Administrator has reliable
information from the harvesting nation
to classify the foreign commercial
fishing operation. Additionally, the
Assistant Administrator may request
additional information from the
harvesting nation and may consider
other relevant information about such
commercial fishing operations and the
frequency of incidental mortality and
serious injury of marine mammals, to
properly classify the foreign commercial
fishing operation.
NMFS will publish in the Federal
Register a List of Foreign Fisheries by
harvesting nation, their fisheries, and
their classifications. NMFS will publish
a proposed List of Foreign Fisheries for
public comment and a subsequent final
List. To develop this list, NMFS has
notified each harvesting nation with
fisheries that export to the United States
and requested that within 90 days of
notification the harvesting nation
submit reliable information about the
commercial fishing operations
identified, including the number of
participants, number of vessels, gear
type, target species, area of operation,
fishing season, and any information
regarding the frequency of marine
mammal incidental mortality and
serious injury, including programs to
assess marine mammal populations.
Harvesting nations will also be
requested to submit copies of any laws,
decrees, regulations, or measures to
reduce incidental mortality and serious
injury of marine mammals in those
fisheries or prohibit the intentional
killing or injury of marine mammals.
NMFS will evaluate each harvesting
nation’s submission, any readily
available information, request
additional information from the
harvesting nations, as necessary, and
use this information to classify the
fisheries. In the absence of quantifiable
information or reliable information from
the harvesting nation, NMFS will
classify fisheries by analogy with
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similar U.S. fisheries and gear types
interacting with similar marine mammal
stocks using readily available
information or available observer or
logbook information per the procedures
outlined in 50 CFR 229.2. Where no
information or analogous fishery or
fishery information exists, NMFS will
classify the commercial fishing
operation as an export fishery until such
time as the harvesting nation provides
reliable information to classify the
fishery or such information is readily
available to the Assistant Administrator
in the course of preparing the List of
Foreign Fisheries.
In revising the list, NMFS may
reclassify a fishery if new substantive
information indicates the need to reexamine and possibly reclassify a
fishery. The List of Foreign Fisheries
will be organized by harvesting nation
and other defining factors including
geographic location of harvest, geartype, target species or a combination
thereof. Based upon the List of Foreign
Fisheries, the Assistant Administrator
will consult with harvesting nations,
informing them of the regulatory
requirements for exempt and export
fisheries to import fish and fish
products into the United States. More
information regarding this process can
be found in the regulations codified at
50 CFR 216.24.
NMFS is soliciting information from
harvesting nations; other foreign,
regional, and local governments;
regional fishery management
organizations; nongovernmental
organizations; industry organizations;
academic institutions; and citizens and
citizen groups to identify commercial
fishing operations with intentional or
incidental mortality and serious injury
of marine mammals. For each item we
are requesting you identify the
exporting nation as the harvesting
nation, the processing or intermediary
nation, or both. For fisheries exporting
fish and fish products to the United
States NMFS is requesting the following
information:
• Number of participants,
• Number of vessels,
• Gear type,
• Target species,
• Area of operation,
• Fishing season, and
• Information regarding the frequency
of marine mammal incidental and
intentional mortality and serious injury.
Such information may include fishing
vessel records; reports of on-board
fishery observers; information from offloading facilities, port-side government
officials, enforcement agents,
transshipment vessel workers and fish
importers; government vessel registries;
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RFMO or intergovernmental agreement
documents, reports, and statistical
document programs; appropriate catch
certification programs; and published
literature and reports on commercial
fishing operations with intentional or
incidental mortality and serious injury
of marine mammals.
NMFS will consider all available
information, as appropriate, when
making a classification. Information
should be as specific as possible as this
will assist NMFS in its review. NMFS
will consider several criteria when
determining whether information is
appropriate for use in making
identifications, including:
• Corroboration of information;
• Whether multiple sources have
been able to provide information in
support of an identification;
• The methodology used to collect
the information;
• Specificity of the information
provided;
• Susceptibility of the information to
falsification and alteration; and
• Credibility of the individuals or
organization providing the information.
Dated: January 4, 2017.
John Henderschedt,
Director, Office for International Affairs and
Seafood Inspection, National Marine
Fisheries Service.
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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 (44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35).
Agency: National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Title: Educational Partnership
Program (EPP), Ernest F. Hollings
Undergraduate Scholarship Program, Dr.
Nancy Foster Scholarship Program,
Recruitment, Training, and Research
Program.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0568.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular (revision
and extension of a current information
collection).
Number of Respondents: 1,754.
Average Hours per Response: Student
Performance Achievement Reporting
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(SPAR) database form, 8; undergraduate
application form, 600; reference forms,
1200; alumni update form, 200.
Burden Hours: 7,822.
Needs and Uses: This request is for
revision and extension of a current
information collection.
The National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Office of Education (OEd) collects,
evaluates and analyzes student data for
the purpose of selecting successful
candidates, and for generating reports
and news articles to communicate the
success of its program. The OEd
requires applicants to its undergraduate
scholarship programs to complete an
application in order to be considered.
The application package requires two
faculty and/or academic advisors to
complete a NOAA student scholar
reference form in support of the
scholarship application. NOAA OEd
student scholar alumni are also
requested to provide information to
NOAA for internal tracking purposes.
NOAA OEd grant recipients are required
to update the student tracker database
with the required student information.
There is also a revised alumni form
whose use has extended to two more of
the programs. The collected student
data supports NOAA OEd’s program
performance measures. The Dr. Nancy
Foster Scholarship Program and the
NMFS Recruiting, Training, and
Research Program also collect student
data for their programs and are also
covered by this notice.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; business or other for-profit;
not-for-profit institutions; State, Local or
Tribal Government.
Frequency: Annually and on occasion.
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 OIRA_Submission@
omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395–5806.
Dated: January 5, 2017.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection
Activities Under OMB Review
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), this
notice announces that the Information
Collection Request (ICR) abstracted
below has been forwarded to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and comment. The ICR describes
the nature of the information collection
and its expected costs and burden.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before February 9, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Comments regarding the
burden estimated or any other aspect of
the information collection, including
suggestions for reducing the burden,
may be submitted directly to the Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs
(OIRA) to OMB within 30 days of the
notice’s publication, by email at
OIRAsubmissions@omb.eop.gov. Please
identify comments by OMB Control No.
3038–0025. Please provide the
Commission with a copy of all
submitted comments at the address
listed below. Please refer to OMB
Reference No. 3038–0025 found on
https://reginfo.gov. Comments also may
be mailed to the Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, Attention:
Desk Officer for the Commodity Futures
Trading Commission, 725 17th Street
NW., Washington, DC 20503 and to
Christopher Kirkpatrick, Secretary of the
Commission, Commodity Futures
Trading Commission, 1155 21st Street
NW., Washington, DC 20581, or by
Hand Deliver/Courier at the same
address; or through the Agency’s Web
site at https://comments.cftc.gov. Follow
the instructions for submitting
comments through the Web site.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Bianca Gomez, Counsel, Office of the
General Counsel, Commodity Futures
Trading Commission, (202) 418–5627;
email: bgomez@cftc.gov, and refer to
OMB Control No. 3038–0025.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Practice by Former Members
and Employees of the Commission
(OMB Control No. 3038–0025). This is
a request for an extension of a currently
approved information collection.
Abstract: Commission Rule 140.735–6
governs the practice before the
Commission of former members and
employees of the Commission and is
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intended to ensure that the Commission
is aware of any existing conflict of
interest. The rule generally requires
former members and employees who are
employed or retained to represent any
person before the Commission within
two years of the termination of their
CFTC employment, to file a brief written
statement with the Commission’s Office
of the General Counsel. The proposed
rule was promulgated pursuant to the
Commission’s rulemaking authority
contained in Section 8a(5) of the
Commodity Exchange Act, 7 U.S.C.
12a(5) (1994), as amended.
An agency may not conduct or
sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to, a collection of information
unless it displays a current valid OMB
control number. The OMB control
numbers for the CFTC’s regulations
were published on December 30, 1981.
See 46 FR 63035 (Dec. 30, 1981). The
Federal Register notice with a 60-day
comment period soliciting comments on
this collection of information was
published on December 11, 2013 (78 FR
75333).
Burden statement: The respondent
burden for this collection is estimated to
average 0.10 hours per response to file
the brief written statement. This
estimate includes the time needed to
review instructions; develop, acquire,
install, and utilize technology and
systems for the purposes of collecting,
validating, and verifying information,
processing and maintaining information
and disclosing and providing
information; adjust the existing ways to
comply with any previously applicable
instructions and requirements; train
personnel to be able to respond to a
collection of information; and transmit
or otherwise disclose the information.
Respondents/Affected Entities:
Former Employees and their employers.
Estimated number of respondents: 30.
Estimated annual burden hours per
respondent: 0.10 hours.
Estimated total annual responses: 30.
Estimated total annual burden on
respondents: 3 hours.
Frequency of collection: On occasion.
(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.)
Dated: January 5, 2017.
Robert N. Sidman,
Deputy Secretary of the Commission.
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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 (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35).
Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Title: Educational Partnership Program (EPP), Ernest F. Hollings
Undergraduate Scholarship Program, Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship
Program, Recruitment, Training, and Research Program.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0568.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular (revision and extension of a current
information collection).
Number of Respondents: 1,754.
Average Hours per Response: Student Performance Achievement
Reporting
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(SPAR) database form, 8; undergraduate application form, 600; reference
forms, 1200; alumni update form, 200.
Burden Hours: 7,822.
Needs and Uses: This request is for revision and extension of a
current information collection.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office
of Education (OEd) collects, evaluates and analyzes student data for
the purpose of selecting successful candidates, and for generating
reports and news articles to communicate the success of its program.
The OEd requires applicants to its undergraduate scholarship programs
to complete an application in order to be considered. The application
package requires two faculty and/or academic advisors to complete a
NOAA student scholar reference form in support of the scholarship
application. NOAA OEd student scholar alumni are also requested to
provide information to NOAA for internal tracking purposes. NOAA OEd
grant recipients are required to update the student tracker database
with the required student information. There is also a revised alumni
form whose use has extended to two more of the programs. The collected
student data supports NOAA OEd's program performance measures. The Dr.
Nancy Foster Scholarship Program and the NMFS Recruiting, Training, and
Research Program also collect student data for their programs and are
also covered by this notice.
Affected Public: Individuals or households; business or other for-
profit; not-for-profit institutions; State, Local or Tribal Government.
Frequency: Annually and on occasion.
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 OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395-5806.
Dated: January 5, 2017.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-00276 Filed 1-9-17; 8:45 am]
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