Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request, 21981 [2017-09569]

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• DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 90 (Thursday, May 11, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 21981]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-09569]



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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: Alaska Region Crab Permits.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0514.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular (extension of a currently approved 
information collection).
    Number of Respondents: 575.
    Average Hours per Response: Annual application for Crab IFQ permit, 
application for Crab IPQ permit, application to become an eligible crab 
community organization (ECCO), 150 minutes each; application for an 
Annual Crab Harvesting Cooperative IFQ Permit, 15 hours; Right of first 
refusal (ROFR) contracts and waivers, 1 hour each; annual application 
for Crab Converted CPO QS and CPO IFQ and application for Registered 
Crab Receiver (RCR) Permit, BSAI Crab Rationalization Program Quota 
Share Beneficiary Designation Form, 30 minutes; application for Crab 
IFQ Hired Master Permit, 1 hour; application for Federal crab vessel 
permit (FCVP) 21 minutes each; application for eligibility to receive 
crab QS/IFQ or PQS/IPQ by transfer, application for transfer of crab 
IFQ, application for transfer of crab QS/IFQ to or from an ECCO, 
Application to transfer crab QS or PQS, application for Annual 
Exemption from Western Aleutian Islands Golden King Crab West Region 
Delivery Requirements, Community Impact Report or IPQ Holder Report 
(North or South Response Report), 2 hours each; ECCO Annual report and 
appeal of denial to NMFS decisions, 4 hours each; application for 
transfer of IFQ between crab harvesting cooperatives, electronic, 5 
minutes, non-electronic, 2 hours; application to Transfer Crab IPQ, 
electronic, 1 hour; non-electronic, 2 hours; CDQ notification of 
community representative, 5 hours; application for exemption from CR 
Crab North or South Region Delivery Requirements and North or South 
Region Delivery Exemption Report, 20 hours each.
    Burden Hours: 3,007.
    Needs and Uses: This request is for extension of a currently 
approved information collection.
    The king and Tanner crab fisheries in the exclusive economic zone 
of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, Alaska, are managed under the 
Fishery Management Plan for Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands King and 
Tanner Crabs (FMP). The North Pacific Fishery Management Council 
prepared the FMP under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and 
Management Act as amended in 2006. The National Marine Fisheries 
Service (NMFS) manages the crab fisheries in the waters off the coast 
of Alaska under the FMP. Regulations implementing the FMP and all 
amendments to the Crab Rationalization Program (CR Program) appear at 
50 CFR part 680. Program details are found at: https://www.alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/regs/680/default.htm.
    The CR Program balances the interests of several groups who depend 
on the crab fisheries. The CR Program addresses conservation and 
management issues associated with the previous derby fishery, reduces 
bycatch and associated discard mortality, and increases the safety of 
crab fishermen by ending the race for fish. Share allocations to 
harvesters and processors, together with incentives to participate in 
fishery cooperatives, increases efficiencies, provides economic 
stability, and facilitates compensated reduction of excess capacities 
in the harvesting and processing sectors. Community interests are 
protected by Western Alaska Community Development Quota allocations and 
regional landing and processing requirements, as well as by several 
community protection measures.
    NMFS established the CR Program as a catch share program for nine 
crab fisheries in the BSAI, and assigned quota share (QS) to persons 
and processor quota share (PQS) to processors based on their historic 
participation in one or more of these nine crab fisheries during a 
specific period. The CR Program components include QS allocation, PQS 
allocation, individual fishing quota (IFQ) issuance, and individual 
processing quota (IPQ) issuance, quota transfers, use caps, crab 
harvesting cooperatives, protections for Gulf of Alaska groundfish 
fisheries, arbitration system, monitoring, economic data collection, 
and cost recovery fee collection.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations; 
individuals or households.
    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: May 8, 2017.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-09569 Filed 5-10-17; 8:45 am]
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