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Final Determination of No Shipments
Prior to the issuance of the
questionnaire, Conduit reported that it
made no sales of subject merchandise
during the POR.10 On May 8, 2019, we
placed the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) port inquiry
instructions on the record that we sent
to CBP regarding each company that
submitted a statement of no shipments.
We received no information from CBP
contrary to the statements of no
shipments from the companies
contained in the attachments to the CBP
Information Memorandum.11
On June 28, 2019, we received a
certification of no shipments of subject
merchandise from Mueller, which
contained documentation in support of
its contention that it had no prior
knowledge of the entry of products it
had sold into the United States.12 Based
on this evidence, we preliminarily
determined that Mueller made no
shipments of subject merchandise into
the United States during the POR.13
On July 8, 2019, we received a
certification of no shipments of subject
merchandise from Conduit and RYMCO
which contained documentation
supporting their contentions that they
had no prior knowledge of subject
merchandise exported to the United
States during the POR, and that the
products listed in the CBP data were not
subject merchandise.14 Based on this
evidence, we preliminarily determined
that Conduit and RYMCO made no
shipments of subject merchandise into
the United States during the POR.15
For the reasons explained in the
Issues and Decision Memorandum, we
continue to determine for these final
results that Conduit, Mueller, and
RYMCO made no shipments of subject
merchandise during the POR.
Assessment
Commerce shall determine and U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
shall assess antidumping duties on all
appropriate entries. Because Commerce
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10 See
Conduit’s Letter, ‘‘Circular Welded NonAlloy Steel Pipe from Mexico: Response to
Comments on Notice of No Sales and Confirmation
of No Sales, dated April 19, 2019. This statement
included RYMCO.
11 The port inquiries were for: Conduit, ITISA,
Lamina y Placa, Mach 1 Aero, Mach 1 Global,
Regiopytsa, Tubacero, and TUMEX.
12 See Mueller’s Letter, ‘‘Certain Circular Welded
Non-Alloy Steel Pipe from Mexico: Mueller
Certification of No Shipments,’’ dated June 28,
2019.
13 See Preliminary Results.
14 See Conduit/RYMCO’s Letter, ‘‘Certain Circular
Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe from Mexico:
Conduit/RYMCO Response to Department
Questionnaire—Statement of No Sales of Subject
Merchandise,’’ dated July 8, 2019.
15 See Preliminary Results, 84 FR at 48908.
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determined that Conduit, Mueller, and
RYMCO had no shipments of the subject
merchandise, any suspended entries
that entered under those companies’
case numbers (i.e., at those companies’
rates) will be liquidated at the all-others
rate effective during the POR, consistent
with Commerce’s practice.16 We intend
to issue assessment instructions directly
to CBP 41 days after publication of the
final results of this review.
Cash Deposit Requirements
The following deposit requirements
for estimated antidumping duties will
be effective upon publication of the
notice of these final results of review for
all shipments of circular welded nonalloy steel pipe from Mexico entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption on or after the date of
publication as provided by section
751(a)(2) of the Act: (1) The cash deposit
rate for Conduit, Mueller, and RYMCO
will continue to be the companyspecific rate published for the most
recent period; (2) for merchandise
exported by producers or exporters not
covered in this review but covered in a
prior segment of the proceeding, the
cash deposit rate will continue to be the
company-specific rate published for the
most recent period; (3) if the exporter is
not a firm covered in this review, a prior
review, or the original investigation, but
the producer is, then the cash deposit
rate will be the rate established for the
most recent period for the producer of
the merchandise; (4) the cash deposit
rate for all other producers or exporters
will continue to be 32.62 percent, the
all-others rate established in the LTFV
investigation.17 These cash deposit
requirements, when imposed, shall
remain in effect until further notice.
Notification to Importers
This notice serves as a final reminder
to importers of their responsibility
under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a
certificate regarding the reimbursement
of antidumping duties and/or
countervailing duties prior to
liquidation of the relevant entries
during this POR. Failure to comply with
this requirement could result in
Commerce’s presumption that
reimbursement of antidumping duties
and/or countervailing duties occurred
and the subsequent assessment of
doubled antidumping duties.
16 For a full discussion of this clarification, see
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings:
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954
(May 6, 2003).
17 See Final Determination of Sales at Less Than
Fair Value: Circular Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe
from Mexico, 57 FR 42953 (September 17, 1992);
see also the Order.
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Notification to Interested Parties
Regarding Administrative Protective
Order
This notice also serves as the only
reminder to parties subject to
administrative protective order (APO) of
their responsibility concerning the
disposition of proprietary information
disclosed under APO in accordance
with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3), which
continues to govern business
proprietary information in this segment
of the proceeding. Timely written
notification of the return or destruction
of APO materials or conversion to
judicial protective order is hereby
requested. Failure to comply with the
regulations and the terms of an APO is
a sanctionable violation.
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing notice
of these final results in accordance with
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the
Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h).
Dated: April 7, 2020
Jeffrey I. Kessler,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
Compliance.
Appendix—List of Topics Discussed in
the Issues and Decision Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Discussion of the Issues
Comment 1: No-Shipment Statements in
Lieu of Questionnaire Response
Comment 2: Adequacy of Support for
Conduit’s No Shipment Statement
Comment 3: Application of Adverse Facts
Available to Conduit
Comment 4: Adequacy of Support for
Mueller’s No Shipment Statement
Comment 5: Application of Adverse Facts
Available to Mueller
V. Recommendation
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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Proposed Information Collection;
Comment Request; Economic Surveys
of Specific U.S. Commercial Fisheries
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Department of
Commerce, as part of its continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and
respondent burden, invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to
comment on proposed and/or
SUMMARY:
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continuing information collections, as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995. The purpose of this notice
is to allow for 60 days of public
comment.
To ensure consideration,
comments regarding this proposed
information collection must be received
on or before June 12, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments
to Adrienne Thomas, PRA Officer,
NOAA, 151 Patton Avenue, Room 159,
Asheville, NC 28801 (or via the internet
at PRAcomments@doc.gov). All
comments received are part of the
public record. Comments will generally
be posted without change. All
Personally Identifiable Information (for
example, name and address) voluntarily
submitted by the commenter may be
publicly accessible. Do not submit
Confidential Business Information or
otherwise sensitive or protected
information.
DATES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
directed to Dr. Joe Terry, Office of
Science and Technology, 1315 EastWest Hwy., Bldg. SSMC3, Silver Spring,
MD 20910–3282, (858) 454 –2547,
joe.terry@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. Abstract
The Office of Science and Technology
is sponsoring this collection, which
consists of economic surveys that will
be conducted in selected commercial
fisheries for the West Coast, the
Southeast, Hawaii, and the U.S. Pacific
Islands territories.
The requested information will
include different components of
operating costs/expenditures, earnings,
employment, ownership, vessel
characteristics, effort/gear descriptors,
employment, and demographic
information for the various types of
fishing vessels operating in the 15 U.S.
commercial fisheries listed below.
1. West Coast Limited Entry Groundfish
Fixed Gear Fishery
2. West Coast Open Access Groundfish,
Non-tribal Salmon, Crab, and
Shrimp Fisheries
3. American Samoa Longline Fishery
4. Hawaii Longline Fishery
5. Hawaii Small Boat Fishery
6. American Samoa Small Boat Fishery
7. American Samoa (ESAS), Guam, and
The Commonwealth of The
Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI)
Small Boat-Based Fisheries
8. Mariana Archipelago Small Boat
Fishery
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9. USVI Small-Scale Fisheries
10. Puerto Rico Small-Scale Fisheries
11. Gulf of Mexico Inshore Shrimp
Fishery
12. Golden Crab Fisheries in the U.S.
South Atlantic Region
13. West Coast Coastal Pelagic Fishery
14. West Coast Swordfish Fishery
15. West Coast North Pacific Albacore
Fishery
A variety of laws, Executive Orders
(EOs), and NOAA Fisheries strategies
and policies include requirements for
economic data and the analyses they
support. When met adequately, those
requirements allow better-informed
conservation and management decisions
on the use of living marine resources
and marine habitat in federally managed
fisheries. Obtaining these data improves
the ability of NOAA Fisheries and the
Regional Fishery Management Councils
(Councils) to monitor, explain and
predict changes in the economic
performance and impacts of federally
managed commercial fisheries.
Measures of economic performance
include costs, earnings, and profitability
(net revenue); productivity and
economic efficiency; capacity; economic
stability; the level and distribution of
net economic benefits to society; and
market power. The economic impacts
include sector, community or regionspecific, and national employment,
sales, value-added, and income impacts.
Economic data are required to support
more than a cursory effort to comply
with or support the following laws, EOs,
and NOAA Fisheries strategies and
policies:
1. The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act
(MSA)
2. The Marine Mammal Protection Act
(MMPA)
3. The Endangered Species Act (ESA)
4. The National Environmental Policy
Act (NEPA)
5. The Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA)
6. E.O. 12866 (Regulatory Planning and
Review)
7. E.O. 13771 (Reducing Regulation and
Controlling Regulatory Costs)
8. E.O. 12898 (Federal Actions to
Address Environmental Justice in
Minority Populations and LowIncome Populations)
9. E.O. 13840 (Ocean Policy to Advance
the Economic, Security, and
Environmental Interests of the
United States).
10. The NOAA Fisheries Guidelines for
Economic Reviews of Regulatory
Actions
11. The NOAA Fisheries Strategic Plan
2019–2022 (Strategic Plan)
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12. The NOAA Fisheries EcosystemBased Fishery Management (EBFM)
Road Map
13. The NOAA Fisheries National
Bycatch Reduction Strategy
14. NOAA’s Catch Share Policy.
Data collections will focus each year
on a different set of the 15 commercial
fisheries. This cycle of data collection
will facilitate economic data being
available and updated for all those
commercial fisheries.
There will be an effort to coordinate
the data collections in order to reduce
the additional burden for those who
participate in multiple fisheries. To
further reduce the burden, the requested
information for a specific fishery will be
limited to that which is not available
from other sources. Participation in
these data collections will be voluntary.
The proposed revisions to the
information collection will: (a) Change
the title of the currently approved
information collection from ‘‘West Coast
Limited Entry Groundfish Fixed Gear
Economic Data Collection’’ to
‘‘Economic Surveys of Specific U.S.
Commercial Fisheries’’; (b) expand it to
include an additional 14 fisheries, for
which information had been collected
under other previously approved
information collections; (c) extend it for
three years; and (d) increase the burden
hours to the sum of the burden hours for
the 15 information collections.
II. Method of Collection
The information will be collected by
mail, internet, phone, and in-person
interviews. In general, respondents will
receive a mailed copy of the survey
instrument in advance of a phone or inperson interview. Where feasible,
survey respondents will have the option
to respond to an on-line survey. If
phone and in-person interviews are not
feasible or not desired by the potential
respondents, the information will be
collected by mail or internet.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–0773.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission
(revision of a currently approved
collection).
Affected Public: Individuals or
households and business or other forprofit organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
2,424.
Estimated Time per Response:
West Coast Open Access Groundfish,
Non-tribal Salmon, Crab, and Shrimp
Economic Data Collection: 3 hours.
West Coast Limited Entry Groundfish
Fixed Gear Economic Data Collection: 3
hours.
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American Samoa Longline Survey: 1
hour.
Hawaii Longline Survey: 1 hour.
Hawaii Small Boat Economic Survey:
45 minutes.
American Samoa Small Boat Survey:
45 minutes.
Economic Surveys of American
Samoa (ESAS), Guam, and The
Commonwealth of The Northern
Mariana Islands (CNMI) Small BoatBased Fisheries (an add-on to a creel
survey): 10 minutes.
Cost Earnings Survey of Mariana
Archipelago Small Boat Fleet: 45
minutes.
Economic Expenditure Survey of
Golden Crab Fishermen in the U.S.
South Atlantic Region: 1 hour.
USVI Fisheries Economic Survey
(Socio-Economic Profile of Small-Scale
Commercial Fisheries (SSCF) in the U.S.
Caribbean): 30 minutes.
Puerto Rico Fisheries Economic
Survey (Socio-Economic Profile of
Small-Scale Commercial Fisheries
(SSCF) in the U.S. Caribbean): 1 hour.
Gulf of Mexico Inshore Shrimp
Fishery Economic Survey: 30 minutes.
West Coast Swordfish Fishery Cost
and Earnings Survey: 1 hour.
West Coast Coastal Pelagic Fishery
Economic Survey: 1 hour, 40 minutes.
West Coast North Pacific Albacore
Fishery Economic Survey: 1 hour.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 2,188.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $0.
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IV. Request for Comments
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden
(including hours and cost) of the
proposed collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval of this information collection;
they also will become a matter of public
record.
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Dated: April 7, 2020.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Federal Consistency Appeal by
WesternGeco of South Carolina
Objection
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Department of Commerce (DOC).
ACTION: Notice of stay—closure of
administrative appeal decision record.
AGENCY:
This announcement provides
notice that the Department of Commerce
(Department) has stayed, for a period of
14 days, closure of the decision record
in an administrative appeal filed by
filed by WesternGeco (Appellant) under
the Coastal Zone Management Act
requesting that the Secretary override an
objection by the South Carolina
Department of Health and
Environmental Control to a consistency
certification for a proposed project to
conduct a marine Geological and
Geophysical seismic survey in the
Atlantic Ocean.
DATES: The decision record for
WesternGeco’s Federal Consistency
Appeal of South Carolina’s objection
will now close on April 27, 2020.
ADDRESSES: NOAA has provided access
to publicly available materials and
related documents comprising the
appeal record on the following website:
https://www.regulations.gov/#!docket
Detail;D=NOAA-HQ-2019-0118.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
questions about this Notice, contact
Jonelle Dilley, NOAA Office of General
Counsel, Oceans and Coasts Section,
1305 East-West Highway, Room 6111,
Silver Spring, MD 20910, (301) 713–
7383, jonelle.dilley@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On
September 20, 2019, the Secretary of
Commerce (Secretary) received a
‘‘Notice of Appeal’’ filed by
WesternGeco pursuant to the Coastal
Zone Management Act of 1972 (CZMA),
16 U.S.C. 1451 et seq., and
implementing regulations found at 15
CFR part 930, subpart H. The ‘‘Notice of
Appeal’’ is taken from an objection by
the South Carolina Department of
Health and Environmental Control to a
consistency certification for a proposed
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project to conduct a marine Geological
and Geophysical seismic survey in the
Atlantic Ocean. This matter constitutes
an appeal of an ‘‘energy project’’ within
the meaning of the CZMA regulations,
see 15 CFR 930.123(c).
Under the CZMA, the Secretary may
override South Carolina’s objection on
grounds that the project is consistent
with the objectives or purposes of the
CZMA, or is necessary in the interest of
national security. To make the
determination that the proposed activity
is ‘‘consistent with the objectives or
purposes of the CZMA,’’ the Department
must find that: (1) The proposed activity
furthers the national interest as
articulated in sections 302 or 303 of the
CZMA, in a significant or substantial
manner; (2) the national interest
furthered by the proposed activity
outweighs the activity’s adverse coastal
effects, when those effects are
considered separately or cumulatively;
and (3) no reasonable alternative is
available that would permit the
proposed activity to be conducted in a
manner consistent with the enforceable
policies of the applicable coastal
management program. 15 CFR 930.121.
To make the determination that the
proposed activity is ‘‘necessary in the
interest of national security,’’ the
Secretary must find that a national
defense or other national security
interest would be significantly impaired
if the proposed activity is not permitted
to go forward as proposed. 15 CFR
930.122.
The Secretary must close the decision
record in a federal consistency appeal
160 days after the Notice of Appeal is
published in the Federal Register. 15
CFR 930.130(a)(1). However, the CZMA
authorizes the Secretary to stay closing
the decision record for up to 60 days
when the Secretary determines it
necessary to receive, on an expedited
basis, any supplemental information
specifically requested by the Secretary
to complete a consistency review or any
clarifying information submitted by a
party to the proceeding related to
information in the consolidated record
compiled by the lead Federal permitting
agency. 15 CFR 930.130(a)(2), (3).
After reviewing the decision record
developed to date, the Secretary has
decided to solicit supplemental and
clarifying information from the Bureau
of Ocean Energy Management pertaining
to the withholding of certain
information as proprietary. In order to
allow receipt of this information, the
Secretary hereby stays closure of the
decision record, currently scheduled to
occur on April 13, 2020, until April 27,
2020.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Economic
Surveys of Specific U.S. Commercial Fisheries
AGENCY: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public
and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed and/or
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continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. The purpose of this notice is to allow for 60
days of public comment.
DATES: To ensure consideration, comments regarding this proposed
information collection must be received on or before June 12, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments to Adrienne Thomas, PRA Officer,
NOAA, 151 Patton Avenue, Room 159, Asheville, NC 28801 (or via the
internet at [email protected]). All comments received are part of the
public record. Comments will generally be posted without change. All
Personally Identifiable Information (for example, name and address)
voluntarily submitted by the commenter may be publicly accessible. Do
not submit Confidential Business Information or otherwise sensitive or
protected information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection instrument and instructions should
be directed to Dr. Joe Terry, Office of Science and Technology, 1315
East-West Hwy., Bldg. SSMC3, Silver Spring, MD 20910-3282, (858) 454 -
2547, [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The Office of Science and Technology is sponsoring this collection,
which consists of economic surveys that will be conducted in selected
commercial fisheries for the West Coast, the Southeast, Hawaii, and the
U.S. Pacific Islands territories.
The requested information will include different components of
operating costs/expenditures, earnings, employment, ownership, vessel
characteristics, effort/gear descriptors, employment, and demographic
information for the various types of fishing vessels operating in the
15 U.S. commercial fisheries listed below.
1. West Coast Limited Entry Groundfish Fixed Gear Fishery
2. West Coast Open Access Groundfish, Non-tribal Salmon, Crab, and
Shrimp Fisheries
3. American Samoa Longline Fishery
4. Hawaii Longline Fishery
5. Hawaii Small Boat Fishery
6. American Samoa Small Boat Fishery
7. American Samoa (ESAS), Guam, and The Commonwealth of The Northern
Mariana Islands (CNMI) Small Boat-Based Fisheries
8. Mariana Archipelago Small Boat Fishery
9. USVI Small-Scale Fisheries
10. Puerto Rico Small-Scale Fisheries
11. Gulf of Mexico Inshore Shrimp Fishery
12. Golden Crab Fisheries in the U.S. South Atlantic Region
13. West Coast Coastal Pelagic Fishery
14. West Coast Swordfish Fishery
15. West Coast North Pacific Albacore Fishery
A variety of laws, Executive Orders (EOs), and NOAA Fisheries
strategies and policies include requirements for economic data and the
analyses they support. When met adequately, those requirements allow
better-informed conservation and management decisions on the use of
living marine resources and marine habitat in federally managed
fisheries. Obtaining these data improves the ability of NOAA Fisheries
and the Regional Fishery Management Councils (Councils) to monitor,
explain and predict changes in the economic performance and impacts of
federally managed commercial fisheries. Measures of economic
performance include costs, earnings, and profitability (net revenue);
productivity and economic efficiency; capacity; economic stability; the
level and distribution of net economic benefits to society; and market
power. The economic impacts include sector, community or region-
specific, and national employment, sales, value-added, and income
impacts. Economic data are required to support more than a cursory
effort to comply with or support the following laws, EOs, and NOAA
Fisheries strategies and policies:
1. The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA)
2. The Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA)
3. The Endangered Species Act (ESA)
4. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
5. The Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA)
6. E.O. 12866 (Regulatory Planning and Review)
7. E.O. 13771 (Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs)
8. E.O. 12898 (Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in
Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations)
9. E.O. 13840 (Ocean Policy to Advance the Economic, Security, and
Environmental Interests of the United States).
10. The NOAA Fisheries Guidelines for Economic Reviews of Regulatory
Actions
11. The NOAA Fisheries Strategic Plan 2019-2022 (Strategic Plan)
12. The NOAA Fisheries Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management (EBFM) Road
Map
13. The NOAA Fisheries National Bycatch Reduction Strategy
14. NOAA's Catch Share Policy.
Data collections will focus each year on a different set of the 15
commercial fisheries. This cycle of data collection will facilitate
economic data being available and updated for all those commercial
fisheries.
There will be an effort to coordinate the data collections in order
to reduce the additional burden for those who participate in multiple
fisheries. To further reduce the burden, the requested information for
a specific fishery will be limited to that which is not available from
other sources. Participation in these data collections will be
voluntary.
The proposed revisions to the information collection will: (a)
Change the title of the currently approved information collection from
``West Coast Limited Entry Groundfish Fixed Gear Economic Data
Collection'' to ``Economic Surveys of Specific U.S. Commercial
Fisheries''; (b) expand it to include an additional 14 fisheries, for
which information had been collected under other previously approved
information collections; (c) extend it for three years; and (d)
increase the burden hours to the sum of the burden hours for the 15
information collections.
II. Method of Collection
The information will be collected by mail, internet, phone, and in-
person interviews. In general, respondents will receive a mailed copy
of the survey instrument in advance of a phone or in-person interview.
Where feasible, survey respondents will have the option to respond to
an on-line survey. If phone and in-person interviews are not feasible
or not desired by the potential respondents, the information will be
collected by mail or internet.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648-0773.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission (revision of a currently
approved collection).
Affected Public: Individuals or households and business or other
for-profit organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 2,424.
Estimated Time per Response:
West Coast Open Access Groundfish, Non-tribal Salmon, Crab, and
Shrimp Economic Data Collection: 3 hours.
West Coast Limited Entry Groundfish Fixed Gear Economic Data
Collection: 3 hours.
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American Samoa Longline Survey: 1 hour.
Hawaii Longline Survey: 1 hour.
Hawaii Small Boat Economic Survey: 45 minutes.
American Samoa Small Boat Survey: 45 minutes.
Economic Surveys of American Samoa (ESAS), Guam, and The
Commonwealth of The Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Small Boat-Based
Fisheries (an add-on to a creel survey): 10 minutes.
Cost Earnings Survey of Mariana Archipelago Small Boat Fleet: 45
minutes.
Economic Expenditure Survey of Golden Crab Fishermen in the U.S.
South Atlantic Region: 1 hour.
USVI Fisheries Economic Survey (Socio-Economic Profile of Small-
Scale Commercial Fisheries (SSCF) in the U.S. Caribbean): 30 minutes.
Puerto Rico Fisheries Economic Survey (Socio-Economic Profile of
Small-Scale Commercial Fisheries (SSCF) in the U.S. Caribbean): 1 hour.
Gulf of Mexico Inshore Shrimp Fishery Economic Survey: 30 minutes.
West Coast Swordfish Fishery Cost and Earnings Survey: 1 hour.
West Coast Coastal Pelagic Fishery Economic Survey: 1 hour, 40
minutes.
West Coast North Pacific Albacore Fishery Economic Survey: 1 hour.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,188.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: $0.
IV. Request for Comments
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden
(including hours and cost) of the proposed collection of information;
(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on respondents, including through the use of
automated collection techniques or other forms of information
technology.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for OMB approval of this information
collection; they also will become a matter of public record.
Dated: April 7, 2020.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2020-07643 Filed 4-10-20; 8:45 am]
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