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purpose.
The SWFSC provides tagging supplies
to individuals electing to tag and release
the billfish they catch (the Program is
advertised by a newsletter and
fishermen hear in this way and also by
word of mouth from others catching
billfish). Each Billfish Tagging Report
Card is issued with an individual
billfish tag and is imprinted with the
number matching the accompanying tag.
The Billfish Tagging Report Card is the
primary mechanism by which these
cooperating anglers and commercial
fishers return the tag and release
information concerning the billfish they
have tagged. Individuals cooperating in
the Program do so on a strictly
voluntary basis.
Tagging supplies are provided to
volunteer anglers. When anglers catch
and release a tagged fish, they submit a
brief report on the fish and the location
of the tagging. The Program is
conducted throughout the year to
determine billfish habitat, mortality
rates, migration patterns, feeding habits,
and growth rates. Fishery biologists
investigating the health of billfish
resources throughout the Pacific utilize
data from this Program. Results aid in
ongoing research concerning billfish
resources and are published annually in
the Billfish Newsletter.
Information is submitted by mail, via
a paper form the size of a postcard.
III. Data
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OMB Control Number: 0648–0009.
Form Number(s): NOAA 88–162.
Type of Review: Regular submission
(extension of a current information
collection).
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
1000.
Estimated Time per Response: 5
minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 83.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $0.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: This program is
authorized under 16 U.S.C. 760(e),
Study of migratory game fish; waters;
research; purpose.
IV. Request for Comments
We are soliciting public comments to
permit the Department/Bureau to: (a)
Evaluate whether the proposed
information collection is necessary for
the proper functions of the Department,
including whether the information will
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Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the
accuracy of our estimate of the time and
cost burden for this proposed collection,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c)
Evaluate ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (d) Minimize the
reporting burden on those who are to
respond, including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. We will include or
summarize each comment in our request
to OMB to approve this ICR. Before
including your address, phone number,
email address, or other personal
identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment—including your
personal identifying information—may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you may ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
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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; NMFS Alaska Region Vessel
Monitoring System (VMS) Program
National Oceanic &
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
AGENCY:
Notice of information collection,
request for comment.
ACTION:
The Department of
Commerce, in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), invites 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. The purpose of this
notice is to allow for 60 days of public
comment preceding submission of the
collection to OMB.
SUMMARY:
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To ensure consideration,
comments regarding this proposed
information collection must be received
on or before August 24, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments to
Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer,
at Adrienne.thomas@noaa.gov. Please
reference OMB Control Number 0648–
0445 in the subject line of your
comments. Do not submit Confidential
Business Information or otherwise
sensitive or protected information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
specific questions related to collection
activities should be directed to Gabrielle
Aberle, 907–586–7228.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DATES:
I. Abstract
The National Marine Fisheries
Services (NMFS), Alaska Regional
Office, is requesting extension of a
currently approved information
collection for the NMFS Alaska Region
Vessel Monitoring System (VMS)
Program. There are no proposed changes
to this information collection.
NMFS requires the owners and
operators of selected vessels
participating in federally managed
groundfish and crab fisheries off Alaska
to obtain, install, and maintain an
operational, NMFS-approved Vessel
Monitoring System (VMS). VMS units
automatically transmit the location of a
vessel several times per hour using a
Global Positioning System satellite. The
VMS unit is passive and automatic,
requiring no reporting effort by the
vessel operator. A communications
service provider receives the
transmission and relays it to NMFS
Office for Law Enforcement (OLE).
Tracking vessel location using VMS is
required to monitor compliance with
area-specific catch allocations, to
monitor compliance with requirements
to redeploy or remove fishing gear from
commercial fishing grounds, and to
monitor compliance with complicated
time and area closures in the Gulf of
Alaska (GOA) and Bering Sea and
Aleutian Islands (BSAI) designed to
protect Steller sea lion or essential fish
habitat. The VMS requirements are
found at 50 CFR parts 679 and 680.
VMS is an essential component of
monitoring and management for
complicated, geographically widespread
fishing closures. Given the large size
and remoteness of the area in which
Alaska fisheries occur, and the limited
enforcement infrastructure available,
determining a vessel’s location depends
crucially on VMS reports. When a VMS
track is examined, information can be
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inferred about whether a vessel is
actively fishing, the type of gear being
used, and the fisheries that are open.
NMFS uses information from VMS to
identify where vessels are operating, to
organize patrols so as to increase the
number of fishing vessels visually
examined, or to focus examination of
vessels of greatest concern, and as
evidence in prosecutions.
II. Method of Collection
Automatic GPS position reporting
starts after VMS transceiver installation
and power activation on board the
vessel. The unit is pre-configured and
tested for NMFS VMS operations. The
VMS unit is passive and automatic,
requiring no reporting effort by the
vessel operator.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–0445.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission
(extension of a current information
collection).
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; Business or other for-profit
organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
550.
Estimated Time per Response: VMS
installation, maintenance, and
troubleshooting, 12 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 2,476 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $812,668.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
Obtain or Retain Benefits.
Legal Authority: 16 U.S.C.1801 et.
seq.; 16 U.S.C. 773–773k.
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IV. Request for Comments
We are soliciting public comments to
permit the Department/Bureau to: (a)
Evaluate whether the proposed
information collection is necessary for
the proper functions of the Department,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the
accuracy of our estimate of the time and
cost burden for this proposed collection,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c)
Evaluate ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (d) Minimize the
reporting burden on those who are to
respond, including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. We will include or
summarize each comment in our request
to OMB to approve this ICR. Before
including your address, phone number,
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email address, or other personal
identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment—including your
personal identifying information—may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you may ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
[FR Doc. 2020–13527 Filed 6–23–20; 8:45 am]
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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
COMMISSION
RIN 3038–0023; 3038–0072
Adoption of Revised Registration Form
8–R
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Commodity Futures
Trading Commission (the
‘‘Commission’’ or ‘‘CFTC’’) is revising
its Form 8–R, the application form that
individuals must use to register with the
Commission as an associated person of
a registrant, floor broker, or floor trader,
or to be listed as a principal of a
registrant (collectively, ‘‘applicants’’).
These revisions, which are essentially
technical and non-substantive in nature,
have been adopted to assist the National
Futures Association (‘‘NFA’’) in the
performance of the registration
functions authorized by the
Commission, and in the implementation
and operation of NFA’s program to
register and regulate directly the
associated persons sponsored by
members of NFA.
DATES: The new, revised version of
Form 8–R shall come into effect (and the
prior version shall cease to be in effect)
when the NFA makes the new, revised
version of the Form 8–R available on the
NFA website for use by individual
applicants.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Joshua Sterling, Director, (202) 418–
6700, jsterling@cftc.gov; Amanda Olear,
Deputy Director, (202) 418–5283,
aolear@cftc.gov; or Christopher
Cummings, Special Counsel, (202) 418–
5445, ccummings@cftc.gov, Division of
Swap Dealer and Intermediary
Oversight, Commodity Futures Trading
Commission, 1155 21st Street NW,
Washington, DC 20581.
SUMMARY:
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
Form 8–R requests information about
the applicant that can be used to assess
the applicant’s fitness to engage in
business as a derivatives professional.
Form 8–R is a Commission form
administered and used by NFA.
Individuals acting in certain capacities
in the markets regulated by the
Commission must file a completed Form
8–R with NFA.1 These applicants
include: associated persons of futures
commission merchants, retail foreign
exchange dealers, introducing brokers,
commodity trading advisors, commodity
pool operators, and leverage transaction
merchants; floor brokers; and floor
traders.2 Additionally, any individual
acting in the capacity as principal of a
futures commission merchant, retail
foreign exchange dealer, introducing
broker, commodity trading advisor,
commodity pool operator, swap dealer,
major swap participant, floor trader or
leverage transaction merchant also must
file a completed Form 8–R.3 Lastly,
individuals that enter orders for floor
trader firms must file the Form 8–R as
well.4 Individual applicants have been
required to use Form 8–R since 1977.5
NFA is currently the only registered
futures association authorized by the
Commission in accordance with Section
17 of the Commodity Exchange Act
(‘‘Act’’).6 Pursuant to Section 17(o) of
the Act,7 Regulation 3.2,8 and a series of
orders, the Commission delegated to
NFA certain registration functions
including, among other things, the
processing of all Form 8–R filings.9
1 17
CFR 3.10(a)(2), 3.11(a), and 3.12(c).
CFR 3.11(a); 3.12(c).
3 17 CFR 3.1(a); 3.10(a)(2); 3.11(a)(1). While
‘‘principal’’ is not technically a registration class
and principals do not apply for registration, for
purposes of this Notice, the Form 8–R filings by
principals will be referred to with the other Form
8–R filings as ‘‘registration applications.’’
4 17 CFR 3.11(a)(1).
5 Revision of Registration Forms and Amendment
of Related Rules, 42 FR 23988 (May 11, 1977) (Form
8–R replaced Forms 2–R, 4–R and 94).
6 7 U.S.C. 21 (2012).
7 7 U.S.C. 21(o) (2012).
8 17 CFR 3.2.
9 See, e.g., Introducing Brokers and Associated
Persons of Introducing Brokers; Authorization of
National Futures Association to Perform
Commission Registration Functions, 48 FR 35158
(Aug. 3, 1983); Performance of Registration
Functions by National Futures Association, 49 FR
39593 (Oct. 9, 1984) (futures commission
merchants, commodity pool operators, commodity
trading advisors, and associated persons thereof);
Performance of Registration Functions by National
Futures Association; Delegation of Authority, 51 FR
34490 (Sept. 29, 1986) (floor brokers); Performance
of Registration Functions by National Futures
Association with Respect to Floor Traders and Floor
Brokers, 58 FR 19657 (Apr. 15, 1993); and
Performance of Registration Functions by National
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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; NMFS Alaska Region Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) Program
AGENCY: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of information collection, request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce, in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), invites 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. The
purpose of this notice is to allow for 60 days of public comment
preceding submission of the collection to OMB.
DATES: To ensure consideration, comments regarding this proposed
information collection must be received on or before August 24, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit written comments to
Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer, at [email protected]. Please
reference OMB Control Number 0648-0445 in the subject line of your
comments. Do not submit Confidential Business Information or otherwise
sensitive or protected information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or
specific questions related to collection activities should be directed
to Gabrielle Aberle, 907-586-7228.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS), Alaska Regional
Office, is requesting extension of a currently approved information
collection for the NMFS Alaska Region Vessel Monitoring System (VMS)
Program. There are no proposed changes to this information collection.
NMFS requires the owners and operators of selected vessels
participating in federally managed groundfish and crab fisheries off
Alaska to obtain, install, and maintain an operational, NMFS-approved
Vessel Monitoring System (VMS). VMS units automatically transmit the
location of a vessel several times per hour using a Global Positioning
System satellite. The VMS unit is passive and automatic, requiring no
reporting effort by the vessel operator. A communications service
provider receives the transmission and relays it to NMFS Office for Law
Enforcement (OLE).
Tracking vessel location using VMS is required to monitor
compliance with area-specific catch allocations, to monitor compliance
with requirements to redeploy or remove fishing gear from commercial
fishing grounds, and to monitor compliance with complicated time and
area closures in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) and Bering Sea and Aleutian
Islands (BSAI) designed to protect Steller sea lion or essential fish
habitat. The VMS requirements are found at 50 CFR parts 679 and 680.
VMS is an essential component of monitoring and management for
complicated, geographically widespread fishing closures. Given the
large size and remoteness of the area in which Alaska fisheries occur,
and the limited enforcement infrastructure available, determining a
vessel's location depends crucially on VMS reports. When a VMS track is
examined, information can be
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inferred about whether a vessel is actively fishing, the type of gear
being used, and the fisheries that are open. NMFS uses information from
VMS to identify where vessels are operating, to organize patrols so as
to increase the number of fishing vessels visually examined, or to
focus examination of vessels of greatest concern, and as evidence in
prosecutions.
II. Method of Collection
Automatic GPS position reporting starts after VMS transceiver
installation and power activation on board the vessel. The unit is pre-
configured and tested for NMFS VMS operations. The VMS unit is passive
and automatic, requiring no reporting effort by the vessel operator.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648-0445.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission (extension of a current
information collection).
Affected Public: Individuals or households; Business or other for-
profit organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 550.
Estimated Time per Response: VMS installation, maintenance, and
troubleshooting, 12 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,476 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: $812,668.
Respondent's Obligation: Required to Obtain or Retain Benefits.
Legal Authority: 16 U.S.C.1801 et. seq.; 16 U.S.C. 773-773k.
IV. Request for Comments
We are soliciting public comments to permit the Department/Bureau
to: (a) Evaluate whether the proposed information collection is
necessary for the proper functions of the Department, including whether
the information will have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the accuracy
of our estimate of the time and cost burden for this proposed
collection, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions
used; (c) Evaluate ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of
the information to be collected; and (d) Minimize the reporting burden
on those who are to respond, including the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information technology.
Comments that you submit in response to this notice are a matter of
public record. We will include or summarize each comment in our request
to OMB to approve this ICR. Before including your address, phone
number, email address, or other personal identifying information in
your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment--including
your personal identifying information--may be made publicly available
at any time. While you may ask us in your comment to withhold your
personal identifying information from public review, we cannot
guarantee that we will be able to do so.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2020-13527 Filed 6-23-20; 8:45 am]
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