Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Economic Surveys of American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Small Boat-Based Fisheries, 52090 [2020-18503]

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• DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 164 (Monday, August 24, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 52090]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-18503]


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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; Economic Surveys of American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth 
of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Small Boat-Based Fisheries

    The Department of Commerce will submit the following information 
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite 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. Public comments were previously requested via the 
Federal Register on March 16, 2020 during a 60-day comment period. This 
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
    Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
    Title: Economic Surveys of American Samoa, Guam, and the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Small Boat-based 
Fisheries.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0635.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular submission [extension of a current 
information collection].
    Number of Respondents: 480.
    Average Hours per Response: 10 minutes per trip survey.
    Total Annual Burden Hours: 80 hours.
    Needs and Uses: The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) 
collects information about fishing trip expenses in the American Samoa, 
Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) 
small-boat-based reef fish, bottomfish, and pelagics fisheries with 
which to conduct analyses on economic performance of fisheries that 
will improve fishery management in those fisheries; satisfy NMFS' legal 
mandates under Executive Order 12866, the Magnuson-Steven Fishery 
Conservation and Management Act (U.S.C. 1801 et seq.), the Regulatory 
Flexibility Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the National 
Environmental Policy Act; and quantify achievement of the performances 
measures in the NMFS Strategic Operating Plans. An example of these 
performance measures is the fishing cost trend as one of the economic 
performance indicators reported in Annual Stock Assessment and Fishery 
Evaluation Reports of each Fishery Ecosystem Plan (https://www.wpcouncil.org/annual-reports/). In addition, the economic data 
collected will allow quantitative assessment of the fisheries sector's 
social and economic contribution, linkages and impacts of the fisheries 
sector to the overall economy through Input-output (I-O) models 
analyses. Results from I-O analyses will not only provide indicators of 
social-economic benefits of the marine ecosystem, a performance measure 
in the NMFS Strategic Operating Plans, but also be used to assess how 
fishermen and economy will be impacted by and respond to regulations 
likely to be considered by fishery managers. These data are collected 
in conjunction with catch and effort data already being collected in 
this fishery as part of its creel survey program. The creel survey 
program implemented by local fishery management agents is one of the 
major data collection systems to monitor fisheries resources in these 
three geographic areas. Interviews are conducted with returning 
fishermen at the most active launching ramps/docks during selected time 
periods on the islands. The economic surveys on trip expenditure are 
incorporated into the creel survey for the three areas, respectively.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and 
Management Act.
    This information collection request may be viewed at 
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view the Department of 
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of 
this notice on the following website www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 
Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently 
under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search 
function and entering either the title of the collection or the OMB 
Control Number 0648-0635.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2020-18503 Filed 8-21-20; 8:45 am]
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