Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Alaska Region Scale & Catch Weighing Requirements, 71060-71061 [2020-24718]

Download as PDF 71060 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 216 / Friday, November 6, 2020 / Notices Respondent’s Obligation: Required to Obtain or Retain Benefits. Legal Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. 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 0648–0515. Sheleen Dumas, Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Commerce Department. [FR Doc. 2020–24720 Filed 11–5–20; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 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; Alaska Region Scale & Catch Weighing Requirements 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 June 17, 2020 (85 FR 36566), 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: Alaska Region Scale & Catch Weighing Requirements. OMB Control Number: 0648–0330. Form Number(s): None. VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:00 Nov 05, 2020 Jkt 253001 Type of Request: Regular submission [extension of a current information collection]. Number of Respondents: 85. Average Hours Per Response: Scale Type Evaluation: 50 hours; Installation & Maintenance: At-Sea Scales (Maintenance only)—1 minute; Video Monitoring Systems (maintenance)—1 minute; Video Monitoring Systems (installation)—12 hours; Observer Sampling Station (installation)—12 hours; maintenance—1 minute; Inspection Request: 10 minutes; Daily Scale Test: Notify Observer of Tests—2 minutes; Record of Flow Scale Test—10 minutes; Record of Hopper Scale Test— 10 minutes; Printed Report—Flow Scale: Catch & Cumulative Weight, Audit Trail, Calibration Log, and Fault Log— 1 minute each; Printed Report—Hopper Scale: Catch Weight and Audit Trail— 1 minute each; Video Monitoring: 2 hours; Notification of Pacific Cod Monitoring Option: 10 minutes; Catch Monitoring and Control Plan (CMCP): Annual Submission—40 hours; CMCP Addendum—8 hours; Printed Record from Scale—1 minute; Notify Observer—1 minute; Crab Monitoring Plan (CMP): Annual Submission—16 hours; CMP Addendum—8 hours; Printed Records from Scale—1 minute. Total Annual Burden Hours: 46,037. Needs and Uses: The National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS), Alaska Regional Office, is requesting extension of the currently approved information collection for Alaska Region Scale & Catch Weighing Requirements. The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. (Magnuson-Stevens Act) authorizes the North Pacific Fishery Management Council to prepare and amend fishery management plans for any fishery in waters under its jurisdiction. The At-Sea Scales Program was developed in response to the need for catch accounting methods that were more precise and verifiable at the level of the individual haul and less dependent on estimates generated by atsea observers. This was necessary due to the implementation of large-scale catch share programs that required NMFS to provide verifiable and defensible estimates of quota harvest. Scale and catch-weighing monitoring is required for Western Alaska Community Development Quota Program (CDQ) catcher/processors (C/Ps), American Fisheries Act (AFA) C/Ps, AFA motherships, AFA shoreside processors and stationary floating processors, Central Gulf of Alaska Rockfish Program trawl C/Ps, non-AFA trawl C/Ps participating in Bering Sea and Aleutian PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Islands (BSAI) trawl fisheries, and longline C/Ps participating in BSAI Pacific cod fisheries. Scale and catch weighing requirements are located at 50 CFR parts 679 and 680. NMFS has identified three primary objectives for monitoring catch to ensure independent and verifiable data is available for fisheries management. First, monitoring methods must ensure all catch delivered to a processor is weighed and identified to species and provide a verifiable record of the weight and species composition of each delivery. Second, all catch must be weighed using NMFS-approved scales to determine the weight of the catch and provide a record of that weight. Third, monitoring systems, such as video, must be in place to ensure that all catch is accounted for. Shoreside processors participating in catch share programs have many of the same catch accounting and monitoring goals, but two differences require unique monitoring tools to obtain precise and verifiable catch amounts for quota management. First, shoreside processors vary more in size, facilities, and layout than do catcher/processors or motherships. Second, the State of Alaska is responsible for approving scales used for trade by shoreside processors and has developed an effective program for their inspection and approval. Because of the wide variations in factory layout, a performance-based catch monitoring system is more appropriate for shoreside processors than a type approval process used for atsea scales. CMCPs (Catch Monitoring and Control Plans) and CMPs (Crab Monitoring Plans) are submitted by the representative from the shoreside processor and approved by NMFS. CMCPs and CMPs detail a series of performance based standards set out in regulation that ensure that all delivered catch can be effectively monitored by NMFS-authorized personnel, that NMFS-authorized personnel can effectively conduct their monitoring duties, and that all catch is accurately sorted and weighed by species. Vessels that participate in halibut deck sorting are required to comply with additional monitoring and equipment requirements such as the installation of an observer sampling station on deck and video monitoring requirements. These additional measures are necessary to ensure accurate accounting of halibut sorted on the deck of participating vessels. Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations. Frequency: Annually; daily, for time period. E:\FR\FM\06NON1.SGM 06NON1 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 216 / Friday, November 6, 2020 / Notices Respondent’s Obligation: Required to Obtain or Retain Benefits. Legal Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. 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 0648–0330. Sheleen Dumas, Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Commerce Department. [FR Doc. 2020–24718 Filed 11–5–20; 8:45 am] Additions If the Committee approves the proposed additions, the entities of the Federal Government identified in this notice will be required to procure the service(s) listed below from nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities. The following service(s) are proposed for addition to the Procurement List for production by the nonprofit agencies listed: Additions If the Committee approves the proposed additions, the entities of the Federal Government identified in this notice will be required to procure the service(s) listed below from nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities. The following service(s) are proposed for addition to the Procurement List for production by the nonprofit agencies listed: Service(s) Service Type: Operations and Maintenance Services Mandatory for: Department of Health & Human Services, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, Washington, DC Designated Source of Supply: Melwood Horticultural Training Center, Inc., Upper Marlboro, MD-OR-Skookum Educational Programs, Bremerton, WA Contracting Activity: HHS, PROGRAM SUPPORT CENTER ACQ MGMT SVC Service(s) Service Type: Filter Maintenance Service Mandatory for: U.S. Navy, NAVFAC Mid Atlantic Division, Naval Station Great Lakes, IL Designated Source of Supply: Ada S. McKinley Community Services, Inc., Chicago, IL Contracting Activity: DEPT OF THE NAVY, NAVAL FAC ENGINEERING CMD MID LANT Michael R. Jurkowski, Deputy Director, Business & PL Operations. [FR Doc. 2020–24713 Filed 11–5–20; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–22–P BILLING CODE 6353–01–P COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR SEVERELY DISABLED COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR SEVERELY DISABLED Procurement List; Proposed Additions and Deletions Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled. AGENCY: Proposed additions to the Procurement List. ACTION: The Committee is proposing to add service(s) to the Procurement List that will be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities. SUMMARY: Comments must be received on or before: December 6, 2020. DATES: Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled, 1401 S Clark Street, Suite 715, Arlington, Virginia 22202–4149. ADDRESSES: For further information or to submit comments contact: Michael R. Jurkowski, Telephone: (703) 603–2117, Fax: (703) 603–0655, or email CMTEFedReg@AbilityOne.gov. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: This notice is published pursuant to 41 U.S.C. 8503(a)(2) and 41 CFR 51–2.3. Its purpose is to provide interested persons an opportunity to submit comments on the proposed actions. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:00 Nov 05, 2020 Jkt 253001 71061 Procurement List; Proposed Additions and Deletions Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled. ACTION: Proposed additions to and deletions from the Procurement List. AGENCY: SUMMARY: The Committee is proposing to add service(s) to the Procurement List that will be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities, and deletes product(s) and service(s) previously furnished by such agencies. DATES: Comments must be received on or before: December 6, 2020. ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled, 1401 S Clark Street, Suite 715, Arlington, Virginia 22202–4149. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information or to submit comments contact: Michael R. Jurkowski, Telephone: (703) 603–2117, Fax: (703) 603–0655, or email CMTEFedReg@AbilityOne.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published pursuant to 41 U.S.C. 8503(a)(2) and 41 CFR 51–2.3. Its purpose is to provide interested persons an opportunity to submit comments on the proposed actions. PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Deletions The following product(s) and service(s) are proposed for deletion from the Procurement List: Product(s) NSN(s)—Product Name(s): 7510–01–357–6830—Pad, Executive Message Recording, White/Yellow, 2–5/ 8″ x 6–1/4″, 400 Message Forms Designated Source of Supply: Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind, Inc., WinstonSalem, NC Designated Source of Supply: The Arkansas Lighthouse for the Blind, Little Rock, AR Contracting Activity: GSA/FAS ADMIN SVCS ACQUISITION BR(2, NEW YORK, NY NSN(s)—Product Name(s): 7530–01–600–2026—Notebook, Memorandum Book, 100% PCW, 3 x 5″, 60 sheets, Narrow Rule, White 7530–01–600–2028—Notebook, Spiral Bound, 100% PCW, 8–1/2 x 11″, 80 sheets, College Rule, White 7530–01–600–2027—Notebook, Spiral Bound, 100% PCW, 8–1/2 x 11″, 100 sheets, Wide Rule, White 7530–01–600–2016—Notebook, Spiral Bound, 100% PCW, 8–1/2 x 11″, 120 sheets, College Rule, White 7530–01–600–2015—Notebook, Spiral Bound, 100% PCW, 8–1/2 x 11″, 200 sheets, College Rule, White 7530–01–600–2021—Notebook, Spiral Bound, 100% PCW, 8 x 10–1/2″, 70 sheets, Wide Rule, White Designated Source of Supply: Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind, Inc., WinstonSalem, NC Contracting Activity: GSA/FAS ADMIN SVCS ACQUISITION BR(2, NEW YORK, NY NSN(s)—Product Name(s): 1005–01–134–3621—Index, Elevation Designated Source of Supply: Arizona Industries for the Blind, Phoenix, AZ Contracting Activity: DLA LAND AND MARITIME, COLUMBUS, OH E:\FR\FM\06NON1.SGM 06NON1

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[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 216 (Friday, November 6, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71060-71061]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-24718]


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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; Alaska Region Scale & Catch Weighing Requirements

    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 June 17, 2020 (85 FR 36566), 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: Alaska Region Scale & Catch Weighing Requirements.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0330.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular submission [extension of a current 
information collection].
    Number of Respondents: 85.
    Average Hours Per Response: Scale Type Evaluation: 50 hours; 
Installation & Maintenance: At-Sea Scales (Maintenance only)--1 minute; 
Video Monitoring Systems (maintenance)--1 minute; Video Monitoring 
Systems (installation)--12 hours; Observer Sampling Station 
(installation)--12 hours; maintenance--1 minute; Inspection Request: 10 
minutes; Daily Scale Test: Notify Observer of Tests--2 minutes; Record 
of Flow Scale Test--10 minutes; Record of Hopper Scale Test--10 
minutes; Printed Report--Flow Scale: Catch & Cumulative Weight, Audit 
Trail, Calibration Log, and Fault Log--1 minute each; Printed Report--
Hopper Scale: Catch Weight and Audit Trail--1 minute each; Video 
Monitoring: 2 hours; Notification of Pacific Cod Monitoring Option: 10 
minutes; Catch Monitoring and Control Plan (CMCP): Annual Submission--
40 hours; CMCP Addendum--8 hours; Printed Record from Scale--1 minute; 
Notify Observer--1 minute; Crab Monitoring Plan (CMP): Annual 
Submission--16 hours; CMP Addendum--8 hours; Printed Records from 
Scale--1 minute.
    Total Annual Burden Hours: 46,037.
    Needs and Uses: The National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS), 
Alaska Regional Office, is requesting extension of the currently 
approved information collection for Alaska Region Scale & Catch 
Weighing Requirements.
    The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, 16 
U.S.C. 1801 et seq. (Magnuson-Stevens Act) authorizes the North Pacific 
Fishery Management Council to prepare and amend fishery management 
plans for any fishery in waters under its jurisdiction.
    The At-Sea Scales Program was developed in response to the need for 
catch accounting methods that were more precise and verifiable at the 
level of the individual haul and less dependent on estimates generated 
by at-sea observers. This was necessary due to the implementation of 
large-scale catch share programs that required NMFS to provide 
verifiable and defensible estimates of quota harvest. Scale and catch-
weighing monitoring is required for Western Alaska Community 
Development Quota Program (CDQ) catcher/processors (C/Ps), American 
Fisheries Act (AFA) C/Ps, AFA motherships, AFA shoreside processors and 
stationary floating processors, Central Gulf of Alaska Rockfish Program 
trawl C/Ps, non-AFA trawl C/Ps participating in Bering Sea and Aleutian 
Islands (BSAI) trawl fisheries, and longline C/Ps participating in BSAI 
Pacific cod fisheries. Scale and catch weighing requirements are 
located at 50 CFR parts 679 and 680.
    NMFS has identified three primary objectives for monitoring catch 
to ensure independent and verifiable data is available for fisheries 
management. First, monitoring methods must ensure all catch delivered 
to a processor is weighed and identified to species and provide a 
verifiable record of the weight and species composition of each 
delivery. Second, all catch must be weighed using NMFS-approved scales 
to determine the weight of the catch and provide a record of that 
weight. Third, monitoring systems, such as video, must be in place to 
ensure that all catch is accounted for.
    Shoreside processors participating in catch share programs have 
many of the same catch accounting and monitoring goals, but two 
differences require unique monitoring tools to obtain precise and 
verifiable catch amounts for quota management. First, shoreside 
processors vary more in size, facilities, and layout than do catcher/
processors or motherships. Second, the State of Alaska is responsible 
for approving scales used for trade by shoreside processors and has 
developed an effective program for their inspection and approval.
    Because of the wide variations in factory layout, a performance-
based catch monitoring system is more appropriate for shoreside 
processors than a type approval process used for at-sea scales. CMCPs 
(Catch Monitoring and Control Plans) and CMPs (Crab Monitoring Plans) 
are submitted by the representative from the shoreside processor and 
approved by NMFS. CMCPs and CMPs detail a series of performance based 
standards set out in regulation that ensure that all delivered catch 
can be effectively monitored by NMFS-authorized personnel, that NMFS-
authorized personnel can effectively conduct their monitoring duties, 
and that all catch is accurately sorted and weighed by species.
    Vessels that participate in halibut deck sorting are required to 
comply with additional monitoring and equipment requirements such as 
the installation of an observer sampling station on deck and video 
monitoring requirements. These additional measures are necessary to 
ensure accurate accounting of halibut sorted on the deck of 
participating vessels.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: Annually; daily, for time period.

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    Respondent's Obligation: Required to Obtain or Retain Benefits.
    Legal Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
    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 0648-0330.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2020-24718 Filed 11-5-20; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-22-P

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