Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Economic Surveys of Specific U.S. Commercial Fisheries, 73264 [2020-25345]

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• DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 222 (Tuesday, November 17, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 73264]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-25345]


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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 Specific U.S. Commercial 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 April 13, 2020, (85 FR 20473) during a 60-day 
comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public 
comments.
    Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 
Commerce.
    Title: Economic Surveys of Specific U.S. Commercial Fisheries.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0773.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular submission (revision of a currently 
approved collection).
    Number of Respondents: 1,375.
    Average Hours 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.
    American Samoa Longline Survey: 1 hour.
    Hawaii Longline Survey: 1 hour.
    Hawaii Small Boat Economic Survey: 0.75 hours or 45 minutes.
    American Samoa Small Boat Survey: 0.75 hours or 45 minutes.
    Trip Level 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): 0.167 hours or 10 minutes.
    Cost Earnings Survey of Mariana Archipelago Small Boat Fleet: 0.75 
hours or 45 minutes.
    USVI Fisheries Economic Survey (Socio-Economic Profile of Small-
Scale Commercial Fisheries (SSCF) in the U.S. Caribbean): 0.25 hours or 
15 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: 0.78 hours 
or 47 minutes.
    Economic Expenditure Survey of Golden Crab Fishermen in the U.S. 
South Atlantic Region: 0.5 hours or 30 minutes.
    West Coast Coastal Pelagic Fishery Economic Survey: 3 hours.
    West Coast Swordfish Fishery Cost and Earnings Survey: 0.51 hours 
or 31 minutes.
    West Coast North Pacific Albacore Fishery Economic Survey: 1 hour.
    Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,476.
    Needs and Uses: This revision will add 14 economic surveys to this 
collection and revise the title of the collection from West Coast 
Limited Entry Groundfish Fixed Gear Economic Data Collection to 
Economic Surveys of Specific U.S. Commercial Fisheries. A variety of 
laws (including the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and 
Management Act), Executive Orders, and NOAA Fisheries strategies and 
policies include requirements for economic data and the analyses they 
support. The proposed information collection will provide economic data 
needed to support more than cursory efforts to comply with those 
requirements. It will do that by improving the ability of NOAA 
Fisheries and the Regional Fishery Management Councils to monitor, 
explain and predict changes in the economic performance and impacts of 
federally managed commercial fisheries. Therefore, it will allow 
better-informed fishery conservation and management decisions for 
federally managed fisheries.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households and Business or other 
for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: Every 3 to 8 years.
    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 0648-0773.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2020-25345 Filed 11-16-20; 8:45 am]
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