Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Southeast Region Logbook Family of Forms, 9038-9039 [2022-03483]

Agencies

• DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 33 (Thursday, February 17, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9038-9039]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-03483]


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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; Southeast Region Logbook Family of Forms

    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 October 12, 2021 during a 60-day comment period. 
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
    Agency: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 
Commerce.
    Title: Southeast Logbook Family of Forms.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0016.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular submission (extension, revision of a 
current information collection).
    Number of Respondents: 6,867.
    Average Hours per Response: Annual fixed-cost report, 45 minutes; 
discard logbook, 15 minutes; headboat, charter vessel, golden crab, 
reef fish-mackerel, economic cost per trip, wreckfish,, 10 minutes; no-
fishing report for golden crab, reef fish-mackerel, charter vessels, 
and wreckfish, 2 minutes; installation of a vessel monitoring unit, 5 
hours; landing location request and power-down exemption request, 5 
minutes; trip declaration, 2 minutes; and proposed intercept survey, 15 
minutes.
    Total Annual Burden Hours: 16,429.
    Needs and Uses: This request is for an extension and revision of a 
current information collection.

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    Participants in most federally managed fisheries in the NMFS 
Southeast Region are currently required to keep and submit catch and 
effort logbooks from their fishing trips. A subset of fishermen on 
these vessels also provides information on the species and quantities 
of fish, shellfish, marine turtles, and marine mammals that are caught 
and discarded or have interacted with the fishing gear. A subset of 
fishermen on these vessels also provides information about dockside 
prices, trip operating costs, and annual fixed costs. An intercept 
survey for vessels with Federal charter vessel/headboat permits is 
designed to support and validate the electronic logbooks.
    The data are used for scientific analyses that support critical 
conservation and management decisions made by national and 
international fishery management organizations. Interaction reports are 
needed for fishery management planning and to help protect endangered 
species and marine mammals. Price and cost data will be used in 
analyses of the economic effects of proposed and existing regulations.
    Regulatory Amendment 29 effective July 15, 2020 would require at 
least one descending device to be on board and ready for use on 
commercial, for-hire, and private recreational vessels while fishing 
for or possessing snapper-grouper species in the South Atlantic. Most 
recently the Descend Act was passed, which added a new section 321 to 
the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. This 
requires commercial and recreational fishermen to possess a venting 
tool or descending device that is rigged and ready for use when fishing 
for reef fish in the Gulf of Mexico Exclusive Economic Zone.
    Descending devices increase survivability from barotrauma, which is 
injury caused by internal gas expansion when reeled up from depth. In 
addition to being asked to report the number of fish released 
respondents would be asked to report the method used to release fish as 
part of their current logbook submissions. The purpose of asking 
respondents to distinguish between fish releases without descending 
devices, fish released with gas bladders vented, and fish released with 
descending devices is to provide data needed by NMFS to accurately 
account for fishing mortality when performing stock assessments.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit organizations; 
individuals.
    Frequency: Monthly for no activity or once per fishing trip.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    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 0648-0016.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2022-03483 Filed 2-16-22; 8:45 am]
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