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methodology underlying our
conclusions, see the Preliminary
Decision Memorandum.
Preliminary Results of Review
As a result of this review, we
preliminarily determine the following
net countervailable subsidy rate for the
sole mandatory respondent, Reliance,
for the period January 1, 2020, through
December 31, 2020:
Company
Subsidy
rate
(percent
ad
valorem)
Reliance Industries Limited ......
5.82
Assessment Rate
Consistent with section 751(a)(2)(C) of
the Act and 19 CFR 351.212(b)(2), upon
issuance of the final results, Commerce
will determine, and U.S. Customs and
Border Protection (CBP) shall assess,
countervailing duties on all appropriate
entries covered by this review.
Commerce intends to issue assessment
instructions to CBP no earlier than 35
days after the date of publication of the
final results of this review in the
Federal Register. If a timely summons is
filed at the U.S. Court of International
Trade, the assessment instructions will
direct CBP not to liquidate relevant
entries until the time for parties to file
a request for a statutory injunction has
expired (i.e., within 90 days of
publication).
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Cash Deposit Rate
In accordance with section
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act, Commerce also
intends to instruct CBP to collect cash
deposits of estimated countervailing
duties in the amount indicated above
with regard to shipments of subject
merchandise entered, or withdrawn
from warehouse, for consumption on or
after the date of publication of the final
results of this review. For all nonreviewed firms, Commerce will instruct
CBP to continue to collect cash deposits
of estimated countervailing duties at the
most recent company-specific or allothers rate applicable to the company,
as appropriate. These cash deposit
instructions, when imposed, shall
remain in effect until further notice.
Disclosure and Public Comment
We will disclose to parties in this
proceeding the calculations performed
in reaching the preliminary results
within five days of publication of these
preliminary results in the Federal
of the Act regarding benefit; and section 771(5)(A)
of the Act regarding specificity.
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Register.5 Interested parties may submit
written comments (case briefs) on the
preliminary results no later than 30 days
from the date of publication of this
Federal Register notice, and rebuttal
comments (rebuttal briefs) within seven
days after the time limit for filing case
briefs.6 Pursuant to 19 CFR
351.309(d)(2), rebuttal briefs must be
limited to issues raised in the case
briefs. Parties who submit arguments are
requested to submit with the argument:
(1) A statement of the issue; (2) a brief
summary of the argument; and (3) a
table of authorities.7
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c),
interested parties who wish to request a
hearing must submit a written request to
the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement
and Compliance, filed electronically via
ACCESS by 5 p.m. Eastern Time within
30 days after the date of publication of
this notice.8 Hearing requests should
contain: (1) The party’s name, address,
and telephone number; (2) the number
of participants; and (3) a list of the
issues to be discussed. Issues addressed
at the hearing will be limited to those
raised in the briefs. If a request for a
hearing is made, Commerce intends to
hold the hearing at a date and time to
be determined.9 Parties should confirm
by telephone the date and time of the
hearing two days before the scheduled
date.
Parties are reminded that all briefs
and hearing requests are to be filed
electronically using ACCESS and that
electronically filed documents must be
received successfully in their entirety by
5 p.m. Eastern Time on the due date.
Note that Commerce has temporarily
modified certain of its requirements for
serving documents containing business
proprietary information, until further
notice.10
Commerce intends to issue the final
results of this administrative review,
including the results of our analysis of
the issues raised by the parties in their
comments, no later than 120 days after
the date of publication of this notice,
pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the
Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h), unless this
deadline is extended.
Notification to Interested Parties
These preliminary results are issued
and published in accordance with
5 See
19 CFR 351.224(b).
19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii) and 351.309(d)(1);
see also 19 CFR 351.303 (for general filing
requirements).
7 See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and 351.309(d)(2).
8 See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
9 Id.
10 See Temporary Rule Modifying AD/CVD
Service Requirements Due to COVID–19; Extension
of Effective Period, 85 FR 41363 (July 10, 2020).
6 See
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sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the
Act, and 19 CFR 351.213 and 19 CFR
351.221(b)(4).
Dated: March 1, 2022.
Lisa W. Wang,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
Compliance.
Appendix—List of Topics Discussed in the
Preliminary Decision Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Use of Facts Otherwise Available and
Application of Adverse Inferences
V. Subsidies Valuation Information
VI. Analysis of Programs
VII. Recommendation
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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–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; 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 September
28, 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: Economic Surveys of Specific
US 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: 1,655.
Average Hours per Response:
NWFSC: West Coast Limited Entry
Groundfish Fixed Gear Fisheries
Economic Data Collection: 3 hours.
NWFSC: West Coast Open Access
Groundfish, Non-tribal Salmon, Crab,
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and Shrimp Fisheries Economic Data
Collection: 3 hours.
PIFSC: American Samoa Longline
Fishery Economic Data Collection: 1
hour.
PIFSC: Hawaii Pelagic Longline
Fishery Economic Data Collection: 1
hour.
PIFSC: Hawaii Small Boat Fishery
Economic Data Collection: 45 minutes.
PIFSC: American Samoa Small Boat
Fishery Economic Data Collection: 45
minutes.
PIFSC: American Samoa, Guam, and
The Commonwealth of The Northern
Mariana Islands Small Boat-Based
Fisheries Economic Data Collection (an
add-on to a creel survey): 10 minutes.
PIFSC: Mariana Archipelago Small
Boat Fleet Economic Data Collection: 45
minutes.
SEFSC: USVI F Small-Scale
Commercial Fisheries Economic Data
Collection: 15 minutes.
SEFSC: Puerto Rico Small-Scale
Commercial Fisheries Economic Data
Collection: 1 hour.
SEFSC: Gulf of Mexico Inshore
Shrimp Fishery Economic Data
Collection: 28 minutes.
SEFSC: U.S. South Atlantic Region
Golden Crab Fishery Economic Data
Collection: 30 minutes.
SWFSC: West Coast Coastal Pelagic
Fishery Economic Data Collection: 3
hours.
SWFSC: West Coast Swordfish
Fishery Economic Data Collection: 30
minutes.
SWFSC: West Coast North Pacific
Albacore Fishery Economic Data
Collection: 1 hour.
NEFSC: Northeast Commercial
Fishing Business Economic Data
Collection: 1 hour.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,757.
Needs and Uses: This request is for a
revision and extension of a currently
approved collection.
The Office of Science and Technology
is sponsoring the collection. Economic
surveys will be conducted in selected
commercial fisheries for the East Coast,
Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, West Coast,
Hawaii, and the U.S. Pacific Islands
territories.
The requested information will
include different components of
operating costs/expenditures, earnings,
employment, ownership, vessel
characteristics, effort/gear descriptors,
employment, and demographic
information for the various types of
fishing vessels operating in the 16 U.S.
commercial fisheries or groups of
fisheries listed below.
1. West Coast Limited Entry Groundfish
Fixed Gear Fisheries
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2. West Coast Open Access Groundfish,
Non-tribal Salmon, Crab, and
Shrimp Fisheries
3. American Samoa Longline Fishery
4. Hawaii Pelagic Longline Fishery
5. Hawaii Small Boat Fishery
6. American Samoa Small Boat Fishery
7. American Samoa, Guam, and The
Commonwealth of The Northern
Mariana Islands Small Boat-Based
Fisheries
8. Mariana Archipelago Small Boat Fleet
9. USVI F Small-Scale Commercial
Fisheries
10. Puerto Rico Small-Scale Commercial
Fisheries
11. Gulf of Mexico Inshore Shrimp
Fishery
12. U.S. South Atlantic Region Golden
Crab Fishery
13. West Coast Coastal Pelagic Fishery
14. West Coast Swordfish Fishery
15. West Coast North Pacific Albacore
Fishery
16. Northeast and Mid-Atlantic
Fisheries
A variety of laws, Executive Orders
(EOs), and NOAA Fisheries strategies
and policies include requirements for
economic data and the analyses they
support. When met adequately, those
requirements allow better-informed
conservation and management decisions
on the use of living marine resources
and marine habitat in federally managed
fisheries. Obtaining these data improves
the ability of NOAA Fisheries and the
Regional Fishery Management Councils
(Councils) to monitor, explain and
predict changes in the economic
performance and impacts of federally
managed commercial fisheries.
Measures of economic performance
include costs, earnings, and profitability
(net revenue); productivity and
economic efficiency; capacity; economic
stability; the level and distribution of
net economic benefits to society; and
market power. The economic impacts
include sector, community or regionspecific, and national employment,
sales, value-added, and income impacts.
Economic data are required to support
more than a cursory effort to comply
with or support the following laws, EOs,
and NOAA Fisheries strategies and
policies:
1. The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act
(MSA)
2. The Marine Mammal Protection Act
(MMPA)
3. The Endangered Species Act (ESA)
4. The National Environmental Policy
Act (NEPA)
5. The Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA)
6. E.O. 12866 (Regulatory Planning and
Review)
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7. E.O. 13771 (Reducing Regulation and
Controlling Regulatory Costs)
8. E.O. 12898 (Federal Actions to
Address Environmental Justice in
Minority Populations and LowIncome Populations)
9. E.O. 13840 (Ocean Policy to Advance
the Economic, Security, and
Environmental Interests of the
United States)
10. The NOAA Fisheries Guidelines for
Economic Reviews of Regulatory
Actions
11. The NOAA Fisheries Strategic Plan
2019–2022 (Strategic Plan)
12. The NOAA Fisheries EcosystemBased Fishery Management (EBFM)
Road Map
13. The NOAA Fisheries National
Bycatch Reduction Strategy
14. NOAA’s Catch Share Policy
Data collections will focus each year
on a different set of the 16 commercial
fisheries or groups of fisheries. This
cycle of data collection will facilitate
economic data being available and
updated for all those commercial
fisheries.
There will be an effort to coordinate
the data collections in order to reduce
the additional burden for those who
participate in multiple fisheries. To
further reduce the burden, the requested
information for a specific fishery will be
limited to that which is not available
from other sources. Participation in
these data collections will be voluntary.
The proposed revisions to the
information collection will: (a) Add an
information collection for Northeast and
Mid-Atlantic fisheries; (b) increase the
burden hours to account for that
addition information collection: (c)
make minor changes to the survey forms
that primarily provide flexibility with
respect to when NMFS will conduct
each of the 16 information collections;
and (d) extend it for three years. Though
the information collection was recently
renewed, an extension is requested at
this time as no additional changes to the
collection are anticipated before the
current expiration date.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households and business or other forprofit 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
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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.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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Administration
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Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions;
General Provisions for Domestic
Fisheries; Application for Exempted
Fishing Permits
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
AGENCY:
The Assistant Regional
Administrator for Sustainable Fisheries,
Greater Atlantic Region, NMFS, has
made a preliminary determination that
a proposed exempted fishing permit
contains all of the required information
and warrants further consideration. This
exempted fishing permit would allow
Atlantic herring vessels to use electronic
monitoring, coupled with portside
sampling, in lieu of at-sea monitoring to
satisfy their industry-funded monitoring
requirements during 2022. Regulations
under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act
require publication of this notification
to provide interested parties the
opportunity to comment on applications
for proposed exempted fishing permits.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before March 23, 2022.
ADDRESSES: You may submit written
comments by the following method:
• Email: nmfs.gar.efp@noaa.gov.
Include in the subject line ‘‘HERRING
EM EFP.’’
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Maria Fenton, Fishery Management
Specialist, 978–281–9196.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Background
The New England Fishery
Management Council took final action
on the New England Industry-Funded
Monitoring (IFM) Omnibus Amendment
in 2018 and recommended a 50-percent
coverage target for at-sea monitoring
(ASM) coverage aboard vessels issued a
Category A or B herring permit. This 50percent coverage target includes a
combination of Standardized Bycatch
Reporting Methodology (SBRM) and
IFM coverage. IFM coverage
requirements may be waived on a tripby-trip basis if monitoring coverage is
unavailable, if vessels intend to land
less than 50 mt of herring, or if vessels
carry no fish on pair trawling trips (i.e.,
wing vessels). The IFM Amendment
also included a provision allowing
midwater trawl vessels to purchase
observer coverage in order to fish in
Groundfish Closed Areas (GCA).
The Council reviewed the results from
a midwater trawl electronic monitoring
(EM) pilot study and concluded that a
combination of EM and portside
sampling was an appropriate substitute
for ASM aboard midwater trawl vessels.
However, rather than including EM and
portside requirements in the IFM
Amendment, the Council recommended
that NMFS administer EM and portside
sampling via an exempted fishing
permit (EFP) for midwater trawl vessels
during the first 2 years of IFM in the
herring fishery. The Council is required
to evaluate the effectiveness of the
herring IFM program 2 years after
implementation of the amendment. In
July 2021, NMFS issued an EFP
authorizing six herring vessels to use
EM and portside sampling in lieu of
ASM to satisfy their IFM requirements
during the first year of IFM in the
herring fishery. The issuance of this
2022 EFP would cover the second year
of IFM in the herring fishery. The
Council would consider lessons learned
through the 2021 and 2022 EFPs when
reviewing herring IFM requirements and
considering how to most effectively and
efficiently administer an EM and
portside sampling program for the
herring fishery.
Herring fishing effort has been limited
in IFM year 2021 due to low annual
catch limits (ACL). As of February 15,
2022, participating vessels completed 27
trips under the 2021 EFP:
• Eight trips were selected for IFM
coverage. Coverage waivers were issued
for seven of these trips, and one was
portside sampled;
• One GCA trip was taken, and that
trip was portside sampled; and
• Twelve trips were eligible for EM
video review (i.e., there was fishing
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effort). Video review had been
completed for 11 of these trips.
Findings from the voluntary EM
study, as well as analyses in the
Environmental Assessment for the IFM
Amendment, suggest that EM and
portside sampling may be a more costeffective monitoring option than at-sea
monitors or observers for the herring
fishery. Developing another permanent
monitoring option for the herring
fishery would give herring vessels
additional flexibility to select the most
cost-effective monitoring option for
their fishing operations, which would
help mitigate the negative economic
impacts of recent reductions to herring
ACLs. Additionally, information
gathered through this EFP would also
help further evaluate the utility of EM
and portside sampling to monitor
fishing in GCAs, and to monitor herring
vessels fishing with purse seine or
bottom trawl gear.
Project Description
The project period for this EFP would
cover IFM year 2022 (April 1, 2022–
March 31, 2023), contingent upon
availability of funds. Under this EFP, up
to 21 vessels holding Category A or B
herring permits would be required to
run EM systems (video cameras and gear
sensors) on 100 percent of declared
herring trips, except under the following
circumstance: If a vessel using midwater
trawl gear intends to operate as a wing
vessel on a trip (meaning it will pair
trawl with another midwater trawl
vessel but will not pump or carry any
fish onboard), and NMFS issues the
wing vessel a waiver from IFM
requirements for that trip, the wing
vessel does not need to run its EM
system during that trip. Declared
herring trips include any trips declared
using the herring (HER) plan code, or
any trips where the vessel indicates that
it is retaining herring when
participating in the Atlantic mackerel
(e.g., mackerel trip with herring
retention (MAH), mackerel trip with
herring and squid retention (MHS)) or
the squid fishery (e.g., longfin squid trip
with herring retention (SLH), longfin
squid trip with herring and mackerel
retention (LHM), Illex squid trip with
herring retention (SIH), Illex squid trip
with herring and mackerel
retention(IHM)).
The purpose of EM is to confirm catch
retention and verify compliance with
slippage restrictions. Participating
vessels would be required to run EM
systems regardless of whether they are
carrying an SBRM observer on trips that
are selected for SBRM coverage.
Participating vessels would be required
to adhere to all normal reporting
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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 September 28, 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: Economic Surveys of Specific US 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: 1,655.
Average Hours per Response:
NWFSC: West Coast Limited Entry Groundfish Fixed Gear Fisheries
Economic Data Collection: 3 hours.
NWFSC: West Coast Open Access Groundfish, Non-tribal Salmon, Crab,
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and Shrimp Fisheries Economic Data Collection: 3 hours.
PIFSC: American Samoa Longline Fishery Economic Data Collection: 1
hour.
PIFSC: Hawaii Pelagic Longline Fishery Economic Data Collection: 1
hour.
PIFSC: Hawaii Small Boat Fishery Economic Data Collection: 45
minutes.
PIFSC: American Samoa Small Boat Fishery Economic Data Collection:
45 minutes.
PIFSC: American Samoa, Guam, and The Commonwealth of The Northern
Mariana Islands Small Boat-Based Fisheries Economic Data Collection (an
add-on to a creel survey): 10 minutes.
PIFSC: Mariana Archipelago Small Boat Fleet Economic Data
Collection: 45 minutes.
SEFSC: USVI F Small-Scale Commercial Fisheries Economic Data
Collection: 15 minutes.
SEFSC: Puerto Rico Small-Scale Commercial Fisheries Economic Data
Collection: 1 hour.
SEFSC: Gulf of Mexico Inshore Shrimp Fishery Economic Data
Collection: 28 minutes.
SEFSC: U.S. South Atlantic Region Golden Crab Fishery Economic Data
Collection: 30 minutes.
SWFSC: West Coast Coastal Pelagic Fishery Economic Data Collection:
3 hours.
SWFSC: West Coast Swordfish Fishery Economic Data Collection: 30
minutes.
SWFSC: West Coast North Pacific Albacore Fishery Economic Data
Collection: 1 hour.
NEFSC: Northeast Commercial Fishing Business Economic Data
Collection: 1 hour.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,757.
Needs and Uses: This request is for a revision and extension of a
currently approved collection.
The Office of Science and Technology is sponsoring the collection.
Economic surveys will be conducted in selected commercial fisheries for
the East Coast, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, West Coast, Hawaii, and the
U.S. Pacific Islands territories.
The requested information will include different components of
operating costs/expenditures, earnings, employment, ownership, vessel
characteristics, effort/gear descriptors, employment, and demographic
information for the various types of fishing vessels operating in the
16 U.S. commercial fisheries or groups of fisheries listed below.
1. West Coast Limited Entry Groundfish Fixed Gear Fisheries
2. West Coast Open Access Groundfish, Non-tribal Salmon, Crab, and
Shrimp Fisheries
3. American Samoa Longline Fishery
4. Hawaii Pelagic Longline Fishery
5. Hawaii Small Boat Fishery
6. American Samoa Small Boat Fishery
7. American Samoa, Guam, and The Commonwealth of The Northern Mariana
Islands Small Boat-Based Fisheries
8. Mariana Archipelago Small Boat Fleet
9. USVI F Small-Scale Commercial Fisheries
10. Puerto Rico Small-Scale Commercial Fisheries
11. Gulf of Mexico Inshore Shrimp Fishery
12. U.S. South Atlantic Region Golden Crab Fishery
13. West Coast Coastal Pelagic Fishery
14. West Coast Swordfish Fishery
15. West Coast North Pacific Albacore Fishery
16. Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Fisheries
A variety of laws, Executive Orders (EOs), and NOAA Fisheries
strategies and policies include requirements for economic data and the
analyses they support. When met adequately, those requirements allow
better-informed conservation and management decisions on the use of
living marine resources and marine habitat in federally managed
fisheries. Obtaining these data improves the ability of NOAA Fisheries
and the Regional Fishery Management Councils (Councils) to monitor,
explain and predict changes in the economic performance and impacts of
federally managed commercial fisheries. Measures of economic
performance include costs, earnings, and profitability (net revenue);
productivity and economic efficiency; capacity; economic stability; the
level and distribution of net economic benefits to society; and market
power. The economic impacts include sector, community or region-
specific, and national employment, sales, value-added, and income
impacts. Economic data are required to support more than a cursory
effort to comply with or support the following laws, EOs, and NOAA
Fisheries strategies and policies:
1. The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA)
2. The Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA)
3. The Endangered Species Act (ESA)
4. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
5. The Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA)
6. E.O. 12866 (Regulatory Planning and Review)
7. E.O. 13771 (Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs)
8. E.O. 12898 (Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in
Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations)
9. E.O. 13840 (Ocean Policy to Advance the Economic, Security, and
Environmental Interests of the United States)
10. The NOAA Fisheries Guidelines for Economic Reviews of Regulatory
Actions
11. The NOAA Fisheries Strategic Plan 2019-2022 (Strategic Plan)
12. The NOAA Fisheries Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management (EBFM) Road
Map
13. The NOAA Fisheries National Bycatch Reduction Strategy
14. NOAA's Catch Share Policy
Data collections will focus each year on a different set of the 16
commercial fisheries or groups of fisheries. This cycle of data
collection will facilitate economic data being available and updated
for all those commercial fisheries.
There will be an effort to coordinate the data collections in order
to reduce the additional burden for those who participate in multiple
fisheries. To further reduce the burden, the requested information for
a specific fishery will be limited to that which is not available from
other sources. Participation in these data collections will be
voluntary.
The proposed revisions to the information collection will: (a) Add
an information collection for Northeast and Mid-Atlantic fisheries; (b)
increase the burden hours to account for that addition information
collection: (c) make minor changes to the survey forms that primarily
provide flexibility with respect to when NMFS will conduct each of the
16 information collections; and (d) extend it for three years. Though
the information collection was recently renewed, an extension is
requested at this time as no additional changes to the collection are
anticipated before the current expiration date.
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
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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. 2022-04849 Filed 3-7-22; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-22-P
