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Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 187 / Thursday, September 28, 2023 / Notices including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (c) Evaluate ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) Minimize the reporting burden on those who are to respond, including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology. Comments that you submit in response to this notice are a matter of public record. We will include or summarize each comment in our request to OMB to approve this ICR. Before including your address, phone number, email address, or other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment—including your personal identifying information—may be made publicly available at any time. While you may ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so. Sheleen Dumas, Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, Commerce Department. [FR Doc. 2023–21288 Filed 9–27–23; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–22–P DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ddrumheller on DSK120RN23PROD with NOTICES1 Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Tilefish Individual Fishing Quota Program 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 21, 2023, during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Commerce. VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:09 Sep 27, 2023 Jkt 259001 Title: Tilefish Individual Fishing Quota Program. OMB Control Number: 0648–0590. Form Number(s): None. Type of Request: Regular submission—extension of a current information collection. Number of Respondents: 12. Average Hours per Response: 0.33. Total Annual Burden Hours: 18. Needs and Uses: This request is for an extension of a currently approved information collection. NMFS Greater Atlantic Region manages the golden tilefish fishery of the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the Northeastern United States, through the Tilefish Fishery Management Plan (FMP). The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council prepared the FMP pursuant to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act). The regulations implementing the FMP are specified at 50 CFR part 648 subpart N. The recordkeeping and reporting requirements at § 648.294 form the basis for this collection of information. NMFS requests information from tilefish individual fishing quota (IFQ) permit holders to process applications that ensure IFQ allocation holders are provided a statement of their annual catch quota, and for enforcement purposes, to ensure vessels are not exceeding an individual quota allocation. In conjunction with the application, NMFS also collects IFQ share accumulation information to ensure that IFQ allocation holders do not acquire an excessive share of the total limited access privileges, as required by section 303A(d)(5)(C) of the Magnuson-Stevens Act. NMFS requests transfer application information to process and track requests from allocation holders to transfer quota allocation (permanent and temporary) to another entity. NMFS also collects information for cost recovery purposes as required under the Magnuson-Stevens Act. Cost recovery is used to collect fees to recover the costs directly related to management, data collection and analysis, and enforcement of IFQ programs. Lastly, NMFS collects landings information to ensure that the amounts of tilefish landed and ex-vessel prices are properly recorded for quota monitoring purposes and the calculation of IFQ fees. Having this information results in an increasingly more efficient and accurate database for management and monitoring of fisheries of the Northeastern U.S. EEZ. Affected Public: Individuals or households; Business or other for-profit organizations. PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 66817 Frequency: Annual and as requested. Respondent’s Obligation: Required to Obtain or Retain Benefits. Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq, Section 303). 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 0648–0590. Sheleen Dumas, Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, Commerce Department. [FR Doc. 2023–21178 Filed 9–27–23; 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 Pacific Halibut Fisheries: Charter National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce. ACTION: Notice of Information Collection, request for comment. AGENCY: The Department of Commerce, in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), invites 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. The purpose of this notice is to allow for 60 days of public comment preceding submission of the collection to OMB. DATES: To ensure consideration, comments regarding this proposed information collection must be received on or before November 27, 2023. ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit written comments to SUMMARY: E:\FR\FM\28SEN1.SGM 28SEN1 66818 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 187 / Thursday, September 28, 2023 / Notices Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer, at NOAA.PRA@noaa.gov. Please reference OMB Control Number 0648– 0575 in the subject line of your comments. Do not submit Confidential Business Information or otherwise sensitive or protected information. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or specific questions related to collection activities should be directed to Gabrielle Aberle, 709 W 9th Street, Juneau, AK 99801, 907–586–7356, gabrielle.aberle@ noaa.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: ddrumheller on DSK120RN23PROD with NOTICES1 I. Abstract The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Alaska Region, is requesting extension of a currently approved information collection for the Pacific halibut charter fishery off Alaska. Management of and regulations for Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) in Alaska are developed on the international, Federal, and state levels by the International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC), the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, the NMFS Alaska Region, and the State of Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G). The IPHC and NMFS manage fishing for Pacific halibut through regulations established under authority of the Convention between the United States Halibut Fishery of the Northern Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea, the Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1982 (16 U.S.C. 773), and section 303(b) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.). NMFS manages the charter halibut fishery off Alaska under the Charter Halibut Limited Access Program (CHLAP; 75 FR 554, January 5, 2010) and the Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan (CSP; 78 FR 75844, December 12, 2013). This information collection is necessary for NMFS to manage and administer the charter halibut fishery under the CHLAP and the CSP. Regulations that implement this information collection are at 50 CFR 300 subpart E and 50 CFR 679.5(l)(7). Information on the CHLAP and the CSP is on the NMFS Alaska Region website at https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/ alaska/resources-fishing/sport-halibutfishing-alaska. The CHLAP established new Federal Charter Halibut Permits (CHPs) for operators in the sport charter halibut fishery in IPHC regulatory Areas 2C (Southeast Alaska) and 3A (Central Gulf of Alaska). All charter halibut vessel operators in Areas 2C and 3A with clients on board must have a valid CHP VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:09 Sep 27, 2023 Jkt 259001 on board during every charter vessel fishing trip. As the period to obtain a CHP, other than a military CHP or community CHP, ended in 2010, CHPs may now only be obtained through transfer. This information collection contains the applications used to annually register CHPs, to apply for new military CHPs, and to transfer CHPs. The application for a community CHP is approved under OMB Control Number 0648–0665. Information collected by these applications includes permit holder information or applicant information, and depending on the form, may include CHP identification, CHP ownership information and affiliation, a survey question on the use of the CHP, and transaction information for transfer of a CHP. The CSP authorizes annual transfers of commercial halibut individual fishing quota (IFQ) as guided angler fish (GAF) to qualified CHP holders for harvest by charter vessel anglers in Area 2C or 3A. GAF enables CHP holders to lease a limited amount of IFQ from commercial quota share holders to allow charter vessel anglers to harvest halibut in addition to, or instead of, the halibut harvested under the daily bag limit for charter anglers. This information collection includes the application used to transfer Area 2C or 3A commercial halibut IFQ to a CHP holder for use as GAF or for the CHP holder to return unused GAF to the IFQ permit holder from which it was obtained. Information collected by this application includes permit holder information, IFQ permit information, CHP information, GAF permit information, and transaction information. NMFS, on approving the transfer of IFQ to GAF, issues a GAF permit, which authorizes the holder to allow charter vessel anglers to retain GAF halibut caught in the IPHC regulatory area specified on the permit. This information collection also includes the GAF landing report and the GAF permit log. The GAF landing report is submitted by GAF permit holders and collects information on each GAF halibut retained by an angler on a charter vessel fishing trip in Area 2C or 3A. The GAF permit log is printed on the back of each GAF permit and is used by the permit holder to record the GAF landing report confirmation number and information on GAF halibut after a trip in which GAF halibut were retained. This information collection includes the logbook reporting requirements for the charter halibut fishery. The charter halibut sector in Areas 2C and 3A is managed to charter catch limits established under the CSP. Charter operators are required to record all PO 00000 Frm 00023 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 halibut caught and kept by charter vessel anglers in the ADF&G Saltwater Charter Logbook. Logbook reporting is the basis for estimating annual charter harvests of halibut relative to the charter catch limits. II. Method of Collection The information is collected by mail, fax, and electronically. The forms are available on the NMFS Alaska Region website at https://www.fisheries. noaa.gov/permit/alaska-sport-charterhalibut-applications-and-reportingforms. III. Data OMB Control Number: 0648–0575. Form Number(s): None. Type of Review: Regular submission (extension of a current information collection). Affected Public: Business or other for profit organizations; Individuals or households. Estimated Number of Respondents: 656. Estimated Time per Response: Application for Annual Registration of CHPs: 15 minutes; Application for Military CHP: 30 minutes; Application for Transfer of CHP: 2 hours; Application for Transfer (Lease) Between IFQ and GAF: 1.5 hours; GAF Landing Report: 5 minutes; GAF Permit Log: 2 minutes; ADF&G Saltwater Sport Fishing Charter Trip Logbook: 4 minutes; and Appeals: 4 hours. Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 3,494 hours. Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: $84,090 in recordkeeping and reporting costs. Respondent’s Obligation: Required to Obtain or Retain Benefits; Mandatory. Legal Authority: The Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1982 (16 U.S.C. 773c); Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.). IV. Request for Comments We are soliciting public comments to permit the Department/Bureau to: (a) Evaluate whether the proposed information collection is necessary for the proper functions of the Department, including whether the information will have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the accuracy of our estimate of the time and cost burden for this proposed collection, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (c) Evaluate ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) Minimize the reporting burden on those who are to respond, including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology. E:\FR\FM\28SEN1.SGM 28SEN1 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 187 / Thursday, September 28, 2023 / Notices Comments that you submit in response to this notice are a matter of public record. We will include or summarize each comment in our request to OMB to approve this ICR. Before including your address, phone number, email address, or other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment—including your personal identifying information—may be made publicly available at any time. While you may ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so. Sheleen Dumas, Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, Commerce Department. [FR Doc. 2023–21179 Filed 9–27–23; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–22–P DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ddrumheller on DSK120RN23PROD with NOTICES1 Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Alaska American Fisheries Act (AFA) Permits 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 27, 2023, 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: Alaska American Fisheries Act (AFA) Permits. OMB Control Number: 0648–0393. Form Number(s): None. Type of Request: Regular submission (extension of a current information collection). Number of Respondents: 27. Average Hours per Response: AFA Permit: Rebuilt, Replacement, or VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:09 Sep 27, 2023 Jkt 259001 Removed Vessel Application, 1 hour; Application for Transfer of Bering Sea Chinook Salmon PSC Allocations, 1 hour; Application for AFA Inshore Catcher Vessel Cooperative Permit, 2 hours; AFA Inshore Vessel Contract Fishing Notification, 4 hours; Application for Approval as an Entity to Receive Transferable Chinook Salmon PSC Allocation, 8 hours. Total Annual Burden Hours: 246 hours. Needs and Uses: The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Alaska Regional Office, is requesting extension of a currently approved information collection that contains applications for permits and transfers necessary for NMFS to manage the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) pollock fishery under the American Fisheries Act (AFA). NMFS manages the BSAI pollock fishery under the authority of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) and the AFA (16 U.S.C. 1851). The regulations implementing the AFA Program are at 50 CFR part 679, subpart F. The reporting requirements at 50 CFR part 679 form the basis for this collection of information. The AFA was signed into law in October 1998. The purpose of the AFA was to tighten U.S. ownership standards that had been exploited under the Antireflagging Act, and to provide the BSAI pollock fleet the opportunity to conduct their fishery in a more rational manner while protecting non-AFA participants in the other fisheries. The AFA established sector allocations in the BSAI pollock fishery, determined eligible vessels and processors, allowed the formation of cooperatives, set limits on the participation of AFA vessels in other fisheries, and imposed special catch weighing and monitoring requirements on AFA vessels. Any vessel used to engage in directed fishing for a non-western Alaska community development quota (nonCDQ) allocation of pollock in the Bering Sea and any shoreside processor, stationary floating processor, or mothership that receives pollock harvested in a non-CDQ directed pollock fishery in the Bering Sea must have a valid AFA permit on board the vessel or at the facility location at all times while non-CDQ pollock is being harvested or processed. Permanent AFA permits (AFA catcher vessel, AFA catcher/processor, AFA mothership, and AFA inshore processor) for the BSAI pollock fishery had a one-time application deadline of December 1, 2000, and were issued with PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 66819 an indefinite expiration date. Therefore, except for participants that require annual or replacement permits, all AFA entities required to have a permit are already permitted. The type of information collected in this collection includes information on the applicants, transferors, transferees, permits, vessels, and Chinook salmon PSC transfer data. This information collection contains the following AFA permitting and transfer requirements: • The AFA Permit: Rebuilt, Replacement, or Removed Vessel Application is used by an owner of an AFA vessel to notify NMFS the vessel has been rebuilt; to request an AFA permit for a replacement catcher vessel, catcher/processor, or mothership; or to request removal of an AFA catcher vessel that is a member of an inshore cooperative and assign its catch history to another vessel or vessels in the same cooperative. • The Application for AFA Inshore Catcher Vessel Cooperative Permit is used annually by each AFA inshore catcher vessel cooperative to obtain an AFA Inshore Catcher Vessel Cooperative Permit and identify the vessels and processors that will be participating in the BSAI pollock fishery prior to the start of each fishing year. • The AFA Inshore Vessel Contract Fishing Notification is used by an AFA inshore cooperative that intends to contract with a non-member vessel to harvest a portion of the cooperative’s annual pollock allocation to notify NMFS of vessels that might be reporting with an alternative cooperative ID. • The Application for Approval as an Entity to Receive Transferable Chinook Salmon Prohibited Species Catch (PSC) Allocation is used by an entity representing the catcher/processor sector or the mothership sector to request approval to receive transferable Chinook salmon PSC allocations on behalf of members of the sector. Once approved, an entity is not required to reapply for or renew its status. Entities also use this form to update their contact and other information related to the entity and its members. • The Application for Transfer of Bering Sea Chinook Salmon PSC Allocations is used by an authorized representative of the catcher/processor sector, the mothership sector, an inshore cooperative, or a CDQ group to transfer Chinook salmon PSC allocations to another entity’s account. Affected Public: Individuals or households; Business or other for-profit organizations; Not-for-profit institutions. Frequency: Annually; As needed. E:\FR\FM\28SEN1.SGM 28SEN1

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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 Pacific Halibut Fisheries: Charter

AGENCY: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of Information Collection, request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce, in accordance with the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), invites 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. The 
purpose of this notice is to allow for 60 days of public comment 
preceding submission of the collection to OMB.

DATES: To ensure consideration, comments regarding this proposed 
information collection must be received on or before November 27, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit written comments to

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Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer, at [email protected]. Please 
reference OMB Control Number 0648-0575 in the subject line of your 
comments. Do not submit Confidential Business Information or otherwise 
sensitive or protected information.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or 
specific questions related to collection activities should be directed 
to Gabrielle Aberle, 709 W 9th Street, Juneau, AK 99801, 907-586-7356, 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

    The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Alaska Region, is 
requesting extension of a currently approved information collection for 
the Pacific halibut charter fishery off Alaska.
    Management of and regulations for Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus 
stenolepis) in Alaska are developed on the international, Federal, and 
state levels by the International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC), 
the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, the NMFS Alaska Region, 
and the State of Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G). The IPHC 
and NMFS manage fishing for Pacific halibut through regulations 
established under authority of the Convention between the United States 
Halibut Fishery of the Northern Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea, the 
Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1982 (16 U.S.C. 773), and section 
303(b) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act 
(16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.).
    NMFS manages the charter halibut fishery off Alaska under the 
Charter Halibut Limited Access Program (CHLAP; 75 FR 554, January 5, 
2010) and the Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan (CSP; 78 FR 75844, 
December 12, 2013). This information collection is necessary for NMFS 
to manage and administer the charter halibut fishery under the CHLAP 
and the CSP. Regulations that implement this information collection are 
at 50 CFR 300 subpart E and 50 CFR 679.5(l)(7). Information on the 
CHLAP and the CSP is on the NMFS Alaska Region website at https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/alaska/resources-fishing/sport-halibut-fishing-alaska.
    The CHLAP established new Federal Charter Halibut Permits (CHPs) 
for operators in the sport charter halibut fishery in IPHC regulatory 
Areas 2C (Southeast Alaska) and 3A (Central Gulf of Alaska). All 
charter halibut vessel operators in Areas 2C and 3A with clients on 
board must have a valid CHP on board during every charter vessel 
fishing trip. As the period to obtain a CHP, other than a military CHP 
or community CHP, ended in 2010, CHPs may now only be obtained through 
transfer. This information collection contains the applications used to 
annually register CHPs, to apply for new military CHPs, and to transfer 
CHPs. The application for a community CHP is approved under OMB Control 
Number 0648-0665. Information collected by these applications includes 
permit holder information or applicant information, and depending on 
the form, may include CHP identification, CHP ownership information and 
affiliation, a survey question on the use of the CHP, and transaction 
information for transfer of a CHP.
    The CSP authorizes annual transfers of commercial halibut 
individual fishing quota (IFQ) as guided angler fish (GAF) to qualified 
CHP holders for harvest by charter vessel anglers in Area 2C or 3A. GAF 
enables CHP holders to lease a limited amount of IFQ from commercial 
quota share holders to allow charter vessel anglers to harvest halibut 
in addition to, or instead of, the halibut harvested under the daily 
bag limit for charter anglers.
    This information collection includes the application used to 
transfer Area 2C or 3A commercial halibut IFQ to a CHP holder for use 
as GAF or for the CHP holder to return unused GAF to the IFQ permit 
holder from which it was obtained. Information collected by this 
application includes permit holder information, IFQ permit information, 
CHP information, GAF permit information, and transaction information. 
NMFS, on approving the transfer of IFQ to GAF, issues a GAF permit, 
which authorizes the holder to allow charter vessel anglers to retain 
GAF halibut caught in the IPHC regulatory area specified on the permit.
    This information collection also includes the GAF landing report 
and the GAF permit log. The GAF landing report is submitted by GAF 
permit holders and collects information on each GAF halibut retained by 
an angler on a charter vessel fishing trip in Area 2C or 3A. The GAF 
permit log is printed on the back of each GAF permit and is used by the 
permit holder to record the GAF landing report confirmation number and 
information on GAF halibut after a trip in which GAF halibut were 
retained.
    This information collection includes the logbook reporting 
requirements for the charter halibut fishery. The charter halibut 
sector in Areas 2C and 3A is managed to charter catch limits 
established under the CSP. Charter operators are required to record all 
halibut caught and kept by charter vessel anglers in the ADF&G 
Saltwater Charter Logbook. Logbook reporting is the basis for 
estimating annual charter harvests of halibut relative to the charter 
catch limits.

II. Method of Collection

    The information is collected by mail, fax, and electronically. The 
forms are available on the NMFS Alaska Region website at https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/permit/alaska-sport-charter-halibut-applications-and-reporting-forms.

III. Data

    OMB Control Number: 0648-0575.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Review: Regular submission (extension of a current 
information collection).
    Affected Public: Business or other for profit organizations; 
Individuals or households.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 656.
    Estimated Time per Response: Application for Annual Registration of 
CHPs: 15 minutes; Application for Military CHP: 30 minutes; Application 
for Transfer of CHP: 2 hours; Application for Transfer (Lease) Between 
IFQ and GAF: 1.5 hours; GAF Landing Report: 5 minutes; GAF Permit Log: 
2 minutes; ADF&G Saltwater Sport Fishing Charter Trip Logbook: 4 
minutes; and Appeals: 4 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 3,494 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: $84,090 in recordkeeping and 
reporting costs.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to Obtain or Retain Benefits; 
Mandatory.
    Legal Authority: The Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1982 (16 
U.S.C. 773c); Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act 
(16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.).

IV. Request for Comments

    We are soliciting public comments to permit the Department/Bureau 
to: (a) Evaluate whether the proposed information collection is 
necessary for the proper functions of the Department, including whether 
the information will have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the accuracy 
of our estimate of the time and cost burden for this proposed 
collection, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions 
used; (c) Evaluate ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of 
the information to be collected; and (d) Minimize the reporting burden 
on those who are to respond, including the use of automated collection 
techniques or other forms of information technology.

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    Comments that you submit in response to this notice are a matter of 
public record. We will include or summarize each comment in our request 
to OMB to approve this ICR. Before including your address, phone 
number, email address, or other personal identifying information in 
your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment--including 
your personal identifying information--may be made publicly available 
at any time. While you may ask us in your comment to withhold your 
personal identifying information from public review, we cannot 
guarantee that we will be able to do so.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for 
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
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