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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
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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
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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.
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Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
Obtain or Retain Benefits; Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery and Conservation Act;
American Fisheries.
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 0648–0393.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2023–21196 Filed 9–27–23; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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Administration
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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Reporting Requirements for
the Ocean Salmon Fishery Off the
Coasts of Washington, Oregon, and
California
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 26,
2023 (88 FR 41388) during a 60-day
comment period, no comments were
received. This notice allows for an
additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
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Title: Reporting Requirements for the
Ocean Salmon Fishery Off the Coasts of
Washington, Oregon, and California.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0433.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission
(extension of a current information
collection).
Number of Respondents: 40.
Average Hours per Response: 15
minutes.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 10
hours.
Needs and Uses: Ocean salmon
fisheries conducted in the U.S.
exclusive economic zone, 3–200
nautical miles off the West Coast states
of Washington, Oregon, and California
are managed by the Pacific Fishery
Management Council (Council) and
NOAA’s NMFS under the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and
Management Act (MSA). Management
measures for the ocean salmon fisheries
are set annually, consistent with the
Council’s Pacific Coast Salmon Fishery
Management Plan (FMP). The FMP
provides a framework for managing the
ocean salmon fisheries in a sustainable
manner, as required under the MSA,
through the use of conservation
objectives, annual catch limits, and
other reference points and status
determination criteria described in the
FMP. To meet these criteria, annual
management measures, published in the
Federal Register by NMFS, specify
regulatory areas, catch restrictions, and
landing restrictions based on the annual
stock abundance forecasts. These catch
and landing restrictions include areatime- and species-specific quotas for the
commercial ocean salmon fishery, and
generally require catch and landings to
be reported to the appropriate state and
tribal agencies to allow for timely and
accurate accounting of the season’s
catch (50 CFR 660.404 and 50 CFR
660.408(o)). The best available catch
and effort data and projections are
presented by the state fishery managers
in telephone conference calls involving
the NMFS Regional Administrator and
representatives of the Council. However,
NMFS acknowledges that unsafe
weather or mechanical problems could
prevent commercial fishermen from
making their landings at the times and
places specified, and the MSA requires
conservation and management measures
to promote the safety of human life at
sea.
The annual management measures
will specify the contents and procedure
of the notifications, and the entities
receiving the notifications (e.g., U.S.
Coast Guard). Absent this requirement
by the Council, the state reporting
systems would not regularly collect this
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specific type of in-season radio report.
These provisions, and this federal
collection of information, promote
safety at sea and provide practical
utility for sustainably managing the
fishery, and ensure regulatory
consistency across each state by
implementing the same requirements in
the territorial waters off each state. This
information collection is intended to be
general in scope by leaving the specifics
of the contents and procedure of the
notifications for annual determination,
thus providing flexibility in responding
to salmon management concerns in any
given year.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations.
Frequency: Reporting under this
emergency provision is infrequent.
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 0648–0433.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2023–21280 Filed 9–27–23; 8:45 am]
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CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION
BUREAU
[Docket No. CFPB–2023–0048]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Comment Request
Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau.
ACTION: Notice and request for comment.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau (CFPB) is requesting
the Office of Management and Budget’s
(OMB’s) approval for a new information
collection titled ‘‘Making Ends Meet
Survey’’.
SUMMARY:
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[Notices]
[Pages 66819-66820]
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[FR Doc No: 2023-21196]
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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 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
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 Anti-reflagging 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 (non-CDQ) 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 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.
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Respondent's Obligation: Required to Obtain or Retain Benefits;
Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery and Conservation Act;
American Fisheries.
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 0648-0393.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2023-21196 Filed 9-27-23; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-22-P
