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Committee will make recommendations
to the Council, as appropriate, and
discuss other business, as necessary.
Although non-emergency issues not
contained on the agenda may come
before this Council for discussion, those
issues may not be the subject of formal
action during this meeting. Council
action will be restricted to those issues
specifically listed in this notice and any
issues arising after publication of this
notice that require emergency action
under section 305(c) of the MagnusonStevens Act, provided the public has
been notified of the Council’s intent to
take final action to address the
emergency. The public also should be
aware that the meeting will be recorded.
Consistent with 16 U.S.C. 1852, a copy
of the recording is available upon
request.
Special Accommodations
This meeting is physically accessible
to people with disabilities. Requests for
sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aids should be directed to Cate
O’Keefe, Executive Director, at (978)
465–0492, at least 5 days prior to the
meeting date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: August 22, 2024.
Rey Israel Marquez,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Individual Fishing Quotas for
Pacific Halibut and Sablefish in the
Alaska 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 5,
2024, during a 60-day comment period.
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This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration,
Commerce.
Title: Individual Fishing Quotas for
Pacific Halibut and Sablefish in the
Alaska Fisheries.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0272.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission
(extension and revision of a current
information collection).
Number of Respondents: 3,442.
Average Hours per Response:
Application for IFQ/CDQ Hired Master
Permit, 1 hour; Application for IFQ/
CDQ Registered Buyer Permit, 30
minutes; Application for Replacement
of Certificates or Permits, 30 minutes;
Application for Eligibility to Receive
QS/IFQ by Transfer, 2 hours; QS Holder:
Identification of Ownership Interest, 2
hours; Application for Transfer of QS, 2
hours; Application for Transfer of QS/
IFQ by Self Sweep Up, 2 hours;
Application for Medical Transfer of IFQ,
1.5 hours; Application for Temporary
Transfer of Halibut/Sablefish IFQ, 2
hours; (emergency) Application for
Temporary Transfer of Halibut/Sablefish
IFQ, 2 hours; Annual Report for CDQ
IFQ Transfers, 40 hours; QS/IFQ
Beneficiary Designation Form, 30
minutes; Appeals, 4 hours; IFQ
Administrative Waiver, 6 minutes; Prior
Notice of Landing, 15 minutes; IFQ
Departure Report, 15 minutes;
Transshipment Authorization, 12
minutes; Dockside sales, 6 minutes;
Application for a Non-profit
Corporation to be Designated as a
Recreational Quota Entity, 200 hours;
Application for Transfer of Quota Share
To or From a Recreational Quota Entity,
2 hours; Recreational Quota Entity
Annual Report, 40 hours; NOAA
Fisheries Alaska Region eFISH On-line
Services User Authorization Form, 30
minutes.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 11,239.
Needs and Uses: The National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS), Alaska
Regional Office, is requesting renewal
and revision of this currently approved
information collection that contains
requirements for the Pacific Halibut and
Sablefish Individual Fishing Quota
Program (IFQ Program). Minor editorial
changes were made to the forms to
improve clarity and consistency. The
Application for IFQ/CDQ Hired Master
Permit was revised to remove an
unnecessary checkbox. Four transfer
applications were revised to collect
information on fees paid, which is
required by regulations, to remove the
need to submit a copy of the permit, and
to no longer require a separate form for
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each transfer. The revisions do not
change the burden hours or costs of
these forms. The NOAA Fisheries
Alaska Region eFISH On-line Services
User Authorization Form, which had
been inadvertently omitted from this
collection, has been added and does not
significantly increase the burden or cost
for this information collection.
This information collection for the
IFQ Program is required to manage
commercial halibut and sablefish
fishing under the Magnuson-Stevens
Act, the Halibut Act, and under 50 CFR
parts 300 and 679. Commercial halibut
and sablefish fisheries in the Gulf of
Alaska and Bering Sea and Aleutian
Islands are managed primarily under the
IFQ Program. The IFQ Program is
managed under the authority of the
Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1982 (16
U.S.C. 773c; Halibut Act), with respect
to Pacific halibut, and the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and
Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.;
Magnuson-Stevens Act), with respect to
sablefish. Regulations implementing the
IFQ Program are set forth at 50 CFR part
679. A key objective of the IFQ Program
is to support the social and economic
character of the fisheries and coastal
fishing communities where many of
these fisheries are based. Participation
in the IFQ Program is limited to persons
that hold quota share (QS), although
there are several very limited provisions
for ‘‘leasing’’ of annual IFQ. QS is a
transferable permit that was initially
issued to persons who owned or leased
vessels that made legal commercial
fixed-gear landings of Pacific halibut or
sablefish in the waters off Alaska from
1988 through 1990. NMFS annually
issues eligible QS holders an IFQ fishing
permit that authorizes participation in
the IFQ fisheries. Those to whom IFQ
permits are issued may harvest their
annual allocation at any time during the
eight plus-month IFQ halibut and
sablefish seasons.
More information on the IFQ Program
is provided on the NMFS Alaska Region
website at https://
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/alaska/
sustainable-fisheries/pacific-halibutand-sablefish-individual-fishing-quotaifq-program.
Some of the collection instruments in
this information collection are used by
participants in the Western Alaska
Community Development Quota (CDQ)
Program. The purpose of the CDQ
Program is to provide eligible western
Alaska villages with the opportunity to
participate and invest in fisheries in the
Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands
Management Area (BSAI); to support
economic development in western
Alaska; to alleviate poverty and provide
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economic and social benefits for
residents of western Alaska; and to
achieve sustainable and diversified local
economies in western Alaska. In fitting
with these goals, NMFS allocates a
portion of the annual catch limits for a
variety of commercially valuable marine
species in the BSAI to the CDQ Program.
Pacific halibut is one of these species.
More information on the CDQ Program
is provided on the NMFS Alaska Region
website at https://
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/alaska/
sustainable-fisheries/communitydevelopment-quota-cdq-program.
Information collection requirements for
the CDQ Program are also approved
under OMB Control Number 0648–0269.
This information collection contains
the forms used by participants in the
IFQ Program to apply for, renew, or
replace permits; transfer or lease IFQ
and QS; determine compliance with IFQ
program requirements; and designate a
beneficiary for a QS holder. Two of the
permit applications are also used by
participants in the CDQ Program. This
information collection also contains
annual reports and other collections
submitted by telephone or other
methods and that do not have forms.
The type of information collected
includes information on the applicants,
transferors, transferees, permits, IFQ or
QS types and owners, beneficiaries,
vessels, business operations, medical
declarations, landings, gear types,
products, and harvests and harvest
areas.
This information is used to identify
and authorize participants in the halibut
and sablefish fisheries, to track and
transfer quota share, to limit transfers to
authorized participants, and to monitor
quota share balances and harvest in
these fisheries.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations; Not-for-profit
institutions.
Frequency: Varies upon situation and
documents requirements.
Respondent’s Obligation: Based on
completed form the following obligation
may occur: Voluntary, Required to
Obtain or Retain Benefits, and
Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act, 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.; Northern
Pacific Halibut Act of 1982, 16 U.S.C.
773c.
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
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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 0648–0272.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
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Fisheries of the Gulf of Mexico and the
South Atlantic; Southeast Data,
Assessment, and Review (SEDAR);
Public Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of SEDAR 79 Review
Workshop for Gulf of Mexico and South
Atlantic Mutton Snapper.
AGENCY:
The SEDAR 79 assessment
process of Gulf of Mexico and South
Atlantic mutton snapper will consist of
a Data Workshop, and a series of
assessment webinars, and a Review
Workshop. See SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.
SUMMARY:
The SEDAR 79 Mutton Snapper
Review Workshop will be held from
8:30 a.m. on September 10, 2024, until
6 p.m. on September 12, 2024. The
meeting will be live streamed.
Individuals may register by going to the
SEDAR website: www.sedarweb.org. The
established times may be adjusted as
necessary to accommodate the timely
completion of discussion relevant to the
assessment process. Such adjustments
may result in the meeting being
extended from or completed prior to the
time established by this notice.
ADDRESSES:
Meeting address: The SEDAR 79
Review Workshop will be held at the
Courtyard by Marriott—St Petersburg,
300 4th Street North, St Petersburg, FL
33701.
SEDAR address: 4055 Faber Place
Drive, Suite 201, North Charleston, SC
29405.
DATES:
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Julie
A. Neer, SEDAR Coordinator; (843) 571–
4366; email: Julie.neer@safmc.net.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Gulf
of Mexico, South Atlantic, and
Caribbean Fishery Management
Councils, in conjunction with NOAA
Fisheries and the Atlantic and Gulf
States Marine Fisheries Commissions
have implemented the Southeast Data,
Assessment and Review (SEDAR)
process, a multi-step method for
determining the status of fish stocks in
the Southeast Region. SEDAR is a multistep process including: (1) Data/
Assessment Workshop, and (2) a series
of webinars. The product of the Data/
Assessment Workshop is a report which
compiles and evaluates potential
datasets and recommends which
datasets are appropriate for assessment
analyses, and describes the fisheries,
evaluates the status of the stock,
estimates biological benchmarks,
projects future population conditions,
and recommends research and
monitoring needs. Participants for
SEDAR Workshops are appointed by the
Gulf of Mexico, South Atlantic, and
Caribbean Fishery Management
Councils and NOAA Fisheries Southeast
Regional Office, HMS Management
Division, and Southeast Fisheries
Science Center. Participants include
data collectors and database managers;
stock assessment scientists, biologists,
and researchers; constituency
representatives including fishermen,
environmentalists, and NGO’s;
International experts; and staff of
Councils, Commissions, and state and
federal agencies.
The items of discussion in the Review
Workshop are as follows:
Participants will evaluate the data and
assessment reports, as specified in the
Terms of Reference, to determine if they
are scientifically sound.
Although non-emergency issues not
contained in this agenda may come
before this group for discussion, those
issues may not be the subject of formal
action during this meeting. Action will
be restricted to those issues specifically
identified in this notice and any issues
arising after publication of this notice
that require emergency action under
section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act, provided the public has been
notified of the intent to take final action
to address the emergency.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Special Accommodations
These meetings are physically
accessible to people with disabilities.
Requests for sign language
interpretation or other auxiliary aids
should be directed to the Council office
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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; Individual Fishing Quotas for Pacific Halibut and Sablefish in
the Alaska 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 5, 2024, during a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Commerce.
Title: Individual Fishing Quotas for Pacific Halibut and Sablefish
in the Alaska Fisheries.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0272.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission (extension and revision of a
current information collection).
Number of Respondents: 3,442.
Average Hours per Response: Application for IFQ/CDQ Hired Master
Permit, 1 hour; Application for IFQ/CDQ Registered Buyer Permit, 30
minutes; Application for Replacement of Certificates or Permits, 30
minutes; Application for Eligibility to Receive QS/IFQ by Transfer, 2
hours; QS Holder: Identification of Ownership Interest, 2 hours;
Application for Transfer of QS, 2 hours; Application for Transfer of
QS/IFQ by Self Sweep Up, 2 hours; Application for Medical Transfer of
IFQ, 1.5 hours; Application for Temporary Transfer of Halibut/Sablefish
IFQ, 2 hours; (emergency) Application for Temporary Transfer of
Halibut/Sablefish IFQ, 2 hours; Annual Report for CDQ IFQ Transfers, 40
hours; QS/IFQ Beneficiary Designation Form, 30 minutes; Appeals, 4
hours; IFQ Administrative Waiver, 6 minutes; Prior Notice of Landing,
15 minutes; IFQ Departure Report, 15 minutes; Transshipment
Authorization, 12 minutes; Dockside sales, 6 minutes; Application for a
Non-profit Corporation to be Designated as a Recreational Quota Entity,
200 hours; Application for Transfer of Quota Share To or From a
Recreational Quota Entity, 2 hours; Recreational Quota Entity Annual
Report, 40 hours; NOAA Fisheries Alaska Region eFISH On-line Services
User Authorization Form, 30 minutes.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 11,239.
Needs and Uses: The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS),
Alaska Regional Office, is requesting renewal and revision of this
currently approved information collection that contains requirements
for the Pacific Halibut and Sablefish Individual Fishing Quota Program
(IFQ Program). Minor editorial changes were made to the forms to
improve clarity and consistency. The Application for IFQ/CDQ Hired
Master Permit was revised to remove an unnecessary checkbox. Four
transfer applications were revised to collect information on fees paid,
which is required by regulations, to remove the need to submit a copy
of the permit, and to no longer require a separate form for each
transfer. The revisions do not change the burden hours or costs of
these forms. The NOAA Fisheries Alaska Region eFISH On-line Services
User Authorization Form, which had been inadvertently omitted from this
collection, has been added and does not significantly increase the
burden or cost for this information collection.
This information collection for the IFQ Program is required to
manage commercial halibut and sablefish fishing under the Magnuson-
Stevens Act, the Halibut Act, and under 50 CFR parts 300 and 679.
Commercial halibut and sablefish fisheries in the Gulf of Alaska and
Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands are managed primarily under the IFQ
Program. The IFQ Program is managed under the authority of the Northern
Pacific Halibut Act of 1982 (16 U.S.C. 773c; Halibut Act), with respect
to Pacific halibut, and the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and
Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.; Magnuson-Stevens Act), with
respect to sablefish. Regulations implementing the IFQ Program are set
forth at 50 CFR part 679. A key objective of the IFQ Program is to
support the social and economic character of the fisheries and coastal
fishing communities where many of these fisheries are based.
Participation in the IFQ Program is limited to persons that hold quota
share (QS), although there are several very limited provisions for
``leasing'' of annual IFQ. QS is a transferable permit that was
initially issued to persons who owned or leased vessels that made legal
commercial fixed-gear landings of Pacific halibut or sablefish in the
waters off Alaska from 1988 through 1990. NMFS annually issues eligible
QS holders an IFQ fishing permit that authorizes participation in the
IFQ fisheries. Those to whom IFQ permits are issued may harvest their
annual allocation at any time during the eight plus-month IFQ halibut
and sablefish seasons.
More information on the IFQ Program is provided on the NMFS Alaska
Region website at https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/alaska/sustainable-fisheries/pacific-halibut-and-sablefish-individual-fishing-quota-ifq-program.
Some of the collection instruments in this information collection
are used by participants in the Western Alaska Community Development
Quota (CDQ) Program. The purpose of the CDQ Program is to provide
eligible western Alaska villages with the opportunity to participate
and invest in fisheries in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands
Management Area (BSAI); to support economic development in western
Alaska; to alleviate poverty and provide
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economic and social benefits for residents of western Alaska; and to
achieve sustainable and diversified local economies in western Alaska.
In fitting with these goals, NMFS allocates a portion of the annual
catch limits for a variety of commercially valuable marine species in
the BSAI to the CDQ Program. Pacific halibut is one of these species.
More information on the CDQ Program is provided on the NMFS Alaska
Region website at https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/alaska/sustainable-fisheries/community-development-quota-cdq-program. Information
collection requirements for the CDQ Program are also approved under OMB
Control Number 0648-0269.
This information collection contains the forms used by participants
in the IFQ Program to apply for, renew, or replace permits; transfer or
lease IFQ and QS; determine compliance with IFQ program requirements;
and designate a beneficiary for a QS holder. Two of the permit
applications are also used by participants in the CDQ Program. This
information collection also contains annual reports and other
collections submitted by telephone or other methods and that do not
have forms.
The type of information collected includes information on the
applicants, transferors, transferees, permits, IFQ or QS types and
owners, beneficiaries, vessels, business operations, medical
declarations, landings, gear types, products, and harvests and harvest
areas.
This information is used to identify and authorize participants in
the halibut and sablefish fisheries, to track and transfer quota share,
to limit transfers to authorized participants, and to monitor quota
share balances and harvest in these fisheries.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations; Not-
for-profit institutions.
Frequency: Varies upon situation and documents requirements.
Respondent's Obligation: Based on completed form the following
obligation may occur: Voluntary, Required to Obtain or Retain Benefits,
and Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and
Management Act, 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.; Northern Pacific Halibut Act of
1982, 16 U.S.C. 773c.
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 0648-0272.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2024-19307 Filed 8-26-24; 8:45 am]
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