[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 188 (Wednesday, September 29, 1999)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 52427-52428]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-25237]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

15 CFR Part 902

50 CFR Part 622

[Docket No. 990330083-9166-02; I.D. 091499E]
RIN 0648-AK32


Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic; 
Shrimp Fishery of the Gulf of Mexico; Effective Date Notification and 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Control Numbers

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service, (NMFS), National Oceanic and

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Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.

ACTION: Final rule; effective date of OMB control numbers.

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SUMMARY: This rule makes effective the collection-of-information 
requirements in the final rule implementing procedures for the testing 
and certification of bycatch reduction devices (BRDs) for use in shrimp 
trawls in the exclusive economic zone in the Gulf of Mexico published 
in the Federal Register on July 13, 1999. OMB has approved those 
collection-of-information requirements.

DATES: The collection-of-information requirements in 
Sec. 622.41(h)(3)(i) and (h)(3)(ii), Appendix--Gulf of Mexico Bycatch 
Reduction Device Testing Protocol Manual, and Appendix I--
Qualifications of Observer are effective September 29, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steve Branstetter, 727-570-5305.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July 13, 1999, NMFS published a final 
rule (64 FR 37690) that established procedures for the testing and 
certification of BRDs for use in shrimp trawls in the exclusive 
economic zone in the Gulf of Mexico. That final rule was published 
prior to OMB's approval of the information collection requirements in 
Sec. 622.41(h)(3)(i) and (h)(3)(ii), Appendix--Gulf of Mexico Bycatch 
Reduction Device Testing Protocol Manual, and Appendix I--
Qualifications of Observer; therefore, the effectiveness of those 
information collection requirements was deferred pending OMB approval. 
Those information collection requirements are related to the BRD 
certification process and include applications for pre-certification 
and certification of a new BRD, pre-certification adjusting, the 
testing itself, the submission of the test results, application for 
observer position, and references for observers. On August 20, 1999, 
OMB approved those information collection requirements. This notice 
informs the public of the OMB approval of those information collection 
requirements under OMB control number 0648-0345 and makes them 
effective.

List of Subjects

15 CFR Part 902

    Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.

50 CFR Part 622

    Fisheries, Fishing, Puerto Rico, Reporting and recordkeeping 
requirements, Virgin Islands.

    Dated: September 22, 1999.
Andrew A. Rosenberg,
Deputy Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries 
Service.
    For the reasons set out in the preamble, 15 CFR part 902 is amended 
as follows:

15 CFR Chapter IX

PART 902--NOAA INFORMATION COLLECTION REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE 
PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT: OMB CONTROL NUMBERS

    1. The authority citation for part 902 continues to read as 
follows:

    Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.

    2. In Sec. 902.1, paragraph (b) table, under 50 CFR, the following 
entries are added in numerical order to read as follows:


Sec. 902.1  OMB control numbers assigned pursuant to the Paperwork 
Reduction Act.

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                                             Current OMB control number
 CFR part or section where the information  (All numbers begin with 0648-
     collection requirement is located                    )
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50 CFR
 
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622.41                                      -0345
 
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