[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 136 (Friday, July 14, 2000)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 43687-43688]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-17894]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

15 CFR Part 902

50 CFR Part 648

[Docket No. 000407096-0196-02; I.D. 040300C]
RIN 0648-AN51


Fisheries of the Northeastern United States Northeast 
Multispecies; Framework Adjustment 33 to the Northeast Multispecies 
Fishery Management Plan; Reporting Requirement

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.

ACTION: Final rule; effectiveness of collection-of-information 
requirement.

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SUMMARY: NMFS announces approval by the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) of a collection-of-information requirement contained in Framework 
Adjustment 33 to the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan 
(FMP) and issues a final rule to make effective the restrictions and 
related prohibitions contained in Framework 33 for charter/party vessel 
operators fishing in the Gulf of Maine closed areas and the Nantucket 
Lightship Closed Area. Charter/party vessels are required to obtain a 
certificate in exchange for access to the Gulf of Maine closed areas. 
As a condition of the certificate, the vessel owner must agree to abide 
by charter/party regulations and to not utilize days at sea during the 
3 months covered by the certificate. This final rule also codifies the 
OMB control number for the approved information collection in 50 CFR 
part 902. The intent of this final rule is to inform the public of the 
effective date of the charter/party vessel requirements and publish the 
OMB control number for the related collection-of-information 
requirement.

DATES: Sections 648.14(b)(2), 648.81(g)(2)(iii), and 648.89(e) 
published at 65 FR 21658 (April 24, 2000) and 15 CFR 902.1 are 
effective on August 28, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Any comments regarding burden-hour estimates for collection-
of-information requirements contained in this final rule should be sent 
to Patricia Kurkul, Regional Director, Northeast Regional Office, 
National Marine Fisheries Service, One Blackburn Drive, Gloucester, MA 
01930, and to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office 
of Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503 (ATTN: NOAA Desk 
Officer).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rick Pearson, Fishery Policy Analyst, 
978-281-0279.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A final rule that implemented the measures 
contained in Framework 33 to the Northeast Multispecies FMP was 
published in the Federal Register on April 24, 2000 (65 FR 21658), and 
most of the measures were made effective on May 1, 2000. However, 
because OMB approval of the reporting requirement contained in 
Framework 33 had not yet been received as of the effective date of that 
rule, effectiveness of the Charter/party vessel requirements and 
related prohibitions contained in the framework was delayed. OMB 
approval for those measures was received on June 20, 2000. 
Consequently, this rule makes Secs. 648.14(b)(2), 648.81(g)(2)(iii), 
and 648.89(e), which were codified in the April 24, 2000, final rule, 
effective.
    NOAA codifies its OMB control numbers for information collection at 
15 CFR part 902. Part 902 collects and displays the control numbers 
assigned to information collection requirements of NOAA by OMB pursuant 
to the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). This final rule codifies OMB 
control number 0648-0412 for Secs. 648.81 and 648.89.
    Under NOAA Administrative Order 205-11, dated December 17, 1990, 
the Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, NOAA, has delegated to 
the Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, NOAA, the authority to sign 
material for publication in the Federal Register.

Classification

    This rule has been determined to be not significant for the 
purposes of Executive Order 12866.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, no person is 
required to respond to, nor shall any person be subject to a penalty 
for failure to comply with, a collection of information subject to the 
requirements of the PRA, unless that collection of information displays 
a currently valid OMB control number.
    This rule contains a collection-of-information requirement subject 
to the PRA that has been approved by OMB under 0648-0412. The estimated 
time per response for a telephone call to request a Multispecies 
Charter/party Gulf of Maine Closed Area Exemption Certificate is 2 
minutes.
    The estimated response time includes the time needed for reviewing 
instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and 
maintaining the

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data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of 
information. Send comments regarding these reporting burden estimates 
or any other aspect of the collection-of-information, including 
suggestions for reducing the burden, to NMFS and OMB (see ADDRESSES).

List of Subjects in 15 CFR Part 902

    Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.

    Dated: July 9, 2000.
Penelope D. Dalton,
Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries 
Service.

    For the reasons set out in the preamble, 15 CFR part 902, chapter 
IX, is amended as follows:

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, the table in paragraph (b) under 50 CFR is 
amended by adding in numerical order a new OMB control number, ``-
0412'', to Sec. 648.81 and by adding in numerical order Sec. 648.89 and 
its corresponding OMB control number ``-0412'' 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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648.81                                      *** and -0412
 
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648.89                                      -0412
 
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