[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 224 (Tuesday, November 20, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 58112]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-28926]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

[I.D. 111401D]


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce has submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for 
collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).
    Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
    Title: Steller Sea Lion Revisions to Alaska Federal Fisheries 
Permit.
    Form Number(s): None.
    OMB Approval Number: None.
    Type of Request: Emergency.
    Burden Hours: 9.
    Number of Respondents: 539.
    Average Hours Per Response: 1 minute.
    Needs and Uses: A biological opinion under Section 7 of the 
Endangered Species Act identified reasonable and prudent measures that 
are needed to protect endangered Steller sea lions. The National Marine 
Fisheries Service must implement changes to the pollock, Atka mackerel, 
and Pacific cod fisheries in the Exclusive Economic Zone off Alaska. 
One of the measures is to require participants to register for 
participation in these fisheries and for Atka mackerel fishermen to 
state whether they plan to fish inside Steller sea lion critical 
habitat. Registration would be accomplished by the addition of a few 
questions to the existing Application for Federal Fisheries Permit for 
Alaska, which participants are already required to complete. These new 
registrations would be in effect on January 1, 2002 and would end for 
Atka mackerel on January 15, 2002.
    The information submitted in the registration will be used to 
create platoons of vessels for Atka mackerel fishing in the critical 
habitat, inform participants of vessel monitoring system requirements, 
plan the assignment of observers, and take other actions to implement 
and enforce management measures.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households, business or other for-
profit organizations.
    Frequency: Triennial.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    OMB Desk Officer: David Rostker, (202) 395-3897.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Madeleine Clayton, Departmental Paperwork 
Clearance Officer, (202) 482-3129, Department of Commerce, Room 6086, 
14th and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230 (or via the 
Internet at [email protected]).
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to David Rostker, OMB Desk Officer, Room 10202, New Executive Office 
Building, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: November 14, 2001.
Madeleine Clayton,
Departmental Paperwork Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief 
Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 01-28926 Filed 11-19-01; 8:45 am]
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