[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 103 (Thursday, May 29, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 32012]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-13424]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

[I.D. 052303C]


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: American Fisheries Act: Recordkeeping and Reporting 
Requirements.
    Form Number(s): None.
    OMB Approval Number: 0648-0401.
    Type of Request: Regular submission.
    Burden Hours: 1,024.
    Number of Respondents: 26.
    Average Hours Per Response: 20 hours for a cooperative preliminary 
report; 8 hours for a cooperative final report; 30 minutes for a non-
member vessel contract fishing application; 35 minutes for a shoreside 
processor electronic logbook (SPELR); 5 minutes for a cooperative 
pollock catch report; and 5 minutes for a designation of agent for 
service of process.
    Needs and Uses: On October 21, 1998, the President signed into law 
the American Fisheries Act (AFA), which imposed major structural 
changes on the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area (BSAI) 
pollock fishery. 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 with the opportunity to conduct their 
fishery in a more rational manner while protecting non-AFA participants 
in the other fisheries. The AFA also affected the management of other 
groundfish, crab, and scallop fisheries off Alaska. Much of the 
monitoring and enforcement burden is placed on participating AFA 
cooperatives and their members, which allows NOAA to manage the pollock 
fishery more precisely. Monitoring their own catch, vessels are able to 
individually (and in aggregate) come very close to harvesting exactly 
the amount of pollock they were allocated.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: On occasion, annually, recordkeeping.
    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 Diana Hynek, Departmental Paperwork Clearance 
Officer, (202) 482-0266, Department of Commerce, Room 6625, 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: May 21, 2003.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 03-13424 Filed 5-28-03; 8:45 am]
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