[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 164 (Wednesday, August 25, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52306-52307]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-21061]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce will submit 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: Alaska Region Amendment 80 Permits and Reports.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0565.
    Form Number(s): NA.
    Type of Request: Regular submission (extension of a currently 
approved information collection).
    Number of Respondents: 38.
    Average Hours per Response: Applications for cooperative quota 
share, for cooperative and cooperative quota permit, and for limited 
access fishery permit, 2 hours; applications to transfer quota share 
and cooperative quota, 2 hours; annual cooperative report, 25 hours; 
appeals, 4 hours.
    Burden Hours: 155.
    Needs and Uses: This request is for extension of a currently 
approved information collection. Amendment 80 to the Fishery Management 
Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management 
Area (BSAI FMP), primarily allocates BSAI non-pollock trawl groundfish 
fisheries among fishing sectors and facilitates the formation of 
harvesting cooperatives in the head-and-gut trawl catcher/processor 
sector. Sector allocations and associated cooperatives allow 
participants to focus less on harvest rate maximization and more on 
optimizing their harvest. This, in turn, allows a reduction in unwanted 
incidental catch, improved retention, improved utilization, and 
improved economic health of the head-and-gut trawl catcher/processor 
sector. Amendment 80 established a limited access privilege program for 
the non-American Fisheries Act trawl catcher/processor sector.
    The Amendment 80 permits and reports collection provides 
participants with a management system that allows for improved 
efficiency by providing an environment in which, revenues can be 
increased and operating costs can be reduced. Depending on the 
magnitude of these potential efficiency gains and the costs of bycatch 
reduction, increases in efficiency could be used to cover the costs of 
bycatch reduction measures or provide additional benefits to 
participants.
    Licenses and vessels used to qualify for the Amendment 80 Program 
(either to be included in the non-AFA trawl catcher/processor sector or 
to be used in Amendment 80 cooperative formation) are restricted from 
being used outside of the Amendment 80 sector, except that any eligible 
vessel authorized to fish pollock under the AFA would still be 
authorized to fish under this statute.
    Fishery participants that join a cooperative receive an exclusive 
harvest privilege not subject to harvest by other vessel operators; may 
consolidate fishing operations on a specific vessel or subset of 
vessels, thereby reducing monitoring and enforcement and other 
operational costs; and harvest fish in a more economically efficient 
and less wasteful manner.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: Annually and on occasion.
    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,

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Departmental Paperwork Clearance Officer, (202) 482-0266, Department of 
Commerce, Room 6616, 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, FAX number (202) 395-7285, or 
[email protected].

    Dated: August 19, 2010.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2010-21061 Filed 8-24-10; 8:45 am]
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