[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 131 (Friday, July 8, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 40324]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-17177]


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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: Economic Surveys of American Samoa, Guam, and the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Small Boat-based 
Fisheries.
    OMB Control Number: None.
    Form Number(s): NA.
    Type of Request: Regular submission (request for a new information 
collection).
    Number of Respondents: 366.
    Average Hours per Response: 10 minutes.
    Burden Hours: 160.
    Needs and Uses: The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) 
proposes to collect information about fishing expenses in the American 
Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands 
(CNMI) boat-based reef fish, bottomfish, and pelagics fisheries with 
which to conduct economic analyses that will improve fishery management 
in those fisheries; satisfy NMFS' legal mandates under Executive Order 
12866, the Magnuson-Steven Fishery Conservation and Management Act 
(U.S.C. 1801 et seq.), the Regulatory Flexibility Act, the Endangered 
Species Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act; and quantify 
achievement of the performances measures in the NMFS Strategic 
Operating Plans. An example of these performance measures: The economic 
data collected will allow quantitative assessment of the fisheries 
sector's social and economic contribution, linkages and impacts of the 
fisheries sector to the overall economy through Input-output (I-O) 
models analyses. Results from I-O analyses will not only provide 
indicators of social-economic benefits of the marine ecosystem, a 
performance measure in the NMFS Strategic Operating Plans, but also be 
used to assess how fishermen and economy will be impacted by and 
respond to regulations likely to be considered by fishery managers. 
These data will be collected in conjunction with catch and effort data 
already being collected in this fishery as part of a creel survey 
program.\1\
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    \1\ The Creel Survey Program is one of the major data collection 
systems to monitor fisheries resources in these three geographic 
areas. The survey monitors the islands' fishing activities and 
interviews returning fishermen at the most active launching ramps/
docks during selected time periods on the islands.
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    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    OMB Desk Officer: [email protected].
    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 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 [email protected].

    Dated: July 5, 2011.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2011-17177 Filed 7-7-11; 8:45 am]
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