[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 140 (Thursday, July 21, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 43652]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-18405]


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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: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Alaska Region 
Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Crab Arbitration.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0516.
    Form Number(s): NA.
    Type of Request: Regular submission (request for revision and 
extension of current information collection).
    Number of Respondents: 14.
    Average Hours per Response: Combined annual arbitration 
organization notification and report, 5 hours; contract arbitrator 
report, 4 hours; combined shared arbitration accounting report, 20 
hours.
    Burden Hours: 78.
    Needs and Uses: The Crab Rationalization Program allocates Bering 
Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) crab resources among harvesters, 
processors, and coastal communities through a limited access system 
that balances the interests of these groups who depend on these 
fisheries. Program components include quota share allocation, processor 
quota share allocation, individual fishing quota and individual 
processing quota issuance, quota transfers, use caps, crab harvesting 
cooperatives, protections for Gulf of Alaska groundfish fisheries, 
arbitration system, monitoring, economic data collection, and cost 
recovery fee collection.
    The Crab Rationalization Program Arbitration System is established 
by the contracts required pursuant to 50CF 680.20, including the 
process by which the Market Report and Non-Binding Price Formula are 
produced, as well as the negotiation approaches, the Binding 
Arbitration process, and fee collection.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
    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 18, 2011.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2011-18405 Filed 7-20-11; 8:45 am]
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