[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 8 (Thursday, January 12, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 1914]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-426]


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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 Logbook Family of Forms.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0213.
    Form Number(s): NA.
    Type of Request: Regular submission (revision and extension of a 
current information collection).
    Number of Respondents: 832.
    Average Hours per Response: Daily fishing logs, 20 minutes; daily 
cumulative production logs, 30 minutes; check-in/check-out reports, 5 
minutes; buying station reports, 23 minutes; vessel activity reports, 
14 minutes; product transfer reports, 20 minutes.
    Burden Hours: 40,058.
    Needs and Uses: This request is for revision and extension of a 
current information collection. A program change is due to motherships 
and catcher/processors no longer using the check-in/check-out report as 
the reports are now made through vessel monitoring systems, covered 
under OMB Control No. 0648-0445.
    National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Alaska Region manages the 
United States (U.S.) groundfish fisheries of the Exclusive Economic 
Zone (EEZ) off Alaska under the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish 
of the Gulf of Alaska and the Fishery Management Plan for the 
Groundfish Fishery of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management 
Area (FMPs). The North Pacific Fishery Management Council prepared the 
FMPs pursuant to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and 
Management Act. The regulations implementing the FMPs are at 50 CFR 
part 679.
    The recordkeeping and reporting requirements at 50 CFR Part 679 
form the basis for this collection of information. NMFS Alaska Region 
requests information from participating groundfish participants. This 
information, upon receipt, results in an increasingly more efficient 
and accurate database for management and monitoring of the groundfish 
fisheries of the EEZ off Alaska.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: Daily, on occasion, and 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 Jennifer Jessup, Departmental Paperwork Clearance 
Officer, (202) 482-0336, 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: January 9, 2012.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2012-426 Filed 1-11-12; 8:45 am]
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