[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 151 (Tuesday, August 6, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47670-47671]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-18932]


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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 American Fisheries Act (AFA): Permits.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0393.
    Form Number(s): NA.
    Type of Request: Regular submission (revision and extension of a 
current information collection).
    Number of Respondents: 27.
    Average Hours per Response: Application for AFA Permit for 
Replacement Vessel, 30 minutes; Application for AFA Cooperative Permit, 
2 hours; Vessel Contract Fishing Notification, 4 hours; Approval as an 
Entity Eligible to Receive Transferable Chinook Salmon Prohibited 
Species Quota (PSC) Allocation, 8 hours; Application to Transfer Bering 
Sea Chinook Salmon PSC Allocation, 15 minutes.
    Burden Hours: 112.
    Needs and Uses: This request is for revision and extension of a 
currently approved information collection.
    In response to the American Fisheries Act (AFA), NMFS developed a 
management program for Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area 
(BSAI) pollock to include a set of AFA permanent permits for AFA 
catcher/processors, AFA catcher vessels, AFA inshore processors, and 
AFA motherships. All vessels and processors participating in the non-
Community Development Quota (CDQ) BSAI pollock fishery are required to 
have valid AFA permits on board the vessel or on site at the processing 
plant.
    With the exceptions of the inshore vessel cooperatives, replacement 
vessel, and inshore vessel contract fishing applications, the AFA 
permit program had a one-time application deadline of December 1, 2000. 
All permitted participants in the AFA pollock fishery are already 
established and are issued with an indefinite expiration date.
    In a previous revision to this collection, a PSC limit of Chinook 
salmon was established for the pollock industry participants in an 
industry-developed contractual arrangement, called an incentive plan 
agreement (IPA) that establishes an incentive program to minimize 
bycatch at all levels of Chinook salmon abundance. NMFS issues 
transferable Chinook salmon PSC allocations to eligible entities 
representing the catcher/processor sector, the mothership sector, 
inshore cooperatives, and CDQ groups. Transferable allocations provide 
the pollock fleet the flexibility to maximize the harvest of pollock 
while maintaining Chinook salmon bycatch at or below the PSC limit.
    Revision: The notary signature requirements have been removed from 
the Application for Replacement Vessel and the Application for Inshore 
Catcher Vessel Cooperative Permit.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: Annually and on occasion.
    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].


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    Dated: August 1, 2013.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2013-18932 Filed 8-5-13; 8:45 am]
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