[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 93 (Wednesday, May 14, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27571-27572]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-11038]


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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: Greater Atlantic Region, Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishery 
Management Plan Data Collection.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0491.
    Form Number(s): NA.
    Type of Request: Regular submission (extension of a current 
information collection).
    Number of Respondents: 620.
    Average Hours per Response: Trip terminations including power-
downs, Trip termination and compensation trip identification, daily 
catch reports, 2 minutes each; pre-landing reports, ownership forms and 
IFQ transfers, 5 minutes; broken trip adjustments, 10 minutes; access 
area trip exchanges, 15 minutes; replacement and permit history 
applications, 3 hours; cost recovery forms, 2 hours; sector proposals, 
300 hours, and sector operations plans, 150 hours.
    Burden Hours: 3,388.
    Needs and Uses: This request is for extension of a currently 
approved information collection.
    National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Northeast Region manages 
the Atlantic sea scallop (scallop) fishery of the Exclusive Economic 
Zone (EEZ) off the East Coast under the Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishery 
Management Plan (FMP). The regulations implementing the FMP are at 50 
CFR part 648. To successfully implement and administer components of 
the FMP, OMB Control No. 0648-0491 includes the following information 
collections for scallop vessel owners, operators, and fishery 
participants: Vessel monitoring system (VMS) trip declarations for all 
scallop vessels, including powerdown declarations; notification of 
access area trip termination for limited access scallop vessels; 
submission of access area compensation trip identification; submission 
of broken trip adjustment and access area trip exchange forms; VMS 
purchase and installation for individuals that purchase a federally 
permitted scallop vessel; submission of ownership cap forms for 
individual fishing quota (IFQ) scallop vessels; submission of vessel 
replacement, upgrade and permit history applications for IFQ, Northern 
Gulf of Maine (NGOM), and Incidental Catch (IC) scallop vessels; 
submission of VMS pre-landing notification form by IFQ vessels; 
enrollment into the state waters exemption program; submission of 
requests for IFQ transfers; payment of cost recovery bills for IFQ 
vessels; sector proposals for IFQ vessels and industry participants; 
and sector operations plans for approved sector proposals.
    Data collected through these programs are incorporated into the 
NMFS database and are used to track and confirm vessel permit status 
and eligibility, scallop landings, and scallop vessel allocations. 
Aggregated summaries of the collected information will be used to 
evaluate the management program and future management proposals.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: Daily and on occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    This information collection request may be viewed at reginfo.gov. 
Follow the instructions to view Department of Commerce collections 
currently under review by OMB.

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    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to [email protected] or faxed to (202) 395-5806.

    Dated: May 8, 2014.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014-11038 Filed 5-13-14; 8:45 am]
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