[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 117 (Wednesday, June 18, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34718-34719]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-14206]


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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 BSAI Crab Permits.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0514.
    Form Number(s): NA.
    Type of Request: Regular submission (revision and extension of a 
current information collection).
    Number of Respondents: 515.
    Average Hours Per Response: Annual application for crab IFQ permit, 
application for Crab IPQ permit, application to become an eligible crab 
community organization (ECCO), 150 minutes each; application for an 
Annual Crab Harvesting Cooperative IFQ Permit, Right of first refusal 
(ROFR) contracts and waivers, 1 hour each; annual application for Crab 
Converted CPO QS and CPO IFQ and application for Registered Crab 
Receiver (RCR) Permit, BSAI Crab Rationalization Program Quota Share 
Beneficiary Designation Form, 30 minutes; application for Crab IFQ 
Hired Master Permit and application for Federal crab vessel permit 
(FCVP), 21 minutes each; application for eligibility to receive crab 
QS/IFQ or PQS/IPQ by transfer, application for transfer of crab IFQ, 
application for transfer of crab QS/IFQ to or from an ECCO, Application 
to transfer crab QS or PQS, application for Annual Exemption from 
Western Aleutian Islands Golden King Crab West Region Delivery 
Requirements, Community Impact Report or IPQ Holder Report (North or 
South Response Report), 2 hours each; ECCO Annual report and appeal of 
denial to NMFS decisions, 4 hours each; application for transfer of IFQ 
between crab harvesting cooperatives, electronic, 5 minutes, non-
electronic, 2 hours; application to Transfer Crab IPQ, electronic, 1 
hour; non-electronic, 2 hours; CDQ notification of community 
representative, 5 hours; application for exemption from CR Crab North 
or South Region Delivery Requirements and North or South Region 
Delivery Exemption Report, 20 hours each.
    Burden Hours: 1,621.
    Needs and Uses: This request is for a revision and extension of a 
currently approved information collection.
    The king and Tanner crab fisheries in the exclusive economic zone 
of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, Alaska, are managed under the 
Fishery Management Plan for Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands King and 
Tanner Crabs (FMP). The North Pacific Fishery Management Council 
prepared the FMP under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and 
Management Act as amended in 2006. National Marine Fisheries Service 
(NMFS) manages the crab fisheries in the waters off the coast of Alaska 
under the FMP. Regulations implementing the FMP and all amendments to 
the Crab Rationalization Program (CR Program) appear at 50 CFR part 
680. Program details are found at: http://www.alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/regs/680/default.htm.
    The CR Program balances the interests of several groups who depend 
on the crab fisheries. The CR Program addresses conservation and 
management issues associated with the previous derby fishery, reduces 
bycatch and associated discard mortality, and increases the safety of 
crab fishermen by ending the race for fish. Share allocations to 
harvesters and processors, together with incentives to participate in 
fishery cooperatives, increases efficiencies, provides economic 
stability, and facilitates compensated reduction of excess capacities 
in the harvesting and processing sectors. Community interests are 
protected by Western Alaska Community Development Quota allocations and 
regional landing and processing requirements, as well as by several 
community protection measures.
    The NMFS established the CR Program as a catch share program for 
nine crab fisheries in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI), and 
assigned quota share (QS) to persons and processor quota share (PQS) to 
processors based on their historic participation in one or more of 
these nine crab fisheries during a specific period. The CR Program 
components include QS allocation, PQS allocation, individual fishing 
quota (IFQ) issuance, and individual processing quota (IPQ) issuance, 
quota transfers, use caps, crab harvesting cooperatives, protections 
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Gulf of Alaska groundfish fisheries, arbitration system, monitoring, 
economic data collection, and cost recovery fee collection. Revision: 
the eligible crab community organization (ECCO) annual report has been 
moved from OMB Control No. 0648-0570.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: Annually and on occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
    This information collection request may be viewed at reginfo.gov. 
Follow the instructions to view Department of Commerce collections 
currently under review by OMB.
    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: June 12, 2014.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014-14206 Filed 6-17-14; 8:45 am]
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