[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 186 (Thursday, September 25, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57505-57506]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-22756]


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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 Crab Arbitration.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0516.

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    Form Number(s): NA.
    Type of Request: Regular (request for extension of a current 
information collection).
    Number of Respondents: 2.
    Average Hours per Response: Combined Notification and Arbitration 
Organization Report, 3 hours (all other reports are done by 
contractors).
    Burden Hours: 6.
    Needs and Uses: This request is for extension of a currently 
approved collection.
    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 and the Binding 
Arbitration process.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: Annually.
    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.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to [email protected] or fax to (202) 395-5806.

    Dated: September 19, 2014.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014-22756 Filed 9-24-14; 8:45 am]
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