[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 26 (Monday, February 9, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6947-6948]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-02578]


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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

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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): None.
    Type of Request: Regular (revision and extension of a currently 
approved information collection).
    Number of Respondents: 543.
    Average Hours per Response: Catcher Vessel trawl gear daily fishing 
logbook (DFL), 18 minutes per active response and 5 minutes per 
inactive response; Catcher vessel longline or pot gear DFL, 28 minutes 
per active response and 5 minutes per inactive response; 41 minutes per 
active response and 5 minutes per inactive response for Catcher/
processor Longline and Pot Gear daily cumulative production logbook 
(DCPL); 23 minutes for Buying Station Report; 5 minutes for Shoreside 
Processor Check-in/Check-out Report; 20 minutes for Product Transfer 
Report and 14 minutes for Vessel Activity Report.
    Burden Hours: 12,510.
    Needs and Uses: The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and 
Management Act 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. authorizes the North Pacific 
Fishery Management Council (Council) to prepare and amend fishery 
management plans for any fishery in waters under its jurisdiction. 
National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Region (NMFS) manages: (1) 
The crab fisheries in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) waters off the 
coast of Alaska under the Fishery Management Plan for Bering Sea and 
Aleutian Islands Crab; (2) groundfish under the Fishery Management Plan 
for the Groundfish Fishery of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands 
Management Area; and (3) groundfish under the Fishery Management Plan 
for Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska. The International Pacific Halibut 
Commission (IPHC) and NMFS manage fishing for Pacific halibut 
(Hippoglossus stenolepis) through regulations established under the 
authority of the Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1982. The IPHC 
promulgates regulations governing the halibut fishery under the 
Convention between the United States and Canada for the Preservation of 
the Halibut Fishery of the Northern Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea.
    Vessels required to have a Federal Fisheries Permit (FFP) are 
issued free daily fishing DFLs for harvesters and DCPLs for processors 
to record groundfish, Crab Rationalization Program (CR) crab, 
Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) halibut, IFQ sablefish, Western Alaska 
Community Development Quota Program (CDQ) halibut, and prohibited 
species catch (PSC) information. Catcher vessels under 60 ft (18.3 m) 
length overall are not required to maintain DFLs. Multiple self-copy 
logsheets within each logbook are available for distribution to the 
harvester, processor, observer program, and NOAA Fisheries Office for 
Law Enforcement. The longline or pot gear logbooks have an additional 
logsheet for submittal to the IPHC.
    In addition to the logbooks, this collection includes the buying 
station report, check-in/out for shoreside processors, product transfer 
report, and U.S. vessel activity report.
    Revision: Paper logbooks for catcher processors with trawl gear and 
motherships have been discontinued and replaced by eLogs in OMB Control 
No. 0648-0515.
    Affected Public: Business and other for-profit organizations; 
individuals or households.
    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.
    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: February 4, 2015.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2015-02578 Filed 2-6-15; 8:45 am]
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