[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 242 (Tuesday, December 19, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 60184]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-27288]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


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: Pacific Islands Region Permit Family of Forms.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0490.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular (revision and extension of a currently 
approved information collection).
    Number of Respondents: 354.
    Average Hours per Response: Hawaii longline limited entry permits: 
Renewal on paper application--30 minutes; renewal online--15 minutes; 
transfer--1 hour, closed area exemption and permit appeals--2 hours; 
American Samoa longline limited entry permits: Renewal and additional 
permit application--45 minutes, transfer--1 hour 15 minutes, permit 
appeals--2 hours; all other permits: Paper--30 minutes, online--15 
minutes.
    Burden Hours: 169.
    Needs and Uses: Regulations at 50 CFR 665, Subpart F, require that 
a vessel must be registered to a valid federal fishing permit to fish 
with longline gear for Pacific pelagic management unit species (PMUS), 
land or transship longline caught PMUS, or receive longline caught PMUS 
from a longline vessel, within the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of 
United States (U.S.) islands in the central and western Pacific, to 
fish with pelagic squid jig gear for PMUS within the Exclusive Economic 
Zone (EEZ) of United States (U.S.) islands in the central and western 
Pacific, or to fish with troll and handline gear for PMUS within the 
EEZ around each of the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIA), in areas not 
prohibited to fishing.
    Regulations at 50 CFR parts 665, Subparts D and E, require that the 
owner of a vessel used to fish for, land, or transship bottomfish 
management unit species (BMUS) using a large vessel (50 ft or longer) 
around Guam, fish commercially for BMUS in the EEZ around the Northern 
Mariana Islands, or use a vessel to fish for BMUS within the EEZ around 
each of the PRIA, in areas not prohibited to fishing, must register it 
to a valid federal fishing permit.
    Regulations at 50 CFR 665, Subparts B, C, D, and E, require that a 
vessel used to fish for precious corals within the EEZ of U.S. islands 
in the central and western Pacific, must be registered to a valid 
federal fishing permit for a specific precious coral permit area.
    The collection is revised by merging currently approved information 
collections OMB Control Numbers 0648-0584, Northern Mariana Islands 
Commercial Bottomfish Fishery Permit, 0648-0586, Pacific Islands 
Crustacean Permit, and 0648-0589, Pacific Islands Pelagic Squid Jig 
Fishing Permit, into OMB Control No. 0648-0490 Pacific Islands Region 
Permit Family of Forms. NMFS approved new two-tier processing fees for 
most permits, resulting in revised cost estimates.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations; 
individuals or households.
    Frequency: Annually 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: December 14, 2017.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-27288 Filed 12-18-17; 8:45 am]
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