[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 11 (Wednesday, January 17, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 2427]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-00691]


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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: Alaska American Fisheries Act (AFA) Reports.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0401.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular (extension of a currently approved 
information collection).
    Number of Respondents: 8.
    Average Hours per Response: AFA cooperative contract, 8 hours; 
annual cooperative report, 16 hours; inshore cooperative weekly catch 
report, 45 minutes; incentive plan agreement (IPA) amendment, 50 hours; 
incentive plan agreement disapproval appeals, 4 hours; IPA annual 
report, 80 hours.
    Burden Hours: 599.
    Needs and Uses: On October 21, 1998, the President signed into law 
The American Fisheries Act, 16 U.S.C. 1851 (AFA). The AFA authorizes 
the formation of fishery cooperatives in all sectors of the Bering Sea 
and Aleutian Islands Management Area (BSAI) pollock fishery, grants 
antitrust exemptions to cooperatives in the mothership sector, and 
imposes operational limits on fishery cooperatives in the BSAI pollock 
fishery. The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) issues a single 
pollock allocation to each cooperative, and the cooperative may make 
sub-allocations of pollock to each individual vessel owner in the 
cooperative.
    With respect to the fisheries off Alaska, the AFA Program is a 
suite of management measures that fall into four general regulatory 
categories:
     Limit access into the fishing and processing sectors of 
the BSAI pollock fishery and that allocate pollock to such sectors (50 
CFR 679.64).
     Govern the formation and operation of fishery cooperatives 
in the BSAI pollock fishery, including filing of cooperative contracts 
(50 CFR 679.61 and 679.62).
     Protection of other fisheries from spillover effects from 
the AFA (50 CFR 679.64).
     Govern catch measurement and monitoring in the BSAI 
pollock fishery, including filing of annual reports and completing and 
submitting inshore catcher vessel pollock cooperative catch reports (50 
CFR 679.63).
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    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: January 11, 2018.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2018-00691 Filed 1-16-18; 8:45 am]
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