[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 8 (Monday, January 13, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1804-1805]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-00297]


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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) Permits.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0393.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular (extension of a currently approved 
information collection).
    Number of Respondents: 27.
    Average Hours per Response: 1 hour each for AFA Permit: Rebuilt, 
Replacement, or Removed Vessel Application and Application for Transfer 
of Bering Sea Chinook Salmon PSC Allocations; 2 hours for Application 
for AFA Inshore Catcher Vessel Cooperative Permit; 4 hours for AFA 
Inshore Vessel Contract Fishing Notification; 8 hours for Application 
for Approval as an Entity to Receive Transferable Chinook Salmon PSC 
Allocation.
    Burden Hours: 251 hours.
    Needs and Uses: The American Fisheries Act (AFA) was signed into 
law in October 1998. The purpose of the AFA was to tighten U.S. 
ownership standards that had been exploited under the Anti-reflagging 
Act, and to provide the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) pollock 
fleet the opportunity to conduct their fishery in a more rational 
manner while protecting non-AFA participants in the other fisheries. 
The AFA established sector allocations in the BSAI pollock fishery, 
determined eligible vessels and processors, allowed the formation of 
cooperatives, set limits on the participation of AFA vessels in other 
fisheries, and imposed special catch weighing and monitoring 
requirements on AFA vessels.
    This information collection contains five AFA permitting and 
reporting requirements.
     The AFA Permit: Rebuilt, Replacement, or Removed Vessel 
Application is submitted by an owner of an AFA vessel to notify NMFS 
the vessel has been rebuilt; to request an AFA permit for a replacement 
catcher vessel, catcher/processor, or mothership; or to request removal 
of an AFA catcher vessel that is a member of an inshore cooperative and 
assign its catch history to another vessel or vessels in the same 
cooperative.
     The Application for AFA Inshore Catcher Vessel Cooperative 
Permit is submitted annually by each AFA inshore catcher vessel 
cooperative to obtain an AFA Inshore Catcher Vessel Cooperative Permit 
and identify the vessels and processors that will be participating in 
the BSAI pollock fishery prior to the start of each fishing year.
     The AFA Inshore Vessel Contract Fishing Notification is 
submitted by an AFA inshore cooperative that intends to contract with a 
non-member vessel to harvest a portion of the cooperative's annual 
pollock allocation to notify NMFS of vessels that might be reporting 
with an alternative cooperative ID.

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     The Application for Approval as an Entity to Receive 
Transferable Chinook Salmon PSC Allocation is submitted by an entity 
representing the catcher/processor sector or the mothership sector to 
request approval to receive transferable Chinook salmon PSC allocations 
on behalf of members of the sector. This application is also used to 
update contact and other information related to the entity and its 
members.
     The Application for Transfer of Bering Sea Chinook Salmon 
PSC Allocations is submitted by an authorized representative of the 
catcher/processor sector, the mothership sector, an inshore 
cooperative, or a CDQ group to transfer Chinook salmon PSC allocations 
to another entity's account.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit organizations; 
Individuals or households, Not-for-profit institutions.
    Frequency: On occasion, Annually.
    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 fax to (202) 395-5806.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2020-00297 Filed 1-10-20; 8:45 am]
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