[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 11 (Thursday, January 16, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 2721]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-00602]


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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.
    Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
    Title: Tilefish Individual Fishing Quota Program.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0590.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular (extension, without change, of a currently 
approved collection).
    Number of Respondents: 12.
    Average Hours per Response: IFQ Allocation Permit--30 minutes; IFQ 
Allocation Interest Declaration and IFQ Transfer forms--5 minutes each; 
Fees and Cost Recovery--1 minute.
    Burden Hours: 20.5.
    Needs and Uses: NOAA Fisheries needs to administer and monitor the 
Tilefish Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) Program to ensure the fishery 
can achieve optimum yield while avoiding overfishing. To administer the 
IFQ program, the agency issues annual IFQ Allocation permits. These 
permits are needed to inform allocation holders of their annual catch 
quota and for enforcement purposes to ensure vessels do not exceed an 
individual quota allocation. To achieve its objectives, it is essential 
that an IFQ program allow the free transfer of quota shares. In order 
to process an IFQ transfer (temporary or permanent), NMFS requires that 
an IFQ Allocation permit holder submit an IFQ transfer form. When the 
Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council established the Tilefish IFQ 
Program, it included a provision that no person, corporation, or other 
entity may hold more that 49 percent of the total tilefish IFQ 
allocation. In order to monitor this cap, IFQ Allocation permit holders 
must disclose their ownership interest in any other holder of IFQ 
allocation annually, prior to receiving their annual permit. In 
addition to other provisions, the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation 
and Management Act requires NOAA Fisheries to collect fees to recover 
the costs directly related to the management, data collection and 
analysis, and enforcement of IFQ programs.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households and Business or other 
for-profit.
    Frequency: Annually and as requested.
    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. 2020-00602 Filed 1-15-20; 8:45 am]
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