[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 95 (Friday, May 15, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29408-29409]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-10468]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; Southeast Region Individual Fishing Quota Programs

    The Department of Commerce will submit the following information 
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite the 
general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and 
continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of 
our information collection requirements and minimize the public's 
reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the 
Federal Register on February 24, 2020, during a 60-day comment period. 
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
    Agency: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration.
    Title: Southeast Region Individual Fishing Quota Programs.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0551.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular submission (Revision of a currently 
approved collection).
    Number of Respondents: 1,164.
    Average Hours Per Response:

 Transfer Shares, 3 minutes
 Share Receipt, 2 minutes
 Account Update, 2 minutes
 Trip Ticket Update, 2 minutes
 Transfer Allocation, 3 minutes
 Landing Transaction Correction Request, 5 minutes
 Dealer Cost Recovery Fee Submission through pay.gov, 3 minutes
 Commercial Reef Fish Landing Location Request, 5 minutes
 Dealer Landing Transaction Report, 6 minutes (electronic form)
 Dealer Landing Transaction Report, 5 minutes (paper form, 
catastrophic conditions only)
 IFQ Notification of Landing, 5 minutes
 Gulf Reef Fish Notification of Landing, 3 minutes
 IFQ Close Account, 3 minutes
 IFQ Online Account Renewal Application, 10 minutes
 Wreckfish Quota Share Transfer, 20 minutes

    Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,397.
    Needs and Uses: The NMFS Southeast Regional Office manages three

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commercial IFQ and individual transferable quota (ITQ) programs in the 
Southeast Region under the authority of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 
Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act), 16 U.S.C. 1801 
et seq. The IFQ programs for red snapper, and groupers and tilefishes 
occur in Federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico (Gulf), and the ITQ 
program for wreckfish occurs in Federal waters of the South Atlantic.
    The NMFS Southeast Regional Office proposes to revise parts of the 
information collection approved under OMB Control Number 0648-0551. 
This collection of information tracks the transfer and use of IFQ and 
ITQ shares, and IFQ allocation and landings necessary to operate, 
administer, and review management of the IFQ and ITQ programs. 
Regulations for the IFQ and ITQ programs are located at 50 CFR part 
622.
    For the Gulf IFQ Programs, the revisions would modify pages within 
the Catch Share Online System. The Transfer Shares page allows IFQ 
shareholders to transfer shares online to other IFQ shareholders. 
Similarly, the Transfer Allocation page allows IFQ shareholders to 
transfer allocation online to other IFQ shareholders. Beginning in 
2020, IFQ shareholders can use IFQ shares as collateral in the Federal 
Fisheries Finance Program to obtain a loan that can be used for fishing 
related expenses. However, to accommodate the finance program, the 
Transfer Shares and Transfer Allocation pages must be modified to allow 
IFQ shareholders to indicate if their shares are being held as part of 
a lien. The Landing Transaction page allows IFQ dealers to submit 
landing transactions online to record landings of IFQ species. NMFS 
would revise the Landing Transaction page to allow for better data 
collection and monitoring of landings in conjunction with the NMFS 
Southeast Fisheries Science Center.
    If implemented by NMFS, these administrative revisions would not 
change the estimated time or cost per response. NMFS estimates that it 
would still require approximately 3 minutes to complete the Transfer 
Shares or Transfer Allocation pages per occurrence, and 6 minutes to 
complete the Landing Transaction page per occurrence.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households; Business or other for-
profit organizations.
    Frequency: Annual and periodic.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    Legal Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
    This information collection request may be viewed at 
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view the Department of 
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of 
this notice on the following website www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 
Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently 
under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search 
function and entering either the title of the collection or the OMB 
Control Number 0648-0551.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2020-10468 Filed 5-14-20; 8:45 am]
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