[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 97 (Tuesday, May 19, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29932-29933]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-10763]
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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 Permit Family of Forms
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 January 15, 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 Permit Family of Forms.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0205.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission (Revision of an existing
collection).
Number of Respondents: 10,311.
Average Hours per Response:
Vessel EEZ Permit Application, including Golden Tilefish
Endorsement and Smoothhound Shark Permit, 50 minutes;
Wreckfish Permit Application, 55 minutes;
Dealer Permit Application, 30 minutes;
Aquacultured Live Rock Permitting and Reporting--New
Permit--Deposit or Harvest Report, 15 minutes; Notice of Intent to
Harvest, 10 minutes; Federal Permit Application, including Site
Evaluation Report, 70 minutes;
Aquacultured Live Rock Permitting and Reporting--Renew
Permit--Deposit or Harvest Report, 15 minutes; Notice of Intent to
Harvest, 10 minutes; Federal Permit Application, 50 minutes.
Vessel Operator Card Application for Dolphin and Wahoo, or
Rock Shrimp, 30 minutes;
Fishing in Colombian Treaty Waters Vessel Permit
Application, 50 minutes;
Permit Holder Change of Information, 5 minutes;
Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Permit Consolidation, 5 minutes;
Duplicate Permit, Card, or Decal, 5 minutes;
Notifications of Lost or Stolen Traps or Authorization for
Retrieval (golden crab, reef fish, snapper-grouper, spiny lobster), 10
minutes;
Golden Crab Permittee Zone Transit Notification, 10
minutes;
Annual Landings Report for Gulf of Mexico Shrimp, 20
minutes;
Vessel Permit Transfers and Notarizations, 10 minutes; and
International Maritime Organization (IMO) Number
Registration, 30 minutes.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 7,248.
Needs and Uses: The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS),
Southeast Regional Office (SERO), Permits Office administers Federal
fishing permits in the U.S. exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the
Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico (Gulf), and South Atlantic under the
authority of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management
Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act), 16 U.S.C. 1801. The SERO Permits Office
proposes to extend and to revise parts of the current collections-of-
information approved under OMB Control Number 0648-0205.
The NMFS Southeast Region manages the U.S. Federal fisheries in the
Caribbean, Gulf, and South Atlantic under the fishery management plans
(FMPs) for each region. The regional fishery management councils
prepared the FMPs pursuant to the Magnuson-
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Stevens Act. The regulations implementing the FMPs, including those
that have recordkeeping and reporting requirements, are located at 50
CFR part 622.
The recordkeeping and reporting requirements at 50 CFR part 622
form the basis for this collection of information. The NMFS Southeast
Region requests information from fishery participants. This
information, upon receipt, results in an increasingly more efficient
and accurate database for management and monitoring of the Federal
fisheries in the Caribbean, Gulf, and South Atlantic.
The SERO Permits Office proposes to extend and to revise the
collection-of-information approved under OMB Control Number 0648-0205.
NMFS proposes to revise the Federal permit applications for Vessels
Fishing in the EEZ (Vessel EEZ), Change of Information Form, Vessel
Fishing in the Colombian Treaty Waters, Duplicate Federal Fishery
Permits, Operator Card or Decal, Aquacultured Live Rock (new permit),
Aquacultured Live Rock (permit renewal), Harvest of Aquacultured Live
Rock in the EEZ, Southeast Region Issued Operator Card, Consolidate
Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish permits, Vessels Fishing for Wreckfish in the
South Atlantic States (Wreckfish), and the Annual Dealer permit.
The proposed revisions to the specified application forms are
administrative and would update outdated URLs, telephone numbers, and
office hours. NMFS estimates that the proposed revisions would not
change the annual number of respondents or responses, or annual costs
to affected permit applicants from estimates in the currently approved
collection. Across the application forms, NMFS estimates these
revisions would not increase the overall time burden.
The SERO Permits Office also proposes to modify the limited access
permits by updating the form field name related to the selling price of
the permit, along with removing the section related to the permit's
selling price. NMFS does not anticipate these revisions will materially
change the time burden to the applicants.
The SERO Permits Office also proposes to modify the Vessel EEZ
application to include a checkbox and language related to the
compliance of regulatory requirements. NMFS does not anticipate these
revisions to the form will materially change the time burden to the
applicants.
Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit organizations, and
individuals or households.
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 0648-0205.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2020-10763 Filed 5-18-20; 8:45 am]
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