[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 34 (Tuesday, February 23, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10936-10937]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-03627]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; Southeast Region IFQ 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

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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 
December 1, 2020, during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows 
for an additional 30 days for public comments.
    Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Commerce.
    Title: Southeast Region IFQ Programs.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0551.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular submission--extension and revision of a 
current information collection.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,164.
    Estimated Time per Response:

 Dealer Landing Transaction Report, 6 minutes (electronic form)
 Dealer Landing Transaction Report, 5 minutes (paper form used 
in catastrophic conditions only)
 Dealer Cost Recovery Fee Submission through pay.gov, 3 minutes
 IFQ Notification of Landing, 5 minutes
 Transfer Shares, 3 minutes
 Share Receipt, 2 minutes
 Transfer Allocation, 3 minutes
 IFQ Online Account Application, 13 minutes
 Wreckfish Quota Share Transfer, 20 minutes
 Landing Transaction Correction Request, 5 minutes
 Commercial Reef Fish Landing Location Request, 5 minutes
 Account Update, 2 minutes
 Trip Ticket Update, 2 minutes
 Gulf Reef Fish Notification of Landing, 3 minutes
 IFQ Close Account, 3 minutes

    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,109.
    Needs and Uses: The National Marine Fisheries Service's Southeast 
Regional Office manages three commercial individual fishing quota (IFQ) 
and individual transferable quota (ITQ) programs in the U.S. southeast 
region under the authority of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation 
and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act). 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 extend and revise 
parts of the information collection currently 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 
by commercial fishermen necessary for NMFS 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 collect additional 
business and demographic information on the IFQ Online Account 
Application, as well as add a requirement to input the vessel signature 
personal identification number (PIN) a second time on the Dealer 
Landing Transaction Report if a criterion is met.
    NMFS would revise the IFQ Online Account Application to obtain 
ownership percentage data for any business that participates in the 
Gulf IFQ programs, as well as the type of business, and confirmation of 
whether the business is small or large, as defined by Small Business 
Administration standards.
    NMFS would revise the Dealer Landing Transaction Report to add a 
requirement for a shareholder to input the vessel signature PIN a 
second time if the landing transaction would result in a 10 percent 
overage of their catch allocation during that fishing year. NMFS 
proposes to add a feature to the Dealer Landing Transaction Report that 
would notify the shareholder that a 10 percent overage would occur and 
in which categories, and require the vessel signature PIN to accept the 
overage. Although the 10 percent overage is utilized infrequently, this 
would provide the shareholder the opportunity to transfer allocation 
and avoid using the 10 percent overage.
    The purpose of revising the IFQ Online Account Application is to 
better comply with National Standard 4 (NS4) of the Magnuson-Stevens 
Act, the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA), and the Small Business 
Administration's regulations implementing the RFA, Executive Order 
12898, and the ``fairness and equitable distribution'' provisions of 
the Magnuson-Stevens Act, including NS4 and section 303(b)(6). The 
purpose of revising the Dealer Landing Transaction Report is to better 
inform participants in the Gulf IFQ programs and require an additional 
verification from them when the existing flexibility measure of a 10 
percent overage of their allocation would occur.
    If implemented by NMFS, these administrative revisions would 
slightly increase the estimated time per response to complete the IFQ 
Online Account Application. NMFS estimates the time per response would 
increase from 10 to 13 minutes. However, NMFS does not expect the 
estimated time per response for the Dealer Landing Transaction Report 
to change. The cost of both the IFQ Online Account Application and the 
Dealer Landing Transaction Report would remain the same. NMFS proposes 
no other revisions to the existing information collections for the IFQ 
and ITQ programs approved in OMB Control No. 0648-0551.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: Annually, quarterly, and on occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory, required to obtain or retain 
benefits.
    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. 2021-03627 Filed 2-22-21; 8:45 am]
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