[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 193 (Thursday, October 6, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60659-60660]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-21676]


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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; Economic Surveys of the Commercial and Charter Harvesting 
Sectors of Federally Managed Fisheries.

    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 December 6, 2021(86 FR 69017) during a 60-day 
comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public 
comments.
    Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 
Commerce.
    Title: Economic Surveys of the Commercial and Charter Harvesting 
Sectors of Federally Managed Fisheries.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-XXXX.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular submission (a new collection).
    Number of Respondents: 15,600.
    Average Hours per Response: 1.03.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 17,100.
    Needs and Uses: This request is for a new hybrid-generic clearance 
for economic information collections (i.e., surveys) for the commercial 
and charter harvesting sectors of federally managed fisheries. Once 
approved, this clearance will allow the National Oceanic & Atmospheric 
Administration's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to:
    1. Conduct charter sector surveys similar to those it had conducted 
under previously approved but now discontinued collections.
    2. As needed, conduct under the hybrid-generic clearance, 
commercial sector surveys currently approved under OMB Control Number 
0648-0773 as that clearance approaches its expiration date or as 
changes to those surveys become necessary; and
    3. Conduct additional commercial and/or charter sector surveys.
    The requested hybrid-generic clearance is for information from the 
commercial and charter harvesting sectors. That information includes 
different components of operating costs/expenditures, earnings, 
employment, ownership, vessel characteristics, effort/gear descriptors, 
and demographic information. NMFS or its contractors would collect that 
information principally from the owners and operators of fishing vessel 
that participated in the commercial and/or charter harvesting sectors.
    NMFS and Regional Fishery Management Council economist would use 
these data to monitor, explain and predict changes in the economic 
performance and impacts of federally managed fisheries. Those uses of 
the data would allow more than cursory efforts to comply with or 
support a variety of laws (e.g. The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 
Conservation and Management Act), Executive Orders (EOs), and NOAA 
strategies and policies. In addition, those uses of the data would 
contribute to a well-informed, science-based fisheries conservation and 
management decisions making process, which should increase the net 
benefits to the Nation.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households and Business or other 
for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: Up to twice every two years.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: The Magnuson- Stevens Fishery Conservation and 
Management Act.

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    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 the title of the collection.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2022-21676 Filed 10-5-22; 8:45 am]
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