[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 4 (Friday, January 6, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1059-1060]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-00052]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; West Coast Region 
Groundfish Electronic Fish Ticket Program

    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 August 9, 2022 (87 FR 48469), 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: West Coast Region Groundfish Electronic Fish Ticket Program.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0738.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular submission (extension of a currently 
approved collection).
    Number of Respondents: 145.
    Average Time per Response: Electronic fish ticket submission: 2 
minutes; IFQ First Receiver Submission: 10 minutes; Pacific Whiting 
Disposition Recordkeeping, 1 minute.
    Burden Hours: 2,102 hours.
    Needs and Uses: As part of its fishery management responsibilities, 
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National 
Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) collects information to determine the 
amount and type of groundfish caught by fishing vessels. Electronic 
fish tickets are submissions of landings data from the first receiver 
to the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission (PSMFC) and NMFS. 
This collection supports requirements for participants of the Pacific 
Coast shorebased commercial groundfish fisheries, including the 
shorebased Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) program, the limited entry 
fixed gear fishery, and the open access fixed gear fishery, to account 
for all landed catch and to transmit electronic catch data used to 
manage the catch allocations and limits. NMFS may use this data for 
general purpose statistics and program evaluation.
    Affected Public: Primary respondents are businesses or other for-
profit organizations (e.g., groundfish fishermen, fishing companies, 
partnerships, and shorebased first receivers), individuals or 
households, and State fisheries agencies.
    Frequency: Reporting occurs concurrently with fishing landings, 
which could range from occasionally to

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daily depending on the frequency of fishing throughout the season.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    This information collection request may be viewed at 
www.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 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 0648-0738.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2023-00052 Filed 1-5-23; 8:45 am]
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