10936 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 34 / Tuesday, February 23, 2021 / Notices 

requirements are detailed at 50 CFR 

600.745(b)(2). Interim, annual, and nocatch/fishing reports must also be 

submitted to the Atlantic HMS 

Management Division within NMFS. 

The authority for NMFS requiring this 

information is found at 50 CFR 635.32. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profit organizations (vessel owners 

or aquariums); Not-for-profit institutions 

(academic researchers); State, Local, or 

Tribal governments (state agency 

researchers); Federal government 

(federal agency researchers). 

Frequency: Permit applications, 

scientific research plans, and annual 

reports are submitted annually; interim 

and no catch reports are submitted 

monthly; departure notifications are 

submitted for each trip; permit 

amendment applications are submitted 

as needed. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.), and the 

Atlantic Tunas Convention Act of 1975 

(16 U.S.C. 971 et seq.) 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at 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 0648–0471. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Chief Information Officer, Commerce 

Department. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XA892] 

Fisheries of the Gulf of Mexico and 

Atlantic; Southeast Data, Assessment, 

and Review (SEDAR); Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of SEDAR 68 Assessment 

Webinar III for Gulf of Mexico and 

Atlantic scamp grouper. 

SUMMARY: The SEDAR 68 assessment 

process of Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic 

scamp will consist of a series of data 

and assessment webinars, and a Review 

Workshop. See SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION. 

DATES: The SEDAR 68 Assessment 

Webinar III will be held March 22, 2021, 

from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., Eastern Time. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held 

via webinar. The webinar is open to 

members of the public. Those interested 

in participating should contact Julie A. 

Neer at SEDAR (see FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT) to request an 

invitation providing webinar access 

information. Please request webinar 

invitations at least 24 hours in advance 

of each webinar. 

SEDAR address: 4055 Faber Place 

Drive, Suite 201, North Charleston, SC 

29405. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julie 

A. Neer, SEDAR Coordinator; (843) 571– 

4366, email: Julie.neer@safmc.net. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Gulf 

of Mexico, South Atlantic, and 

Caribbean Fishery Management 

Councils, in conjunction with NOAA 

Fisheries and the Atlantic and Gulf 

States Marine Fisheries Commissions 

have implemented the Southeast Data, 

Assessment and Review (SEDAR) 

process, a multi-step method for 

determining the status of fish stocks in 

the Southeast Region. SEDAR is a multistep process including: (1) Data 

Workshop, (2) a series of assessment 

webinars, and (3) A Review Workshop. 

The product of the Data Workshop is a 

report that compiles and evaluates 

potential datasets and recommends 

which datasets are appropriate for 

assessment analyses. The assessment 

webinars produce a report that describes 

the fisheries, evaluates the status of the 

stock, estimates biological benchmarks, 

projects future population conditions, 

and recommends research and 

monitoring needs. The product of the 

Review Workshop is an Assessment 

Summary documenting panel opinions 

regarding the strengths and weaknesses 

of the stock assessment and input data. 

Participants for SEDAR Workshops are 

appointed by the Gulf of Mexico, South 

Atlantic, and Caribbean Fishery 

Management Councils and NOAA 

Fisheries Southeast Regional Office, 

HMS Management Division, and 

Southeast Fisheries Science Center. 

Participants include data collectors and 

database managers; stock assessment 

scientists, biologists, and researchers; 

constituency representatives including 

fishermen, environmentalists, and 

NGO’s; International experts; and staff 

of Councils, Commissions, and state and 

federal agencies. 

The items of discussion during the 

Assessment Webinar are as follows: 

1. Using datasets and initial 

assessment analysis recommended from 

the data webinars, panelists will employ 

assessment models to evaluate stock 

status, estimate population benchmarks 

and management criteria, and project 

future conditions. 

2. Participants will recommend the 

most appropriate methods and 

configurations for determining stock 

status and estimating population 

parameters. 

Although non-emergency issues not 

contained in this agenda may come 

before this group for discussion, those 

issues may not be the subject of formal 

action during this meeting. Action will 

be restricted to those issues specifically 

identified in this notice and any issues 

arising after publication of this notice 

that require emergency action under 

section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act, provided the public has been 

notified of the intent to take final action 

to address the emergency. 

Special Accommodations 

The meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to the 

Council office (see ADDRESSES) at least 5 

business days prior to each workshop. 

Note: The times and sequence specified in 

this agenda are subject to change. 

(Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) 

Dated: February 18, 2021. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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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 

Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 34 / Tuesday, February 23, 2021 / Notices 10937 

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 MagnusonStevens 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 forprofit 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. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration; Ocean Exploration 

Advisory Board 

AGENCY: Office of Ocean Exploration 

and Research (OER), National Oceanic 

and Atmospheric Administration 

(NOAA), Department of Commerce 

(DOC). 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the 

schedule and proposed agenda for a 

meeting of the Ocean Exploration 

Advisory Board (OEAB). OEAB 

members will discuss and provide 

advice on Federal ocean exploration