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Average Hours per Response: 5 

minutes, Vessel Trip Reports; 12.5 

minutes, Shellfish Log; 3 minutes for 

Spawning Blocks, Monkfish DAS, EFP, 

Herring, RSA, and Tilefish. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 10,487. 

Needs and Uses: The information 

collected is used by several offices of 

the NOAA Fisheries Service, the U.S. 

Coast Guard, the Councils, and state 

fishery enforcement agencies under 

contract to the NOAA Fisheries Service 

in order to develop, implement, and 

monitor fishery management strategies. 

These data serve as inputs for a 

variety of uses, including biological 

analyses and stock assessments, 

regulatory impact analyses, quota 

allocation selections and monitoring, 

economic profitability profiles, trade 

and import tariff decisions, allocation of 

grant funds among states, and analysis 

of ecological interactions among 

species. NMFS would be unable to 

fulfill the majority of its scientific 

research and fishery management 

missions without these data. 

This request is for revision of a 

current information collection. Fishing 

vessels participating in select fisheries 

within the Greater Atlantic Region are 

currently able to submit certain required 

reports via an Interactive Voice 

Response (IVR) system. As of Spring 

2021, the IVR system will no longer be 

available and the reports will need to be 

submitted using our web based system, 

FishOnline. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households; Business or other for-profit 

organizations. 

Frequency: On occasion, weekly, 

monthly. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act. 

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 0648–0212. 

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–XA916] 

Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management 

Council (MAFMC); Public Hearings 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public hearings; 

request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Mid-Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council (Council) and the 

Atlantic States Marine Fisheries 

Commission (Commission) will hold 

five public hearings via webinar and a 

written comment period to solicit public 

comments on a developing a 

management action that considers 

initiation and/or modifications to the 

bluefish fishery management plan goals 

and objectives, sector allocations, 

commercial allocations to the states, 

rebuilding plan, transfer processes, 

accounting of management uncertainty, 

and the de minimis provisions. 

DATES: The webinar hearings will be 

held between March 24 and April 8, 

2021. Each hearing will take place from 

6 p.m. to 8 p.m. EST. Written comments 

must be received on or before 11:59 p.m. 

EST, April 23, 2021. See SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION for more details, including 

the dates and times for all hearings. 

ADDRESSES: All hearings will be hosted 

through GoToWebinar. You must use 

GoToWebinar to speak during the 

hearings. A listen-only call in option is 

also available. Participants will not be 

able to speak through the listen-only 

phone connection. To access any of the 

webinar hearings, please follow the 

registration prompts at https://

register.gotowebinar.com/rt/ 

1167425575591673359. To attend the 

webinar in listen only mode without the 

ability to speak, you may dial 1–866– 

901–6455 and enter access code 140– 

544–592. 

A public hearing document with more 

information on this action is available 

at: https://www.mafmc.org/actions/ 

bluefish-allocation-amendment. Copies 

of the document are also available by 

request from Dr. Chris Moore, Executive 

Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council, 800 N State 

Street, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901; 

telephone: (302) 674–2331. 

Public comments: Written comments 

may be sent by any of the following 

methods: 

• Email to: mseeley@mafmc.org 

(subject: ‘‘Bluefish Amendment’’) 

• Via webform at: https://

www.mafmc.org/comments/bluefishallocation-rebuilding-amendment. 

• Mail to: Chris Moore, Ph.D., 

Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic 

Fishery Management Council, 800 North 

State Street, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901. 

Mark the outside of the envelope 

‘‘Bluefish Amendment.’’ 

• Fax to: 302.674.5399 (subject: 

‘‘Bluefish Amendment’’) 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christopher M. Moore, Ph.D., Executive 

Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council, telephone: (302) 

526–5255. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The MidAtlantic Fishery Management Council 

(Council) and the Atlantic States Marine 

Fisheries Commission (Commission) are 

developing a joint action to address the 

overfished status via a rebuilding plan, 

as well as consider adjusting the 

bluefish fishery management plan goals 

and objectives, sector allocations, 

commercial allocations to the states, 

transfer processes, the approach to 

account for management uncertainty, 

and the de minimis provisions. The 

commercial and recreational allocations 

are currently based on historical 

landings from 1981–1989. Recent 

changes in how recreational catch is 

estimated have resulted in a 

discrepancy between the current levels 

of estimated recreational harvest and the 

allocations to the recreational sector. 

This action will consider whether 

modifications to the allocations are 

needed in light of these and other 

changes in the fisheries. Additional 

information on this action is available 

at: https://www.mafmc.org/actions/ 

bluefish-allocation-amendment. 

The dates and times of the five 

webinar hearings are listed below. You 

are encouraged to participate in the 

hearing for your state or region; 

however, all hearings are open to all 

individuals. 

1. North Carolina, South Carolina, 

Georgia, and Florida: Wednesday, 

March 24, 2021; 6–8 p.m. EST. 

2. Delaware, Maryland, Potomac River 

Fisheries Commission, and Virginia: 

Thursday, March 25, 2021. 6–8 p.m. 

EST. 


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3. Connecticut and New York: 

Tuesday, March 30, 2021; 6–8 p.m. EST. 

4. Maine, New Hampshire, 

Massachusetts, and Rhode Island: 

Thursday, April 1, 2021. 6–8 p.m. EST. 

5. New Jersey: Thursday, April 8, 

2021. 6–8 p.m. EST. 

Special Accommodations 

These hearings are physically 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Requests for sign language 

interpretation or other auxiliary aids 

should be directed to Kathy Collins at 

the Mid-Atlantic Council Office, (302) 

526–5253, at least 5 days prior to the 

meeting date. 

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

Dated: March 3, 2021. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

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; West Coast Groundfish Trawl 

Economic Data 

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 4, 

2020, (85 FR 78311) during a 60-day 

comment period. This notice allows for 

an additional 30 days for public 

comments. 

Agency: National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 

Title: West Coast Groundfish Trawl 

Economic Data. 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0618. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Regular (extension of 

a currently approved information 

collection). 

Number of Respondents: 339. 

Average Hours per Response: 8 hours 

for catcher processors, catcher vessels, 

and motherships, 1 hour for quota share 

permit owners, and 20 hours for first 

receivers and shorebased processors. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,195. 

Needs and Uses: This information 

collection is needed in order to meet the 

monitoring requirements of the 

Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA). In 

particular, the Northwest Fisheries 

Science Center (NWFSC) needs 

economic data on all harvesters, first 

receivers, shorebased processors, 

catcher processors, motherships, and 

quota share owners participating in the 

West Coast groundfish trawl fishery. 

Data will be collected from all catcher 

vessels registered to a limited entry 

trawl endorsed permit, catcher 

processors registered to catcher 

processor permits, and motherships 

registered to mothership permits, first 

receivers, and shorebased processors 

that received round or head-and-gutted 

IFQ groundfish or whiting from a first 

receiver and owners of a quota share 

permit to provide the necessary 

information for analyzing the effects of 

the West Coast Groundfish Trawl Catch 

Share Program. 

As stated in 50 CFR 660.114, the EDC 

forms due on September 1, 2021, will 

provide data for the 2020 operating year. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations; not-for-profit 

institutions. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

Legal Authority: 50 CFR 660.114. 

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 0648–0618. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Chief Information Officer, Commerce 

Department. 

[FR Doc. 2021–04653 Filed 3–5–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

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; Papaha ̄naumokua ̄kea Marine 

National Monument & University of 

Hawaii Research Internship Program 

AGENCY: National Oceanic & 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of information 

Collection, request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), invites 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. The purpose of this 

notice is to allow for 60 days of public 

comment preceding submission of the 

collection to OMB. 

DATES: To ensure consideration, 

comments regarding this proposed 

information collection must be received 

on or before May 7, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments to 

Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer, 

at Adrienne.thomas@noaa.gov. Please 

reference OMB Control Number 0648– 

0719 in the subject line of your 

comments. Do not submit Confidential 

Business Information or otherwise 

sensitive or protected information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

specific questions related to collection 

activities should be directed to Brian 

Hauk, NOS/ONMS/PMNM, 1845 Wasp 

Blvd., Building 176, Honolulu, HI 

96818, Office: 808–725–5835; Cell: 808– 

232–6379; Main: 808–725–5800; Fax: 

808–455–3093, or Email: brian.hauk@

noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

This is a request for extension of a 

currently approved information 

collection. 

The National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) 

National Ocean Service’s Office of 

National Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS)/ 

Papaha ̄naumokua ̄kea Marine National 

Monument (PMNM) is sponsoring this 

collection. 


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