Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 187 / Thursday, September 28, 2023 / Notices 66819 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. We will include or 

summarize each comment in our request 

to OMB to approve this ICR. Before 

including your address, phone number, 

email address, or other personal 

identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you may ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, 

Commerce Department. 

[FR Doc. 2023–21179 Filed 9–27–23; 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; Alaska American Fisheries 

Act (AFA) Permits 

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 June 27, 

2023, 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: Alaska American Fisheries Act 

(AFA) Permits. 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0393. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Regular submission 

(extension of a current information 

collection). 

Number of Respondents: 27. 

Average Hours per Response: AFA 

Permit: Rebuilt, Replacement, or 

Removed Vessel Application, 1 hour; 

Application for Transfer of Bering Sea 

Chinook Salmon PSC Allocations, 1 

hour; Application for AFA Inshore 

Catcher Vessel Cooperative Permit, 2 

hours; AFA Inshore Vessel Contract 

Fishing Notification, 4 hours; 

Application for Approval as an Entity to 

Receive Transferable Chinook Salmon 

PSC Allocation, 8 hours. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 246 

hours. 

Needs and Uses: The National Marine 

Fisheries Service (NMFS), Alaska 

Regional Office, is requesting extension 

of a currently approved information 

collection that contains applications for 

permits and transfers necessary for 

NMFS to manage the Bering Sea and 

Aleutian Islands (BSAI) pollock fishery 

under the American Fisheries Act 

(AFA). 

NMFS manages the BSAI pollock 

fishery under the authority of the 

Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act (16 

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

U.S.C. 1851). The regulations 

implementing the AFA Program are at 

50 CFR part 679, subpart F. The 

reporting requirements at 50 CFR part 

679 form the basis for this collection of 

information. 

The AFA was signed into law in 

October 1998. The purpose of the AFA 

was to tighten U.S. ownership standards 

that had been exploited under the Antireflagging Act, and to provide the BSAI 

pollock fleet the opportunity to conduct 

their fishery in a more rational manner 

while protecting non-AFA participants 

in the other fisheries. The AFA 

established sector allocations in the 

BSAI pollock fishery, determined 

eligible vessels and processors, allowed 

the formation of cooperatives, set limits 

on the participation of AFA vessels in 

other fisheries, and imposed special 

catch weighing and monitoring 

requirements on AFA vessels. 

Any vessel used to engage in directed 

fishing for a non-western Alaska 

community development quota (nonCDQ) allocation of pollock in the Bering 

Sea and any shoreside processor, 

stationary floating processor, or 

mothership that receives pollock 

harvested in a non-CDQ directed 

pollock fishery in the Bering Sea must 

have a valid AFA permit on board the 

vessel or at the facility location at all 

times while non-CDQ pollock is being 

harvested or processed. 

Permanent AFA permits (AFA catcher 

vessel, AFA catcher/processor, AFA 

mothership, and AFA inshore 

processor) for the BSAI pollock fishery 

had a one-time application deadline of 

December 1, 2000, and were issued with 

an indefinite expiration date. Therefore, 

except for participants that require 

annual or replacement permits, all AFA 

entities required to have a permit are 

already permitted. 

The type of information collected in 

this collection includes information on 

the applicants, transferors, transferees, 

permits, vessels, and Chinook salmon 

PSC transfer data. This information 

collection contains the following AFA 

permitting and transfer requirements: 

• The AFA Permit: Rebuilt, 

Replacement, or Removed Vessel 

Application is used by an owner of an 

AFA vessel to notify NMFS the vessel 

has been rebuilt; to request an AFA 

permit for a replacement catcher vessel, 

catcher/processor, or mothership; or to 

request removal of an AFA catcher 

vessel that is a member of an inshore 

cooperative and assign its catch history 

to another vessel or vessels in the same 

cooperative. 

• The Application for AFA Inshore 

Catcher Vessel Cooperative Permit is 

used annually by each AFA inshore 

catcher vessel cooperative to obtain an 

AFA Inshore Catcher Vessel Cooperative 

Permit and identify the vessels and 

processors that will be participating in 

the BSAI pollock fishery prior to the 

start of each fishing year. 

• The AFA Inshore Vessel Contract 

Fishing Notification is used by an AFA 

inshore cooperative that intends to 

contract with a non-member vessel to 

harvest a portion of the cooperative’s 

annual pollock allocation to notify 

NMFS of vessels that might be reporting 

with an alternative cooperative ID. 

• The Application for Approval as an 

Entity to Receive Transferable Chinook 

Salmon Prohibited Species Catch (PSC) 

Allocation is used by an entity 

representing the catcher/processor 

sector or the mothership sector to 

request approval to receive transferable 

Chinook salmon PSC allocations on 

behalf of members of the sector. Once 

approved, an entity is not required to 

reapply for or renew its status. Entities 

also use this form to update their 

contact and other information related to 

the entity and its members. 

• The Application for Transfer of 

Bering Sea Chinook Salmon PSC 

Allocations is used by an authorized 

representative of the catcher/processor 

sector, the mothership sector, an inshore 

cooperative, or a CDQ group to transfer 

Chinook salmon PSC allocations to 

another entity’s account. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households; Business or other for-profit 

organizations; Not-for-profit 

institutions. 

Frequency: Annually; As needed. 


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66820 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 187 / Thursday, September 28, 2023 / Notices 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

Obtain or Retain Benefits; Mandatory. 

Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery and Conservation Act; 

American Fisheries. 

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 0648–0393. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, 

Commerce Department. 

[FR Doc. 2023–21196 Filed 9–27–23; 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; Reporting Requirements for 

the Ocean Salmon Fishery Off the 

Coasts of Washington, Oregon, and 

California 

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 June 26, 

2023 (88 FR 41388) during a 60-day 

comment period, no comments were 

received. This notice allows for an 

additional 30 days for public comments. 

Agency: National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

Title: Reporting Requirements for the 

Ocean Salmon Fishery Off the Coasts of 

Washington, Oregon, and California. 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0433. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Regular submission 

(extension of a current information 

collection). 

Number of Respondents: 40. 

Average Hours per Response: 15 

minutes. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 10 

hours. 

Needs and Uses: Ocean salmon 

fisheries conducted in the U.S. 

exclusive economic zone, 3–200 

nautical miles off the West Coast states 

of Washington, Oregon, and California 

are managed by the Pacific Fishery 

Management Council (Council) and 

NOAA’s NMFS under the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and 

Management Act (MSA). Management 

measures for the ocean salmon fisheries 

are set annually, consistent with the 

Council’s Pacific Coast Salmon Fishery 

Management Plan (FMP). The FMP 

provides a framework for managing the 

ocean salmon fisheries in a sustainable 

manner, as required under the MSA, 

through the use of conservation 

objectives, annual catch limits, and 

other reference points and status 

determination criteria described in the 

FMP. To meet these criteria, annual 

management measures, published in the 

Federal Register by NMFS, specify 

regulatory areas, catch restrictions, and 

landing restrictions based on the annual 

stock abundance forecasts. These catch 

and landing restrictions include areatime- and species-specific quotas for the 

commercial ocean salmon fishery, and 

generally require catch and landings to 

be reported to the appropriate state and 

tribal agencies to allow for timely and 

accurate accounting of the season’s 

catch (50 CFR 660.404 and 50 CFR 

660.408(o)). The best available catch 

and effort data and projections are 

presented by the state fishery managers 

in telephone conference calls involving 

the NMFS Regional Administrator and 

representatives of the Council. However, 

NMFS acknowledges that unsafe 

weather or mechanical problems could 

prevent commercial fishermen from 

making their landings at the times and 

places specified, and the MSA requires 

conservation and management measures 

to promote the safety of human life at 

sea. 

The annual management measures 

will specify the contents and procedure 

of the notifications, and the entities 

receiving the notifications (e.g., U.S. 

Coast Guard). Absent this requirement 

by the Council, the state reporting 

systems would not regularly collect this 

specific type of in-season radio report. 

These provisions, and this federal 

collection of information, promote 

safety at sea and provide practical 

utility for sustainably managing the 

fishery, and ensure regulatory 

consistency across each state by 

implementing the same requirements in 

the territorial waters off each state. This 

information collection is intended to be 

general in scope by leaving the specifics 

of the contents and procedure of the 

notifications for annual determination, 

thus providing flexibility in responding 

to salmon management concerns in any 

given year. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations. 

Frequency: Reporting under this 

emergency provision is infrequent. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

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 0648–0433. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, 

Commerce Department. 

[FR Doc. 2023–21280 Filed 9–27–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION 

BUREAU 

[Docket No. CFPB–2023–0048] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Comment Request 

AGENCY: Consumer Financial Protection 

Bureau. 

ACTION: Notice and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), the Consumer Financial 

Protection Bureau (CFPB) is requesting 

the Office of Management and Budget’s 

(OMB’s) approval for a new information 

collection titled ‘‘Making Ends Meet 

Survey’’. 


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