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• Daily logbooks provide data about 

the location and timing of fishing effort, 

as well as discard information of 

prohibited species. NOAA Office for 

Law Enforcement (OLE) and the United 

States Coast Guard (USCG) use logbook 

information during vessel boardings and 

site visits to ensure conservation of 

groundfish, compliance with 

regulations, and reporting accuracy by 

the fishing industry. The logbooks are 

also an important source of information 

for NMFS to determine where and when 

fishing activity occurs and the number 

of sets and hauls. 

• Vessel activity reports provide 

information about fish or fish product 

on board a vessel when it crosses the 

boundary of the EEZ off Alaska or 

crosses the U.S.—Canada international 

boundary between Alaska and British 

Columbia. NOAA OLE and USCG 

boarding officers use this information to 

audit and separate product inventory 

when boarding a vessel. 

• Check-in/check-out reports provide 

information on participation by 

processors and motherships in the 

groundfish fisheries. The check-in/ 

check-out information is used by NMFS 

in-season managers to monitor the 

fishing capacity and effort in fishery 

allocations and quotas. Additionally, 

NOAA OLE agents use this information 

to track commercial business activity 

and ensure accurate accountability and 

proper reporting is being performed. 

• Product transfer reports provide 

information on the volume of 

groundfish disposed of by persons 

buying it from the harvesters. The 

product transfer report is an important 

enforcement document and provides an 

important check on buyer purchase 

reports. Information collected on 

product transfer reports is used by 

NOAA OLE to verify the accuracy of 

reported shipments through physical 

inspections. NOAA OLE uses the 

product transfer report to monitor 

movement of product in and out of the 

processor on a timely basis. 

II. Method of Collection 

Paper logbooks are submitted by mail 

or delivery. The Vessel Activity Report, 

Product Transfer Report, and Check-in/ 

Check-out Reports are submitted by 

email or fax. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0213. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Review: Regular submission 

(extension of a current information 

collection). 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households; Business or other for-profit 

organizations. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

289. 

Estimated Time per Response: Catcher 

Vessel Trawl DFL: 18 minutes; Catcher 

Vessel Longline/Pot DFL: 35 minutes; 

Catcher/Processor Longline/Pot DCPL: 

50 minutes; Shoreside Processor Checkin/Check-out Report: 5 minutes; 

Mothership Check-in/Check-out Report: 

7 minutes; Product Transfer Report: 20 

minutes; Vessel Activity Report: 14 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 13,706 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: $5,875 in recordkeeping and 

reporting costs. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act. 

IV. Request for Comments 

We are soliciting public comments to 

permit the Department/Bureau to: (a) 

Evaluate whether the proposed 

information collection is necessary for 

the proper functions of the Department, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the 

accuracy of our estimate of the time and 

cost burden for this proposed collection, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

Evaluate ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (d) Minimize the 

reporting burden on those who are to 

respond, including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

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. 2023–26678 Filed 12–4–23; 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; Processed Products Family 

of Forms 

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 July 26, 

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: Processed Products Family of 

Forms. 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0018. 

Form Number(s): NOAA Forms 88– 

13, 88–13C. 

Type of Request: Regular submission 

(extension of a current information 

collection). 

Number of Respondents: 240. 

Average Hours per Response: 30 

minutes per response (0.5 hours). 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 135. 

Needs and Uses: This request is for 

extension of a currently approved 

information collection. This family of 

surveys provides necessary information 

on the seafood processing sector 

including volume of seafood products 

produced and their value. This data aids 

in gauging the industry and provides the 

basis for economic and scientific 

analyses. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations. 

Frequency: Form 88–13—Annual; 

Form 88–13c—Monthly. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory 

for some Federal Permit holders, 

otherwise voluntary. 

Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act. 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. 

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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 0648–0018. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, 

Commerce Department. 

[FR Doc. 2023–26674 Filed 12–4–23; 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; 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 March 23, 

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: 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: 361. 

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 shore-based processors. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,236. 

Needs and Uses: This request is for 

revision and renewal of a currently 

approved information collection. 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, 

quota share permit owners, first 

receivers, shore-based processors, 

catcher processors, and motherships 

participating in the West Coast 

groundfish trawl fishery. Data will be 

collected from all catcher vessels 

registered to a limited entry trawl 

endorsed permit, quota share permit 

owners, catcher processors registered to 

catcher processor permits, motherships 

registered to mothership permits, first 

receivers, and shore based processors 

that received round or head-and-gutted 

IFQ groundfish or whiting from a first 

receiver to provide the necessary 

information for analyzing the effects of 

the West Coast Groundfish Trawl Catch 

Share Program. 

Changes are being proposed to three 

forms: the quota share owner form, the 

first receiver and shore-based processor 

form, and the catcher vessel form. Two 

changes are proposed for the quota 

share owner form. First, the question ‘‘Is 

this permit owned solely by a nonprofit?’’ will be removed from the 

survey as it was determined that 

sufficient information is available from 

other sources to make this question 

redundant. The second proposed change 

is to replace the survey’s third question 

with a series of shorter questions 

guiding the participant to provide the 

correct information. This change will 

clarify which information should be 

reported for each type of respondent 

and will reduce the need for lengthy 

instructions section describing how the 

participant should answer. The series of 

questions are: 

A. ‘‘Which types of quota transactions 

were associated with QSXXXX in 20XX? 

Check all that apply’’ This question 

helps the participant determine whether 

any earnings need to be reported on the 

survey. If appropriate categories are 

checked, they will be asked question B. 

B. ‘‘How much did this quota share 

account earn from leasing quota in year 

20XX?’’ Participants will answer this 

question with a dollar amount. To 

ensure there is no duplicate reporting, 

participants will be asked question C: 

C. ‘‘Did you record any earnings from 

20XX quota leasing on an EDC form?’’ 

If participants answer ‘‘No,’’ they will 

be prompted to affirm that their 

response to question B was correct and 

submit the survey. If they answer ‘‘Yes,’’ 

they will be asked to respond to 

question D. 

D. ‘‘How much in quota lease earnings 

did you record on your EDC form(s)? 

Participants will answer with a 

numerical value and proceed to 

question E. 

E. ‘‘Please confirm your total quota 

lease earnings in 20XX was ‘Response to 

question B + ‘Response to question D.’ 

After confirming, participants will then 

submit the survey. 

We anticipate no additional burden 

with this change because the new 

structure of the survey will generate 

fewer incorrect responses and survey 

administrators will no longer need to 

contact participants outside of the 

survey to confirm that they did not 

provide duplicate responses across 

survey forms. 

First receiver and shore-based 

processor form changes are more 

extensive. The purpose of the changes is 

fivefold: remove requests for 

information that are not used in 

development of a Pacific Fishery 

Management Council Fishery 

Management Plan, consolidate 

questions where additional detail is no 

longer required, clarify handling of 

intercompany transfers and inventory, 

collect more accurate information about 

hourly wages, obtain information about 

services provided by first receivers to 

vessels. 

First, we propose a complete removal 

of Question 18: ‘‘Provide the following 

information about the landing origin of 

groundfish received at this facility.’’ 

Throughout the eleven years of the 

program, these data have not been used 

in the Council process and we do not 

anticipate using this information in the 

future. 

Second, we propose consolidating the 

fishery-level detail requests from 

Question 19: ‘‘Fish Received. In the 

table below provide the weight and cost 

of fish received.’’ For groundfish 

species, the existing form requests 

weight not paid for, weight paid for, and 

cost of fish by species group for three 

fisheries (LE Trawl, LE Fixed Gear, and 

Other) as well as Non-vessel sources. In 

the revised form, the table will be 

consolidated to only request Vessel 

sources and Non-vessel sources. This 

will be a net reduction of 72 data entry 

cells on the form (12 species groups × 

removal of 2 fisheries × 3 fields). We 

will no longer request this information 

because fishery-detail information can 

be obtained from other sources. 

Third, we propose revising how 

intercompany transfers and inventory 

are reported on the form. Similar to the 


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