[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 13 (Friday, January 19, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3637-3638]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-00977]


-----------------------------------------------------------------------

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; Southeast Region Permit 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 August 22, 2023 (88 FR 57103) during a 60-day 
comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public 
comments.
    Agency: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Commerce.
    Title: Southeast Region Permit Family of Forms.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0205.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular submission [revision and extension of a 
current information collection].
    Number of Respondents: 9,883.
    Average Hours per Response:
    <bullet> Vessel EEZ Permit Application, including Golden Tilefish 
Endorsement and Smoothhound Shark Permit, 50 minutes;
    <bullet> Wreckfish Permit Application, 55 minutes;
    <bullet> Dealer Permit Application, 30 minutes;
    <bullet> Aquacultured Live Rock Permitting and Reporting--New 
Permit--Deposit or Harvest Report, 15 minutes; Notice of Intent to 
Harvest, 10 minutes; Federal Permit Application, including Site 
Evaluation Report, 70 minutes;
    <bullet> Aquacultured Live Rock Permitting and Reporting--Renew 
Permit--Deposit or Harvest Report, 15 minutes; Notice of Intent to 
Harvest, 10 minutes; Federal Permit Application, 50 minutes.
    <bullet> Vessel Operator Card Application for Dolphin and Wahoo, or 
Rock Shrimp, 30 minutes;
    <bullet> Fishing in Colombian Treaty Waters Vessel Permit 
Application, 50 minutes;
    <bullet> Permit Holder Change of Information, 5 minutes;
    <bullet> Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Permit Consolidation, 5 minutes;
    <bullet> Duplicate Permit, Card, or Decal, 5 minutes;
    <bullet> Notifications of Lost or Stolen Traps or Authorization for 
Retrieval (golden crab, reef fish, snapper-grouper, spiny lobster), 10 
minutes;
    <bullet> Golden Crab Permittee Zone Transit Notification, 10 
minutes;
    <bullet> Annual Landings Report for Gulf of Mexico Shrimp, 20 
minutes;
    <bullet> Vessel Permit Transfers and Notarizations, 10 minutes; and
    <bullet> International Maritime Organization (IMO) Number 
Registration, 30 minutes.
    Total Annual Burden Hours: 7,033.
    Needs and Uses: The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), 
Southeast Regional Office (SERO), Permits Office administers Federal 
fishing permits in the U.S. exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the 
Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico (Gulf), and South Atlantic under the 
authority of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management 
Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act), 16 U.S.C. 1801. The SERO Permits Office 
proposes to extend and to revise parts of the current collections-of-
information approved under OMB Control Number 0648-0205.
    The NMFS Southeast Region manages the U.S. Federal fisheries in the 
Caribbean, Gulf, and South Atlantic under the fishery management plans 
(FMPs) for each region. The regional fishery management councils 
prepared the FMPs pursuant to the Magnuson-Stevens Act. The regulations 
implementing the FMPs, including those that have recordkeeping and 
reporting requirements, are located at 50 CFR part 622.
    The recordkeeping and reporting requirements at 50 CFR part 622 
form the basis for this collection of information. The NMFS Southeast 
Region requests information from fishery participants. This 
information, upon receipt, results in an increasingly more efficient 
and accurate database for management and monitoring of the Federal 
fisheries in the Caribbean, Gulf, and South Atlantic.
    The SERO Permits Office proposes to extend and to revise the 
collection-of-information approved under OMB Control Number 0648-0205. 
NMFS proposes to revise the Federal permit applications for Vessels 
Fishing in the EEZ (Vessel EEZ), Change of Information Form, Vessel 
Fishing in the Colombian Treaty Waters, Duplicate Federal Fishery 
Permits, Operator Card or Decal, Aquacultured Live Rock (new permit), 
Aquacultured Live Rock (permit renewal), Harvest of Aquacultured Live 
Rock in the EEZ, Southeast Region Issued Operator Card, Consolidate 
Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish permits, Vessels Fishing for Wreckfish in the 
South Atlantic States (Wreckfish), and the Annual Dealer permit.
    The proposed revisions to the specified application forms are 
administrative and would combine two socio-economic questions into one, 
along with making them optional instead of required. The revisions 
would also update the payment method of Floy tags. Instead of the 
permit holder sending a check to NMFS with the application, Floy Tag, 
Inc., will begin reaching out to the permit holder for payment once the 
permit is issued. NMFS estimates that the proposed revisions would not 
change the annual number of respondents or responses, or annual costs 
to affected permit applicants from estimates in the currently approved 
collection. Across the application forms, NMFS estimates these 
revisions would not increase the overall time burden.
    The SERO Permits Office also proposes to modify the limited access 
permits by updating the form field name related to the selling price of 
the permit, along with removing the section related to the permit's 
selling price. NMFS does not anticipate these revisions will materially 
change the time burden to the applicants.
    The SERO Permits Office also proposes to modify the Vessel EEZ 
application to include a checkbox and language related to the 
compliance of regulatory requirements. NMFS does not anticipate these 
revisions to the form will materially change the time burden to the 
applicants.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit organizations, and 
individuals or households.
    Frequency: Annual and periodic.
    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

[[Page 3638]]

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 
0648-0205.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for 
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2024-00977 Filed 1-18-24; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-22-P