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occurred and the subsequent assessment 

of double antidumping duties. 

Administrative Protective Order 

This notice serves as the only 

reminder to parties subject to an 

administrative protective order (APO) of 

their responsibility concerning the 

disposition of proprietary information 

disclosed under APO in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3), which 

continues to govern business 

proprietary information in this segment 

of the proceeding. Timely written 

notification of the return or destruction 

of APO materials or conversion to 

judicial protective order is hereby 

requested. Failure to comply with the 

regulations and terms of an APO is a 

sanctionable violation. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This notice is issued and published in 

accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 

777(i) of the Act, and 19 CFR 

351.221(b)(5). 

Dated: February 1, 2024. 

Abdelali Elouaradia, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–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 Crab Arbitration 

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 September 

19, 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 Crab Arbitration. 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0516. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Regular submission 

(extension of a current information 

collection). 

Number of Respondents: 2. 

Average Hours per Response: Annual 

Arbitration Organization Report: 6 

hours; Cost Allocation Agreement: 16 

hours. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 28 

hours. 

Needs and Uses: The National Marine 

Fisheries Service (NMFS), Alaska 

Regional Office, is requesting extension 

of a currently approved information 

collection for the Arbitration System for 

the Crab Rationalization Program. 

The Crab Rationalization Program 

allocates Bering Sea and Aleutian 

Islands (BSAI) crab resources among 

harvesters, processors, and coastal 

communities. Under the Crab 

Rationalization Program, eligible 

License Limitation Program license 

holders were issued crab quota shares 

(QS), which are long term shares, based 

on their qualifying license histories. The 

QS yield annual individual fishing 

quota (IFQ) that is an exclusive harvest 

privilege for a portion of the total 

allowable catch. Processor quota shares 

(PQS) are long term shares issued to 

processors. The PQS yield annual 

individual processor quota (IPQ) that is 

an exclusive privilege to receive, for 

processing, a portion of the crab 

harvested with Class A IFQ. 

This information collection for the 

Arbitration System is necessary for 

NMFS to manage the Crab 

Rationalization Program crab fisheries 

in the BSAI. This information collection 

is implemented under the Crab 

Rationalization Program and required by 

regulations at 50 CFR 680.20. NMFS 

requires that harvesters and processors 

abide by an Arbitration System 

established to stabilize prices and 

negotiations during the crab harvest 

season. The Arbitration System is 

necessary to reduce contention in price 

negotiations. The information collected 

is necessary for NMFS to verify the 

membership of the arbitration 

organizations and maintain the 

Arbitration System. 

The Arbitration System was designed 

to fairly and equitably resolve price, 

delivery terms, performance standards, 

and other disputes in the event that IFQ 

and IPQ holders are unable to reach 

agreement on arbitration proceedings. 

The Arbitration System is also designed 

to minimize the potential for antitrust 

violations. The Arbitration System 

includes a provision for open 

negotiations among IPQ and IFQ 

holders, as well as various negotiation 

approaches, including a share matching 

approach, a lengthy season approach 

where parties may postpone binding 

arbitration until during the season, and 

a binding arbitration procedure to 

resolve price disputes between an IPQ 

holder and eligible IFQ holders. The 

Arbitration System also provides for 

dissemination of market information to 

facilitate negotiations, coordination of 

matching Class A IFQ held by harvesters 

to IPQ held by processors, and the 

opportunity to use the binding 

arbitration process to resolve terms of 

price and delivery. Certain aspects of 

the Arbitration System are required of 

catcher vessel owners who hold QS/IFQ 

and PQS/IPQ holders and operate 

regardless of whether participants in the 

fishery actually initiate binding 

arbitration in order to resolve terms of 

price or delivery. 

This information collection contains 

five components of the Arbitration 

System that are submitted to NMFS. 

Four are submitted annually: the 

Annual Arbitration Organization Report, 

the Market Report, the Non-binding 

Price Formula Report, and the Cost 

Allocation Agreement. The Contract 

Arbitrator Report is submitted if any 

arbitrations occur within a fishery. 

The Annual Arbitration Organization 

Report is compiled by each of the two 

arbitration organizations; one 

organization represents the processors, 

and the second represents the 

harvesters. This report includes 

information on the arbitration 

organization and its management 

personnel, the crab QS fisheries to 

which the report applies, the ownership 

interest and the QS/IFQ or PQS/IPQ 

held by each member; and the 

arbitration process. 

The Cost Allocation Agreement 

provides combined shared arbitration 

accounting costs. Federal regulations for 

the Crab Rationalization Program 

require that the crab arbitration costs are 

shared equally between IPQ holders and 

Class A IFQ holders—processors pay 

half and fishermen pay half. 

The arbitration organizations use 

contracted parties to meet the 

requirements of the Market Report, 

Nonbinding Price Formula Report, and 

Contractor Arbitrator Report. 

The Non-binding Price Formula 

Report is a pre-season report that is 

designed to serve as a starting point for 

negotiations between fishermen and 

processors, or as a starting point for an 

arbitrator in evaluating offers in an 

arbitration process. This report 

documents how each formula was 

developed. 

The Market Report provides an 

analysis of the market for products of a 

specific crab fishery and reports on 


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activities occurring within three months 

prior to its generation. The purpose of 

this report is to provide background 

information on each crab fishery, the 

products generated by each fishery, and 

position of those products in the 

marketplace; discuss the historical 

division of wholesale revenue; and 

provide the methods for predicting 

wholesale prices before the fishery 

occurs. 

The Contract Arbitrator Report 

documents arbitration proceedings if 

they occur within a fishery. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households; Business or other for-profit 

organizations. 

Frequency: Annually; As needed. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act (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 0648–0516. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, 

Commerce Department. 

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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; Marine Mammal Stranding 

Reports/Marine Mammal Rehabilitation 

Disposition Report/Human Interaction 

Data Sheet 

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 April 8, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments to 

Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer, 

at NOAA.PRA@noaa.gov. Please 

reference OMB Control Number 0648– 

0178 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 Stephen 

Manley, Biologist, Office of Protected 

Resources, 1315 East West Highway, 

#13604, Silver Spring, MD 20910, (301) 

427–8476 or stephen.manley@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

This request is for a 1-year extension 

of this previously approved data 

collection. An extension is requested in 

order to provide time for the program 

office to address revisions to the 

collection pursuant to a recent law. 

Under the Marine Mammal Protection 

Act (MMPA), the Secretary of 

Commerce (Secretary), who has 

delegated responsibility under this Act 

to the National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 

Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, is 

charged with the protection and 

management of marine mammals and is 

responsible for collecting information 

on marine mammal strandings, which 

will be compiled and analyzed, by 

region, to monitor species, numbers, 

conditions, and causes of illnesses and 

deaths of stranded animals. The 

Secretary is also responsible for 

collection of information on other life 

history and reference level data, 

including marine mammal tissue 

analyses, that would allow comparison 

of the causes of illness and deaths in 

stranded marine mammals by physical, 

chemical, and biological environmental 

parameters. 

In addition, determinations must be 

made on the sustainability of population 

stocks, on the impact of fisheries and 

other human activities on marine 

mammals and endangered species, and 

on the health of marine mammals and 

related environmental considerations. 

NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS) has the responsibility to 

carry out these mandates. 

Section 402(b) of the MMPA (16 

U.S.C. 1421a) requires the Secretary to 

collect and update information on 

strandings. It further provides that the 

Secretary shall compile and analyze, by 

region, the species, numbers, 

conditions, and causes of illnesses and 

deaths in stranded marine mammals. 

Section 404 (a) of the MMPA (16 U.S.C. 

1421c) mandates that the Secretary 

respond to unusual marine mammal 

mortality events. Without a historical 

baseline provided by marine mammal 

information collected from strandings, 

detection of such events could be 

difficult and the investigation could be 

impeded. Section 401(b) of the MMPA 

(16 U.S.C. 1421) requires NMFS to 

facilitate the collection and 

dissemination of reference data on the 

health of marine mammal populations 

in the wild and to correlate health with 

physical, chemical, and biological 

environmental parameters. In order to 

perform this function, NMFS must 

standardize data collection protocols for 

health and correlations. Data and 

samples collected from stranded 

animals are a critical part of the 

implementation of this mandate of the 

MMPA. 

Specifically, the data from the Marine 

Mammal Stranding Report (MMSR) 

forms provide NMFS with information 

on the morphology, life history, biology, 

general health, health and stranding 

trends, causes of mortality, and 

distribution of marine mammal species. 

These data provide information which 

may help in making assessments on the 

status of population stocks. Recording 

data on gross mortalities may serve as 

an indicator that a particular population 

is impacted, threatened or at increased 

risk, and when provided in a timely 

manner, aid in dynamic management 

practices. Stranding data also provide 

an important baseline for detecting and 

monitoring the impacts of 

environmental phenomena, such as El 

Nin ̃ o and Harmful Algal Blooms 

(HABs). Minor edits to the current 

version of the form are proposed, 

including beginning to collect live, 

entangled large whale data in this data 

collection and streamlining the 

confidence codes. 

The Marine Mammal Rehabilitation 

Disposition Report (MMRDR) provides 

NMFS with information on the 

disposition of animals brought in for 

rehabilitation, the success of medical 


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