Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 37 / Friday, February 23, 2024 / Notices 13693 

Notification Regarding Administrative 

Protective Order 

This notice serves as the only 

reminder to parties subject to 

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). 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)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 

351.213(d)(4). 

Dated: February 16, 2024. 

James Maeder, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Operations. 

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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 Halibut Fisheries: 

Charter 

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 

28, 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 Halibut Fisheries: 

Charter. 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0575. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Regular submission 

(extension of a current information 

collection). 

Number of Respondents: 560. 

Average Hours per Response: 

Application for Annual Registration of 

CHPs: 15 minutes; Application for 

Military CHP: 30 minutes; Application 

for Transfer of CHP: 2 hours; 

Application for Transfer (Lease) 

Between IFQ and GAF: 1.5 hours; GAF 

Landing Report: 5 minutes; GAF Permit 

Log: 2 minutes; ADF&G Saltwater Sport 

Fishing Charter Trip Logbook: 4 

minutes; and Appeals: 4 hours. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 3,876 

hours. 

Needs and Uses: The National Marine 

Fisheries Service (NMFS), Alaska 

Region, is requesting extension of a 

currently approved information 

collection for the Pacific halibut charter 

fishery off Alaska. 

Management of and regulations for 

Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus 

stenolepis) in Alaska are developed on 

the international, Federal, and state 

levels by the International Pacific 

Halibut Commission (IPHC), the North 

Pacific Fishery Management Council, 

the NMFS Alaska Region, and the State 

of Alaska Department of Fish and Game 

(ADF&G). The IPHC and NMFS manage 

fishing for Pacific halibut through 

regulations established under authority 

of the Convention between the United 

States Halibut Fishery of the Northern 

Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea, the 

Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1982 (16 

U.S.C. 773), and section 303(b) of the 

Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act (16 

U.S.C. 1801 et seq.). 

NMFS manages the charter halibut 

fishery off Alaska under the Charter 

Halibut Limited Access Program 

(CHLAP; 75 FR 554, January 5, 2010) 

and the Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing 

Plan (CSP; 78 FR 75844, December 12, 

2013). This information collection is 

necessary for NMFS to manage and 

administer the charter halibut fishery 

under the CHLAP and the CSP. 

Regulations that implement this 

information collection are at 50 CFR 300 

subpart E and 50 CFR 679.5(l)(7). 

Information on the CHLAP and the CSP 

is on the NMFS Alaska Region website 

at https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/ 

alaska/resources-fishing/sport-halibutfishing-alaska. 

The CHLAP established new Federal 

Charter Halibut Permits (CHPs) for 

operators in the sport charter halibut 

fishery in IPHC regulatory Areas 2C 

(Southeast Alaska) and 3A (Central Gulf 

of Alaska). All charter halibut vessel 

operators in Areas 2C and 3A with 

clients on board must have a valid CHP 

on board during every charter vessel 

fishing trip. As the period to obtain a 

CHP, other than a military CHP or 

community CHP, ended in 2010, CHPs 

may now only be obtained through 

transfer. This information collection 

contains the applications used to 

annually register CHPs, to apply for new 

military CHPs, and to transfer CHPs. 

The application for a community CHP is 

approved under OMB Control Number 

0648–0665. Information collected by 

these applications includes permit 

holder information or applicant 

information, and depending on the 

form, may include CHP identification, 

CHP ownership information and 

affiliation, a survey question on the use 

of the CHP, and transaction information 

for transfer of a CHP. 

The CSP authorizes annual transfers 

of commercial halibut individual fishing 

quota (IFQ) as guided angler fish (GAF) 

to qualified CHP holders for harvest by 

charter vessel anglers in Area 2C or 3A. 

GAF enables CHP holders to lease a 

limited amount of IFQ from commercial 

quota shareholders to allow charter 

vessel anglers to harvest halibut in 

addition to, or instead of, the halibut 

harvested under the daily bag limit for 

charter anglers. 

This information collection includes 

the application used to transfer Area 2C 

or 3A commercial halibut IFQ to a CHP 

holder for use as GAF or for the CHP 

holder to return unused GAF to the IFQ 

permit holder from which it was 

obtained. Information collected by this 

application includes permit holder 

information, IFQ permit information, 

CHP information, GAF permit 

information, and transaction 

information. NMFS, on approving the 

transfer of IFQ to GAF, issues a GAF 

permit, which authorizes the holder to 

allow charter vessel anglers to retain 

GAF halibut caught in the IPHC 

regulatory area specified on the permit. 

This information collection also 

includes the GAF landing report and the 

GAF permit log. The GAF landing report 

is submitted by GAF permit holders and 

collects information on each GAF 

halibut retained by an angler on a 

charter vessel fishing trip in Area 2C or 

3A. The GAF permit log is printed on 

the back of each GAF permit and is used 

by the permit holder to record the GAF 

landing report confirmation number and 

information on GAF halibut after a trip 

in which GAF halibut were retained. 

If a GAF permit holder is unable to 

submit the GAF landings report 

electronically due to hardware, 

software, or internet failure for a period 

longer than the required reporting time, 

or a correction must be made to 

information already submitted, the 


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permit holder must contact NOAA OLE 

by telephone. This information 

collection is revised to include a form 

for the non-electronic (manual) GAF 

landing report. This form will help 

streamline the submission of manual 

landing information for GAF permit 

holders and NOAA Office for Law 

Enforcement, and help ensure the 

correct information is submitted on 

time. The time and cost burden for the 

manual GAF landing report form 

remains the same as the previous 

estimates for the GAF landing report 

because the estimates allow for 

differences needed to complete and 

submit the report. 

This information collection includes 

the logbook reporting requirements for 

the charter halibut fishery. The charter 

halibut sector in Areas 2C and 3A is 

managed to charter catch limits 

established under the CSP. Charter 

operators are required to record all 

halibut caught and kept by charter 

vessel anglers in the ADF&G Saltwater 

Charter Logbook. Logbook reporting is 

the basis for estimating annual charter 

harvests of halibut relative to the charter 

catch limits. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households; Business or other for-profit 

organizations. 

Frequency: Annually; As needed. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

Obtain or Retain Benefits, Mandatory. 

Legal Authority: The Northern Pacific 

Halibut Act of 1982 (16 U.S.C. 773c); 

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 0648–0575. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, 

Commerce Department. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XD698] 

Pacific Island Pelagic Fisheries; False 

Killer Whale Take Reduction Plan; New 

Trigger Value for Southern Exclusion 

Zone Closure 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Marine Mammal Protection Act 

(MMPA) of 1972, and the False Killer 

Whale Take Reduction Plan, NMFS is 

publishing a new trigger value for the 

Southern Exclusion Zone (SEZ) closure. 

The new trigger is three observed 

mortality or serious injuries of false 

killer whales incidental to the deep-set 

longline fishery within the U.S. 

Exclusive Economic Zone. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Elena Duke, NMFS Pacific Islands 

Region, (808) 725–5134, elena.duke@

noaa.gov; or Kristy Long, NMFS Office 

of Protected Resources, (301) 427–8402, 

Kristy.Long@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Pursuant to section 118(f) of the 

MMPA, on December 31, 2012, NMFS 

implemented the False Killer Whale 

Take Reduction Plan (Plan). The Plan 

establishes a framework to reduce the 

level of incidental mortality and serious 

injury (M/SI) of the Hawaii pelagic and 

Hawaii insular stocks of false killer 

whales in the Hawaii longline fisheries 

(77 FR 71260; November 29, 2012). 

In accordance with the Plan, NMFS 

issued regulations to establish the SEZ 

(50 CFR 229.37(d)(2)). These regulations 

require NMFS to close the SEZ to deepset longline fishing when a certain 

number (trigger) of false killer whale M/ 

SI are observed in the deep-set longline 

fishery in the U.S. Exclusive Economic 

Zone (EEZ). As described in the Plan 

regulations, the SEZ is bounded on the 

east at 154°30′ W longitude, on the west 

at 165° W longitude, on the north by the 

boundaries of the Main Hawaiian 

Islands Longline Fishing Prohibited 

Area and Papaha ̄naumokua ̄kea Marine 

National Monument, and on the south 

by the EEZ boundary (see fig. 1). The 

SEZ trigger is defined in § 229.37(e)(2) 

as the larger of either of these 2 values: 

(i) 2 observed M/SI of false killer whales 

within the EEZ around Hawaii, or (ii) 

the smallest number of observed false 

killer whale M/SI that, when 

extrapolated based on the percentage 

observer coverage in the deep-set 

longline fishery for that year, exceeds 

the Hawaii pelagic false killer whale 

stock’s potential biological removal 

(PBR). For the first year of the Plan’s 

implementation, NMFS established the 

trigger value as 2 observed false killer 

whale M/SI by the deep-set longline 

fishery within the EEZ around Hawaii 

(77 FR 71259, November 29, 2012), 

based on the PBR level of 9.1 for the 

Hawaii pelagic stock of false killer 

whales, as calculated in the draft 2012 

Stock Assessment Report (SAR) 

(Carretta et al., 2012). The Plan specifies 

the trigger value (2) will remain valid 

until NMFS publishes a new trigger 

value in the Federal Register 

(§ 229.37(e)(1)). NMFS published a new 

trigger value on December 15, 2020 

following a change in the abundance 

estimate, which changed the trigger 

value from 2 to 4 observed M/SI of false 

killer whales (85 FR 81184, December 

15, 2020). 


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