80212 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 191 / Wednesday, October 2, 2024 / Notices 

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; List of Gear by Fisheries and 

Fishery Management Council 

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 14, 

2024, (89 FR 50564) during a 60-day 

comment period. This notice allows for 

an additional 30 days for public 

comments. 

Agency: National Oceanic & 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

Title: List of Gear by Fisheries and 

Fishery Management Council. 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0346. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Regular submission 

[extension of a current information 

collection]. 

Number of Respondents: 1. 

Average Hours per Response: 1. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 0.33. 

Needs and Uses: This request is for an 

extension of a currently approved 

information collection by the NOAA’s 

National Marine Fisheries Service, 

Office of Sustainable Fisheries. Under 

the provisions of the Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery and Conservation and 

Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens 

Act) [16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.], as 

amended by the Sustainable Fisheries 

Act [Pub. L. 104–297], the Secretary of 

Commerce (Secretary) is required to 

publish a list of all fisheries under 

authority of each Regional Fishery 

Management Council (Council) and all 

such fishing gear used in such fisheries 

(see section 305(a) of the MagnusonStevens Act). The list has been 

published and appears in 50 CFR part 

600.725(v). Any person wishing to use 

gear not on the list, or engage in a 

fishery not on the list, must provide the 

appropriate Council or the Secretary, in 

the case of Atlantic highly migratory 

species, with 90 days of advance notice. 

If the Secretary takes no action to 

prohibit such a fishery or use of such a 

gear, the person may proceed. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations. 

Frequency: As needed. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens 

Act. 

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 0648–0346. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Departmental 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 

[RTID 0648–XE326] 

Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to 

Specified Activities; Taking Marine 

Mammals Incidental to Construction 

Activities Associated With the Murray 

St. Bridge Seismic Retrofit Project in 

Santa Cruz, California 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; issuance of incidental 

harassment authorizations. 

SUMMARY: NMFS has received a request 

from the City of Santa Cruz for the reissuance of previously issued incidental 

harassment authorizations (IHAs). The 

initial IHAs authorized take incidental 

to construction associated with Murray 

St. Bridge seismic retrofit project in 

Santa Cruz, California. The project has 

been delayed and none of the planned 

work has been conducted. The scope of 

the activities and anticipated effects 

remain the same, authorized take 

numbers are not changed, and the 

required mitigation, monitoring, and 

reporting remains the same as included 

in the initial IHAs. NMFS therefor is 

reissuing identical IHAs, with the only 

change being to the effective dates. 

DATES: These authorizations are 

effective from July 1, 2025 through June 

30, 2026 and July 1, 2026 through June 

30, 2027, respectively. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jenna Harlacher, Office of Protected 

Resources, NMFS, (301) 427–8401. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The MMPA prohibits the ‘‘take’’ of 

marine mammals, with certain 

exceptions. Sections 101(a)(5)(A) and 

(D) of the MMPA (16 U.S.C. 1361 et 

seq.) direct the Secretary of Commerce 

(as delegated to NMFS) to allow, upon 

request, the incidental, but not 

intentional, taking of small numbers of 

marine mammals by U.S. citizens who 

engage in a specified activity (other than 

commercial fishing) within a specified 

geographical region if certain findings 

are made and either regulations are 

issued or, if the taking is limited to 

harassment, an IHA is issued. 

Authorization for incidental takings 

shall be granted if NMFS finds that the 

taking will have a negligible impact on 

the species or stock(s) and will not have 

an unmitigable adverse impact on the 

availability of the species or stock(s) for 

taking for subsistence uses (where 

relevant). Further, NMFS must prescribe 

the permissible methods of taking and 

other ‘‘means of effecting the least 

practicable adverse impact’’ on the 

affected species or stocks and their 

habitat, paying particular attention to 

rookeries, mating grounds, and areas of 

similar significance, and on the 

availability of the species or stocks for 

taking for certain subsistence uses 

(referred to in shorthand as 

‘‘mitigation’’); and requirements 

pertaining to the mitigation, monitoring 

and reporting of the takings are set forth. 

The definitions of all applicable MMPA 

statutory terms used above are included 

in the relevant sections below and can 

be found in section 3 of the MMPA (16 

U.S.C. 1362) and NMFS regulations at 

50 CFR 216.103. 

Summary of Request 

On May 2, 2023, NMFS published a 

final notice of issuance for two 

consecutive IHAs authorizing take of 

marine mammals incidental to the 

Murray St. Bridge seismic retrofit 

project (88 FR 27452). The effective 

dates of the IHAs were July 1, 2023 

through June 30, 2024 and July 1, 2024 

through June 30, 2025. On September 5, 


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