19640 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 70 / Monday, April 13, 2015 / Notices 

Transmission, LLC, 56 Exchange 

Terrace, Suite 101, Providence, Rhode 

Island, 02903’’ to ‘‘The Narragansett 

Electric Company, d/b/a National Grid, 

40 Sylvan Road, Waltham, 

Massachusetts, 02451.’’ 

Request for Public Comments 

NMFS invites comment on the 

proposed revised IHA. Please include 

with your comments any supporting 

data or literature citations to help 

inform our final decision on DWBIT and 

TNEC’s request for transfer of the BITS 

MMPA authorization. 

Dated: April 8, 2015. 

Wanda L. Cain, 

Acting Director, Office of Protected Resources, 

National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for clearance the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35). 

Agency: National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 

Title: West Coast Region, Gear 

Identification Requirements. 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0352. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Regular (extension of 

a currently approved information 

collection). 

Number of Respondents: 685. 

Average Hours per Response: 15 

minutes. 

Burden Hours: 574. 

Needs and Uses: This request is for 

extension of a currently approved 

information collection. 

The success of fisheries management 

programs depends significantly on 

regulatory compliance. The 

requirements that fishing gear be 

marked are essential to facilitate 

enforcement. The ability to link fishing 

gear to the vessel owner or operator is 

crucial to enforcement of regulations 

issued under the authority of the 

Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act. The 

marking of fishing gear is also valuable 

in actions concerning damage, loss, and 

civil proceedings. The regulations 

specify that fishing gear must be marked 

with the vessel’s official number, 

Federal permit or tag number, or some 

other specified form of identification. 

The regulations further specify how the 

gear is to be marked (e.g., location and 

color). Law enforcement personnel rely 

on gear marking information to assure 

compliance with fisheries management 

regulations. Gear that is not properly 

identified is confiscated. Gear violations 

are more readily prosecuted when the 

gear is marked, and this allows for more 

cost-effective enforcement. Gear 

marking helps ensure that a vessel 

harvests fish only from its own traps/

pots/other gear are not illegally placed. 

Cooperating fishermen also use the gear 

marking numbers to report suspicious or 

non-compliant activities that they 

observe, and to report placement or 

occurrence of gear in unauthorized 

areas. The identifying number on 

fishing gear is used by the National 

Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), the 

United States Coast Guard (USCG), and 

other marine agencies in issuing 

regulations, prosecutions, and other 

enforcement actions necessary to 

support sustainable fisheries behaviors 

as intended in regulations. Regulationcompliant fishermen ultimately benefit 

from these requirements, as 

unauthorized and illegal fishing is 

deterred and more burdensome 

regulations are avoided. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations. 

Frequency: Every five years. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at reginfo.gov. Follow 

the instructions to view Department of 

Commerce collections currently under 

review by OMB. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to OIRA_Submission@

omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395–5806. 

Dated: April 7, 2015. 

Sarah Brabson, 

NOAA PRA Clearance Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Technical Information Service 

National Technical Information Service 

Advisory Board 

AGENCY: National Technical Information 

Service. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

next meeting of the National Technical 

Information Service Advisory Board (the 

Advisory Board), which advises the 

Secretary of Commerce and the Director 

of the National Technical Information 

Service (NTIS) on policies and 

operations of the Service. 

DATES: The Advisory Board will meet on 

Friday, April 24, 2015 from 10:00 a.m. 

to approximately 2:30 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The Advisory Board will be 

held in Room 116 of the NTIS Facility 

at 5301 Shawnee Road, Alexandria, 

Virginia 22312. Please note admittance 

instructions under the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section of this notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Bruce Borzino, (703) 605–6405, 

bborzino@ntis.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NTIS 

Advisory Board is established by 

Section 3704b(c) of Title 15 of the 

United States Code. The charter has 

been filed in accordance with the 

requirements of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. 

App.). 

The meeting will focus on a review of 

NTIS performance and 

accomplishments in the first half of 

Fiscal Year 2015. A final agenda and 

summary of the proceedings will be 

posted at NTIS Web site as soon as they 

are available (http://www.ntis.gov/

about/advisorybd.aspx). 

The NTIS Facility is a secure one. 

Accordingly persons wishing to attend 

should call the NTIS Visitors Center, 

(703) 605–6040, to arrange for 

admission no later than Monday, April 

20, 2015. If there are sufficient 

expressions of interest, up to one-half 

hour will be reserved for public 

comments during the session. Questions 

from the public will not be considered 

by the Board but any person who wishes 

to submit a written question for the 

Board’s consideration should mail or 

email it to the NTIS Visitor Center, 

bookstore@ntis.gov, not later than 

Monday, April 20, 2015. 

Dated: April 7, 2015. 

Bruce Borzino, 

Director. 

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