[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 71 (Tuesday, April 14, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 19967]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-08667]


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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: Northeast Multispecies Amendment 16.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0605.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Emergency revision of a currently approved 
information collection. Per the Paperwork Reduction Act regulations, 5 
CFR 1320.13, we believe that use of this emergency process is essential 
to the mission of the agency, and the agency cannot reasonably comply 
with the normal clearance procedures under this part because public 
harm is reasonably likely to result if normal clearance procedures are 
followed.
    Number of Respondents: 100.
    Average Hours per Response: The daily catch report is estimated to 
take 15 minutes to complete.
    Burden Hours: Based on trips to multiple broad stock areas taken 
during the 2013 fishing year, the average trip length for vessels that 
fish in multiple broad stock areas on a single trip is 5 days. If 
vessels take 7 trips per year, the burden estimate for daily trip 
reports is 8 hr, 45 min.
    Needs and Uses: This is a request for comments on the proposed 
revision of OMB Control No. 0648-0605, the Information Collection for 
Amendment 16 to the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan, in 
conjunction with Final Rule 0648-BE75. The information collection 
currently approved under OMB Control No. 0648-0605 includes a number of 
reporting requirements necessary to end overfishing, rebuild overfished 
groundfish stocks, and mitigate the adverse economic impacts of 
increased effort controls. This revision proposes to modify only the 
broad stock area reporting requirements currently approved under the 
Information Collection for Amendment 16. We are seeking comments on a 
provision that, if approved, would require vessels that declare trips 
into the Gulf of Maine Broad Stock Area and any other broad stock area 
(i.e., Georges Bank or Southern New England) on the same trip submit a 
daily catch report via vessel monitoring system (VMS). We have 
determined the daily VMS trip reports may be necessary to ensure 
accurate apportionment catch and help enforcement efforts. Vessels are 
currently required to submit trip level catch reports when declared 
into multiple broad stock areas, so the proposed change would affect 
only the frequency of submission.
    Affected Public: Businesses and other for-profit organizations; 
individuals or households.
    Frequency: On occasion, but daily submission would be required on 
trips declared into multiple broad stock areas.
    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 10 days of publication of this notice 
to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#337c7a61726c6046515e5a40405a5c5d735c5e511d565c431d545c45"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="76393f2437292503141b1f05051f191836191b145813190658111900">[email protected]</span></a> or fax to (202) 395-5806.

    Dated: April 10, 2015.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2015-08667 Filed 4-13-15; 8:45 am]
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