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directly related to the management, data 

collection and analysis, and 

enforcement connected to and in 

support of a limited access privilege 

program (LAPP) (16 U.S.C. 1854(d)(2)), 

also called ‘‘cost recovery.’’ Cost 

recovery fees recover the actual costs 

directly related to the management, data 

collection and analysis, and 

enforcement of the programs (MSA 

section 303A(e), 16 U.S.C. 1853a(e)). 

Section 304(d)(2)(B) of the MSA 

mandates that cost recovery fees not 

exceed 3 percent of the annual ex-vessel 

value of fish harvested by a program 

subject to a cost recovery fee, and that 

the fee be collected either at the time of 

landing, filing of a landing report, or 

sale of such fish during a fishing season 

or in the last quarter of the calendar year 

in which the fish is harvested. 

The Pacific Coast Groundfish Trawl 

Rationalization Program is a LAPP, 

implemented in 2011, and consists of 

three sector-specific programs: the 

Shorebased IFQ Program, the MS Co-op 

Program, and the C/P Co-op Program. In 

accordance with the MSA, and based on 

a recommended structure and 

methodology developed in coordination 

with the Pacific Fishery Management 

Council (Council), NMFS began 

collecting mandatory fees of up to 3 

percent of the ex-vessel value of 

groundfish from each program 

(Shorebased IFQ Program, MS Co-op 

Program, and C/P Co-op Program) in 

2014. NMFS collects the fees to recover 

the incremental costs of management, 

data collection and analysis, and 

enforcement of the Groundfish Trawl 

Rationalization Program. Additional 

background can be found in the cost 

recovery proposed rule (78 FR 7371, 

February 1, 2013) and final rule (78 FR 

75268, December 11, 2013). The details 

of cost recovery for the Groundfish 

Trawl Rationalization Program are in 

regulation at 50 CFR 660.115 (Trawl 

fishery—cost recovery program), 

§ 660.140 (Shorebased IFQ Program), 

§ 660.150 (MS Co-op Program), and 

§ 660.160 (C/P Co-op Program). 

By December 31 of each year, NMFS 

announces the next year’s fee 

percentages and the applicable MS 

pricing for the C/P Co-op Program. To 

calculate the fee percentages, NMFS 

used the formula specified in regulation 

at § 660.115(b)(1), where the fee 

percentage by sector equals the lower of 

3 percent or direct program costs (DPC) 

for that sector divided by total ex-vessel 

value (V) for that sector multiplied by 

100 (Fee percentage = the lower of 3 

percent or (DPC/V) x 100). 

‘DPC,’ as defined in the regulations at 

§ 660.115(b)(1)(i), are the actual 

incremental costs for the previous fiscal 

year directly related to the management, 

data collection and analysis, and 

enforcement of each program 

(Shorebased IFQ Program, MS Co-op 

Program, and C/P Co-op Program). 

Actual incremental costs means those 

net costs that would not have been 

incurred but for the implementation of 

the Groundfish Trawl Rationalization 

Program, including both increased costs 

for new requirements of the program 

and reduced costs resulting from any 

program efficiencies or adjustments to 

costs from previous years. 

‘‘V’’, as specified at § 660.115(b)(1)(ii), 

is the total ex-vessel value, as defined at 

§ 660.111, for each sector from the 

previous calendar year. To determine 

the ex-vessel value for the Shorebased 

IFQ Program, NMFS used the ex-vessel 

value for calendar year 2023 as reported 

in the Pacific Fisheries Information 

Network (PacFIN) from Shorebased IFQ 

electronic fish tickets as this was the 

most recent complete set of data. To 

determine the ex-vessel value for the 

MS Co-op Program and the C/P Co-op 

Program, NMFS used the retained catch 

estimates (weight) for each sector as 

reported in the North Pacific Observer 

Program database multiplied by the 

average price of Pacific whiting as 

reported by participants in the MS Coop program for 2023. 

The fee calculations for the 2025 fee 

percentages are described below. 

IFQ Program: 

• 4.6 percent = $2,112,277.92/ 

$46,413,264.00) × 100. 

C/P Co-op Program: 

• 0.1 percent = ($28,615.21/ 

$21,004,264.86) × 100. 

MS Co-op Program: 

• 5.1 percent = ($322,466.75/ 

$6,321,722.07) × 100. 

However, the calculated fee 

percentage cannot exceed the statutory 

limit of 3.0 percent. Both the IFQ 

Program (4.6 percent) and Co-op 

Program (5.1 percent) fee calculations 

exceed this limit, therefore, the 2025 fee 

percentages for these programs are 3.0 

percent. The final 2025 fee percentages 

are 3.0 percent for the IFQ Program, 0.1 

percent for the C/P Co-op Program, and 

3.0 percent for the MS Co-op Program. 

MS Average Pricing 

MS pricing is the average price per 

pound that the C/P Co-op Program will 

use to determine the fee amount due for 

that sector. The C/P sector value (V) is 

calculated by multiplying the retained 

catch estimates (weight) of Pacific 

whiting harvested by the vessel 

registered to a C/P-endorsed limited 

entry trawl permit by the MS pricing. 

NMFS has calculated the 2025 MS 

pricing to be used as a proxy by the CP 

Co-op Program as: $0.09/lb for Pacific 

whiting. 

Cost recovery fees are submitted to 

NMFS by fish buyers via Pay.gov 

(https://www.pay.gov/). Fees are only 

accepted in Pay.gov by credit/debit card 

or bank transfers. Cash or checks cannot 

be accepted. Fish buyers registered with 

Pay.gov can login in the upper righthand corner of the screen. Fish buyers 

not registered with Pay.gov can go to the 

cost recovery forms directly from the 

website below. The links to the Pay.gov 

forms for each program (IFQ, MS, or C/ 

P) are listed below: 

IFQ: https://www.pay.gov/public/ 

form/start/58062865; 

MS: https://www.pay.gov/public/ 

form/start/58378422; and 

C/P: https://www.pay.gov/public/ 

form/start/58102817. 

As stated in the preamble to the cost 

recovery proposed and final rules, in the 

spring of each year, NMFS will release 

an annual report documenting the 

details and data used for the fee 

percentage calculations. Annual reports 

are available at: https://

www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/ 

sustainable-fisheries/west-coastgroundfish-trawl-catch-shareprogram#cost-recovery. 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.; 16 

U.S.C.773 et seq.; and 16 U.S.C. 7001 et 

seq. 

Dated: December 11, 2024. 

Karen H. Abrams, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2024–29581 Filed 12–13–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

TIME AND DATE: 9:30 a.m. EST, 

Wednesday, December 18, 2024. 

PLACE: CFTC Headquarters Conference 

Center, Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 

21st Street NW, Washington, DC. 

STATUS: Open. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: The 

Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission (‘‘Commission’’ or 

‘‘CFTC’’) will hold this meeting to 

consider the following matters: 

• Final Rule—Real-Time Public 

Reporting Requirements and Swap Data 

Recordkeeping and Reporting 

Requirements; and 

• Final Rule—Regulations to Address 

Margin Adequacy and to Account for 

the Treatment of Separate Accounts by 

Futures Commission Merchants. 


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1 17 CFR 145.9. 

The agenda for this meeting will be 

available to the public and posted on 

the Commission’s website at https://

www.cftc.gov. Members of the public are 

free to attend the meeting in person, or 

have the option to listen by phone or 

view a live stream. Instructions for 

listening to the meeting by phone and 

connecting to the live video stream will 

be posted on the Commission’s website. 

In the event that the time, date, or 

place of this meeting changes, an 

announcement of the change, along with 

the new time, date, or place of the 

meeting, will be posted on the 

Commission’s website. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Christopher Kirkpatrick, Secretary of the 

Commission, 202–418–5964. 

(Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552b.) 

Dated: December 11, 2024. 

Christopher Kirkpatrick, 

Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2024–29636 Filed 12–12–24; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6351–01–P 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities Under OMB Review 

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), this notice announces that the 

Information Collection Request (ICR) 

abstracted below has been forwarded to 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs (OIRA), of the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB), for 

review and comment. The ICR describes 

the nature of the information collection 

and its expected costs and burden. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before January 15, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be 

submitted within 30 days of this 

notice’s publication to OIRA, at https:// 

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 

Please find this particular information 

collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under 

30-day Review—Open for Public 

Comments’’ or by using the website’s 

search function. Comments can be 

entered electronically by clicking on the 

‘‘comment’’ button next to the 

information collection on the ‘‘OIRA 

Information Collections Under Review’’ 

page, or the ‘‘View ICR—Agency 

Submission’’ page. A copy of the 

supporting statement for the collection 

of information discussed herein may be 

obtained by visiting https://

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 

In addition to the submission of 

comments to https://Reginfo.gov as 

indicated above, a copy of all comments 

submitted to OIRA may also be 

submitted to the Commodity Futures 

Trading Commission (the 

‘‘Commission’’ or ‘‘CFTC’’) by clicking 

on the ‘‘Submit Comment’’ box next to 

the descriptive entry for OMB Control 

No. 3038–0086, at https://

comments.cftc.gov/FederalRegister/ 

PublicInfo.aspx. 

Or by either of the following methods: 

• Mail: Christopher Kirkpatrick, 

Secretary of the Commission, 

Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission, Three Lafayette Centre, 

1155 21st Street NW, Washington, DC 

20581. 

• Hand Delivery/Courier: Same as 

Mail above. 

All comments must be submitted in 

English, or if not, accompanied by an 

English translation. Comments 

submitted to the Commission should 

include only information that you wish 

to make available publicly. If you wish 

the Commission to consider information 

that you believe is exempt from 

disclosure under the Freedom of 

Information Act, a petition for 

confidential treatment of the exempt 

information may be submitted according 

to the procedures established in § 145.9 

of the Commission’s regulations.1 The 

Commission reserves the right, but shall 

have no obligation, to review, prescreen, 

filter, redact, refuse or remove any or all 

of your submission from https://

www.cftc.gov that it may deem to be 

inappropriate for publication, such as 

obscene language. All submissions that 

have been redacted or removed that 

contain comments on the merits of the 

ICR will be retained in the public 

comment file and will be considered as 

required under the Administrative 

Procedure Act and other applicable 

laws, and may be accessible under the 

Freedom of Information Act. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jason Smith, Assistant Chief Counsel, 

Division of Market Oversight, 

Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission, (202) 418–5698; email: 

jsmith@cftc.gov, and refer to OMB 

Control No. 3038–0086. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Swap Data Access Provisions of 

Part 49 and Certain Other Matters (OMB 

Control No. 3038–0086). This is a 

request for extension of a currently 

approved information collection. 

Abstract: Section 728 of the DoddFrank Wall Street Reform and Consumer 

Protection Act, Public Law 111–203, 

124 Stat. 1376 (2010), specifically 

requires the CFTC to establish certain 

standards for the governance, 

registration, and statutory duties 

applicable to SDRs. The CFTC 

established these standards in part 49 of 

the CFTC’s regulations. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to, a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. On October 4, 2024, the 

Commission published in the Federal 

Register notice of the proposed 

extension of this information collection 

and provided 60 days for public 

comment on the proposed extension, 89 

FR 80897 (‘‘60-Day Notice’’). No 

responsive comments have been 

received. 

Burden Statement: The Commission 

is revising its estimate of the burden for 

this collection. The respondent burden 

for this collection is estimated to be as 

follows: 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 4. 

Estimated Average Burden Hours Per 

Respondent: 19,679.5. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 78,718. 

Frequency of Collection: Annually; 

On occasion. 

There are no start-up costs associated 

with this collection and an average of $2 

million in ongoing operating costs per 

respondent. 

(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) 

Dated: December 10, 2024. 

Robert Sidman, 

Deputy Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2024–29457 Filed 12–13–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6351–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Air Force 

[Docket ID: USAF–2024–HQ–0006] 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Department of the Air Force, 

Department of Defense (DoD). 

ACTION: 30-Day information collection 

notice. 

SUMMARY: The DoD has submitted 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. 

DATES: Consideration will be given to all 

comments received by January 15, 2025. 


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