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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 239 (Thursday, December 12, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 100470-100471]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-29219]

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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; Generic Clearance for Economic Surveys of the Commercial and 
Charter Harvesting Sectors of Federally Managed Fisheries: Mariana 
Archipelago Small Boat Fishery Economic Data Collection

    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 December 6, 2021 during a 60-day comment period. 
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
    Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Commerce.
    Title: Generic Clearance for Economic Surveys of the Commercial and 
Charter Harvesting Sectors of Federally Managed Fisheries: Mariana 
Archipelago Small Boat Fishery Economic Data Collection.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0823.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular submission [review of a specific survey 
under an approved generic information collection].
    Number of Respondents: 72.
    Average Hours per Response: 45 minutes.
    Total Annual Burden Hours: 54 hours.
    Needs and Uses: The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's 
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS or NOAA Fisheries) has 
conservation and management responsibilities for many living marine 
resources and their habitat. NMFS collects and uses economic data to 
make more than a cursory determination of whether a variety of 
provisions in the applicable laws, Executive Orders (E.O.s), and NOAA 
or NMFS strategies and policies have been met by past fishery

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conservation and management actions or will be met by proposed actions. 
OMB approved the Generic Clearance for Economic Surveys of the 
Commercial & Charter Harvesting Sectors of Federally Managed Fisheries. 
It did that in recognition that by providing relevant economic data, 
the fishery specific information collections, which NMFS will conduct 
under that generic clearance, will increase the ability of NMFS and the 
Regional Fishery Management Councils to monitor, explain and predict 
changes in the economic performance and impacts of federally managed 
fisheries. Therefore, those information collections will allow better-
informed fishery conservation and management decisions, which will 
benefit the Nation. With OMB's approval of the Mariana Archipelago 
Small Boat Fishery Economic Data Collection, NMFS will collect such 
economic date for that specific fishery.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households and Business or other 
for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: Once.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and 
Management Act (MSA).
    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 0648-0823.

Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for 
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2024-29219 Filed 12-11-24; 8:45 am]
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