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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; Specified Fishing 

Agreements for U.S. Territorial Catch, 

Effort, and Allocation Limits 

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 January 

20th, 2022 during a 60-day comment 

period. This notice allows for an 

additional 30 days for public comments. 

Agency: NOAA National Marine 

Fisheries Service (NMFS). 

Title: Specified Fishing Agreements 

for U.S. Territorial Catch, Effort, and 

Allocation Limits. 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0689. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Regular (extension of 

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Number of Respondents: 3. 

Average Hours per Response: 30 

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appeal. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 90. 

Needs and Uses: The Fishery 

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allow the Western Pacific Fishery 

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Samoa, the Territory of Guam, and the 

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 

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or ‘‘territories’’). The regulations further 

allow NMFS to authorize the 

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a portion of its catch or fishing effort 

limit to U.S. fishing vessels through 

specified fishing agreements between 

the vessels and the respective territories. 

Payments made by the vessels under 

these agreements support fisheries 

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Specified fishing agreements include 

the identity of fishing vessels subject to 

the agreement, the amount (weight) of 

fish or fishing effort to which the 

agreement applies, and any amount paid 

under the agreement. Additionally, an 

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and each vessel owner or their 

designated representative must sign the 

agreements. There is no specified form 

for an agreement. 

NMFS uses the information in the 

agreements to determine vessel 

eligibility, and ensure the amount of 

fish or fishing effort allocated under the 

agreement is consistent with the FEP, 

the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act, 

other applicable laws, and the 

conservation needs of the fish stock. 

The request also includes a change to 

the collection’s title for improved 

clarity, from ‘‘Amendment 7 to the 

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Fisheries of the Western Pacific 

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Fishing Effort Limits’’ to ‘‘Specified 

Fishing Agreements for U.S. Territorial 

Catch, Effort, and Allocation Limits.’’ 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households; business or other for-profit 

organizations; State or Territorial 

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[RTID 0648–XB866] 

Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to 

Specified Activities; Taking Marine 

Mammals Incidental to Geophysical 

Surveys of the Guerrero Gap in the 

Eastern Tropical Pacific 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; issuance of an incidental 

harassment authorization (IHA). 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

regulations implementing the Marine 

Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) as 

amended, NMFS has issued an IHA to 

the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory 

(L–DEO) to incidentally harass marine 

mammals during geophysical surveys of 

the Guerrero Gap off the coast of Mexico 

in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. 

DATES: This authorization is effective 

from May 2, 2022 through May 1, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Amy Fowler, Office of Protected 

Resources, NMFS, (301) 427–8401. 

Electronic copies of the application and 

supporting documents, as well as a list 

of the references cited in this document, 

may be obtained online at: https://

www.fisheries.noaa.gov/permit/ 

incidental-take-authorizations-undermarine-mammal-protection-act. In case 

of problems accessing these documents, 

please call the contact listed above. 

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 

proposed or, if the taking is limited to 

harassment, a notice of a proposed 

incidental harassment authorization is 

provided to the public for review. 

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 cited above are 

included in the relevant sections below. 

Summary of Request 

On August 21, 2021, NMFS received 

a request from L–DEO for an IHA to take 

marine mammals incidental to 

geophysical surveys of the Guerrero Gap 

off the coast of Mexico in the Eastern 

Tropical Pacific (ETP). The application 

was deemed adequate and complete on 

December 14, 2021. L–DEO’s request is 

for take of a small number of 30 species 

of marine mammals by Level B 

harassment and, for two of those 

species, by Level A harassment. NMFS 

published a notice of proposed IHA for 

public review and comment on January 

12, 2022 (87 FR 1992). Neither L–DEO 

nor NMFS expects serious injury or 

mortality to result from this activity 

and, therefore, an IHA is appropriate. 

Description of Planned Activity 

Researchers from L–DEO, University 

of Texas Institute of Geophysics (UTIG), 

and Northern Arizona University 

(NAU), with funding from the National 

Science Foundation (NSF), and in 

collaboration with researchers from the 

National Autonomous University of 

Mexico (Universidad Nacional 

Autonoma de Mexico or UNAM) and 

Kyoto University, plan to conduct highenergy seismic surveys from the 

research vessel (R/V) Marcus G. 

Langseth (Langseth) in and around the 

Guerrero Gap off western Mexico, in the 

ETP in the mid- to late-spring of 2022. 

The study uses two-dimensional (2–D) 

seismic surveying to quantify incoming 

plate hydration and examine the role of 

fluids on megathrust slip behavior in 

and around the Guerrero Gap of the 

Middle America Trench. L–DEO plans 

to conduct two different methods of 

seismic acquisition, multi-channel 

seismic (MCS) using a hydrophone 

streamer and refraction surveys using 

ocean bottom seismometers (OBSs). A 

total of 3,600 kilometers (km) of transect 

lines would be surveyed (2,230 km of 

2–D MCS reflection data and 1,370 km 

of OBS refraction data). Approximately 

62 percent of the total survey effort 

would be MCS surveys, with the 

remaining 38 percent using OBSs. The 

planned surveys use a 36-airgun towed 

array with a total discharge volume of 

∼6600 cubic inches (in3) as an acoustic 

source, acquiring return signals using 

both a towed streamer as well as OBSs. 

The total survey duration will be 

approximately 48 days, including 

approximately 20 days of seismic survey 

operations, 3 days of transit to and from 

the survey area, 19 days for equipment 

deployment/recovery, and 6 days of 

contingency time for poor weather, etc. 

The majority of the 2–D seismic 

surveys would occur within the 

Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of 

Mexico, including territorial seas, and a 

small portion would occur in 

International Waters. Approximately 6 

percent of the total survey effort would 

occur in Mexican territorial waters. Note 

that the MMPA does not apply in 

Mexican territorial waters. L–DEO is 

subject only to Mexican law in 

conducting that portion of the survey. 

However, NMFS has calculated the 

expected level of incidental take in the 

entire activity area (including Mexican 

territorial waters) as part of the analysis 

supporting our determination under the 

MMPA that the activity will have a 

negligible impact on the affected species 

or stocks (see Estimated Take and 


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