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application to a Georges Bank example 

Fishery Ecosystem Plan (eFEP). 

Following the lunch break, the 

Council will be briefed on the NOAA 

Fisheries Southeast Region’s for-hire 

electronic reporting requirements and 

their application to New England 

recreational party/charter vessels that 

possess permits for South Atlantic 

species. Next, the Council will receive 

a presentation from the NMFS Highly 

Migratory Species (HMS) Management 

Division on Amendment 13 to the 

Consolidated HMS Fishery Management 

Plan, which focuses on bluefin tuna 

issues. The Council will discuss and 

approve comments on this proposed 

rule. Immediately following, the 

Council will receive reports on recent 

meetings of NMFS’s HMS Advisory 

Panel and the Advisory Committee to 

the U.S. Section of the International 

Commission for the Conservation of 

Atlantic Tunas. The Council then will 

close out the meeting with other 

business. 

Although non-emergency issues not 

contained on this agenda may come 

before the Council for discussion, those 

issues may not be the subject of formal 

action during this meeting. Council 

action will be restricted to those issues 

specifically listed in this notice and any 

issues arising after publication of this 

notice that require emergency action 

under section 305(c) of the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and 

Management Act, provided the public 

has been notified of the Council’s intent 

to take final action to address the 

emergency. The public also should be 

aware that the meeting will be recorded. 

Consistent with 16 U.S.C. 1852, a copy 

of the recording is available upon 

request. 

Special Accommodations 

This meeting is being conducted 

entirely by webinar. Requests for 

auxiliary aids should be directed to 

Thomas A. Nies (see ADDRESSES) at least 

5 days prior to the meeting date. 

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

Dated: June 3, 2021. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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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; Applications and Reporting 

Requirements for the Incidental Take 

of Marine Mammals by Specified 

Activities Under the Marine Mammal 

Protection Act 

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 29, 

2021 (86 FR 7544) during a 60-day 

comment period. This notice allows for 

an additional 30 days for public 

comments. 

Agency: National Oceanic & 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

Title: Applications and Reporting 

Requirements for the Incidental Take of 

Marine Mammals by Specified 

Activities Under the Marine Mammal 

Protection Act. 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0151. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Regular submission 

(extension of a current information 

collection). 

Number of Respondents: 699. 

Average Hours per Response: 281 

hours for an Incidental Harassment 

Authorization (IHA) application; 30 

hours for an IHA Interim Draft Report; 

140 hours for an IHA draft annual 

report; 28 hours for an IHA final annual 

report (if applicable); 1,200 hours for the 

initial preparation of an application for 

new regulations; 70 hours for an annual 

Letter of Authorization (LOA) 

application; 225 hours for an LOA draft 

annual report; 70 hours for a LOA final 

annual report (if applicable); 640 hours 

for a LOA draft comprehensive report; 

300 hours for an LOA final 

comprehensive report; 140 hours for a 

Gulf of Mexico Rule (GOM) draft annual 

report; 28 hours for a GOM final annual 

report; and 1,540 hours for PAM/PSO 

Surveys. Response times will vary for 

the public based upon the complexity of 

the requested action. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 259,743. 

Needs and Uses: This request is for an 

extension of a currently approved 

information collection, 0648–0151. 

The Marine Mammal Protection Act 

of 1972 (MMPA; 16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.) 

prohibits the ‘‘take’’ of marine mammals 

unless otherwise authorized or 

exempted by law. Among the provisions 

that allow for lawful take of marine 

mammals, sections 101(a)(5)(A) and (D) 

of the MMPA direct the Secretary of 

Commerce 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, after notice and opportunity for 

public comment, we find that the taking 

will have a negligible impact on the 

affected species or stock(s) and will not 

have an unmitigable adverse impact on 

the availability of the species or stock(s) 

for subsistence uses (where relevant). 

NMFS also must set forth the 

permissible methods of taking; other 

means of effecting the least practicable 

adverse impact on the species or stock 

and its habitat (mitigation); and 

requirements pertaining to the 

monitoring and reporting of such taking. 

NMFS Office of Protected Resources 

leads the process for the agency. 

Issuance of an incidental take 

authorization (Authorization) under 

section 101(a)(5)(A) or 101(a)(5)(D) of 

the MMPA requires three sets of 

information collection: (1) A complete 

application for an Authorization, as set 

forth in our implementing regulations at 

50 CFR 216.104, which provides the 

information necessary for us to make the 

necessary statutory determinations, 

including estimates of take and an 

assessment of impacts on the affected 

species and stocks; (2) information 

relating to required monitoring; and (3) 

information related to required 

reporting. These collections of 

information enable us to: (1) Evaluate 

the proposed activity’s impact on 

marine mammals; (2) arrive at the 

appropriate determinations required by 

the MMPA and other applicable laws 

prior to issuing the authorization; and 

(3) monitor impacts of activities for 

which we have issued Authorizations to 

determine if our predictions regarding 

impacts on marine mammals remain 

valid. 

We do not propose any changes to the 

information collection beyond expecting 

an increased number of respondents and 

responses due to increases in the 

number of requests for incidental take 

authorizations and requests for Letters 


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of Authorization from a recent GOM 

rule. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations; Not-for-profit 

institutions; State, Local, or Tribal 

government; Federal government. 

Frequency: One application for every 

LOA or IHA, draft and final annual and 

comprehensive reports. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

Legal Authority: Marine Mammal 

Protection Act of 1972 (MMPA, 16 

U.S.C. 1361 et seq.). 

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 0648–0151. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Chief Information Officer, Commerce 

Department. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

Documentation of Fish Harvest 

AGENCY: NOAA National Marine 

Fisheries Service (NMFS), Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection, 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), invites 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. The purpose of this 

notice is to allow for 60 days of public 

comment preceding submission of the 

collection to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for review. 

DATES: To ensure consideration, 

comments regarding this proposed 

information collection must be received 

by August 9, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments to 

Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer, 

at adrienne.thomas@noaa.gov. Please 

reference OMB Control Number 0648– 

0551 in the subject line of your 

comments. All comments received are 

part of the public record and will 

generally be posted on 

www.regulations.gov without change. 

Do not submit confidential business 

information or otherwise sensitive or 

protected information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

specific questions related to collection 

activities should be directed to Adam 

Bailey, National Marine Fisheries 

Service, Southeast Regional Office, 

Sustainable Fisheries Division, 263 13th 

Ave. South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, 

telephone: 727–824–5305, email: 

adam.bailey@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The NMFS Southeast Regional Office 

proposes to extend without revision the 

information collection currently 

approved under OMB Control Number 

0648–0365. 

The NMFS Southeast Regional Office 

manages commercial fishing in Federal 

waters of the South Atlantic under the 

authority of the Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act), 16 U.S.C. 

1801 et seq. 

Federally permitted seafood dealers 

who process or sell snapper-grouper 

species during seasonal fishery closures 

in the South Atlantic for those 

applicable species must maintain 

documentation, as specified in 50 CFR 

part 300 subpart K and 50 CFR 

622.192(i), that such fish were harvested 

from areas other than state or Federal 

waters in the South Atlantic. The 

applicable snapper-grouper species are 

greater amberjack, gag, black grouper, 

red grouper, scamp, red hind, rock hind, 

yellowmouth grouper, yellowfin 

grouper, graysby, and coney. The 

documentation includes information on 

the vessel that harvested the fish, and 

where and when the fish were 

offloaded. NMFS requires the 

information for the enforcement of 

fishery regulations at 50 CFR 622, 

subpart I. 

II. Method of Collection 

The information is in the form of a 

paper affidavit, which a respondent 

creates and retains. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0365. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Review: Regular submission— 

extension of a current information 

collection. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profit organizations. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

414 

Estimated Time per Response: 10 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 69. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: $0 in recordkeeping and 

reporting costs. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens 

Act, 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. 

IV. Request for Comments 

We are soliciting public comments to: 

(a) Evaluate whether the proposed 

information collection is necessary for 

the proper functions of the Department, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the 

accuracy of our estimate of the time and 

cost burden for this proposed collection, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

Evaluate ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (d) Minimize the 

reporting burden on those who are to 

respond, including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. We will include or 

summarize each comment in our request 

to OMB to approve this ICR. Before 

including your address, phone number, 

email address, or other personal 

identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you may ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Chief Information Officer, Commerce 

Department. 

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