[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 165 (Thursday, August 26, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 52507]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-21183]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


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: Alaska Region Scale and Catch Weighing Requirements.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0330.
    Form Number(s): NA.
    Type of Request: Regular submission (renewal of a currently 
approved information collection).
    Number of Respondents: 61.
    Average Hours per Response: 21 hours for scale type evaluation; 45 
minutes for records for daily flow scale tests; 45 minutes for records 
for daily automatic hopper scale tests; 1 minute for printed output, 
at-sea scales; 6 minutes for at-sea inspection request; 2 hours for at-
sea scale approval report/sticker; 2 hours for observer sampling 
station inspection request; 1 hour for video monitoring system; 2 hours 
for bin monitoring inspection request; 2 minutes to notify observer of 
scale tests; 5 minutes to notify observer of offload schedule for BSAI 
pollock; 16 hours for crab catch monitoring plan; 40 hours for inshore 
catch monitoring and control plan (CMCP); 5 minutes for inshore CMCP 
inspection request; 1 minute for Alaska State scale printed output; and 
8 hours for inshore CMCP addendum.
    Burden Hours: 6,548.
    Needs and Uses: The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) scale 
and catch weighing requirements address performance standards designed 
to ensure that all catch delivered to the processor is accurately 
weighed and accounted for. As part of Fishery Management Plans 
developed under the authority of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 
Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.), scale and 
catch-weighing monitoring is required for Western Alaska Community 
Development Quota Program (CDQ) catcher/processors, American Fisheries 
Act (AFA) catcher/processors, AFA motherships, AFA shoreside processors 
and stationary floating processors, non-AFA trawl catcher/processors 
regulated under the annual Groundfish Retention Standard, and Crab 
Rationalization crab catcher/processors and Registered Crab Receivers.
    NMFS has identified three primary objectives for monitoring catch. 
First, monitoring must ensure independent verification of catch weight, 
species composition, and location data for every delivery by a catcher 
vessel or every pot by a catcher/processor. Second, all catch must be 
weighed accurately using NMFS-approved scales to determine the weight 
of total catch. Third, the system must provide a verifiable record of 
the weight of each delivery. In addition, operators of these vessels 
must ensure that each haul is observed by a NMFS-approved observer for 
verification that all fish are weighed. To effectively manage 
fisheries, NMFS must have data that will provide reliable independent 
estimates of the total catch.
    The catch weighing and monitoring system developed by NMFS for 
catcher/processors and motherships is based on the vessel meeting a 
series of design criteria. Because of the wide variations in factory 
layout for inshore processors, NMFS requires a performance-based catch 
monitoring system for inshore processors.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: Annually, daily during fishing time, and on occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    OMB Desk Officer: David Rostker, (202) 395-3897.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Diana Hynek, Departmental Paperwork Clearance 
Officer, (202) 482-0266, Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#22466a5b4c474962464d410c454d54"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="86e2ceffe8e3edc6e2e9e5a8e1e9f0">[email protected]</span></a>).
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to David Rostker, OMB Desk Officer, FAX number (202) 395-7285, or 
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b7f3d6c1ded3e8e5d8c4c3dcd2c5f7d8dad599d2d8c799d0d8c1"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5115302738350e033e22253a3423113e3c337f343e217f363e27">[email protected]</span></a>.

    Dated: August 20, 2010.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2010-21183 Filed 8-25-10; 8:45 am]
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