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Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35). 

Agency: National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 

Title: Billfish Certificate of Eligibility. 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0216. 

Form Number(s): NA. 

Type of Request: Regular (extension of 

a current information collection). 

Number of Respondents: 200. 

Average Hours per Response: Initial 

dealer completion, 20 minutes; 

subsequent dealer completion, 2 

minutes. 

Burden Hours: 43. 

Needs and Uses: This request is for an 

extension of a currently approved 

information collection. 

A Certificate of Eligibility (COE) for 

Billfishes is required under 50 CFR part 

635 to accompany all billfish, except for 

a billfish landed in a Pacific state and 

remaining in the state of landing. This 

documentation certifies that the 

accompanying billfish was not 

harvested from the applicable Atlantic 

Ocean management unit (described on 

the NOAA sample certificate), and 

identifies the vessel landing the billfish, 

the vessel’s homeport, the port of 

offloading, and the date of offloading. 

The certificate must accompany the 

billfish to any dealer or processor who 

subsequently receives or possesses the 

billfish. The extension of this collection 

is necessary to implement the 

Consolidated Highly Migratory Species 

Fishery Management Plan, which 

contains an objective to reserve Atlantic 

billfish for the recreational fishery. 

On October 5, 2012, the President 

signed Public Law 112–183 entitled the 

‘‘Billfish Conservation Act of 2012,’’ 

which prohibits the sale of billfish (or 

products containing billfish), or the 

custody, control, or possession of 

billfish (or products containing billfish) 

for purposes of sale. The only 

exemptions to this prohibition include 

billfish landed by U.S. fishing vessels in 

Hawaii and Pacific Insular Areas, and 

billfish landed by foreign fishing vessels 

in the Pacific Insular Areas when the 

foreign-caught billfish are exported to 

non-U.S. markets or retained within 

Hawaii and the Pacific Insular Areas for 

local consumption. NOAA is currently 

developing implementing regulations 

for the Billfish Conservation Act. If 

necessary, upon publication of the 

proposed rule, the information 

collection associated with the Billfish 

Certificate of Eligibility (0648–0216) 

may be revised accordingly. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at reginfo.gov. Follow 

the instructions to view Department of 

Commerce collections currently under 

review by OMB. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to OIRA_Submission@

omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395–5806. 

Dated: October 6, 2014. 

Glenna Mickelson, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

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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 Halibut Catch Sharing 

Plan Survey. 

OMB Control Number: 0648-xxxx. 

Form Number(s): NA. 

Type of Request: Regular (request for 

a new information collection). 

Number of Respondents: 602. 

Average Hours Per Response: Full 

survey, 30 minutes; follow-up telephone 

survey, 10 minutes. 

Burden Hours: 186. 

Needs and Uses: This request is for a 

new information collection. 

Numerous management measures 

have recently been proposed or 

implemented that affect recreational 

charter boat fishing for Pacific halibut 

off Alaska, including the adoption of a 

Halibut Catch Sharing Plan (78 FR 

75843) in International Pacific Halibut 

Commission Regulatory Areas 2C and 

3A that alters the way Pacific halibut is 

allocated between the guided sport (i.e., 

the charter sector) and the commercial 

halibut fishery. The Catch Sharing Plan 

(CSP) formalizes the annual process of 

allocating catch between the 

commercial sector and charter sector 

and for determining harvest restrictions 

in the charter sector (78 FR 75843). In 

addition, the CSP allows leasing of 

commercial halibut individual fishing 

quota (IFQ) by eligible charter 

businesses holding a charter halibut 

permit (CHP). The IFQ pounds are 

leased in terms of number of fish, called 

guided angler fish (GAF), which are 

determined based on a conversion rate 

published by the National Marine 

Fisheries Service (NMFS). Leased GAF 

can be used by charter businesses to 

relax harvest restrictions for their angler 

clients, since the fish caught under the 

leased GAF would not be subject to the 

charter sector-specific size and bag 

limits that may be imposed—though the 

non-charter sector size and bag limit 

restrictions (currently two fish of any 

size per day) would still apply to charter 

anglers who are not using GAF. 

To help inform potential future policy 

discussions about the CSP, NMFS 

Alaska Fisheries Science Center plans to 

conduct a survey that will collect 

information on general attitudes toward 

the CSP and the GAF leasing program 

from Area 2C and Area 3A charter boat 

businesses (CHP holders), and ask them 

to indicate their preferences for 

hypothetically relaxing specific features 

of the GAF leasing program that are 

employed in similar types of programs 

in both fisheries and non-fisheries 

contexts. This information could 

provide valuable information to the 

North Pacific Fishery Management 

Council in its evaluation of the current 

features of the CSP and provide 

information that may help it evaluate 

adjustments to the CSP. The survey will 

also provide a broad gauge of attitudes 

toward the program and its impacts on 

the charter sector and anglers. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations. 

Frequency: One time. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at reginfo.gov. Follow 

the instructions to view Department of 

Commerce collections currently under 

review by OMB. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to OIRA_Submission@

omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395–5806. 

Dated: October 7, 2014. 

Glenna Mickelson, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

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