[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 205 (Monday, October 26, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54951-54952]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-25593]


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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: Northwest Region Logbook Family of Forms.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-271.
    Form Number(s): NA.
    Type of Request: Regular submission.
    Number of Respondents: 45.
    Average Hours per Response: Daily fishing and cumulative production 
report (catchers) and Daily fish received and cumulative production 
report (motherships): 13 minutes; Daily fishing and cumulative 
production report (catcher-processors), 26 minutes; weekly production 
reports, 15 minutes; product transfer/offloading logbooks, 20 minutes; 
start/stop notices, 1 minute.
    Burden Hours: 937.
    Needs and Uses: This information collection for which we are 
requesting renewal is authorized by the Pacific Coast Groundfish 
Fishery Management Plan (FMP) which was developed by the Pacific 
Fisheries Management Council (Council) under the Magnuson-Stevens 
Fisheries Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson Act), 16

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U.S.C. 1801 et seq. The FMP governs the groundfish fishery off 
Washington, Oregon, and California (WOC).
    This comprehensive Federal Fisheries data collection program 
includes recordkeeping and reporting requirements for fish processing 
vessels over 125 feet in length (at sea processors, which includes 
catcher/processors and motherships) and catcher vessels that deliver to 
motherships operating in the waters off WOC. This information is used 
by the observers at-sea to obtain fishing effort information and would 
also be used to estimate catch if observer data were not available 
(i.e., illness or injury of the observer) or to verify observer data.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    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 7845, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#583c1021363d33183c373b763f372e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ed89a594838886ad89828ec38a829b">[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#8dc9ecfbe4e9d2dfe2fef9e6e8ffcde2e0efa3e8e2fda3eae2fb"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="dc98bdaab5b8838eb3afa8b7b9ae9cb3b1bef2b9b3acf2bbb3aa">[email protected]</span></a>.

    Dated: October 20, 2009.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. E9-25593 Filed 10-23-09; 8:45 am]
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