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Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Regular submission. 

Number of Respondents: 175. 

Average Hours per Response: 5 

minutes for a regular tag; 30 minutes for 

an archival (implanted electronic) tag. 

Burden Hours: 41. 

Needs and Uses: The North Pacific 

Fishery Management Council (Council) 

has prepared groundfish Fishery 

Management Plans (FMP) for the 

following fisheries in the exclusive 

economic zone (EEZ) off Alaska: 

Groundfish fisheries in the Gulf of 

Alaska (GOA) EEZ under the Fishery 

Management Plan for Groundfish of the 

Gulf of Alaska and groundfish fisheries 

in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands 

EEZ under the Fishery Management 

Plan for the Groundfish Fishery of the 

Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Area. 

These FMPs are implemented by 

regulations at 50 CFR part 679. General 

regulations that also pertain to these 

fisheries appear in subpart H of 50 CFR 

part 600. 

As part of these plans, the Groundfish 

Tagging Program provides scientists 

with information necessary for effective 

conservation, management, and 

scientific understanding of the 

groundfish fishery off Alaska and the 

Northwest Pacific. The program area 

includes the Pacific Ocean off Alaska 

(the Gulf of Alaska, the Bering Sea and 

Aleutian Islands Area, the Alexander 

Archipelago of Southeast Alaska), 

California, Oregon, and Washington. 

Distribution, movement rates and 

direction, growth, recruitment and 

mortality estimated from tag recoveries 

are important parameters used in 

groundfish population assessment 

models and in developing allocation 

systems. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit 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 

dHynek@doc.gov). 

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 

David_Rostker@omb.eop.gov. 

Dated: July 14, 2009. 

Gwellnar Banks, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–17042 Filed 7–16–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Bureau of Economic Analysis 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request; Quarterly Survey 

of Financial Services Transactions 

Between U.S. Financial Services 

Providers and Foreign Persons 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, invites the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

comment on proposed and/or 

continuing information collections, as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted on or before 5 p.m. 

September 15, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Diana Hynek, Departmental 

Paperwork Clearance Officer, 

Department of Commerce, Room 7845, 

14th and Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20230, or via the 

Internet at dhynek@doc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Direct requests for additional 

information or copies of the survey 

instrument(s) and instructions to 

Christopher Emond, Chief, Special 

Surveys Branch, Balance of Payments 

Division, (BE–50), Bureau of Economic 

Analysis, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, Washington, DC 20230; 

phone: (202) 606–9826; fax: (202) 606– 

5318; or via the Internet at 

christopher.emond@bea.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

Form BE–185, Quarterly Survey of 

Financial Services Transactions 

between U.S. Financial Services 

Providers and Foreign Persons, obtains 

quarterly data from U.S. financial 

services providers whose sales of 

covered financial services to foreign 

persons exceeded $20 million for the 

previous fiscal year or are expected to 

exceed that amount during the current 

fiscal year, or whose purchases of 

covered financial services from foreign 

persons exceeded $15 million for the 

previous fiscal year or are expected to 

exceed that amount during the current 

fiscal year. The data collected are cutoff sample data. In addition, estimates 

are developed based upon previously 

reported or estimated data for nonrespondents, including those U.S. 

financial services companies that fall 

below the reporting threshold for the 

quarterly survey but reported on a 

previous benchmark survey. 

The data are needed to monitor U.S. 

international trade in financial services, 

analyze its impact on the U.S. and 

foreign economies, compile and 

improve the U.S. economic accounts, 

support U.S. commercial policy on trade 

in financial services, conduct trade 

promotion, and improve the ability of 

U.S. businesses to identify and evaluate 

market opportunities. 

Responses will be due within 45 days 

after the close of each calendar quarter, 

except for the respondents’ final quarter 

of their fiscal year, when reports are due 

within 90 days after the close of the 

quarter. The data from the survey are 

primarily intended as general purpose 

statistics. They are needed to answer 

any number of research and policy 

questions related to cross-border trade 

in financial services. 

The BE–185 Form remains the same. 

No changes in the data collected or in 

exemption levels are proposed. 

II. Method of Collection 

The surveys are sent to the 

respondents by U.S. mail; the surveys 

are also available from our Web site. 

Respondents return the surveys one of 

four ways: U.S. mail, electronically 

using BEA’s electronic collection system 

(eFile), fax, or e-mail. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0608–0065. 

Form Number: BE–185. 

Type of Review: Regular submission. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations, and not-for-profit 

institutions. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

2,500. 

Estimated Time per Response: 10 

hours per mandatory response; and 1 

hour per other responses. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 16,900. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: $0. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

Legal Authority: The International 

Investment and Trade in Services 

Survey Act, 22 U.S.C. 3101–3108, as 

amended and by Section 5408 of the 

Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness 

Act of 1988. 

IV. Request for Comments 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

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is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the Agency, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of 

the Agency’s estimate of the burden 

(including hours and cost) of the 

proposed collection of information; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of this information collection; 

they also will become a matter of public 

record. 

Dated: July 13, 2009. 

Gwellnar Banks, 

Management Analyst, Office of Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–16963 Filed 7–16–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Bureau of Economic Analysis 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request; Quarterly Survey 

of Transactions in Selected Services 

and Intangible Assets With Foreign 

Persons 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, invites the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

comment on proposed and/or 

continuing information collections, as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted on or before 5 p.m. 

September 15, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Diana Hynek, Departmental 

Paperwork Clearance Officer, 

Department of Commerce, Room 7845, 

14th and Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20230, or via the 

Internet at dhynek@doc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Direct requests for additional 

information or copies of the survey and 

instructions to Christopher Emond, 

Chief, Special Surveys Branch, Balance 

of Payments Division, (BE–50), Bureau 

of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department 

of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230; 

phone: (202) 606–9826; fax: (202) 606– 

5318; or via the Internet at 

christopher.emond@bea.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

Form BE–125, Quarterly Survey of 

Transactions in Selected Services and 

Intangible Assets with Foreign Persons, 

obtains quarterly data from U.S. 

companies whose sales of covered 

services or intangible assets to foreign 

persons exceeded $6 million for the 

previous fiscal year or are expected to 

exceed that amount during the current 

fiscal year, or whose purchases of 

covered services or intangible assets 

from foreign persons exceeded $4 

million for the previous fiscal year or 

are expected to exceed that amount 

during the current fiscal year. The data 

collected are cut-off sample data. In 

addition, estimates are developed based 

upon previously reported or estimated 

data for non-respondents, including 

those U.S. persons who fall below the 

reporting threshold for the quarterly 

survey but reported on a previous 

benchmark survey. 

The data are needed to monitor U.S. 

international trade in these transactions, 

analyze its impact on the U.S. and 

foreign economies, compile and 

improve the U.S. economic accounts, 

support U.S. commercial policy on trade 

in selected services and intangible 

assets, conduct trade promotion, and 

improve the ability of U.S. businesses to 

identify and evaluate market 

opportunities. 

Responses will be due within 45 days 

after the close of each calendar quarter, 

except for the final quarter of the 

respondents’ fiscal year, when reports 

are due within 90 days after the close of 

the quarter. The data from the survey 

are primarily intended as general 

purpose statistics. They are needed to 

answer any number of research and 

policy questions related to cross-border 

trade in services and intangible assets. 

The BE–125 Form remains the same. 

No changes in the data collected or in 

exemption levels are proposed. 

II. Method of Collection 

The surveys are sent to the 

respondents by U.S. mail; the surveys 

are also available from our Web site. 

Respondents return the surveys one of 

four ways: U.S. mail, electronically 

using BEA’s electronic collection system 

(eFile), fax, or e-mail. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0608–0067. 

Form Number: BE–125. 

Type of Review: Regular submission. 

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

institutions. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

8,800. 

Estimated Time Per Response: 16 

hours per mandatory response; and 1 

hour per other responses. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 98,800. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: $0. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

Legal Authority: The International 

Investment and Trade in Services 

Survey Act, 22 U.S.C. 3101–3108, as 

amended. 

IV. Request for Comments 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the Agency, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of 

the Agency’s estimate of the burden 

(including hours and cost) of the 

proposed collection of information; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of this information collection; 

they also will become a matter of public 

record. 

Dated: July 13, 2009. 

Gwellnar Banks, 

Management Analyst, Office of Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–16964 Filed 7–16–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[Docket No. 071003556–81194–02] 

RIN 0648–XQ22 

Fisheries off West Coast States; 

Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery; 

Amendment 15 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: List of Limited Entry Trawl 

Vessels Issued Pacific Whiting Vessel 

Licenses. 

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