[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 144 (Monday, July 27, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45191-45192]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-16241]
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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; Reporting Requirements for the Ocean Salmon Fishery Off the
Coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California
The Department of Commerce will submit the following information
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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 March 27, 2020, during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Title: Emergency Commercial Salmon Landing Report.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0433.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission (extension of a current
information collection).
Number of Respondents: 40.
Average Hours per Response: 15 minutes.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 10 hours.
Needs and Uses: Ocean salmon fisheries conducted in the U.S.
exclusive economic zone, 3-200 nautical miles off the West Coast states
of Washington, Oregon, and California, are managed by the Pacific
Fishery Management Council (Council) and NOAA's National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS) under the Magnuson Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act (MSA). Management measures for the
ocean salmon fisheries are set annually, consistent with the Council's
Pacific Coast Salmon Fishery Management Plan (FMP). The FMP provides a
framework for managing the ocean salmon fisheries in a sustainable
manner, as required under the MSA, through the use of conservation
objectives, annual catch limits, and other reference points and status
determination criteria described in the FMP. To meet these criteria,
annual management measures, published in the Federal Register by NMFS,
specify regulatory areas, catch restrictions, and landing restrictions
based on the stock abundance forecasts. These catch and landing
restrictions include area- and species-specific quotas for the
commercial ocean salmon fishery, and generally require landings to be
reported to the appropriate state agencies to allow for a timely and
accurate accounting of the season's catch (50 CFR 660.404 and 50 CFR
660.408(o)). The best available catch and effort data and projections
are presented by the state fishery managers in telephone conference
calls involving the NMFS West Coast Regional Administrator and
representatives of the Council. However, NMFS acknowledges that unsafe
weather or mechanical problems could prevent commercial fishermen from
making their landings at the times and places specified, and the MSA
requires conservation and management measures to promote the safety of
human life at sea. Therefore, the annual management measures will
include provisions to exempt commercial salmon fishermen from
compliance with the landing requirements when they experience unsafe
weather conditions or mechanical problems at sea, so long as the
appropriate notifications are made by, for example, at-sea radio and
cellular telephone, and information on catch and other required
information is given, under this collection of information. The annual
management measures will specify the contents and procedure of the
notifications, and the entities receiving the notifications (e.g., U.S.
Coast Guard). Absent this requirement by the Council, the state
reporting systems would not regularly collect this specific type of in-
season radio report. These provisions, and this federal collection of
information, promote safety at sea and provide practical utility for
sustainably managing the fishery, and ensure regulatory consistency
across each state by implementing the same requirements in the
territorial waters off each state This information collection is
intended to be general in scope by leaving the specifics of the
notifications for annual determination, thus providing flexibility in
responding to salmon management concerns in any given year.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations
(specifically, commercial salmon fishermen).
Frequency: Reporting under this emergency provision is infrequent.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory in order to deviate from landing
requirements due to unsafe weather or mechanical problems.
Legal Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 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 0648-0433.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2020-16241 Filed 7-24-20; 8:45 am]
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