[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 249 (Wednesday, December 27, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 81822]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-33001]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 122000A]
Submission For OMB Review; Comment Request
The Department of Commerce has submitted 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: Shoreside Processor Electronic Logbook Reports for the
Alaska Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands Pollock and Pacific Cod Fisheries
Form Number(s): None
OMB Approval Number: None
Type of Request: Emergency
Burden Hours: 887
Number of Respondents: 19
Average Hours Per Response: 35 minutes
Needs and Uses: The American Fisheries Act (AFA) imposed major
structural changes on the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management
Area (BSAI) pollock fishery, which is managed by National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS), Alaska Region. These changes include addition
of new recordkeeping and reporting requirements for participation in
the BSAI pollock fishery for processors that receive groundfish from
AFA catcher vessels and for BSAI pollock fishery cooperatives formed
under the AFA. On November 30, 2000, NMFS released the Biological
Opinion assessing the groundfish fisheries of the BSAI and GOA and
effects on Steller sea lions as required by the Endangered Species Act
(ESA). As a result, changes are required to recordkeeping and reporting
procedures in order to facilitate management of fisheries by National
Marine Fishery Service (NMFS). Existing requirements for electronic
reporting by shoreside processors will be extended to processors that
receive Pacific cod harvested in the Pacific cod directed fishery and
to processors receiving pollock from the pollock directed fishery.
Affected Public: Business and other for-profit
Frequency: 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 Madeleine Clayton, DOC Forms Clearance Officer,
(202) 482-3129, Department of Commerce, Room 6086, 14th and
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at
[email protected]).
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be sent within 10 days of publication of this notice
to David Rostker, OMB Desk Officer, Room 10202, New Executive Office
Building, Washington, DC 20503.
Dated: December 19, 2000.
Madeleine Clayton,
Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer.
[FR Doc. 00-33001 Filed 12-26-00; 8:45 am]
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