[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 249 (Wednesday, December 27, 2000)]
[Notices]
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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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