Application for Community Quota Entity to Receive a Non-

Created: 03/29/10

OMB Control No. 0648-0334
Expiration Date: 08/31/2011

Application
for a Community Quota Entity
(CQE) to Receive a Non-trawl
Groundfish LLP License

U.S. Dept. of Commerce/NOAA
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
Restricted Access Management (RAM)
P.O. Box 21668
Juneau, AK 99802-1668

BLOCK A - IDENTIFICATION OF APPLICANT
1. Name of Non-Profit Organization:

2. Name of Contact Person:

3. NMFS Person ID:

4. Permanent Business Mailing Address:

5. Business Telephone No:

6. Business Fax No:

7. E-mail address (if available)

BLOCK C – ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
♦

Describe the procedures the CQE will use to determine the distribution of LLP licenses to
community residents.

♦

Describe the procedures the CQE will use to solicit requests from community residents
to be assigned an LLP license.

♦

Describe the criteria the CQE will use to determine the distribution of LLP licenses among qualified
community residents and the relative weighting of those criteria.

♦

List how many LLP licenses the CQE is requesting and state the gear designation for each license.

__________________________________________________________________________________________
PUBLIC REPORTING BURDEN STATEMENT
Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 40 hours per response, including time for reviewing the
instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of
information. Send comments regarding this burden to Assistant Regional Administrator, Sustainable Fisheries Division, NOAA National
Marine Fisheries Service, P.O. Box 21668, Juneau, AK 99802-1668.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Before completing this form, please note the following: 1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person is required to respond
to, nor shall any person be subject to a penalty for failure to comply with, a collection of information subject to the requirements of the
Paperwork Reduction Act, unless that collection of information displays a currently valid OMB Control Number; 2) This information is
mandatory and is required to manage commercial fishing efforts under 50 CFR part 679 and under section 402(a) of the MagnusonStevens Act (16 U.S.C. 1801, et seq.); 3) Responses to this information request are confidential under section 402(b) of the MagnusonStevens Act as amended in 2006. They are also confidential under NOAA Administrative Order 216-100, which sets forth procedures to
protect confidentiality of fishery statistics.

__________________________________________________________________________________

Application for a CQE to Receive LLPs
page 1 of 4