Owners of fishing vessels that fish for lobster or deepwater shrimp that are crustacean management unit species in Federal waters, or that land crustacean management unit species in ports of the western Pacific region, must obtain a crustacean fisheries fishing permit from the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). This collection originally covered permitting, vessel identification, and reporting requirements for deepwater shrimp fisheries in the Pacific Islands region. The reporting requirement was moved into OMB Control No. 0648-0214 and the vessel identification requirement was moved to OMB Control No. 0648-0360. Lobster permit applications were previously covered by OMB Control No. 0648-0490, but now are consolidated into this collection, so the name is changed to cover permits for all crustacean fisheries.
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Pub.L. 94 - 265 303
Name of Law: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act as amended in 2006
Program changes: Vessel identification and reporting requirements were removed from this collection; net reductions: 510 responses, 91 hours and $425 in costs. One permit application was added but the current response estimate covers both lobster and shrimp responses (4 lobster and 6 shrimp). Also, a $48 fee was added to the shrimp application, adding $288.
Adjustment: The shrimp permit application time was changed from 30 minutes to 15 minutes. This removes 1.5 (2) hours.
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Walter Ikehara 808 944-2275
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On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
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(ii) Use of information;
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