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recommendations, and take action as
appropriate.
1:45 p.m.–3 p.m.: The Council will
receive status reports from NOAA
Fisheries Southeast Regional Office and
the Southeast Fisheries Science Center.
The Council will review and develop
recommendations on Experimental
Fishing Permits as necessary; review
agency and liaison reports; and discuss
other business and upcoming meetings.
Documents regarding these issues are
available from the Council office (see
ADDRESSES).
Although non-emergency issues not
contained in this agenda may come
before this group for discussion, those
issues may not be the subject of formal
action during these meetings. Action
will be restricted to those issues
specifically identified in this notice and
any issues arising after publication of
this notice that require emergency
action under section 305(c) of the
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act,
provided the public has been notified of
the Council’s intent to take final action
to address the emergency.
Special Accommodations
These meetings are physically
accessible to people with disabilities.
Requests for auxiliary aids should be
directed to the council office (see
ADDRESSES) 3 days prior to the meeting.
Note: The times and sequence specified in
this agenda are subject to change.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: May 19, 2015.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Proposed Information Collection;
Comment Request; Northeast
Multispecies Amendment 16N
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.

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AGENCY:

The Department of
Commerce, as part of its continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and
respondent burden, invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to
take this opportunity to comment on
proposed and/or continuing information

SUMMARY:

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collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Written comments must be
submitted on or before July 21, 2015.

DATES:

Direct all written comments
to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental
Paperwork Clearance Officer,
Department of Commerce, Room 6616,
14th and Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230 (or via the
Internet at [email protected]).

ADDRESSES:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
directed to Aja Szumylo, (978) 281–
9195 or [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract
This request is for revision and
extension of a current information
collection. Under the Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act (MSA), the Secretary of Commerce
has the responsibility for the
conservation and management of marine
fishery resources. We, National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration’s
(NOAA) National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), and the Regional
Fishery Management Councils are
delegated the majority of this
responsibility. The New England
Fishery Management Council (Council)
develops management plans for fishery
resources in New England.
In 2010, we implemented a new suite
of regulations for the Northeast (NE)
multispecies fishery through
Amendment 16 to the Multispecies
Fishery Management Plan (Amendment
16). This action updated status
determination criteria for all regulated
NE multispecies or ocean pout stocks;
adopted rebuilding programs for NE
multispecies stocks newly classified as
being overfished and subject to
overfishing; revised management
measures, including significant
revisions to the sector management
measures, necessary to end overfishing,
rebuild overfished regulated NE
multispecies and ocean pout stocks, and
mitigate the adverse economic impacts
of increased effort controls. It also
implemented new requirements under
Amendment 16 for establishing
acceptable biological catch (ABC),
annual catch limits (ACLs), and
accountability measures (AMs) for each
stock managed under the FMP, pursuant
to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act
(Magnuson-Stevens Act).

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Revisions
This revision incorporates a number
of recent changes related to regulatory
actions. Framework Adjustment 48 to
the FMP (78 FR 26118; May 3, 2013)
proposed to exempt sector vessels
targeting monkfish from the additional
at-sea monitoring coverage necessary to
monitor groundfish catch. This measure
was intended to allocate limited at-sea
monitoring resources to monitor those
trips that catch the most groundfish. To
implement this measure, NMFS added a
question to both the pre-trip notification
and Northeast Fisheries Observer
Program notification to allow fishermen
to indicate what fishery they intend to
participate in. This change allowed
NMFS to identify trips that may qualify
for this exemption, in order to deploy
observers and at-sea monitors
appropriately to achieve the coverage
levels required by the FMP. Framework
48 also eliminated the dockside
monitoring program established under
Amendment 16 because NMFS
determined dealer reporting combined
with dockside intercepts by
enforcement personnel are sufficient to
ensure reliable landings data.
Elimination of the dockside monitoring
program was not included in the
applicable non-substantive change
request and thus this change will be
included in the revision/extension.
As part of Framework Adjustment 53
to the FMP (80 FR 25110; May 1, 2015),
NMFS implemented a requirement that
vessels that declare trips into the Gulf
of Maine Broad Stock Area and any
other broad stock area (i.e., Georges
Bank or Southern New England) on the
same trip submit a daily catch report via
vessel monitoring system (VMS). We
determined the daily VMS trip reports
were necessary to ensure accurate
apportionment of catch and help
enforcement efforts. This requirement
was approved temporarily through
emergency PRA approval. We are
proposing to permanently adjust this
information collection to include this
reporting requirement.
II. Method of Collection
Respondents must submit either
paper forms via postal service, or
electronic forms submitted via the
internet or a vessels’ vessel monitoring
system (VMS).
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–0605.
Form Number: None.
Type of Review: Regular submission
(revision and extension of a current
information collection).
Affected Public: Business or for-profit
organizations.

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Estimated Number of Respondents:
1,482.
Estimated Time per Response: Sector
operations plan and associated National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
analysis, 640 hr/response; Monitoring
service provider initial application, 10
hr/response; Monitoring service
provider response to application
disapproval, 10 hr/response; Data entry
for sector discard monitoring system, 3
min/response; Sector weekly catch
report, 4 hr/response; Sector annual
report, 12 hr/response; Notification of
expulsion from a sector, 30 min/
response; Request to transfer Annual
Catch Entitlement (ACE), 5 min/
response; VMS certification form, 10
min/response; VMS confirmation call, 5
min/response; VMS area and DAS
declaration, 5 min/response; VMS triplevel catch report; VMS daily catch
reports when fishing in multiple broad
stock areas, 15 min/response; Daily
VMS catch reports when fishing in the
U.S./Canada Management Area and CA
II SAPs, 15 min/response; Daily VMS
catch reports when fishing in the CA I
Hook Gear Haddock SAP, 15 min/
response; Daily VMS catch reports when
fishing in the Regular B DAS Program,
15 min/response; Pre-trip hail report, 2
min/response; Trip-end hail report, 15
min/response; Forward trip start/end
hails to NMFS, 2 min/response; ASM
Pre-Trip Notification, 2 min/response;
Vessel notification of selection for at-sea
monitoring coverage, 5 min/response;
at-sea monitor deployment report, 10
min/response; at-sea monitoring service
provider catch report to NMFS upon
request, 5 min/response; at-sea monitor
report of harassment and other issues,
30 min/response; at-sea monitoring
service provider contract upon request,
30 min/response; at-sea monitoring
service provider information materials
upon request, 30 min/response; OLE
debriefing of at-sea monitors, 2 hr/
response; ASM Database and Data Entry
Requirements, 3 min/response; Observer
program pre-trip notification, 2 min/
response; DAS Transfer Program, 5 min/
response; Expedited Submission of
Proposed SAPs, 20 hr/response; NAFO
Reporting Requirements, 10 min/
response.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 81,126.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $ 4,298,000 in recordkeeping/
reporting costs.
IV. Request for Comments
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
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practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden
(including hours and cost) of the
proposed collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval of this information collection;
they also will become a matter of public
record.
Dated: May 19, 2015.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
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Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to
Specified Activities; Low-Energy
Marine Geophysical Survey in the
Southwest Pacific Ocean, East of New
Zealand, May to June 2015
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; issuance of an Incidental
Harassment Authorization (IHA).
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Marine Mammal Protection Act
(MMPA), notification is hereby given
that NMFS has issued an IHA to the
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
(SIO), on behalf of SIO and the U.S.
National Science Foundation (NSF), to
take marine mammals, by Level B
harassment, incidental to conducting a
low-energy marine geophysical
(seismic) survey in the Southwest
Pacific Ocean, East of New Zealand,
May to June 2015.
DATES: Effective May 18, 2015 to July
30, 2015.
ADDRESSES: A copy of the IHA and the
application are available by writing to
Jolie Harrison, Chief, Permits and
Conservation Division, Office of
Protected Resources, National Marine
Fisheries Service, 1315 East-West
Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910 or by
telephone to the contacts listed below
(see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT).
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An electronic copy of the IHA
application containing a list of the
references used in this document may
be obtained by writing to the address
specified above, telephoning the contact
listed here (see FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT) or visiting the
Internet at: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/
pr/permits/incidental/. Documents cited
in this notice, including the IHA
application, may also be viewed by
appointment, during regular business
hours, at the aforementioned address.
An Environmental Analysis of a LowEnergy Marine Geophysical Survey by
the R/V Roger Revelle in the Southwest
Pacific Ocean, East of New Zealand,
May to June 2015 (Environmental
Analysis) in accordance with the
National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) and the regulations published
by the Council of Environmental
Quality (CEQ), has been prepared on
behalf of NSF and SIO. It is posted at
the foregoing site. NMFS has
independently evaluated the
Environmental Analysis and has
prepared a separate NEPA analysis
titled Environmental Assessment on the
Issuance of an Incidental Harassment
Authorization to the Scripps Institution
of Oceanography to Take Marine
Mammals by Harassment Incidental to a
Low-Energy Marine Geophysical Survey
in the Southwest Pacific Ocean, East of
New Zealand, May to June 2015. NMFS
also issued a Biological Opinion under
section 7 of the Endangered Species Act
(ESA) to evaluate the effects of the lowenergy seismic survey and IHA on
marine species listed as threatened or
endangered. The NMFS Biological
Opinion is available online at: http://
www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/consultations/
opinion.htm.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Howard Goldstein or Jolie Harrison,
Office of Protected Resources, NMFS,
301–427–8401.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Sections 101(a)(5)(A) and (D) of the
MMPA, (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.) direct
the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary)
to allow, upon request, the incidental,
but not intentional, taking of small
numbers of marine mammals by United
States citizens who engage in a specified
activity (other than commercial fishing)
within a specified geographical region if
certain findings are made and either
regulations are issued or, if the taking is
limited to harassment, a notice of a
proposed authorization is provided to
the public for review.
An authorization for incidental
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