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Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 20 / Wednesday, February 1, 2017 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration

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Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will
submit 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: Atlantic Herring Amendment 5
Data Collection.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0674.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular (extension of
a currently approved information
collection).
Number of Respondents: 204.
Average Hours per Response:
Category E permit renewal, 1 minute;
At-Sea Herring Dealer Permit renewal, 5
minutes; weekly dealer reports, 15
minutes; VMS activity declarations, 5
minutes; VMS power-down exemption
letter, 5 minutes; VMS pre-landing
notification and gear declaration, 5
minutes; catch reports and vessel trip
reports, 5 minutes; request for an
observer prior to a trip, 5 minutes;
cancellation of trip, 1 minute; estimate
of catch/discard provision, 1 minute;
documentation of slippage, 5 minutes.
Burden Hours: 1,159.
Needs and Uses: This request is for
extension of a current information
collection. Under the Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act, the Secretary of Commerce has the
responsibility for the conservation and
management of marine fishery
resources. Much of this responsibility
has been delegated to NOAA’s National
Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS).
Under this stewardship role, the
Secretary was given certain regulatory
authorities to ensure the most beneficial
uses of these resources. One of the
regulatory steps taken to carry out the
conservation and management
objectives is to collect information from
users of the resources.
Data collection for Amendment 5 to
the Atlantic Herring Fishery
Management Plan requires renewal of
Category E permits for limited access
herring permit holders. This collection
also requires herring carrier vessels that
sell herring (rather than deliver those
fish on behalf of a dealer for purchase)
to obtain or maintain an At-Sea Atlantic
Herring Dealer Permit. Vessels that have
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Permit and a Federal fishing permit are
required to fulfill the reporting
requirements of both permits as
appropriate.
This collection has several vessel
monitoring system (VMS) and vessel
trip reporting (VTR) components.
Category E vessels must submit daily
VMS reports, weekly VTRs, and
maintain a VMS unit on their vessels
and declare intent to target Atlantic
herring via VMS. This collection allows
a vessel that opts to enroll as a herring
carrier to do so via VMS rather than
obtaining a letter of authorization
(LOA). By declaring a herring trip via
VMS, a vessel is exempt from daily
VMS catch reporting, and is not bound
by the 7-day enrollment period required
by the herring carrier LOA. Vessels with
limited access herring permits, Category
E permits, and vessels declaring herring
carrier trips via VMS also must give a
pre-landing notification to the NMFS
Office of Law Enforcement via VMS. In
addition, vessels are prohibited from
turning off VMS units while in port. A
vessel representative must request a
letter of exemption (LOE) from NMFS to
turn off its VMS if that vessel will be out
of the water for more than 72 hours. A
vessel owner is able to sign a herring
vessel out of the VMS program for a
minimum of 30 days by requesting and
obtaining an LOE from NMFS. A vessel
is not able to leave the dock unless the
VMS unit is turned back on.
This collection also requires that
vessels with limited access herring
permits, vessels with open access
Category D permits that are fishing with
midwater trawl gear in Areas 1A, 1B,
and/or 3, vessels with open access
category E permits, and herring carrier
vessels contact NMFS at least 48 hours
in advance of fishing to request an
observer. Vessels currently contact
NMFS via phone, and selection notices
or waivers are issued by NMFS via
VMS. Vessels with limited access
herring permits, Category E permits, and
vessels declaring herring carrier trips
via VMS must notify NMFS via VMS of
their intent to participate in the herring
fishery prior to leaving port on each trip
by entering the appropriate activity and
gear codes in order to harvest, possess,
or land herring on that trip.
Additionally, this collection requires
vessels issued limited access permits
working cooperatively in the herring
fishery to provide NMFS-approved
observers with the estimated weight of
each species brought on board or
released on each tow.
Finally, this collection requires that
all herring vessels (i.e. any area
throughout the EEZ, any gear type) bring
all catch aboard the vessel and make it

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available for sampling by an observer. If
catch is not made available to an
observer before discard, that catch is
defined as slippage, and the vessel
operator must complete a ‘‘Released
Catch Affidavit’’ form within 48 hours
of the end of the fishing trip which
details why catch was slipped, estimates
the quantity and species composition of
the slipped catch, and records the time
and location of the slipped catch.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations.
Frequency: Annually, daily and on
occasion.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
This information collection request
may be viewed at reginfo.gov. Follow
the instructions to view Department of
Commerce collections currently under
review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to OIRA_Submission@
omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395–5806.
Dated: January 27, 2017.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
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Fisheries of the South Atlantic;
Southeast Data, Assessment, and
Review (SEDAR); Data Scoping
Webinar for South Atlantic Black Sea
Bass; Public Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of SEDAR 56 Data
Scoping webinar.
AGENCY:

The SEDAR 56 assessment of
the South Atlantic stock of black
seabass will consist of a series of
webinars. See SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.
DATES: A SEDAR 56 Data Scoping
webinar will be held on Friday,
February 24, 2017 from 9 a.m. until 10
a.m.
ADDRESSES: Meeting address: The
meeting will be held via webinar. The
webinar is open to members of the
public. Those interested in participating
should contact Julia Byrd at SEDAR (see
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) to
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