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Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 90 / Thursday, May 11, 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: Alaska Region Crab Permits.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0514.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular (extension of
a currently approved information
collection).
Number of Respondents: 575.
Average Hours per Response: Annual
application for Crab IFQ permit,
application for Crab IPQ permit,
application to become an eligible crab
community organization (ECCO), 150
minutes each; application for an Annual
Crab Harvesting Cooperative IFQ
Permit, 15 hours; Right of first refusal
(ROFR) contracts and waivers, 1 hour
each; annual application for Crab
Converted CPO QS and CPO IFQ and
application for Registered Crab Receiver
(RCR) Permit, BSAI Crab Rationalization
Program Quota Share Beneficiary
Designation Form, 30 minutes;
application for Crab IFQ Hired Master
Permit, 1 hour; application for Federal
crab vessel permit (FCVP) 21 minutes
each; application for eligibility to
receive crab QS/IFQ or PQS/IPQ by
transfer, application for transfer of crab
IFQ, application for transfer of crab QS/
IFQ to or from an ECCO, Application to
transfer crab QS or PQS, application for
Annual Exemption from Western
Aleutian Islands Golden King Crab West
Region Delivery Requirements,
Community Impact Report or IPQ
Holder Report (North or South Response
Report), 2 hours each; ECCO Annual
report and appeal of denial to NMFS
decisions, 4 hours each; application for
transfer of IFQ between crab harvesting
cooperatives, electronic, 5 minutes, nonelectronic, 2 hours; application to
Transfer Crab IPQ, electronic, 1 hour;
non-electronic, 2 hours; CDQ
notification of community
representative, 5 hours; application for
exemption from CR Crab North or South
Region Delivery Requirements and
North or South Region Delivery
Exemption Report, 20 hours each.
Burden Hours: 3,007.

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Needs and Uses: This request is for
extension of a currently approved
information collection.
The king and Tanner crab fisheries in
the exclusive economic zone of the
Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, Alaska,
are managed under the Fishery
Management Plan for Bering Sea and
Aleutian Islands King and Tanner Crabs
(FMP). The North Pacific Fishery
Management Council prepared the FMP
under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act as
amended in 2006. The National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS) manages the
crab fisheries in the waters off the coast
of Alaska under the FMP. Regulations
implementing the FMP and all
amendments to the Crab Rationalization
Program (CR Program) appear at 50 CFR
part 680. Program details are found at:
http://www.alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/
regs/680/default.htm.
The CR Program balances the interests
of several groups who depend on the
crab fisheries. The CR Program
addresses conservation and
management issues associated with the
previous derby fishery, reduces bycatch
and associated discard mortality, and
increases the safety of crab fishermen by
ending the race for fish. Share
allocations to harvesters and processors,
together with incentives to participate
in fishery cooperatives, increases
efficiencies, provides economic
stability, and facilitates compensated
reduction of excess capacities in the
harvesting and processing sectors.
Community interests are protected by
Western Alaska Community
Development Quota allocations and
regional landing and processing
requirements, as well as by several
community protection measures.
NMFS established the CR Program as
a catch share program for nine crab
fisheries in the BSAI, and assigned
quota share (QS) to persons and
processor quota share (PQS) to
processors based on their historic
participation in one or more of these
nine crab fisheries during a specific
period. The CR Program components
include QS allocation, PQS allocation,
individual fishing quota (IFQ) issuance,
and individual processing quota (IPQ)
issuance, quota transfers, use caps, crab
harvesting cooperatives, protections for
Gulf of Alaska groundfish fisheries,
arbitration system, monitoring,
economic data collection, and cost
recovery fee collection.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations; individuals or
households.
Frequency: Annually and on occasion.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain benefits.

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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: May 8, 2017.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Proposed Information Collection;
Comment Request; Day 8 to 10
Forecast Focus Groups, Interviews
and Survey
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
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
collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted on or before July 10, 2017.
ADDRESSES: 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]).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
directed to Kate Quigley, (843) 327–
1114 or [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

I. Abstract
This request is for a new collection of
information.
The objective of the web-based focus
groups, phone interviews, and online
survey is to collect information on the
current use of NOAA’s National
Weather Service (NWS) Weather
Prediction Center (WPC) products,

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