Justification for change

JUSTIFICATION FOR CHANGE

Pacific Coast Groundfish Trawl Rationalization Program Permit and

License Information Collection

OMB CONTROL NUMBER 0648-0620

This is a change request to merge the First Receiver elements from the West Coast Region Groundfish Trawl Fishery Monitoring and Catch Accounting Program (OMB Control Number 0648-0619) with the information collection known as the Pacific Coast Groundfish Trawl Rationalization Program Permit and License Information Collection (OMB Control Number 0648-0620). Two entries for Catch Monitoring Plans and two entries for Shorebased Scales are being moved from OMB Control Number 0648-0619 to OMB Control Number 0648-0620. It has been determined that these information collections are a better fit in OMB Control Number 0648-0620.

Table A and Table B summarize the information that will now be collected in OMB Control Number 0648-0620 instead of OMB Control Number 0648-0619. There is actually a reduction in burden and cost in the elements that will now be in OMB Control No. 0620, because the number of first receivers (80) that were estimated in OMB Control No. 0619 are based on estimates from the two collections’ inception and are now shown in OMB Control No. 0648-0620 as 45.

Please see the tables on the following page, for burden and cost to be added to OMB Control No. 0648-0620. Responses and hours based on 80 first receivers have been subtracted from OMB Control No. 0648-0619, in a recently submitted revision/extension, but are being added here for the actual 45 first receivers.

Table A. Total Annual Burden Hours, Labor, and Related Costs

	Number of respondents	Frequency of annual responses per entity	Total annual responses	Estimated hours per response	Total annual burden hours	Total labor cost ($25/hr)
Catch monitoring plans/ First receivers Preparation and Submission	45	1	45	4	180	$4,500
Catch monitoring plans/ First receivers Inspection	45	1	45	2	90	$2,250
Shorebased Scales/ First receivers/ Inspection	45	Variable	45	1	45	$1,125
Shorebased scales/ First receivers/ Reports	45	Variable	1,350	10 min	225	$5,625
TOTALS	45		1,485		540	$13,500

Table B. Total Annual Miscellaneous Costs

	Total Annual Responses	Misc. costs per response	Total Misc. costs for all respondents
Catch monitoring plans Mail	45	$3	$135
Shorebased scale reports Printing	1,350	$0.05	$67.50 ($68)
TOTAL			$203

Adding 1,485 responses, 540 hours and $203 to the currently approved totals in OMB Control No. 0648-0620, increases responses from 3, 344 to 4,829, hours from 405 to 945, and recordkeeping/reporting costs from $8,985 to $9,188.