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Time, Thursday, May 28, 2020.
Kevin A. Kimball,
Chief of Staff.
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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; West Coast Region
Groundfish Trawl Fishery Electronic
Monitoring Program
The Department of Commerce will
submit the following information
collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, on or after the date of publication
of this notice. We invite the general
public and other Federal agencies to
comment on proposed, and continuing
information collections, which helps us
assess the impact of our information
collection requirements and minimize
the public’s reporting burden. Public
comments were previously requested
via the Federal Register on February 18,
2020, during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic &
Atmospheric Administration.
Title: West Coast Region Groundfish
Trawl Fishery Electronic Monitoring
Program.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0785.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission
(Revision and extension to an existing
information collection).
Number of Respondents: 174.
Average Hours per Response:
EM service providers: Application
(application form, EM service plan,
submission of EM units)—5 hours;
application renewals (biennial)—1 hour;
EM service provider appeal—4 hours;
EM service plan changes—2 hours; EM
system certification—30 minutes;
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minutes, harassment and intimidation—
1 hour, compliance reports—20
minutes, catch reports—15 minutes,
feedback to vessel—10 minutes, data
storage—15 minutes); debrief of EM
staff—2 hours 45 minutes.
Vessel owners: Initial application—30
minutes; final application (updated
application, EM system certification,
tentative fishing plan, vessel monitoring
plan)—8 hours 40 minutes; changes to
vessel monitoring plan—1 hour;
appeal—4 hours; annual EM
authorization renewal—30 minutes.
Vessel operators: One-time online EM
training provided by NMFS 1 hour 30
minutes; federal discard logbook for
each landing; hard drive submission—
10 minutes.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 5,120.
Needs and Uses: The National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS) published a
final rule on June 28, 2019 (84 FR
31146), to implement an electronic
monitoring (EM) program for two
sectors of the limited entry trawl
fishery, consistent with the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and
Management Act (MSA) and the Pacific
Coast Groundfish Fishery Management
Plan (FMP). The action allows catcher
vessels in the Pacific whiting fishery
and fixed gear vessels in the shorebased
Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) fishery
to use EM in place of observers to meet
the requirements of the Trawl
Rationalization Program for 100-percent
at-sea observer coverage. This action is
necessary to increase operational
flexibility and reduce monitoring costs
for vessels in the trawl fishery by
providing an alternative to observers.
Under this collection, some catcher
vessels will have the option to use EM
in place of observers to reduce total fleet
monitoring costs to levels sustainable
for the fleet and agency and meet the
requirements for 100-pecent observer
coverage at-sea. In place of an observer
documenting discards onboard, captains
would report estimates of their own
discards on a logbook and submit them
to NMFS. NMFS would use the discards
reported on the logbook to debit
allocations in the Vessel Accounting
System (VAS) and North Pacific
Database Program (NorPac). They would
also install and carry and EM system to
capture fishing activities at-sea.
Following the trip, an analyst would
review the video and report estimates of
discards of allocated species to NMFS to
use to audit the validity of the logbook
estimates. The EM data would also be
used to monitor compliance with the
requirements of the catch share
program. In this way, logbooks and EM
systems would be used in tandem in
place of observers to meet the objectives

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of 100-percent at-sea monitoring of the
catch share program.
Vessel operators would be required to
submit a logbook reporting their
discards of IFQ species. NMFS would
use the logbook data to debit discards of
IFQ species from IFQs and cooperative
allocations, and use the EM data to
audit the logbook data. EM data would
also be used to monitor compliance
with the requirements of the catch share
program. Vessel operators would be
required to submit a logbook reporting
their discards of IFQ species.
New requirements being added to this
collection include:
EM Service Providers will be required
to submit catch reports and feedback
reports, and store EM data and other
records.
Vessel Owners will be required to
obtain services from an NMFSpermitted EM service provider to
analyze and store EM data, and report
it to NMFS.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations.
Frequency: Annual and periodic.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: 50 CFR 660.603(b)(1)
and 660.604(b)(1) in the final rule 0648–
BF52.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view the
Department of Commerce collections
currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be
submitted within 30 days of the
publication of this notice on the
following website www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain. Find this
particular information collection by
selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day
Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or
by using the search function and
entering either the title of the collection
or the OMB Control Number 0648–0785.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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