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intention to fish in Canadian waters
prior to crossing the maritime border as
well as to mark their fishing vessels to
facilitate enforcement of the effort limits
under the Treaty. Vessel operators are
also required to maintain and submit a
logbook of all catch and fishing effort.
The regulations implementing the
reporting and vessel marking
requirements under the Treaty are at 50
CFR part 300.172–300.176. If a vessel
enters into Canadian waters without
adhering to these regulations, they will
be in violation of the treaty and
Canadian enforcement may issue a fine
or a warning.
The estimated burden below includes
hours to complete the logbook
requirement, although it is assumed that
most if not all of the respondents
already complete the required logbook
under the mandatory West Coast Highly
Migratory Species Fishery Management
Plan (HMS FMP), OMB Control No.
0648–0223. Duplicate reporting under
the Treaty and HMS FMP is not
required. Most years, there will be much
less fishing (and thus less reporting)
under the Treaty than the level on
which the estimate is based.

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II. Method of Collection
Requests to be placed on the vessel
eligibility list may be made in writing
via mail, fax, email, telephone, or
through online registration if available.
Communications to comply with ‘hail
in’ and ‘hail out’ requirements are made
via ship to shore radio or via telephone
and are compiled in an electronic
database by Fisheries and Oceans
Canada. Summaries of hail reports are
provided to NMFS on a periodic basis.
Vessel marking requirements entail
painting the letter ‘U’ immediately after
the U.S. Coast Guard documentation
identification number or state
registration number already on the
vessel. Logbooks are maintained in preprinted paper format and submitted via
mail.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–0492.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission
(extension of a current information
collection).
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
135.
Estimated Time per Response: 5
minutes for the request to be placed on
the eligible list per year; 2 hours and 55
minutes for required vessel markings; 10
minutes for logbook entries; 5 minutes
for each set of two hail reports for
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Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 840 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $2311.
IV. Request for Comments
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
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.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Proposed Information Collection;
Comment Request; Marine
Recreational Fishing Expenditure
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
comment on proposed and/or
continuing information collections, as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995.
DATES: To ensure consideration written
comments must be submitted on or
before April 24, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments
to Adrienne Thomas, PRA Officer,
NOAA, 151 Patton Avenue, Room 159,
Asheville, NC 28801 (or via the internet
at [email protected]). All
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comments received are part of the
public record. Comments will generally
be posted without change. All
Personally Identifiable Information (for
example, name and address) voluntarily
submitted by the commenter may be
publicly accessible. Do not submit
Confidential Business Information or
otherwise sensitive or protected
information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
directed to Sabrina Lovell, Economist,
Office of Science and Technology,
NMFS, 1315 East-West Hwy., Silver
Spring, MD 20910. Tel: (301) 427–8153
or [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
This request is for a regular
submission, extension of a current
information collection.
As specified in the MagnusonStevenson Fishery Conservation and
Management Act of 1996 (and
reauthorized in 2007), the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration’s (NOAA’s) National
Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is
required to enumerate the economic
impacts of the policies it implements on
fishing participants and coastal
communities. The objective of the
survey is to collect information on
marine (saltwater) recreational fishing
trip expenditures and durable good
expenditures made by marine
recreational anglers. The voluntary
survey has two parts that may be
conducted either jointly during the
same calendar year or in separate years.
The trip expenditure portion will ask
anglers about the expenses incurred on
their most recent marine recreational
fishing trip. The durable goods portion
will ask anglers about their purchases of
durable goods such as fishing gear,
boats, vehicles, and second homes over
a 12-month period. The expenditure
data collected in this regular survey is
widely used by both federal, state, and
non-governmental organizations for
research and analysis regarding the
economic importance and contributions
of marine recreational fishing to each
coastal state and nationwide. The NMFS
Office of Science and Technology
conducts the survey and publishes the
results in both technical reports and the
annual ‘Fisheries Economics of the U.S.’
report series.
II. Method of Collection
The trip expenditure portion of the
survey may be conducted using in-

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person interviews at fishing sites or
using email or mail invitations to an
online web survey (with a paper version
of the survey for anglers without
internet access). The durable goods
expenditure portion will use email or
mail invitations to an online web survey
(with a paper version of the survey for
anglers without internet access).
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–0693.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission
(extension of a current information
collection).
Affected Public: Individuals.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
88,350: 13,350 for durable good
expenditure survey; 75,000 for trip
expenditure survey.
Estimated Time per Response:
Durable goods expenditure survey, 15
minutes; trip expenditure survey 5
minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 3,346.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $0 in record keeping and
reporting costs.
IV. Request for Comments

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Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
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.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
[RTID 0648–XR077]

Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to
Specified Activities; Taking Marine
Mammals Incidental to the Gustavus
Ferry Terminal Improvements Project
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; issuance of an incidental
harassment authorization.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
regulations implementing the Marine
Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) as
amended, notification is hereby given
that NMFS has issued an incidental
harassment authorization (IHA) to the
Alaska Department of Transportation
and Public Facilities (ADOT&PF) to
incidentally harass, by Level A and
Level B harassment only, marine
mammals during pile driving and
removal activities associated with the
Gustavus Ferry Terminal Improvements
Project in Gustavus, Alaska.
DATES: This authorizations is effective
for one year from February 15, 2020
through February 14, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Robert Pauline, Office of Protected
Resources, NMFS, (301) 427–8401.
Electronic copies of the application and
supporting documents, as well as a list
of the references cited in this document,
may be obtained online at: https://
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/
marine-mammal-protection/incidentaltake-authorizations-constructionactivities. In case of problems accessing
these documents, please call the contact
listed above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

Background
The MMPA prohibits the ‘‘take’’ of
marine mammals, with certain
exceptions. Sections 101(a)(5)(A) and
(D) of the MMPA (16 U.S.C. 1361 et
seq.) direct the Secretary of Commerce
(as delegated to NMFS) to allow, upon
request, the incidental, but not
intentional, taking of small numbers of
marine mammals by U.S. 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
incidental take authorization may be
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Authorization for incidental takings
shall be granted if NMFS finds that the
taking will have a negligible impact on
the species or stock(s) and will not have
an unmitigable adverse impact on the
availability of the species or stock(s) for
taking for subsistence uses (where
relevant). Further, NMFS must prescribe
the permissible methods of taking and
other ‘‘means of effecting the least
practicable adverse impact’’ on the
affected species or stocks and their
habitat, paying particular attention to
rookeries, mating grounds, and areas of
similar significance, and on the
availability of such species or stocks for
taking for certain subsistence uses
(referred to in shorthand as
‘‘mitigation’’); and requirements
pertaining to the mitigation, monitoring
and reporting of such takings are set
forth.
Summary of Request
On November 20, 2019, NMFS
received a request from the ADOT&PF
for an IHA to take marine mammals
incidental to in-water construction
activities in Gustavus, Alaska. NMFS
previously issued an IHA to ADOT&PF
to incidentally take seven species of
marine mammal, by Level A and Level
B harassment, during construction
activities associated with this same
project. The IHA, issued on April 4,
2017 (82 FR 17209; April 10, 2017), had
effective dates of December 15, 2017
through December 14, 2018. However,
ADOT&PF was unable to conduct any of
the work and, therefore, requested a
new IHA. NMFS issued a second IHA
with effective dates of December 15,
2018 through December 14, 2019 (83 FR
55348; November 5, 2018) to cover the
incidental take analyzed and authorized
in the first IHA. There were minor
modifications to the number of piles
driven but these had no effect on
authorized take numbers, monitoring
requirement, or reporting measures,
which remained the same as stated in
the original 2017–2018 IHA.
ADOT&PF was unable to meet the fall
pile driving window (September 1
through November 30, 2019) as
originally anticipated. Due to this
setback, construction is planned to
begin in spring 2020. ADOT&PF
submitted an addendum to the original
application requesting that a
supplementary two-week timeframe be
included in the spring window from
February 15 through May 31, 2020.
During this two-week timeframe, the
contractor will begin vibratory removal
of structures in order to get ahead of
schedule while also accommodating for
one last sailing of the ferry to the
community before the ferry terminal’s

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