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III. Data

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

OMB Control Number: 0648–0709.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission
(extension of a current information
collection).
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; Business or other for-profit
organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
22,000.
Estimated Time per Response: 31⁄2
minutes each for a telephone interview.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 1,283.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $0 in recordkeeping/reporting
costs.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration

IV. Request for Comments

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We are soliciting public comments to
permit the Department/Bureau to: (a)
Evaluate whether the proposed
information collection is necessary for
the proper functions of the Department,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the
accuracy of our estimate of the time and
cost burden for this proposed collection,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c)
Evaluate ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (d) Minimize the
reporting burden on those who are to
respond, including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. We will include or
summarize each comment in our request
to OMB to approve this ICR. Before
including your address, phone number,
email address, or other personal
identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment—including your
personal identifying information—may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you may ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Alaska Interagency
Electronic Reporting System (IERS)
National Oceanic &
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of Information
Collection, request for comment.
AGENCY:

The Department of
Commerce, in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), invites 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. The purpose of this
notice is to allow for 60 days of public
comment preceding submission of the
collection to OMB.
DATES: To ensure consideration,
comments regarding this proposed
information collection must be received
on or before August 24, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments to
Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer,
at [email protected]. Please
reference OMB Control Number 0648–
0515 in the subject line of your
comments. Do not submit Confidential
Business Information or otherwise
sensitive or protected information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
specific questions related to collection
activities should be directed to Gabrielle
Aberle, 907–586–7228.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

I. Abstract
The National Marine Fisheries
Services (NMFS), Alaska Regional
Office, is requesting extension of a
currently approved information
collection for the Alaska Interagency
Electronic Reporting System (IERS).
IERS is a fisheries data collection
system that enables the management of
commercial fisheries off Alaska and is
supported through a partnership among
the NMFS Alaska Regional Office, the
Alaska Department of Fish and Game
(ADF&G), and the International Pacific
Halibut Commission (IPHC). IERS
provides the Alaska fishing industry
with a consolidated, electronic means of
reporting commercial fish and shellfish

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information to multiple management
agencies through a single reporting
system. The recordkeeping and
reporting requirements for IERS are
located at 50 CFR 679.5.
Users enter information into IERS
using three main components,
depending on their internet access and
transmission capability:
• eLandings provides web-based
access for shoreside and stationary
floating processors to submit landings
and production information and also by
some catcher/processors and
motherships who have access to the
internet to submit their data.
• seaLandings is a fishery harvest
reporting software program that
functions without constant internet
connectivity and is installed on
computer workstations. The
seaLandings interface targets at-sea
vessels with limited access to the web
(typically for catcher/processors and
motherships which report at sea).
Landings, production, and eLog
information can be sent from
seaLandings via direct transmission (a
report file is zipped up and sent over
the internet and processed behind the
scenes) or via email.
• tLandings is a USB-installed
program that tender vessels with no web
access can use to enter landings
information.
Through IERS, NMFS collects
information on landings, production,
and effort for groundfish and crab
species to support the agency’s
management responsibilities. IERS has
four main information collections:
Registration, landing reports,
production reports, and electronic
logbooks. Landing reports document the
harvest of fish and shellfish that is sold,
discarded, or retained by the fisherman.
Production reports provide information
on the amount of processed product that
is generated by processors. Logbooks
provide information about where and
when fishing effort occurs. NMFS uses
information collected in IERS for inseason and inter-season management
decisions that affect the fishery
resources and the fishing industry that
uses those resources.
Information collected through the
IERS promotes the goals and objectives
of fishery management plans, the
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act, and
other applicable laws. Collecting
information from fishery participants is
necessary for successful management of
groundfish, crab, Pacific halibut, and
salmon resources.
Compared with paper forms and
conventional logbooks, IERS is a more
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method of fisheries reporting. Benefits
of IERS include improved data quality,
automated processing of data, improved
process for correcting or updating
information, availability of more timely
data for fishery managers, and reduction
of duplicative reporting of similar
information to multiple agencies.
Additionally, IERS provides continuous
online access to individual accounts for
participants.
This renewal will incorporate the
change request associated with the rule
for Amendment 121 to Fishery
Management Plan for Groundfish of the
Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands
Management Area and Amendment 110
to Fishery Management Plan for
Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska (RIN
0648–BJ49). The proposed rule
published in the Federal Register on
April 23, 2020 (85 FR 22703).
Publication of the final rule is expected
later this year prior to approval of the
renewal of this information collection.
The rule reclassifies sculpins as a nontarget ecosystem component (EC)
species and makes minor revisions to
the information collection requirements
to clarify the location of the species
code for sculpins in the tables to 50 CFR
part 679 to note that sculpins should be
reported as non-target EC species rather
than target species.

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II. Method of Collection
The eLandings registration, landing
reports, production reports, and
electronic logbooks are submitted via
the internet. For catcher/processors and
motherships that do not have reliable
internet service, seaLandings can be
used to generate report files for
submitting via email. Tender vessels
that do not have access to email or the
internet can enter the information
electronically on a USB drive that is
later uploaded to eLandings over the
internet. eLandings registration and the
out-of-state landing report may be
submitted by fax.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–0515.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission
(extension of a current information
collection).
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; Business or other for-profit
organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
206.
Estimated Time per Response:
eLandings registration, 15 minutes;
electronic logbooks, 15 minutes;
shoreside processor production report,
10 minutes; at-sea processor production
report, 20 minutes; mothership landing

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report, 10 minutes; out-of-state landing
report, 20 minutes; shoreside processor
and catcher processor, landing reports,
30 minutes each; registered buyer and
registered crab receiver landing reports,
60 minutes each.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 22,850 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $5,639 in recordkeeping/
reporting costs.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
IV. Request for Comments

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Billfish Tagging Report
National Oceanic &
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of information collection,
request for comment.
AGENCY:

The Department of
Commerce, in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), invites 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. The purpose of this
notice is to allow for 60 days of public
comment preceding submission of the
collection to OMB.
DATES: To ensure consideration,
comments regarding this proposed
information collection must be received
on or before August 24, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments to
Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer,
at [email protected]. Please
reference OMB Control Number 0648–
0009 in the subject line of your
comments. Do not submit Confidential
Business Information or otherwise
sensitive or protected information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
specific questions related to collection
activities should be directed to Nicole
Nasby-Lucas, Fisheries Biologist, NOAA
Southwest Fisheries Science Center,
8901 La Jolla Shores Drive, La Jolla CA
92037, (858–334–2826), or
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

We are soliciting public comments to
permit the Department/Bureau to: (a)
Evaluate whether the proposed
information collection is necessary for
the proper functions of the Department,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the
accuracy of our estimate of the time and
cost burden for this proposed collection,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c)
Evaluate ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (d) Minimize the
reporting burden on those who are to
respond, including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. We will include or
summarize each comment in our request
to OMB to approve this ICR. Before
including your address, phone number,
email address, or other personal
identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment—including your
personal identifying information—may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you may ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.

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I. Abstract
This request is for extension of a
currently approved information
collection.
The National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration’s
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
operates a conventional mark-recapture
billfish tagging program. The Billfish
Tagging Program (Program) began in
1963 and is an integral part of the
Billfish Research Program at the
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
(SWFSC). This Program is authorized
under 16 U.S.C. 760(e), Study of

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