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Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 246 / Tuesday, December 22, 2020 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration

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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Non-Commercial Permit and
Reporting Requirements in the Main
Hawaiian Islands Bottomfish Fishery
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 August 24,
2020, during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
Agency: NOAA National Marine
Fisheries Service.
Title: Non-commercial Permit and
Reporting Requirements in the Main
Hawaiian Islands Bottomfish Fishery.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0577.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission
(extension of a currently approved
collection).
Number of Respondents: 100.
Average Hours per Response: 15
minutes per permit application; 2 hours
per appeal of denied permit; 20 minutes
per logbook form.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 69.
Needs and Uses: Each boat-based noncommercial fisherman and vessel owner
who fishes for bottomfish management
unit and ecosystem component species
in the federal waters of the main
Hawaiian Islands must obtain a noncommercial bottomfish fishing permit
from the NMFS or hold a State of
Hawaii Commercial Marine License.
Each permitted vessel owner or operator
must submit a logsheet report after the
conclusion of every fishing trip. The
permit is required for all vessel owners,
operators, and fishermen. The
information from the permit and
logsheet are used by NMFS, the Western
Pacific Fishery Management Council,
and federal enforcement agencies to
monitor and manage the fishery.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; business or other for-profit
organizations.

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Frequency: As required.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: 50 CFR 665.
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 https://
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Find this particular information
collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under
Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or
by using the search function and
entering either the title of the collection
or the OMB Control Number 0648–0577.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

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
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Endangered Species; File No. 23861
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; issuance of permit.
AGENCY:

Notice is hereby given that
NMFS has issued an Incidental Take
Permit (ITP) (No. 23861) to Midwest
Biodiversity Institute (MBI), pursuant to
the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of
1973, as amended, for the incidental
take of shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser
brevirostrum), Gulf of Main Distinct
population segment (GOM DPS)
Atlantic sturgeon, or the New York
Bight (NYB DPS) of Atlantic sturgeon.
(A. oxyrinchus) and the GOM DPS
Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
associated with the otherwise lawful
sampling of non-ESA listed fish in the
Lower Kennebec River. The permit is
issued for a duration of 10 years.
ADDRESSES: The incidental take permit,
final environmental assessment, and
other related documents are available on
the NMFS Office of Protected Resources
website at https://
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/action/
incidental-take-permit-midwestbiodiversity-institute.
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Celeste Stout, phone: (301) 427–8436 or
email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 9
of the ESA and Federal regulations
prohibit the ‘taking’ of a species listed
as endangered or threatened. The ESA
defines ‘‘take’’ to mean harass, harm,
pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap,
capture, or collect, or to attempt to
engage in any such conduct. NMFS may
issue permits, under limited
circumstances to take listed species
incidental to, and not the purpose of,
otherwise lawful activities. Section
10(a)(1)(B) of the ESA provides for
authorizing incidental take of listed
species. NMFS regulations governing
permits for threatened and endangered
species are promulgated at 50 CFR
222.307.
NMFS received a permit application
from MBI on January 31, 2020. Based on
our initial review of the application and
conservation plan, we requested further
information and clarification. On March
30, 2020, MBI submitted a revised and
complete application for the take of
ESA-listed shortnose sturgeon, Atlantic
sturgeon and Atlantic salmon due to the
sampling of non-ESA listed fish in the
Lower Kennebec River. MBI proposes to
continue an 18 yearlong (2002–19)
systematic assessment of the fish
assemblages at seven sites in an
approximate 17.5 mile (28.2 km) reach
of the Lower Kennebec River and three
sites in a 6 mile (9.7 km) reach of the
Sebasticook River. MBI will conduct
boat electrofishing where electric
current is generated by a Smith-Root
Generator Powered Pulsator and
transmitted into the water by an
electrode array suspended from the bow
of 16–18 foot long (25–29 km) jon boats
or a 16 foot long inflatable Wing raft.
NMFS determined that the application
contained sufficient information for
review and consideration under section
10(a)(1)(B) of the ESA. NMFS then
provided an opportunity for public
review of MBI’s application and
Conservation Plan. On April 17, 2020,
NMFS published a notice of receipt
(NOR) of the MBI application in the
Federal Register (85 FR 21413). The
comment period ended on May 18, 2020
and six comments were received. Two
of these comments did not pertain to the
notice and four were considered
relevant. Two of these comments
consisted of uploaded letters. The first
was from the Maine Council of the
Atlantic Salmon Federation and the
Maine Council of Trout Unlimited and
the second was from The Nature

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