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requirements are detailed at 50 CFR
600.745(b)(2). Interim, annual, and nocatch/fishing reports must also be
submitted to the Atlantic HMS
Management Division within NMFS.
The authority for NMFS requiring this
information is found at 50 CFR 635.32.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profit organizations (vessel owners
or aquariums); Not-for-profit institutions
(academic researchers); State, Local, or
Tribal governments (state agency
researchers); Federal government
(federal agency researchers).
Frequency: Permit applications,
scientific research plans, and annual
reports are submitted annually; interim
and no catch reports are submitted
monthly; departure notifications are
submitted for each trip; permit
amendment applications are submitted
as needed.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.), and the
Atlantic Tunas Convention Act of 1975
(16 U.S.C. 971 et seq.)
This information collection request
may be viewed at reginfo.gov. Follow
the instructions to view 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 0648–0471.
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–XA892]

Fisheries of the Gulf of Mexico and
Atlantic; Southeast Data, Assessment,
and Review (SEDAR); Public Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.

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Notice of SEDAR 68 Assessment
Webinar III for Gulf of Mexico and
Atlantic scamp grouper.

ACTION:

The SEDAR 68 assessment
process of Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic
scamp will consist of a series of data
and assessment webinars, and a Review
Workshop. See SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.
DATES: The SEDAR 68 Assessment
Webinar III will be held March 22, 2021,
from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., Eastern Time.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held
via webinar. The webinar is open to
members of the public. Those interested
in participating should contact Julie A.
Neer at SEDAR (see FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT) to request an
invitation providing webinar access
information. Please request webinar
invitations at least 24 hours in advance
of each webinar.
SEDAR address: 4055 Faber Place
Drive, Suite 201, North Charleston, SC
29405.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julie
A. Neer, SEDAR Coordinator; (843) 571–
4366, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Gulf
of Mexico, South Atlantic, and
Caribbean Fishery Management
Councils, in conjunction with NOAA
Fisheries and the Atlantic and Gulf
States Marine Fisheries Commissions
have implemented the Southeast Data,
Assessment and Review (SEDAR)
process, a multi-step method for
determining the status of fish stocks in
the Southeast Region. SEDAR is a multistep process including: (1) Data
Workshop, (2) a series of assessment
webinars, and (3) A Review Workshop.
The product of the Data Workshop is a
report that compiles and evaluates
potential datasets and recommends
which datasets are appropriate for
assessment analyses. The assessment
webinars produce a report that describes
the fisheries, evaluates the status of the
stock, estimates biological benchmarks,
projects future population conditions,
and recommends research and
monitoring needs. The product of the
Review Workshop is an Assessment
Summary documenting panel opinions
regarding the strengths and weaknesses
of the stock assessment and input data.
Participants for SEDAR Workshops are
appointed by the Gulf of Mexico, South
Atlantic, and Caribbean Fishery
Management Councils and NOAA
Fisheries Southeast Regional Office,
HMS Management Division, and
Southeast Fisheries Science Center.
Participants include data collectors and
database managers; stock assessment
scientists, biologists, and researchers;
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constituency representatives including
fishermen, environmentalists, and
NGO’s; International experts; and staff
of Councils, Commissions, and state and
federal agencies.
The items of discussion during the
Assessment Webinar are as follows:
1. Using datasets and initial
assessment analysis recommended from
the data webinars, panelists will employ
assessment models to evaluate stock
status, estimate population benchmarks
and management criteria, and project
future conditions.
2. Participants will recommend the
most appropriate methods and
configurations for determining stock
status and estimating population
parameters.
Although non-emergency issues not
contained in this agenda may come
before this group for discussion, those
issues may not be the subject of formal
action during this meeting. Action will
be restricted to those issues specifically
identified in this notice and any issues
arising after publication of this notice
that require emergency action under
section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act, provided the public has been
notified of the intent to take final action
to address the emergency.
Special Accommodations
The meeting is physically accessible
to people with disabilities. Requests for
sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aids should be directed to the
Council office (see ADDRESSES) at least 5
business days prior to each workshop.
Note: The times and sequence specified in
this agenda are subject to change.
(Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.)
Dated: February 18, 2021.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Comment Request;
Southeast Region IFQ Programs
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

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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 December 1,
2020, during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration,
Commerce.
Title: Southeast Region IFQ Programs.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0551.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular
submission—extension and revision of a
current information collection.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
1,164.
Estimated Time per Response:
• Dealer Landing Transaction Report, 6
minutes (electronic form)
• Dealer Landing Transaction Report, 5
minutes (paper form used in
catastrophic conditions only)
• Dealer Cost Recovery Fee Submission
through pay.gov, 3 minutes
• IFQ Notification of Landing, 5
minutes
• Transfer Shares, 3 minutes
• Share Receipt, 2 minutes
• Transfer Allocation, 3 minutes
• IFQ Online Account Application, 13
minutes
• Wreckfish Quota Share Transfer, 20
minutes
• Landing Transaction Correction
Request, 5 minutes
• Commercial Reef Fish Landing
Location Request, 5 minutes
• Account Update, 2 minutes
• Trip Ticket Update, 2 minutes
• Gulf Reef Fish Notification of
Landing, 3 minutes
• IFQ Close Account, 3 minutes
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 2,109.
Needs and Uses: The National Marine
Fisheries Service’s Southeast Regional
Office manages three commercial
individual fishing quota (IFQ) and
individual transferable quota (ITQ)
programs in the U.S. southeast region
under the authority of the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and
Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens
Act). The IFQ programs for red snapper,
and groupers and tilefishes occur in
Federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico
(Gulf), and the ITQ program for
wreckfish occurs in Federal waters of
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The NMFS Southeast Regional Office
proposes to extend and revise parts of
the information collection currently
approved under OMB Control Number
0648–0551. This collection of
information tracks the transfer and use
of IFQ and ITQ shares, and IFQ
allocation and landings by commercial
fishermen necessary for NMFS to
operate, administer, and review
management of the IFQ and ITQ
programs. Regulations for the IFQ and
ITQ programs are located at 50 CFR part
622.
For the Gulf IFQ programs, the
revisions would collect additional
business and demographic information
on the IFQ Online Account Application,
as well as add a requirement to input
the vessel signature personal
identification number (PIN) a second
time on the Dealer Landing Transaction
Report if a criterion is met.
NMFS would revise the IFQ Online
Account Application to obtain
ownership percentage data for any
business that participates in the Gulf
IFQ programs, as well as the type of
business, and confirmation of whether
the business is small or large, as defined
by Small Business Administration
standards.
NMFS would revise the Dealer
Landing Transaction Report to add a
requirement for a shareholder to input
the vessel signature PIN a second time
if the landing transaction would result
in a 10 percent overage of their catch
allocation during that fishing year.
NMFS proposes to add a feature to the
Dealer Landing Transaction Report that
would notify the shareholder that a 10
percent overage would occur and in
which categories, and require the vessel
signature PIN to accept the overage.
Although the 10 percent overage is
utilized infrequently, this would
provide the shareholder the opportunity
to transfer allocation and avoid using
the 10 percent overage.
The purpose of revising the IFQ
Online Account Application is to better
comply with National Standard 4 (NS4)
of the Magnuson-Stevens Act, the
Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA), and
the Small Business Administration’s
regulations implementing the RFA,
Executive Order 12898, and the
‘‘fairness and equitable distribution’’
provisions of the Magnuson-Stevens
Act, including NS4 and section
303(b)(6). The purpose of revising the
Dealer Landing Transaction Report is to
better inform participants in the Gulf
IFQ programs and require an additional
verification from them when the
existing flexibility measure of a 10
percent overage of their allocation
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If implemented by NMFS, these
administrative revisions would slightly
increase the estimated time per response
to complete the IFQ Online Account
Application. NMFS estimates the time
per response would increase from 10 to
13 minutes. However, NMFS does not
expect the estimated time per response
for the Dealer Landing Transaction
Report to change. The cost of both the
IFQ Online Account Application and
the Dealer Landing Transaction Report
would remain the same. NMFS proposes
no other revisions to the existing
information collections for the IFQ and
ITQ programs approved in OMB Control
No. 0648–0551.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations.
Frequency: Annually, quarterly, and
on occasion.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory,
required to obtain or retain benefits.
Legal Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
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 0648–0551.
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; Ocean Exploration
Advisory Board
Office of Ocean Exploration
and Research (OER), National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA), Department of Commerce
(DOC).
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:

This notice sets forth the
schedule and proposed agenda for a
meeting of the Ocean Exploration
Advisory Board (OEAB). OEAB
members will discuss and provide
advice on Federal ocean exploration

SUMMARY:

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