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Specified Fishing Agreements for U.S. Territorial Catch, Effort, and Allocation Limits

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Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 88 / Friday, May 6, 2022 / Notices

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Specified Fishing
Agreements for U.S. Territorial Catch,
Effort, and Allocation Limits
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 January
20th, 2022 during a 60-day comment
period. This notice allows for an
additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: NOAA National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS).

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Title: Specified Fishing Agreements
for U.S. Territorial Catch, Effort, and
Allocation Limits.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0689.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular (extension of
a current collection of information).
Number of Respondents: 3.
Average Hours per Response: 30
hours per agreement; 15 hours per
appeal.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 90.
Needs and Uses: The Fishery
Ecosystem Plan for Pacific Pelagic
Fisheries of the Western Pacific Region
(FEP) and regulations at 50 CFR 665.819
allow the Western Pacific Fishery
Management Council (Council) to
recommend and NMFS to implement
catch or fishing effort limits for pelagic
fisheries in the Territory of American
Samoa, the Territory of Guam, and the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands (CNMI) (hereinafter, ‘‘territory’’
or ‘‘territories’’). The regulations further
allow NMFS to authorize the
government of each territory to allocate
a portion of its catch or fishing effort
limit to U.S. fishing vessels through
specified fishing agreements between
the vessels and the respective territories.
Payments made by the vessels under
these agreements support fisheries
development in the territories.
Specified fishing agreements include
the identity of fishing vessels subject to
the agreement, the amount (weight) of
fish or fishing effort to which the
agreement applies, and any amount paid
under the agreement. Additionally, an
authorized official of the U.S. territory
and each vessel owner or their
designated representative must sign the
agreements. There is no specified form
for an agreement.
NMFS uses the information in the
agreements to determine vessel
eligibility, and ensure the amount of
fish or fishing effort allocated under the
agreement is consistent with the FEP,
the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act,
other applicable laws, and the
conservation needs of the fish stock.
The request also includes a change to
the collection’s title for improved
clarity, from ‘‘Amendment 7 to the
Fishery Ecosystem Plan for Pelagic
Fisheries of the Western Pacific
Region—U.S. Territorial Catch and
Fishing Effort Limits’’ to ‘‘Specified
Fishing Agreements for U.S. Territorial
Catch, Effort, and Allocation Limits.’’
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; business or other for-profit
organizations; State or Territorial
governments.
Frequency: Annual.

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Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
Obtain or Retain Benefits.
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.; 50 CFR
665.819).
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 0648–0689.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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Administration
[RTID 0648–XB866]

Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to
Specified Activities; Taking Marine
Mammals Incidental to Geophysical
Surveys of the Guerrero Gap in the
Eastern Tropical Pacific
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; issuance of an incidental
harassment authorization (IHA).
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
regulations implementing the Marine
Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) as
amended, NMFS has issued an IHA to
the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
(L–DEO) to incidentally harass marine
mammals during geophysical surveys of
the Guerrero Gap off the coast of Mexico
in the Eastern Tropical Pacific.
DATES: This authorization is effective
from May 2, 2022 through May 1, 2023.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Amy Fowler, 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,

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may be obtained online at: https://
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/permit/
incidental-take-authorizations-undermarine-mammal-protection-act. In case
of problems accessing these documents,
please call the contact listed above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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
proposed or, if the taking is limited to
harassment, a notice of a proposed
incidental harassment authorization is
provided to the public for review.
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 the 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 the takings are set forth.
The definitions of all applicable
MMPA statutory terms cited above are
included in the relevant sections below.
Summary of Request
On August 21, 2021, NMFS received
a request from L–DEO for an IHA to take
marine mammals incidental to
geophysical surveys of the Guerrero Gap
off the coast of Mexico in the Eastern
Tropical Pacific (ETP). The application
was deemed adequate and complete on
December 14, 2021. L–DEO’s request is
for take of a small number of 30 species
of marine mammals by Level B
harassment and, for two of those
species, by Level A harassment. NMFS
published a notice of proposed IHA for
public review and comment on January
12, 2022 (87 FR 1992). Neither L–DEO
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mortality to result from this activity
and, therefore, an IHA is appropriate.
Description of Planned Activity
Researchers from L–DEO, University
of Texas Institute of Geophysics (UTIG),
and Northern Arizona University
(NAU), with funding from the National
Science Foundation (NSF), and in
collaboration with researchers from the
National Autonomous University of
Mexico (Universidad Nacional
Autonoma de Mexico or UNAM) and
Kyoto University, plan to conduct highenergy seismic surveys from the
research vessel (R/V) Marcus G.
Langseth (Langseth) in and around the
Guerrero Gap off western Mexico, in the
ETP in the mid- to late-spring of 2022.
The study uses two-dimensional (2–D)
seismic surveying to quantify incoming
plate hydration and examine the role of
fluids on megathrust slip behavior in
and around the Guerrero Gap of the
Middle America Trench. L–DEO plans
to conduct two different methods of
seismic acquisition, multi-channel
seismic (MCS) using a hydrophone
streamer and refraction surveys using
ocean bottom seismometers (OBSs). A
total of 3,600 kilometers (km) of transect
lines would be surveyed (2,230 km of
2–D MCS reflection data and 1,370 km
of OBS refraction data). Approximately
62 percent of the total survey effort
would be MCS surveys, with the
remaining 38 percent using OBSs. The
planned surveys use a 36-airgun towed
array with a total discharge volume of
∼6600 cubic inches (in3) as an acoustic
source, acquiring return signals using
both a towed streamer as well as OBSs.
The total survey duration will be
approximately 48 days, including
approximately 20 days of seismic survey
operations, 3 days of transit to and from
the survey area, 19 days for equipment
deployment/recovery, and 6 days of
contingency time for poor weather, etc.
The majority of the 2–D seismic
surveys would occur within the
Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of
Mexico, including territorial seas, and a
small portion would occur in
International Waters. Approximately 6
percent of the total survey effort would
occur in Mexican territorial waters. Note
that the MMPA does not apply in
Mexican territorial waters. L–DEO is
subject only to Mexican law in
conducting that portion of the survey.
However, NMFS has calculated the
expected level of incidental take in the
entire activity area (including Mexican
territorial waters) as part of the analysis
supporting our determination under the
MMPA that the activity will have a
negligible impact on the affected species
or stocks (see Estimated Take and

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