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• Daily logbooks provide data about
the location and timing of fishing effort,
as well as discard information of
prohibited species. NOAA Office for
Law Enforcement (OLE) and the United
States Coast Guard (USCG) use logbook
information during vessel boardings and
site visits to ensure conservation of
groundfish, compliance with
regulations, and reporting accuracy by
the fishing industry. The logbooks are
also an important source of information
for NMFS to determine where and when
fishing activity occurs and the number
of sets and hauls.
• Vessel activity reports provide
information about fish or fish product
on board a vessel when it crosses the
boundary of the EEZ off Alaska or
crosses the U.S.—Canada international
boundary between Alaska and British
Columbia. NOAA OLE and USCG
boarding officers use this information to
audit and separate product inventory
when boarding a vessel.
• Check-in/check-out reports provide
information on participation by
processors and motherships in the
groundfish fisheries. The check-in/
check-out information is used by NMFS
in-season managers to monitor the
fishing capacity and effort in fishery
allocations and quotas. Additionally,
NOAA OLE agents use this information
to track commercial business activity
and ensure accurate accountability and
proper reporting is being performed.
• Product transfer reports provide
information on the volume of
groundfish disposed of by persons
buying it from the harvesters. The
product transfer report is an important
enforcement document and provides an
important check on buyer purchase
reports. Information collected on
product transfer reports is used by
NOAA OLE to verify the accuracy of
reported shipments through physical
inspections. NOAA OLE uses the
product transfer report to monitor
movement of product in and out of the
processor on a timely basis.

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II. Method of Collection
Paper logbooks are submitted by mail
or delivery. The Vessel Activity Report,
Product Transfer Report, and Check-in/
Check-out Reports are submitted by
email or fax.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–0213.
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.

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Estimated Number of Respondents:
289.
Estimated Time per Response: Catcher
Vessel Trawl DFL: 18 minutes; Catcher
Vessel Longline/Pot DFL: 35 minutes;
Catcher/Processor Longline/Pot DCPL:
50 minutes; Shoreside Processor Checkin/Check-out Report: 5 minutes;
Mothership Check-in/Check-out Report:
7 minutes; Product Transfer Report: 20
minutes; Vessel Activity Report: 14
minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 13,706 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $5,875 in recordkeeping and
reporting costs.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act.
IV. Request for Comments
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 Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
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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; Processed Products Family
of Forms
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 July 26,
2023 during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
Title: Processed Products Family of
Forms.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0018.
Form Number(s): NOAA Forms 88–
13, 88–13C.
Type of Request: Regular submission
(extension of a current information
collection).
Number of Respondents: 240.
Average Hours per Response: 30
minutes per response (0.5 hours).
Total Annual Burden Hours: 135.
Needs and Uses: This request is for
extension of a currently approved
information collection. This family of
surveys provides necessary information
on the seafood processing sector
including volume of seafood products
produced and their value. This data aids
in gauging the industry and provides the
basis for economic and scientific
analyses.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations.
Frequency: Form 88–13—Annual;
Form 88–13c—Monthly.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory
for some Federal Permit holders,
otherwise voluntary.
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view the

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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 0648–0018.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
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; West Coast Groundfish Trawl
Economic Data
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 March 23,
2023 during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
Title: West Coast Groundfish Trawl
Economic Data.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0618.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular (extension of
a currently approved information
collection).
Number of Respondents: 361.
Average Hours per Response: 8 hours
for catcher processors, catcher vessels,
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permit owners, and 20 hours for first
receivers and shore-based processors.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,236.
Needs and Uses: This request is for
revision and renewal of a currently
approved information collection. This
information collection is needed in
order to meet the monitoring
requirements of the Magnuson-Stevens
Act (MSA). In particular, the Northwest
Fisheries Science Center (NWFSC)
needs economic data on all harvesters,
quota share permit owners, first
receivers, shore-based processors,
catcher processors, and motherships
participating in the West Coast
groundfish trawl fishery. Data will be
collected from all catcher vessels
registered to a limited entry trawl
endorsed permit, quota share permit
owners, catcher processors registered to
catcher processor permits, motherships
registered to mothership permits, first
receivers, and shore based processors
that received round or head-and-gutted
IFQ groundfish or whiting from a first
receiver to provide the necessary
information for analyzing the effects of
the West Coast Groundfish Trawl Catch
Share Program.
Changes are being proposed to three
forms: the quota share owner form, the
first receiver and shore-based processor
form, and the catcher vessel form. Two
changes are proposed for the quota
share owner form. First, the question ‘‘Is
this permit owned solely by a nonprofit?’’ will be removed from the
survey as it was determined that
sufficient information is available from
other sources to make this question
redundant. The second proposed change
is to replace the survey’s third question
with a series of shorter questions
guiding the participant to provide the
correct information. This change will
clarify which information should be
reported for each type of respondent
and will reduce the need for lengthy
instructions section describing how the
participant should answer. The series of
questions are:
A. ‘‘Which types of quota transactions
were associated with QSXXXX in 20XX?
Check all that apply’’ This question
helps the participant determine whether
any earnings need to be reported on the
survey. If appropriate categories are
checked, they will be asked question B.
B. ‘‘How much did this quota share
account earn from leasing quota in year
20XX?’’ Participants will answer this
question with a dollar amount. To
ensure there is no duplicate reporting,
participants will be asked question C:
C. ‘‘Did you record any earnings from
20XX quota leasing on an EDC form?’’
If participants answer ‘‘No,’’ they will
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response to question B was correct and
submit the survey. If they answer ‘‘Yes,’’
they will be asked to respond to
question D.
D. ‘‘How much in quota lease earnings
did you record on your EDC form(s)?
Participants will answer with a
numerical value and proceed to
question E.
E. ‘‘Please confirm your total quota
lease earnings in 20XX was ‘Response to
question B + ‘Response to question D.’
After confirming, participants will then
submit the survey.
We anticipate no additional burden
with this change because the new
structure of the survey will generate
fewer incorrect responses and survey
administrators will no longer need to
contact participants outside of the
survey to confirm that they did not
provide duplicate responses across
survey forms.
First receiver and shore-based
processor form changes are more
extensive. The purpose of the changes is
fivefold: remove requests for
information that are not used in
development of a Pacific Fishery
Management Council Fishery
Management Plan, consolidate
questions where additional detail is no
longer required, clarify handling of
intercompany transfers and inventory,
collect more accurate information about
hourly wages, obtain information about
services provided by first receivers to
vessels.
First, we propose a complete removal
of Question 18: ‘‘Provide the following
information about the landing origin of
groundfish received at this facility.’’
Throughout the eleven years of the
program, these data have not been used
in the Council process and we do not
anticipate using this information in the
future.
Second, we propose consolidating the
fishery-level detail requests from
Question 19: ‘‘Fish Received. In the
table below provide the weight and cost
of fish received.’’ For groundfish
species, the existing form requests
weight not paid for, weight paid for, and
cost of fish by species group for three
fisheries (LE Trawl, LE Fixed Gear, and
Other) as well as Non-vessel sources. In
the revised form, the table will be
consolidated to only request Vessel
sources and Non-vessel sources. This
will be a net reduction of 72 data entry
cells on the form (12 species groups ×
removal of 2 fisheries × 3 fields). We
will no longer request this information
because fishery-detail information can
be obtained from other sources.
Third, we propose revising how
intercompany transfers and inventory
are reported on the form. Similar to the

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