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III. Data

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

OMB Control Number: 0694–0092.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission,
extension of a current information
collection.
Affected Public:
Estimated Number of Respondents:
1,436,538. Business or other for-profit
organizations.
Estimated Time per Response: 1 to 16
minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 45,432.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: 1,590,120.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Defense Protection
Act of 1950 (DPA).

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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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U.S. Section Membership
Opportunities for the United StatesIndia CEO Forum
International Trade
Administration (ITA), Department of
Commerce

AGENCY:

ACTION:

Notice.

The Department of Commerce, ITA, is
amending the Notice published at 88 FR
57418 (August 23, 2023), regarding the
dates for submission of applications for
appointment to the U.S. Section of the
U.S.-India CEO Forum (‘‘Forum’’). ITA
will accept applications for membership
on the U.S. Section of the Forum for
terms that will begin upon appointment
and will expire on December 31, 2024.
Immediate consideration will now be
given to applications received by
September 29, 2023. ITA will accept
nominations under this notice on an
ongoing basis during the charter term to
fill vacancies as they arise.
ITA also notes that the following
sectors are the subject of ongoing U.S.India government engagements and is
particularly seeking applicants
representing:
• Healthcare in the context of tackling
current and future public health
emergencies and bolstering public
health efforts;
• Critical and emerging technologies
that are the focus of the U.S.-India
initiative on Critical and Emerging
Technologies (iCET), announced by
President Biden and Prime Minister
Modi in May 2022 to elevate and
expand the strategic technology
partnership and defense industrial
cooperation between the governments,
businesses, and academic institutions of
the United States and India; and
• Long-term institutional investment,
including, but not limited to, pension
and endowment funds.
For inquiries and an
application, please contact Noor
Sclafani, International Trade Specialist,
Office of South Asia, U.S. Department of
Commerce, by email at noor.sclafani@
trade.gov.

ADDRESSES:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Noor Sclafani, International Trade
Specialist, Office of South Asia, U.S.
Department of Commerce, telephone:
(202) 823–1840.
Please
refer to Notice published at 88 FR 57418
(August 23, 2023).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Dated: September 14, 2023.
Valerie Dees,
Director, Office of South Asia.
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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; Alaska Crab Arbitration
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 November 20, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments to
Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer,
at [email protected]. Please
reference OMB Control Number 0648–
0516 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, National Marine Fisheries
Service, P.O. Box 21668, Juneau, AK
99802–1668. Telephone 907–586–7356.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

I. Abstract
The National Marine Fisheries Service
(NMFS), Alaska Regional Office, is
requesting extension of a currently
approved information collection for the
Arbitration System for the Crab
Rationalization Program.
The Crab Rationalization Program
allocates Bering Sea and Aleutian
Islands (BSAI) crab resources among

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harvesters, processors, and coastal
communities. Under the Crab
Rationalization Program, eligible
License Limitation Program license
holders were issued crab quota shares
(QS), which are long term shares, based
on their qualifying license histories. The
QS yield annual individual fishing
quota (IFQ) that is an exclusive harvest
privilege for a portion of the total
allowable catch. Processor quota shares
(PQS) are long term shares issued to
processors. The PQS yield annual
individual processor quota (IPQ) that is
an exclusive privilege to receive, for
processing, a portion of the crab
harvested with Class A IFQ.
This information collection for the
Arbitration System is necessary for
NMFS to manage the Crab
Rationalization Program crab fisheries
in the BSAI. This information collection
is implemented under the Crab
Rationalization Program and required by
regulations at 50 CFR 680.20. NMFS
requires that harvesters and processors
abide by an Arbitration System
established to stabilize prices and
negotiations during the crab harvest
season. The Arbitration System is
necessary to reduce contention in price
negotiations. The information collected
is necessary for NMFS to verify the
membership of the arbitration
organizations and maintain the
Arbitration System.
The Arbitration System was designed
to fairly and equitably resolve price,
delivery terms, performance standards,
and other disputes in the event that IFQ
and IPQ holders are unable to reach
agreement on arbitration proceedings.
The Arbitration System is also designed
to minimize the potential for antitrust
violations. The Arbitration System
includes a provision for open
negotiations among IPQ and IFQ
holders, as well as various negotiation
approaches, including a share matching
approach, a lengthy season approach
where parties may postpone binding
arbitration until during the season, and
a binding arbitration procedure to
resolve price disputes between an IPQ
holder and eligible IFQ holders. The
Arbitration System also provides for
dissemination of market information to
facilitate negotiations, coordination of
matching Class A IFQ held by harvesters
to IPQ held by processors, and the
opportunity to use the binding
arbitration process to resolve terms of
price and delivery. Certain aspects of
the Arbitration System are required of
catcher vessel owners who hold QS/IFQ
and PQS/IPQ holders and operate
regardless of whether participants in the
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arbitration in order to resolve terms of
price or delivery.
This information collection contains
five components of the Arbitration
System that are submitted to NMFS.
Four are submitted annually: the
Annual Arbitration Organization Report,
the Market Report, the Non-binding
Price Formula Report, and the Cost
Allocation Agreement. The Contract
Arbitrator Report is submitted if any
arbitrations occur within a fishery.
The Annual Arbitration Organization
Report is compiled by each of the two
arbitration organizations; one
organization represents the processors,
and the second represents the
harvesters. This report includes
information on the arbitration
organization and its management
personnel, the crab QS fisheries to
which the report applies, the ownership
interest and the QS/IFQ or PQS/IPQ
held by each member; and the
arbitration process.
The Cost Allocation Agreement
provides combined shared arbitration
accounting costs. Federal regulations for
the Crab Rationalization Program
require that the crab arbitration costs are
shared equally between IPQ holders and
Class A IFQ holders—processors pay
half and fishermen pay half.
The arbitration organizations use
contracted parties to meet the
requirements of the Market Report,
Nonbinding Price Formula Report, and
Contractor Arbitrator Report.
The Non-binding Price Formula
Report is a pre-season report that is
designed to serve as a starting point for
negotiations between fishermen and
processors, or as a starting point for an
arbitrator in evaluating offers in an
arbitration process. This report
documents how each formula was
developed.
The Market Report provides an
analysis of the market for products of a
specific crab fishery and reports on
activities occurring within three months
prior to its generation. The purpose of
this report is to provide background
information on each crab fishery, the
products generated by each fishery, and
position of those products in the
marketplace; discuss the historical
division of wholesale revenue; and
provide the methods for predicting
wholesale prices before the fishery
occurs.
The Contract Arbitrator Report
documents arbitration proceedings if
they occur within a fishery.
II. Method of Collection
The information is submitted by
email, mail, delivery, or fax.

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III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–0516.
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: 2.
Estimated Time Per Response: Annual
Arbitration Organization Report: 6
hours; Cost Allocation Agreement: 16
hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 28 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $177,015 in recordkeeping and
reporting costs.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.).
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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