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occurred and the subsequent assessment
of double antidumping duties.
Administrative Protective Order
This notice serves as the only
reminder to parties subject to an
administrative protective order (APO) of
their responsibility concerning the
disposition of proprietary information
disclosed under APO in accordance
with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3), which
continues to govern business
proprietary information in this segment
of the proceeding. Timely written
notification of the return or destruction
of APO materials or conversion to
judicial protective order is hereby
requested. Failure to comply with the
regulations and terms of an APO is a
sanctionable violation.
Notification to Interested Parties
This notice is issued and published in
accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and
777(i) of the Act, and 19 CFR
351.221(b)(5).
Dated: February 1, 2024.
Abdelali Elouaradia,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement
and Compliance.
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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Alaska Crab Arbitration
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 September
19, 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: Alaska Crab Arbitration.
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Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission
(extension of a current information
collection).
Number of Respondents: 2.
Average Hours per Response: Annual
Arbitration Organization Report: 6
hours; Cost Allocation Agreement: 16
hours.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 28
hours.
Needs and Uses: 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
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
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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
fishery actually initiate binding
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
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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.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; Business or other for-profit
organizations.
Frequency: Annually; As needed.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act (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 0648–0516.
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; Marine Mammal Stranding
Reports/Marine Mammal Rehabilitation
Disposition Report/Human Interaction
Data Sheet
National Oceanic &
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of information collection,
request for comment.
AGENCY:

The Department of
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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 April 8, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments to
Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer,
at [email protected]. Please
reference OMB Control Number 0648–
0178 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 Stephen
Manley, Biologist, Office of Protected
Resources, 1315 East West Highway,
#13604, Silver Spring, MD 20910, (301)
427–8476 or [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
This request is for a 1-year extension
of this previously approved data
collection. An extension is requested in
order to provide time for the program
office to address revisions to the
collection pursuant to a recent law.
Under the Marine Mammal Protection
Act (MMPA), the Secretary of
Commerce (Secretary), who has
delegated responsibility under this Act
to the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, is
charged with the protection and
management of marine mammals and is
responsible for collecting information
on marine mammal strandings, which
will be compiled and analyzed, by
region, to monitor species, numbers,
conditions, and causes of illnesses and
deaths of stranded animals. The
Secretary is also responsible for
collection of information on other life
history and reference level data,
including marine mammal tissue
analyses, that would allow comparison
of the causes of illness and deaths in
stranded marine mammals by physical,
chemical, and biological environmental
parameters.
In addition, determinations must be
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other human activities on marine
mammals and endangered species, and
on the health of marine mammals and
related environmental considerations.
NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS) has the responsibility to
carry out these mandates.
Section 402(b) of the MMPA (16
U.S.C. 1421a) requires the Secretary to
collect and update information on
strandings. It further provides that the
Secretary shall compile and analyze, by
region, the species, numbers,
conditions, and causes of illnesses and
deaths in stranded marine mammals.
Section 404 (a) of the MMPA (16 U.S.C.
1421c) mandates that the Secretary
respond to unusual marine mammal
mortality events. Without a historical
baseline provided by marine mammal
information collected from strandings,
detection of such events could be
difficult and the investigation could be
impeded. Section 401(b) of the MMPA
(16 U.S.C. 1421) requires NMFS to
facilitate the collection and
dissemination of reference data on the
health of marine mammal populations
in the wild and to correlate health with
physical, chemical, and biological
environmental parameters. In order to
perform this function, NMFS must
standardize data collection protocols for
health and correlations. Data and
samples collected from stranded
animals are a critical part of the
implementation of this mandate of the
MMPA.
Specifically, the data from the Marine
Mammal Stranding Report (MMSR)
forms provide NMFS with information
on the morphology, life history, biology,
general health, health and stranding
trends, causes of mortality, and
distribution of marine mammal species.
These data provide information which
may help in making assessments on the
status of population stocks. Recording
data on gross mortalities may serve as
an indicator that a particular population
is impacted, threatened or at increased
risk, and when provided in a timely
manner, aid in dynamic management
practices. Stranding data also provide
an important baseline for detecting and
monitoring the impacts of
environmental phenomena, such as El
Nin˜o and Harmful Algal Blooms
(HABs). Minor edits to the current
version of the form are proposed,
including beginning to collect live,
entangled large whale data in this data
collection and streamlining the
confidence codes.
The Marine Mammal Rehabilitation
Disposition Report (MMRDR) provides
NMFS with information on the
disposition of animals brought in for
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