In accordance with 5 CFR 1320, the information collection is approved for three years.
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Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
09/30/2027
36 Months From Approved
09/30/2025
1,988
0
1,919
97
0
96
895
0
895
This is a resubmission with the final rule, of a request by the National Marine Fisheries Service Alaska Regional Office (NMFS) for revision of this currently approved information collection that contains requirements for the NMFS Alaska Region fee programs.
This information collection is necessary under the Magnuson-Stevens Act, which authorizes observer deployment fees and requires cost recovery fees to be collected for all limited access privilege programs and community development quota programs.
This information collection is revised due to a final rule to implement electronic monitoring (EM) for pelagic trawl pollock catcher vessels and tender vessels delivering pollock to shoreside processors or stationary floating processors in the Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, and Gulf of Alaska (RIN 0648-BM40). This action is intended to improve salmon accounting, reduce monitoring costs, and improve the quality of monitoring data.
This collection is revised to add the submission of the new full coverage trawl EM fee. This fee increases the total respondents, responses, and burden for this collection.
This final rule also affects information collection requirements approved under OMB Control Numbers 0213, -0318, -0330, and -0515. NMFS is submitting separate requests to revise these collections.
One change was made to this supporting statement from the proposed rule. The hourly wage rate in the response to question #12 was updated to use the most current rate available from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
US Code:
16 USC 1801
Name of Law: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
US Code: 16 USC 1801 Name of Law: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
Full Coverage Trawl Electronic Monitoring Fee Payment