North or South Region Delivery Exemption Report - Instruction

Revised: 05/21/2014 OMB Control No. 0648-0514 Expiration Date: XX/XX/20XX

North or South Region Delivery Exemption Report

U .S. Dept. of Commerce/NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Restricted Access Management P.O. Box 21668 Juneau, AK 99802-1668 (800) 304-4846 toll free / 586-7202 in Juneau (907) 586-7354 fax

The annual North or South Region Delivery Exemption Report provides NMFS with the means to assess how the industry is exercising the exemption opportunity and whether implementing regulations are sufficient to meet the Council’s Statement of Intent for BSAI Amendment 41. This report provides documentation needed by NMFS to evaluate efficacy of privately administered contracts.

Regional Delivery Exemption Report.

On or before July 30, each IFQ holder that signs a preseason application must submit a Regional Delivery Exemption Report to NMFS

By mail to NMFS Alaska Region

Regional Administrator

c/o Restricted Access Management Program

P.O. Box 21668

Juneau, AK 99802-1668

By fax to (907) 586-7354

By courier to NMFS

Room 713

709 West 9th Street

Juneau, AK 99801

Each Regional Delivery Exemption Report must include an explanation of:

♦ The amount of IFQ, if any, set aside to reduce the need for, and the amount of, an exemption;

♦ The mitigation measures employed before submitting an inseason notice;

♦ The number of times an exemption was requested and used;

♦ The arrangements for any compensatory deliveries, including all compensatory deliveries made during the crab fishing year and any outstanding compensatory delivery obligations for the following crab fishing year;

♦ Whether the exemption was necessary; and

♦ Any impacts resulting from the exemption on the fishery participants and communities that signed the preseason application.

On or before July 15, each IFQ holder must submit a copy of the Regional Delivery Exemption

Report to the IPQ holders and community representatives that also signed the preseason application.

The following terms are defined as follows for purposes of these reports:

IFQ holders: Any person holding regionally designated IFQ for Bristol Bay red king crab, Bering Sea snow crab, St. Matthew blue king crab, Eastern Aleutian Islands golden king crab, Western Aleutian Islands red king crab, or Pribilof red king and blue king crab, or their authorized representative

IPQ holders: Any person holding regionally designated IPQ for Bristol Bay red king crab, Bering Sea snow crab, St. Matthew blue king crab, Eastern Aleutian Islands golden king crab, Western Aleutian Islands red king crab, or Pribilof red king and blue king crab, or their authorized representative.

Community representatives:

♦ For communities that hold or formerly held the ROFR pursuant to § 679.41(l), the community representative that signs the preseason application, the framework agreement, the inseason notice, and the exemption contract is the ECC entity.

♦ For North Region St. Matthew blue king crab PQS and North Region Bering Sea snow crab PQS that was issued without a ROFR, the community representative that signs the preseason application, the framework agreement, the inseason notice, and the exemption contract for Saint Paul and Saint George shall be either:

(1) Both Aleutian Pribilof Islands Community Development Association (APICDA) and the Central Bering Sea Fishermen’s Association (CBSFA), or

(2) The community representative that APICDA and CBSFA designate

Paperwork Reduction Act Statement

A Federal agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, nor shall a person be subject to a penalty for failure to comply with an information collection subject to the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 unless the information collection has a currently valid OMB Control Number. The approved OMB Control Number for this information collection is 0648-0514. Without this approval, we could not conduct this information collection. Public reporting for this information collection is estimated to be approximately 20 hours per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the information collection. All responses to this information collection are required to obtain benefits. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this information collection, including suggestions for reducing this burden to the Assistant Regional Administrator, Sustainable Fisheries Division, NMFS Alaska Region, P.O. Box 21668, Juneau, AK 99802-1668.

North or South Region Exemption Report

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