WCPFC Area Endorsement Application

Public Burden 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 0648-0595. Without this approval, we could not conduct this information collection. Public reporting for this information collection is estimated to be approximately 3 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 mandatory. The authority for this information collection is the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Convention Implementation Act (6 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.). The information collected is needed to satisfy the obligations of the United States as a member of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this information collection, including suggestions for reducing this burden to NOAA Fisheries at: 1845 Wasp Blvd., Bldg. #176 Honolulu, HI 96818, Attn: Katrina Poremba, Fishery Policy Analyst, [email protected]. Please reference OMB Control Number 0648-0595 in the subject line of your comments.