Revision to Application for Temporary Transfer of Halibut/Sablefish Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) in 2020

RIN 0648-BJ88 National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Alaska Region is submitting this emergency request for a new information collection due to an associated emergency rule (RIN 0648-BJ88) that will modify the temporary transfer provision of the IFQ Program for the fixed-gear commercial Pacific halibut and sablefish fisheries for the 2020 IFQ fishing year. This action makes a minor revision to the Application for Temporary Transfer of Halibut/Sablefish Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) and will increase the number of estimated total respondents, responses, burden hours, and costs for this form, which is approved under OMB control number 0648-0272. Because 0648-0272 is currently being revised by a rule (RIN 0648-BJ34) that overlaps with this emergency rule, and due to the urgent need to implement the emergency rule and that this new collection will only be needed through the end of the 2020 fishing year, a new temporary information collection is being used for the change to the application. This new control number will cover only the additional respondents, responses, burden hours, and costs for this form that result from this emergency rule. The new information collection will be discontinued after the end of the 2020 IFQ fishing year.

The latest form for Revision to Application for Temporary Transfer of Halibut/Sablefish Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) in 2020 expires 2020-12-31 and can be found here.