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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 204 / Friday, October 21, 2016 / Notices

vessel’s well volume and update it
before January 1, 2017, please submit
any such documentation no later than
December 15, 2016 (See FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT).
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 951 et seq.
Dated: October 18, 2016.
Emily H. Menashes,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2016–25540 Filed 10–20–16; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Proposed Information Collection;
Comment Request; Alaska Region
Gear Identification
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Department of
Commerce, as part of its continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and
respondent burden, invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to
take this opportunity to comment on
proposed and/or continuing information
collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted on or before December 20,
2016.
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments
to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental
Paperwork Clearance Officer,
Department of Commerce, Room 6616,
14th and Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230 (or via the
Internet at JJessup@doc.gov).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
directed to Patsy A. Bearden, telephone
907–586–7008, or Patsy.Bearden@
noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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SUMMARY:

I. Abstract
Regulations specify that all hook-andline, longline pot, and pot-and-line
marker buoys carried on board or used
by any vessel must be marked with
Federal Fisheries Permit number or
State of Alaska Department of Fish and
Game vessel registration number.
Regulations that marker buoys be
marked with identification information
are essential to facilitate fisheries
enforcement and actions concerning

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damage, loss, and civil proceedings. The
ability to link fishing gear to the vessel
owner or operator is crucial to
enforcement of regulations.
This collection also provides a
voluntary opportunity for Gulf of Alaska
(GOA) individual fishing quota (IFQ)
sablefish fishermen to use a gear that
physically protects caught sablefish
from depredation by whales. That
option, the use of pot longline gear,
currently exists in sablefish IFQ
fisheries in the Bering Sea and Aleutian
Islands management areas. Potential
benefits of pot longline gear for sablefish
fishing include: Mitigation of whale
interaction with fishing gear, reduced
mortality of seabirds, reduced bycatch
of non-target fish species, reduced
overall halibut mortality when targeting
sablefish, and better accounting of total
sablefish fishing mortality.
Whales are able to strip hooked fish
from hook-and-line gear, which reduces
the amount of sablefish caught by
fishermen. As such, whale depredation
represents undocumented fishing
mortality.
Many seabird species are attracted to
fishing vessels in order to forage on bait,
offal, discards, and other prey made
available by fishing operations. These
interactions can result in direct
mortality for seabirds if they become
entangled in fishing gear or strike the
vessel or fishing gear while flying.
Each vessel must use mandatory
logbooks (see OMB Control No. 0648–
0213 and 0648–0515) when
participating in a longline pot fishery.
When the number of pots deployed by
a vessel is self-reported through
logbooks, the use of pot tags provides an
additional enforcement tool to ensure
that the pot limits are not exceeded. The
use of pot tags requires a uniquely
identified tag to be securely affixed to
each pot. This allows at-sea enforcement
and post-trip verification of the number
of pots fished.
II. Method of Collection
Information will be collected using
paper or electronic logbooks. Marker
buoys are marked with identification
information.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–0353.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Extension of a current
information collection.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; Business or other for-profit
organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
990.
Estimated Time per Response: 15
minutes each for Request for IFQ

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Sablefish Pot Gear Tags, Request for
Replacement of IFQ Sablefish Pot Gear
Tags or Lost Gear, Marking of longline
pot gear; and Groundfish Hook-and-line
marker buoys.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 1800 hr.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $ 11,310.
IV. Request for Comments
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden
(including hours and cost) of the
proposed collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval of this information collection;
they also will become a matter of public
record.
Dated: October 17, 2016.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016–25452 Filed 10–20–16; 8:45 am]
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COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM
PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR
SEVERELY DISABLED
Procurement List; Proposed Deletions
Committee for Purchase From
People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled.
ACTION: Proposed deletions from the
Procurement List.
AGENCY:

The Committee is proposing
to delete products previously furnished
by the nonprofit agency employing
persons who are blind or have other
severe disabilities.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before: November 20, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase
From People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled, 1401 S. Clark Street, Suite
715, Arlington, Virginia, 22202–4149.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information or to submit
comments contact: Barry S. Lineback,
Telephone: (703) 603–7740, Fax: (703)
SUMMARY:

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