Southeast Region Vessel and Gear Identification Requirements

ICR 201802-0648-005

OMB: 0648-0358

Federal Form Document

Forms and Documents
Document
Name
Status
Supplementary Document
2018-02-20
Supplementary Document
2018-02-20
Supporting Statement A
2018-07-11
IC Document Collections
ICR Details
0648-0358 201802-0648-005
Active 201610-0648-004
DOC/NOAA
Southeast Region Vessel and Gear Identification Requirements
Revision of a currently approved collection   No
Regular
Approved with change 07/13/2018
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA) 02/21/2018
In accordance with 5 CFR 1320, the information collection is approved for three years.
  Inventory as of this Action Requested Previously Approved
07/31/2021 36 Months From Approved 07/31/2018
439,048 0 439,888
51,015 0 50,687
673,277 0 670,901

NMFS requires persons with permitted fishing vessels to mark their vessel and fishing gear with the official identification number or another form of approved identification. A vessel's official number, under most regulations, is required to be displayed on the port and starboard sides of the deckhouse or hull, and weather deck. The marking of fishing gear is also valuable in actions concerning damage, loss, and civil proceedings. Fishing gear marking requirements apply to coral aquacultured live rock, golden crab traps, mackerel gillnet floats, spiny lobster traps, buoy gear, and black sea bass pots. These vessel and fishing gear markings provide law enforcement personnel with a means to monitor fishing, at-sea processing, and other related activities to ascertain whether the vessel's observed activities and fishing gear are in accordance with those authorized for that vessel.

US Code: 16 USC 1801 et seq. Name of Law: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act as amended in 2006
  
None

Not associated with rulemaking

  82 FR 48487 10/18/2017
83 FR 7165 02/20/2018
No

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IC Title Form No. Form Name
Southeast Region Vessel Identification Requirements
Southeast Region Gear Identification Requirements

  Total Approved Previously Approved Change Due to New Statute Change Due to Agency Discretion Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate Change Due to Potential Violation of the PRA
Annual Number of Responses 439,048 439,888 0 0 -840 0
Annual Time Burden (Hours) 51,015 50,687 0 0 328 0
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars) 673,277 670,901 0 0 2,376 0
No
No
Adjustments: NMFS increased the annual cost estimate for gear marking requirements due to a cost increase by a tag manufacturer, Floy Tag & Mfg., Inc. The cost of identification tags for golden crab traps increased from $1.80 to $2 per tag (a $2,000 increase, $2,000 of the $2,376 net increase). There was an increase in 2016 from 30 to 32 black sea bass fishermen. Annual cost per each of these respondents (for all gear components) was $76, so change accounted for an additional $152. Since then, tag costs increased from $1.80 to $2 per tag; $0.20 increase per tag. Each fisherman is limited to not more than 35 pots, which equates to a maximum of 35 tags. The addition of $0.20 per 35 tags = a $7 increase per fisherman or a total increase of $224. Added to the initial increase of $152, this equates to the additional total gear cost increase of $376 in addition to the lobster pot tags increase of $2,000. NMFS also adjusted the burden estimates to correct inadvertent calculation errors on pot gear marking, made in a previous revision of OMB Control No. 0648-0358. The number of pots should be 4,480 rather than 5,320. This difference accounts for the 840 response decrease. The correction reduced the burden hours by 224 hours (840 * 10 minutes apiece (previous black sea bass gear response time was estimated at 10 minutes each). Decrease of 840 markings time 10 minutes each, decreased hours by 140. An increase of 6 minutes per remaining the remaining 4,480 markings added 468 hours. The net hourly increase is 328.

$0
No
    No
    No
No
No
No
Uncollected
Adam Bailey 808 944-2248

  No

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.
02/21/2018


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