Northwest Region Federal Fisheries Permits

Forms and Documents

Document Name	Status
Limited Entry Permit Renewal Form and Instruction	Modified
Sablefish Permit Hold Count Exemption Identification of Ownership Interest Form and Instruction	New
Ownership Interest Forms for Sablefish Endorsed LEP - accompanying either LEP renewal or transfer Form and Instruction	Modified
Limited Entry Permit Transfer Form and Instruction	Modified
0648-0203 30-day 84 FR 42904 2019-0819.pdf Supplementary Document	2019-08-18
0648-0203 Supporting Statement 2019-1122.docx Supporting Statement A	2019-11-27
0648-0203 60-day 84 FR 29848 2019-0626.pdf Supplementary Document	2019-08-13

IC Document Collections

IC ID	Document Title	Status
43571	Limited Entry Permit Renewal Form and Instruction	Modified
238716	EFP Trip Notifications	New
237352	Exempted Educational Activity Authorization (EEAA) – including application and reports	New
237351	Letters of Acknowledgement (LOA)	New
237349	Sablefish Permit Hold Count Exemption Identification of Ownership Interest Form and Instruction	New
190626	EFP Summaries	Modified
190625	EFP Data Reports	Modified
190623	EFP Harvest Plan	Modified
190621	Exempted fishing permit - Application	Modified
190620	Ownership Interest Forms for Sablefish Endorsed LEP - accompanying either LEP renewal or transfer Form and Instruction	Modified
190619	Limited Entry Permit Transfer Form and Instruction	Modified

ICR Details

OMB Control No: 0648-0203	ICR Reference No: 201908-0648-002
Status: Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 201607-0648-003
Agency/Subagency: DOC/NOAA	Agency Tracking No:
Title: Northwest Region Federal Fisheries Permits
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR:  No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved with change	Conclusion Date: 11/27/2019
	Date Received in OIRA: 08/21/2019
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	11/30/2022	36 Months From Approved	11/30/2019
Responses	1,653	0	1,026
Time Burden (Hours)	1,770	0	1,999
Cost Burden (Dollars)	60,824	0	56,468

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Abstract: As part of its fishery management responsibilities, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) collects certain information to determine whether a respondent complies with regulations that pertain to the issuance, transfer, ownership interest, or renewal of a Pacific Coast Groundfish limited entry permit or exempted fishing permit. Letters of Acknowledgement (LOAs) and Exempted Educational Activity Authorizations (EEAAs) were historically collected under OMB control number 0648-0309. To reduce burden estimates, NMFS Headquarters proposed to move LOAs and EEAAs to their respective region's permit family-of-forms collections. OMB control number 0648-0309 will need to remain in place until all of the regions have moved the necessary elements into the respective regional PRA collections. In addition, upon approval of this collection, OMB Control No. 0648-0737, which covers the sablefish permit stacking exemption, will be merged with this collection. Then 0648-0737 can be discontinued.

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Authorizing Statute(s): US Code: 16 USC 1801 et seq (Secction 303) Name of Law: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
  

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: None

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Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
	Not associated with rulemaking

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Federal Register Notices & Comments
60-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	84 FR 29848	06/25/2019
30-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	84 FR 42904	08/19/2019
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? No

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Number of Information Collection (IC) in this ICR: 11

IC Title	Form No.	Form Name
Sablefish Permit Hold Count Exemption Identification of Ownership Interest	N/A	Sablefish Permit Hold Count Exemption Identification of Ownership Interest Form Pacific Coast Groundfish LEP
EFP Data Reports
Ownership Interest Forms for Sablefish Endorsed LEP - accompanying either LEP renewal or transfer	N/A	Identification of Ownership Interest Sablefish Endorsed Pacific Coast Groundfish LEP
EFP Harvest Plan
EFP Summaries
Limited Entry Permit Renewal	N/A, N/A, N/A	Permit Renewal Form Pacific Coast Groundfish LEP ,   Mothership/Catcher Vessel Endorsed Permit Renewal Form Pacific Coast Groundfish LEP ,   Catcher Processor Endorsed Permit Renewal Form Pacific Coast Groundfish LEP
Limited Entry Permit Transfer	N/A	Change of Vessel Registration and Permit Owner Application Pacific Coast Grounfish LEP
Exempted fishing permit - Application
Exempted Educational Activity Authorization (EEAA) – including application and reports
Letters of Acknowledgement (LOA)
EFP Trip Notifications

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ICR Summary of Burden

	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	1,653	1,026	0	520	107	0
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	1,770	1,999	0	62	-291	0
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	60,824	56,468	0	3,514	842	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: Yes

Burden Increase Due to: Miscellaneous Actions

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: Program Change Letters of Acknowledgements (LOAs) and Exempted Educational Activity Authorizations (EEAAs) were historically collected under OMB control number 0648-0309. To reduce burden estimates, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Headquarters proposed to move LOAs and EEAAs to their respective region's permit family-of-forms collections. This application also includes a request to merge the Own/Hold Control Limit Exemption information from OMB Control Number 0648-0737 with the information collection known as the West Coast Region Seattle Federal Fisheries Permits (OMB Control Number 0648-0203). This will allow all Pacific Coast Groundfish limited entry permit collections to be under one OMB package. The information needed to request the voluntary exemption should already be information that the vessel owner has on hand (e.g., vessel permit number, vessel name, ownership percentages) and the respondents are not required to provide any additional data or do any additional data gathering. For respondent convenience, the paper forms will be available on the West Coast Groundfish website. The form is titled Sablefish Permit Hold Count Exemption Identification of Ownership Interest Form. The only cost to respondents would be the time it takes them to fill out the form. Overall, with only 13 respondents and 10 minutes to complete the form, it only adds 2 burden hours annually to the current information collections. EFP Trip Notifications: This component of the information collection for -0203 was not listed in the prior collection, but should have been. This results in an increase of 50 respondents, 500 responses, 17 burden hours, and $3,500 burden costs. Total Program Changes: Increase of 69 respondents; 520 responses; 62 burden hours; $3,514 cost burden. Adjustment There were two LEP combinations in 2018, so the total number of respondents for LEP renewals changed from 397 to 395. In the supporting statement for the previous extension for this information collection, the response estimate for LEP transfers was given as 25 minutes and this figure went into the burden hour calculations. This bookkeeping error was changed to 30 minutes to match the time estimate stated on both the 60d FRN from 2016 (81 FR 12473) and 2019 (84 FR 29848), resulting in an adjustment from 54 hours (130 respondents x 25 minutes/response) to 65 hours (130 respondents x 25 minutes/response). Total Adjustments: Increase of 107 responses, decrease of 291 burden hours, and increase of $842 burden costs.

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Annual Cost to Federal Government: $83,468

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? No

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination.     Yes

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination.     Yes

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? Uncollected

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Common Form ICR:  No

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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:

(a) It is necessary for the proper performance of agency functions;

(b) It avoids unnecessary duplication;

(c) It reduces burden on small entities;

(d) It uses plain, coherent, and unambiguous language that is understandable to respondents;

(e) Its implementation will be consistent and compatible with current reporting and recordkeeping practices;

(f) It indicates the retention periods for recordkeeping requirements;

(g) It informs respondents of the information called for under 5 CFR 1320.8 (b)(3) about:

(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;

(h) It was developed by an office that has planned and allocated resources for the efficient and effective management and use of the information to be collected.

(i) It uses effective and efficient statistical survey methodology (if applicable); and

(j) It makes appropriate use of information technology.

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.

Certification Date: 08/21/2019

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