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designated critical habitat. To ensure
ESA compliance for the issuance of
IHAs, NMFS consults internally, in this
case with the ESA Interagency
Cooperation Division whenever we
propose to authorize take for
endangered or threatened species.
The NMFS Office of Protected
Resources Interagency Cooperation
Division issued a Biological Opinion on
July 10, 2019, under section 7 of the
ESA, on the issuance of an IHA to LDEO under section 101(a)(5)(D) of the
MMPA by the NMFS Permits and
Conservation Division. The Biological
Opinion concluded that the proposed
action is not likely to jeopardize the
continued existence of sei whale, fin
whale, blue whale, sperm whale,
humpback whale (Central America DPS
and Mexico DPS), and Guadalupe fur
seal, and is not likely to destroy or
modify critical habitat of listed species
because no critical habitat exists for
these species in the action area.
Authorization
NMFS has issued an IHA to L-DEO for
the potential harassment of small
numbers of 26 marine mammal species
incidental to a marine geophysical
survey in the Northeast Pacific,
provided the previously mentioned
mitigation, monitoring, and reporting
are incorporated.
Dated: July 17, 2019.
Donna S. Wieting,
Director, Office of Protected Resources,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Proposed Information Collection;
Comment Request; Alaska Council
Cooperative Annual Reports
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 September 20,
2019.

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Direct all written comments
to Adrienne Thomas, Government
Information Specialist, NOAA, 151
Patton Avenue, Room 159, Asheville,
NC 28801 (or via the internet at
PRAcomments@doc.gov). Comments
will generally be posted without change.
All Personally Identifiable Information
(for example, name and address)
voluntarily submitted by the commenter
may be publicly accessible. Do not
submit Confidential Business
Information or otherwise sensitive or
protected information. You may submit
attachments to electronic comments in
Microsoft Word, Excel, or Adobe PDF
file formats.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
directed to Gabrielle Aberle, NOAA’s
National Marine Fisheries Service, P.O.
Box 21668, Juneau, AK 99802–1668,
Telephone (907) 586–7228.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
ADDRESSES:

I. Abstract
The North Pacific Fishery
Management Council (Council) has
developed cooperative programs as
options in several fishery catch share
programs. As part of cooperative
programs, the Council and the National
Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) have
required or requested that the
cooperatives submit annual reports
detailing various fishery activities.
These reports are intended to be a
resource for the Council to track the
effectiveness of cooperatives and their
ability to meet the Council’s goals, and
as way for NMFS to monitor the internal
fishery management practices of
cooperatives. Additionally, they are a
tool for the cooperatives to provide
feedback on the programs. This
collection covers the following required
and voluntary cooperative and intercooperative reports, agreements, and
plans:
• The Alaska Crab Rationalization
Program Cooperative Annual Report is
voluntary and provides information
about measures taken by cooperatives to
increase the availability of crab quota
share (QS) for transfer to active
participants and crew members in the
fishery, as well as actions to decrease
high QS lease rates and improve low
crew compensation.
• The Rockfish Program Cooperative
Annual Report is a required summary of
cooperative harvests, retention,
discards, monitoring methods, and
disciplinary actions made within each
Rockfish Program cooperative.
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reporting requirements including
monthly chinook bycatch by origin, and
intertemporal harvest information.
• The Amendment 80 Cooperative
Annual Report is a required summary of
cooperative harvests, discards,
monitoring methods, disciplinary
actions taken against non-compliant
members, groundfish retention
calculations, and a third-party audit.
Voluntary elements of the report
include catch from the Northern Bristol
Bay Trawl Area, fleet catch capacity
over time, and intertemporal harvest
information. An additional voluntary
element was added to this report in
2019 requesting information on
cooperatives or other measures
implemented to reduced bycatch in the
BSAI yellowfin sole Trawl Limited
Access Sector fishery by A80
participants.
• The Amendment 80 Halibut
Prohibited Species Catch (PSC)
Management Plan is a voluntary
collection providing information to the
Council about fishery cooperative
halibut avoidance practices,
communication between participating
harvesters, use of halibut excluders,
deck sorting, bycatch performance
assessment of individual boats,
incentives to reduce bycatch, and
consequences for substandard
performance.
• The Amendment 80 Halibut
Bycatch Avoidance Progress Report is
voluntary and intended to inform the
Council about non-regulatory methods
used within A80 fishery cooperatives to
reduce and avoid halibut bycatch in
BSAI groundfish fisheries.
• The American Fisheries Act Catcher
Vessel Intercooperative Agreement is
voluntary and includes fishery
allocations of cooperative members,
penalties to members that exceed them,
monitoring methods, limits on the
amount of cod harvested by certain
vessels, procedures for intercooperative
sideboard transfers, and incentives for
prohibited species catch reduction.
• The American Fisheries Act Catcher
Vessel Intercooperative Report is
voluntary and provides information
about cooperative Bering Sea pollock
fishery allocations, harvest, salmon
bycatch reduction measures, groundfish
sideboards, and prohibited species
catch.
• The American Fisheries Act
Cooperative Annual Report (moved
from 0678–0401) is required and must
report the cooperative’s pollock and
sideboard allocations, sub-allocations
made to individual vessels, retained and
discarded catch, monitoring methods,
actions taken against non-compliant
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the State of Alaska, and chinook bycatch
including a list of vessels with the
highest bycatch rates. An additional
voluntary element was added to this
report in 2019 requesting information
on cooperatives or other measures
implemented to reduce bycatch in the
BSAI yellowfin sole Trawl Limited
Access Sector fishery by AFA
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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;

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III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–0678.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Revision and
extension of a currently approved
information collection.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profit organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
26.
Estimated Time per Response: Alaska
Crab Rationalization Cooperative
Annual Report, 30 hours; Rockfish
Program Cooperative Annual Report, 45
hours; Amendment 80 Cooperative
Annual Report, 40 hours; Amendment
80 Halibut Bycatch Avoidance Progress
Report, 40 hours; Amendment 80
Halibut PSC Management Plan, 12
hours; American Fisheries Act Catcher
Vessel Intercooperative Agreement, 40
hours; American Fisheries Act Catcher
Vessel Intercooperative Report, 8 hours;
American Fisheries Act Cooperative
Annual Report, 8 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 797 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $3,819 in recordkeeping/
reporting costs.

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Departmental Lead PRA Officer, Office of the
Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

II. Method of Collection
Methods of submittal include text
attachments to email, mail, and
facsimile transmission.

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Endangered and Threatened Species;
Take of Anadromous Fish
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of availability and
request for comment.
AGENCY:

Notice is hereby given that
the Yurok Tribal Fisheries Program
(YTFP) has submitted a Tribal Research
and Monitoring Plan (Tribal Plan) and
associated application to NMFS
pursuant to the limitation on take
prohibitions for actions conducted
under Tribal Plans promulgated under
section 4(d) of the Endangered Species
Act (ESA). The Tribal Plan and
associated application describe research
and monitoring activities that may affect
ESA-listed Southern Oregon/Northern
California Coast (SONCC) coho salmon
in California. The proposed research is
intended to increase knowledge of this
listed species and to help guide
management and conservation efforts.
This document serves to notify the
public that the proposed evaluation and
pending determination by the Secretary
of Commerce (Secretary) as to whether
the implementation of the Tribal Plan
will appreciably reduce the likelihood
of survival and recovery of SONCC coho
salmon is available for public comment.
DATES: Comments must be received at
the appropriate address or fax number
(see ADDRESSES) no later than 5:00 p.m.
Pacific time on August 21, 2019.
Comments received after this date and
time may not be accepted.
ADDRESSES: Written comments on the
proposed evaluation and pending
determination should be addressed to
NMFS (Attn: Jeff Abrams), West Coast
Region, California Coastal Office, 1655
Heindon Road, Arcata, California 95521.
Comments may be submitted by email
addressed to: Jeff.Abrams@noaa.gov.
Include in the subject line of the email
the following identifier: Comments on
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Yurok Tribal Plan. Comments may also
be sent via fax to (707) 825–4840.
Comments received will also be
available for public inspection, by
appointment, during normal business
hours by calling Jeff Abrams: (707) 825–
5186.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff
Abrams (phone: (707) 825–5186, fax:
(707) 825–4840, email: Jeff.Abrams@
noaa.gov).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Species Covered in This Notice
Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch):
Threatened (70 FR 37160; June 28,
2005), naturally produced and
artificially propagated SONCC coho
salmon.
Background
The YTFP submitted a Tribal Plan to
NMFS for scientific research and
monitoring they propose to conduct
within the Lower Klamath River and its
tributaries, which are within the range
of SONCC coho salmon. The Tribal Plan
identifies a variety of research and
assessment activities intended to
provide the technical basis for fisheries
and watershed management, and
conserving and restoring salmon stocks
and their habitat. The majority of the
YTFP proposed research is motivated by
a need to improve understanding of
salmonid freshwater survival. Many of
the proposed activities are also intended
to provide information to help plan,
implement, and monitor habitat
protection and restoration efforts. The
Tribal Plan includes implementation,
monitoring, and evaluation procedures
designed to ensure that the research is
consistent with the objectives of the
ESA. The research activities described
in the Tribal Plan would take place over
a five-year period starting in 2019.
As required by a rule promulgated
under ESA section 4(d) related to Tribal
Plans (65 FR 42481, July 10, 2000, as
redesignated at 70 FR 37203, June 28,
2005; Tribal Plan 4(d) rule), the
Secretary is seeking public comment on
the proposed evaluation and pending
determination as to whether
implementation of the Tribal Plan will
appreciably reduce the likelihood of
survival and recovery of SONCC coho
salmon.
Authority
Under section 4 of the ESA, the
Secretary is required to adopt such
regulations as the Secretary deems
necessary and advisable for the
conservation of species listed as
threatened. The Tribal Plan 4(d) rule
states that the ESA section 9 take

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