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the instructions to view Department of
Commerce collections currently under
review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to OIRA_Submission@
omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395–5806.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
[RTID 0648–XV151]

Fisheries of the Gulf of Mexico;
Southeast Data, Assessment, and
Review (SEDAR); Public Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of SEDAR 67 Assessment
Webinar II for Gulf of Mexico vermilion
snapper.
AGENCY:

The SEDAR 67 stock
assessment process for Gulf of Mexico
vermilion snapper will consist of a
series of data and assessment webinars.
DATES: The SEDAR 67 Assessment
Webinar II will be held January 23,
2020, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., Eastern
Time.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held
via webinar. The webinar is open to
members of the public. Those interested
in participating should contact Julie A.
Neer at SEDAR (see FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT) to request an
invitation providing webinar access
information. Please request webinar
invitations at least 24 hours in advance
of each webinar.
SEDAR address: 4055 Faber Place
Drive, Suite 201, North Charleston, SC
29405.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julie
A. Neer, SEDAR Coordinator; (843) 571–
4366; email: Julie.neer@safmc.net.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Gulf
of Mexico, South Atlantic, and
Caribbean Fishery Management
Councils, in conjunction with NOAA
Fisheries and the Atlantic and Gulf
States Marine Fisheries Commissions
have implemented the Southeast Data,
Assessment and Review (SEDAR)
process, a multi-step method for

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determining the status of fish stocks in
the Southeast Region. SEDAR is a multistep process including: (1) Data
Workshop, (2) a series of assessment
webinars, and (3) A Review Workshop.
The product of the Data Workshop is a
report that compiles and evaluates
potential datasets and recommends
which datasets are appropriate for
assessment analyses. The assessment
webinars produce a report that describes
the fisheries, evaluates the status of the
stock, estimates biological benchmarks,
projects future population conditions,
and recommends research and
monitoring needs. The product of the
Review Workshop is an Assessment
Summary documenting panel opinions
regarding the strengths and weaknesses
of the stock assessment and input data.
Participants for SEDAR Workshops are
appointed by the Gulf of Mexico, South
Atlantic, and Caribbean Fishery
Management Councils and NOAA
Fisheries Southeast Regional Office,
HMS Management Division, and
Southeast Fisheries Science Center.
Participants include data collectors and
database managers; stock assessment
scientists, biologists, and researchers;
constituency representatives including
fishermen, environmentalists, and
NGO’s; International experts; and staff
of Councils, Commissions, and state and
federal agencies.
The items of discussion during the
Assessment Webinar are as follows:
1. Using datasets and initial
assessment analysis recommended from
the data webinars, panelists will employ
assessment models to evaluate stock
status, estimate population benchmarks
and management criteria, and project
future conditions.
2. Participants will recommend the
most appropriate methods and
configurations for determining stock
status and estimating population
parameters.
Although non-emergency issues not
contained in this agenda may come
before this group for discussion, those
issues may not be the subject of formal
action during this meeting. Action will
be restricted to those issues specifically
identified in this notice and any issues
arising after publication of this notice
that require emergency action under
section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act, provided the public has been
notified of the intent to take final action
to address the emergency.
Special Accommodations
The meeting is physically accessible
to people with disabilities. Requests for
sign language interpretation or other
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Council office (see ADDRESSES) at least 5
business days prior to each workshop.
Note: The times and sequence
specified in this agenda are subject to
change.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: December 19, 2019.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will
submit to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for clearance the
following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35).
Agency: National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Title: Gulf of Mexico Electronic
Logbook.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0543.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular (extension of
a currently approved information
collection).
Number of Respondents: 1,410.
Average Hours per Response: 3.
Burden Hours: 4,230.
Needs and Uses: The MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and
Management Act authorizes the Gulf of
Mexico Fishery Management Council
(Council) to prepare and amend fishery
management plans for any fishery in
waters under its jurisdiction. The
National Marine Fisheries Service
(NMFS) manages the commercial
shrimp fishery in Federal waters of the
Gulf of Mexico (Gulf) under the Fishery
Management Plan for the Shrimp
Fishery of the Gulf.
The electronic logbook (ELB)
regulations for the Gulf shrimp fishery
may be found at 50 CFR 622.51(a)(2).
These regulations require vessel owners
or operators issued a Federal
commercial permit for Gulf shrimp to
participate in the NMFS-sponsored ELB
reporting program. There are
approximately 1,410 valid or renewable
Federal permits to commercially harvest
shrimp from Federal waters in the Gulf.
Reporting through a vessel’s ELB, such
owners or operators must provide
information regarding the size and
number of shrimp trawls deployed, the

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type of bycatch reduction device, and
turtle excluder device used for each trip.
The ELB unit automatically collects
fishing effort data and transmits those
data via a cellular phone connection
activated when the vessel is within nonroaming cellular range. Compliance
with the ELB reporting requirements is
required to renew the Gulf shrimp
permit.
Monitoring shrimp vessels is
challenging for NMFS when they
operate together with many other
fishing vessels of differing sizes, gears
types, and fishing capabilities.
Monitoring is made even more
challenging by seasonal variability in
shrimp abundance and price and the
broad geographic distribution of the
fleet. ELBs provide a precise means of
estimating the amount of shrimp fishing
effort. Using ELBs to estimate fishing
effort serves an important role to help
estimate bycatch in the Gulf shrimp
fleet.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profit organizations.
Frequency: On occasion when fishing.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
This information collection request
may be viewed at reginfo.gov. Follow
the instructions to view Department of
Commerce collections currently under
review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of this notice publication
by email to OIRA_Submission@
omb.eop.gov or by fax to (202) 395–
5806.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will
submit to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for clearance the
following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35).
Agency: National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Title: Green Sturgeon ESA 4(d) rule
take exceptions and exemptions.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0613.

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Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular.
Number of Respondents: 45.
Average Hours per Response:
Scientific research or monitoring
exception, Habitat restoration exception,
State research program report, and
Research applications: 40 hours each;
Scientific research or monitoring
exception report, Habitat restoration
exception report, and Research reports:
5 hours each; Emergency fish rescue
report, and Fishery Management and
Evaluation Plan report: 20 hours each;
Fishery Management and Evaluation
Plan and Tribal Plan: 160 hours each.
Burden Hours: 1,510.
Needs and Uses: The Southern
Distinct Population Segment of North
American green sturgeon (Acipenser
medirostris; hereafter, ‘‘Southern DPS’’)
was listed as a threatened species in
April 2006. Protective regulations under
section 4(d) of the Endangered Species
Act (ESA) were promulgated for the
species on June 2, 2010 (75 FR 30714)
(the final ESA 4(d) Rule). To comply
with the ESA and the protective
regulations, entities must obtain take
authorization before they engage in
activities that involve take of Southern
DPS fish, unless the activity is covered
by an exception or exemption. ‘‘Take’’ is
defined as to harass, harm, pursue,
hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture
or collect, or to attempt to engage in any
such conduct. Certain activities
described in the ‘‘exceptions’’ provision
of 50 CFR 223.210(b) are not subject to
the take prohibitions if they adhere to
specific criteria and reporting
requirements. Under the ‘‘exemption’’
provision of 50 CFR 223.210(c), the take
prohibitions do not apply to scientific
research, scientific monitoring, and
fisheries activities conducted under an
approved 4(d) program or plan.
Similarly, take prohibitions do not
apply to tribal resource management
activities conducted under a Tribal Plan
for which the requisite determinations
described in 50 CFR 223.102(c)(3) have
been made.
To ensure that activities qualify under
exceptions to or exemptions from the
take prohibitions, local, state, and
federal agencies, non-governmental
organizations, academic researchers,
and private organizations are asked to
submit detailed information regarding
their activity on a schedule to be
determined by National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS) staff. This
information is used by NMFS to (1)
track the number of Southern DPS fish
taken as a result of each action; (2)
understand and evaluate the cumulative
effects of each action on the Southern
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additional protections are needed for
the species, or whether additional
exceptions may be warranted. NMFS
designed the criteria to ensure that
actions meeting the criteria would
adequately limit impacts on threatened
Southern DPS fish, such that additional
protections in the form of a federal take
prohibition would not be necessary and
advisable.
Affected Public: Not-for-profit
institutions; State, Local, or Tribal
government; Federal government;
business or other for-profit
organizations.
Frequency: Written notification
describing research, monitoring, habitat
restoration, or emergency fish rescue
and salvage activities, on occasion;
development of fisheries management
and evaluation plans, state 4(d) research
programs, or tribal fishery management
plans, on occasion; fisheries
management and evaluation plan
reports, biannually; all other reports,
annually.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain benefits.
This information collection request
may be viewed at reginfo.gov. Follow
the instructions to view Department of
Commerce collections currently under
review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to OIRA_Submission@
omb.eop.gov or faxed to (202) 395–5806.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
Law School Clinic Certification
Program
Notice of renewal of information
collection; request for comment.

ACTION:

The United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO), as required
by the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, invites comments on the
extension of an existing information
collection: 0651–0081 (Law School
Clinic Program).
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted on or before February 24,
2020.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by any of the following methods:
SUMMARY:

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