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previously described U.S. opportunities
to be transferred to another NAFO party,
although such applications will likely
be given lesser priority than those that
involve more direct harvesting or
processing by U.S. entities. Applications
to arrange for a transfer of U.S. fishing
opportunities should contain a letter of
consent from the receiving NAFO
Contracting Party, and should also be
accompanied by a detailed description
of anticipated benefits to the United
States. As in the case of chartering
operations, the United States may also
consider a NAFO Contracting Party’s
previous compliance with NAFO
bycatch, reporting, and other provisions,
as outlined in the NAFO CEM, before
agreeing to enter into a transfer
arrangement.

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Receiving a Transfer of NAFO Quota
Allocations From Another NAFO Party
The United States may also receive
transfers of additional fishing
opportunities from other NAFO
Contracting Parties. We are required to
provide a letter consenting to such a
transfer and must provide notice to the
NAFO Executive Secretary. In the event
that an applicant is able to arrange for
the transfer of additional fishing
opportunities from another NAFO
Contracting Party to the United States,
NMFS may agree to facilitate such a
transfer. However, there is no guarantee
that if an applicant has facilitated the
transfer of quota from another
Contracting Party to the United States,
such applicant will receive
authorization to fish for such quota. If
quota is transferred to the United States,
we may need to solicit new applications
for the use of such quota. All applicable
NAFO requirements for transfers must
be met. As in the case of chartering
operations, the United States may also
consider a NAFO Contracting Party’s
previous compliance with NAFO
bycatch, reporting, and other provisions,
as outlined in the NAFO CEM, before
agreeing to accept a transfer. Any
fishing quota or other harvesting
opportunities received via this type of
transfer are subject to all U.S and NAFO
rules as detailed below.
For more details on NAFO
requirements for chartering and
transferring NAFO allocations, contact
Patrick Moran (see ADDRESSES).
Fishing in the NAFO Regulatory Area
U.S. applicant vessels must be in
possession of, or obtain, a valid HSFCA
permit, which is available from the
NMFS Greater Atlantic Regional
Fisheries Office. All permitted vessels
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the Convention on Future Multilateral
Cooperation in the Northwest Atlantic
Fisheries and the CEM. We reserve the
right to impose additional permit
conditions that ensure compliance with
the NAFO Convention and the CEM, the
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act, and
any other applicable law.
The CEM provisions include, but are
not limited to:
• Maintaining a fishing logbook with
NAFO-designated entries (Annex II.A
and Article 28);
• Adhering to NAFO hail system
requirements (Annexes II.D and II.F;
Article 28; Article 30 part B);
• Carrying an approved onboard
observer for each trip consistent with
requirements of Article 30 part A;
• Maintaining and using a
functioning, autonomous vessel
monitoring system authorized by
issuance of the HSFCA permit as
required by Articles 29 and 30; and
• Complying with all relevant NAFO
CEM requirements, including minimum
fish sizes, gear, bycatch retention, and
per-tow move on provisions for
exceeding bycatch limits in any one
haul/set.
Further details regarding U.S. and
NAFO requirements are available from
the NMFS Greater Atlantic Regional
Fisheries Office, and can be found in the
NAFO CEM on the internet (https://
www.nafo.int/Fisheries/Conservation).
Vessels issued valid HSFCA permits
under 50 CFR part 300 are exempt from
certain domestic fisheries regulations
governing fisheries in the Northeast
United States found in 50 CFR 648
when participating in NAFO fisheries.
Specifically, vessels are exempt from
the Northeast multispecies, monkfish,
and skate requirements. These
exemption include permit, mesh size,
effort-control, minimum fish size, and
possession limit restrictions, specified
in §§ 648.4, 648.51, 648.53, 648.80,
648.82, 648.83, 648.86, 648.87, 648.91,
648.92, 648.94, 648.322. Exemptions
apply while transiting the U.S.
exclusive economic zone with
multispecies and/or monkfish on board
the vessel, or landing multispecies and/
or monkfish in U.S. ports that were
caught while fishing in the NAFO
Regulatory Area. U.S. vessels fishing in
NAFO may possess, retain, and land
barndoor skate; however, they may not
possess, retain, or land other prohibited
skate species specified in §§ 648.14(v)
and 634.322(g). These exemptions are
conditional on the following
requirements: The vessel operator has a
letter of authorization issued by the
Regional Administrator on board the
vessel; for the duration of the trip, the

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vessel fishes, except for transiting
purposes, exclusively in the NAFO
Regulatory Area and does not harvest
fish in, or possess fish harvested in, or
from, the U.S. EEZ; when transiting the
U.S. EEZ, all gear is properly stowed
and not available for immediate use as
defined under § 648.2; and the vessel
operator complies with the provisions,
conditions, and restrictions specified on
the HSFCA permit and all NAFO CEM
while fishing in the NAFO Regulatory
Area.
Dated: July 20, 2020.
Alexa Cole,
Director, Office of International Affairs and
Seafood Inspection, National Marine
Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Reporting of Sea Turtle
Entanglement in Fishing Gear or
Marine Debris
The Department of Commerce will
submit the following information
collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, on or after the date of publication
of this notice. We invite the general
public and other Federal agencies to
comment on proposed, and continuing
information collections, which helps us
assess the impact of our information
collection requirements and minimize
the public’s reporting burden. Public
comments were previously requested
via the Federal Register on March 27,
2020, during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
Title: Reporting of Sea Turtle
Entanglement in Fishing Gear or Marine
Debris.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0496.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission
[extension of a current information
collection].
Number of Respondents: 116.
Average Hours Per Response: 2 to 2.5
hours per case (78 cases).
Total Annual Burden Hours: 169
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Needs and Uses: NOAA’s National
Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
manages the Sea Turtle Disentanglement
Network (STDN) to respond to sea turtle
entanglement in active or discarded
fishing gear (in particular those
involving the vertical line of fixed gear
fisheries), marine debris, or other line in
the marine environment. Entanglement
has the potential to cause serious injury
or mortality, which would negatively
impact the recovery of endangered and
threatened sea turtle populations. The
STDN’s goals are to increase reporting,
to reduce serious injury and mortality to
sea turtles, and to collect information
that can be used for mitigation of these
threats. As there is limited observer
coverage of fixed gear fisheries, the
STDN data are invaluable to NMFS in
understanding the threat of
entanglement and working towards
mitigation.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; Business or other for-profit
organizations; Not-for-profit
institutions; State, Local, or Tribal
government; Federal government.
Frequency: Variable depending on
reports of entanglement incidents; up to
78 cases annually.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: 16 U.S.C. 35,
Endangered Species Act of 1973.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view the
Department of Commerce collections
currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be
submitted within 30 days of the
publication of this notice on the
following website www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain. Find this
particular information collection by
selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day
Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or
by using the search function and
entering either the title of the collection
or the OMB Control Number 0648–0496.
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–XA293]

Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management
Council; Public Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of a public meeting.
AGENCY:

The Gulf of Mexico Fishery
Management Council (Council) will
hold a two-day meeting via webinar of
its Standing, Reef Fish, Ecosystem and
Socioeconomic Scientific and Statistical
Committees (SSC).
DATES: The meeting will be held on
Tuesday, August 11, 2020, from 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m. and Wednesday, August 12,
2020, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon, EDT.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place
via webinar; you may register by visiting
www.gulfcouncil.org and clicking on the
SSC meeting on the calendar.
Council address: Gulf of Mexico
Fishery Management Council, 4107 W.
Spruce Street, Suite 200, Tampa, FL
33607; telephone: (813) 348–1630.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ryan Rindone, Lead Fishery Biologist,
Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management
Council; ryan.rindone@gulfcouncil.org,
telephone: (813) 348–1630.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

Tuesday, August 11, 2020; 9 a.m.–4
p.m., EDT
The meeting will begin with
Introductions and Adoption of Agenda,
Approval of Minutes from the July 21–
23, 2020 webinar meeting, and review of
Scope of Work.
The Committees will receive a
Summary of Gulf State Methods and
Resulting Calibrations; and, SSC
Discussion and Recommendations for
Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and
Mississippi.
Lunch: 12 Noon–1 p.m., Eastern Time
The Committees will review the
Results of Individual State Calibrations
and State Specific Annual Catch Limits;
Presentation, Background
Documentation, and SSC Discussion
and Recommendations.
The Committees will discuss the
Tasks for Gulf Transition Team:
Revisiting and Updating Calibrations,
Transparency in Data Delivery,
Management, Accessibility, and QA &
QC, Future Research, Examining Drivers
for Differences between Survey

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Estimates, and SSC Discussion and
Recommendations.
Wednesday, August 12, 2020; 9 a.m.–12
Noon, EDT
The Committees will reconvene and
continue discussing items from Day 1,
review Public Comments, and discuss
any Other Business items.
–Meeting Adjourns
The meeting will be broadcast via
webinar. You may register for the
webinar by visiting www.gulfcouncil.org
and clicking on the SSC meeting on the
calendar.
The Agenda is subject to change, and
the latest version along with other
meeting materials will be posted on
www.gulfcouncil.org as they become
available.
Although other non-emergency issues
not on the agenda may come before the
Scientific and Statistical Committees for
discussion, in accordance with the
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act,
those issues may not be the subject of
formal action during this meeting.
Actions of the Scientific and Statistical
Committee will be restricted to those
issues specifically identified in the
agenda 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 Council’s intent to take
action to address the emergency.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: July 22, 2020.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary
[Docket ID: DoD–2020–OS–0008]

Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
The Office of Net Assessment,
Department of Defense (DoD).
ACTION: 30-Day information collection
notice.
AGENCY:

The Department of Defense
has submitted to OMB for clearance the
following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all
comments received by August 26, 2020.
SUMMARY:

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