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Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 122 / Wednesday, June 24, 2020 / Notices

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.

II. Method of Collection

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There is no form for this application.
The application to become a PSD
distributor, and any changes or updates
to the application, are submitted to
NMFS as an email attachment.

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III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–0316.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission
(extension of a current information
collection).
Affected Public: Not-for-profit
institutions.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 1.
Estimated Time per Response:
Application to be a NMFS Authorized
Distributor, 17 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 17 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $0 in recordkeeping/reporting
costs.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
Obtain or Retain Benefits.
Legal Authority: 16 U.S.C.1801 et seq.
IV. Request for Comments

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respond, including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. We will include or
summarize each comment in our request
to OMB to approve this ICR. Before
including your address, phone number,
email address, or other personal
identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment—including your
personal identifying information—may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you may ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.

returned to the sea with a minimum of
injury.
The NMFS Alaska Region
Administrator (Regional Administrator)
may select one or more tax-exempt
organizations to be authorized
distributors, as defined at § 679.2. An
organization seeking to distribute
salmon bycatch and halibut bycatch
under the PSD Program must provide
the Regional Administrator with the
information listed at 50 CFR
679.26(b)(1).
NMFS uses the information provided
by an applicant to determine the
organization’s nonprofit status. In
addition, the application provides
information about the ability of the
organization to arrange for and
distribute donated salmon and halibut
as a high quality food product. A PSD
permit is valid for a 3-year period after
NMFS publishes the selection notice in
the Federal Register.

We are soliciting public comments to
permit the Department/Bureau to: (a)
Evaluate whether the proposed
information collection is necessary for
the proper functions of the Department,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the
accuracy of our estimate of the time and
cost burden for this proposed collection,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c)
Evaluate ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (d) Minimize the
reporting burden on those who are to

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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; For-Hire Telephone Survey
National Oceanic &
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of information collection,
request for comment.
AGENCY:

The Department of
Commerce, in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), invites 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. The purpose of this
notice is to allow for 60 days of public
comment preceding submission of the
collection to OMB.
DATES: To ensure consideration,
comments regarding this proposed
information collection must be received
on or before August 24, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments to
Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer,
at PRAcomments@doc.gov. Please
reference OMB Control Number 0648–
0709 in the subject line of your
comments. Do not submit Confidential
SUMMARY:

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Business Information or otherwise
sensitive or protected information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or
specific questions related to collection
activities should be directed to John
Foster, National Marine Fisheries
Service, Office of Science and
Technology, 1315 East-West Hwy./
FST1, Silver Spring, MD 21910, Phone:
(301) 427–8130 or john.foster@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
This request is for extension of a
currently approved information
collection.
The For-Hire Survey (FHS) is
conducted for NMFS to estimate fishing
effort on for-hire vessels (i.e., charter
boats and head boats) in coastal states
from Maine to Mississippi. These data
are required to carry out provisions of
the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act (16
U.S.C. 1801 et seq.), as amended,
regarding conservation and management
of fishery resources.
The FHS collects fishing effort
information from for-hire vessel
representatives by telephone interview.
For-hire vessels are randomly selected
for the FHS from a comprehensive
sample frame developed and
maintained by NMFS. A sample of 10%
of the vessels on the FHS frame are
selected for reporting each week. Each
interview collects information about the
vessel, the number and type of trips the
vessel made during the reporting week,
the number of anglers on each trip, and
other trip-level information.
For-hire fishing effort is estimated in
numbers of angler-trips per sub-region,
state, two-month wave, vessel type, and
fishing area (inshore, nearshore,
offshore). To get a total for-hire effort
estimate, weekly FHS effort estimates
are summed to produce wave estimates
that are adjusted to account for frame
coverage and reporting error. The FHS
estimates are then combined with forhire catch-rate estimates derived from
complementary Marine Recreational
Information Program (MRIP) surveys, to
estimate total, state-level fishing catch.
These estimates are used in the
development, implementation, and
monitoring of fishery management
programs by the NMFS, regional fishery
management councils, interstate marine
fisheries commissions, and state fishery
agencies.
II. Method of Collection
Telephone interviews will be
conducted using Computer Assisted
Telephone Interviewing (CATI)
methodology.

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III. Data

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

OMB Control Number: 0648–0709.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission
(extension of a current information
collection).
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; Business or other for-profit
organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
22,000.
Estimated Time per Response: 31⁄2
minutes each for a telephone interview.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 1,283.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $0 in recordkeeping/reporting
costs.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration

IV. Request for Comments

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We are soliciting public comments to
permit the Department/Bureau to: (a)
Evaluate whether the proposed
information collection is necessary for
the proper functions of the Department,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the
accuracy of our estimate of the time and
cost burden for this proposed collection,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c)
Evaluate ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (d) Minimize the
reporting burden on those who are to
respond, including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. We will include or
summarize each comment in our request
to OMB to approve this ICR. Before
including your address, phone number,
email address, or other personal
identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment—including your
personal identifying information—may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you may ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Alaska Interagency
Electronic Reporting System (IERS)
National Oceanic &
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of Information
Collection, request for comment.
AGENCY:

The Department of
Commerce, in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), invites 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. The purpose of this
notice is to allow for 60 days of public
comment preceding submission of the
collection to OMB.
DATES: To ensure consideration,
comments regarding this proposed
information collection must be received
on or before August 24, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments to
Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer,
at Adrienne.thomas@noaa.gov. Please
reference OMB Control Number 0648–
0515 in the subject line of your
comments. Do not submit Confidential
Business Information or otherwise
sensitive or protected information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
specific questions related to collection
activities should be directed to Gabrielle
Aberle, 907–586–7228.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

I. Abstract
The National Marine Fisheries
Services (NMFS), Alaska Regional
Office, is requesting extension of a
currently approved information
collection for the Alaska Interagency
Electronic Reporting System (IERS).
IERS is a fisheries data collection
system that enables the management of
commercial fisheries off Alaska and is
supported through a partnership among
the NMFS Alaska Regional Office, the
Alaska Department of Fish and Game
(ADF&G), and the International Pacific
Halibut Commission (IPHC). IERS
provides the Alaska fishing industry
with a consolidated, electronic means of
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information to multiple management
agencies through a single reporting
system. The recordkeeping and
reporting requirements for IERS are
located at 50 CFR 679.5.
Users enter information into IERS
using three main components,
depending on their internet access and
transmission capability:
• eLandings provides web-based
access for shoreside and stationary
floating processors to submit landings
and production information and also by
some catcher/processors and
motherships who have access to the
internet to submit their data.
• seaLandings is a fishery harvest
reporting software program that
functions without constant internet
connectivity and is installed on
computer workstations. The
seaLandings interface targets at-sea
vessels with limited access to the web
(typically for catcher/processors and
motherships which report at sea).
Landings, production, and eLog
information can be sent from
seaLandings via direct transmission (a
report file is zipped up and sent over
the internet and processed behind the
scenes) or via email.
• tLandings is a USB-installed
program that tender vessels with no web
access can use to enter landings
information.
Through IERS, NMFS collects
information on landings, production,
and effort for groundfish and crab
species to support the agency’s
management responsibilities. IERS has
four main information collections:
Registration, landing reports,
production reports, and electronic
logbooks. Landing reports document the
harvest of fish and shellfish that is sold,
discarded, or retained by the fisherman.
Production reports provide information
on the amount of processed product that
is generated by processors. Logbooks
provide information about where and
when fishing effort occurs. NMFS uses
information collected in IERS for inseason and inter-season management
decisions that affect the fishery
resources and the fishing industry that
uses those resources.
Information collected through the
IERS promotes the goals and objectives
of fishery management plans, the
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act, and
other applicable laws. Collecting
information from fishery participants is
necessary for successful management of
groundfish, crab, Pacific halibut, and
salmon resources.
Compared with paper forms and
conventional logbooks, IERS is a more
convenient, accurate, and timely

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