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Habitat Protection and Ecosystem-Based
Management.
The Council will discuss other
business, upcoming meetings, and take
action as necessary.
Documents regarding these issues are
available from the Council office (see
ADDRESSES).
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 Council’s intent to take
final action to address the emergency.
Special Accommodations
These meetings are physically
accessible to people with disabilities.
Requests for auxiliary aids should be
directed to the Council office (see
ADDRESSES) 5 days prior to the meeting.
Note: The times and sequence specified in
this agenda are subject to change.
(Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.)
Dated: May 25, 2021.
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
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Individual Fishing Quotas for
Pacific Halibut and Sablefish in the
Alaska Fisheries
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
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via the Federal Register on January 13,
2021 (86 FR 2644), 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: Individual Fishing Quotas for
Pacific Halibut and Sablefish in the
Alaska Fisheries.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0272.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission
(extension and revision of a currently
approved information collection).
Number of Respondents: 3,441.
Average Hours per Response:
Application for IFQ/CDQ Hired Master
Permit, 1 hour; Application for IFQ/
CDQ Registered Buyer Permit, 30
minutes; Application for Replacement
of Certificates or Permits, 30 minutes;
Application for Eligibility to Receive
QS/IFQ by Transfer, 2 hours; QS Holder:
Identification of Ownership Interest, 2
hours; Application for Transfer of QS, 2
hours; Application for Transfer of QS/
IFQ by Self Sweep Up, 2 hours;
Application for Medical Transfer of IFQ,
1.5 hours; Application for Temporary
Transfer of Halibut/Sablefish IFQ, 2
hours; (emergency) Application for
Temporary Transfer of Halibut/Sablefish
IFQ, 2 hours; Annual Report for CDQ
IFQ Transfers, 40 hours; QS/IFQ
Beneficiary Designation Form, 30
minutes; Appeals, 4 hours; IFQ
Administrative Waiver, 6 minutes; Prior
Notice of Landing, 15 minutes; IFQ
Departure Report, 15 minutes;
Transshipment Authorization, 12
minutes; Dockside sales, 6 minutes;
Application for a Non-profit
Corporation to be Designated as a
Recreational Quota Entity, 200 hours;
Application for Transfer of Quota Share
To or From a Recreational Quota Entity,
2 hours; Recreational Quota Entity
Annual Report, 40 hours.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 11,236
hours.
Needs and Uses: The National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS), Alaska
Regional Office, is requesting renewal
and revision of this currently approved
information collection that contains
requirements for the Pacific Halibut and
Sablefish Individual Fishing Quota
Program (IFQ Program).
The International Pacific Halibut
Commission (IPHC) and NMFS Alaska
Region manage fishing for Pacific
halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis)
through regulations established under
the authority of the Northern Pacific
Halibut Act of 1982, 16 U.S.C. 773c
(Halibut Act). The IPHC promulgates
regulations governing the halibut fishery

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under the Convention between the
United States Halibut Fishery of the
Northern Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea
(Convention). Regulations pursuant to
the Convention are set forth at 50 CFR
300 subpart E.
The North Pacific Fishery
Management Council, under the
authority of the Halibut Act (with
respect to Pacific halibut) and the
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation
and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et
seq.; Magnuson-Stevens Act) (with
respect to sablefish), manages the IFQ
Program. NMFS Alaska Region
administers the IFQ Program.
Regulations implementing the IFQ
Program are set forth at 50 CFR part 679.
The IFQ Program provides a limited
access system for Pacific halibut in
Convention waters in and off Alaska
and sablefish fisheries in waters of the
Exclusive Economic Zone off Alaska.
The IFQ Program provides coastal
Alaska communities a source of
revenue, while maintaining the social
and economic character of the fixed-gear
sablefish and halibut fisheries. The IFQ
Program provides economic stability for
these fisheries while reducing many of
the conservation and management
problems commonly associated with
open-access fisheries. The IFQ Program
includes several provisions, such as
ownership caps and vessel use caps that
protect small producers, part-time
participants, and entry-level
participants that otherwise could be
adversely affected by excessive
consolidation.
Participation in the IFQ Program is
limited to persons that hold quota share
(QS), although there are several very
limited provisions for ‘‘leasing’’ of
annual IFQ. QS is a transferable permit
that was initially issued to persons who
owned or leased vessels that made legal
commercial fixed-gear landings of
Pacific halibut or sablefish in the waters
off Alaska from 1988 through 1990.
Currently, QS may only be obtained
through transfer.
Annually, NMFS issues eligible QS
holders an IFQ fishing permit that
authorizes participation in the IFQ
fisheries. Those to whom IFQ permits
are issued may harvest their annual
allocation at any time during the eight
plus-month IFQ halibut and sablefish
seasons.
More information on the IFQ Program
is provided on the NMFS Alaska Region
website at https://
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/alaska/
sustainable-fisheries/pacific-halibutand-sablefish-individual-fishing-quotaifq-program.
Some of the collection instruments in
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participants in the Western Alaska
Community Development Quota (CDQ)
Program. The purpose of the CDQ
Program is to provide eligible western
Alaska villages with the opportunity to
participate and invest in fisheries in the
Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands
Management Area (BSAI); to support
economic development in western
Alaska; to alleviate poverty and provide
economic and social benefits for
residents of western Alaska; and to
achieve sustainable and diversified local
economies in western Alaska. In fitting
with these goals, NMFS allocates a
portion of the annual catch limits for a
variety of commercially valuable marine
species in the BSAI to the CDQ Program.
Pacific halibut is one of these species.
More information on the CDQ Program
is provided on the NMFS Alaska Region
website at https://
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/alaska/
sustainable-fisheries/communitydevelopment-quota-cdq-program.
Information collection requirements for
the CDQ Program are approved under
OMB Control Number 0648–0269.
This information collection is
required to manage commercial halibut
and sablefish fishing under the
Magnuson-Stevens Act, the Halibut Act,
and under 50 CFR parts 300 and 679.
This information collection contains
the forms used by participants in the
IFQ Program to apply for, renew, or
replace permits; transfer or lease IFQ
and QS; determine compliance with IFQ
program requirements; and designate a
beneficiary for a QS holder. Two of the
permit applications are also used by
participants in the CDQ Program. This
information collection also contains
annual reports and other collections
submitted by telephone or other
methods and that do not have forms.
The type of information collected
includes information on the applicants,
transferors, transferees, permits, IFQ or
QS types and owners, beneficiaries,
vessels, business operations, medical
declarations, landings, gear types,
products, and harvests and harvest
areas.
This information is used to identify
and authorize participants in the halibut
and sablefish fisheries, to track and
transfer quota share, to limit transfers to
authorized participants, and to monitor
quota share balances and harvest in
these fisheries.
Several revisions are made to this
collection. The emergency version of the
Application for Temporary Transfer of
Halibut/Sablefish Individual Fishing
Quota (IFQ), which was approved under
an emergency approval (OMB Control
No. 0648–0795), is added for use during
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revised to remove information that is
not needed. The Application for
Transfer of QS/IFQ by Self Sweep-up is
revised to remove the notary
certification, and the Application for
Eligibility to Receive QS/IFQ is revised
to no longer collect social security
numbers. The Application for Eligibility
to Receive QS/IFQ and Application for
Transfer of QS are revised to collect the
NMFS ID number to improved
identification.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; Business or other for-profit
organizations; Not-for-profit
institutions.
Frequency: On occasion; Annually.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary;
Required to Obtain or Retain Benefits;
Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act, 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.; Northern
Pacific Halibut Act of 1982, 16 U.S.C.
773c.
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 0648–0272.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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Administration
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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 72 Assessment
Webinar III for Gulf of Mexico gag
grouper.
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The SEDAR 72 stock
assessment process for Gulf of Mexico
gag grouper will consist of a series of
data and assessment webinars. See
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
DATES: The SEDAR 72 Assessment
Webinar III will be held June 15, 2021,
from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m., Eastern.
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 below) 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
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.
SUMMARY:

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