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A sector is granted an annual allocation
of most stocks of fish managed by the
NE Multispecies FMP. In return for
increased operational flexibility, such as
exemptions from certain effort controls
and the ability to pool and trade quota,
sectors have additional reporting and
monitoring requirements. The sector
reporting and monitoring requirements,
as established by Amendment 16 and
revised by subsequent framework
adjustments to the NE Multispecies
FMP, are contained within this
information collection.
This revision incorporates a number
of recent changes. Amendment 16
required sectors to develop and fund an
independent third-party at-sea
monitoring (ASM) program.
Amendment 16 allowed sectors to use
electronic monitoring (EM) instead of
human monitors to meet ASM
requirements, provided that the Greater
Atlantic Regional Administrator deemed
it sufficient. Using the authority and
process granted to the agency in
Amendment 16, NMFS announced its
determination that sectors may use EM
to meet monitoring requirements (86 FR
16686; March 31, 2021). To implement
this change, we are proposing to collect
additional data elements necessary to
support an electronic monitoring
program. Specifically, we propose to
require the development and
submission of vessel monitoring plans
and trip-level feedback reports, both of
which are critical for accurate catch data
and management of ACLs. We also
propose to require the collection of
information related to the purchase and
installation of EM equipment. This is
necessary for NMFS to reimburse
industry’s ASM costs as directed and
funded by Congressional
appropriations.
In 2020, the Northwest Atlantic
Fisheries Organization (NAFO)
established a new requirement that
vessels fishing in the NAFO Regulatory
Area must submit daily catch reports via
a vessel monitoring system (VMS) and
NMFS implemented this requirement to
ensure compliance with NAFO
reporting requirements. Daily VMS
catch reports allow for near real-time
quota monitoring and are necessary for
the management of ACLs.
This revision removes information
collections related to VMS activation
confirmation responses, time and costs,
and the cost of purchase, maintenance
and automated polling, which was
transferred to OMB control number
0648–0202. This revision also removes
the Closed Area I Hook Gear Haddock
SAP from the US/Canada Area and CA
II SAPS, Closed Area I SAP and Regular
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because NMFS removed the regulations
implementing this SAP after it was
eliminated as part of the Omnibus
Essential Fish Habitat Amendment 2 (85
FR 19129; April 6, 2020).
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations.
Frequency: Frequency varies from
collection to collection (e.g., annual, per
trip, weekly).
Respondent’s Obligation: Obligation
varies from collection to collection (e.g.,
mandatory, voluntary, required to retain
benefits).
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act.
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 0648–0605.
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
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Pacific Islands Logbook
Family of Forms
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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comments were previously requested
via the Federal Register on December
14, 2021 (86 FR 71043) during a 60-day
comment period. This notice allows for
an additional 30 days for public
comments.
Agency: NOAA National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS), Commerce.
Title: Pacific Islands Logbook Family
of Forms.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0214.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular Submission
(revision of a currently approved
collection).
Number of Respondents: 599.
Average Hours per Response: 0.27
hours.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 6,911.
Needs and Uses: Vessel operators or
owners in Federally-managed fisheries
in the Pacific Islands Region are
required to provide certain information
about their fishing activities, catch, and
interactions with protected species by
submitting reports to NMFS, per 50 CFR
part 665.14. These data are needed to
determine the condition of fish stocks
and whether current management
measures are having the intended
effects, to evaluate the benefits and costs
of changes in management measures,
and to monitor and respond to
accidental takes of endangered and
threatened species, including seabirds,
sea turtles, and marine mammals.
Longline vessel operators are also
required to submit pre-trip notifications,
including information on trip type,
departure time, and transit through a
protected species zone per 50 CFR
665.803. Other fisheries are required to
submit notifications of trip return,
unloading, or sales reports per
regulations in multiple Subparts of 50
CFR 665.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; Business or other for-profit
organizations.
Frequency: As required in regulations.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: 50 CFR 665.
This information collection request
may be viewed at https://
www.reginfo.gov/public/. 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

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entering either the title of the collection
or the OMB Control Number 0648–0214.
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
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Nautical Discrepancy and
Data Reporting System
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 May 23, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments to
Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer,
at NOAA.PRA@noaa.gov. Please
reference OMB Control Number 0648–
0007 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 Richard
Powell, (302) 703–9041, or
Richard.Powell@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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SUMMARY:

I. Abstract
This request is for a revision and
extension of a currently approved
information collection.
NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey (Coast
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chartmaker, maintaining and updating
over a thousand charts covering the 3.5
million square nautical miles of coastal
waters in the U.S. Exclusive Economic
Zone and the Great Lakes. The marine
transportation system relies on charting
accuracy and precision to keep
navigation safe and coastal communities
protected from environmental disasters
at sea.
Coast Survey also writes and
publishes the United States Coast Pilot®
(Coast Pilot), a series of ten nautical
books that supplement nautical charts
with essential marine information that
cannot be shown graphically on the
charts and are not readily available
elsewhere. Subjects include, but are not
limited to, channel descriptions,
anchorages, bridge and cable clearances,
tides and tidal currents, prominent
features, pilotage, towage, weather, ice
conditions, wharf descriptions, dangers,
routes, traffic separation schemes, small
craft facilities and Federal Regulations
applicable to navigation.
The marine environment and
shorelines are constantly changing.
NOAA makes every effort to update
information portrayed in charts and
described in the Coast Pilot. Sources of
information include, but are not limited
to: Pilot associations, shipping
companies, towboat operators, state
marine authorities, city marine
authorities, local port authorities,
marine operators, hydrographic research
vessels, naval vessels, Coast Guard
cutters, merchant vessels, fishing
vessels, pleasure boats, U.S. Power
Squadron Units, U.S. Coast Guard
Auxiliary Units, and the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers (USACE).
The purpose of NOAA’s Nautical
Discrepancy and Data Reporting System
is to offer formal, standardized
instruments for recommending changes,
corrections, and updates to nautical
charts and the Coast Pilot, and to
monitor and document the accepted
changes. Coast Survey solicits
information through the Aimed
Stakeholder Interaction and Survey Tool
(ASSIST) (https://
www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/customerservice/assist/).
This collection also includes a Citizen
Science component, which allows
boating groups or individuals to submit
reports to update the charts. The Citizen
Science component to the collection
benefits Coast Survey by allowing the
public to ‘‘adopt’’ a product or part of
a product and provide annual data
updates that directly affect that product
or products. Data obtained through
Citizen Science reports may be used to
update certain U.S. nautical charts and
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The Nautical Data Branch (NDB)
receives numerous potential
construction notifications in the form of
USACE-issued Public Notices, Permit
Applications, and Permits, which could
include a proposal or authorization to
dredge and/or construct, remove, or
abandon structures. NDB vets these
Public Notices, Permit Applications, or
Permits for the potential of a charting
action and registers them into a
database. To facilitate the ability of NDB
to learn the status of USACE-permitted
projects and to obtain as-built and/or
survey data associated with the
completion of these projects, Coast
Survey is proposing to add three Project
Status Report Forms to the collection.
The solicitation forms, titled Permit/
Public Notice Status Report, Artificial
Reef/Mariculture Status Report, and
Submerged Pipeline Status Report
Form, provide a standardized method
for reporting project statuses to the
Nautical Data Branch and provide
special instructions regarding the
submission of digital as-builts and/or
survey data. Upon receipt of the forms,
NDB may register the forms, along with
the USACE Permit and any as-built data,
into the Marine Chart Division’s (MCD)
internal database in support of potential
updates to the applicable NOAA
nautical chart(s).
These forms provide an effective way
for permittees to notify MCD of the
status of their permitted projects and
help MCD garner pertinent data
necessary for chart application. This
mode of data delivery facilitates the
ability of NDB to capture complete,
more efficient, registration-ready source
packages that require less frequent
correspondence with the permittee prior
to source registration. This process is
instrumental in accelerating the
availability of important, and/or
possibly critical, nautical data to the
cartographic production branches for
charting action.
The title of this collection is also
being updated from Nautical
Discrepancy Reporting System to
Nautical Discrepancy and Data
Reporting System.
II. Method of Collection
Respondents can submit discrepancy
reports electronically through the
ASSIST website or by telephone (888–
990–6622).
Status Report Forms: Every month,
NDB mails customized versions of the
previously mentioned status report
forms to a different batch of permittees,
requesting information on the
completion status of their permitted
projects. If a permittee would like to
notify the Marine Chart Division (MCD)

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