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Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 111 / Thursday, June 9, 2022 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration

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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; West Coast Region Trawl
Logbook Requirement
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 February 11,
2022 during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic &
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
Title: West Coast Region Trawl
Logbook Requirement.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0782.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular Submission
(extension of a currently approved
collection).
Number of Respondents: 27.
Average Hours per Response: 8 hours.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 648
hours.
Needs and Uses: This request is a
renewal of an existing package. The
success of fisheries management
programs depends significantly on the
availability of fishery data. Currently,
the states of Washington, Oregon, and
California administer a trawl logbook on
behalf of the Pacific Fishery
Management Council (Council) and
NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS). The log used is a
standard format developed by the
Council to collect information necessary
to effectively manage the fishery on a
coast-wide basis. The trawl logbook
collects haul-level effort data including
tow time, tow location, depth of catch,
net type, target strategy, and estimated
pounds of fish retained per tow. Each
trawl log represents a single fishing trip.
The state of California repealed their
requirement, effective April 1, 2019,
therefore, NMFS created a federal
requirement in order to maintain

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logbook coverage from trawl vessels in
California.
This federal requirement duplicates
the logbook structure and process that
the state of California was using in order
to minimize disruption or confusion for
fishery participants. Under this rule,
NMFS contracts with the Pacific States
Marine Fisheries Commission (PSMFC)
to distribute and collect the same
logbook these fishermen were using
previously. These data are used
regularly by NMFS, the Pacific Fishery
Management Council, the West Coast
Groundfish Observer Program, NMFS
Office of Law Enforcement, and the
Coast Guard for fisheries management
and enforcement.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations.
Frequency: Monthly.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: The regulations at
§ 660.13(a)(1) specify reporting
requirements for vessels using trawl
gear in a state without a state
requirement for the completion and
submission of a trawl logbook.
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 0648–0782.
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
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Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to
Specified Activities; Taking Marine
Mammals Incidental to Chevron Point
Orient Wharf Removal
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.

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Notice; issuance of incidental
harassment authorizations.

ACTION:

In accordance with the
regulations implementing the Marine
Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) as
amended, notification is hereby given
that NMFS has issued two consecutive
IHAs to the Chevron Products Company
(Chevron) to incidentally harass marine
mammals during in-water construction
activities associated with the Point
Orient Wharf Removal in San Francisco
Bay, California.
DATES: These authorizations are
effective from June 1, 2022 through May
31, 2023 and June 1, 2023 through May
31, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jessica Taylor, Office of Protected
Resources, NMFS, (301) 427–8401.
Electronic copies of the application and
supporting documents, as well as a list
of the references cited in this document,
may be obtained online at: https://
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/
marine-mammal-protection/incidentaltake-authorizations-constructionactivities. In case of problems accessing
these documents, please call the contact
listed above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

Background
The MMPA prohibits the ‘‘take’’ of
marine mammals, with certain
exceptions. Sections 101(a)(5)(A) and
(D) of the MMPA (16 U.S.C. 1361 et
seq.) direct the Secretary of Commerce
(as delegated to NMFS) to allow, upon
request, the incidental, but not
intentional, taking of small numbers of
marine mammals by U.S. citizens who
engage in a specified activity (other than
commercial fishing) within a specified
geographical region if certain findings
are made and either regulations are
proposed or, if the taking is limited to
harassment, a notice of a proposed
incidental harassment authorization is
provided to the public for review.
Authorization for incidental takings
shall be granted if NMFS finds that the
taking will have a negligible impact on
the species or stock(s) and will not have
an unmitigable adverse impact on the
availability of the species or stock(s) for
taking for subsistence uses (where
relevant). Further, NMFS must prescribe
the permissible methods of taking and
other ‘‘means of effecting the least
practicable adverse impact’’ on the
affected species or stocks and their
habitat, paying particular attention to
rookeries, mating grounds, and areas of
similar significance, and on the
availability of the species or stocks for
taking for certain subsistence uses

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