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Caribbean Fishery Management Council,
270 Mun˜oz Rivera Avenue, Suite 401,
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918–1903;
telephone: (787) 398–3717.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

The items
included in the tentative agenda are:

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Comment Request;
Electronic Monitoring Systems for
Atlantic Highly Migratory Species
(HMS)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

July 18, 2023
9:30 a.m.–11 a.m.
—How to Improve Data Collection
Analysis for Puerto Rico Fisheries—
Adyan Rios, SEFSC
11 a.m.–12 p.m.
—The Southeast Region’s Equity and
Environmental Justice Strategy
Implementation Plan for Underserved
Communities: and Examination of
Barriers and Development of
Actionable Solutions—Heather
Blough, NOAA Fisheries/SERO
12 p.m.–1 p.m.
—Lunch Break
1 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
—Status of Marine Reserve Areas in
Puerto Rico—Liajay Rivera, CFMC
1:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
—Other Business
Other than the starting date and time
the order of business may be adjusted as
necessary to accommodate the
completion of agenda items, at the
discretion of the Chair. The meeting will
begin on July 18, 2023 at 9:30 a.m. AST,
and will end on July 18, 2023, at 4:30
p.m. AST.
Special Accommodations
For any additional information on this
public hybrid meeting, you may contact
Diana Martino, Caribbean Fishery
Management Council, 270 Mun˜oz
Rivera Avenue, Suite 401, San Juan,
Puerto Rico 00918–1903; telephone:
(787) 226–8849.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: June 23, 2023.
Rey Israel Marquez,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration

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 Office of Management and
Budget (OMB).
DATES: To ensure consideration,
comments regarding this proposed
information collection must be received
on or before August 28, 2023.
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–
0372 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 Cliff
Hutt, Fisheries Management Specialist,
National Marine Fisheries Service
(NMFS), Highly Migratory Species
(HMS) Management Division, 1315 EastWest Highway, SSMC3, Silver Spring,
MD 20910; 301–427–8503; or cliff.hutt@
noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

I. Abstract
This request is for renewal and
extension without revision of a current
information collection request (ICR)
0648–0372 Electronic Monitoring
Systems for Atlantic HMS. This renewal
and extension is separate from the
temporary ICR associated with
Amendment 15 to the 2006
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Management Plan (0648–BI10), which is
considering substantial revisions to
0648–0372. Amendment 15 will not be
finalized before the current ICR expires,
necessitating this separate renewal
effort.
Vessel monitoring systems (VMS) and
other electronic monitoring systems
collect important information on fishing
effort, catch, and the geographic
location of fishing effort and catch for
certain sectors of the Atlantic HMS fleet.
Data collected through these systems are
used in both domestic and international
fisheries management, including for law
enforcement, stock assessments, and
quota management purposes. Atlantic
HMS vessels required to use VMS are
pelagic longline, bottom longline
(directed shark permit holders in North
Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia),
and gillnet (directed shark permit
holders consistent with the
requirements of the Atlantic large whale
take reduction plan requirements at 50
CFR 229.39.(h)) vessels. In addition to
VMS, pelagic longline vessels are also
required to have electronic monitoring
systems to monitor catch and account
for bluefin tuna interactions, and, when
appropriate, monitoring the harvest of
shortfin mako sharks.
NMFS Office of Law Enforcement
monitors fleet adherence to gear- and
time-area restrictions with VMS
position location data. Gear restricted
areas and time-area closures are
important. Atlantic HMS management
tools that have been implemented to
reduce bycatch of juvenile swordfish,
sea turtles, and bluefin tuna, among
other species. Electronic monitoring
data from the pelagic longline fleet are
used by NMFS to accurately monitor
bluefin tuna catch by the pelagic
longline fleet, to ensure compliance
with Individual Bluefin Quota (IBQ)
limits and requirements, and to ensure
that the Longline category bluefin tuna
quota is not over-harvested.
Additionally, electronic monitoring is
used to verify disposition of retained
shortfin mako sharks, when retention is
allowed, consistent with binding
international agreements. VMS
reporting of bluefin tuna catch is used
to monitor IBQ allocations in real-time.
Atlantic HMS fisheries are managed
under the dual authority of the
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act
(MSA) and the Atlantic Tunas
Conservation Act (ATCA). Under the
MSA, management measures must be
consistent with the National Standards,
and fisheries must be managed to
maintain optimum yield, rebuild
overfished fisheries, and prevent
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of Commerce shall promulgate
regulations, as necessary and
appropriate, to implement measures
adopted by the International
Commission for the Conservation of
Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT).
II. Method of Collection
First-time VMS respondents must
install a VMS unit and submit an
activation checklist to NMFS via mail.
Hail-out, hail-in, hourly position
reports, and bluefin tuna catch reports
must be submitted to NMFS
electronically via the VMS
communication system. First-time
electronic monitoring respondents must
have an electronic monitoring system
installed by a NMFS contractor. Except
when the hard drive is at capacity after
one trip or otherwise stated by NMFS in
writing, electronic monitoring data must
be submitted after every other pelagic
longline trip by mailing computer hard
drives to the designated NMFS
contractor.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–0372.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission
(extension of a current information
collection).
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
154.
Estimated Time Per Response: 4 hours
for initial VMS installation; 5 minutes
per VMS initial activation checklist; 2
minutes per hail-out/hail-in declaration;
6 hours for initial electronic monitoring
installation; 1 hour for camera boom
installation; 5 minutes for pelagic
longline bluefin tuna catch records; 1
minute for dockside review of bluefin
tuna catch records; 1 hour for electronic
monitoring data retrieval.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 3,305 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $238,862.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.), and the
Atlantic Tunas Convention Act of 1975
(16 U.S.C. 971 et seq.).

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IV. Request for Comments
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
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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 Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
[Docket No. PTO–P–2023–0033]

Grant of Interim Extension of the Term
of U.S. Patent No. 7,517,522;
Recombinant ADAMTS13
(rADAMTS13), a Recombinant A
Disintegrin and Metalloprotease With
Thrombospondin Type-1 Motifs 13
United States Patent and
Trademark Office, Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of interim patent term
extension.
AGENCY:

The United States Patent and
Trademark Office has issued an order
granting a one-year interim extension of
the term of U.S. Patent No. 7,517,522
(’522 patent).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ali
Salimi, Senior Legal Advisor, Office of
Patent Legal Administration, at 571–
272–0909 or ali.salimi@uspto.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 35 U.S.C.
156 generally provides that the term of
a patent may be extended for a period
of up to five years, if the patent claims
a product, or a method of making or
using a product, that has been subject to
certain defined regulatory review. 35
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U.S.C. 156(d)(5) generally provides that
the term of such a patent may be
extended for no more than five interim
periods of up to one year each, if the
approval phase of the regulatory review
period is reasonably expected to extend
beyond the expiration date of the patent.
On June 15, 2023, The Regents of the
University of Michigan, the owner of
record of the ’522 patent, timely filed an
application under 35 U.S.C. 156(d)(5)
for an interim extension of the term of
the ’522 patent. The ’522 patent claims
a method of using the product
recombinant ADAMTS13
(rADAMTS13), a recombinant A
disintegrin and metalloprotease with
thrombospondin type-1 motifs 13. The
application for interim patent term
extension indicates that a Biologics
License Application No. 125795/0 was
submitted to the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) on March 17,
2023, and that the FDA’s review thereof
is ongoing.
Review of the interim patent term
extension application indicates that,
except for permission to market or use
the product commercially, the ’522
patent would be eligible for an
extension of the patent term under 35
U.S.C. 156. Because it appears the
approval phase of the regulatory review
period will continue beyond the
expiration date of the patent, i.e., June
30, 2023, interim extension of the ’522
patent’s term under 35 U.S.C. 156(d)(5)
is appropriate.
An interim extension under 35 U.S.C.
156(d)(5) of the term of U.S. Patent No.
7,517,522 is granted for a period of one
year from the original expiration date of
the ’522 patent.
Robert Bahr,
Deputy Commissioner for Patents, United
States Patent and Trademark Office.
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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Notice of Intent to Extend
Collection; 3038–0097; Process for
Review of Swaps for Mandatory
Clearing
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Commodity Futures
Trading Commission (‘‘Commission’’ or
‘‘CFTC’’) is announcing an opportunity
for public comment on the proposed
renewal of a collection of certain

SUMMARY:

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