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Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 81 / Thursday, April 25, 2024 / 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
Groundfish Trawl Fishery Monitoring
and Catch Accounting Program
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 9,
2024, 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 Groundfish
Trawl Fishery Monitoring and Catch
Accounting Program.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0619.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission
(extension of a current information
collection).
Number of Respondents: 153.
Average Hours per Response: For 5
existing observer providers: 2 hours for
preparation and submission of the
annual observer provider permit
renewal application. For 1 new observer
provider: 10 hours for observer provider
permit application preparation and
submission. For 1 observer provider: 4
hours for a written response and
submission of an appeal if an observer
provider permit is denied. For 45 catch
monitors: 1 hour for submission of
qualifications to work as a catch
monitor. For 5 catch monitors: 4 hours
for a written response and submission of
an appeal if a catch monitor permit is
denied. For 16 vessels in the
Mothership or Catcher/Processor fleet,
30 minutes or less for satisfying
requirements for use of at-sea scales,
including daily testing reports (30
minutes), daily catch and cumulative
weight reports (10 minutes), audit trail
(1 minute), calibration log (2 minutes),
and fault log (3 minutes).

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Total Annual Burden Hours: 447
hours.
Needs and Uses: This request is for
extension of the current collection for
the West Coast Region Groundfish
Trawl Fishery Monitoring and Catch
Accounting Program. In January 2011,
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration’s (NOAA) National
Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
implemented a trawl rationalization
program, a catch share program, for the
Pacific coast groundfish fishery’s trawl
fleet. The program was developed
through Amendment 20 to the
Groundfish Fishery Management Plan
(FMP), under the authority of the
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act (16
U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) and consists of an
individual fishing quota (IFQ) program
for the shorebased trawl fleet (including
whiting and non-whiting fisheries); and
cooperative (coop) programs for the atsea mothership (MS) and catcher/
processor (C/P) trawl fleets (whiting
only). Fixed allocations to the limited
entry trawl fleet were developed
through a parallel process with
Amendment 21 to the FMP. The
regulations implementing the program
were effective January 1, 2011; all of the
necessary tracking systems to make the
program operational became active on
January 11, 2011, the date fishing began
under the new program. Since that time,
the Council and NMFS have been
addressing implementation issues as
they arise. To achieve individual
accountability for catch and bycatch and
track total catch, the shorebased IFQ
Program is subject to 100 percent
monitoring both at-sea and dockside. In
addition to 100 percent monitoring atsea, motherships and catcher/processors
are subject to flow scale requirements
that include daily testing, reporting, and
an annual inspection.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations.
Frequency: Reporting on occasion,
daily, weekly, or annually.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act. US Code 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. And
CFR Citation 50 CFR 660.15
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/
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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 0648–0619.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Science Advisory Board
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Department of Commerce (DOC).
ACTION: Notice of public meetings.
AGENCY:

This notice sets forth the
schedule and proposed agenda for a
meeting of the Science Advisory Board
(SAB). The members will discuss issues
outlined in the section on Matters to be
Considered.
DATES: The meeting is scheduled for
June 18, 2024, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
eastern standard time (EST). The time
and the agenda topics described below
are subject to change.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held
virtually. The link for the webinar
registration will be posted, when
available, on the SAB website: https://
sab.noaa.gov/current-meetings/.
For the latest agenda please refer to
the SAB website: http://sab.noaa.gov/
SABMeetings/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Casey Stewart, Executive Director,
SSMC3, Room 11360, 1315 East-West
Hwy., Silver Spring, MD 20910; Phone
Number: 240–381–0833; Email:
noaa.scienceadvisoryboard@noaa.gov;
or visit the SAB website at https://
sab.noaa.gov/current-meetings/.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
NOAA Science Advisory Board (SAB)
was established by a Decision
Memorandum dated September 25,
1997, and is the only Federal Advisory
Committee with responsibility to advise
the Under Secretary of Commerce for
Oceans and Atmosphere on strategies
for research, education, and application
of science to operations and information
services. SAB activities and advice
provide necessary input to ensure that
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) science
programs are of the highest quality and
SUMMARY:

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