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minutes for the Live Animal Evaluation
Form, 45 minutes for the Dead Animal
Evaluation Form, 10 minutes for the
Histopathology Form, 30 minutes for the
Samples Collected Form, 30 minutes for
the Sample Analysis Results Form, 30
minutes for the Findings Form. The
total estimated time if every form needs
to be filled out for a case (not common)
would be four hours and ten minutes
per case. The burden estimate is
conservative and based upon
respondents filling out all forms
individually. However, the database
will allow for batch upload of multiple
cases, as well as API. Both the API and
batch upload functions are expected to
streamline the data submission process
and should significantly reduce the
burden on those organizations that take
advantage of these functions. Most
forms will be filled out electronically,
significantly reducing the financial
burden to respondents. We estimate that
a small number of the Marine Mammal
Report—Basic Data paper forms will be
filled out and mailed to NMFS for
upload into the electronic database.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 20,550.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $117.42 for paper Marine
Mammal Report—Basic Data Form
submission.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Marine Mammal
Protection Act of 1972 (MMPA).
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
accuracy of our estimate of the time and
cost burden for this proposed collection,
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 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.

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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,
Departmental PRA Compliance Officer, Office
of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
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; Alaska American Fisheries
Act (AFA) Permits
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 August 15, 2025.
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–
0393 in the subject line of your
comments. All comments received are
part of the public record and will
generally be posted on https://
www.regulations.gov without change.
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 Doug
Shaftel, National Marine Fisheries
Service, P.O. Box 21668, Juneau, AK
99802–1668 (doug.shaftel@noaa.gov;
907–586–7228).
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract
This is a request for renewal of an
approved information collection. The
National Marine Fisheries Service
(NMFS), Alaska Region, is the sponsor
of this information collection that
contains applications for permits and
transfers necessary for NMFS to manage
the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands
(BSAI) pollock fishery under the
American Fisheries Act (AFA).
NMFS manages the BSAI pollock
fishery under the authority of the
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act (16
U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) and AFA (16 U.S.C.
1851). The regulations implementing
the AFA Program are at 50 CFR part
679, subpart F. The reporting
requirements at 50 CFR part 679 form
the basis for this collection of
information.
The AFA was signed into law in
October 1998. The purpose of the AFA
was to tighten U.S. ownership standards
that had been exploited under the AntiReflagging Act, and to provide the BSAI
pollock fleet the opportunity to conduct
their fishery in a more rational manner
while protecting non-AFA participants
in the other fisheries. The AFA
established sector allocations in the
BSAI pollock fishery, determined
eligible vessels and processors, allowed
the formation of cooperatives, set limits
on the participation of AFA vessels in
other fisheries, and imposed special
catch weighing and monitoring
requirements on AFA vessels.
Any vessel used to engage in directed
fishing for a non-western Alaska
community development quota (nonCDQ) allocation of pollock in the Bering
Sea and any shoreside processor,
stationary floating processor, or
mothership that receives pollock
harvested in a non-CDQ directed
pollock fishery in the Bering Sea must
have a valid AFA permit on board the
vessel or at the facility location at all
times while non-CDQ pollock is being
harvested or processed.
Permanent AFA permits (AFA catcher
vessel, AFA catcher/processor, AFA
mothership, and AFA inshore
processor) for the BSAI pollock fishery
had a one-time application deadline of
December 1, 2000, and were issued with
an indefinite expiration date. Therefore,
except for participants that require
annual or replacement permits, all AFA
entities required to have a permit are
already permitted.
The type of information collected
includes information on the applicants,
transferors, transferees, permits, vessels,
and Chinook salmon prohibited species

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catch (PSC) transfer data. This
information collection contains the
following AFA permitting and transfer
requirements:
• The application for an AFA Permit:
Rebuilt, Replacement, or Removed
Vessel is submitted by an owner of an
AFA vessel to notify NMFS the vessel
has been rebuilt; to request an AFA
permit for a replacement catcher vessel,
catcher/processor, or mothership; or to
request removal of an AFA catcher
vessel that is a member of an inshore
cooperative and assign its catch history
to another vessel or vessels in the same
cooperative. The vessel owner submits
this application only when needed,
subject to deadlines.
• The Application for AFA Inshore
Catcher Vessel Cooperative Permit is
submitted annually by each AFA
inshore catcher vessel cooperative to
obtain an AFA Inshore Catcher Vessel
Cooperative Permit and identify the
vessels and processors that will be
participating in the BSAI pollock fishery
prior to the start of each fishing year.
NMFS uses the information obtained in
this permit to identify the universe of
participating vessels and processors in
the BSAI pollock fishery prior to start of
each fishing year.
• The AFA Inshore Vessel Contract
Fishing Notification is submitted by an
AFA inshore cooperative that intends to
contract with a non-member vessel to
harvest a portion of the cooperative’s
annual pollock allocation. The purpose
of this notification is to assist
cooperatives with understanding how
their catch is accounted for and ensure
that NMFS knows which vessels may be
reporting their catch using an
alternative cooperative ID.
• The Application for Approval as an
Entity to Receive Transferable Chinook
Salmon PSC Allocation is submitted by
an entity representing the catcher/
processor sector or the mothership
sector to request approval to receive
transferable Chinook salmon PSC
allocations on behalf of members of the
sector. Once approved, an entity is not
required to reapply for or renew its
status. Entities sometimes submit
amendments to update contact and
other information related to the entity
and its members. NMFS uses the
information submitted in this
application to identify the legally
authorized representative for purposes
of conducting Chinook Salmon PSC
transfers.
• The Application for Transfer of
Bering Sea Chinook Salmon PSC
Allocations is submitted by an
authorized representative of the catcher/
processor sector, the mothership sector,
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to transfer Chinook salmon PSC
allocations to another entity’s account.
NMFS uses the information submitted
in this application to identify the
transferor and transferee and ensure that
the there is sufficient Chinook salmon
available in the transferor’s account.
II. Method of Collection
The information is collected primarily
by mail, fax, and delivery. The
Application for Transfer of Bering Sea
Chinook Salmon PSC Allocations and
the Application for Approval as an
Entity to Receive Transferable Chinook
Salmon PSC Allocation may be
submitted online through eFISH on the
NMFS Alaska Region website at https://
alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/webapps/efish/
login. The applications are available as
fillable PDFs on the NMFS Alaska
Region website at https://
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/permit/
american-fisheries-act-pollockapplications-and-forms.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–0393.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission
(extension of a current information
collection).
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; Business or other for-profit
organizations; Not-for-profit
institutions.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
27.
Estimated Time per Response: AFA
Permit: Rebuilt, Replacement, or
Removed Vessel Application, 1 hour;
Application for Transfer of Bering Sea
Chinook Salmon PSC Allocations, 1
hour; Application for AFA Inshore
Catcher Vessel Cooperative Permit, 2
hours; AFA Inshore Vessel Contract
Fishing Notification, 4 hours;
Application for Approval as an Entity to
Receive Transferable Chinook Salmon
PSC Allocation, 8 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 246 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $395 in recordkeeping and
reporting costs.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
Obtain or Retain Benefits; Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery and Conservation Act;
American Fisheries Act.
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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accuracy of our estimate of the time and
cost burden for this proposed collection,
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 information
collection request. 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,
Departmental PRA Compliance Officer, Office
of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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Administration
[RTID 0648–XE427]

Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to
Specified Activities; Taking Marine
Mammals Incidental to U.S. Navy
Repair and Replacement of the Q8
Bulkhead at Naval Station Norfolk
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of issuance of a Letter of
Authorization.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Marine Mammal Protection Act
(MMPA), as amended, and
implementing regulations, notification
is hereby given that a Letter of
Authorization (LOA) has been issued to
the U.S. Navy (Navy) for the take of
marine mammals incidental to the Q8
Bulkhead repair and replacement
project at Naval Station Norfolk in
Norfolk, Virginia.
DATES: Effective from August 4, 2025, to
August 3, 2030.
SUMMARY:

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