[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 152 (Monday, August 9, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 47770]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-19529]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of 
information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 
U.S.C. Chapter 35).
    Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
    Title: Northwest Region Pacific Whiting Shoreside Fishery 
Monitoring and Catch Accounting Program.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0563.
    Form Number(s): NA .
    Type of Request: Regular submission (extension of a currently 
approved information collection).
    Number of Respondents: 53.
    Average Hours Per Response: Initial application and summary report, 
10 hours each; inseason data report, 1 hour; electronic fish tickets, 
10 minutes in Washington and California, 2 minutes in Oregon; 
electronic monitoring systems (EMS): installation, 6 hours; data 
downloads, 4 hours and EMS removal, 2 hours.
    Burden Hours: 600.
    Needs and Uses: This is an extension of a currently approved 
information collection.
    As part of its fishery management responsibilities, NOAA's National 
Marine Fisheries Service collects information to determine the amount 
and type of groundfish caught by fishing vessels. This collection 
supports exempted fishing permit requirements for Pacific whiting 
shoreside vessels to have and use electronic monitoring to verify full 
retention of catch and for Pacific whiting shoreside processors to send 
electronic catch data used to manage the catch allocations and limits. 
The respondents are principally groundfish fishermen and shoreside 
processors which are companies/partnerships. Other respondents include 
state fisheries agencies who seek an exempted fishing permit.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: Daily, weekly and on occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    OMB Desk Officer: David Rostker, (202) 395-3897.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Diana Hynek, Departmental Paperwork Clearance 
Officer, (202) 482-0266, Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 
[email protected]).
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to David Rostker, OMB Desk Officer, FAX number (202) 395-7285, or 
[email protected].

    Dated: August 4, 2010.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2010-19529 Filed 8-6-10; 8:45 am]
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