-0212 Public Burden Statment

Public Burden Statement

A Federal agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, nor shall a person be subject to a penalty for failure to comply with an information collection subject to the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 unless the information collection has a currently valid OMB Control Number. The approved OMB Control Number for this information collection is 0648-0212. Without this approval, we could not conduct this information collection. Public reporting for this information collection is estimated to be approximately 5 minutes per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the information collection. All responses to this information collection are mandatory pursuant to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act and the Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management Act. The purpose of this data collection is to support fishery conservation, science, and management. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this information collection, including suggestions for reducing this burden to Barry Clifford, Branch Chief -Data Processing and Quality, NOAA Fisheries - Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office, (978) 281-9148, barry.clifford@noaa.gov.