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III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–0591.
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.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
650 permit holders.
Estimated Time Per Response: 45
minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 488 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $0 in record keeping/reporting
costs.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
Obtain or Retain Benefits (permit
renewal).
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act.

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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
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
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
[RTID 0648–XE779]

Pacific Fishery Management Council;
Public Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public online meeting.
AGENCY:

The Pacific Fishery
Management Council (Pacific Council)
will hold an online meeting of its Ad
Hoc Highly Migratory Species (HMS)
Fisheries Innovation Workgroup (FIW)
to discuss procedures to facilitate the
development of new HMS gears and
achieve the goals of the HMS Roadmap.
This meeting is open to the public.
DATES: The online meeting will be held
Wednesday, April 23, 2025, from 8:30
a.m. to 5 p.m., Pacific Daylight Time, or
until business for the day has been
completed.
SUMMARY:

The meeting will be held
online. Specific meeting information,
including directions on how to join the
meeting and system requirements will
be provided in the meeting
announcement on the Pacific Council’s
website (see www.pcouncil.org). You
may send an email to Mr. Kris
Kleinschmidt (kris.kleinschmidt@
pcouncil.org) or contact him at (503)
820–2412 for technical assistance.
Council address: Pacific Fishery
Management Council, 7700 NE
Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland,
OR 97220–1384.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kerry Griffin, Pacific Council;
telephone: (503) 820–2409.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
purpose of this meeting is to provide
recommendations to the Pacific Council
for identifying new and/or innovative
HMS fishing gears and methods. Topics
will include improvements to the HMS
exempted fishing permit (EFP) process,
including potential modifications to
Pacific Council Operating Procedure 20
and acceptable levels of bycatch in
HMS; potential revisions to the draft
HMS Roadmap, and consideration of a
FIW Terms of Reference. The FIW
intends to develop a report for the June
Advanced Briefing Book, for Pacific
Council consideration.
Although non-emergency issues not
contained in the meeting agenda may be
discussed, those issues may not be the
subject of formal action during this
meeting. Action will be restricted to
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those issues specifically listed in this
document and any issues arising after
publication of this document that
require emergency action under section
305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act,
provided the public has been notified of
the intent to take final action to address
the emergency.
Special Accommodations
Requests for sign language
interpretation or other auxiliary aids
should be directed to Mr. Kris
Kleinschmidt (kris.kleinschmidt@
pcouncil.org; (503) 820–2412) at least 10
days prior to the meeting date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: March 13, 2025.
Rey Israel Marquez,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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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; Greater Atlantic Region
Logbook Family of Forms
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 May 19, 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–
0212 in the subject line of your
comments. All comments received are
part of the public record and will
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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 Barry
Clifford, Branch Chief—Data Processing
and Quality, NOAA Fisheries—Greater
Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office,
(978)–281–9148, barry.clifford@
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract
This is a request for the renewal of an
approved information collection. The
Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries
Office (GARFO), under the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and
Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens
Act) and the Atlantic Coastal Fisheries
Cooperative Management Act (Atlantic
Coastal Act) the New England Fishery
Management Council (the Council) and
the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries
Commission (the Commission) are
responsible for conservation and
management of marine fishery resources
off the east coast. NOAA’s National
Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS)
enacts complementary regulations to
Council and Commission actions.
The Magnuson-Stevens Act requires
that conservation and management
measures must prevent overfishing
while achieving, on a continuing basis,
the optimum yield from each fishery.
These measures must be based on the
best scientific information available.
The Atlantic Coastal Act oversees
coastal fishery resources that migrate, or
are widely distributed, across the
jurisdictional boundaries of two or more
of the Atlantic States and Federal
Government.
The use of vessel logbooks are
essential tools in the management of
fishery resources. Section 303(a)(5) of
the Magnuson-Stevens Act specifically
identifies the kinds of data to be
collected for fishery management plans
(FMPs), and the GARFO obtains much
of this data through the logbooks, a web
application, and vessel monitoring
system (VMS) (which is approved under
the 0648–0212 information collection)
data. Logbooks are also known as Vessel
Trip Reports (VTRs).
International, federal, state, and local
fishery management authorities
recognize the value of logbook data and
use the data as a part of their
management systems. Resulting data are
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enforce controls on fishery harvests.
Mandatory logbook reporting
requirements are applied to all vessels
permitted under the Atlantic mackerel,
squid, butterfish, Atlantic sea scallop,
Atlantic surf clam, ocean quahog,
Northeast (NE) multispecies, monkfish,
summer flounder, scup, black sea bass,
Atlantic bluefish, spiny dogfish,
Atlantic herring, tilefish, red crab, skate,
and American lobster FMPs. If a vessel
is permitted in more than one of these
fisheries, only one report needs to be
submitted to fulfill reporting
requirements for all species.
The information collected using
logbooks will be used by several offices
of NMFS, the U.S. Coast Guard, the
Councils and Commission, and state
fishery agencies. The information is
used to develop, implement, and
monitor fishery management strategies.
Logbook data serve as inputs for a
variety of uses, including biological
analyses and stock assessments,
regulatory impact analyses, quota
allocation selections and monitoring,
economic profitability profiles, trade
and import tariff decisions, allocation of
grant funds among states, and analysis
of ecological interactions among
species. Additionally, the data serve and
important means to facilitate
enforcement and mitigate the impacts of
interactions between fixed fishing gear
and endangered whales. NMFS would
be unable to fulfill the majority of its
scientific research and fishery
management missions without these
data.
II. Method of Collection
Data is collected electronically using
software applications submitted over
the internet.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–0212.
Form Number(s): 88–30, 88–140.
Type of Review: Regular Submission
[extension of a current information
collection].
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; business or other for-profit
organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
2,927.
Estimated Time per Response: Vessel
Trip Reports: VTRs are estimated at 4
minutes per response. Lobster VTRs
estimated at 5 minutes per response.
Shellfish VTR estimated at 4 minutes
per response. Fish Online web
application estimated at 4 minutes per
response.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 17,154 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
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Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act and the Atlantic Coastal Fisheries
Cooperative Management 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
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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Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Environmental Compliance
Questionnaire for NOAA Federal
Funding Opportunity Applicants
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

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