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OMB Control No: 0648-0330	ICR Reference No: 200709-0648-009
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 200605-0648-008
Agency/Subagency: DOC/NOAA	Agency Tracking No:
Title: NMFS Alaska Region Scale and Catch Weighing Requirements
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 09/14/2007
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 09/14/2007
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	08/31/2010	02/28/2009	02/28/2009
Responses	9,305	0	24,202
Time Burden (Hours)	5,209	0	7,377
Cost Burden (Dollars)	628,504	0	604,000

Abstract: This collection describes the steps involved and the procedure for: evaluating scales prior to NMFS approval for use, inspecting and testing approved scales onboard vessels, recordkeeping and audit trails, coordinating with onboard and onshore observers, and providing NMFS with a catch monitoring plan for crab, offshore groundfish, and inshore groundfish. This action adds the Amendment 80 Program to this collection. The Amendment 80 Program primarily would allocate several Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area non-pollock trawl groundfish fisheries among fishing sectors, and facilitate the formation of harvesting cooperatives in the non-American Fisheries Act (AFA) trawl catcher/processor sector. The Program would establish a limited access privilege program for the non-AFA trawl catcher/processor sector.

Authorizing Statute(s): PL: Pub.L. 109 - 479 104 Name of Law: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act of 2006

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: None

Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
0648-AU68	Final or interim final rulemaking	72 FR 30052	05/30/2007

Federal Register Notices & Comments
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? No

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to Agency Discretion	Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate
Annual Number of Responses	9,305	24,202	259	-15,156
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	5,209	7,377	73	-2,241
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	628,504	604,000	102,052	-77,548

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: Yes

Burden Increase Due to: Changing Regulations

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: (There are also decreases, as noted below, but ROCIS did not check the "decreases" checkbox): This action is a program change, adding burden and costs. Two catcher/processors are added to this collection, because of participation in the Amendment 80 Quota Shares Fisheries Program. The added 199 responses, 70 hours, and $4,241 in operation and maintenance costs reflect the addition of these two respondents under existing information collections. There are capital costs of $83,592 for additional at-sea scales, additional observer sampling station equipment, additional printers for at-sea scales, and for the video recording system. This action also contains program adjustments: The number of catcher/processors currently affected by this collections requirements is amended from 57 to 51, based on a list of actual participant names, rather than agency estimates. This reduces the current burden by 15,147 responses and 2,446 hours. Operations and maintenance costs are reduced by $5,399. Capital costs are reduced by $58,092. The observer sampling station inspection request form is changed to become two forms, the second one being the bin monitoring inspection request form, in total collecting essentially the same information as requested in one form. The time requirement for each form is 2 hours each, adding 4 hours (and 1 response) for each of the already participating 51 vessels: 51 responses and 2 x 2 x 51 = 208 hours (the burden for the two new vessels is included in the program change increases above). Net changes: reductions of 14,897 responses, 2,168 hours and $1,158 in operations and maintenance costs and an increase of $25,500 in capital costs.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $21,706

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? No

Is the Supporting Statement intended to be a Privacy Impact Assessment required by the E-Government Act of 2002? No

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? Uncollected

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? Uncollected

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? Uncollected

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? Uncollected

Agency Contact: Patsy Bearden 907 586-7008

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