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OMB Control No: 0648-0213	ICR Reference No: 201007-0648-008
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 200811-0648-006
Agency/Subagency: DOC/NOAA	Agency Tracking No:
Title: Alaska Region Logbook Family of Forms
Type of Information Collection: No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 08/05/2010
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 07/22/2010
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	01/31/2012	01/31/2012	01/31/2012
Responses	89,265	0	89,265
Time Burden (Hours)	39,871	0	39,871
Cost Burden (Dollars)	134,701	0	134,701

Abstract: This collection-of-information affords an increasingly more efficient and accurate database for monitoring and management of the groundfish fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone in the waters off Alaska for purposes of conservation of the fisheries as well as for the enforcement of fisheries regulations. Parts of this collection are also used by the fishermen recording catch information on the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands crab fisheries, and the Individual Fishing Quota Program for Pacific halibut. The final rule for Amendment 91 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area (RIN 0648-AX89) requires operators of the American Fisheries Act (AFA) and Community Development Quota (CDQ) trawl catcher/processors to use the ELB. In the ELB, the operator must enter processor identification information and catch-by-haul information. This change request is also to add the prohibited species discard or disposition data for all salmon species, previously counted under OMB Control No. 0648-0515, and to submit this data through the ELB. Essentially, the ELBs would become an additional component to eLandings. NMFS does not expect this change in format to increase the cost or burden of providing information (the salmon reporting is part of a larger report, and consists of a few seconds each, with less than a hour of increased total burden). In fact, NMFS expects that the ease of using the ELB may actually reduce the actual time of data entry.

Authorizing Statute(s): PL: Pub.L. 94 - 265 303 Name of Law: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act as amended in 2006

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: None

Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
0648-AT91	Final or interim final rulemaking	73 FR 55368	09/24/2008

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

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved
Annual Number of Responses	89,265	89,265
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	39,871	39,871
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	134,701	134,701

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

Burden Increase Due to:

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

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: This action revises use of some of the logbooks and forms due to regulatory effectiveness of an electronic data system, eLandings (see OMB 0648-0515). The shoreside processor DCPL is removed. The mothership and catcher/processor DCPLs are now partially completed in conjunction with eLandings, but time per response remains the same, based on partial duplication of information with eLandings. Mothership cumulative fish tickets are removed from this collection, because eLandings creates fish tickets as part of the normal procedure. The daily production report and weekly production report are removed, because eLandings also creates daily production reports as part of the normal procedure. In addition, frequency of responses for DCPLs is corrected based on current regulatory requirements

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $167,648

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]? No

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)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? Uncollected

Agency Contact: Patsy Bearden 907 586-7008

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