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OMB Control No: 0648-0565	ICR Reference No: 201302-0648-011
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 201209-0648-013
Agency/Subagency: DOC/NOAA	Agency Tracking No:
Title: Alaska Region Amendment 80 Permits and Reports
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: 02/25/2013
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 02/25/2013
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	01/31/2016	36 Months From Approved	10/31/2015
Responses	67	0	67
Time Burden (Hours)	161	0	159
Cost Burden (Dollars)	532	0	182

Abstract: Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area (BSAI), Amendment 80 allocated several BSAI non-pollock trawl groundfish fisheries among fishing sectors, established a limited access privilege program, and facilitated the formation of harvesting cooperatives in the non-American Fisheries Act (non-AFA) trawl catcher/processor sector (hereinafter the "Program"). This action would remove the groundfish retention standard (GRS) program. National Marines Fisheries Service (NMFS) discovered that the regulatory methodology used to calculate compliance with and to enforce the GRS program require the sector to retain groundfish at a rate well above that considered by the Council or that implemented by NMFS. Monitoring and enforcement of the GRS have proven far more complex, challenging, and potentially costly than anticipated by NMFS. This action is necessary because the circumstances that justified the GRS rates have changed. This action is intended to mitigate higher than expected compliance costs of the GRS borne by the Amendment 80 sector. Furthermore, this action is needed to mitigate management and enforcement costs that were not foreseen when the regulation was promulgated.

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-BA93	Final or interim final rulemaking	78 FR 12627	02/25/2013

Federal Register Notices & Comments
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? Yes

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to Agency Discretion
Annual Number of Responses	67	67	0
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	161	159	2
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	532	182	350

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: NMFS makes a program change to this collection that would change the source of information formerly collected through eLandings to information reported in the existing annual cooperative report. In addition, a third-party audit of groundfish retention calculations is added to the cooperative report, which changes the total miscellaneous costs. Amend 80 Cooperative Report an increase of 2 burden hours, 27 hr instead of 25 hr an increase of $50 personnel cost, $ 675 instead of $ 625 an increase of $350 miscellaneous cost, $351 instead of $1.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $1,100

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]? No

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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