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OMB Control No: 0648-0372	ICR Reference No: 202007-0648-009
Status: Historical Inactive	Previous ICR Reference No: 202001-0648-007
Agency/Subagency: DOC/NOAA	Agency Tracking No:
Title: Electronic Monitoring Systems for Atlantic Highly Migratory Species (HMS)
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Comment filed on proposed rule and continue	Conclusion Date: 07/30/2021
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 05/21/2021
Terms of Clearance: OMB files this comment in accordance with 5 CFR 1320.11(c). This OMB action is not an approval to conduct or sponsor an information collection under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This action has no effect on any current approvals. If OMB has assigned this ICR a new OMB Control Number, the OMB Control Number will not appear in the active inventory. For future submissions of this information collection, reference the OMB Control Number provided. In accordance with 5 CFR 1320, OMB is withholding approval at this time. Prior to publication of the final rule, the agency must submit to OMB a summary of all comments related to the information collection contained in the proposed rule and the agency response. The agency should clearly indicate any changes made to the information collection as a result of these comments.

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	07/31/2023	07/31/2023	07/31/2023
Responses	35,409	0	35,409
Time Burden (Hours)	5,276	0	5,276
Cost Burden (Dollars)	384,233	0	384,233

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: Yes

Burden Reduction Due to: Changing Regulations

Short Statement: This rule would change the existing requirements for the collection of information (OMB # 0648-0372) by modifying the VMS reporting requirement for vessels issued an Atlantic Tunas Longline permit that are fishing with green-stick gear. Such vessels would be required to report through VMS, the number, length range, and disposition of bluefin caught using green-stick gear. This requirement would increase the number of responses by only 5 to 10, because of the low number of vessels expected to use green-stick gear and the low rate of bluefin bycatch. The burden hours associated with a single response is 5 minutes, for a burden hour increase of 1. This requirement would not change the total number of respondents and have a de minimis impact on total costs. Secondly, this proposed rule would remove the requirements for vessels fishing with purse seine gear to report bluefin information through VMS, because this rule would eliminate the provisions that allow fishing with purse seine gear. The removal of this requirement would reduce the number of responses by 43, the estimate of total burden by six hours and reduce the estimated cost burden by almost two thousand dollars.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $1,486,847

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

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. Yes

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. Yes

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? No

Agency Contact: Clifford Hutt 301 427-8588