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OMB Control No: 0648-0364	ICR Reference No: 200902-0648-001
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 200709-0648-001
Agency/Subagency: DOC/NOAA	Agency Tracking No:
Title: Gear-Marking Requirements for Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan
Type of Information Collection: Extension without change of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 08/16/2009
	Date Received in OIRA: 02/09/2009
Terms of Clearance: This request is approved. Prior to resubmission for extension, the Agency should revise or validate estimates of burden based on continued experience with the program.

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	08/31/2012	36 Months From Approved	08/31/2009
Responses	122,848	0	203,745
Time Burden (Hours)	10,235	0	16,975
Cost Burden (Dollars)	6,755	0	11,203

Abstract: Gear-marking requirements assist NMFS in obtaining detailed information about which fisheries or specific parts of fishing gear are responsible for the incidental mortality and serious injury of right, humpback, and fin whales. Generally, only a portion of gear is recovered from an entangled whale and it is almost impossible to link that portion of gear to a particular fishery. Therefore, requiring fishermen to mark surface buoys and the buoy line provides NMFS with an additional source of information, which could then be used to determine the gear responsible for and the location of the entanglement event. The following fisheries areaffected by this information collection: Northeast and Mid-Atlantic lobster trap/pot fisheries; Atlantic blue crab trap/pot fisheries; Atlantic mixed species trap/pot fisheries targeting crab (red, Jonah, and rock), hagfish, finfish (black sea bass, scup, tautog, cod, haddock, pollock, redfish, and white hake), conch/whelk, and shrimp; Northeast anchored gillnet; Northeast drift gillnet; Mid-Atlantic gillnet; Southeast Atlantic gillnet; and Southeastern U.S. Atlantic shark gillnet.

Authorizing Statute(s): US Code: 16 USC 31 Name of Law: Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: None

Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
	Not associated with rulemaking

Federal Register Notices & Comments
60-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	73 FR 59605	10/09/2008
30-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	74 FR 6364	02/09/2009
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? No

Number of Information Collection (IC) in this ICR: 1

IC Title	Form No.	Form Name
Gear-Marking Requirements for Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate
Annual Number of Responses	122,848	203,745	-80,897
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	10,235	16,975	-6,740
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	6,755	11,203	-4,448

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: There are adjustments both to burden and cost: a decrease in burden from 16,975 to 10, 235, a difference of 6,740 and a decrease in cost from $11,203 to $6,755, a difference of $4,448. These decreases are because the first year of implementation of the new gear marking requirements approved in 2007 in which higher burden and costs were incurred by new respondents all having to mark their gear within the same short implementation period has been completed. However, as some of the newly affected vessels are still in the process of completing their gear marking during the first few months after the implementation year, the burden and cost for these vessels is estimated to be slightly higher for 2009.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $0

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: Kristy Long 301 713-2322 kristy.long@noaa.gov

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