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OMB Control No: 0648-0544	ICR Reference No: 200905-0648-004
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 200610-0648-003
Agency/Subagency: DOC/NOAA	Agency Tracking No:
Title: Southeast Region Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) and Related Requirements
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: 10/02/2009
	Date Received in OIRA: 06/01/2009
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	10/31/2012	36 Months From Approved	10/31/2009
Responses	11,755	0	10,054,892
Time Burden (Hours)	2,348	0	8,393
Cost Burden (Dollars)	858,027	0	2,460,585

Abstract: Under Amendment 18A to the Fishery Management Plan for Reef Fish Fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico, owners of vessels with valid permits were required to install vessel monitoring systems (VMS) on their vessels. VMS units automatically send periodic reports on the position of the vessel. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) uses the reports to monitor the vessel's location and activities while enforcing area closures.

Authorizing Statute(s): PL: Pub.L. 194 - 265 303 Name of Law: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Management and Conservation Act

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:
	74 FR 1177	01/12/2009
30-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	74 FR 26200	06/01/2009
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? No

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate
Annual Number of Responses	11,755	10,054,892	-10,043,137
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	2,348	8,393	-6,045
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	858,027	2,460,585	-1,602,558

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: The changes in burden hours and costs are program changes resulting from attrition in the fishery, no longer counting the automatic VMS transmissions as responses and burden hours (only as costs) and the removal of start up costs except in the case of certain transfers. Responses would have decreased from 10,054, 892 to 7,737,995, based on the reduction of the number of affected vessels from 1,145 to 882. Based on the recent clarification from OMB that VMS automatic transmissions are not counted as responses and burden, they were further decreased to 11,755. Hours would have decreased to 4,144 based on fleet shrinkage but were further decreased to 2,348. Costs were reduced from $2,460,585 to $858,027. Previous start-up costs were $2,229,418, now reduced to $93,333, due to VMS purchase now being required for only 80 transfer vessels per year, rather than 1,121 plus 318 transfers. However, recordkeeping/reporting costs which would have decreased, based on fleet shrinkage, instead increased from $230,552 to $764,694, as, in the initial request: o The $250 annual maintenance cost was inadvertently omitted o The cost of VMS transmission, already an annual amount, was incorrectly divided by 3 (i.e. re-annualized) and o Only the 1,121 vessels still needing to install the VMS were counted for transmission costs, instead of all 1,145.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $361,900

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)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? Uncollected

Agency Contact: Jason Rueter 727 824-5350

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