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OMB Control No: 0648-0490	ICR Reference No: 200907-0648-002
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 200804-0648-005
Agency/Subagency: DOC/NOAA	Agency Tracking No:
Title: Pacific Islands Region Permit 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: 07/22/2009
	Date Received in OIRA: 07/17/2009
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	10/31/2011	10/31/2011	10/31/2011
Responses	438	0	438
Time Burden (Hours)	192	0	192
Cost Burden (Dollars)	9,448	0	9,448

Abstract: Fishermen in Federally-managed fisheries in the western Pacific region are required to maintain valid fishing permits on board their vessels at all times. Permits are renewed annually and are needed to identify participants in the fisheries. Permits also are important to help measure impacts of management controls on the participants in the fisheries of the U.S. exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the western Pacific. The check boxes for applying for lobster permits on the Western Pacific (WP) Federal Fisheries Permit application form under OMB Control No. 0648-0490 were removed because the recently approved Western Pacific Crustacean Permit application form under OMB Control No. 0648-0586 replaces the 0648-0490 form for those fisheries. No new fields for collection were added to the WP Federal Fisheries Permit application form. Explanatory text was added to this form, directing applicants to the appropriate forms for Western Pacific Crustacean or Northern Mariana Islands Bottomfish permits (OMB Control No. 0648-0584). There is no burden change to OMB Control No. 0648-0490. Changes to the permit application forms include requirements for TIN/SSN and date of birth/date of incorporation.

Authorizing Statute(s): PL: Pub.L. 94 - 265 303 Name of Law: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management 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:
	72 FR 65564	11/21/2007
30-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	73 FR 21307	04/21/2008
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? No

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved
Annual Number of Responses	438	438
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	192	192
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	9,448	9,448

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: This is a renewal of a currently approved collection OMB Control No.: 0648-0490. There are changes to respondents (an additional 44 vessels), and to burden and cost, primarily relating to the renewal of three-year American Samoa longline limited entry permits that expire in 2008 (an additional 30 renewals expected) and including updated estimates for all permit applications (as shown in Table 1, increases expected for three other types of permits, and a decrease for one), with a net increase of 54 responses. Processing fee amounts were also revised (decreased), so that while there will be additional responses, each with its associated cost as described in #13, there is an overall net decrease of $1,364.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $10,805

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: Walter Ikehara 808 944-2275

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