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OMB Control No: 0648-0514	ICR Reference No: 201405-0648-010
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 201305-0648-009
Agency/Subagency: DOC/NOAA	Agency Tracking No:
Title: Alaska Region BSAI Crab Permits
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: 07/31/2014
	Date Received in OIRA: 06/18/2014
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	07/31/2017	36 Months From Approved	07/31/2014
Responses	1,472	0	3,072
Time Burden (Hours)	1,621	0	2,257
Cost Burden (Dollars)	8,135	0	4,920

Abstract: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) established the Crab Rationalization (CR) Program as a catch share program for nine crab fisheries in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI), and assigned quota share (QS) to persons and processor quota share (PQS) to processors based on their historic participation in one or more of these nine crab fisheries during a specific period. The CR Program components include QS allocation, PQS allocation, individual fishing quota (IFQ) issuance, and individual processing quota (IPQ) issuance, quota transfers, use caps, crab harvesting cooperatives, protections for Gulf of Alaska groundfish fisheries, arbitration system, monitoring, economic data collection, and cost recovery fee collection.

Authorizing Statute(s): PL: Pub.L. 94 - 265 313(j) 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:
	Not associated with rulemaking

Federal Register Notices & Comments
60-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	79 FR 4450	01/28/2014
30-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	79 FR 34718	06/18/2014
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? No

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to Agency Discretion	Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate
Annual Number of Responses	1,472	3,072	1	-1,601
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	1,621	2,257	4	-640
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	8,135	4,920	1	3,214

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: Program Change ECCO Annual Report (moved from OMB Control No. 0648-0570) an increase of 1 respondents and responses, 1 instead of 0 an increase of 4 hours, 4 instead of 0 an increase of $148 personnel costs, $148 instead of $0 an increase of $1 miscellaneous costs, $1 instead of $0 Adjustments Application for IFQ permit an increase of 46 respondents and responses, 196 instead of 150 an increase of 115 hours burden, 490 instead of 375 an increase of $142 miscellaneous costs, $363 instead of $221 Application for IPQ permit an increase of 5 respondents and responses, 105 instead of 100 an increase of 13 hours burden, 263 instead of 250 an increase of $3,481 personnel costs, $9,731 instead of $6,250 an increase of $37 miscellaneous costs, $86 instead of $49 Application for cooperative IFQ permit a decrease of 6 respondents and responses, 10 instead of 16 a decrease of 15 hours burden, 25 instead of 40 a decrease of $36 misc costs, $17 instead of $53 Application for converted CPO QS & CPO IFQ an increase of $24 personnel costs, $74 instead of $50 Application for crab IFQ hired master permit a decrease of 1,473 respondents and responses, 141 instead of 1,614 a decrease of 516 hours burden, 49 instead of 565 a decrease of $3,552 miscellaneous costs, $111 instead of $3,663 Application for Federal crab vessel permit a decrease of 13 respondents and responses, 114 instead of 127 a decrease of 4 hours burden, 40 instead of 44 a decrease of $46 miscellaneous costs, $229 instead of $275 Application for WAG exemption a decrease of $15 miscellaneous costs, $37 instead of $52 Application for eligibility to receive crab QS/IFQ or PQS/IPQ by transfer a decrease of 48 respondents and responses, 15 instead of 63 a decrease of 96 hours burden, 30 instead of 126 a decrease of $87 miscellaneous costs, $24 instead of $111 Application to transfer crab QS or PQS a decrease of 127 respondents and responses, 126 instead of 253 a decrease of 254 hours burden, 252 instead of 506 a decrease of $751 miscellaneous costs, $882 instead of $131 ($131 was approved cost, but should have been $2,783; notary cost was not included in this IC's total. Application to transfer crab IFQ a decrease of $8 miscellaneous costs, $28 instead of $36 Application to transfer crab IPQ an increase of 69 respondents and responses, 106 instead of 37 an increase of 101 hours, 155 instead of 54 an increase of $23 miscellaneous costs, $63 instead of 40 Application for inter-cooperative transfer a decrease of 1 respondent, 10 instead of 11 a decrease of 55 responses, 550 instead of 605 an increase of 54 hours, 65 instead of 11 (also, correction, previous hours should have been 60, miscalculated) a decrease of $4 miscellaneous costs, $101 instead of $105 Application to become an ECCO an increase of $6 miscellaneous costs, $7 instead of $1 Application to transfer QS/IFQ to/from an ECCO a decrease of $4 miscellaneous costs, $7 instead of $11 ROFR Contracts Correction: $6,000 for contractor was included in, but not added into total of, last approved submission. Same cost for this submission.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $16,155

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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