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OMB Control No: 0648-0693	ICR Reference No: 201703-0648-005
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 201601-0648-014
Agency/Subagency: DOC/NOAA	Agency Tracking No:
Title: Marine Recreational Fishing Expenditure Survey (MRFE)
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: 07/05/2017
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 03/22/2017
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	07/31/2020	36 Months From Approved	07/31/2017
Responses	27,808	0	32,958
Time Burden (Hours)	3,142	0	3,804
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Abstract: The objective of the survey is to collect information on both trip expenditures and annual durable good expenditures made by marine recreational anglers. The survey will be conducted in two phases. One phase of the survey will ask anglers about their purchases of durable goods such as fishing gear, boats, vehicles, and second homes. The second phase will ask anglers about the expenses incurred on their most recent marine recreational fishing trip. As specified in the Magnuson-Stevenson Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1996 (and reauthorized in 2007), the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is required to enumerate the economic impacts of the policies it implements on fishing participants and coastal communities. The expenditure data collected in this survey will be used to estimate the economic contributions and impacts of marine recreational fishing to each coastal state and nationwide. This request is to add a web-based alternative to the survey.

Authorizing Statute(s): US Code: 16 USC 1801 et seq. 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:
	81 FR 72779	10/21/2016
30-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	82 FR 14693	03/22/2017
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	27,808	32,958	-371	-4,779
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	3,142	3,804	-124	-538
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0	0

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: Miscellaneous Actions

Short Statement: Program Changes: The HMS component was dropped due to the fact that we do not anticipate surveying this population again in the next 3 years. Puerto Rico was dropped due to complications with staffing intercept interviews in the territory in the foreseeable future. The burden hours were reduced because the HMS angler permit frame was dropped (accounting for a decrease of 124 hours). Adjustments: Adjustments were made to the number of MRIP intercept interviews (including dropping Puerto Rico and moving LA and HI to a mail/internet based survey) were made based on more recent estimates of effort from 2015. LA and HI were switched to the mail frame with adjustments to those frames as well given updated sample size estimates from state license frames. All of these adjustments for Puerto Rico, LA, HI and the other trip expenditure related updates resulted in a net decrease of 406 hours. Adjustments to the durable good portion related to updated estimates of anglers per state resulted in further reduced burden hours for a decrease of 132 hours. The total reduction in burden hours was 538 hours. The trip expenditure form for mail/web was shortened to two pages via minor modifications in question wording for clarification, by consolidating text and formats, and removing the front page of images. Question 9 (regarding the number of trips in the previous 2 months) and trips in non-US waters were dropped from the California version. Expenditure categories for CA were changed to just “bait” instead of live or non-live bait, and for all state versions, “Parking and site access fees” now reads “Parking, site access fees, and tolls”. For the durable expenditure survey form for CA, the question on what counties within the state the angler fished were dropped. We don’t expect that these minor changes will significantly affect the time to fill out the survey. A combined Hawaii form was added so that durables could be collected for Hawaii; in the original submission no durable good expenditures were collected for Hawaii.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $392,280

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? Yes Part B of Supporting Statement

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: Sabrina Lovell 301 427-8153

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