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OMB Control No: 0648-0773	ICR Reference No: 202503-0648-003
Status: Received in OIRA	Previous ICR Reference No: 202112-0648-001
Agency/Subagency: DOC/NOAA	Agency Tracking No:
Title: Economic Surveys of Specific US Commercial Fisheries
Type of Information Collection: Extension without change of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular	Date Submitted to OIRA: 04/24/2025

	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	36 Months From Approved	12/31/2025
Responses	1,829	1,935
Time Burden (Hours)	1,689	1,757
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0

Abstract: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS or NOAA Fisheries) is requesting an extension of this standard collection of information. The requested information will include different components of operating costs/expenditures, earnings, employment, ownership, vessel characteristics, effort/gear descriptors, and demographic information for the various types of fishing vessels operating in the 16 U.S. commercial fisheries or groups of fisheries listed below. 1. West Coast Limited Entry Groundfish Fixed Gear Fishery 2. West Coast Open Access Groundfish, Non-tribal Salmon, Crab, and Shrimp Fisheries 3. American Samoa Pelagic Longline Fishery 4. Hawaii Pelagic Longline Fishery 5. Hawaii Small Boat Fishery 6. American Samoa Small Boat Fishery 7. American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Small Boat-Based Fisheries 8. Mariana Archipelago Small Boat Fisheries 9. USVI Small-Scale Fisheries 10. Puerto Rico Small-Scale Commercial Fisheries 11. Gulf of America Inshore Shrimp Fishery 12. Golden Crab Fisheries in the U.S. South Atlantic Region 13. West Coast Coastal Pelagic Finfish and Market Squid Fishery 14. West Coast Swordfish Fishery 15. West Coast North Pacific Albacore Fishery 16. Greater Atlantic Region Commercial Fisheries To make it easier for the public and other reviewers to focus on the responses for a specific fishery or set of fisheries and the associated information collection, we provide a separate set of 18 responses for each information collection. However, for responses that apply to the bundled information collection request as a whole, we present the full response for only the first information collection, indicate the response applies to all 16 collections and then only reference that response in the corresponding response for the other 15 collections, unless the response is very brief. The responses for the 16 information collections are very similar to those in the Supporting Statement Part A, which OMB reviewed and approved 04/27/2022. However, NMFS updated the name of one collection to be consistent with Executive Order 14172, revised the sex/gender and race/ethnicity questions to be consistent with current OMB guidance, updated the data used to estimate the hourly wage rates, which are used in calculating annual wage burden costs, and updated the government cost estimates. In addition, due to uncertainty concerning the timing of funding to support each collection and exogenous shocks (e.g., the COVID-19 pandemic), which affect the feasibility and/or desirability of collecting data for a specific year, the schedule for each of the 16 information collections needs to be flexible. Therefore, NMFS no longer provides the exact year for each collection and the resulting reports it will support.

Authorizing Statute(s): US Code: 16 USC §§ 1801 et seq. Name of Law: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
   US Code: 16 USC §§ 1361 et seq. Name of Law: Marine Mammal Protection Act
   US Code: 16 USC §§ 1531-1544 Name of Law: Endangered Species Act
   US Code: 42 USC §§ 4321 et seq. Name of Law: National Environmental Policy Act
   US Code: 5 USC §§ 601 et seq. Name of Law: Regulatory Flexibility 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:
	90 FR 8121	01/24/2025
30-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	90 FR 17243	04/24/2025
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? No

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Request	Previously Approved	Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate
Annual Number of Responses	1,829	1,935	-106
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	1,689	1,757	-68
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	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: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: Considering both the increase and decrease of population, wage adjustments, time usage and burden hours and response times.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $900,391

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

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. Yes

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. Yes

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? No

Agency Contact: Joe Terry 949 229-2125 joe.terry@noaa.gov

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