In accordance with 5 CFR 1320, OMB is withholding approval at this time. Prior to publication of the final rule, the agency must submit to OMB a summary of all comments related to the information collection contained in the proposed rule and the agency response. The agency should clearly indicate any changes made to the information collection as a result of these comments.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
09/30/2008
09/30/2008
10/31/2008
92,342
0
92,342
38,990
0
38,990
187,000
0
187,000
NMFS Alaska Region provides free logbooks for harvesters (daily fishing logbooks, or DFLs) and processors (daily cumulative production logbooks, or DCPLs) to record groundfish information. The longline or pot gear logbooks for catcher vessels and catcher/processors also may be used to record Pacific halibut and sablefish Individual Fishing Quota information as well as crab rationalization program information. This statement is a request for revision of this collection to incorporate the increased use of electronic reporting systems which gradually are replacing the use of paper logbooks and to note certain forms that are removed due to replacement by electronic systems.
PL:
Pub.L. 109 - 479 104
Name of Law: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act of 2006
This revision introduces electronic versions of the logbooks that will eventually replace paper logbooks. The shoreside processor DCPL is removed as the primary data collection format for groundfish and IFQ fisheries. The mothership and catcher/processor DCPLs are now partially completed in conjunction with eLandings. Mothership cumulative fish tickets are removed from this collection, because eLandings creates fish tickets as part of the normal procedure. The daily production report and weekly production report are removed, because eLandings also creates daily production reports as part of the normal procedure.
Shoreside processor DCPL: decrease of 2200 responses, 1,144 hours and $110.
Remove mothership or catcher/processor weekly production report (WPR): decrease of 5292 responses, 1482 hours, and $25,632.
Remove shoreside processor WPR: decrease of 468 responses, 131 hours and $1008.
Remove cumulative mothership ADF&G fish tickets: decrease of 1332 responses, 772 hours, and $444.
Catcher vessel trawl DFL changes to DFL or ELB: increase of 44 hours and $100.
Net total decreases: in responses: 9,292; in hours: 3,486; in costs: $26,636.
$162,590
No
No
Uncollected
Uncollected
Uncollected
Uncollected
Patsy Bearden 907 586-7008
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
0213 ss rev 102907.pdf
Shoreside Processor DCPL