This collection describes the steps involved and the procedure for: evaluating scales prior to NMFS approval for use, inspecting and testing approved scales onboard vessels, recordkeeping and audit trails, coordinating with onboard and onshore observers, and providing NMFS with a catch monitoring plan for crab, offshore groundfish, and inshore groundfish. This action adds the Amendment 80 Program to this collection. The Amendment 80 Program primarily would allocate several Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area non-pollock trawl groundfish fisheries among fishing sectors, and facilitate the formation of harvesting cooperatives in the non-American Fisheries Act (AFA) trawl catcher/processor sector. The Program would establish a limited access privilege program for the non-AFA trawl catcher/processor sector.
PL:
Pub.L. 109 - 479 104
Name of Law: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act of 2006
(There are also decreases, as noted below, but ROCIS did not check the "decreases" checkbox): This action is a program change, adding burden and costs. Two catcher/processors are added to this collection, because of participation in the Amendment 80 Quota Shares Fisheries Program. The added 199 responses, 70 hours, and $4,241 in operation and maintenance costs reflect the addition of these two respondents under existing information collections. There are capital costs of $83,592 for additional at-sea scales, additional observer sampling station equipment, additional printers for at-sea scales, and for the video recording system.
This action also contains program adjustments:
The number of catcher/processors currently affected by this collectionÂs requirements is amended from 57 to 51, based on a list of actual participant names, rather than agency estimates. This reduces the current burden by 15,147 responses and 2,446 hours. Operations and maintenance costs are reduced by $5,399. Capital costs are reduced by $58,092.
The observer sampling station inspection request form is changed to become two forms, the second one being the bin monitoring inspection request form, in total collecting essentially the same information as requested in one form. The time requirement for each form is 2 hours each, adding 4 hours (and 1 response) for each of the already participating 51 vessels: 51 responses and 2 x 2 x 51 = 208 hours (the burden for the two new vessels is included in the program change increases above).
Net changes: reductions of 14,897 responses, 2,168 hours and $1,158 in operations and maintenance costs and an increase of $25,500 in capital costs.
$21,706
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.
Catcher/processor bin monitoring inspection request form
0330 ss rev 053007.pdf
NMFS Alaska Region Scale & Catch Weighing Requirements for Scale Manufacturers, Inshore Processors and Registered Crab Receivers