All commercial fishermen who fish for bottomfish management unit species in Federal waters around the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands must register their vessel to a Federal bottomfish fishing permit issued by National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). Vessel owners and/or operators of medium and large commercial bottomfish vessels must use shipboard vessel monitoring system (VMS) units on vessels over 40 ft (12.2 m), and mark their vessel with their official number in block lettering in three locations.
This collection previously included a vessel monitoring system requirement, but this was incorporated into a renewal of 0648-0441, and has been removed from this collection.
PL:
Pub.L. 94 - 265 303
Name of Law: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act as amended in 2006
Program Changes:
The vessel monitoring system requirement, formerly a part of this collection, was merged into OMB Control No. 0648-0441 and removed from this collection. This removes 6 responses and 16 burden hours.
There is now a permit fee of $28. This adds a cost of $3,500.
Adjustment: Burden for appeals, which had been omitted inadvertently from the previous submission, has now been included. This adds one response, 2 hours and $1 in reporting/recordkeeping costs.
$1,613
No
No
No
No
No
Uncollected
Walter Ikehara 808 944-2275
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.
Permit applications
0584 SS 031512 rev.docx
Permit appeals