[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 86 (Thursday, May 4, 1995)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 21994]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-10929]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
50 CFR Part 651
[Docket No. 950410096-5096-01; I.D. 042695A]
RIN 0648-AH66
Northeast Multispecies Fishery; Framework 9 Measures; Reporting
Requirements
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Final rule; effectiveness of collection-of-information
requirements.
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SUMMARY: NMFS announces approval by the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) of collection-of-information requirements contained in Framework
Adjustment 9 to the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan
(FMP). This rule makes effective several reporting requirements that
are associated with regulations that provide significant regulatory
relief to fishermen, including transiting certain closed areas under
specified conditions, fishing by vessels in a given state's winter
flounder fishing program under certain conditions using net mesh size
less than the minimum mesh size, and fishing by party and charter boats
in the Nantucket Lightship Closed Area under certain conditions.
EFFECTIVE DATE: Sections 651.20(a)(6)(iii)(B), 651.20(j)(1), and
651.21(c)(2)(iv)(A) published at 60 FR 19364 (April 18, 1995) are
effective on April 28, 1995.
ADDRESSES: Any comments regarding burden-hour estimates for collection-
of-information requirements contained in this final rule should be sent
to the Regional Director, Northeast Regional Office, National Marine
Fisheries Service, Gloucester, MA 01930, and to the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs, (Attention: NOAA Desk Officer),
Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Susan A. Murphy, Fishery Policy
Analyst, 508-281-9252.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A final rule that implemented the measures
contained in Framework 9 to the FMP was published in the Federal
Register on April 18, 1995 (60 FR 19364), and most of those measures
were made effective on April 13, 1995. However, because OMB approval of
the reporting requirements contained in Framework 9 had not yet been
received as of the effective date of that rule, effectiveness of those
measures was delayed. OMB approval for those measures was received on
April 26, 1995. Consequently this rule makes the three reporting
measures (Secs. 651.20(a)(6)(iii)(B), 651.20(j)(1), and
651.21(c)(2)(iv)(A)), which were codified in the April 18 final rule,
effective.
Classification
The Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, NOAA, finds that, under
5 U.S.C. 553(d)(1), because immediate implementation of this rule
relieves restrictions on the industry with virtually no impact on the
conservation objectives of the FMP, there is no need to delay the
effectiveness of the reporting requirements contained herein.
This rule contains three new collection-of-information requirements
subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act that have been approved by the
Office of Management and Budget under OMB control number 0648-0202. The
public reporting burden for each of these collections of information is
estimated to be 2 minutes per response, including time for reviewing
instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and
maintaining data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of
information. Send comments regarding these reporting burden estimates
or any other aspect of these collections of information, including
suggestions for reducing the burdens, to NMFS and OMB (see ADDRESSES).
NOAA codifies its OMB control numbers for information collection at
50 CFR 204.1.
This action has been determined to be not significant for purposes
of E.O. 12866.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: April 28, 1995.
Gary Matlock,
Program Management Officer, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 95-10929 Filed 4-28-95; 4:36 pm]
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