[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 188 (Wednesday, September 29, 1999)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 52427-52428]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-25237]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
15 CFR Part 902
50 CFR Part 622
[Docket No. 990330083-9166-02; I.D. 091499E]
RIN 0648-AK32
Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic;
Shrimp Fishery of the Gulf of Mexico; Effective Date Notification and
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Control Numbers
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service, (NMFS), National Oceanic and
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Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Final rule; effective date of OMB control numbers.
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SUMMARY: This rule makes effective the collection-of-information
requirements in the final rule implementing procedures for the testing
and certification of bycatch reduction devices (BRDs) for use in shrimp
trawls in the exclusive economic zone in the Gulf of Mexico published
in the Federal Register on July 13, 1999. OMB has approved those
collection-of-information requirements.
DATES: The collection-of-information requirements in
Sec. 622.41(h)(3)(i) and (h)(3)(ii), Appendix--Gulf of Mexico Bycatch
Reduction Device Testing Protocol Manual, and Appendix I--
Qualifications of Observer are effective September 29, 1999.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steve Branstetter, 727-570-5305.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July 13, 1999, NMFS published a final
rule (64 FR 37690) that established procedures for the testing and
certification of BRDs for use in shrimp trawls in the exclusive
economic zone in the Gulf of Mexico. That final rule was published
prior to OMB's approval of the information collection requirements in
Sec. 622.41(h)(3)(i) and (h)(3)(ii), Appendix--Gulf of Mexico Bycatch
Reduction Device Testing Protocol Manual, and Appendix I--
Qualifications of Observer; therefore, the effectiveness of those
information collection requirements was deferred pending OMB approval.
Those information collection requirements are related to the BRD
certification process and include applications for pre-certification
and certification of a new BRD, pre-certification adjusting, the
testing itself, the submission of the test results, application for
observer position, and references for observers. On August 20, 1999,
OMB approved those information collection requirements. This notice
informs the public of the OMB approval of those information collection
requirements under OMB control number 0648-0345 and makes them
effective.
List of Subjects
15 CFR Part 902
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
50 CFR Part 622
Fisheries, Fishing, Puerto Rico, Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements, Virgin Islands.
Dated: September 22, 1999.
Andrew A. Rosenberg,
Deputy Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries
Service.
For the reasons set out in the preamble, 15 CFR part 902 is amended
as follows:
15 CFR Chapter IX
PART 902--NOAA INFORMATION COLLECTION REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE
PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT: OMB CONTROL NUMBERS
1. The authority citation for part 902 continues to read as
follows:
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.
2. In Sec. 902.1, paragraph (b) table, under 50 CFR, the following
entries are added in numerical order to read as follows:
Sec. 902.1 OMB control numbers assigned pursuant to the Paperwork
Reduction Act.
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(b) * * *
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Current OMB control number
CFR part or section where the information (All numbers begin with 0648-
collection requirement is located )
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50 CFR
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622.41 -0345
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