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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 38 / Monday, March 1, 2021 / Rules and Regulations were erroneously reported in minutes instead of hours. This final rule includes the accurate estimate of burden hours. The estimated burden hours for the submission of cooperative reports to NMFS reduces the overall burden hour estimate for this collection by 45 hours.
OMB Control Number 06480545
This final rule revise the information collection requirements contained in OMB Control Number 06480545, and NMFS has requested an extension of this collection for three years. This collection contains three applications and reports used by Rockfish Program cooperatives to apply for cooperative fishing permits, transfer cooperative quota, and manage cooperative fishing activity. This collection is necessary for NMFS to effectively administer and monitor compliance with the management provisions of the Rockfish Program.
This rule removes the requirement for a rockfish cooperative to submit a fishing plan with its Application for Rockfish Cooperative Fishing Quota. No change is made to the estimated reporting burden or costs for this application as the estimate allows for differences in the time needed to complete and submit the application.
This rule also reduces the time for a Rockfish Program catcher vessel to submit a cooperative check-in report from 48 hours to 24 hours before the start of a fishing trip. This does not change the estimated reporting burden or costs for this report. These changes are necessary to remove unnecessary reporting requirements.
The respondents are the seven Rockfish Program cooperatives; the estimated total annual burden hours are 35 hours; and the estimated total annual cost to the public for recordkeeping and reporting costs is $35.
Public reporting burden per individual response is estimated to average 2 hours for the Application for Rockfish Cooperative Fishing Quota; 10
minutes for the Application for InterCooperative Transfer of Rockfish Cooperative Quota; and 10 minutes for the Rockfish Program Vessel Check-In/
Check-Out and Termination of Fishing Report.
The public reporting burden includes the time for reviewing instructions,
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searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information.
We invite the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed and continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of our information collection requirements and minimize the publics reporting burden. Written comments and recommendations for this information collection should be submitted on the following website:
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Find these particular information collections by using the search function and entering either the title of the collection or the OMB Control Number 06480678 or 06480545.
Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, no person is required to respond to, nor shall any person be subject to penalty for failure to comply with, a collection of information subject to the requirement of the PRA, unless that collection of information displays a currently valid OMB control number.
List of Subjects 50 CFR Part 679
Alaska, Fisheries, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
50 CFR Part 680
Alaska, Fisheries, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
Dated: February 19, 2021.
Samuel D. Rauch, III, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, National Marine Fisheries Service.

For the reasons set out in the preamble, 50 CFR parts 679 and 680 are amended as follows:
PART 679FISHERIES OF THE
EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE OFF
ALASKA
1. The authority citation for 50 CFR
part 679 continues to read as follows:

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 773 et seq.; 1801 et seq.; 3631 et seq.; Pub. L. 108447; Pub. L.
111281.
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2. In 679.2, in paragraph 1 of the definition for Rockfish Program

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species and paragraph 1 of the definition for Rockfish sideboard limit, remove the words pelagic shelf rockfish and add in their place the words dusky rockfish.
3. In 679.5, remove and reserve paragraph r6 and revise paragraph r8iA1 and r10i.
The revisions read as follows:
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1 At least 24 hours prior to the time the catcher vessel begins a fishing trip to fish under a CQ permit; or

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i Applicability. A rockfish processor as defined at 679.2 that receives and purchases landings of rockfish CQ
groundfish must submit annually to NMFS a complete Rockfish Ex-vessel Volume and Value Report, as described in this paragraph r10, for each reporting period for which the rockfish processor receives rockfish CQ
groundfish.

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4. In 679.20, in paragraph d1viC1, remove the words pelagic shelf rockfish and add in their place the words dusky rockfish.
5. In 679.23, revise paragraphs d3ii introductory text and h1 to read as follows:

679.23

Seasons.

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ii Trawl gear. Subject to other provisions of this part, directed fishing for Pacific cod with trawl gear in the Western and Central Regulatory Areas is authorized only during the following two seasons except as authorized in Subpart G of this Section under the Rockfish Program:

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