This collection describes the steps involved and the procedure for evaluating scales prior to National Marine Fisheries Service (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 change request is to reinstate regulations that were inadvertently removed in a previous final rule about locations where the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) will conduct scale inspections (associated with a proposed rule, RIN 0648-AX97). There are no changes to forms or to burden or cost.
US Code:
16 USC 1801 et seq.
Name of Law: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
This action contains program adjustments which update, and in some cases, correct this existing collection. In addition, numbers are adjusted to reflect actual values in some cases, e.g., number of respondents and frequency of responses.
There is a decrease of 52 respondents. Responses have increased by a net of 14,345. The net increase in hours is 1,339. The total cost has decreased by a net of $512,340: operational and maintenance costs have increased by a net of 62,533 and capital costs have decreased by a net of $574,873 (previous capital costs have expired; there is a new cost of $2,500).
$11,975
No
No
No
No
No
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.
Scale type evaluation